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america. s following the international criminal court's arrest warrant for the israeli prime minister, downing street suggests mr. netanyahu could be arrested if he travels to the u.k. one day after firing a new hypersonic missile into ukraine, president putin says russia has a stockpile of powerful new missiles ready to be used. and a new york judge indefinitely delays president elect donald trump's sentencing in his cminal hush money case. ♪ welcome to world news america. good to have you with us. downing street has indicated that israeli prime minister

netanyahu could face arrest if he travels to the u.k. after the icc issued a warrant on thursday. the government spokesperson refused to comment directly on the case, but said the u.k. will fulfill its legal obligations. mr. netanyahu was accused of committing war crimes in gaza, but has blasted the icc's allegations. meanwhile, the un says that 2024 is the deadliest year on record for humanitarian aid workers operating in conflict zones. e agency's office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs says the wars raging in the middle east account for most of the 281 deaths recorded this year. in gaza, the agency says humanitarian workers faced extraordinary risks as they deal with the constant bombardment in areas where their services are essential. 333 humanitarian workers have been killed in the region since the conflict between israel and

hamas began. a spoke to a senior emergency officer about the situation on the ground. thank you very much for being with us. just to begin with, pay does a picture of what you and your colleagues are seeing on the ground. >> the situation in the gaza strip is as worse as it's ever been. we are seeing people fighting over pieces of bread, the price of a bag of flour is now well over $200, u.s. dollars. it is absolutely desperate. i don't know where to start and where to end in how to tell you how bad things are. people don't have enough shelter, food, access to clean water. the bombings are relentless. as relentless as they have been throughout this war. it feels absolutely hopeless. every day, if not every hour ings are getting worse for

people. host: amid all of that, i want to ask you about aid getting in. on the 18th of november there was a report from your agency of a convoy of about 180 aid l orries being looted. your attorney general said this was indicative of a total breakdown of civil order. >> we have seen a breakdown of civil order happen around the time the rafah crossing was cut off, in may this year. before this rafah incursion, we did have more aid flowing through more border crossings. since then, the situation has become more desperate. people are more hungry. there is less food available, less humanitarian supplies available. this desperation combined with total lack of law and order has led us to the situation we are in today. getting aid in at the moment -- some days it almost feels

impossible. you are aware of this incident we've had this week. this is not the first. we have had multiple incidences like this over the last few weeks. we desperately need a change in the safety and facilitation of the aid on the ground, because humanitarian workers are in danger because of this. people are not receiving the aid that they need. host: why is that? what is stopping that aid from getting in? >> simply put, there is no safe facilitation of the eight. the aid is at the borders. there has not been enough aid for the last 13 months. on average, it should be around 500 trucks a day, 250 humanitarian and 250 commercial at least coming in. we have not seen anything like these numbers. when people don't have enough things, and when there is war breaking out, desperation is just absolutely everywhere. we are in a situation now where

people are fighting over everything. people need everything. there is no police on the ground. there is no safe facilitation of the aid. our call this week and for the last few months have been for the parties of the conflict to provide that, so we can safely provide aid. host: let's talk more about the consequences of this when it comes to food supplies, just one aspect, but there have been repeated warnings about a looming famine. how close is that now? >> we have never been far away from a looming famine. it feels like every day things have been strangled here, not just with food, but witwater, fuel. some days this humanitarian response has run so low on fuel that no one is able to move and the last drops are being used keep babies alive in incubators -- on inky bitters and hospitals. when it comes to food, there is no flour available here.

people are fighting over tin cans of supplies. it is because of the lack of supplies that causes this desperation. when you talk about famine looming, we now have a complete area in the noh of gaza that has been besieged for over 40 days. no humanitarian supplies, no humanitarian access. it is impossible for people to survive in these conditions, and the bombs and strikes continue, and the displacement continues, and the disease keeps spreading. it does not stop. host: i did want to ask you, we have seen arrest warrants issued against senior israeli politicians as well as a leader of hamas. what does your agency make of that? does it think it has the power to changanything? >> we reiterate our call, that we need a cease-fire. it is up to the legal system to look into the -- the icc will be

investigating these serious allegations of war crimes. every day we are seeing schools attacked, hospitals attacked. it is beyond anything ever experienced. there is really no words to say anymore. children under the rubble. humanitarians denied access to support anyone around us. it is absolutely unbearable. it has to have a cease-fire now. that is the only way things are going to improve. host: israeli -- isel is continuing its military campaign in lebanon, with the lebanese health minister he saying 52 people, including women and children, were killed in israeli airstrikes. this footage shows a building in beirut hit after israeli southern forces issued an evacuation order. this is the latest in a series of targeted rates against the

iran backed group -- raids against the iran backed group has below -- group hezbollah. fighting between the israeli army and hezbollahunicef, sa mo0 children have been killed in lebanon since october, and more than 300,000 children have been displaced. russia says it has a stockpile of the new hypersonic ballistic missiles it used to attack the ukrainian city on thursday. president putin says he's ordering the missile system into full-scale production, bound to use them in "combat conditions." letter mapleton is publicly blazing -- vladimir putin is publicly praising the missile

system. his counterpart waterman zelenskyy said he's talking with his allies about new systems to ward off the weapon. it is thought that the missile system is mainly designed to deliver nuclear weapons. adding to the tension is the growing alliance between russia and north korea. south korea says it has evidence that putin is now providing kim jong-un with air defense missiles and equipment in return for his help in the war against ukraine. a new satellite imagery appears russia supplying north korea with barrels of oil, more than it is allowed to have under international sanctions. ukraine's former defense minister -- we spoke a short while ago. we had comments from the polish prime minister, warning this could be a step towards the war

becoming a global one. russian president putin says he reserves the right to strike nations supplying the weapons. what do you make of that? >> i don't think the publish prime minister is correct. -- polish prime minister is correct. this has been a global war for a while. iran was supplying to russia all this time. belarus was part of russia's engagement since day one. north korea has been supplying to russia for a while as well. now they are supplying troops. and then the western countries have been supplying to ukraine for a while as well. there has been a permission to use these against russian positions for a long time. technically the only thing that was changed recently is that there has been permission for ukraine to strike russian territory. so russia can use its territory to accumulate and supply forces,

and then attack ukraine, its neighbor, across the border. ukraine until recently did not have a right to strike back. so any military officer would tell you it is impossible to fight the war like that. several years ago, the western community decided to help ukraine to fight for its freedom. it was very strange that at the same time the ukraine could not strike to the enemy's territory. host: i want to ask more about that. do you think that will change anything realistically when, yes, for example, ukraine can use attacks russian soil, but isn't this a question of how many of these missiles and weapons that it actually has two deploy? -- has to deplay? -- to deploy? >> it is quite an unpredictable environment, generally, but it

can change. it absolutely can change. as we know, modern warfare is possible without striking. having two armies clashing on the front line, that is not the modern warfare. that is extremely damaging for the personnel and very dangerous, and exhausting and grinding the troops out. russians can't afford that. they don't care about their lives. we do. striking is an absolute request for any army who wants to win or even prevail. as you correctly said, there is not that many missiles like that . any type of weapon can nevere considered in isolation. the weapons work in a combined arms approach. you have a campaign where you use all kinds of different weapons at the same time, and then you achieve your goal.

long-range strikes are critical enablers for the success, absolutely they are. without them it would be almost impossible. that is why they are important. host: the question is -- and i think the concern may be for ukraine, oppo-taco will as well -- political will as well, particularly when we are close to a donald trump administration. he has said he would end the war in one day without saying how he would do that. is that a concern for kyiv? >> generally speaking, the united states is a key helper to ukraine, is a key provider of the weapons systems and other military support. we of course are concerned. we do care where u.s. policy will go. an announcement to stop the war resonates well with ukraine. no one is enjoying war here. everyone would love the war to end and peace come back to our

land. but you correctly said, he never explained how he's going to do that. that extremely matters. if there are some wrong choices made and huge strategic mistakes made, the situation can get worse. that is what we are concerned about. however, with the approach of the piecemeal and constantly cautious like we had before from united states, it is also not a very good scenario for us. it is constantly grinding out the potential ofkraine. we need more strategy and how to deal with russia, then i believe russia can, understanding it will lose some way, then it will can seriously -- will consider stopping the war. host: mr. trump was found guilty in may of falsifying business records to cover up an alleged sexual encounter with the porn star stormy daniels, but his

sentence had yet to be decided. he now won't face punishment for the duration of his upcoming second term in office, which ends in january 2029. mr. trump's lawyers want the case thrown out entirely on the basis of presidential immunity. mr. trump's lawyer in his first impeachment trial is set to serve as his attorney general. mr. trump says he will nominate her to the post. she has been a longtime supporter of the former and now future president and repeatedly pushed his false claim of electoral fraud in 2020. ms. bondi was a career prosecutor who served as florida state attorney general before becoming a lobbyist for the government of qatar. in 2020, when then-president trump was impeached, she returned to government to serve as one of his defense attorneys. mr. trump had picked florida

congressman matt gaetz for the role, but the former congressman withdrew from consideration amid a sex scandal. the attorney general has wide powers to close down criminal investigations or prosecutions. ms. bondi would have to be confirmed in the role by the senate. to talk about all of this, i am joined live by a republican representing kansas's second district. thank you very much for being with us on bbc news. i would like to start with the president-elect's appointments and position of attorney general. matt gaetzithdrawing. pam bondi being put forward. what the make of that? -- what do you make of that? >> president trump can count votes. he saw he would have trouble through the senate judiciary committee, so he made another choice. matt gaetz bold back, -- pulled back, and he quickly put pam

bondi in. she has been a career prosecutor. she served as the attorney general for the state of florida, so very qualified for the job. i think her hearing process will go smoothly. i think she will get confirmed and deserves an opportunity to do the job. the american people will have an opportunity to make their own decisions. >> as you mentioned, pam bondi has known donald trump a long time. critics of the president elect pointed out that he's made campaign pledges to punish political enemies through the justice department. do you see that as something that ms. bondi would carry out? >> i think president trump was elected over two weeks ago because the american people are hungry for change this government. i think they want to get the economy back on track. they want to straighten out america's misguided foreign policy. they want to secure the southern border. they want to stop the

weaponization of the justice department. someone who will carry out that duty is i think what she is going to do. i don't foresee them persecuting political enemies, i see them trying to build trust back with the american people, trying get the department of justice in a place where they are not acting as a partisan weapon for whatever administration is in the white house. i see it as a time for them to build back trust with the american people. host: the biden administration would reject that characterization of the department of justice. i want to touch on other cabinet positions left to fill, others coming with question marks hanging over them, the defense secretary nominee facing questions over an alleged sexual assault, rfk junior as well, questions over comments he's made in the past and present. they will be undergoing some stringent vetting.

what kind of discussions our senators having behind closed doors about those kind of candidates? tough discussions? >> senators are having tough discussions right now because they take their rule seriously, as they should -- their role serisly, as they should. this process is working as it is supposed to. in that process, there will be a lot of scrutiny. they are going to have to come to a decision that they can live with, that their constituents back home can live with. this is not anything new, this bein a bumpy process. barack obama had two commerce secretaries that had to withdraw. tom daschle was supposed to be the hhs secretary and had to withdraw. bill clinton had two nominees for attorney general before he landed on janet reno. going through this process, th senate stepping up and saying we have issues here, we don't have

issues here, it is a normal process. host: talking about any turbulence, one thing i wanted to ask you about is your decision to retire from the house congress you have said that current dysfunction on capitol hill is "distressing." tell us mo about what you meant by that exactly. >> for me personally, i have loved representing the people of kans. i have loved serving in congress, but i also have four young children. the congressional schedule takes me away a lot of the time. i'm going to take a step back. i will be watching closely, because i think president trump along with the republican house and senate are going to get a lot of things done to secure the southern border, to pass legislation to get the economy back on track, and straighten out america's foreign-policy. i think a lot of good stuff is going to happen for me personally being back home with family more. host: a republican representing

kansas's second district, thank you for being with us. the cop29 climate summit is expected to continue into the weekend as arguments persist about how much rich countries should pay to help poorer nations combat global warming. delegates have been trying to negotiate a deal that would dramatically increase the amount of money that wealthier countries give to poorer ones to help adapt to global warming. the proposal is countries give $250 billion by 2025 to developing countries. the figure is muchower than the $1.3 trillion a year from public funds that poorer nations have asked for. our climate editor is at the cop summit. >> this afternoon we got what was the opening gambit effectively for the negotiions, a text that contained the key figure, the core funding that developed

nations are willing to offer to developing nations, $250 billion. sounds like a lot of money. did not go down well at the conference. the climate envoy for panama said it seems as if the developed world once the planet and this week from the marshall climate envoy, she says year after year we bring our stories of climate impacts to these meetings and receive only somebody and no real action from wealthy nations. we are not here to tell stories, we are here to save our communities. similar responsfrom the african group of nations. great deal of anger. they are saying there is not enough money. the cop29 team, the lead negotiator came out for the first time to comment on progress. he accepted this was not ambitious enough. we are pushing into a another round of negotiations, where to see whether developed nations can upp their -- can up their

bid. we are being told there will not be progress until the morning, which obviously is quite a blessing for us because it means we probably will get a little bit of sleep tonight. host: the u.s. rapper and music producer sean diddy combs appeared in a new york court to make a new request for bail. combs has been detained in a new york jail more than two months. two previous bail requests were rejected after judges deemed him a flight risk and said he may try to contact witness. his court wrapped up friday. the judge did not make a decision on whether to grant combs bail. the 55-year-old star one of the most influential figures in the u.s. music industry has plead not guilty to all charges and denied any wrongdoing. before we go, it's not quite thanksgiving yet in the united states, but preparations are

underway for the christmas celebrations ahead. the capitol christmas tree arrived in washington on friday as part of a tradition dating back to 1964. this year's 80 ft spruce traveled 700 miles by sea and 4000 miles by truck to reach the u.s. capitol from alaska. each year, a different national forest is selected to provide a tree f the u.s. capitol building. in under two weeks time, the tree will be lit up in all of its splendor, so theris more holiday magic to look forward to. you can always find more of the day's news on our website, bbc.com/news. make sure to check us out on your favorite socialedia platform. thanks for watching world news america. i will see you soon. bye for now. ♪ announcer: funding for presentation of this program

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