cnn's nick robinson is there. nick, what do you see?developing situation right now. it's been a very calm and peaceful protest throughout the day. very as you can see behind me à Ãthe trucks bind me trucks parked up d there. there's this heavy metal gate along here. ÃÃpeople normally would come through here. and pass along. but they have not been able to come through because the protesters have been blocking it now. ÃÃyou are in charge of the protest now. what's been happening in the kerfuffle? >> it's been more of the trucks going through gaza and we want to stop it. because we do not have our people right now. they are now hostages. the hostages are now in gaza. instead, we are now getting hundred and 36 hostages from gaza. we don't want to give them Ãà the problem is in hamas. hamas needs to be responsible in the war that he opened up. on october 7. he needs right now, to get to bring all of it. 136 are in gaza right now. >> you have been blocking this route for how many days now? >> it's the first four days. >> no trucks. but we sta

. >> we are going to be learning more from cnn international diplomatic editor, nick robinson, and jim shooter. what more details do you know about what happened today? >> reporter: a few details. the first bomb is believed to have been in a suitcase and was remotely detonated, so not a suicide bomber, because there was speculation about that earlier, and that spoke to sunni extremists targeting she is, that this was remote control. a little more sophisticated perhaps, and that bomb went off about 700 meters away from the site, the grave site where people were gathering, and the other one came about 20 minutes later. it was about one kilometer, .06 miles away. we don't have details from the iranian media on that. the iranian media now reporting that casualty toll climbing now to 211 people. >> jim, why is it so important that the u.s. get out in front of this, and make the claim that this was not israel involvement? >> the u.s. does not want a direct war between israel and iran, and there should be no mistaking that that is what israel or the u.s. wants. this iranian government has a l

now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson.

now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking.onversation with, rather than a news like interrogation of someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. my guest this week made the cover of time magazine when they profiled the first muslim leader of a western democracy. he is, as the headline put it, the new face of scotland. the youngest leader this country has had in a quarter of a century of having a devolved scottish government. but this, admits humza yousaf, here in glasgow, has been a difficult yearfor him. difficult for his party, too, dogged by a police investigation, criticised for failing to deliver, and divided about when independence might actually be possible. humza yousaf, first minister, thanks forjoining me. my pleasure. it has been quite a year! you're telling me! how much do you feel you have aged in that time? i think people can probably look at pictures of before i became first minister and since, i suppose hogmanay was an interesting point when nadia and i were seeing in the new year, s

now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson.with, rather than an newsy interrogation, of someone who shapes our political thinking, about what has shaped theirs. my guest, no guests, this week used to face each other

now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson.ello, welcome to poltical thinking, a conversation with, rather than an newsy interrogation, of someone who shapes our political thinking, about what has shaped theirs. my guest, no — guests, this week used to face each other in the house of commons. their clashes were memorable. tony blair, now sir tony, was notjust a leader of the labour party, he was of course prime minister. william, now lord hague, was leader of the conservative party. hard then to imagine that they would be as they are now, working together to outline what they say should be the country's new national purpose. but they are, and they are here together. so welcome, sir tony and lord hague, to poltical thinking. thank you. thanks. i am still getting used to this. now, how should i think of you? do i think of you as friends, allies, colleagues, partners in crime? i don't know, partners i think in saying what we have been saying about science, innovation, ai, biotech, in our latest reports. we haven't set up a new pol

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.>> hostages were held, nick robinson is there. >> a girls dreams of her lost life carefully remembered in red crayon. a house, flowers, and the sunshine peeking through the mountains. this was discovered 60 feet below the city and a half mile long maze of tunnels used to imprison hostages.>> in the space we found evidence to indicate the stay of hostages, including paintings drawn by a five-year-old girl, amelia, along with other hostages. >> images of the complex were released amid growing pressure to save hostages, revealing the they are enduring. a soiled mattress on the floor. further inside, a toilet. it's one of five underground hostage dungeons that held about 20 hostages at different times. amelia and daniel were released in late november, long before the latest tunnels were discovered.>> this tunnel is one where some of the hostages were held.>> one week before the new video release, they took us in a similar tunnel complex, close to where amelia and danielle were held.>> we come down one flight of stairs and then head down a second flight of stairs, and then down here, comman

cnn international nomadic editor nick robinson has the story. >> is a pleasure to have you. >> reporter: meetings. back to back to back. pressuring israel to better protect thousands of civilians saying, some progress made. >> we have an agreement that the u.n. will conduct an assessment to determine the conditions necessary for people to be able to move back home. >> reporter: in gaza, where israeli officials say they are easing, the wars effects remain harsh for tonight is really troops killed on monday. dead and wounded palestinians continue overwhelming hospitals. as antony blinken urged better humanitarian access , needy gazans stormed food trucks. from his meetings in the region the past week, antony blinken set out a piece, which so far has been publicly rejected by israel's government. >> neighbors making tough decisions necessary for lasting security. israeli leaders will have to make hard decisions. israel must be a partner to palestinian leaders who are living side-by-side in peace with israel. >> reporter: antony blinken saying that palestinian leaders must reform , which is

now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. a conversation with, rather than a news like interrogation of someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped the layers. my guest this week made the cover of time magazine when they profiled the first muslim leader of a western democracy. he is at the headline put it, the new face of scotland. the youngest leader this country has had in course of a century of having a devolved scottish government. but this, admits humza yousaf, here in glasgow, has been a difficult year for him. difficult for his party, too, don't buy a police investigation, criticised for failing to deliver, and divided about when independence might actually be possible. humza yousaf, first minister, thanks forjoining me. my pleasure. it has been quite a year! you're telling me! how much do you feel you have aged in that time? i think people can probably look at pictures of before i became first minister and since, i suppose hogmanay was an interesting point when nadia and i were seeing in the new ye

characters in the west like gerth wilders or tommy robinson who gets zionist funding, as we have seen from the research of a british politician named nick griffin, he exposed tommy robinson, why doesn't he thank khassim suleimani for saving the christians that he pretends that? people like robinson pretend to care about, this is a grave hypocrisy, and so anybody who's listening who truly cares about the christians, who truly cares about the christians in syria, they should be thanking hisballah, they should be thanking shaheed qasim sulaiman. sure, thank you, ali. now let's take a look at haj qasim's legacy in relation to supporting the struggle of the palestinian people. the fact that sulaimani was commander of the quick force tells you this. reality of the palestinian force to general saleimani, he quickly opened the palestinian and the lebanese resistance files and led essentially the coordination between the quds force and all the palestiny factions across the board, so both the islamic, so that hamas and jihad as well as the left wing, so the popular front for the liberation of palestine, the general committee etc. in a way in whic