mohamed cinema, his brother, he cannot lead the organisation. —— mohammed sinwar.ll movement, like the movement we used to know and not a movement that even the founder of hamas, sheikh ahmed yassin, believed this movement can be governing the palestinians for the future. shlomi eldar, thank you for joining us, an israeli journalist and film—maker who has interviewed ismail haniyeh in the past. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. tributes continue to pour in after the death of liam payne, the former member of the boy band one direction. payne fell from a hotel balcony late on wednesday. the singer rose to global stardom as part of one direction, selling 70 million records worldwide. his former bandmates have paid tribute to him, saying the memories they shared will be treasured forever. azadeh moshiri has more. fans had long called for a one direction reunion, but now liam payne's former bandmates are united in grief. in a statement, louis tomlinson, zayn malik, niall horan and harry styles said, "we will take some time "to grieve and process the

it was his brother mohammed sinwar, who had who had holed of gilad shalit there incredibly close and king to very senior israeli officials about a month ago they told me that they believed that yahya sinwar and his brother mohammed, was still traveling around together. in fact, they had evidence that they might have been in tel al-sultan around the end of august, just outside of rapper on the edges of rafah, a barely a month ago. if his brother was killed along with him, then i think the picture becomes perhaps a bit different. there's a prospect perhaps of that injection of diplomacy that can be a breakpoint, that can be appointed for the prime minister benjamin netanyahu to declare this is something of a victory and hamas defeated, but i don't, i don't think we're there yet and hamas has has shown in the past that it will just replace with somebody else sinwar hugely important for october 7. but him gone doesn't mean doesn't mean the death of hamas and it's so interesting what important insight into what this means particularly about sinwar's brother. warn you before covering the pe

sinwar is the third senior hamas figure killed by israel in its military operation in gaza. he became hamas chief following the assassination of ismail haniyeh in iran injuly. israel says mohammednder of hamas�* military wing, was killed in a strike on khan younis, also injuly. he's said to have survived seven israeli assassination attempts. president biden says yahya sinwar�*s death marks a good day for israel, for the us, and for the world. in the last hour, we've also heard from the us vice president kamala harris. she said us operations and intelligence personnel had worked with is really counterparts to track down yahya sinwar and other hamas leaders. israel has a right to defend itself, and the threat hamas poses to israel must be eliminated. today, there is clear progress toward that goal. hamas is decimated and its leadership is eliminated. this moment gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in gaza, and it must end such that israel is secure. the hostages are released, the suffering in gaza ends, and the palestinian people can realise their right to dignity, security, freedom and self—determination. and it is time for the day after to begin without hamas in powe

it is his brother, mohammed sinwar, who is now appears to be in charge in gaza.a deal will ultimately depend on him, as well as on the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and it's important to note that mohammed sinwar, much like his brother, is viewed as a fairly hard line militants force brianna all right. >> jeremy diamond live for us from tel aviv. thank you. and with election day only a week away, there's a new survey that shows some americans are actually becoming more optimistic about the economy. what is behind that shift will have it just ahead. >> you've found at your kayak company because you love the ocean, not spreadsheets, you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do are matching platform lets you spend less time searching and more time connecting with candidates, visiting indeed.com. >> the best part of any of those renovations shows is always a transformation. they show you what the end i'm brian gary here with brian price from renewal by anderson, and he's going to show us some of their transformations. >> hey, brian, let me ask you if yo

we don't know is it going to be mohammed sinwar is going to be sinwar and cooperation with some of the key brigade commanders in rafah in gaza city. what role will the external leadership plea? we don't know any of these things, but what we know is that hamas is not not in a position right now to make a deal as far as netanyahu is concerned the deal that was on the table which involved israeli concessions, withdrawal from parts of gaza, and the return of large numbers of palestinian prisoners there's actually no way that management me out. who is on a roll? it's going to agree to return hundreds of palestinian prisoners who have either accused or convicted of killing israelis and add to that, iran, the shoe that is about to drop mr. netanyahu is holding a lot of cards and now i think he's drawing to an inside straight will have to wait and see what happens when the israeli strike to iran and whatever other targets sets they have in mind yeah, that's a great when you look at this, obviously they have wanted sinwar dead for decades, but especially obviously since october 7, they've been

. >> brian: so they say -- the isw says his mother mohammed sinwar going to take over but the word iso. you said to me the fighters are still there. they are scattered and maybe unorganized. that's inlocial. tintolerable.so as long as calla cease-fire seems somewhat irresponsible but calling for a surrender and release of all the hostages seems to make more sense. >> yeah. i think there is an opening here on the hostages, depending on who takes over. if it's one of the political leaders in qatar and three or four of them are there, that becomes the new leader of hamas, they clearly had disagreed with sinwar's obstinence and maybe that door will open and you will be able to get the hostages out. my israeli sources tell me of the 101 hostages, 48 are confirmed dead. and they certainly want to get the rest of them out of there because the longer they stay there, obviously their lives are in jeopardy and we have seen the evidence of all of that so that would be a good thing. prime minister netanyahu is not going to agree to a permanent cease-fire here when he has got thousands of fighters

is it mohammed sinwar or is it somebody from the political side? what is the new leadership signal to what could happen at a table of negotiators in qatar? but then what else do they do? do they take a stand and send some long-range missiles into israel that they still have stashed someplace to say we have a new leader and we're back in business. now for bibi, that means, okay, we're back in the war game. this isn't what it could have been. the flip side of that is does does bibi say sinwar is dead hamas is crushed? i have broken hezbollah on the other side. >> so iran, who was ten feet tall, a month-and-a-half ago their sword is broken, their proxies disabled we can now start to to begin with, give us back our hostages. >> and we'll get into some talks about what comes next. yeah, this week is going to be critical and seeing who moves which way and as biden said today in his statement, president biden, hamas is no longer capable of carrying out an october 7 level attack. >> will see what happens to those hostages who are still there. thank you to

succeed him and what does that say about what's next yeah, look, one of them could be as brother mohammed sinwar, and they've been joined at the hip rising through the ranks together. >> they fought together and right now, his brother mohammed is the head of the military wing of hamas so oftentimes the idf believes that they travel, that they had traveled around together. so if he steps in he's going to be hard line late summer, we can expect that the next one would be khaled. all higher. now, he's been the new number two since the old number two was killed, has been helping lead the negotiations and is seen as it's a bit more of a moderate than sinwar, but that's hard to judge and it's not really clear that he has the same kind of charisma with the fighters that sinwar had. then the other person kind of thrown into the mix. somebody that qatar is might turn to as they tried to pressure hamas to make a deal because they're trying to deliver on what the united states wants here, which ended the war in gaza khaled meshaal, he was a former head of hamas, has been, it's been an exile and outside of

however, you know, who's going to replace ship while it could well be his brother mohammed sinwar who is as militant as his brother and as unlikely to be sort of good good-faith negotiator as his brother proved to be so. >> hamas also is not like al-qaeda. there's a lot of discussion. this is like getting been loud and from a psychological point of view, yes but i'll kinda was a relatively small group of a few hundred people hamas has 20,000 fighters. a lot of them have been killed, but a lot of them haven't been killed so i think it's a tactical victory is not a strategic victory. >> general, how can israel use this? on the ground inside gaza, particularly in trying to get the hostage. i don't know if there's a military solution to getting the hostages freed. it may be that, that is political, but from a military standpoint, what kind of opportunity does this? provide well, first, john, what i'd say is i completely agree with peter on this you know, having decapitated terrorist organizations in my lifetime in combat we were always high-fiving each other because you've hit a main targ

and then there's mohammed sinwar, and that's yahya sinwar, his brother.nd if it for whatever, whatever reason, if it ends up in his hands, i don't think anybody expects any change from what they saw. in fact, you may even see a hardening of the hamas. so there's opportunities, but there's also here's a little bit to this scathing independent review of the secret service calling for an overhaul, including replacing outside leadership with outside individuals. >> what do you make of this assessment? >> well, i got to tell you, it was an interesting assessment to say the least, and it was probably needed. one of the problems, and this kind of brings it out is where it is, you know, that it had become encumbered if you will. there was a lack of critical thinking within the secret service ranks. a lot of talk about bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and certainly we saw all of that as very evident in what happened in butler, that it just, you know, we would kind of shake our heads going, what were you thinking? why did you leave that undone? and, and some

sinwar has been killed another big name that is still out there, someone who is still alive is mohammed sinwar, who is yahya sinwar's brother. that according to sources would be among the worst-case scenarios because he has seemed to be as cut from the same cloth just as hard line and could be just as rigorous about not agreeing to a ceasefire, right now. but there could be others who who who are more agreeable, if you will. there's someone named callias, ohio who has taken the position as the top negotiator. he's on the political side. he's outside of gaza. he's in doha. the political echelon. outside of gaza, they've been seen as more amenable and more in favor of a ceasefire. so this is a major question and it could go both ways. so we need to see the whether israel sees this as a moment to end the war in gaza, but also whether hamas sees at the same way, and how does iran see it, right? especially as we know that israel had already readied its response to iran as we saw what's happening, obviously in lebanon with hezbollah now, you have this where they've killed sinwar. how is iran going t

there is talk among israeli observers of hamas that it could be mohammed sinwar, known to be kind ofld be, you know, still surviving members of hamas leadership in qatar. and if that is what ends up happening and gazan fighters are pushed a little bit aside as a result of this assassination, then we might see some kind of softening of hamas position because they want to safeguard their future in doha, in qatar, and they have to follow some of the recommendations. >> an hour goes by so fast. i have so many more questions. thank you very much

there are a few likely candidates, but one of them is mohammed sinwar, his brother, 13 years his junior, who is equally committed and arguably more violent in many ways. you know, the concern about yahya sinwar was he really understood the value of holding hostages and, you know, one of the reasons he wasn't ever likely going to turn them all back over, because the beverage that they provided and they gave him the opportunity to maybe survive this war. his brother knows that just as well. his brother was the chief architect back in 2006, which ultimately led to the release of yahya sinwar. so, i think it all depends on who ascends to the throne of hamas who will then be also public enemy number one for israel and they'll start targeting that individual. >> richard -- -- i was just thinking, the brother is there. we don't know who the other two people that were killed along with, if it is confirmed that it is sinwar who was killed yesterday in this fire fight, this battle that erin tells us was, indeed, very intense. what is the process for these organizations that are literally undergro

and the former leader of hamas, israeli officials believe the rather of the former hamas leader mohammed sinware next in line for the top job to lead the terrorist organization. iran's supreme leader saying his death would not stop the axis of resistance and hamas would live on in washington. alina shirazi news nation. >> chp rescued an elderly man stuck on a steep ravine trail in marin county last night. as you see, it was after dark, making things tougher, happened off highway one. the victim said he could not finish his hike. he was airlifted to safety. he was not injured. all right. time for another look at the forecast as we look live over san francisco. gayle is back and saying it's going to get a little hotter. >> yeah, you know, see a slight format and especially inland wednesday. looks like it's the warmest day mid 80's. so still comfortable. >> temperatures and away wet weather. we have some active weather firewise on last week. so we don't see critical fire danger. we are still even though we are still dry out there now, just going to see on, you know, you see mostly clear skies toni

to succeed him and what does that say about what's next yeah, one of them could be as brother mohammed sinwar, and they've been joined at the hip, rising through the ranks together. >> they fought together and right now his brother mohammed is the head of the military wing of hamas so oftentimes the idf believes that they travel, that they had traveled around together. so if he steps in, his gonna be hard line late-summer, we can expect that the next one would be halad. al hayya. now, he's been the new number two since the old number two was killed, has been helping lead the negotiations and se seen as a bit more of a moderate than sinwar, but that's hard to judge and it's not really clear that he has the same kind of charisma with the fighters that sinwar had and then the other person kind of thrown into the mix somebody that qatar is might turn to as they tried to pressure hamas to make a deal because they're trying to deliver on what the united states wants here, which ended the warring gaza khaled meshaal. he was a former head of hamas, has been, it's been an exhale and outside of, outsid

there is talk among israeli observers of hamas that it could be mohammed sinwar, known to be kind of a deputy of his. it could be, you know, still surviving members of hamas leadership in qatar. and if that is what ends up happening and gazan fighters are pushed a little bit aside as a result of this assassination, then we might see some kind of softening of hamas position because they want to safeguard their future in doha, in qatar, and they have to follow some of the recommendations. >> an hour goes by so fast. i have so many more questions. thank you very much as always. that's it for me today. "deadline: white house" starts right now. ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. in a normal world, a pre-trump world, the 2024 presidential campaign would have been fundamentally reshaped in the last 24 hours. twice. first, an on camera confession by the republican presidential nominee, donald trump, about his centrality in the january 6th insurrection described as, quote, domestic terrorism by the trump-appointed director of the fbi. and second, the most senior republican officia

seek peace, and if so, can it be achieved now or will hamas regroup after the death of sinwar's brother, mohammed? >> reporter: the argument is that the fight is not over and hamas is more than just one individual. it is a network, an ideology, and netanyahu connected it back to iran. netanyahu's interest is time is altogether and arguing that effectively this needs to be dealt with in a tactical, kinetic way in war. the united states and other world leaders point out technically israel has met the goal of decimating hamas' leadership. they occupied the territory at the moment and they have an opportunity to get the hostages back. even though it is a desperate situation, ultimately it is where the israeli people get engaged and involved and it becomes less about how you go about fighting the war and more about how you make the israeli people safe again. >> nayyera haq, thank you for weighing in. >>> you have noticed it and i've noticed it, but have voters noticed this about donald trump's latest speeches, and how concerning it is, next. power outages can be unpredictable, inconvenient, and disrup

remember now what hamas leadership what's left of it and sinwar's brother mohammed may be elevated to the new leader of hamas. we don't know that. if he is he would have a lot of say as to what conditions they would agree to if a cease-fire were to happen. one thing they have said is they want the israeli military out of gaza. and that's kind of a no-go for netanyahu. we'll watch that as we go throughout the day and into the weekend. let's come back home to north carolina hitting the polls despite lacking basic necessities in the aftermath of hurricane helene. day two of early voting people are lining up in the key battleground state. remember, there were 25 counties, most of them rural in the western part of the state affected. dana marie mcnicholl is in asheville, north carolina. there were long lines yesterday and what are folks saying to you today? >> bill, we're seeing even longer lines. people waited over two hours to cast their vote yesterday. there is a real sense of priority when it comes to voter accessibility here in the swing state of north carolina. 80 early voting sites

sinwar is dead. the other leaders are dead. mohammedin gaza, and get the humanitarian aid desperately needed by all of those suffering people? >> i am 100% in awe of tony blinken's shuttle diplomacy, and i pray to god that it pays off with some kind of cease fire deal. i think that's pretty good advice to the israelis. the one thing they have left to do, kind of the military center of gravity, get rid of the tunnel complex under gaza. they're in the process of doing that. decommissioning this 400 miles of tunnel. that's where hamas trained, equipped, organized and launched the attacks of october 7th. once that's done. i don't see any reason for israel to continue to try to occupy the gaza strip. they ought to do exactly as secretary blinken says. let's get an arab peace keeping force in there. perhaps under u.n. and let's start salvaging some kind of life for the people of palestine. >> and let me briefly ask you about lebanon. the u.s. has quite a mixed message after failing to get a cease fire for lebanon, a couple of weeks ago when a

sinwar. we eliminate his number two, mohammed deif. we eliminated the previous studies. now haniah in lebanon and hassan nasrallah and i think the message that israel is sending that is very, very clear. anyone, anyone who threatens the people of israel is going to face justice swiftly. and this has all taking place with them last year. >> major, what is the opening as you see it for hostage and ceasefire talks. now that sinn, where sinwar is gone of course, our mission is not completed. brianna is you're saying, the 101 hostages that are being held there, including these babies who've had their birthdays there. the men or women is beyond all belief and is on the top of every single building, the numbers of all these people that are counting and all we want us to bring them home yokley sinwar was opposed to any deal. >> he was the very person that took these hostage drag them from their homes, gave the orders. we found the book that he had written describing how to take people hostage, kill relatives put them in shock and take them hostage. and he did not want to let the

their military chief, mohammed deif was assassinated today we are here, sinwar is killed and all these people have orchestrated planned, executed a genocide against the jewish people on october 7, but. worse than this they use civilians as human shields. they weaponize children and women to achieve their political gain. their financial gain, to delegitimize israel, and to legitimize their violent cause so today, the death of sinwar is that violence is a dead end. so no matter how the palestinians will try to sacrifice children for political and financial gain, which is not a new practice by the way this practice is a 70 70-years-old practice inspired by the iranian ayatollah when he sent thousands of iranian can children to sweep minefields, the sweep minefields with their bare bodies. this evil practice must stop. and the world, the world, unfortunately, instead of prosecuting such criminals. they have rewarded them with legitimacy. they have rewarded them financially. and this is why they came stronger and stronger every time this is not the first war in gaza. jake, this is the fifth

sinwar may well have been moving from tunnel to tunnel. they killed mohammed deif because he surfaced at a team meeting. and the israelis were able to target and eliminate him. so again, there's a lot of tiktok and his backstory that has yet to be revealed, but it is i think a transformative moment in the war in gaza just very quickly. >> are you did mention benjamin netanyahu. >> and there's and the possibility that this gives netanyahu a chance to declare a victory and you said you don't know what that would lead to, what what might it lead to? >> i mean, what are the possibilities here well, you have a plan on the table, a three-phase negotiating plan, first phase was a limited release of hostages in exchange for six ceasefire and a surge in of humanitarian assistance into gaza. >> second phase to be negotiated, which would presumably have managed withdrawal, of israeli forces from gaza. and the release of the remaining hostages. i mean, i suspect if in fact you are now talking about negotiation if there is a palestinian decision maker on the hamas side. no

it wouldn't just be sinwar, it would be the head of the military wing mohammed deif and his deputy marwan issa so us officials who i've been speaking with this morning, no doubt see this as a moment where they could jump-start the ceasefire negotiations that have been completely stalled in the water for the past few weeks and more importantly, jim, for months the u.s administration has seen the end of the war in gaza, a ceasefire in gaza as the key to unlocking so much more, not just getting the israeli hostages home, not just getting that critical aid into the gaza strip for the hundreds of thousands of people who are suffering so much in gaza, but also ending the confrontations that israel is facing with hezbollah to the north and lebanon, the increasing attacks by the houthis in yemen, as well as other proxy groups. so yeah, this really is a could be, could be a pivotal moment for not just the war in gaza, but so much of these growing and brewing conflict. >> not to mention the tensions with iran as well, which has been on the rise, of course, and cnn's arlette saenz's over at the whit

potential successor, but it's not clear at this stage because it's not just sinwar who has now been killed by the israeli military, mohammed deif, the head of the al al-qassam brigades, hamas military wing, ismail haniyeh, the former political leader of hamas, a long list, of course, of senior hamas members who have been killed. and so a lot of questions about the future of hamas, these really government believing that this will spend the spell the end of hamas's rule in gaza, but not yet clear whether it will actually facilitate an end to the war. release of the hostages jeremy diamond. >> thank you so much for the reporting from tel aviv. let's take you live now to berlin because cnn's kayla tausche, she is there and that's where president biden is headed for meetings with european he had leaders. we understand that at some point during his trip over to europe, kayla president biden made clear that he would be soon speaking with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, give us the details on that. >> well, we expect that to happen in short order, president biden is expected to land here in berlin within the hour after

sinwar saying it only strengthened the group. the former captain of fulham ladies football team says she was sexually assaulted by mohammed al fayedore military support after north korean troops have arrived in russia. also coming up on the world today: in this study warns that the penguin could become extinct —— african penguin could become extinct. welcome to the world today an hour of international news from the bbc. hamas has confirmed, for the first time, that its leader, yahya sinwar, has been killed by israel. hamas said he died in combat and warned his death in the gaza strip would only strengthen the movement. israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has been holding a security meeting to discuss the possibility of negotiations on a deal, to free the remaining hostages in gaza. but hamas said, no hostages would be freed until israel ended its offensive in gaza, and withdrew its forces. president biden who's been holding talks with european leaders in berlin said there's a possibility of working

we are brother, mohammed sinwar? are chasing brother, mohammed sinwar? all the hamas terrorists, the leadership, mohammed sinwar, as you mentioned, the brother, and we will continue doing so as we have done since the beginning of the war, and as we have proven, the idf and the general security forces, we have managed to kill not only mohammed dave, yahya sinwar, and will continue doing so because all those who have blood on their hands and are responsible and took part in the 7th of october massacre. d0 the 7th of october massacre. do we know why yahya sinwar went over _ we know why yahya sinwar went over ground in gaza question mark? — over ground in gaza question mark? ., ., mark? from what i saw in the field, yahya _ mark? from what i saw in the field, yahya sinwar _ mark? from what i saw in the field, yahya sinwar was - field, ya hya sinwar was actually field, yahya sinwar was actually in that underground complex as we found his dna a few metres from where those six hostages he was there, and for a long period of time, our forces were slowly encircli

it was his brother mohammed sinwar who got him out the man who is now tipped possibly to replace him.have spent the last 12 months hiding and tunnels underneath gaza, possibly surrounding himself with some of those sausages we've been hearing about. as a form of insurance to make sure that he wasn't targeted. this does appear to be an accidental find for the israelis, that it wasn't a targeted intelligence based assassination and the way that the israeli assassination for example in lebanon or nasrallah or others were. this is something very different. you've only got to look at the words of general petronius who ran central command, he was the chief of the cia and he said this in a way is even more important than the killing of a sum laden. foran american important than the killing of a sum laden. for an american say thatis sum laden. for an american say that is big. osama bin laden, the al-qaeda leader was killed by seal team six, special targeted mission into pakistan in 2011, ten years after the 9/11 attacks but this is israel's comparison. for them this is the closure that many i

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