a state department advisor laura bloomfield told us the outrage of assess today's attack, but increase the pressure on israel to agree to assist fine with hamas who haven't yet agreed to the tools in a very sad and tragic way. today's event gives the united states additional leverage and pressure because while they are this tragedy that took place this morning and gaza, there is another disaster looming on their northern border with has bala that you know, the israel understands that they need the united states, the back them up right now while they're standing and bracing for a tally tories tax and both the ron and his ball a, they're heavily dependent on the united states for weapons and other assets intelligence. so what in the best case scenario this morning's event can do is to create some kind of momentum and incentive for the united states to say to israel, look, we need some concessions from you to reach betsy's fire and gaza. you need us more . in fact, than we need do at this point, and natania who has time to seal the deal, that's the best case scenario. natania who has been

laura bloomfield, thanks for joining us. many thanks the tensions between israel and has the militants have virtually shut down lebanon's driving tourist industry. over half a 1000000 tours arrived in lebanon between may and june of this year, but many governments are now warning against traveling. they are due to security concerns. the w's mohammed criteria reports from bare root. a long wait for union is about to end. the usually morning coffee ritual is not cheerful today. how your company has big plans for this day in the been on the came from to buy, to spend their vacation with their in laws in beirut. but due to the growing tension in live and then the some of the have to come to a vacation in house and book the earliest flights out. i thought i had done what it says. this is my 1st vacation in 2 years. i chose to spend it and 11 and with my family and my friends, but it's getting more and more tense and i'm worried that i may get stuck here. i had a similar experience in the 2006 school and i didn't want to go throug

laura bloomfield speaking to me a bit earlier. let's take a look now at some other global news headlines. israel says it's deliberate enough polio vaccine for more than a 1000000 people in concert shipment started when the 1st case in a quarter of a century was discovered. i'd groups hope to vaccinate more than 600000 children and they cooling for a cease fire. so inoculations can begin, german police have shot dead, a man who attacks officers with knives in the western city of laws. no one else was injured. chancellor whitlock salts vowed to tighten weapons lowes following a mass, stopping, which killed 3 people in the buys. the lincoln last weekend keeps dumb. r as in germany and his 1st visit here is british prime minister. he's hoping tools will help to reset relations between the u. k and the european union. ties have been strange since britain left. the block stomach visited berlin's brandon, the guide before meeting the chancellor will laugh. schultz, steve and venezuela's president nicholas my judo has put a hotline social

how they back that up with any kind of muscle, mentally stainless, laura bloomfield, thanks for joining us. many. thanks. here's a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. thousands of demonstrators have turned out in london and other cities across britain to protest against racism. the rallies come after day is a far right writing the worst on risk you test seen in over a decade. the papers, the violence followed rumors spread on social media falsely linking a stabbing attack to an asylum seeker russians. south western cruise region has declared a state of emergency after a major cross border incursion by ukrainian forces. russian president vladimir putin described incursion as a large scale provocation. ukraine troops supported by tanks and dollar tillery crossed over the russian border from the assuming region on tuesday. the tensions between israel and hezbollah militants have driven lebanon's once thriving tourism industry to the brink of collapse. over half a 1000000 tourists arrived and 11 on between may and june of this year. the violence is

laura bloomfield, thank you very much. thank you. and then other news, the man accused of being the mastermind of the september 11th terrorist attacks as agreed to a guilty plea to avoid a possible death sentence. lead shake mohammed who is being held at the us military prison at guantanamo bay, has been in custody since 2003. the us accused him of being the main planner of the 911 attacks which killed nearly 3000 people. muhammad and 2 of his accomplices have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in exchange for life sentences. terry's tratta is chair of $911.00 families united, a group of more than $3000.00 family members, survivors and 1st responders. her husband, tom, worked in the world trade center and was killed in the attack. terry, thank you for joining us. how our members of your group reacting to news of this pre deal? there is mixed emotions on this play deal. they are older family members that believe that this will give them some type of relief, some type of closure. but the vast majority of the family members i'

i'd like to welcome laura bloomfield now she's the middle east analyst a new york times best selling author. i'm a senior fellow at the phillips merrill center for strategic studies at johns hopkins school for advanced international studies. welcome to you, hostage rescues at by israel relatively re what do you make of the slightest release? are they rare indeed is only the 4th hostage rescue in 10 months where the is relays and, and multi nationals have been health and home us. look, he humanizes the hostage issue. it's hard to keep those faces to believe that they're real. they're not just posters, they're real people. um and this was a father of 11 who came out squinting because he hadn't seen sunlight per month or 40 pounds dinner. i would say the 2nd notable thing is he's, he's a muslim, he's an arab, he spoke, you know hebrew though, because he's a citizen of israel. and the commanding officer of the is really a military officer who welcomed him, greeted him in arabic, which kind of pushes back on the narrative that israel is an apartheid country. but more and more realisticall

let's hear now from laura bloomfield, a middle east analyst, the best selling also, and a former senior policy adviser at the us state department where she focused on the middle east peace process. welcome to the w news. now, how does the us reconcile its states? a deep concern for the welfare of guides on civilians with its ongoing military support for israel. a deep concern indeed, i mean, this is one of these examples where the law of unintended consequences in war creates some just disastrous consequences. um, you know, as, as the white house. so today, although we understand and recognize that visual needs to target terrace, that they are deeply concerned. um and that is real, needs to take more precautions to protect civilians from the american point of view . what they're using us for hopefully is to get a, give some more momentum for the ceasefire hostage deal that it kind of underscores the urgency. it's kind of a now or never time, which is why we're hoping to have a kind of diplomatic train of representatives from the united states. with this august 15th to date set for this