squloing me is mark hertling and robin wright. mark, let me begin by asking you, israel has this international pressure to cease or scale back its operations and there are fears of a widening war. in the midst of all of this, is israel achieving its objectives? are they succeeding? >> indicators state that israel has disabled 20 to 30% of the hamas network so far. the early comments about destroying hamas, destroying an ideology or what we've talked about it or what the israeli military has done with the terrorist network in gaza. it's fascinating because by the standpoint of time and alliances, time is not on israel's time. they are built underneath the civilian population to draw israel in. this puts the israeli military at a disadvantage while they do try and see it. there's still much that remains in the south. >> robin, that's striking to me what mark hertling is saying. they've only destroyed 20, 30 perfection percent. as far as i can tell they've leveled northern gaza. inflicting pretty severe damage in the south now. is all

army general mark hertling who is a national security and military analyst for cnn and robin wright is a contributing writer for the new yorker and a distinguished fellow at the wilson center. mark, let me begin by asking you, israel has this international pressure to either cease or scale back its operations substantially. there's also fears of a widening war. in the midst of all of this, is israel achieving its objectives? which netanyahu keeps saying is the total destruction of hamas. you know, that's the military objective, i'm not sure what the political objective is. i just wand to hear from you, from a military point of view, are they succeeding and can they succeed? >> indicators state that israel has disabled about 20% to 30% of the hamas network so far. the early comments about destroying hamas, destroying an ideology or what we've talked about it or what the israeli military has done is destroyed a significant portion of the terrorist network in gaza. it's fascinating because by the standpoint of time and alliances, time is not on israel's side. hamas is using time as part o

we will be hearing in around an hour's time from mark wright gave, he speaks for the israeli government watching a ruling in the international court of justice that has been given a provisional ruling on a case bought by south africa against israel, a case of genocide. one of the most serious war crimes, if not the most serious war crime that can have action brought against it. the icj ruled against the state cases. we can go live now to the hague and our correspondent, anna holligan who has been watching proceedings in the court. talk to us about the reaction when these preliminary rulings were given. these preliminary rulings were civen. ~ , _, given. we were inside the courtroom. reaction there _ given. we were inside the courtroom. reaction there was _ given. we were inside the courtroom. reaction there was very _ given. we were inside the courtroom. reaction there was very quiet - given. we were inside the courtroom. reaction there was very quiet as - given. we were inside the courtroom. reaction there was very quiet as all . reaction there was very quiet as all the journalists wer

mark mark white has the mark wright mark white has the latest . latest. >> on the isle of man overnightng them crashing over a main road . despite the obvious main road. despite the obvious danger. main road. despite the obvious danger . to a main road. despite the obvious danger. to a local main road. despite the obvious danger . to a local cyclist danger. to a local cyclist decided to take a late night bike ride along the seafront . it bike ride along the seafront. it was western communities across the uk and ireland that felt the brunt of stormy asia. first, the boats in this harbour in county dubun boats in this harbour in county dublin took a real battering from winds gusting close to 100 miles an hour. from winds gusting close to 100 miles an hour . within hours, miles an hour. within hours, britain and the republic's entire coastlines were suffering. the effects of this powerful storm, some from cornwall to brighton to blackpool and beyond these coastal communities are well used to winter storms, but asia certainly packed a punch . it was certainly packed a punch. it was felt mos

wright is expected in court at 9.30. it's 8.18, and the north bay friday marked the five-year anniversary of a fatal hit and run. that happened in benicia. >> it still hasn't been solved. police have though released a description of the vehicle and we have a photo here for you on january 5th of 2019, 79 year-old sharon della more was struck by a vehicle in the 1000 block of east 5th street in benicia. and police have determined that this was of vehicle that hit her or this is a photo of this type of vehicle. it's a red mid-nineties for the thunderbird. so this is the type of vehicle. this is not this specific one that they're looking for there and have a reward out now for any tips that they can get co solve this crime in the east bay, a man was struck and killed in a hit and run in pittsburgh. he was hit on railroad avenue near city park yesterday morning and he died on the way to the hospital. the driver took off, but police later found the driver and they've been booked into the martinez detention facility. well, this morneng, year's congress, they have agreed on terms to keep the government open. our dc corr

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