biden really believes in the 2 state solution just shows you the kind of levels of, of, of us policy in the middle east that seem to be at one level. and this is what we should be talking about. it seems to be far less about a kind of objective reading of the us in the middle east. and what is interests are in the middle east and much more about a whole range of, of, of domestic pressures and considerations that are put on us administration's time. and time again, as well as audiology, as well as all sorts of other reasons why the us does what it does in the middle east because of us could have been theory long time ago. put pressure to resolve this, this the palestine question. but the us has chosen not to and then at the same time, it claims to $1.00 to $2.00 state solution precisely because they understand that what's happening on the ground right now is an effect, a one state solution, a one state where a some people have rights and the most people have either limited rights or no rights. the alley i'm gonna give you the last word. the united states during the trump administration, did violate the

and of course, whether or not the iranians will also attack us troops in the middle east. 't know if ou can in the middle east. i don't know if you can add _ in the middle east. i don't know if you can add to — in the middle east. i don't know if you can add to reports _ in the middle east. i don't know if you can add to reports that - in the middle east. i don't know if you can add to reports that there | you can add to reports that there have been sirens sounded near the border, the israeli lebanon border in an israeli kibbutz. can you tell us more or confirm it or deny it, what do you know? l us more or confirm it or deny it, what do you know?— us more or confirm it or deny it, what do you know? i can confirm that sirens have — what do you know? i can confirm that sirens have indeed _ what do you know? i can confirm that sirens have indeed been _ what do you know? i can confirm that sirens have indeed been sounded. . what do you know? i can confirm that| sirens have indeed been sounded. but for those who have missed bbc coverage of the last six months, that unfortunately

middle east for its energy. it does not want this thing to explode. so i think at the core of this is a failed. is railey political strategy, not a failed us middle east policy over in decades. well, more fundamentally, absolutely, the u. s. has enabled a failed is regularly strategy a terrible one. so i do completely agree that i that the u. s. policy in the middle east is failing terribly. it's leading to wider war, even if the us wants to restrain that it's not restraining the why, the war. why? because at the crux of this conflict is an on the south political problem with israel and palestine that absolutely needs to be solved. and all of the anti rainy and dimensions have, but a very large source in the palestine is real conflict. after all, there is no intrinsic reason why iran would be the great the enemy of the united states, even with all the history, the us has a lot to apologize for to arrive and starting in 1953 with the over throw the democratic government and the installation of a police state after all. so there could have been a reproach, month between the us and iran. i've always wanted that. i talked to you, i should have

thank you. brand as well or i us middle east analyst 10. yes i drove of what she thinks is behind runs attack as well. i think that it's quite clear that, that you're on these basically the same game just like you through it towards the project flower and the phrase that you put the will know through the page for the incident, the in the muscles where it stop general's the cube then in the eyes of the rest of them, at least where it tries to view this frequency and that scan it to the week. so while i use real quick, do i also do a cheap uh, you know, this uh, projection of power. uh, so was there is a running an answer. uh and uh, we saw that it was, well, you know, boxes, but also rather limited in scope. if they want to inflict pain on these row, they could do it for the premises in level of see right in other countries. so a whole lot of military postering here is, is what do you think you use to connect that as opposition until 2019, how far is that in yahoo is government willing to go in a reaction? well, you have to remember that the

iran often uses middle east proxies like hezbollah to hit certain targets, but the wall street journalorts defense officials have warned this time iran could use its own military forces. president biden yesterday reiterated u.s. support for israel. >> as i told prime minister netanyahu, our commitment to israel's security against these threats from iran and its proxies is ironclad. let me say it again ironclad. >> the show of support comes despite biden recently calling prime minister netanyahu's war strategy in gaza a mistake. an israeli airstrike yesterday killed three sons of a hamas political leader. hamas claims four of his grandchildren were also killed. meanwhile negotiations for a ceasefire deal may have hit another snag. hamas now says it does not have enough hostages in custody to meet the terms of the proposed deal, raising concern that more of the hostages may no longer be alive. before a cabinet meeting last night, prime minister netanyahu told israelis whoever hurts us or plans to hurt us, we will hurt them. andrew. >> christiane, thank you. on capitol hill, the house has

biden really believes in a 2 state solution just shows you the kind of levels of, of, of us policy in the middle east that seem to be at one level. and this is what we should be talking about. it seems to be far less about the kind of objective reading of the us in the middle east. and what is interests are in the middle east and much more about a whole range of, of, of domestic pressures and considerations that are put on us administration's time. and time again, as well as audiology, as well as all sorts of other reasons why that us does what it does in the middle east because of us could have been theory long time ago put pressure to resolve. this is the palestine question, but the west has chosen not to and then at the same time it claims to one day to state solution precisely because they understand that what's happening on the ground right now is an effect, a one state solution, a one state. whereas some people have rights and the most people have either limited rights or no rights. the alley i'm gonna give you the last word. the united states during the trump administration did violate the agr

time, the ation off of the id f destroyed brows. consulate in syria, with the latest, is all to use middle east and bureau to hurry up enough should i of what we know, at least for to real cause has been launched from 11 onto israel's northern communities. earlier on friday, the idea said in a statement, his beloved living on base a run back group called ready claims responsibility for days barrage of me solves. it said it's statements that stays, riley armies, artillery positions have been targeted. some of the real kids were here were intercepted, others lender in open areas, help salt and left and on. and there are no reports of damages or casualties so far . the idea of what his beloved have been trading fire it these really know been bullied, almost on a daily basis in the last 6 months after the war in gaza started. but friday's attack, of course, comes in a context of your readings. radson fear is that to her on boards, retaliation gains, israel following is alleged attack on the reading and kind of so it's in damascus, syria that's killed 7 tall thread and commanders the country supreme

citizen joiners, social 55 months of will and gaza and london, daniel levy is the president of the us middle east project and the 4 base to go shake. who's following up a little close to what comes with the program? i mean, let me start by asking you about your reaction to these ready low a mean to ben, a 0, a network. but i am alone. i'm alone because banning and international reputable media optic in the middle of the war as you say, without any obvious explanation, is, is in my was censorship making censorship. i'm definitely body freedom of expression . but also i think broadly of access to information. okay. man saw you have been in goes on to recently how important is that a 0 coverage of the people that it's a 0 it has uh, you know, has been with us for many decades now. my generation and the generation before me and off to me, you know, part of our culture as a 0 is ingrained and it's, it, it, it, it basically helps model our culture, our way of thinking how we looked to the outside world. it also moulded the vision of the outside world towards what's happening in the our, up in the musli

he is the president of the us/middle east project, a not—for—profit policy institute focusing on the he formerly worked as an adviser in israeli prime minister ehud barak�*s office. good to talk to you here on bbc news. let's start with a report from the idf about what happened, an admission of failure is and what happened this week.— admission of failure is and what happened this week. well, indeed. i think the first _ happened this week. well, indeed. i think the first question _ happened this week. well, indeed. i think the first question that - happened this week. well, indeed. i think the first question that comes l think the first question that comes to mind is absolutely tragic what happened to the seven world central kitchen aid workers. where are the investigations regarding the 13,000 plus palestinian children, the 30,000 plus mostly civilians? there were 189 humanitarian aid workers killed in israeli actions prior to this incident, over 100 un workers, the highest number in such a short period of time in any conflict anywhere in the world. 100 plus journalists. i won't car

daniel levy is the president of us middle east project. he advised that who the rock when he served this is really prime minister in sydney, australia. anthony lowenstein is the author of the recently published book, the palestine laboratory, a global investigation into how israel's occupation has provided a testing ground for weapons and technology exported globally. and until we get in levy is a column this for the hearts newspaper and the author of the punishment of gaza. a book about the development of the israeli policy that led to the 2009 invasion of the gaza strip. a warm welcome to all and thanks so much for joining us today on inside story. daniel, let me start with you today. so military intelligence chief, our own, how leave it has become the 1st senior is really official to resign over failures to prevent the october 7th attack. i'm curious about the timing why step down now? and will this set the stage for more resignations? i cannot speak to that question of timing bearer room is regarding one of these deputies having to hav

attacking israel from iranian soil in anticipation of something like this, the us military had moved more assets to the middle east. we understand that they strengthened air defenses. of course, they're us troops and us air defenses all across the middle east. there are also a number of naval ships in the red sea and the gulf of aden in the eastern mediterranean, all in anticipation of what we saw tonight. but we have been talking to our sources for the past two weeks trying to figure out what iran would do. and it really only came into focus yesterday that iran could indeed carry out tonight's attack from iranian soil. cnn reported yesterday that a number of military assets, including drones and cruise missiles, around 100 cruise missiles were being moved in iran. that was certainly an indication of what we saw tonight. and i'm really struck by this the two facts wolf, that iran is claiming that this is over. that's according to their mission at the united nations. at the same time, israel and the us and the support role of very, very much dealing with what is still incoming those drones. we believe they're also

but next to every military base or almost every military base that the us has in the middle east, that there is an iranian backed militia out there that could attack us assets in the middle east. so certainly, the iranians are saying that for the us, this could get very real. but at the same time, they also say that they don't want this matter to be taken any further. however, they do say that if the israelis do launch attacks against iranian territory, that iran would be ready for pleitgen, cnn, berlin thanks so much for watching this evening. i'm jim sciutto in washington. we continue our breaking news coverage right after a short break >> for moderate to severe crohn's disease. sky rosie is the first il-23 inhibitor that can deliver remission and visibly improved damage of the intestine justin aligning serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms had a vaccine or plan to liver problems may occur her in crohn's disease control of crohn's means everything to me ask your

this is the us secretary of state's 7 visit to the middle east since the october 7th attacks. and he's urging him us to accept this deal. also that a 40 day cease fire and the release of palestinians in prison by israel, and exchange for more than 30 is really hostages, held by him on a moss, has before it a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of his room. and in this moment, the only thing standing between the people of guys and a cease fire is on us. they have to decide and they have to decide quickly. conditions in gaza have worse than overnight. 3 separate is really attacks killed 22 people in rasa. heating 3 houses, including that of the abu time high family. they're small child, died in the attack. the gun was then we were sitting in the homes, and then the house was gone. and we didn't know anything. everyone was sleeping in their bed. the displays, those wouldn't on displays to come on in the most of these models with displays. and in addition to the family living here, that members of the family and the displays book here. and they ha

us. middle east conflict and what it might mean for india. >> as you said, israel is a close partner of indial partner of india. we no longer buy oil from iran as a result of the sanctions but any instability in that part of the world impacts india because we have 9 million indians living and working in the goals -- gulf . that by itself makes any geopolitical tension become a source of political and economic tension in india. india has invested deeply in its foreign policy, particularly with saudi arabia, israel, and the uae. all of these nations right now will be focusing or are focusing on the strikes and we have seen the results of the strikes this morning. all of these will impact how india sees the region because instability is not something india is very comfortable with. after the israel strikes -- after the iran strikes on israel last weekend, iran seized a merchant ship. this has been held hostage by iran for the last week. they released one female crew member this morning but it adds to india's troubles because indians have had to be evacuated by trouble spots all over the world. >

drones were one of those weapons that they could use to really take the fight especially to the us in middle east. so clearly now threats from the iranians, again, the iranians are saying, look, the us bases are there around and proxy forces are there as well. but of course, drones are a big threat to those us assets in the middle east as well, wolff? >> yeah, there's a very, very tense moment right now. fred pleitgen. thank you very much. we'll get back to you. jim sciutto is with me here in washington. we're watching all of this unfold, this whole situation could explode big time or it could it could come down. >> no question listen, this is an escalation. it's iranian attack attempts to strike israel, the defense is largely worked. it seems that's why the damage assessments to date and show very little damage on the ground there and the idf saying and intercepted the vast majority of at least so far and there could be more to come. but what we also do know that the us did already participate, that it was shooting in down some of these drones and missiles before they got close to israeli territ

and in order to make it clear to anyone who acts against us all over the middle east, that the price for action against israel will be a heavy one. for us marine corps intelligent, self assess, go right to it believes that such an attack can only mean is riley is looking for serious escalation. the 1st well is real, but it has been striking targets in syria, but for some time now for the purpose of interdicting your ronnie and capabilities in syria. and so to have such a senior, a rainy and revolutionary guard commander in syria of together with, you know, a country of other persians in one place was, i think, just too tempting of a target for israel. and the fact that they chose to strike a building that is protected under diplomatic convention shows it is real. i no longer cares about the rule of law about international law. and this brings us to the deal. i think there ultimate motive, benjamin danielle, who understands that he is only viable as a leader of israel, so long as he is in war. he's a wartime leader right now. the moment the current conflict stops, he loses his ability

iran often uses middle east proxies like hezbollah to hit certain targets. ports defense officials have warned this time iran could use its own military forces. president biden reiterated u.s. support for israel. >> as i told prime minister netanyahu, our commitment to israel's security against these threats from iran and its proxies is ironclad. let me say it again ironclad. >> meanwhile, negotiations for a cease fire deal may have hit another snag. hamas now says it does not have enough hostages in custody to meet the terms of the proposed deal, and that's raising concern. n more hostages may no longer be alive. back to you at the desk, reggie. >> thanks, amanda. president biden says he is considering a request from australia to drop its case against julian assange for years. australia. australia has called on the u.s. to drop its prosecution of assange, who is an australian citizen. the wikileaks founder has been fighting u.s. extradition efforts from prison in the u.k. for over a decade. assange was indicted on espionage charges over his website's publica

iran often uses middle east proxies like hezbollah to hit certain targets, but the wall street journaltime iran could use its own military forces. president biden reiterated u.s. support for israel. >> as i told prime minister netanyahu, our commitment to israel's security against these threats from iran and its proxies is iron clad. let me say it again ironclad. >> meanwhile, while negotiations for a cease fire deal may have hit another snag, hamas now says it does not have enough hostages in custody to meet the terms of the proposed deal. that's raising concern. more hostages may no longer be alive. back to you with the desk, kumasi. >> thank you. amanda. amanda knox is back on trial in italy, this time for slander after she wrongly accused a man of murdering her roommate. knox was convicted of the 2007 murder, but then exonerated in 2015. at the time, she accused the owner of a bar where she worked of killing her 21 year old british roommate. those claims appeared in statements typed by police. however, she recanted the accusation in a letter. knox, who's now 36, didn't appear in ye

come from the white house as the us does not want to see the middle east crisis escalates. rom the us reaction in a moment. so where does this leave the already tense situation in the middle east? i've been speaking withjeremy bowen, our international editor, and our security correspondent frank gardner. jeremy told me first about where the position for israel and its allies. the message coming from israel's western allies, particularly the us, also the british, rishi sunak, the british prime minister, has just said that britain was also involved in shooting down drones, and he said this is now a time for cool heads. in other words, a message to israel — "you've got a victory here. "bank it. "hang on to it. "do not escalate any further because the risks of escalating may be a strike back on to iranian territory are very great." israel has sustained a serious attack, but with a great deal of help from its allies, it has been able to withstand it. it was not a full—on assault in the way that perhaps it would have been had hezbollah in lebanonjoined in with their massive arsena

enemies have not gained strength and to make it clear to everyone who is acting against us throughout the middle east. the cost of action against israel will be high. but what price will israel have to pay? due to the rash actions of their authorities and what this threatens the entire middle east region is still unknown, everything depends on tehran. there are, of course, two options for the development of events. first, iran, of course, can respond asymmetrically, exactly the same in relation to israel on the territory of any other state, but then iran risks spoiling relations with this very third state, with this third country, yes, but this is not beneficial for him. secondly, then israel won’t remain either, let’s say. so the pocket won’t bother with a word and will answer, then this is an inevitable war, which means that iran will fall for this trap and that means what the west needed to do is to pit two strong states in the middle east region against each other, chaos would break out there and naturally , the americans could profit well from this, but there are reputational issues, so they can

while jo biden's election cycle administration in washington, desperately tries to tell us the conflict in the middle east is in spreading the facts on the ground. tell us something completely different. the reality, 16 different countries in the region are no embroiled in the burgeoning conflict. as around a ratchets up the pressure and deliver its, its 1st, the record colloquy strikes on he's ready. soil, you'll have to ask yourself why the us is so determined to tell you that this dangerous situation is contained? well, maybe that's because they would prefer to can field the vast u. s. military presence in the region. after all, the us deployed dozens of aircraft and launch air defense missiles from at least a countries with a run. and it's proxies fired weapons from a rec, syria, and e m. and it all sounds well, looks like a regional conflict to me. but despite all this, despite what we can plainly see on the map, the us is refusing to acknowledge reality. in terms of the striking, damascus, all it is a real speak for themselves and you know, and when it comes to preventing a wider regional conflict,

take over half of europe, we are saber-rattling, yes, but... they took us out against the unfortunate 3,000 migrants from the middle eastyes, that attitude , the amount of military equipment that they disdainfully, the murders that they make of migrants and then throw to us either seriously dying people or already corpses , yes... well, we probably all already know this story, the fact is that not everyone knows it in more detail, then i’ll just tell you first-hand, again, when the first accusations were made against the republic of belarus that belarus was stealing children from ukraine, yes, honestly for me it was perceived as well nonsense, okay, you know, then when accusations began to periodically surface in the media throughout the spring, that children who... come to us here do not return, but alexei talai and i, with his foundation, made a decision why, because alexey talai actually helps children come here, relax, even for 3 weeks, but it helps, well, his organization is directly involved in this, and we naturally do not stand aside, we get involved so that when the children vacation here with us, come make the

intention to go further from the progress, it's already made from its perspective, but to evict the us will middle eastpe israel off the map i mean, obviously it's an existential question for israel, the us is not going to be evicted from the middle east. it will not allow itself to be those are those are positions where there's no negotiation over that presumes a broader military conflict over time. well, i mean tomorrow we have a very significant meeting at the white house, which is the rocky prime minister else you, danny's meeting with biden now that's a long plan meeting. but what's a subject of discussion is the 2,500 us troops that are in iraq right now there's a lot of pressure in iraq by iranian-backed political parties to remove those us troops. so obviously this meeting is going to be a little more intense than it would have been perhaps a week ago but the iraqi prime minister is honore a lot of pressure to remove those troops, except the last time us pulled out of iraq three years later, you got it this is marching on baghdad. so a lot of iraqis don't want to see that again, but it doesn't

us. the middle east is waking up to the 200th day of the israel gaza war and an independent review of thenian refugees has found it needs to improve its neutrality staff vetting and transparency. the report was led by the former french foreign minister, catherine colonna. she also concluded that israel had yet to provide evidence to support its allegations that many unrwa staff belonged to the hamas militant group. ms colonna also said unwra played a unique and indispensable role in helping millions of palestinian refugees, and expressed confidence that the agency will accept the findings. what needs to be improved will be improved and i repeat, i am confident that implementing these measures will help deliver its mandate. i strongly encourage again the international community to be side—by—side with the agency so we can perform its mission. the report was met with critisicm by the israeli government. foreign ministry spokesperson 0ren marmorstein said the report "ignores the severity of the problem, and offers cosmetic solutions that do not deal with the enormous scope of hamas's infiltr

to understand that next to every military base, or almost every military rebase that the us has in the middle eastd militia out there that could attack us assets in the middle east. so certainly the iranians are saying that for the us, this could get very real, but at the same time, they also say that they don't want this matter to be taken any further. however, they do say that if the israelis do launch attacks against iranian territory, that iran would be ready for pleitgen. cnn, berlin >> the latest wave of iranian strikes against israel appears now to have subsided. israel's war cabinet, weighing its response to this attack, the israeli military it's sunday. as we noted, a short time ago, 99% of more than 300 projectiles. that is drones and missiles fired it. israel, by iran were intercepted only a small number of ballistic missiles reached israel with the remaining ballistic missiles, all cruise missiles, and all drone once intercepted before reaching israeli territory. this from the idf spokesperson, rear admiral daniel hagari, official says us president joe biden told the israeli prime mini

targets in the middle east.— regarding iranian targets in the middle east. ., ,, , l, , l regarding iranian targets in the middle east. ., ,, , l l, middle east. thank you very much for “oinini usean commission, ursula von der leyen has called for de—escalation. all sides should refrain from escalation in that region. we have seen the massive attack with drones and missiles, about 300, by iran on israel. it is absolutely necessary that the region stays stable and that the region stays stable and that all sides refrain from further action. ., l l, that all sides refrain from further action. ., , , l, ,, l, l, action. now we can speak to our middle east _ action. now we can speak to our middle east correspondent - action. now we can speak to our i middle east correspondent yolande knell. give us an idea of what the reaction has been in israel to all of this? ~ , l, l, of this? well, first of all, israel's — of this? well, first of all, israel's military - of this? well, first of all, israel's military has - of this? well, first of all, israel's military has not l of this? well, first of all, - israel's military has not confirmed that any offensive took place inside iran. we have

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location to the center to think you were monitoring breaking news of the middle east for you israel is under attack. stay with usndra: we are monitoring breaking news out of the middle east for you at this hour. israel is on high alert after rom launcher dozens of drones at a zero-point joining us now former national security council director robert greenway. we know that number has swelled to over 200 drones as reported by the israeli military this hour. robert, what so far as your reaction to what we've seen and what do you believe is coming next? >> despite the president calls for don'ts and the telegraphing of this attack in much the same way date leaked intelligence about the russian invasion of ukraine. it was unsuccessful at deterring iran. it was no doubt incredibly useful for this strikes me unprecedented attack of some 200 drones and ballistic missiles from iran to israel which is tantamount to a declaration of war but they traded blows below the surface for decades bird israel getting the better of that. this is an open conflict and escalation is going to be much more difficult to achieve a pretty swe

needs to understand that next to every military base or almost every military base that the us has in the middle east, that there is an iranian backed militia out there that could attack us assets in the middle east. so certainly the iranians are saying for the us, this could get very real. but at the same time, they also so say that they don't want this matter to be taken any further. however, they do say that if the israelis do launch attacks against iranian territory, that iran would be ready for pleitgen cnn, berlin our thanks to fred pleitgen. now i'll bring in cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman, who joins us now from beirut ben, one of the big questions amid this iranian attack last night was to what extent the iranian proxies in the region that the iranian-backed groups would join in this attack on israel, hezbollah being the most formidable among them. so what did hezbollah do overnight and what is the reaction there today >> well, overnight we do know alex that his butler, according to them, fired tens of couture fuchsia rockets at an israeli anti-missile are rather syria, th

us christy level $123.00 also just got the whole big. i hope that all the she is sky high tensions in the middle east, us threatening to rotted. so even the, the closing is relative temporarily. pose $28.00 to resemblances on concerts around the world. so i think rainy and threats, the region is boy, is to say, just what's around will do after about to retaliate when he's really stripes on his concepts in syria. the operations conducted at the right time with precision and prudence, and with the necessary caution to maximize the damage to the enemy would definitely lead to its regret and make it, replied freight's actions. this, of course, comes in the wake of monday, strike on the concert with the rainy and consummate in damascus in syria. and this is a very, very uh, momentous event, single country targeting a, another country in a 3rd country. it's, it's a significant breach of diplomatic. no one's if you like. so that's the 1st thing to note that this stuff doesn't usually happen. cookies don't usually launch strikes on the diplomatic charity of a 3rd country in a 2nd country. if he likes it, that's a significant thing. th