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live from washington, this is bbc news. israeli air strikes killed dozens of people in gaza, including at a beachfront cafe. as israel's prime minister said to visit washington next week, the white house says the priority is to end the war. the us senate holds a vote marathon on president donald trump's one big beautiful bill. and blistering temperatures hit europe and the united states prompting widespread health and fire alerts. we will hear about the links between extreme heat and climate change.
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us president donald trump is set to host israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white house next monday at the 7th of july and the visit has been confirmed by trump administration officials. on monday, israel carried out waves of air strikes and artillery fire in gaza and reportedly killing at least 60 people. some of whom are waiting at aid distribution sites. health officials say around 20 people were killed in israeli strike at a beachfront cafe in gaza city and the site offered internet access and was reportedly used by palestinian journalists and activists. israeli military has not yet commented on the strike. elsewhere, gaza civil defence agency says 11 people were killed and near aid distribution sites. since
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israel lifted the 11 week aid blockade on gaza on the 19th of may, united nations says that more than 400 palestinians have been killed while seeking aid. our middle east correspondents in this report from jerusalem. there have been further waves of air strikes reported in gaza today including one on the cafe, this is somewhere that was known to be a place where journalists, activists and other people were looking for is space would often sit because they had internet access, chairs and for people to work. the hamas run civil defence for at least 21 people were killed in that blast and eyewitnesses reported the same, camera journalists working for production companies told the bbc that huge explosion and the bodies and blood were everywhere in his words as a result of the strike. this came after multiple evacuation orders for large slaves of gaza
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on sunday and monday telling people to evacuate from the north and many people around gaza city saying that the israeli military were using intense force in its fight against hamas military capabilities and there have been concerns that people have been directed south to areas that israel has designated as humanitarian areas and air strikes in the last couple of days, there are other strikes that have been reported today and the hospital sing the ten people have been killed in the strike on the islam aid distribution where reports are not the hospital sing 13 people have been killed in a strike near in a distribution centre as well and multiple strikes reported across the day and meanwhile, israeli military is a new statement today in regards to its aid distribution points run by the gaza humanitarian foundation a us and israeli back foundations administering aid and there
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have been daily reports now since the end of may in terms of killings while they're heading to receive aid from the sites from israeli fire and the last couple of hours, the israeli military have issued a statement saying they are reorganising some of these aid sites in the entrances to these sites and building more fences and signs and they also say that following incidents of reports of civilians being harmed, they are examining these incidents but also issuing instructions from what they have described as lessons learned. they have not said with those lessons learned are and they have not gone into much details about these incidents although the israeli military has previously admitted to firing what they described as warning shots at people they have described his suspects approaching troops. israeli media reporting further than that, they're quoting military sources and acknowledging that israeli fire has killed some people at these aid distribution sites and what
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is really media are describing is inaccurate fire. they have not heard that statement yet we've asked the israeli military to a response for some of the israeli media on monday but so far, the israeli military have officially said they are going to be reorganising the sites and investigating reports of civilian harm. meanwhile israel's strategic affairs minister is in washington this week to meet officials at the white house. according to the white house spokesperson caroline levitt, pressure on benjamin netanyahu to refocus on a cease-fire agreement in gaza. president donald trump set on social media on saturday that prime minister benjamin netanyahu was working on a deal with hamas and there are comments from the foreign minister that the country is working on a cease-fire deal in gaza and that includes a 60 day truce and the release of some hostages still held there. a
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former us palestinian negotiator and says that actions on the ground have not changed at all. i think it remains to be seen whether prime minister benjamin netanyahu is going to make any changes on the ground, he made a rhetorical shift and he is now prioritising a release the hostages in his rector rick and he's discussing a cease-fire with president trump by their actions are not changed on the ground and that's really what to look at, don't look at what they are saying look at what they're doing and nothing is changed so far and in fact, looks like they're doubling down. i would not expect president trump to go against benjamin netanyahu, he's trying to persuade benjamin netanyahu and then benjamin netanyahu will do whatever is in his political interest as opposed to what the united states tells him. some frustration and his behaviour in the cease-fire coming into effect with iran and he is that
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expletive as he was leaving the white house, can we expect any shifted on that unwavering support that we have seen to now? at the my president trump is going to was something that the same thing with president obama and president biden which is incredible frustration with the israelis who really will do whatever they want regardless of what we say and rely on a to help them deal with the consequences. what i heard from donald trump was a momentary flash of frustration that many other presidents have failed. it hasn't really translated, and any meaningful effort to press benjamin netanyahu on the war in gaza and i think what benjamin netanyahu will want is for normalisation of relationship with saudi arabia and complete hamas capitulation and they could be exiled in tucson but there will be a series of conditions attached to this from benjamin netanyahu they'll make it more or less impossible to proceed. do you think we'll hear more about the gaza riviera as we did from president trump way back in
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that first meeting, the first foreign leader to come and visit him at the white house and prime minister netanyahu when he visited? he is in calling it the gaza riviera any more but it the gaza riviera any more but is very damaging in terms of the prospects for a futures cease-fire in gaza because the israelis are sticking to the notion that it is a legitimate policy and to force everyone into the southern part of gaza and then hope from there, and the just decide to leave, and the point of president trump as being the one who thought of all of it. on the stomach from switches course on that are tells the israelis that they cannot pursue that policy, i think it's are the major impediments that we see to a real resolution to gaza. we have talked about the gaza humanitarian foundation by the measure of the united nations experience humanitarian organisations, they call it a complete failure, a death trap. starving and desperate people being shot and killed on almost daily basis at this point. of the us is just approved in
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funding. will the president have attached any conditions with that funding? almost certainly not. the gaza humanitarian foundation is a disaster that is not working at all and in fact in some cases it's only furthering the policy of trying to depopulate gaza and the united states putting money behind it is indicative of the fact that we are invested in this and donald trump as an ally of his that is running at right now and this is his idea that he worked out with the israelis and so the idea that he's going be putting pressure on the gh after perform better seems exactly contrary to what he is likely to do which is to stand up and claim it's all working great. speaking to me a little earlier. president donald trump inside an executive order terminating us sanctions on syria. the white house says the termination of sanctions will support the country's stability and peace. the controls on certain goods and waves restrictions on foreign
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assistance to syria. however, officials noted that sanctions to remain in place for former syrian president and his associates. president trump has rejected claims by a us senator about recent reports that washington is considering a deal with iran to build a civilian nuclear programme for energy purposes. president trump said on monday that he has not offered iran anything or even engaged with talks with them since attacking iranian nuclear facilities earlier this month. the deputy foreign ministers told the bbc that there will be no talks until they receive guarantees from the us that there'll be no more bombing and if and when negotiations resumed. a correspondent is being allowed to report in iran. the last goodbyes are still being said in iran.
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it's taking time to identify all the dead. these coffins don't carry senior soldiers assassinated by israel, they're civilians - the family of the nuclear scientist seddiqi saber. when an israeli missile hit his home, 12 others were killed. emotional moments like this heighten the anger among iranians over this war, whether or not they support the government. in a confrontation where israel said it only targeted military and nuclear sites, it's clear that civilians also suffered. and it fuels political fury. photos of iran's supreme leader, ayatollah khamenei, are handed out. nothing is left of the family home. only one brother is still alive.
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"we found pieces of children's hands and feet here," he says. he calls on the government to do something to avenge this crime, saying its approach to the nuclear watchdog, the iaea, should change. weeks before seddiqi saber was killed, the us sanctioned him for working on nuclear weapons. today, his brother said he would still be alive if iran did have a bomb. lyse doucet, bbc news, northern iran. united nations world food programme has warned that millions of sudanese refugees risk plunging deeper into hunger and malnutrition due to drastic cuts to life-saving food assistance. more than 4 million people now fled to neighbouring countries in search of food, shelter and safety following two years of civil war. the civil war that
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you are alive bbc news. us senate is holding a marathon vote to president donald trump massive tax and spending bill and president trump wants to sign his so called one big beautiful bill into law by friday in time for the 4th of july independence day holiday. the bill extends and expands tax cuts signed into law by president trump in 2017 which are otherwise set to expire. i'll save the average american $29 a year on the tax bill. but partially it's offset with cuts
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to spending, particularly on the medicaid programme that subsidises health care for poor americans. independent estimates say that as many as 12 million people would lose their health insurance as a result. but the cut don't fully offset the tax breaks in the bill is expected to at $3.3 trillion to the federal deficit. they're still busy voting in that vote taking place on the floor of the senate on capitol hill right now, let's go live there and that's the bbc news capitol hill correspondent and is good to have you with the serum bbc news and give us an update on this vote and how are we looking ten hours and at this stage? to be honest on the moving parts slowly, even the chamber knows it's moving at a glacier pace and moving extra cautiously right now and the pace is been determined by democrats how many amendments they want offset, how much they want to slow down the process
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and it looks like they're willing to go quite a long time then president monson meet this july four deadline and they know that it's how the republican colleagues will vote in the senate in this vote are very close there and they know there are a lot of problems in the house and in this case, the more time the bill seems to be hanging over congress, the more problems different groups of republicans seem to find. republicans in leadership have been able to deal with those problems in the past but it's part of democratic strategy to spend as much time as they can on the senate talking about this bill enforcing amendments. if they do not have the majority come that's on the few ways they can have any bit of power in this process but talk to us about how what is proving to be the most controversial issues in this because the margin is really tiny. there are major issues but at the top of the list is medicaid which
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is the american programme for low income families and individuals and very large percentage of americans are on that programme and republicans, what they want to do is in efficient programme that has a great deal of waste and it and there are many americans through they believe are able-bodied that should be working but are getting medicaid and health care benefits and not working. and there's a number of reforms in this bill and the nonpartisan congressional voting office will have the effect of taking some 12 million americans out of health insurance under 12 million that would not have health insurance because the programmes the republicans are putting in place, that is just one estimate. and there very hot debate over whether these reforms are good and make the system more efficient and make room for the federal government which is up to their eyeballs in red ink and it's just a
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punitive strike that hurts some of the lowest, the poorest in american society. we saw president trump come in at the 11th hour when this was going to the house and those who are expressing some opposition and getting them all to fall in line and vote in one direction. will that happen here in the senate? it isn't a case of a for this bill essentially vultures of out of the hall, essentially. -- vote. you'll make over the weekend he was making clear he cannot support this bill and now the republicans that i'm not running again because he, first of all, there's a question of whether he could win regardless. but he understood that by bucking president trump and bucking this bill, he was taking his own political life in his hands and he decided to not run any more and stand his ground on this bill and vote against it. so, along with him,
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there is another no vote and republicans can only lose three and there's only one more and one that i count will vote now, they are ready to tie vote in the us senate and voters who have not followed, the people have not voted in by we're spending so much time on it, this bill would be the largest, some of the largest in american history by dollars, the amount of dollars at stake in this bill it would would affect everything from taxes for nearly every american, to health care, to student loans, to the border, to immigration, there are tens of billions of dollars for the pentagon and military policy in here and a massive bill that is not just focused on one thing. it covers a wide variety of republican priorities that some of them are very divisive. it is very important. key hours and days are ahead and may be longer
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than that. our correspondent, thank you for that. he'd alerts are admitted extreme temperatures in france, regions on red alert in the high temperatures continued on to stay in france's climate minister called the situation unprecedented spain, portugal, italy and germany are also under heat advisory and here, extreme weather is for threatening to overshadow the fee for event causing problems for players and i speak with michael mann, distinguished professor of size of the university. we have seen record high temperatures and several european countries and indeed, even here in the us last week we had alaska with the first ever heat advisory. can we attribute this stretch of heat waves to climate change? to be blunt, yes. we would not be
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seeing heat waves of this intensity, this early in the summer, this is barely in the summer at this point if it were not for the fact that we are warming up the planet with carbon pollution from the burning of fossil fuels elevated global temperatures in making these sorts of heat waves more frequent and more intense. should we expect that these sorts of temperatures will become the norm? does the report from the european copernicus programme showing that the world is getting harder, faster. the world is actually getting hotter at a steady pace but that's bad enough, it will continue to get warmer as we continue to add carbon pollution to the atmosphere and we bring the submissions, and we bring those missions to zero, the planet will get warmer and it's not rocket science, you make the planet harder, you're going to have more intense heat waves but there's another ingredient here which is that the pattern
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of warming, particularly the pull of the reasons are warming up so much faster is actually changing the jet stream is changing the jet stream or a way that gives you those very wiggling jet stream pattern so you see on the weather map of big high pressure and low-pressure systems that remain in place for days after and days on end, that's when you get these very persistent summer weather extremes, these heat domes, for example that we have seen in north america and europe and that fact is something that isn't entirely captured by her climate models. those models are potentially underestimating the extent to which we are changing the climate in a way that favours these very persistent summer weathers extremes. these damaging and dangerous and even deadly weather extremes. and others heat domes stay around for longer than they would have in the past? yes, one of the things we are seeing is that you are more likely to get these sort of stagnant systems
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and he dumb as a high-pressure centre and associated with the applicable of the jet stream come up with a low pressure centre and typically gives you rainfall, flooding with a very deep low pressure centre and that's the down part of the wiggle. in those wiggles are tending to stay in place for longer periods of time so that high-pressure, the heat, the drought, the wildfires stay over the same location for days upon days or those low-pressure symptoms with the rainfall stuck in the same location and you can flooding rain steady after day with far worse flooding and that is something that we are seeing more of we do think it is linked to human caused warming. and talking about the jet stream changing there and you see other issues in lower levels in waterways and invasive species spotted in bodies of water or they would not be before. is that environmental change reversible with the measures that are in
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place and under way? well, there's a little bit of good news there which is this particular phenomenon that i'm talking about, how the pattern of warming of the surface creates conditions with the jet stream is likely to get locked in place like that, we get the stagnant weather extremes, that is tied to the warming of the service of the planet. if stop carbon emissions, please stop warming of the service of the planet, that will stabilise and will continue and will not get worse. some impacts will stay with us for decades, potentially, the melting of the ice, the rise in sea level. we are committed to potentially many additional decades of continued climate change when it comes to some of those slower components in the climate system but this particular pattern come this atmospheric pattern, it will not get any worse if we stop warming the surface of our planet and that tells us who can bring those emissions to
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zero and we will stop the exacerbation of the conditions they give us these summer weather extremes. coinciding with the start of the championships in london, marking the tennis tournaments to work, the hottest day of her by the temperatures reaching 32 celsius, nearly 90 fahrenheit and seeing the roads number one carlos and women's number one when their first matches, six british players also made it through to the second round and you can keep up with all of her dates from the news from wimbledon and red around the world on our website where you find that on bbc debt comports news with lots to entertain and lists his show you there they'll be several hours before there's any news coming to us from the floor of the us senate. at that vote around is
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more fallout from the performances at the glastonbury festival by bob vylan and kneecap. on monday afternoon, we learned that the police are investigating both sets and the government is asking questions of the bbc about why one of them was live streamed. we will discuss what is going on this episode of the bbc's daily news podcast, newscast. hello, it is out of any newscast studio and i we can colleagues were talking at the weekend about the political ramifications of the news emanating from the glastonbury festival, and that has continued throughout monday. a reminder, we are talking about two bands here, bob vylan and kneecap, who performed one after the other on one of the glastonbury stage is on saturday, and quite
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