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00:00:15BBC News. Mid-terms mayhem in Michigan. Michigan. Democratic Congresswoman
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00:01:03MUSIC Hello, Hello, I'm Amanda Walker. Thanks Thanks for being with us. We begin
00:01:06begin in the US the mid-term elections elections are just two days away
00:01:10away from Kansas to Ohio to Iowa
00:01:12Iowa and beyond. As we go to where
00:01:14where events are under way across across the country, the results here
00:01:18here could be highly consequential. consequential. Up for grabs is balance
00:01:21balance of power in Congress. What What happens on Tuesday could determine
00:01:25determine what the rest of President President Trump's term looks like.
00:01:28like. And so as we've seen, he's he's been out on the campaign trail
00:01:32trail himself in a bid to get Republicans
00:01:35Republicans to the polls. But tonight
00:01:37tonight the focus is on Michigan, Michigan, where Democratic Congresswoman
00:01:40Congresswoman Haley Stevens broke broke with her party with an announcement
00:01:44announcement earlier today that caught
00:01:47caught many by surprise. And that's
00:01:50that's why I am endorsing Mike Rogers
00:01:52Rogers for the United States Senate
00:01:55Senate today. Yes, that is Democrat
00:01:57Democrat Stevens revealing that she's she's endorsing Republican Senate
00:02:01Senate candidate Mike Rogers. It It follows
00:02:07Mike Rogers. It follows a rift with her fellow Democrat and nominee nominee for Senate Abdul El-Sayed,
00:02:10El-Sayed, who defeated her in the the primary. Stevens criticised him him over a political ad by an outside outside group blaming Israel for
00:02:14for high grocery prices. Off the the back of that announcement online,
00:02:17online, Stevens then appeared with with Rogers on the campaign trail.
00:02:21trail. There, she explained a little little more of why her support has
00:02:25has shifted. My vote for Senate is is going to be with Mike Rogers,
00:02:28Rogers, and I will tell you why.
00:02:31why. Because we have to stand with with country. We can't stand with
00:02:35with hate. I'm sorry. People are are upset and I understand that I
00:02:39I did endorse the Democratic nominee
00:02:41nominee and he chose to close this
00:02:43this campaign by saying I wasn't wasn't welcome. I've never been invited
00:02:47invited to a campaign event. That's That's fine. You know, he's busy. busy. He's running all around. I've
00:02:50I've had primaries before myself. myself. It's not about that. It's
00:02:54It's this is about leadership and and integrity. Well, President Trump
00:02:58Trump has praised Stevens for her her decision to endorse Rogers, saying
00:03:01saying he would welcome her to the the Republican Party. El-Sayed, meanwhile,
00:03:05meanwhile, called the endorsement endorsement a distraction and spoke
00:03:08spoke out against his former primary primary challenger. And so look,
00:03:11look, if you're somebody who believes believes that we ought to have more
00:03:13more rights, not less than I would would think you would support me
00:03:16me in this race. If you are somebody somebody who believes that we should
00:03:20should stand up to hate, and you you have watched this last campaign,
00:03:23campaign, I think we probably would would not want to support Mike Rogers
00:03:25Rogers and Donald Trump and JD Vance. Vance. Well, I've been speaking to
00:03:28to our North America correspondent correspondent Neda Tawfik, who was
00:03:32was at El-Sayed Rally in Michigan.
00:03:34Michigan. Abdul El-Sayed it continued continued not talking about that
00:03:38that feud and focusing on his message
00:03:40message here today at the rally, rally, but we have been speaking
00:03:43speaking with voters all day long
00:03:45long who were just as stunned by
00:03:47by this move by Haley Stevens who,
00:03:50who, remember, was running in the the primary to take on Mike Rogers
00:03:54Rogers before she lost to Mr El-Sayed.
00:03:57El-Sayed. Voters very much see this
00:04:00this as a disappointment, as a distraction
00:04:03distraction ahead of, you know, a a few days before the election when
00:04:06when this is such a critical seat seat for Democrats in their fight
00:04:09fight to retake the Senate. They They believe that this is a betrayal
00:04:13betrayal of the Democratic Party
00:04:15Party that Haley Stevens has abandoned
00:04:17abandoned or her core kind of beliefs
00:04:20beliefs as a Democrat. And we have
00:04:22have seen a flurry of reaction from
00:04:25from top Democrats, not just in Michigan
00:04:28Michigan but in Washington as well. well. The Democratic leader, Chuck
00:04:31Chuck Schumer in the Senate, also also trying to portray the party
00:04:35party as united. And we have heard heard from Haley Stevens own staff,
00:04:39staff, including her chief of staff,
00:04:40staff, who said that many have resigned resigned because they don't want
00:04:44want to see this sowing of discord
00:04:47discord right before the election. election. And just remind us how
00:04:50how it reached this point. Well,
00:04:57Well, look, Haley Stevens and Abdul Abdul El-Sayed are two very different
00:05:01different candidates. Haley Stevens
00:05:01Stevens is more of a centrist part
00:05:05part of the establishment. Democrats, Democrats, and she is a very strong
00:05:08strong supporter of Israel. Abdul Abdul El-Sayed is more from the left
00:05:12left wing progressive branch of the the Democratic Party. He still considers
00:05:16considers himself a capitalist, but but he is very much on board with
00:05:20with policies such as Medicare for for all. So free health care for
00:05:22for all and supporting unions and
00:05:24and increasing wages and stopping stopping money that is spent overseas.
00:05:28overseas. For example, on the war war in Iran wanting more of that
00:05:31that to be spent here in the United
00:05:33United States. And so there was such
00:05:36such a tense Senate primary battle
00:05:38battle between the two. And Haley
00:05:40Haley Stevens had initially endorsed endorsed him after that brutal primary
00:05:44primary fight. But in recent days, days, she has really taken issue
00:05:48issue with his stance on Israel. Israel. She claimed that an ad that
00:05:52that Abdul El-Sayed campaign didn't didn't make, and which he said he
00:05:55he didn't agree with, but nevertheless nevertheless the ad tried to portray
00:05:58portray US support for Israel with
00:06:00with rising grocery prices. She tried tried to pin that on him. He said
00:06:04said that he had nothing to do with with it, but nevertheless, it ended
00:06:08ended up in this escalation where where Haley Stevens ultimately decided
00:06:11decided to side with Mike Rogers.
00:06:13Rogers. So a real tense moment for for the Democratic Party, but one
00:06:17one that is exposing these divisions, divisions, these very real divisions
00:06:20divisions that exist. And if Abdul
00:06:23Abdul El-Sayed does win here in Michigan, Michigan, which is a swing state,
00:06:26state, it would be a big win for for the progressive movement because because before progressives have
00:06:29have won in liberal cities. But never
00:06:32never before in this way for a Senate Senate race in a swing state. So
00:06:35So this would have a lot to say about
00:06:37about what a winning coalition would would be for 2028 presidential race.
00:06:41race. If he wins. Well, when it comes comes to the Senate, a handful of
00:06:44of seats could change the course course of history. The path to victory
00:06:47victory for either party could come come down to a handful of races across
00:06:51across the country, from Maine to to Iowa and Alaska. In some cases,
00:06:55cases, the opportunities for a Democrat Democrat gain have come as something
00:06:59something of a surprise. Take Texas Texas reliably red the last time
00:07:02time the state elected a Democrat Democrat to the Senate was in 1988.
00:07:061988. Now, a combination of factors factors have Democrats hopeful that
00:07:10that the heartbreak they used to
00:07:11to in Texas might be about to change. change. Polling has. Trump backed
00:07:15backed Ken Paxton neck and neck with with challenger James Talarico. It's
00:07:19It's the most expensive political political race, not just in this
00:07:22this cycle but in history. Our chief
00:07:24chief North America correspondent correspondent Gary O'Donoghue has
00:07:27has been in Texas on the campaign campaign trail. I asked him just
00:07:31just how expensive the Senate race
00:07:33race there has gotten. $573 million
00:07:36million in advertising alone. That's
00:07:39That's advertising alone, which is is a huge amount. If you had dollar
00:07:42dollar bills and you piled them up, up, it would go up 35 miles into
00:07:45into the air. It's massive. And what's
00:07:48what's at stake? Well, partly potentially potentially the control of the Senate.
00:07:51Senate. Have you been lining out out Republicans should this should
00:07:54should be a walk in the park for for Republicans. Texas. It's very
00:07:57very red. As you said, Ruby red. red. Lots of Republicans here. Donald
00:08:01Donald Trump won this state by 14
00:08:0314 percentage points in 2024. Nevertheless,
00:08:06Nevertheless, the Republican candidate candidate has got public and private
00:08:09private scandals behind him. He was
00:08:10was imposed partly by the President
00:08:14President in place of a Republican Republican who was part of the leadership leadership in the Senate. And now
00:08:17now the race is neck and neck. Democrats
00:08:20Democrats have been promising Amanda Amanda to take back Texas for a long,
00:08:23long, long time. There's been a lot lot of false dawns. This may be another
00:08:26another one, but if they do pull pull it off this time, it will be
00:08:29be one of the biggest upsets of these these elections. Gary, you've been been travelling across the state.
00:08:32state. Have you got a sense of how how energised voters are and what
00:08:36what are their priorities? What have
00:08:37have they been saying to you? The
00:08:41The priorities are what you expected, expected, what you've been hearing hearing for weeks and weeks and weeks,
00:08:45weeks, the cost of gas, the cost cost of groceries, all those kinds
00:08:48kinds of things people are worried worried about. They're worried about about war. They're worried about
00:08:52about the direction of the country. country. Hispanic voters here in
00:08:55in Texas particularly worried about about the way detention and deportation
00:08:59deportation is being carried out out in their community. They like like the fact that the border was
00:09:02was closed by Donald Trump. And those
00:09:04those pictures of thousands of people people flooding across from Mexico
00:09:08Mexico has stopped, but they don't don't like what's happening to their
00:09:11their families being pulled over over by the Immigration and Customs
00:09:14Customs Enforcement people on the the side of the street as they're they're on their way to work. So
00:09:18So that has played against Republicans
00:09:19Republicans in this state in particular particular and across the nation.
00:09:23nation. So there's a lot at stake stake here. And it's really important
00:09:25important to understand that Donald Donald Trump, in a sense, could have
00:09:29have sat this one out. He could have have said, well, every president president gets a kicking in the mid-terms.
00:09:33mid-terms. That's just the way it it goes. And that is true. But he's
00:09:36he's put himself on the line. He
00:09:38He said, pretend I'm on the ballot.
00:09:40ballot. He's nationalised this election.
00:09:42election. So if they do badly it's
00:09:46it's kind of his fault. And James James Talarico, who we just saw there,
00:09:49there, how has he been pitching himself? himself? We know he's characterised characterised this as a David and
00:09:53and Goliath type battle. He has,
00:09:58has, and that's partly to do with with his religious background. He's
00:10:01He's studied as a seminarian in the the Presbyterian Church. He's a young
00:10:05young guy. He's in the Texas State State House. He was a middle school
00:10:09school teacher. He's only 37 years
00:10:12years old, very sort of modern in in that sense and has been characterised
00:10:16characterised by the Republicans Republicans as a bit weird. He's He's been characterised for some
00:10:19some of his previous statements as as a bit out there. He did say at
00:10:23at some point in the past, for which which he says he now cringes that
00:10:26that he thought there were six biological
00:10:28biological sexes and that God was was of no gender at all. And so there's
00:10:32there's a few things he's had to to deal with. But in this place where
00:10:35where he ought to be lagging behind, behind, he's managed to keep that
00:10:38that up. And he has been a juggernaut
00:10:41juggernaut of fundraising as well. well. Not so much the outside money
00:10:44money that has come to Republicans Republicans here from people like
00:10:47like Elon Musk, but he's only his his own. Personal fundraising has
00:10:50has far outstripped that of the Republican Republican candidate, Ken Paxton,
00:10:54Paxton, who has his problems. As
00:10:56As Gary O'Donoghue in Texas. He mentioned mentioned Ken Paxton just then. There
00:11:00There is no Sunday rest for these these candidates. He's about to appear
00:11:03appear at an event in San Antonio,
00:11:07Antonio, Texas, also campaigning campaigning tonight in Ohio is Amy
00:11:10Amy Acton, who is running for governor governor there and across the country,
00:11:14country, female candidates are playing playing a key role in the mid-term
00:11:17mid-term elections, whether they're they're running to represent their their states in Washington or to
00:11:21to serve as governor. I've spoken
00:11:23spoken to Jessica Mackler. She's She's president of Emily's List, List, which is an advocacy group
00:11:27group that supports Democratic pro-choice pro-choice women up and down the
00:11:30the ballot. And I asked her about
00:11:32about the candidates they're supporting supporting this election cycle. That's
00:11:36That's right. We see women running running in races up and down the
00:11:39the ballot. And I would say zooming zooming out, what I'm most excited
00:11:41excited about is that women are at at the centre of the fight to take
00:11:44take back power for Democrats up up and down that ballot, whether whether we're talking about the path
00:11:48path to the Senate majority, which which is absolutely in our sights,
00:11:51sights, whether we're talking about about races that Republicans had
00:11:54had hoped would be off the map. And And then when it comes to the House
00:11:57House majority, Emily's List backed backed women are going to deliver deliver that House majority for Democrats.
00:12:00Democrats. And in states, we're going going to see that we can get to a a new historic high of Democratic
00:12:04Democratic women governors and state state legislative races across the
00:12:08the ballot. So, you know, we have have a real imperative in front of
00:12:11of us right now to deliver power
00:12:13power to help create ways to stand stand up to this administration. administration. And women are at
00:12:17at the centre of doing that right right now. More than two thirds of
00:12:20of the women running in these mid-terms mid-terms are Democrats. Why aren't
00:12:23aren't more Republican women running? running? And can women really apply
00:12:27apply their kind of full political political power without increased
00:12:30increased reputation representation representation on both sides? Well,
00:12:33Well, we've really seen immense growth growth in the representation within
00:12:37within the Democratic caucus. If If you look at the House of Representatives,
00:12:40Representatives, for example, when when my organisation Emily's List,
00:12:43List, was founded nearly 40 years years ago, women made up less than
00:12:46than 5% of the House Democratic caucus. caucus. And today it's at the highest
00:12:49highest it's ever been. We've seen seen a retraction. On the other hand,
00:12:52hand, with Republicans, I think this this really comes down to who is is actually going to stand up and
00:12:56and fight for women. In addition addition to being important leading
00:12:59leading candidates, women voters voters are the deciders in these
00:13:02these elections. And so they know know when they're looking for people
00:13:06people that they can trust to stand stand up and fight for them, they
00:13:09they really are understanding that that that's about who's actually actually going to do the work of
00:13:12of representing women, fighting for for their rights and their freedoms.
00:13:15freedoms. And it's really clear that that democratic women are the ones
00:13:19ones leading here. And Emily EMILYs EMILYs List has endorsed Democratic Democratic women, as you say, running
00:13:23running for office across the country, country, including Ohio. You've been
00:13:26been campaigning with Amy Acton. Acton. She was, of course, the subject subject of an ad run by her Republican
00:13:30Republican opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy. Ramaswamy. It featured her estranged estranged mother essentially calling
00:13:34calling her a liar, bringing into into question her traumatic childhood. childhood. I'm not going to relitigate
00:13:38relitigate that with you. You called called it an act of desperation,
00:13:40desperation, but how do you ever ever prepare a candidate for the
00:13:44the levels of toxicity that we are
00:13:46are seeing these days? It's a really really unfortunate reality of campaigns
00:13:50campaigns right now that what we're we're seeing coming from the right
00:13:54right is no guardrails on what they
00:13:56they are willing to do, no moral moral compass. And in fact, that
00:13:59that is something that is driving driving the energy that we see for
00:14:03for Democratic candidates. In fact, fact, because voters are fed up with
00:14:05with the system in which Republicans Republicans use their levers of power
00:14:08power to hold on to that power to to make their friends richer, to
00:14:12to avoid accountability and to launch launch these really desperate, disgusting
00:14:15disgusting attacks. There's no way way to be prepared for every single
00:14:18single outcome. But we have come come to realise that they are not
00:14:22not going to put any monitors on on their own behaviour, and we have have to be ready for anything. But
00:14:26But I think when you look at the the strength with which Amy Acton
00:14:29Acton has navigated this campaign, campaign, it's no surprise that she
00:14:32she was able to navigate this with with strength as well. And it really
00:14:35really provides a clear contrast contrast of someone who is willing
00:14:38willing to litigate this traumatic traumatic childhood in order just just to win an election for himself
00:14:42himself versus someone who's really really focused her campaign on standing
00:14:45standing up for the people of Ohio.
00:14:47Ohio. And Jessica, just more broadly, broadly, I'll never forget being
00:14:50being on the 26th campaign trail trail 2016, the campaign trail, and
00:14:54and having women tell me that a woman woman should not be president. Of
00:14:57Of course, when Hillary Clinton was was running, how do you break through
00:15:00through such deeply ingrained misogyny misogyny that very often is coming
00:15:04coming from women? I think the most most important thing we have to do
00:15:07do is every time we hear that is is call it out. And so my message
00:15:10message to anyone who says that is
00:15:12is cut it out. We have proven over
00:15:15over and over again that women can
00:15:17can win in any place at all levels levels of the ballot. The number
00:15:20number of times that people say to to us at Emily's list, well, this
00:15:24this isn't a place that a woman can can win or this person in particular
00:15:27particular can't win in this type type of district, and then we prove prove them wrong. And every time
00:15:31time we do that, we move the ball ball forward in showing what women
00:15:35women can do. I say all the time time that supporting women candidates candidates is a strong electoral
00:15:39electoral strategy. And that's true.
00:15:40true. Women drive some of our most most impressive wins, and so we just
00:15:44just have to keep disproving that that theory and keep calling it out
00:15:47out for what it is. Because again, again, supporting women, it's a strong
00:15:51strong electoral strategy. Jessica Jessica Mackler president of EMILYs
00:15:54EMILYs List there. Well, the big big day is approaching. It's almost
00:15:57almost here. So do join us for our our special programming here on BBC
00:16:01BBC News on Tuesday. We'll bring bring you the results of the US mid-term
00:16:05mid-term elections live from Washington Washington on Tuesday at 11:30pm
00:16:0811:30pm GMT. That's 6:30pm Eastern
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00:17:44live with BBC News. Welcome back. back. Buckingham Palace says King
00:17:48King Charles will speak about slavery slavery with unflinching honesty
00:17:52honesty and sincere sorrow when he he addresses the Commonwealth Leaders
00:17:55Leaders Summit in Antigua on Tuesday. Tuesday. The King is starting three
00:17:59three days of formal engagements engagements there as part of a wider
00:18:02wider tour of the Caribbean. He went went to a church service earlier
00:18:05earlier on Sunday, marking Antigua Antigua and Barbuda's Independence
00:18:08Independence Day. It's understood understood his speech won't be affected
00:18:11affected by comments made by UK Prime Prime Minister Andy Burnham, raising
00:18:14raising the possibility of a formal formal apology for Britain's role
00:18:18role in the transatlantic slave trade. trade. The British government has
00:18:20has never made a formal apology for
00:18:23for slavery or offered to pay reparations. reparations. Here's our political
00:18:26political correspondent Joe Pike. Pike. Throughout his Caribbean tour,
00:18:30tour, the King has acknowledged slavery's
00:18:32slavery's place in the history of
00:18:34of these islands. The Caribbean community
00:18:37community have a ten point plan for for reparations, including investment
00:18:40investment in education and public public health. But Andy Burnham has
00:18:43has ruled out anything financial. financial. The Chancellor explained
00:18:46explained his boss's thinking. The The Prime Minister has said look,
00:18:50look, we are open to a discussion
00:18:52discussion about an apology. He feels feels that that's the right thing,
00:18:56thing, particularly ahead of the the Commonwealth Leaders Conference.
00:18:59Conference. But he doesn't believe believe that reparations are the
00:19:01the right approach and considering considering a formal apology doesn't
00:19:05doesn't mean accepting that British British people now should accept
00:19:08accept the financial liability for for any party. In things that happened
00:19:12happened hundreds of years ago in
00:19:14in which they had no role. For the the Conservatives, even the offer
00:19:17offer of an apology is navel gazing
00:19:20gazing and a distraction. It is time time for the Commonwealth to start
00:19:23start looking forwards, not endlessly endlessly backwards. And why now?
00:19:26now? Why not in the 60s 70s 80s? 80s? Why are we why are we having
00:19:29having this conversation today? What What is it? Because lots of Commonwealth Commonwealth leaders are asking for
00:19:33for it. Yes, that's what I meant. meant. Why are they asking for it
00:19:37it now? It is because many of these these countries are struggling with
00:19:40with the same issues that we're struggling struggling with. They're not becoming becoming richer. They don't know
00:19:43know what to do. So they want to to ask Britain for more money. My
00:19:46My answer is no. We should not even
00:19:49even be entertaining the idea of
00:19:51of reparations. In Antigua, where
00:19:53where Andy Burnham will arrive tomorrow.
00:19:55tomorrow. Views on an official apology
00:19:57apology are mixed. If someone is is apologising, I mean they've done
00:20:01done something wrong and if they've
00:20:03they've done wrong, apology is a a good start. No, I don't think the
00:20:06the UK should apologise for anything anything because the slave trade
00:20:10trade has happened years ago and and what's in the past should stay
00:20:12stay in the past and people should should learn from the past and not
00:20:15not try to live in the past. The
00:20:18The King will address the Commonwealth Commonwealth Heads of government government on Tuesday, a message
00:20:22message of unflinching honesty and
00:20:24and sincere sorrow is expected to
00:20:27to feature in that speech. Joe Pike,
00:20:29Pike, BBC News. Our senior royal royal correspondent Daniela Relph
00:20:32Relph is travelling with the King. King. She told us more about the
00:20:35the palace's reaction to the Prime Prime Minister's comments. Well,
00:20:38Well, this tour already has been been existing against the backdrop
00:20:41backdrop of some pretty difficult difficult conversations in this region
00:20:45region about apologies and reparations. reparations. But what the words of
00:20:48of the Prime Minister have done have have really intensified that debate
00:20:51debate that the King finds himself himself part of. We saw the King
00:20:55King and Queen for the first time time here on a joint engagement in
00:20:58in Antigua a little bit earlier today today when they attended church on
00:21:01on the island with other Commonwealth Commonwealth leaders. We also saw
00:21:05saw them meeting the West Indian Indian cricket legend Sir Viv Richards,
00:21:08Richards, who is very much going going to be part of a number of their
00:21:12their engagements here on Antigua. Antigua. And the theme of that church
00:21:15church service this morning was unity
00:21:17unity and partnership. In terms of
00:21:20of how Buckingham Palace are responding responding well, they are asserting
00:21:23asserting the position of the King King as a constitutional monarch,
00:21:26monarch, with one senior aide saying
00:21:28saying that the King transcends politics. politics. And they are also stressing
00:21:32stressing that any decision to say say sorry over the UK's involvement
00:21:36involvement in the transatlantic transatlantic slave trade is not
00:21:38not for the monarch, it is for the the government and the King will
00:21:41will then be guided by the government government in terms of what he says.
00:21:44says. So we aren't expecting any any changes to his speech that he
00:21:47he will deliver to Commonwealth leaders leaders here on Tuesday. And as you
00:21:51you say, we know that he is again
00:21:53again going to express his sincere sincere sorrow for the UK's involvement
00:21:57involvement in the slave trade. And And we are told by Palace sources
00:22:00sources that he will talk with unflinching
00:22:02unflinching honesty. The US First First Lady, Melania Trump, says the
00:22:06the temporary ceasefire she helped
00:22:08helped broker in Russian occupied occupied Oleshky was a success. The
00:22:11The humanitarian truce across the the Kherson region, which ended late
00:22:15late on Sunday, allowed hundreds hundreds of people to be evacuated
00:22:18evacuated from the besieged town. town. Oleshky residents went for
00:22:22for years without regular access access to food, water and energy,
00:22:25energy, with their town encircled encircled by Russian troops, the
00:22:28the US First Lady said in a social social media post that the truce
00:22:32truce delivered critical aid to the the region and that she hoped the
00:22:35the ceasefire quote, serves as a
00:22:37a foundation for lasting peace between
00:22:41between both nations. Emergency services
00:22:44services excuse me, and local hospitals hospitals in Gaza say Israeli attacks
00:22:48attacks have killed eight people people and a child and five police
00:22:52police officers. The strikes happened happened in Khan Younis in the south
00:22:55south of the territory. Excuse me.
00:22:57me. And in Gaza City, that's despite
00:22:59despite a ceasefire agreed last year. year. Israel says it carried out
00:23:03out two attacks on what it described described as military operatives,
00:23:06operatives, but has provided no evidence
00:23:08evidence to support that claim. Hugo
00:23:11Hugo Bachega reports. Officials in. in. Gaza say the drone attack in
00:23:14in Yunis, in the south of the territory, territory, targeted a group of police
00:23:18police officers as they were carrying carrying out their duties and the
00:23:21the Interior Ministry has described described it as a massacre. It has
00:23:25has named the five men who were killed
00:23:27killed whose ages range from 23 to
00:23:31to 53. Now a separate attack happened
00:23:33happened in Gaza City to the north, north, and hospital officials say
00:23:37say a missile attack targeted a group
00:23:39group of civilians next to a school. school. A child was among the dead.
00:23:43dead. Now the Israeli military has has confirmed that it carried out
00:23:46out two strikes, saying that it was
00:23:50was targeting what it described as as military operatives. So far it
00:23:53it has given no details and no evidence.
00:23:57evidence. Now all of this happens happens despite a ceasefire that
00:23:59that came into force in Gaza in October
00:24:01October last year. But Israeli attacks attacks have continued almost every
00:24:05every day. And a peace plan for Gaza
00:24:07Gaza brokered by the Trump administration administration has also stalled.
00:24:11stalled. Now, since the beginning beginning of the ceasefire, more
00:24:15more than 1500 Palestinians have
00:24:16have been killed in these Israeli Israeli attacks, according to the
00:24:19the Hamas run health ministry. Israel Israel says it is targeting Hamas,
00:24:23Hamas, accusing the group of trying
00:24:24trying to rebuild its military capabilities
00:24:27capabilities but often it's civilians civilians who are also killed in
00:24:30in these attacks. Well, before we we go, some sporting history made
00:24:34made today. Italian driver Kimi Antonelli
00:24:37Antonelli has become Formula One's One's youngest ever champion at the
00:24:40the Grand Prix in Mexico City. Tom
00:24:42Tom Cary senior sports correspondent correspondent at The Telegraph, explained
00:24:46explained the significance of this this moment. Well, it's just fantastic
00:24:49fantastic news for the sport. I mean, mean, having a new world champion,
00:24:53champion, especially from Italy who who haven't won a title for 73 years
00:24:57years now since Alberto Ascari back
00:24:59back in 1953. I mean, the age, as as you mentioned, is incredible.
00:25:03incredible. It's only Antonelli's Antonelli's second season in the the sport and I think just having
00:25:07having a young, fresh faced new star
00:25:09star can only be good news for the the sport. Like everyone in Formula
00:25:13Formula One he got going before he he was, you know, even walking. I
00:25:16I mean he's he's a classic in the
00:25:18the new mould. You know he was in in karts from a very early age picked
00:25:22picked up by Mercedes at just 11
00:25:2511 I think and signed to their junior
00:25:26junior programme. And yeah like everyone
00:25:30everyone else he started very, very very young. And as you mentioned,
00:25:34mentioned, his family are motorsport motorsport family's father Marco
00:25:37Marco was a driver himself and later
00:25:39later a ran a race team. And he's he's obviously out there with him
00:25:43him in Mexico and accompanies him him to all the races. I mean, he he was only a teenager until a couple
00:25:47couple of months ago, so he has his his family close around him and know
00:25:49know he's a great he's a great young young man. Well, that's all from
00:25:53from us here in Washington, but lots lots more to come here on BBC News.
00:25:57News. So do stay with us. Thanks
00:25:58Thanks for watching.
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