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pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. announcer: and now, "bbc news" >> hello, you're watching the context on bbc news. >> we need to ensure humanitarian organizations can conduct their activities there. and we have clearly failed. >> it is very important israel has taken full responsibility for this incident. it is also important it appears to be taking steps to hold those responsible accountable. >> the reaction from the americans, international reaction shows patients with israelould be running out. >> time to step back from the brink, to silence the guns, to ease the horrible suffering, and to stop the potential famine

before it is too late. ♪ >> israel says the attack that killed seven aid workers in gaza was a great mistake and a number of senior military officers have been disciplined. israel has promised to improve access to d. tonight, we will hear from a unicef worker inside of gaza about the situation on the ground and if the new aid routes are enough to improve things. i also speak to a former state department human rights official who resigned over president biden's handling of the israel-gaza war. an earthquake shakes new york city. the strongest in 40 years. the big apple escapes unscathed. >> welcome to the program. the israeli military says airstrikes on a convoy in gaza

which left seven aid workers did after a series of grave mistakes. two senior officers, given his first account about how and why it carried out the attack. let's take a look at some of the key points. the idf says the strike should not have happened and expressed deep sorrow for the incident. >> those who approved the strike were convinced they were targeting hamas operatives. the strikes on three vehicles were carried out in serious violation of standard operation procedure. the brigade cheap -- chief of staff an officer with rank of colonel fired support commander with the rank of master -- commander have been dismissed from their positions. people who died working for world central kitchen, which has called for an independent inquiry in response to the deaths. joe biden says israel is doing what he asked in opening more aid routes.

but first, our correspondent, lucy williams, has more from jerusalem. >> israel says hamas gunmen pose as aid workers. not this time. it's army today said the killing of seven aid workers in airstrikes was a grave mistake. due to mistaken identification, errors in desion-making, and a serious violation of army procedures. the convoy belonging to the charity world central kitchen was struck in central gaza late on monday night. survivors running between the remaining vehicles. before being hit again and again. the army said its forces had mistaken the bag one passenger was caring for a gun after spotting gunmen at the warehouse earlier. >> official confirmation of a gunman they then conducted shooting.

and when they reached the hangers, there were more gunmen identified on the location. it led basically to the entire miscalculation, misidentification, and the failure of what should have happened. >> israel's army said the aide was picked up at 10:00 p.m. the armed figure was then spotted firing from one of the truck's before the convoy moved on with other vehicles to an in-line warehouse where drone footage showed more gunmen getting out of one car. that vehicle later moved north to ather warehouse while the three cars from world central kitchen turned back to the coast where they were hit in separate airstrikes. minutes apart. the army has fired two senior officers who approved the strikes. world central kitchen has called for an independent inquiry, saying the idf could not credibly investigate its own failure and systemic change was needed.

other aid agencies say this was not a one-off mistake. >> this is not just an incident, this is a series, a pattern of incidents going onor months now. we are now up to the stage of having 200 humanitarian workers killed. we are operating in an environment of complete impunity. it is a deliberate choice to allow these attacks to continu to happen. >> one former major general pointed out israeli forces have also killed their own compatriots in gaza. >> it was a huge mistake. unfortunately, many other mistakes were made. for instance, israel -- early hostages who managed to release themselves, and they were killed by israeli soldiers. no one believed we killed them deliberately. >> the difficulties of getting aid to gaza was already deepening wrist with israel's allies. the killing of british and american nationals has shifted its bait.

the port is less than 30 miles from gaza. for the past six months, it has remained closed to aid. now this port and the nearby crossing point have been prized opened by a stinging u.s. demand that israel find w routes to get aid safely into northern gaza or risk losing american support. israel says it's war is with hamas, not gaza civilians. that it is fighting one and feeding the other. but aid workers accuse israel of seeing them as targets and aid as a weapon of war. lucy williamson, bbc news. >> the latest now on the aide situation on the ground. we can speak to unicef speculation who joins us from now. thank you for being on the program. talk us through the impact of

president joe biden and the u.s. demanding more aid routes into gaza. >> we have seen today the news as your correspondent explains, areas crossing might be open. that is very positive news we have been asking for four weeks. we desperately need to flood the gaza strip with aid. it is unacceptable the amount of aid we are getting through the existing crossings. it also puts us at risk trying to move it all the way to the north, if we could even get access to the north. it is positive news the crossing might open and allow us to bring directly into the starting families. but this is just news. we need to see it in action, we need it soon, and we needed to be sustained. >> what you make of the fact you and other organizations have called for more routes to get into gaza and it hasn't happened

until a stiff phone call? >> there's a lot of things we have been asking for four months that have not happened. we have been asking to be safer on the ground, to be discriminative killing of children to end, we have been pleading for a cease-fire. none of these calls are being heated. we have to keep going, headdown, do our work, and hope international pressure can shift the problems we are facing on the ground. >> what do you make of the explanations we have heard from the idf about what happened with that aid convoy, those vehicles being hit? what do you make of that explanation and the impact of the work you do? >> it is on except the will. international law is clear. humanitarians must be accepted. pregnant women, journalists. and we just lost far too many people, innocent civilians over

the last six months. that makes it very clear the type of war this is. an indiscriminate war killing children, killing humanitarian workers. about 200. we need the mistakes to stop piling up. >> if we get a greater degree of protection for humanitarian workers, if the aid routes open up and get more aid in, what difference will it make on the ground and what else would you want? >> the wish list is long. what we really need is crossings to open at scale. we need the existing crossings to increase their capacity. we are only getting 156 truck sunday. and we need 500. that is what we were getting before the war. maybe even more than that. more coming in, then we need the conditions on the ground to distribute the aide.

that involves the coordination process we have been discussing, world central kitchen said it was using. we need to know when we get a safety assurance when we are coordinating a mission with israel that it is going to be respected. and when you more access. were not getting enough convoys to the north of gaza. we know that children are dying from lack of food and water. that has to be on acceptable when the aide that can save their lives is a few kilometers away. >> tess ingram, thank you for we can take a look at president biden's handling of the israel-gaza war. what do americans think about the -- only 27% of voters believe he's handling the situation well. growing pressure from within his own administration. a state department official resigned, stepped down after a year as a foreign affairs

officer. and she joins me now from washington. thank you for coming on the program. why did you resign? >> i resigned over this policy, the u.s. is enabling what experts on genocide have described as a genocide. the u.s. is also not upholding u.s. laws. it would mean because israel is blocking humanitarian aid and is engaging in gross violations of human rights, it is not eligible to receive u.s. military assistance. yet the weapons keep flowing. >> why do you think that is? >> i think it is political calculation that increasingly may be out of date. i think biden is a self identified zionist and this has been his stance thugh his long career. what i think americans are devastated and horrified by the images coming out of gaza.

i think we are seeing a shift. i worry it will be too little and too late. >> can i ask about your personal position and decision and any shift? after the attacks by hamas, many countries around the world, allies of israel, stood firmly and defended israel's right to defend itself against hamas. was that your position? >> obviously, the attacks on october 7 were horrifying. but i think even very quickly, we saw the statements of what their intent was in terms of killing people and starting people. it was clear that their goal was not just to try to get hostages back, which is certainly a justifiable goal. but to engage in these behaviors of mass starvation, trying to

kill as many in gaza as possible -- >> israel and the idf would pretty heavily dispute that. they say they're going after hamas and theyay hamas use civilians as human shields. >> i think the world is getting pretty tired of those excuses. i think people are seeing coming through social media, from people inside gaza the way that these lies the israeli system continues to disseminate. people are not buying it anymore. i think also the u.s. government is not being honest in terms of not upholding u.s. law. the evidence is quite clear. again, i hope we will see a shift from this administration while it is possible to make a difference for people on the ground. >> what do you make of the shift that joe biden did appear to make in the last 24 hours or so with the phone call to benjamin

netanyahu? saying if israel doesn't make changes, the support of the u.s. would change? >> it remains to be seen. i certainly welcome that. i hope he will go further using u.s. leverage. this pushes against those who say there is not much biden could have done. clearly there was more he could do, in terms of u.s. weapons, that israeli military officials have admitted they cannot conduct this war without this direct u.s. support. so i hope we see these crossings open. more iortant, there has to be a cease-fire. israel has had six months to achieve its military goals. at which point, when does the u.s. in the world say that is enough? >> do you think the u.s. has enough leverag and influence to create a cease-fire? >> yes, absolutely. without u.s. weapons and the

billions of dollars the u.s. uses to subsidize israel's settlement project, this war cannot continue. i very much hope biden will realize, even just a cold political calculus during an election year, it is in his own self interest as a politician to realize views are really changing here. >> you said that is your hope. what do you think the chances are? >> i am not terribly optimistic. i do fear biden has been, thus far, unwilling to make much of a shift. but i hope the public pressure will continue to grow and that we will see new policies. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> around the world and across

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>> you are live with bbc news. we are going to head to the u.s. president biden is in baltimore looking at the aftermath of the collapsed bridge. he will be meeting with state and local officials. six people were killed when the cargo ship accident lee crashed into the bridge, causi it to collapse. the incident sparked transport and trade disruption. there's concerns about how the blockade will impact those in the short-term and the long-term. and these are little live pictures we are hearing from officials who just started on the right-hand side. you can see president biden, who has not spoken yet. we will keep across these pictures and cut to joe biden as soon as he says something. but our correspondent is there

for us. talk us through what has been happening. >> good afternoon from baltimore. president biden has been inspecting the side of the bridge from the air. he's been flying over having a look for himself. he's been meeting local officials, receiving briefings and expected to meet families of the people killed in the disaster. looking at it to send a message of support and reassurance to the local community. 10 days after the catastrophic bridge collapse. we expect mr. biden to call on the u.s. congress to swiftly approve federal funding to rebuild the bridge. the bill for that is expected to be $2 billion. mr. biden is expected to announce some sort of additional measures to support the local economy. baltimore has been badly affected by this disaster.

of course, the main impact is on the port of baltimore, up the river. that is more or less at a standstill. no traffic in or out of that port. the reason is because the river is full of wreckage. debris from the falling bridge concrete glass. the main priority for the authorities is to get that open and get the shipping lane open again. and once they do that, they've already got a lot of heavy kit, around six heavy lifting cranes on barges. they've already started cutting out the wreckage to lift it out of the water. once they do that, not only will it mean traffic can resume at the port, but the recovery of -- recovery operation can resume for the bodies that are still missing, there were six construction workers on that bridge. ere were eight on the bridge. but six were killed in the

collapse. four, their bodies havnot been found. once the wreckage is out on the river, they can resume the search for those bodies. and the investigation continues. it is unclear what caused that catastrophic power failure oard the container ship shortly before impacts. there is a team of investigators in baltimore. they have been interviewing the crew who are still on the ship and have recovered the data recorders. and like black boxes from aircraft, they have recovered those and are analyzing the data from the data recorders. investigators are expecting to release some sort of preliminary report next month. the full picture of what exactly happened would not be known for much longer other than that. >> thank you very much for that. in the u.k., the met police have confirmed they are investigating

unsolicited explicit images and messages sent to mp's in a parliamentary honey trap 16 scandal after a number of conservatives around a tory mp who apologized after admitting he gave mp's personal phone numbers to a man on a dating app. he said he was sorry for the hurt he cost, and have been scared because the individual had compromising information on him. in the last hour, another mp has come forward to say he was targeted as part of the honey pot scam. the details on social media. take a look. >> here's nvidia did not expect to make friday evening. but a month ago, i was a victim of cyber flashing and malicious communications and blew the whistle by reporting it to the police and parliamentary authorities as soon as this happened. the first set of messages i got was a day i was with my wife and i got a one-time open photo on

whatsapp of a next licit image of a naked lady. as soon as i got these, the next day i reported them to the police, the authorities, and the chief. 10 days later, i got another set of messages. this time i was sat with my team and the constituency office. so we were able to record the conversation and catch photos and videos of the messages coming through, including another explicit female image. i'm talking about this now, i wanted to be private because it is a police investigation that has been ongoing. you have probably seen in the national media i have been hounded by saying it is not too difficult to work out, so i have put my name up to say i hope others come forward. i blew the whistle, reported it, and it is being looked into. >> our correspondent is standing by. another development. >> yes. two developments. last night, we reported police

were investigating a report of malicious communications, unsolicited messages. he says he was a person who reported them. we now find out the metropolitan police are looking into this, as well in conjunction with the parliamentary security authorities. what is interesting about this development is we expect some conservative mps to be targeted because he felt dreadful about it. but passed on under some duress, he passed on some of these numbers to the person he was in contact with over social media. but we have also spoke to some buddy o works for a labor mp, and they said they received these messages last autumn. and they did not have any contact whatsoever with william read, they did not believe he would know what a telephone number was.

that suggests this is part of a problem. and what we still don't know is what the motivation is of the person sending these messages or the true identity. whether they are working alone or on behalf of others. and what the parliamentary authorities are saying to report it. >> thank you for that. taking you live to baltimore. president biden is speaking. let's listen in. >> all of the families and loved ones are grieving. we come here to agree with you. we all are. it is not the se, but i know what it is like to lose a piece of your soul, to get a phone call in the middle of the night to say family members are gone. i have been there. it is like having a black hole in your chest. but you are being sucked in unable to breathe. the anger, the pain, the death and loss is so profound.

and we know it is hard to believe, you probably will not believe me. i can tell you now with experience, the days going to come when the memory of your loved one as you walk by that park or with the church or something you shared together is going to bring a smile to your face before it brings a tear to your eye. it is going to take a while. but i promise it will happen. and that is when you know you are going to be able to make it. our prayers for you is that it comes sooner rather than later. but it will come. i also never forget the contributions the men made to this city. we will keep working hard to recover each of them. my vow is that we will not rest until -- >> that is president biden speaking in baltimore to the families who have lost loved ones during the bridge collapse. plenty more to come on bbc news.

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