Blinken backs Israel | Criminals could go free as prisons fill up
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
It’s his first stop on a tour of the Middle East, in an effort by the US to stop the conflict spreading.
Mr Blinken indicated the US will back Israel’s bid to destroy the militant group but warned it must “take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians.”
Today, on Sky News Daily Tom Cheshire speaks with international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn from Jerusalem, about how big a threat escalation in the region is.
Plus, Sky News home editor Jason Farrell and former prison governor Vanessa Frake-Harris look at the crisis in prisons, after news judges will now delay sending convicted criminals to overcrowded jails.
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| 1:02.2 | Hello and welcome to the Sky News Daily. I'm Tom Cheshire. And for the last five days, I've been |
| 1:07.1 | looking at the Israel-Hamas conflict in my role as Sky News's data and forensics correspondent, |
| 1:12.3 | seeing what light satellite imagery, data, social media can shed on the situation. |
| 1:17.5 | Today, we're going to be looking at some of that, but also speaking to our people on the ground there, |
| 1:21.6 | as well as the wider picture as America's Secretary of State arrives in the country. |
| 1:26.9 | We're also going to take a look at another story reported in the Times that criminals |
| 1:31.1 | convicted of some of the most serious crimes, including rape, could temporarily avoid going |
| 1:36.5 | to jail next week as prisons are too full to house them. |
| 1:41.0 | But first, America's most senior diplomat, Anthony Blinken, is in Israel to affirm U.S. support |
| 1:47.2 | after the brutal attacks by Hamas and as Israel prepares for an assault on Gaza. |
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