US letter demands Israel allow humanitarian aid into Gaza
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The US has sent a strongly worded letter to Israel demanding it allows humanitarian aid into Gaza, after deliveries dropped by more than 50 per cent in the six months since the Israelis promised to do better.
We ask one of Congress’s strongest supporters of Israel whether Washington should be prepared to cut arms supplies if Benjamin Netanyahu's government fails to comply,
Also in the programme: we hear from the British climber who's conquered the world's 14 highest peaks - in her twenties; and cinema legend Al Pacino tells us how he nearly didn't make the final cut of The Godfather.
(IMAGE: U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken speaks during a ministerial meeting of the Foreign Ministry Channel for Global Health Security, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York / CREDIT: Heather Khalifa/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News hour from the BBC World Service coming to live from |
| 0:09.2 | London with me Sean Lay. Today we're going to hear about what it's like to do rehab in Singapore a country |
| 0:15.2 | known for its zero tolerance approach to drugs also the 23 year old |
| 0:20.0 | mountaineer who became the youngest woman to climb all 14 peaks over 8,000 meters. |
| 0:25.8 | And the Hollywood legend Al Pacino talks to us about his career, becoming a father |
| 0:29.8 | again in his 80s and a near death experience during the pandemic. |
| 0:34.0 | All of that coming up in the next hour, but first to our top story this hour and that is the |
| 0:40.2 | letter that is been sent by the United States to Israel's government giving it |
| 0:45.3 | 30 days to dramatically improve humanitarian aid access in Gaza or face having |
| 0:51.0 | some US military assistance, cutoff. |
| 0:53.0 | Matthew Miller, who speaks to the US State Department, told a news conference that the Biden administration |
| 0:58.5 | is asking Israel to adapt the way it prosecutes its war. |
| 1:02.0 | There are implications under U.S. that the way it prosecutes its war. |
| 1:03.0 | There are implications under US law, under policy, |
| 1:06.5 | that I'm not going to speak to here, |
| 1:08.1 | largely because we hope that Israel makes the changes |
| 1:12.4 | that the secretary outlined in the letter. We have seen Israel make changes before and when they make |
| 1:18.1 | changes humanitarian assistance can increase. So was this letter from the State Department and the Defense Department |
| 1:24.6 | meant to be made public or was it leaked the BBC security correspondent in |
| 1:29.5 | Washington DC is Gordon Carrera? Well, officially it was a private communication that was made on Sunday |
| 1:37.0 | by the US Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense to Israeli counterparts. |
| 1:41.0 | But it has leaked within two days days and I think there might be some |
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