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u.s. president joe biden's most powerful ally in the u.s. congress is benjamin netanyahu should step aside. chuck schumer says mr. netanyahu has lost his way and urged israel to hold new elections. mr. schumer a democrat in america's highest ranking jewish official said it would be a grave mistake to reject a two-state solution to the conflict with the palestinians and added if mr. netanyahu continues to pursue dangerous and inflammatory policies the u.s. will use leverage to persuade him to change course. chuck schumer: i have known president netanyahu for a long time and while we have disagreed on many occasions i will always respect his bravery on the battlefield as a younger man. i believe in his heart and he has the security of israel as his highest priority, however, i

also believe prime minister netanyahu has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interest of israel. >> a senior israeli figure including the ambassador the u.s. and mr. netanyahu's chief rival criticized chuck schumer's intervention: get unhelpful, counterproductive, and unacceptable. the comments come as the biden netanyahu not to launch a ground offensive on rafa, something the u.s. is as a redline. but mr. netanyahu sounded undaunted was talking with troops. > the are international pressures to prevent us entering rafa in completing the work. as prime minister of israel, i push away these pressures. we have been doing this successfully for five months, record time in the history of israel's wars and i will contin to push away the pressures and we will enter rafa and complete the elimination of

the rest of hamas's battalions, restore security and bring total victory to the people of israel in the state of israel. anchor: in preparation for the offense of lot brought by israel's military says it plans to move more than one million palestinians of billions in the city to what it is calling humanitarian islands in the middle of gaza. a group say it will be difficult to move so many people to such a small area especially since unlike lack of fuel means many will have to travel on foot. much of the infrastructure is designatednd badly damaged by israeli attacks, a let us talk about this with a former israel defense forces spokesman and senior fellow of the foundation for defense of democracy. jonathan, good to have you back. thanks for joining us. i want your thoughts on what we heard from senator chuck schumer today. jonathan: yes, thank you for having me. quite odd remarks.

i am no spokesperson for mr. netanyahu but i believe those comments are out of bounds, not helpful in winning the war, in saving hostages, and keeping the pressure on the bad guys which are amounts and the terrorists we are fronting, and not -- fighting, and not helpful to hear it from the u.s. in these very sensitive times. anchor: yet the white house said this is senator chuck schumer's words, not their words but we have seen pressure from the biden administration on israel. i want to ask about this other piece of news israel's military saying it is planning to move displays palestinians in gaza to these humanitarian islands in the middle of this trip. an idea spokesperson said that would include tempering housing and aid. how do you move more than one million people to these areas in the middle of gaza from the south of gaza? jonathan: slowly and in an organized weight with international help and support.

ideally there would be united nations involvement in aid organizations and ultimate doing this but sadly we have seen the same aid organizations refused to help in dissipate and alleviate the humanitarian suffering in gaza so sadly it will be done by the idf alone. it would be ideal if palestinians could find refuge elsewhere, for instance egypt or any other location that is not the combat battlefield. anchor: ok. jonathan: sadly that has not been available so he's doing what he's doing now. anchor: can i jump in there and say these aid organizations by not only is it dangerous because there is an ongoing military operation but their facilities, hospitals have been targeted by israeli strikes. they are asking where the a here will come from because the amount of a arriving is not enough now so will israel open up land crossings to get more aid in? jonathan: yeah, let us unpack that.

there is more aid with the new ground corridor and preparations to bring in aid via the sea and aid being airdropped but the aid organizations lamenting the strikes, why did they not stop hamas from using those same facilities and endangering the palestinians using them? that is ground zero for these events and the fact they were able to use turkish, indonesian hospitals in gaza, bet is the reason there was fighting fair and that i think is the lamentable fact, but it is in the past and we have to look forward and i think there is time for international organizations to be on the right side of history instead of the wrong side of history and simply understand that israel has no choice and it will not back down from finishing the job and going in -- anchor: finishing the job and

going into rafa, can i ask you about that because we spoke with a former israeli ambassador to to the u.s. who said he did not think it was going to be an offensive and said there is a humanitarian crisis and people are suffering and we should bring it to an end or minimize it, talking about the war they are. what is your thought on that? jonathan: i think he is wrong and i agree we should bring things to an end, but bringing things to an end without defeating our enemy, without making sure that hamas will not be able to do the atrocities they did on october 7, in my mind would be a mistake and put the lives of israeli hostages at risk, the lives of israeli civilians living close to gaza at risk, and in fact all our achievements and sacrifices will have been in vain, so i think no, that is not the main objective here. israel needs to secure its own civilians and they can only do by defeating hamas and do so

by entering and defeating hamas and rafa. anchor: ok. thank you for joining us on bbc news tonight. i appreciate it. jonathan: thank you for having me. anchor: let's talk about this with it director at human rights watch, program director at human rights watch. i want your thought on the fact that civilians will be moved to humanitarian islandsnd there would be a flood of aid reaching them. what you think about that? >> it is hard to imagine that would happen considering the experience of the last five months. the israeli military has flouted its obligations to protect civilians, refraining from lawful attacks and civilians, and facilitating the rapid delivery of humanitarian assistance. throughout this war the israeli military has issued evacuation orders when there is no safe place to go to and no safe way

to get there and that is why we have seen more than 31,000 people killed in gaza since october 7 including over 12,000 children. the israeli military has killed 77 children in gaza every day since october 7. anchor: can i ask you about what we heard from jonathan, the former idf spokesperson. what we heard from the israelis the whole time is that it is the fault of hamas for embedding among civilians and hospitals in united nations facilities and so on. sari: the obligation for warring parties are nonreciprocal. the fact one side is disobeying its obligations to civilians does not you can. moss-bed fighters committed war crimes on october 7 against israeli civilians. that does not allow the israeli know to commit war crimes in gaza. if fighters are violating their obligations to the extent possible, fighting away from

densely packed civilian areas, that does not rob civilians of their protections. the israeli military is obligated to take precautions to avoid harming civilians, and in particular needs to open up crossings to allow trucks full of aid to come in because 91 people have already died of malnutrition and dydration including 27 children. anchor: we are seeing some aid arriving by c, a fraction of what is needed as you said. there is pressure rising also in the u.s. to open more land crossis. do you think that will have an impact on the urgency of negotiating a cease-fire whether temporary or permanent? sari: the international pressure has been ineffective because it is just words. human rights watch has called all parties to stop transferring weapons to the israeli military, hamas and islamic jihad because the risk those weapons will be used to commit serious abuses.

if the united states government wants to pressure the israeli military to protect civilians, it should stop sending them the weapons being used to block the aid to trucks to conduct air humanitarian installations, and to kill aid workers. anchor: i'm sorry. you know, if there is no pause in fighting which at this point does not look like negotiations will be successful in the coming days at least. what do you think we will see happen in gaza? sari: every day i feel like it cannot get worse and then it does and every day we say if you do not but the adn people start dying of starvation and they do, a worse now if you conduct a ground invasion into rafah without a safe place for civilians, then we will see worse harm to civilians. the spokesperson before talked about the need for egypt to open up tir borders. what about the israeli military?

the israeli government has an obligation to open its borders to refugees from gaza fleeing. telling them to run when there is nowhere to go and no food in places they run to is not enough. anchor: if this plan does is put in place and there are these humanitarian islands and people are moved there safely, do you think that will begin to alleviate the suffering? sari: i don't understand where the humanitarian islands. every other place is bereft of aid because the israeli military does not allow the trucks to come in and bring food and there is no safe place in gaza. the israeli military if it wants to fulfill its obligation toward civilians it will start by flooding the strip with humanitarian supplies of the situation can be stabilized. that would be the first step. anchor: thank you for joining us on bbc news today. how right. politicians and business leaders in haiti continue to negotiate the makeup of a nine-member

transitional council that will govern the nation after his prime minister officially steps down. one of the country's most powerful gang leaders known as barbecue rejected a proposed deal that excludes anyone who has been convicted did, indicted or sanction from serving on the council. in control most -- gangs control most of the m luncheon arm campaign was the called for the removal of the prime ministe as the situation on the ground becomes more volatile the united nations is evacuating nonessential staff from haiti and setting up an air bridge from the dominican republic to deliver a. the dominican republic at which shares an island with haiti escalated their security operations. our caribbean and central american correspondent will grant reports from the border. correspondent: even at haiti's lowest ebb, migration trucks keep coming to this border crossing. scores of undocumented haitians,

some of whom spent years living in the dominican republic, deported, and minute women returned -- men, women, and children returned to the nation. it's not just here but at the worst possible time as it faces its deepest most acute humanitarian crisis since the 2010 earthquake. these men say they spent at least three gears as construcon workers in the dominican republic before the authorities detained them in their homes. in essence, the dominican government is sending a message, no matter how bad things get in haiti, its people should not expect to find refuge here. and things are very bad, gangs continue to control the capital port-au-prince, bodies left in the streets, no one able to grant them a little dignity in death.

the most -- for most life has become a critical struggle to find enough food, work, make ends meet. >> what we are seeing is an increase in violence, an increase in population displacement with 50,000 newly dispced people over the first weekend of march, bringing the total number two above 360,000. correspondent: regional diplomats see the solution of starting with the prime minister's resignation, something he confirmed on monday. few haitians are sad to see him gone. his resignation is aood thing, says the store owner. he was not doing anything good for the country. now we must unite to pull haiti out of the situation. >> he was the biggest obstacle we had. he had to go, adds this man, but we should have had a proper plan in place to replace him. the airport closed, the land border between these two nations

would share an island is increasing the only route out of haiti. on the a handful with the right papers can leave. and those who are returning face an uncertain and dangerous time. will grant, bbc news. anchor: and we can speak to will grant now who joins us from the border where he has been reporting. good to see you. we heard peace talks to create this transitional council that they are continuing. as they been progress? -- has there been progress? will: yes a no. yes, because the agreement exists in the application would make up this interim counsel. but no, in the sense it has been rejected on the streets by the gangs, in particular barbecue, who made it clear that he does not expect any of those people to be representing or creating the future of haiti's political

system. so you know, it remains incredibly entrenched on the political side and while the politics is going on, there is the humanitarian crisis you heard about in my report and the violence, so the combination is very complex indeed. anchor: those aid organizations say they cannot security bring in a because of the violence now, so what would end the cycle of violence between these armed gangs on the streets? will: well, there is talk of course that an air bridge will be created by the united nations , presumably bringing in supplies from here in the menik -- dominicanepublic via helicopter into haiti to alleviate some of the worst needs in the short term, but the problems haiti is facing are deeper than that and until the airport open and a serious amount of aid can get in, the situation will remain critical and violent on the street.

anchor: will grant reporting from the border. thank you so much. russians in the far east of the country are heading to the polls in a three-day-bond presidential election and vladimir putin will likely easily secure another term as he faces no serious challenges in the opponents call the vote neither free nor fair. steve rosenberg went to one town south of moscow where two different pictures of pressure on display. correspondent: these days when he paints russia, the result is very dark. from a mountain of skulls and a dictators ambition, to this, russia's were in ukraine, likened to stalin's terror. the 86-year-old ardis had taken his antiwar message onto the streets. graffiti, stop the war, all these paintings were scrubbed out, and vladimir was find twice for discrediting the russian army in the bed he continues to speak out against the invasion

of ukraine. >> i believe that this is a crime against the territorial integrity of a neighboring country. it is a crime. and if i keep silent about it, it is like i'm condoning it. anchor: last month after the death of alexei navalny, vladimir went into town. correspondent: on this memorial to victims of political repression, he painted alexei navalny's face. it was quickly erased. but vladimir has created this navalny portrait at home. >> where is russia heading? some say we are on our way to more oppression, totalitarianism to full dictatorship. correspondent: there is another picture that is brighter, the

official version. the picture the authorities want russians to see is not that a country that is aggressive abroad and repressive at home, but that pressure with the glorious past and a bright future, that he and patriots, who not only love their country, t also their current president. instead of dictatorship, it is devotion to the leader on state tv, and an action man president flying high in encores for an election landslide. mind you that putin faces no serious challenge in his fiercest critics are in exile, prison, or in alexei navalny's case, did, but he is -- dead. he is on the ballot though. he praised putin. >> vladimir putin he said is consolidating the nation for

victory. correspondent: and back here, many seem to believe that. >> i hope putin wins him abood notices, although we do have talented leaders who could run the country, in an emergency. correspondent: a putinless russia in an emergency. now that is a picture the kremlin will be more than happy to see painted. steve rosenberg, bbc news. anchor: let's look at some other headlines now. at least 16 migrants were reportedly killed trying to reach europe from libya after their boat's engine broke down and drifted it see for several days. survivors say the engine cut out three days into their crossing of the mediterranean leaving them stuck without food or water and 25 people were rescued by humanitarian group. spain's parliament approved a controversial amnesty law that exonerates separatist and

catalonia who held an independence rep from an 2017 in defiance of the national government. the spanish government said it will improve coexistence for the nationalist and the law will head to the senate which could delay its approval but not block it. the u.s. federal aviation administration says they are overseeing the investigation into space x's latest attempt to launch one of the most powerful rockets ever made, the starship, on its third test flight. the rocket made it halfway around the globe for broke up and headed back to earth but the mission is being declared a success. >> new objectives that will get us to that glorious rapid reasonable future. correspondent: twice before starship blew up after launch. was this going to be third time lucky? so far, so good. >> we are feeling the rumble. we are seeing 33 out of 33 raptor engines ignited. correspondent: now the critical part, where it blew up before.

the successful separation of the upper and lower sections. >> ok, we have a starship on the weight of space and a booster on the way to the golf >>. > oh man, i need a moment to pick my jaw up from the floor because the scenes are just stunning. [applause] correspondent: and here is a view of the lower section falling back to earth. but then, communication is lost. > and acquisition of signal -- let's see if we can g some other video. correspondent: but back in sce it is going fine in the upper section begins reentry into the earth's atmosphere. >> this is where the earth's atmosphere is doing the work to slow it down. correspondent: it's heatshield red-hot until it signal is lost. >> again, this is the furthest and fast as a starship has overflown. correspondent: but overall, it has been a good day for the flight team. >> it looks like success today. they haven't managed to bring the booster back, but that is a

readily solvable problem with more trials and it looks like the starship activity and orbit has gone well. >> wow. correspondent: things are going wrong because space x is testing new tenologies and each time they get a little bit further. starship is absolutely enormous, 120 meters tall, nearly 400 feet. the rocket has two main points. at the bottom, a super heavy booster which is incredibly powerful with its 33 engines. on top is the spacecraft, which can carry a cargo or a crew of an astonishingly 100 people, and what makes it special is that in theory, both parts are reusable. the eventual aim is to build the spacecraft able to send astronauts back to the moon. and maybe one day, to mars. bbc news.

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