Gaza War Escalates, Pakistan Deportation Deadline, Trump Organization Trial
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An air strike in gaza left behind rubber and bodies.

How does this real defend hitting a densely populated area?

The remainder of the civilian population in northern gaza should have our warnings and evacuate to the south. They, Martinez, and this is up first from end to your news. When the taliban returned to power in afghanistan, many people fled to the south, to pakistan, and now that country has set a deadline for many of them to leave by today. Where can I find safety?

Also, Donald from junior testifies in new york today. His father's business is accused of fraud. Eric alona and their father, come next.

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We are coasting the podcast today. From rama, a city near jerusalem, buildings of concrete and White stones spread out on the hillsides for miles around here. Rama is part of the west bank, a largely palestinian area, and palestinian activists here have called for a general strike today.

They are protesting israel's military campaign southwest of here, ian gaza, which of course, is responding to the attack by a mos. Last evening, television screens here showed buildings blown apart in gaza afterism eli air strike on the jail dia refuge camp. Rose of bodies wrapped in White cloth lined the street outside a nearby hospital.

Afterward, on CNN, israeli defense four spokesperson JoNathan kreuz defended israeli s strike. We were targeting an important military commander. Therefore, there could be no warning before we struck the target. mr. Greg mary is following this from television.

The greg, hi Steve.

Why does israel say it's struck such a densely populated area?

Well, they say the target was this top hamas commander, ibrahim B. R. E. Then they described him as one of the key hamas figures in the october seven hamas slaughter in israel.

The is israeli, say, B, R, and dozens of other homos militants were in a tunnel network beneath the jubail a camp. And they assess that the R, I, and many of these others were killed. Uh, photos from the scene show these deep crater. And in some analysts say this does point to the possibility or even likelihood that the air strikes hit tunnels and enforce them to collapse.

okay. Do palestinians and homos admit to that?

Well, we know they have tunnels that's not in dispute. But the group says that bari, the homos commander, was not there at the time of the strike and that israel is intentionally killing civilians. According to the interior ministry in gaza, which is run by homos, israeli fighter jets unloaded at least six large bombs on the neighborhood.

It's a scene of other devastation. We see apartment blocks and homes just reduced a chunks of concrete. Palestinians are calling in one of the deadliest israeli attacks yet, though we do not have reliable casualty figures.

Is this strike at all connected with the israeli ground troops who have now been moving in that area so far as we know?

Well, see if I think that potentially says a lot about what's coming. The israeli troops have now reached the outskirts of gaza city, the biggest city in the territory. IT seems to trying to push the homos fighters to school, eze them into city, and then use air strikes to hit them. Uh, israelis are also talking a lot about the homos tunnel network, saying this is where homophones are concentrated and and IT was, we've seen as well, is prepared to use powerful bombs to penetrate the tunnels. But human rights groups are saying it's not acceptable to bomb in this way when so many civilians are present above ground, the leading israel human rights group that salem said in a statement that, quote, not everything is a loud in war, including war on her mos.

okay. So that is one of the big stories today. Would you catch us up on another one? greg? A lot of people are stuck in gaza who want out, including americans. Are they getting out now?

So hundreds of people are lined up on the of the rough of border crossing, which is the boundary with egypt. Now these are foreign nations who are trying to leave, have been trying to leave. And IT appears this could happen today, though the emphasis is on could the crossing has been used to allow some aid trucks into gaza, but IT has been closed for anyone trying to leave gaza.

There are several hundred U. S. Passport holders who are among those stuck in gaza and are desperately trying to get out. In addition, eighty one people badly injured in gaza will be allowed to go to egypto receive medical treatment, according to palestinian officials.

So there have been a number of fall starts about the opening at the roof of crossing, but there is hope that IT will open today. In one last thing, communications are again downing gaza. This happened for about day and a half over the weekend, made IT extremely difficult, for example, for ambuLances to Operate in the territory, since nobody can contact them. And today, phone and internet service is again out in gaza.

and he has greg miry and teleme break. Thanks so much.

sure. Thanks, Steve.

Donald trump junior will testify today in the new york's civil case, charging his family with fraud.

He is the first member of the trump family to sit for questioning by the new york stated tourney general during this particular trial, eric, the scheduled for tomorrow, and the former president and his daughter of anka trump are set to testify next week.

M, P, S, in your burn stein is here to tell us what to x expect. So down from junior in an eric trump. T why are the defendants here?

So let me for say, this is the case where a judge has already found that Donald trump and the other defendants, including two of his older children, committed persistent and repeated business fraud by lying again again about the value of their assets. An issue in this trial is whether there was a conspiracy to do this, and how much of anything that trumps ow york state to right the wrong.

According to the charging documents, quote, the fragment scheme was integral to the business of the trump organization and required the participation of mr. Trump and his children are trump s. Is the main member of the trump family running the company. Don junior has loosened his ties, spending time writing a book and speaking on the conservative circuit, and ivana has all but left the company, moving with her family to flour IT out OK.

So there's been about a month of test already. What does that revealed about the second .

generation trumps the trump organization is a family business. Don june or ivica and erick trump or executive vice presidents who were involved in running the company, commercial buildings licensing ing warn. And when then president trump into the White house in two thousand seventeen, he turned over the day today running of the business to his tool, the sons down, junior and eric.

And we've seen in the trial that don jr. And eric trump approved statements of financial condition. Donald truck junior was involving commercial buildings like forty wall three, which is one of the big buildings that come up often. In the trial, trumps told one set effects to their lenders about that building that IT was worth a lot, and another set of taxing authorities to save on taxes.

So what's at stake then for don junior, eric trump.

the ag. Wants to prevent eric, don junior and their father from ever running a business in new york a again. And don jr.

And eric would be among the individuals responsible for paying two hundred and fifty million back to state if the judge rules in the ages favor. I should say eva trump is not a defendant. SHE was a senior White house of adviser to her father and left the company in early to two thousand seventeen. So her actions took place too long ago to be part of this case.

okay. Now will her brothers have to testify?

Could take the fifth amendment, but because this is a civil case, the judge could use that against them to draw us, called an adverse inference about them. Another code defendants, the former CFO Allen whistle berg, answered many questions when he testified by saying, I don't recall so you might think some of that.

okay. Now, don junior, in every trip, how they responded .

to the ages lawsuit, the family members have steadfastly maintained this is a Normal way of conducting a real estate business in new york. Erik trump recently posted on social media about the new york a turney general letitia James saying, this is the corruption my father and our family is fighting in new york. The system is weapon zed broken into disgusting, done up from junior said in the conservative news network, this is a kangaroo u. court.

That's p. Andrew. Burnt time.

Thanks lot. Thank you.

Today is the deadline set by the pakistani government for all undocumented immigrants to leave or face deportation.

Pakistan is home to over one million afghans, some of whom have lived in this country for decades, fleeing war after war after war in afghanistan, and many who fled taliban rule following the U. S. Troops withdraw as a couple of years ago. In the last few months, tens of thousands of those afghan s. Have been arrested and deported.

Rick, no ac covers afghanistan for the washing post. He joins me now from a cobo. A why is the pakistani government asking these people to leave the country?

Good morning. Well, the pakistani government portrays this as a decision that was long overdue. They say they've done far more than any other country for afghan refugees.

They have posted millions who arrived over various waves of migrations since the nineteen seventies, and they argue that this is a burden they can no longer Carry. But this deportation drive also comes at a time when pakistan's economy continues to sink deeper and deeper into crisis. And IT comes amid concerns over a mounting number of suicide bombing, bings and attacks in pakistan that have been blamed on afghans. So a lot of these refugees, they are being a scapegoated as a result of that in the afghans.

We're leaving pakistan. What are you hearing from them?

Well, a lot of the refugees who have left voluntarily over the last a few weeks have said that they don't see a future in pakistan if the country turns against him in that way. Many um have stayed home over the past few weeks out of fear that the police could arrest and deport them. They didn't send their children to school.

Um many parents have lost their jobs. So it's obviously an extremely tough situation, but it's also a very tough decision for them to leave. Many have been in pakistan for decades and and some were born in the country but never receive citizenship. So they're heading to a country they have never been to really into an unknown future.

And is that country, afghanistan, prepared to receive so many people? I mean, if these people have no home in pakistan and they are going to go to afghanistan, can they handle them?

What's clear that there aren't many open jobs that are waiting for them, and they'll be girls, Young women among those reja neys. We're able to get some education in pakistan, but who will now be returning to a country where schools and the universities are close for them in terms of preparation, the taliban run government has announced that they will create reception camps where refugees can stay for some time. But so far there is not a broader plan to reintegrate those people really into the economy.

What's the relationship between pakistan and and .

the afghan government these days? Well, I think it's a lot tensor than either side would have hoped for two years ago, when pakistan really seemed to be know one of the taliban run government strongest advocates on the international stage. One of the top concerns for pakistan right now is the deterioration ating security situation in the country, and pakistani authorities say that the taliban run government is at least in part to blame. They argued that many of the suicide bombers and attackers who killed pakistani civilians and soldiers in recent months are based in afghanistan and that the taliban isn't doing enough to detain them.

That's the washington post, rick. no. Ac in carbo. Rk, thank you.

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