Hello there and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from our studios in London with me,
Sean Lay.
Today we'll bring you the latest from Israel,
where tensions run high after the release of two hostage videos and former security officials call on America to help stop the war.
We're also looking ahead at the week's 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombs dropped by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And we'll hear from a woman who was born in Hiroshima three years after the bomb fell there.
We must be absolutely condemned.
about the use of nuclear weapons, not from the standpoint of ideology,
nationalism, or ethnic identity, but instead from the universal dimension of humanity.
More from Kyoko Gibson and her family in about 15 minutes' time here on NewsHour.
But first,
Israel's prime minister is reported to be planning an expansion of military operations after a weekend in which Israelis were shocked by the condition of hostages held by Hamas.
Videos showing two of the men seized on October 7th, 2023, show them in an emaciated state.
One claims he's digging his own grave.
Ahead of a meeting of the UN Security Council later to discuss the situation in Gaza,
where ceasefire talks are deadlocked, Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar condemned the treatment.
is on grave.
The world saw the thick arm of the well-fed terrorist next to the starved and tortured Eviatar.
We see the dire condition of our starved hostages,
yet they still have not seen representatives of the Red Cross,