Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on the growing tensions between the US and Israel

United States and Israel relations are further unravelling after the latest move by Benjamin Netanyahu.  

The Israeli Prime Minister's released a video where he's attempting to remove the block on a US bomb shipment that was introduced last month.  

He says during World War II, Churchill told the US "give us the tools and we'll do the job". 

He's now telling the US give us the tools and we'll finish the job a lot faster.  

The White House has pushed back saying it doesn't know what Netanyahu's talking about.  

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that it's denying reports it's since cancelled a meeting with Israeli officials.  

He said that the White House says they’re trying to work out the calendar on that, which means they are seeking to paper over differences. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace of mind
for New Zealand business. Thank you, Sie. Michael Richard Nald stateside,
how are you doing well morning? So Nityahu. So it's
all along with Lebanon now, is that where we're going? Gosh,
the tensions do seem to be increasing on that front,
don't they? And the strains are growing also between the
Biden administration and the embattled Israeli lead them the Israeli

(00:23):
PM Netta, who put out an accusatory statement on social
media slamming the Biden team for he suggested sitting on
Israel's weapons supply. It's unconcealable and in the past few
months the administration has been withholding weapons and how munitions
to Israel. Israel America's closest ally, so making that statement

(00:44):
on x and in English, so how close allies are they?
The White House press person in Kareem, Jean Pierre, said
that only one shipment of heavy bombs is on holders
we've heard about previously, while billions of dollars in arms
continue to flow into Israel during the ongoing war in Gaza.
She says of the situation with all of this, we

(01:07):
generally do not know what he's talking about. Yeah, the
US put a hold on the heavy bombs as it
calls on Israel to back on a full scale assault
in Rufa, says US Secretary of State Tony Lincoln.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Because of our concerns about their use in a densely
populated area like Rafa. That remains other under review, but everything.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Else is moving. The US says Israel has not crossed
the red line, whatever that is in the ongoing war,
in which almost what thirty eight thousand Palestinians have been killed,
while three hundred and forty nine Israelis and the latest
count have been killed since the terrorist attacked by Hamas
on October the seventh. The White House is denying reports
that a high level meeting with Israeli officials in Washington

(01:48):
on Iran policy has been delayed because of the Netanyahu critique.
They say they're still just trying to work out the
calendar on that, so they are seeking to paper over differences,
but behind the scenes growings with Nettanohu. Indeed, Donald Suthern
eighty eight, Yeah, in the Hollywood career that spanned more
than sixty years, he has died after what has been

(02:11):
just a remarkable career where Donald Sutherlan appeared in more
than one hundred and ninety films and television shows. His
voice was iconic with its low, sort of rasping quality.
His appearance with a long face and droopy eyes was
not that of your standard movie star. In fact, he
got his first big role in the World War Two
sag of the Dirty Doesn't when the director asked him
to take over from another cast member who had pulled out,

(02:32):
and Sutherland was part of the group. You were the
big ears. You do it, is what the director apparently
yelled at him on that occasion. So that's some kind
of an intro, Is it not where you're from?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Son Madison?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Sittimasuri, sirh.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Ever heard of it? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:51):
And on it when another war film took him to
top start, and when he played the role of military
surgeon Hawkeye Peers in the movie version of Mash. The role,
of course, later taken Alan Alder in the television series
as it continued through many seasons, many years somewhere before
I don't know your name, stranger, but your face is

(03:11):
from Nash of course, the Korean War drama with Vietnam
War overtones. Another of his more controversial roles was in
Don't Look Now, with Julie Christie as his wife and
including a sex singer, gave rise to a deal of
speculation as to how graphic it was. In later times,
he was still just as prominent, appearing in everything from
National Lampoon's Animal House to Oliver Stone's JFK and as

(03:34):
the president in The Hunger Games. He has died in
Miami after long illness. Word of his passing comes from
his son Keifer Sutherlands, who along with the rest of
the Southern Clan, went on to work in Hollywood as well.
Says Kiefer of his father's career.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I have always felt that not only is my father
one of the most prolific actors in the English language,
I think he is also one of the most important one.
He's someone that I wanted to work with for my
whole career.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
And they eventually did so. Meantime, Donald Sutherland won Emmy's
had an honorary Oscar in twenty seventeen when he told
his colleagues he did not deserve it, But then he
added he had arthritis and he didn't deserve that either.
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