Funding for aid to Ukraine and Israel has passed the senate and Jordan’s King Abdullah visits the White House and pushes for a cease-fire. We look at the importance of journalists in Gaza, and we get and update from Kyiv. Plus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Poland, Lech Walesa.

Two hostages were rescued on Monday from Hamas captivity in Rafah as Israel prepares to intensify it’s military action in Gaza’s south. Plus, we get an update from Kyiv after heavy shelling in Kharkiv, and a Kenyan hero is killed in a car accident.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday criticized Israel's military response in Gaza. Does this impact ongoing discussions for a pause in the conflict? Nimrod Goren, Senior Fellow for Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute discusses. Four months after the October 7 Hamas terror attack in southern Israel, Israelis are still grappling with the consequences of the intrusion on their territory. Moscow's mis- and disinformation campaigns have sought to influence how those abroad view the Russia-Ukraine war. Mark Temnycky, nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center provides insight on their operations.

Blinken says there is still room to negotiate after Netanyahu says the deal to release hostages and stop the fighting is not enough. It’s election day in Pakistan, we get an update from Islamabad. And from Kyiv, we’ll find out about the latest changes to the military’s leadership.

Hamas reacts “favorably” to deal proposal for a ceasefire and hostage release. A look at internal politics in Ukraine and how they might be affecting the West’s support. There's election violence in Pakistan and Senegal, plus the Indian navy is looking to make a splash in the Arabian Sea.

Continuing to try to deescalate tension in the Middle East, Secretary Blinken meets with President Sisi in Egypt, and he gets an answer from Hamas on a Qatari and Egyptian proposal. A pacifist is challenging Vladimir Putin for his job, and the civil war in Sudan is showing no signs of slowing down.

The US is carrying out airstrikes while sending Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the Middle East to try to deescalate the conflict. A Senate bill includes funding for Ukraine along with immigration reform, can it pass? Plus the President of Namibia has died, we’ll take a look at what’s next.

We look at Benjamin Netanyahu’s increasing unpopularity in Israel as he refuses to make a deal in order to release the hostages. The British military has a numbers problem and a Russian strike traps over 100 miners underground. Plus, a look at the consequences of powering up our devices.

The EU is set to give Ukraine $54 billion in non-military aid, meanwhile UNWRA is facing a funding crisis of it’s own after employees are accused of participating in terror attacks. We have a conversation with the National Security Council Spokesperson and latest on the US and China relationship.

Israel calls for disbanding UNRWA after several staffers were implicated in the Oct. 7th attack. Kataib Hezbollah says it will stop targeting US forces as Houthis in Yemen fire at the US Navy. And in Pakistan, Imran Khan and his wife are both sentenced to jail.