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When we see it, you see it here on CBS News 24/7. Breaking News at that. Just a short time ago, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK will officially recognize Palestinian statehood. They will do it in September if-- and there's a big underscored if here-- if Israel has not agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza by then. Starmer also laid out the conditions that Hamas has to meet. Listen. --is unchanged but unequivocal. They must immediately release all of the hostages, sign up to a ceasefire, disarm, and accept that they will play no part in the government of Gaza, and we will make an assessment in September on how far the parties have met these steps. But no one should have a veto over our decision. So this is the way forward. We will keep working with all our international partners to end the suffering, get aid flooding into Gaza, and deliver a more stable future for the Middle East because I know that is what the British people desperately want to see. Thank you. Keir Starmer saying, so this is the way forward. Also, by the way, happening just a short time ago, the UK foreign secretary getting a round of applause after this announcement. Here's that. And so it is with the hand of history on our shoulders that His Majesty's government therefore intends to recognize the state of Palestine when the UN General Assembly gathers in September here in New York. [APPLAUSE] Friends, we will do this unless the Israeli government acts to end the appalling situation in Gaza, ends its military campaign, and commit-- All right, so the hand of history indeed, as he said. Now, there's also this reality, and it's something people are living with even at this very moment. Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying there is no starvation in Gaza, the leading international authority on food crises issued an alert this morning stating that the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in scenes like this all along the Gaza Strip, things like malnutrition, starvation, and disease, they say, causing growth in hunger-related deaths. CBS News Foreign Correspondent Debora Patta flew with the Jordanian military to show us what that humanitarian operation looks like and how international groups say, despite the drops you're seeing from the sky, it's still not enough. We're going to be flying over Gaza. This is a plane piloted by the Royal Jordanian Air Force, and it's part of a renewed attempt to get aid into the beleaguered territory. Now, Gaza has been in the grip of a humanitarian crisis after nearly three months of an aid blockade by Israel earlier this year and also since then because aid has been restricted from entering the territory. And what you see here are about 20 pallets of aid that will be parachuted into Gaza. It looks good. Obviously, it's great. Everything matters. But the World Food Program says this is not nearly enough aid. This is roughly the equivalent to one truck entering Gaza, and they need around 600 to enter every single day for a sustained period if they are going to make any change in the situation. Debora Patta right there. All right, so President Trump is on his way back to Washington after wrapping up his multiday trip to Scotland. The president voiced his concerns over the crisis in Gaza, vowing to send more aid and set up US-run food centers to feed the starving. Now, Mr. Trump's trip was a mix of personal and official business. Today, as you see right here, he cut the ribbon on his newly named golf course near Aberdeen. Let's turn to CBS News correspondent Natalie Brand. She's at the White House. Natalie, what did the president have to say about what's next in Israel? And do we really have any reaction from the White House to what the UK has said, those declarations on Palestinian statehood? Well, Reed, we are about to get it because President Trump momentarily will be speaking to reporters who are traveling with him back from Scotland. He's expected to arrive back here at the White House later this evening. But again, we are staying tuned for remarks that he will make to the traveling press shortly. But earlier today before he left, he was asked, what will you say next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? And he said, quote, "We're working together. We're going to try and get things straightened out." Now, this was just kind of a quick, shouted question because today he did not take an extended Q&A with reporters like we saw yesterday, but he did address the humanitarian crisis in his meeting with British Prime Minister Keith Starmer yesterday, and he acknowledged the humanitarian crisis. This was a focus of the meeting, something that Starmer raised, acknowledged the pictures, the images that everyone is seeing of starving children and families, saying that the British people are revolted. And the president agreeing and saying that they would even be working in conjunction with other countries to open up food centers. He said food centers without boundaries. We will still have to wait and see more details of that plan and how that's going to work in practice, but this is, no doubt, something that he is going to continue to be asked about, especially in light of Starmer's latest comments today. Well, and we know that the president mixed some business and some pleasure there, but the international matters just kept coming up to the forefront. Of course, the trade deals making the headlines, but then also the president talking about Russia and feeling like Vladimir Putin is on thin ice. What's your takeaway from all of the business the president mixed with some of his personal pursuits there in Scotland? Yeah, we had some major headlines during this trip. Of course, today was more focused on the promotion for this new golf club, but yesterday we had a number of headlines. You noted this shortened timeline for Russia. Earlier this month, the president said that he would give Russian President Vladimir Putin 50 days to reach a ceasefire or peace deal before these tougher new sanctions and secondary sanctions would take effect-- secondary sanctions on countries that buy Russian goods and oil, for instance. We're talking about China and India. Yesterday, he made major headlines by saying now he's thinking more like 10 to 12 days. So we're going to have to wait and see whether that new deadline holds and then how these secondary sanctions would work and take effect, especially since, Reed, this week at the very same time, the Trump administration's treasury secretary is speaking with his Chinese counterpart as those trade negotiations continue ahead of the tariff deadline that these countries are facing in August.
