Charlotte Gallagher

Rosemary DiCarlo was speaking at a UN Security Council session in New York.

We are witnessing the gradual de facto annexation of the West Bank as unilateral Israeli steps steadily transform the landscape.

The meeting was called to discuss how to bring the war in Gaza to an end.

But the Israeli foreign minister, Gideon Saar, accused the UN of being infected with what he called an anti-Israeli obsession.

The UN talks came a day before the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump's Board of Peace, which has its own ideas on Gaza's future.

Neda Tawfiq has been following the session in New York.

And the UN, obviously, it makes a lot of pronouncements and it's talked a lot about Gaza and Israel and the West Bank.

Is there a feeling that it's slightly powerless in this situation, considering you have Trump pushing his board of peace?

That was Neda Tawfiq.

An American billionaire thought to have played a key role in helping Jeffrey Epstein acquire his wealth has described himself as naive, foolish and gullible for trusting the sex offender.

The retail tycoon Les Wexner, who's 88, accuses Epstein of stealing vast sums of money from his family.

Mr Wexner issued a lengthy statement as he appeared in private before a U.S.

congressional committee.

But some Democratic Party members of the panel are challenging his version of events, as our correspondent Helena Humphrey reports from Washington.

Les Wexner was one of Jeffrey Epstein's main sources of wealth.

The retail magnate behind brands including Victoria's Secret first met Epstein in the 1980s.

later hiring him as his financial advisor and giving him control over vast sums of money.

Mr Wexner gave his evidence behind closed doors, but released a statement saying he'd only visited Epstein's Island for a few hours with his family and had no knowledge of the convicted sex offender's abuse.

He described Epstein as a master manipulator and accused him of stealing funds, prompting him to cut off contact.

But Democratic Party members of Congress were critical.