Hello. This is bbc news. We start with the latest on the israel gaza war. In the past hours, weve heard that the heads of the us and Israeli Security agencies have met to discuss the hostage situation. The Israeli Prime Ministers Office said the cia and mossad bosses met on friday in efforts to advance another hostage deal. In cypius, final preparations are being made for the first aid vessel to use the sea corridor to gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children are starving to death. This is the scene live in larnaca in cyprus where 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies have been loaded onto a barge. It will be towed by a Spanish Charity ship to gaza. The sea corridor is a joint operation between the eu, us, uk and united arab emirates, aiming to take supplies from cyprus to the gazan coast. This video shot today along the Israeli Border into gaza shows more aid being dropped. The parachutes carrying the boxes of supplies to the people of
High pressure systems to the north. What it is doing is putting the squeeze on the Hawaiian Islands and allowing those winds out of the east to gust. We just checked, over 40 Miles Per Hour in some of those locations. That is going to complicate fire efforts. Look at the aerial video that you are seeing on your screens right now. This is imperative. The fire that impacted the west side of maui, the location, the economic hub of hawaii where all the resorts and businesses are generally located, where people go as tourists to visit, well, the fire ran out of room to burn. It literally moving into the ocean as it had nothing else to char. It was incredibly harrowing. Adjectives use like dyer and apocalyptic. You can see exactly why with some of these first aerial visuals that we are getting. Now, everyone in hawaii knows how to handle a hurricane. Everyone knows how to handle volcano as well. As difficult as it can be. This caught people off guard. As a meteorologist, we were watching Hur
Source, the numbers are coming in and votes are being counted as an Ohio Special Election becomes a litmus test more than a year after roes reversal. All shook up again. As a fail tur to relaunch prompts another reshuffle of the Desantis Campaign. Will this latest shakeup make a difference . After reading trumps new election interference indictment, a former official of his says that his Blood Ran Cold. The army vets take on the possibility of trump using the military to stay in power. Im Kaitlan Collins and this is the source. We start with Breaking News for you this evening because cnn can now project that ohio voters have rejected issue 1, this was a Ballot Measure championed by the states Republicanled Congress that would have made it harder to change ohios constitution to add an amendment. This is an effort by republicans to basically change the rules before there is going to be a key vote on Abortion Rights come november. After seeing what happened in referendums in six other sta
White house was willing and able to censor the truth on social media. Republican president ial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will join us in moments but first to Ashley Strohmier live in the New York City news room with the very latest on this. Ashley, good evening. Reporter hi, trace. Yeah, the Biden White House has routinely denied involvement in suppressing Negative Information about covid19 vaccines on social media. You might recall this exchange with our own peter doocy and then White House Press secretary jen psaki during the summer of 2021. Take a listen. Is there any concern the things youre trying to block or taken down might some day turn out to be we dont take anything down. We dont block anything. Facebook and any private Sector Company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. Reporter but internal communication between Top White House officials and facebook employees obtained by fox business appears to paint a vastly different picture, even when face
Its thursday, 29th of february. Our main story. A group of mps have urged ministers to consider the implications for the uk, if assisted dying is legalised in the isle of man and jersey. The Health Select committee has published a report, which it hopes will provide evidence for future debates about the law. Opponents say the current legislation prevents people from coming under pressure to end their lives. Heres our medical editor, fergus walsh. The mps dont Make Recommendations for or against assisted dying. Rather, the aim of their report is to serve as a basis for debate on what they call this difficult, sensitive, yet crucial subject. More and more countries in europe have legalised assisted dying in some form, along with new zealand, australia, canada and ten states in the us. The mps say they saw no evidence that palliative and end of life care had deteriorated as a result, and in some instances it had improved. The Committee Calls for more money for hospices in england, which o