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is to close blast furnaces in port talbot with 3,000 jobs to go. the union plan to savejobs has failed. so what does it say more generally about the green transition? also in the programme. a walk out in northern ireland. no government, no funding, no pay rises. is the standoff over stormont now a constiutional crisis. a constiutional crisis? and is it the demand for cocaine europe that has turned ecuador into a war zone with the drug cartels? is there a future for steel making in the uk? and if there is then what sort of sector does it become. that very issue has been under discussion today between unions representing the steel workers of south wales and the bosses of the tata steel making company. no official word of what has been agreed but we understand tata steel is to close both blast furnaces at its port talbot works with the loss of up to 3,000 jobs. instead of blast furnaces, tata have a plan backed by the british government to invest in a new, greener, electric ar
you would have anticipated. these two countries were allies until this week. in fact, they were laying plans to hold joint naval exercises. on tuesday, iran said it attacked the bases of a group within pakistani balochistan. last night, pakistan responded in kind with precision strikes inside iran. it s hard to see any direct connection to what s happening in gaza but it perhaps reflects just how febrile the wider region has become. here s our analysis editor, ros atkins. ever since the israel gaza war started, there s been a fear the conflict could spread, and that s happening. across the middle east, we re seeing air strikes, bombings, assassinations and border raids. the most high profile escalation involves houthi rebels in yemen attacking shipping in the red sea, they say, in solidarity with palestinians. in response, the us and the uk have attacked houthi positions, most recently with us strikes on wednesday night. and a day before america began attacking the houthis,
that means. also, we are looking at artificial intelligence with al decoded. good evening to you. we are told rishi sunak is holding a full cabinet meeting as we go to air, as the uk and the united states prepared to launch military strikes against the goofy rebels in yemen. against the houthi rebels. grant shapps, the defence secretary, suggested yeterday that military action was imminentjust hours after us and uk destroyers in the red sea shot down a barrage of drones and missiles that were launched by the iran backed group. the government held a cobra emergency meeting this morning, along with a meeting of the national security council. in washington the national security spokesmanjohn kirby said it cannot be allowed to continue. are there any red lines or steps that the us would not take or would not be a part of that you could outline? no. do those red lines exist or you just wouldn t outline them? to talk about ar speculate about any potential future military operati
Tanks are massed on the border with Southern Gaza. Thousands of palestinians are on the move from the eastern part of rafah with the ports throughout the day of more explosions. Not the full invasion, not yet, but it is starting to feel like it is imminent. President biden has now acknowledged on camera that he has caused one shipment of arms bound for israel and he signalled that more will be held back at this goes ahead. Civilians have been killed in gaza as a consequence of those bonds and other ways in which they go after population centres. I have made it clear that if they go into rafah, they have not gone into rafah yet, but if they go into rafah, im not supplying weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. We are going to continue to make sure israel is secure in terms of iron dome and responding to attacks like came out of The Middle East recently. It has prompted fury in israel. The far right minister Itamar