Has been put at 100 by the Israeli Embassy to the us, though some have been freed. In Northern Israel, hezbollah rockets targeted three military positions, with israel responding with barrages of artillery into Southern Lebanon. The Un Security Council will meet later on sunday. President biden has vowed Rock Solid Support for israel and warned against other countries taking advantage of the situation. Lets show you the scene live in gaza now. Israeli airstrikes are ongoing in response to hamas s attack including some in the last few hours. Palestinian Health Officials say 20 children are among the more than 300 killed there. They say nearly 1,800 people have been wounded. Lets get the latest from simonjones. Israel is stepping up its retaliation. This is what it describes as its Mighty Vengeance on the Palestinian Militant Group hamas. 0vernight, gaza has been rocked by explosions. Earlier, warplanes hit several buildings in the centre of the city. The Israeli Defence forces released
sunshine around today, it is a much quieter looking day of weather today than at the weekend, when we saw two named storms, storm elin and storm fergus. today, quieter, sunny spells, a few showers partially towards eastern areas of scotland, mostly because storm fergus is just pulling away through the north sea towards denmark. so, a few showers, the winds will be getting lighter towards the east coast and our next weather system approaches from the west. that will be with us tomorrow. for the rest of today, a line of cloud and a few showers coming down through the cheshire gap, misty conditions with moist air across parts of the south west and western wales, temperatures mild, 7 13 for most of us. overnight tonight, here is our next area of low pressure, that will be bringing heavyweight to northern ireland particularly heavy across county are mine county down, into southern scotland tomorrow morning, early frost maybe out towards eastern areas but temperatures will rise aga
exports are now curently worth $7 million annually. but things are improving. last month china said it will review its tariffs on australian exports and australia has suspended action it had taken against china at the world trade organization. let s discuss this with professorjames laurenceson director of the australia china relations institute at the university of technology sydney. good to have it on the programme. i vejust mentioned programme. i ve just mentioned wine programme. i vejust mentioned wine is one example of where things had been very difficult when it comes to trade. where else have been problems? when the albanese else have been problems? when the albanese inaudible. - the albanese inaudible. sadly you are frozen. we don t seem to have a good line with you. perhaps we will return to you. perhaps we will return to you a little later on in the programme to talk about this story because of course we want to look at that very important relationship between au
Well get advice from other mums who gave birth at the age of 50. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 00 this morning. As always, well bring you the latest Breaking News and developing stories and were really keen to hear from you. A little later well be hearing how four days into january some fat cat bosses have already earned more this year than the average british worker will earn in the entire year your thoughts on that welcome. Use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Britains outgoing ambassador to the European Union, sir ivan rogers, has strongly criticised the governments preparations for brexit. In his Resignation Letter he said he didnt know what ministers Negotiating Objectives were and called on his colleagues to challenge what he called Muddled Thinking. Our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports. Sir ivan rogers has been britains ambassador to the eu for three years, and
The diplodocus. Good morning. Its the 4th of january. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Britains outgoing ambassador to the European Union, sir ivan rogers, has strongly criticised the governments preparations for brexit. In his Resignation Letter he said he didnt know what ministers Negotiating Objectives were and called on his colleagues to challenge what he called Muddled Thinking. Our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports. Sir ivan rogers has been britains ambassador to the eu for three yea rs, ambassador to the eu for three years, and his criticisms about the governments preparations for brexit will be hard to ignore. In his Resignation E Mail he said there is a short supply of Serious Multilateral Negotiating Experience in whitehall and he said the structure of the uks Negotiating Tea M Structure of the uks Negotiating Team need rapid resolution. He reveals that even he does not know what the governments Negotiating Objectives for brexit will be. But it is sir ivans implic