Hello youre watching the context on bbc news. Coming up the uk Prime Minister will no longer accept donations for clothes after a row over accepting gifts. Party Conference Season is well under way here in the uk and Today Reform Leader Nigel Farage opened his Partys Conference in birmingham. He told Supporters Britain is broken and said this was the weekend his party would come of age. We do not need to change the mind of a single person living in this country. Because the Silent Majority is already with us on the key issues that we care about. We can win the next general election, just with the numbers of people that agree with our principles, that agree that family, that agree that community, that agree that country should be the things that absolutely everybody in british public life campaigns for because they are the most important things to all of us that live here. Applause the labour partys annual conference will also kick off this weekend but it comes in a week in which the P
Hello, youre watching the context on bbc news. Its been revealed that Keir Starmer s top adviser, Sue Gray, now earns more than the Prime Minister. Weve been told that shes now on a salary of 170,000. More than 100 charities and Aid Agencies have urged sir Keir Starmer to protect foreign Aid Spending amid fears the budget could fall to its lowest level since 2007. The unease comes ahead of the Budget Set to be unveiled by the chancellor in october and with increasing aid being spent here in the uk, To Support Refugees and Asylum Seekers. The previous government had counteracted this adding 2. 5 billion to the foreign Aid Budget, as a Top Up to compensate for the money being spent in britain. But where does the uk stand internationally . The un target for foreign Aid Spending is 0. 7 of a countrys gross national income. That figure is widely accepted among the international community and the uk made a legal commitment to it in 2015. But in reality according to the oecd, just 5 countries
We start with Breaking News from The Middle East where israel says its forces have rescued a hostage from an Underground Tunnel in the Southern Gaza strip. This image of qaid Farhan Al Kadi a Bedoin Arab Has just been released of him recovering in hospital speaking to members of his family. An Israeli Government spokesman has described it as a complex rescue operation. Here you can see the 52 year old talking to Israeli Soldiers shortly after he was rescued. He was abducted ten months ago close to the israel gaza border. Farhan al kadi the eighth hostage rescued by Israeli Forces since the start of the war in gaza is in a stable condition in hospital, where he is undergoing examinations. And this is his Family Running through the corridors and out to the helicopter after he was admitted. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was working to secure the release of all the remaining hostages. But a group campaigning for those still held said that though this rescue had been mir
drier as well put the lighter winds to begin with. those shows are lingering in the far south east and a few scattered showers but the winds will ease in the afternoon across england and wales, the showers becoming few and far between. more persistent showers in the far north of scotland, still incredibly mild for this time of year, 11 15 through the middle of the afternoon. but milder still as high pressure pushes in and it will block these weather fronts that will sit in the far north west. also, it will drag up this very warm air coming all the way from africa so over the next few days, milder still, can you believe? at this time of year, that south westerly flow will drag a lot of cloud, some mist and drizzle on western coasts, some very heavy rain sitting in the northern and western isles accompanied by winds up to 70 mph but look at the temperatures, 11-17 , that is 63 but look at the temperatures, ii i7 , that is 63 fahrenheit. warm by day but even warmer through the n