Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. Besieged by tourists, venice starts charging day trippers to visit. Is this the way forward for overwhelmed cities . In fact, we are going to start in europe. The french president , emmanuel macron, has painted a rather bleak picture of the European Union today. Despite the big strides he believes the eu made towards closer integration post covid and in response to the war in ukraine, it needs to be much more aggressive, he said, in defending its own interests. The wake up, he said, has been too slow and there is mortal danger, as he put it, if the union becomes a vassal of the United States and fails to stand up for itself on trade. Translation we must be lucid to the fact that our europe today is mortal. She can die. Echoing his past calls for europe to plot a third way between the us and china, the french president called for a scaling up stronger, more integrated European Defences, a more sustainable economic model
In the past decade, ten us states have given parents an option on school choice. If they choose to they can opt to send their children to Private Schools and in return they will get some tax relief to help offset those fees. That gives countless families says jo, particularly those who live in inner cities with underperforming schools the chance to attend a Private School. Makes it more affordable. But this side of the pond, the opposition wants to go the other way. Labour say they will add vat to Private School fees and wont strip schools of their charitable status, which would deny them the 80 relief they got on business rates. That Change Say Labour would generate up to £1. 5 billion in additional revenue. The daily mail says today that will unfairly punish the smaller independent schools. Good one for this for one panel. Joe supports it. And since leaving parliamentjustine has campaigned for social mobility, equality of opportunity. So lets see how they view this. Why is offering
The politicians who have signed the letter include one of mr biden s key allies the former speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi. Now this letter comes as a growing number of countries are calling for an independent investigation into the israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers. Thats after the idf published its first account of mondays deadly attack. Britain has echoed calls by the Charity World central kitchen for an independent review into the strike on its convoy of vehicles. Of those seven aid workers killed three were british nationals. The British Foreign secretary, lord cameron, said london would carefully review the initial report by the israeli military. He welcomed the suspension of two senior israeli officers as a first step, but said israel must publish its findings in full. And within the past couple of hours, australias foreign minister, penny wong, said the Australian Government expects full accountability over the deaths. This has been a dead
can t be bothered anymore. but there was no lack of desire as he took on china s ding junhui in the final. the rocket raced into a 4 1 lead but ding remained calm, he had been here before, losing last year s final. three times, he hauled himself back into contention, but this, to make it 7 7, provoked the same reaction as poking a bear. it tookjust eight minutes for o sullivan to roar back into the lead. applause. it finally broke ding s resilience and the inevitable soon followed. commentator: what a final, what a contest! ijust had to come out and have a good head. i thought, if i m going to lose, just make ding earn it. big crowd here, leave blood sweat and tears on the table. if i don t win, that isjust one of those things, but i came out here and gave it my all and ijust love competing. as most people get older, they start to lose their abilities, but o sullivan keeps proving that age, to him, isjust a number. nick parrott, bbc news. on to football now, and an entertai
good morning. for england and wales we are looking at rain at times, some hill snow that even some of that getting to lower levels at times. and the risk of ice. the scotland and northern ireland, some wintry showers, drierand scotland and northern ireland, some wintry showers, drier and brighter in the west, but wherever you are it will be blustery and cold. i will have all the details later. it s monday the 4th of december. our main story. israel says its ground offensive has now expanded to every part of the gaza strip following days of intense bombardment. the united nations says palestinians are being squeezed into a corner of the territory worsening the already dire humanitarian conditions. yolande knell has this report. ominous warnings the israeli flairs that hang in the night sky over gaza are followed by the thuds of explosions. rumbling explosion. and on the ground, israel s military says its offensive has now expanded to every part of the palestinian territory