Over as the aid convoy moved away. In the last hour, the Un Security Council has been meeting Behind Closed Doors to discuss the situation. It comes on the day that the hamas government says more than 30,000 people have been killed in the territory since this conflict began in october. Our special correspondent fergal keane reports from Jerusalem The Hunger created by war made this tragedy. That is a fundamental fact of what happened today. The dead and wounded were starving people, simply hoping to feed their families. Translation | am| one of the wounded. I was on al rashid street. We were there all day in order to get food for our children, but we paid for that aid with our blood. Thousands had gathered in the predawn darkness. Theyd heard trucks were coming with aid. There were farmers, mechanics, our bbc cameraman, teachers, a doctor from a local hospital. An israeli drone filmed people crowding the aid trucks. It is a striking depiction of human desperation. The military said tan
Naomi alderman, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. I want to start at the beginning. You were raised in a very traditional, observant orthodoxJewish Community in north london where, i think its fair to say, women and girls were expected, by and large, to stay in the background. Now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. You use it loudly. How difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away . Now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. However, my father is a professor of history. So from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. So, yes. And you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff youve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. And then the boys said, thank you, god, for no
Papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timberfrom papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timber from rare forest in canada that it had claimed were no go areas. It comes as the government decides whether to give the firms yorkshire side billions more in environmental subsidies, funded by energy bill payers. Drax says its wood pellets are sustainable and illegally harvested. Lets get more on this from our reporter who conducted that investigation. What did you find . This is about a Power Station in england. This is the worlds biggest woodfired Power Station. It does say by burning wood pellets. It receives a huge amount of public subsidy, as you just mentioned, because these wood pellets, when you burn for electricity, that is counted as renewable energy. The Power Station gets through an awful lot of wood pellets each year, about 6. 5 million tonnes. All of these are imported into the uk from overseas, many of them coming from the us and canada, where drax runs 17 pell
Health workers and civilians are not a target, and must be protected at all times. We urge israel to cease fire. The idf said it had carried out a Precision Strike in the area of the hospital that targeted militants from the islamichhad group. Meanwhile, the us military has carried out its first air drop of food aid, amid a growing humanitarian crisis in the territory following months of war. Us Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with israeli war cabinet member benny gantz on monday as washington seeks to reach a dealfor more aid and a temporary ceasefire. A us official said today the framework for a deal that would establish a six week ceasefire in gaza is in place with israels agreement and depends on hamas agreeing to release hostages. And a un team has found that many palestinans who were injured as lorries were delivering aid on thursday, were wounded by gunshots. Our Diplomatic Correspondent paul adams has the latest. How were so many people injured . Were they shot or crush
Our north america editor, sarah smith, is in detroit. Let me hear you say im voting uncommitted. All im voting uncommitted. Im voting uncommitted. All im voting uncommitted. Voting uncommitted is a protest against the president. You wouldnt know it from these signs, but these are normally joe biden supporters. Furious, though, about his support for israels war on gaza. They want him to call for a permanent ceasefire before hell win their votes again. No matter how many people refuse to support him today, Joe Biden Cannot lose this democratic primary contest. But if the same people dont vote for him in the president ial election, that could be decisive. Michigan is a key state that he only won very narrowly last time, and he really needs to win again this year. Many students and young voters are also distressed by what they see happening in gaza, notjust here at Michigans Wayne state university, but on campuses right across the United States. America sees whats happening. Its heartbreak