the king is expected to walk today in what will be his first public sighting since the announcement of his cancer diagnosis. it was after a procedure in january that cancer was found. since then, the king has continued with constitutional duties, but avoided all public engagements. messages and images, there have been aplenty most recently an audio message on maundy thursday. may god bless you all this easter. what a change it will all be from a year ago just before the coronation, a royalfamily made its way to church. king and queen. prince and princess. happy easter. kate spoke out over a week ago revealing her preventative chemotherapy treatment for cancer. she is, she says, focusing on recovery, and she won t be seen in public for a while to come. the priority this easter for the princess and prince their family. all eyes, then, on the king this sunday himself mid treatment for an unknown cancer. his reign on hold as he, too, devotes his time to recovery. jonny
thames. it is the oxford and i cambridge boat race starting in thames. it is the oxford and - cambridge boat race starting in the next couple of hours. we start with the war between israel and hamas, as international pressure mounts for action to address the prospect of imminent famine among palestinians in gaza. we re following a number of developments. the us is said to have authorised the transfer of billions of dollars worth of bombs and fighterjets to israel in recent days. the package reported by the washington post and reuters comes despite growing calls for us military aid to be linked to changes in how israel conducts the war. it s just days after the un s top court, the international court ofjustice, ordered israel to allow the unimpeded flow of food aid into gaza. israel says un allegations that it s blocking aid are wholly unfounded . israeli media have published reports of plans to establish an all arab peacekeeping force in gaza to facilitate the delivery
andrea tenenti, a spokesperson for the united nations interim force in lebanon, explained more about the investigation. three ogl observers, military observers, unarmed, were in the area together with their language assistants and they were injured. luckily they are stable at the moment, so we have launched an investigation to look into this incident and into the explosions. i know there are a lot of speculations at the moment, but in relation to what we do as an organisation, we need to verify the information through our own investigations. so i hope we will be able to find out more shortly. we have been in touch with everyone, with both sides, and we have been in touch even when we are doing patrolling. we informed the parties that we are going to different locations. and unifil, we are very visible, we have white vehicles with the un written on it, big blue flags. so very difficult to think that we are somebody else. so we have been informing the parties, we are working wi
killed had been shot. a video circulated by the afp news agency shows trucks moving quickly past burning debris near a distribution point. people in pre dawn darkness then shout and scream as gunfire is heard. the red crescent said the incident happened after thousands of people gathered for the arrival of food trucks at gaza city s kuwait roundabout. the israeli military says it has no record of the incident described. in the past 2a hours, both the uk and the us military have airdropped food supplies into gaza. our bbc middle east correspondent lucy williamson, was on the us plane. aid drops into gaza are expensive, inefficient and increasingly controversial. these ready prepared meals from the us army are being flown more than 1,000 miles from the us airbase in qatar. there s plenty of food just a short drive from gaza s borders, but this american aid is being flown right across the middle east. 80 crates of food on board two c i7 transport planes, dropped into a populat
of observers was unacceptable. israel has denied any involvement. also, there are reports from the us that the biden adminstration has cleared the way for the transfer of bombs and fighter planes worth billions of dollars to israel. our correspondent yolande knell is injerusalem. a shell exploded near these un military observers while they were on a foot patrol in southern lebanon, along the blue line, which divides that area from the north of israel. now, unifil, the peacekeeping mission in that area, says it s investigating the cause of the blast. but this is an area where israeli forces and the lebanese armed group hezbollah regularly exchange fire. we ve seen an increase in tensions in that whole area in just the past few weeks, and that has really raised fears about further escalation related to the war in gaza. now, when it comes to those reports in the washington post and reuters about arms transfers worth billions of dollars being made from the us to israel, these a