Still be using. The death toll since hamas launched its attacks on saturday has now reached 1200. 700 have been killed in israel, including 260 at a music festival. Reuters reports this figure includes 73 soldiers thats according to the Israeli Military. And more nearly 500 have been killed in gaza, after israel launched retaliatory air strikes. 33 of those are thought to be children. Lets take the scene live now in gaza. In the last few minutes and hours we have seen a number of strikes by Israeli Military, also as we have been hearing the Israeli Defence minister has announced he has called for a total blockade of the city. This is a densely populated area of land, home to 2. 2 Million People and what he is saying is that there will be no food, water or fuel allowed is that there will be no food, water orfuel allowed into is that there will be no food, water or fuel allowed into the gaza city. Now they completely rely on these things from the outside world. Militants from the Palesti
Well, Russell Brand might have disappeared from more traditional Media Outlets over recent years and he is no longer in Hollywood Films but he has built a huge following across social media on the likes of instagram, twitter and youtube he has millions of followers. On youtube in particular, he has over 6 million subscribers. He post videos near daily and he has monetisation on them which means that youtube puts adverts from other companies before and after, sometimes in the middle as well of those videos, viewers will be familiar with them. He gets a cut of the revenue from those adverts. I contacted google yesterday which owns youtube to ask whether or not that was under review given the serious nature of the allegations. As you say, Russell Brand denies them but they are still serious allegations. They didnt respond yesterday but this morning they have come back with a statement saying, we have suspended monetisation on Russell Brands channel for violating our creator responsibility
Which was causing problems, the government changed its guidance for buildings with that school buildings, with that concrete in it and essentially a number of schools found themselves needing to close either entirely or partially. Because this is a list the government said basically would keep staff and parents updated. So, we hear today that there are now 174 schools affected by this study, that is up by 27 from two weeks ago. In essence what the government has been doing is going through schools, it sent out a questionnaire last year, questionnaire about this concrete has now come back and in essence the government is going through working out exactly who has got a problem and who hasnt. The other thing we learned from the list today, 85 of schools who have got this raac problem are now fully open and offering face to face teaching for their pupils. That is 148 schools. There is still one school that is closed, in essence, but is offering Online Learning to its pupils. There were 19
good morning. a frosty and foggy start to the day to day. some freezing fog will linger for much of the day. the sunnier skies will be the day. the sunnier skies will be the further east you travel. a return to wet and windy conditions in the west. all the details later on in the programme. it s wednesday, the 6th of december. our main story. the former prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to the covid inquiry today and face two days of questions about his time leading the uk during the pandemic. he s expected to apologise to people who lost loved ones but claim that he and his government got the big decisions right. our correspondent ellie price reports. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. in the end, it was his call. he was responsible for the biggest decisions made during the pandemic. that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home. but how he came to make those decisions will be at the