Part of the programme. Email me mail. News. But now mail. Margaret gb news. But now its for of the its time for the news of the day with polly middlehurst. Jacob thank you and good evening to you. Well, the top story from the gp newsroom tonight is that the us president , joe biden, has been speaking in israel today hes announced an agreement to allow humanitarian aid to move from egyptin humanitarian aid to move from egypt in the south into gaza. He also confirmed 100 million worth of new us funding for that aid for gaza and for the west bank. President bidens visit to israel was meant to prevent an escalation of the conflict in the region. But after last nights bombing of the hospital in gaza, planned meetings with regional leaders have had to be cancelled. And later on in cancelled. And later on in a speech , he stressed the speech, he stressed the importance of living by the rule of law. Of law. You are a jewish state, but youre also a democracy. And youre also a democracy. And lik
Of the nation, and we also dont tend to praise the french too often an heroic french nun has seemingly taken matters into her own hands in tackling an eco protester who was trying to stop the building of a new chapel. All of this comes on top of a lunatic suggestion from the National Infrastructure commission we to commission that we ought to aboush commission that we ought to abolish entire domestic abolish our entire domestic gas grid. Nation starts grid. State of the nation starts now. Now. Ill be joined by a pugnacious panel this evening, the former editor of the sun. You know him well, kelvin mackenzie. And the author and academic lisa mckenzie. Are not mckenzie. Im told they are not related. As always, i want to related. As always, i want to hear from you. Its a crucial part programme. Email me part of the programme. Email me mail. News. But now mail. Margaret gb news. But now its for of the its time for the news of the day with polly middlehurst. Jacob thank you and good evening
Good evening, im ray addison in the gb newsroom. Shadow Health Secretary wes streeting says doctor dan poulter has not been offered a peerage to defect from the tory party to labour. Mr streeting is defending doctor poulters decision, saying it shows that only sir keir starmer can be trusted with the nhs. Doctor. Poulter says hell sit on the labour benches until the next general election and then stand down. He comes just days before local elections across england and wales , where former england and wales, where former immigration minister Robert Jenrick is calling for a cap on net migration, saying its the only way to restore voters trust. Jenrick says he wants a far more restrictive system, allowing less than 100,000 people a year. Writing in the sunday telegraph , he said the sunday telegraph, he said the governments recently passed rwanda bill will join the graveyard of policies that failed to tackle illegal migration, and the alba party has been placed on an election footing as m
Minister in tehran. During a two hour meeting, mrjohnson raised his concerns about the detention of a number of british iranians, including Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe. Shes been in prison since the spring of last year, accused of trying to bring down the iranian government a charge she strongly denies. Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins reports. It could look routine. Borisjohnson and is reign in counterpart shake hands on their way into talks. But there is nothing routine about this encounter. The foreign secretary looking uncharacteristically tense, and with good reason. He was to improve relations, but also criticised overruns actions, while arguing fora rainy criticised overruns actions, while arguing for a rainy and political releases. Good in that of nazanin is are gone. Releases. Good in that of nazanin is are gone. Im sure him being there and raising a case in the context of lots of other stuff can only help improve relations and can only help improve relations and can o
Recherche foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, will meet the president of the rhine on sunday. British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, will meet the president of iran. Borisjohnson is expected to bring up the imprisonment of the british iranian woman, Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe. Mrjohnson has already had discussions with the Iranian Foreign minister. Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins reports. It could look routine. Borisjohnson and his iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad zarif, shake hands on the way into talks. But theres nothing routine about this encounter. The foreign secretary looking uncharacteristically tense, and with good reason. He wants to improve relations but also criticise some of irans actions while arguing for iranian prison releases, including of Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe a case many accuse him of damaging by loose talk last month. Watching anxiously with me in london, nazanins husband, Richard Ratcliffe. He has campaigned day in, day out for her freedom since n