As concerns continue over the humanitarian situation in the territory. The United Nations says more than half a Million People are one step away from famine. Aid going into gaza is being held up because of intense Security Checks at two Southern Land crossings. Air drops are helping palestinians. These, some of 10,000 meals that landed in the northern part of the territory today. But so much more is needed, and now this charity ship with 200 tonnes of food is part of the effort, on its way from cyprus. Quentin sommerville is in the port city of larnaca. He sent this report. Its a drop in the ocean of gazas need, but this is the first direct aid shipment by sea about to leave cyprus. The spanish ship the open arms, seen here in larnaca port, getting ready to set sail. It has a long journey ahead of it. The barge has 200 tonnes of desperately needed essentials rice, flour and pre prepared meals. This has taken months in planning. The cargo was loaded all weekend. The final Security Clear
All of those stories are coming up soon. Sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres jane dougall. Good afternoon, jane. Hello, matthew. Theres one English Premier League match later on monday with chelsea hosting newcastle in a mid table battle. The two sides are struggling to reach the european places and the pressure is on both managers. Mauricio pochettino s chelsea have won just three of their last nine games. Newcastle are four points better off in the table, and were the winners in the reverse fixture in november. However, manager eddie howe says theyre running out of time to get something from this season, while pochettino insists chelsea must concentrate on themselves and not their opponents. Iam i am concerned in our performance and in the way that we are going to deal with now, maybe two or three starting 11 players in the last game that we need to find a different solution again. Of course we know very well newcastle and we can assess newcastle but now i
Hello. Im marc ashdown. A very good morning to you. We start in hollywood and the film industrys biggest night, the oscars. The awards, which celebrate the best films of the year, finished just a few hours ago, clocking in at a spritely 3. 5 hours. The big winner of the night was, as expected, the Christopher Nolan epic, oppenheimer, which racked Up Seven Awards from its 13 nominations, including best picture. Behind that on four wins is the quirky period dramedy poor things. Heres The Moment Acting Royalty Al Pacino presented the final award of the night for best picture. And oppenheimer. Yes, yes. I think any of us who make movies i think any of us who make movies know that you kind of Dream Movies Know that you kind of dream of movies know that you kind of dream of this moment. You know you do. Dream of this moment. You know you do, right . I could deny it but i you do, right . I could deny it but i have you do, right . I could deny it but i have been dreaming about this moment for
The list includes Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last month. But navalny was by no means the first putin opponent to die an untimely death. Lets start with the late Boris Nemtsov. Nemtsov had been an ally of putins predecessor, boris yeltsin. When putin emerged from relative obscurity to grab the presidency, nemtsov became a noisy opponent and in 2015, he was shot dead close to the kremlin. Who ordered the assassination . Well, the truth has never come out, but putins opponents have little doubt. In 2011, i went to moscow to meet Boris Nemtsov, who was then putins biggest, highest profile critic. Putin became a successor and became the president because berezovsky was his friend. And berezovsky supported him very much and berezovsky financed his campaign. You know that putin rule is, if you are a friend, you can do whatever you want. If you are an enemy, you will be injail, right . Even if they had just one case of corruption, my corruption, believe me, we will never talk in the ha