Hello. This is bbc news. We start with the latest on the israel gaza war. In the past hours, weve heard that the heads of the us and Israeli Security agencies have met to discuss the hostage situation. The Israeli Prime Ministers Office said the cia and mossad bosses met on friday in efforts to advance another hostage deal. In cypius, final preparations are being made for the first aid vessel to use the sea corridor to gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children are starving to death. This is the scene live in larnaca in cyprus where 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies have been loaded onto a barge. It will be towed by a Spanish Charity ship to gaza. The sea corridor is a joint operation between the eu, us, uk and united arab emirates, aiming to take supplies from cyprus to the gazan coast. This video shot today along the Israeli Border into gaza shows more aid being dropped. The parachutes carrying the boxes of supplies to the people of
Hopeful Hillary Clinton makes her first public appearance. And in sport we have concerns over rio olympic venue after hundreds of dead fish wash up onshore. We begin in yemen and the United Nations Security Council has voted in favor of a resolution which imposes sanctions on houthi fighters. It also calls on the rebels to stop fighting and withdraw from all areas theyve captured including the capital of sanaa. It is calling on yemenis to protest the Security Councils move. There has been more fighting particularly around the port city of aden, the port capital and supply routes have been affected. The u. N. Security council sending a tough message to the houthis. Before them for a vote, a resolution calling on the group to withdraw from all the territory theyve taken in recent months, including the capital sanaa. The resolution passed but with one significant on sentencing by russia. It had wanted an immediate ceasefire. Instead, there will be humanitarian pauses organized by the u. N
The United Nations Security Council has voted to impose an arms embargo on houthi fight necessary yemen. The rebels are v been ordered to withdraw from territory it has seized. The houthis have condemned the move saying it is aggression. Our diplomatic editor james bays has been following developments from new york. The u. N. Security council sending a tough message to the houthis. Before them for a vote a resolution calling on the group to withdraw from all the territory theyve taken in recent months, including the capital sanaa. The resolution passed but with one significant abstention from russia. It had wanted an immediate ease fire. Instead there will be humanitarian pauses organized by the u. N. Through president hadi. The houthis working in close coordination have intensified their military campaign, bombed aden and extended their offensive to yemen. These actions have caused widespread violence and instability that threaten the security and welfare of the yemeni people as well
Single story, syrias war comes to the cannes film festival. But first, to libya, where gunmen have stormed the General National Congress building in the capitol tripoli. Witnesses are saying beginmen from the zen tang greg aid attacked the buildings in the south of the capitol. Reports are suggesting there is a lot of smoke coming from the area. The militia used to control several areas of the city. The attack follows violence the weekend in the eastern city of benghazi in which 79 people died. The army has imposed now a nofly zone over the city. Retired general kalifa hafta sees himself as the chief of the selfproclaimed forces. Attacks have been carried out by rebels loyal to him. Haftar has the support of many officers and many army units. He says he is trying to purge the country of what he calls terrorist groups. He also says the Central Government has lost control of former rebels who took part in the 2011 revolution that led to the overthrow of Mumar Gadaffi but the Central Gove
American soil. A kay after a coup of the western and african forces, they say they may launch their own search party to find the missing school girls. Mohammed adow has more. Reporter the senator for born 0 state, the center for most of boko haram attacks in recent years, he says he is unhappy with how the government is handling the crisis. I feel disgusted, and i feel very, very bad for a country like nigeria who has a lot of resources, a lot of manpower, a lot of money, you know, and they cannot contain a small group . Reporter but for the security forces, attacks have represented new challenges that they are struggling to cope with. At times, they are out gunned by boko haram fighters, something that the senator said should not be happening given how well funded the Nigerian Army is. 20102012 and 2013, we gave them employ 1. 5 trillion lrya. That translates to about 10,000,000,000 even if they were given just a quarter of that money, i am sure they wouldnt have complained of lack of