again. and so i don t want to be in the prediction business with something as heavy as that. what i will say is that my meeting with the director of the masad last night, we met for more than twice the expected 45 minutes because we had a very detailed conversation about how to move forward to secure the release of the hostages. ultimately that will be something that we have to work in a very sensitive way between the u.s. and israel, working with qatar, with egypt, with other actors. and so i will leave that conversation where it belongs in those sensitive channels. but i will just say this has seized the attention from the very first day the president of the united states and every other senior member of his team and just this week the president met with the families of the american hostages to reaffirm for them that we re going to do everything in our power working with our israeli counterparts to ensure every hostage comes home safely and i ll leave it at that for today.
which would be a breach of the uk data privacy code designed to protect young people. good morning and welcome to the bbc news channel. the former health secretary, matt hancock, has denied claims he failed to follow covid testing advice during the early days of the pandemic. thousands of whatsapp messages leaked to the telegraph show mr hancock was advised in april 2020 to test everyone going into care homes. but a message reportedly from mr hancock to an aide said he would rather commit to just testing those going into care homes from hospitals. lord bethall was a junior minister in department of health and social care back in 2020. this morning, he was asked whether matt hancock should have taken the advice of the chief medical officer to test everyone going into care homes. no, ithink no, i think the key phrase here is this is obviously a positive step. it was absolutely crystal clear that we wanted to test everyone who went into social care. that was the ambition. gettin
hello, and welcome to bbc news. a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in bangladesh. the blaze took hold in cox s bazar in the south east of the country. the fire has been brought under control and volunteers are estimating the damage. the charity action aid said their initial assessment was that more than 2,000 shelters had been gutted, affecting around 12,000 people. no casualties have been reported so far. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living in cramped camps near the border in bangladesh. earlier, rusikesh harichandan from the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies had this assessment of the damage. the fire broke out today at around 3pm in the camp and it took almost two hours to be handled by the fire service agencies. the fire has brought massive damage, around 12,000 people affected. most of the services also have been damaged. camp ten, 11, and n
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ukraine s war trying to take back territory from russia. also, one of the biggest business fears about a potential for tsmc. it makes many of the chips in many of your high tech devices. i get a rather interview with the company s chairman and ask him about those fears. but first, here s my take. is it possible that despite all the partisan noise and exploit disbelief, joe biden is actually managing to do something that he promised during his campaign? govern from the center. the evidence is piling up. if the compromise hammered out on tuesday, it will be the largest investment in fighting climate change made by the federal government while also being the largest deficit reduction package in a decade. it comes on top of the chips and science act which makes research in critical technology. that followed the biggest gun referrals. governing from the center in today s world looks a lot different than it did in the past. when congress came together in the 1980s and 90s to pas