the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is on another diplomatic tour of the middle east his fifth visit to the region since the conflict erupted between israel and hamas. he will be visiting saudi arabia, israel, egypt, qatar and the occupied west bank. mr blinken s trip follows days of air strikes by the united states against iranian linked targets in iraq, syria and yemen. ahead of his arrival, a drone attack killed six us backed kurdish fighters at an american base in eastern syria. mr blinken is also expected to discuss boosting aid to gaza, as well as a possible ceasefire and hostage deal between israel and hamas. the israeli prime minister has warned he will not accept the demands of hamas over hostages still held. the un has warned of an impending famine in gaza affecting more than 2 million people. our correspondent, barbara plett usher, explained the main aim of mr blinken s visit. that possible ceasefire deal, which would involve the release of some of the isr
about in a boat on this exact spot in the arabian gulf half a century ago, what would you have seen? not the futuristic cityscape before me today, that s for sure because in recent decades, doha has witnessed unbelievably rapid change. i can t help thinking that the same is true of art history. this excitingly dynamic discipline that s always evolving. that s certainly the case with our ever expanding understanding of islamic art the speciality of an extraordinary and recently revamped museum that s filled with masterpieces fashioned everywhere from the mediterranean to southeast asia, all housed in a stunning limestone building which i ve travelled to qatar to explore. i m hoping here not only to experience for myself some horizon broadening work from the islamic world, but also to gain insight into what we mean by islamic art. so, this is quite exciting. i wasn t sure if it was going to happen, but it s now been confirmed that i m being whisked by golf buggy to meet the
minister today and we are not working on failure, we are working on the basis we are going to be successful. we know we have a lot of work to do but we need the treasury to be engaged because for many years we have been underfunded and we want to transform our health service. we have an entry as long as your arm in terms of the issues we need to deal with and some of that we will discuss today. we have such a vast area of work we need to focus our attention on what we need to be able to have proper financial arrangements to allow us to to have properfinancial arrangements to allow us to do to have proper financial arrangements to allow us to do that. we are not going to give up on day one. we have made the case very strongly and we will continue to do that but the strength now is we are working together to try and secure what we need. we working together to try and secure what we need- what we need. we have been very clear as well what we need. we have been very clear as w
is now levelled at 1 1. despite a commendable batting performance from england, they were bowled out for 292, zak crawley top scoring with 73. india were impressive in their bowling, particularlyjasprit bumrah who took nine wickets. ravi ashwin also took 3 72 and is now on 499 test wickets. the series is poised at 1 1. stokes says he was encouraged by england s performance. i m happy with the way we went after that chase. that is exactly how we play cricket. when an opportunity presents itself and it s a pressure situation, i think that generally brings the best out of people. it doesn t always work, but there were a lot of times when we were on top of india and then india were able to produce something that then put them back on top. well, england won the opening test, before india took the second to level the series. it s well known that it s difficult to get a win in india, so india head coach rahul dravid has been complimentary of england s bazball approach. it is not wil
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