alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament s foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can t say, well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict, because unfortunately we don t have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we re not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don t get to say, well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for the next month, or, we can only focus on ukraine. we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we re focusing on. and yet such
and that is the highest number in a season since the met office started naming them in 2015. roads and train lines have also been affected. navteonhal is in nottinghamshire, where a major incident was declared after rising water from the river trent flooded more than 100 properties. driving into an island. this is worse than the year 2000. simon lives in gunthorpe. it s one of the worst affected places by the flooding in nottinghamshire. the situation is so bad that most vehicles can t get through the floodwater, so he s using his modified four by four to help transport people and supplies. he s agreed to let us join him. we shouldn t have to do this, but you can tjust stand by and let people struggle and let people miss doctors appointments. there s a lot of elderly people and vulnerable people around here, so you ve got to do your bit. there are only two routes in and out of gunthorpe. one is up there, and it s underwater. and then there s this one, which is even worse. so
alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament s foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can t say, well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict, because unfortunately we don t have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we re not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don t get to say, well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for the next month, or, we can only focus on ukraine. we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we re focusing on. and yet such
my father is a highly respected nhs doctor of more than 30 years. he travelled to sudan to celebrate eid with our extended family, but he was caught off guard by the war. and on thursday, the 20th of april, the day before, my dad s car was ambushed and my father sustained a bullet injury while trying to move my sister and our vulnerable grandmother to a safer location. his mobility is limited and he is currently being cared for by my sister. and if you saw the car where the gunshots were made, it s a miracle that actually he s still alive and he urgently needs medical attention and his wound care is suboptimal. my sister has been using pillowcases as pressure on his wounds because they cannot access hospitals and so on. what has the foreign office said to you about supporting your family and bringing them home? i have been in contact with the foreign office and they ve stated that they can only evacuate british citizens and their immediate family members. this policy doesn t
left behind. there are reports the ceasefire could be left behind. there are reports the ceasefire could be extended - left behind. there are reports the ceasefire could be extended to i left behind. there are reports the i ceasefire could be extended to allow further evacuations. also tonight. four care workers are found guilty of mistreating patients at a specialist hospital for people with learning disabilities and autism in county durham. the iraqi man who blames bp s oilfields after contracting cancer dies before his chance to question the firms bosses. the fa cup final at wembley could be hit by new rail strikes and fans heading to the eurovision song contest may also be affected. mark says he s scared the truth will get him in big trouble. and the controversial american tv talk show hostjerry springer has died at the age of 79. and coming up in bbc news. carnival at the camp now, barcelona to reach the final of the women s champions league after knocking chelsea out