welcome to bbc news, we are live in jerusalem. welcome to bbc news, we are live injerusalem. we start with the latest diplomatic efforts from the israel gaza conflict. this is day 30. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has met the palestinian authority president, mahmoud abbas, in the occupied west bank city of ramallah for talks on the gaza conflict. mr abbas told mr blinken there must be an immediate ceasefire and an allowing of humanitarian aid to the gaza strip. that was echoing the call of many arab leaders. according to us spokesperson matthew miller, the secretary reaffirmed the united states commitment to the delivery of life saving humanitarian assistance and resumption of essential services in gaza. which has been under. and made clear that palestinians must not be forcibly displaced. secretary blinken and president abbas discussed efforts to restore calm and stability in the west bank, including the need to stop extremist violence against palestinians and
would face consequences that have never been experienced in history. ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, has declared martial law. he urged his citizens not to panic, insisting his country would emerge victorious. and nato says it is activating its defence plans, bolstering its presence in front line states. in the last hour, boris johnson has said this hideous and barbaric venture must end in failure. well, our correspondent paul adams, failure. well, our correspondent pauladams, here in failure. well, our correspondent paul adams, here in kyiv, has this round up of the day s dramatic events. until early this morning, some here seem to have doubted that he would do it. not any more. the west warned vladimir putin was about to attack. he said he had no such plans. that fiction now utterly exposed. explosions right across this vast country.