Country. Yes, indeed. So weve got an hour of all the stories which matter to you being dissected and debated with two top drawer opponents that is coming up here live on dewbs co next. But first, lets grab the latest News Headlines with polly middlehurst. Middlehurst. Michelle, thank you. Well, the top story today, the Prime Minister confirmed that the gaza hospital blast last week was likely caused by a missile from within gaza. Rishi sunak said within gaza. Rishi sunak said today in the commons , the al today in the commons, the al hospital blast was caused by a missile or part of a missile that was launching towards israel. He also said the that was launching towards israel. He also said the uk is providing an additional £20 million in aid to civilians in gaza as well as deploying raf and royal navy assets. The British Government judges that the explosion was likely caused by a missile or part of one that was launched from within gaza towards israel. The misreporting of this incide
That to come and more before seven. But before we get stuck in, lets cross live for tonight. 6 00 news with polly middlehurst. Well, our top story from gb news tonight is that downing street says the attempt by police in brussels to shut down the National Conservatism conference is extremely disturbing. Officers arrived while gb news presenter nigel farage was addressing the event, giving everyone 15 minutes to leave the venue. Its understood the order came from the local brussels mayor, emir kir, in a move he said was to guarantee pubuc move he said was to guarantee public safety. Belgiums Prime Minister has within the last half hour described todays events as unacceptable and said banning political meetings is unconstitutional. The former home secretary Suella Braverman, spoke to nigel farage after her own speech at conference. Thankfully you and i got to make our speeches in favour of controlling our borders and protecting our communities amongst like minded democrats. Many of us th
We will have with us later today two representatives. We understand in this building that can be a challenge. Fingers crossed we will have both congressional representatives with us. We also have several former commissioners with us. Thank you very much. Two fellow commissioners on the eeoc, thank you for coming. I understand that susan eisenhower, the granddaughter of president eisenhower, who in 1957 signed the commission into existence thank you for that. For joining us. John gore, acting assistant attorney general for civil rights at the United States department of justice, and cameron quinn, the officer for civil rights and Civil Liberties at dhs and also a former Virginia State Advisory Committee member for civil rights in virginia. We have several people who have traveled from california, illinois, and missouri to be with us. Thank you for coming from afar and thank you to everyone in our staff who has been with us today. You make sure we do the work we need to do. Thank you to
Command post nearby to bring us to the latest. Good afternoon, we are on the backside of the fairgrounds and i want to show you the activity going on it is quite the operation. Agencies from Orange County Riverside County and Los Angeles County also pretty much from all over the state. The fire continues to get closer to the town of mariposa, right now it is north of the town but it exploded overnight and as you mentioned it is 7 contained. It has burned 47,000 acres. We just got an update, 5000 residents have fled their homes. Cal fire and other agencies are continuing airdrops. Overnight the crews cut fire lines and bulldozer crews were busy at work. The challenge is the terrain which is steep and hilly and there is a lot of fresh vegetation providing fuel and fire crews are dealing with humidity and went. The cal fire chief walked us through with a map and give us a visual of what they are dealing with. This black line is contained. That fire is not going to spread out of there. It
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