those numbers supposedly corresponding to safe areas, but the reality is people don t have power or internet communication, or at least it s intermittent. and so, very often, they have no idea where to go. earlier, i spoke with our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, injerusalem and asked what sorts of warnings the israelis are sending to the people of gaza. they re basically saying that if you are living in an area just to the east and north of khan younis, one of the largest cities in the southern part of the gaza strip, then you need to move west and get out of the way. that map you re seeing there on your screen, that red dotted line is the salahadin street, which runs throughout the gaza strip from north to south. and that area, that red dotted area is a stretch of the road that the israelis are saying palestinians should not get anywhere near. at the bottom end of that dotted line is the city of khan younis. the yellow orange line is saying this is the alternative rou
or more if the going rate for theirjob is higher than that. now, from next spring, as we ve been hearing, that minimum salary threshold will rise to £38,700. but there are exceptions in what are called shortage occupations, jobs where there are lots of vacancies which can t be filled by local people. well, not easily, anyway. and since last year, the sector which has seen the most workers come in by that route is, of course, health and social care. the numbers are remarkable. in the year to september, 66,000 people got a conventional skilled worker visa, but in the same period, 144,000 people got a health and care visa, mostly to work in care homes. but many of the foreign workers bring close family with them, too. so if you add dependents to the skilled workers, and the numbers rises to 117,000. but in health and care, the combined figure goes up to 318,000. now that s an additional 174,000 dependants who d no longer be able to come unless the worker earns more than £38,70
holding the rest of the country to ransom while the tories fight among themselves. suella braverman promised she would have more to say after her sacking yesterday. tonight, she has vented her anger. in a letter dripping with derision, the former home secretary accuses the prime minister of putting off the tough decisions in order to minimize political risk weakness, she says. we will get reaction to that letter tonight from our panel, the deputy political editor for the guardian, peter walker, and from washington, the conservative commentator carrie sheffield. president biden is about to touch down in san francisco, ahead of a crunch meeting tomorrow with the chinese president xijinping. and we will be keeping an eye on a crucial vote in washington tonight. the house scheduled to vote later on a bill that could avert a government shutdown saturday. was this the night of the long knife? it remains to be seen whether suella braverman has inflicted a mortal wound on this pr
rico, hispaniola and the lesser antilles islands. monday we re going to see the winds picking up to about 50 miles per hour. i do think the storm system stays well offshore, not becoming a hurricane near puerto rico. it s well to the southeast here. but it is still the storm surge and the high surf that we re going to see in that area. what i can forecast for you for hispaniola, puerto rico, potentially up to 6 to 8 inches with the storm system. now, as it makes its way aacross, we re hoping that it splits apart. it could potentially go back into the gulf and gain more steam. so watching this closely. i will stick with your hope. meteorologist janessa webb. thank you so much, janessa. the amazon is finally receiving aid from brazil s government as wildfires continue to rage in the rain forest known as the earth s lungs. planes were seen dropping thousands of gallons of water over the rain forest that has been ravaged by fires at an
of things. the ground saturates and then all of a sudden the water goes up. we didn t get saturation here. 2 or 3 inches and the water goes down and it becomes a mudslide all of a sudden it goes up the river rises and the river did go up. all of a sudden you take all that water and you push it up a hill. and it has to come down into one spot. then you have a problem. here s the river basin for wimberley. down through here san marcos blanco river. right through wimberley, that is the funnel. that s the funneling effect that really got them in trouble. there s the river right there. two coming together, two basins coming together and all of a sudden you push all that water through one place, it goes up 30 feet in two hours. incredible. the convergence comes in one place and you re low ground. thank you very much madd chirs. outfront next two mid-air scares. one plane losing power to both engines in midflight. dropping thousands of feet. 200 people on board. the other almost crashin