tell us what is happening. i tell us what is happening. i was reachin: tell us what is happening. i was reaching out tell us what is happening. i was reaching out to tell us what is happening. i was reaching out to diplomats - tell us what is happening. i was reaching out to diplomats as - tell us what is happening. i reaching out to diplomats as they were leaving consultations. i was told the vote had been delayed yet again until tomorrow. we were able to hear directly from the uae which offered this draught resolution. their ambassador told us that they decided to give additional time to try to see if diplomacy could yield a positive resolution. in other words, if they could avoid a us veto here. and we have seen these negotiations drag out over days, which i thinkjust underscores how high stakes these talks are. the ambassador said that these discussions are happening at the highest levels in capitals, with everyone who has leverage, and while the united states does
championships. and stay with us here on bbc news. for continuing coverage and analysis from our team of correspondence in the uk and around the world. good evening. the united nations security council has delayed for a third day a vote on a suspension of fighting in gaza. intense negotiations are continuing in the hope that the united states will finally back a resolution, which would also see more humanitarian aid reaching the people who desperately need it. it comes on the day that hamas says more than 20,000 people have now died in gaza since israel launched its military offensive after the october 7th attacks, in which 1,200 people in israel were murdered. hamas which is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government says the majority of those who ve been killed in gaza are women and children. our special correspondent, fergal keane, reports. the world is debating calls for a ceasefire and a big new reckoning of the debt is declared. but, for the people of g
his father is among the 20,000 reported dead. but the survivors do not think of the dead in figures of thousands. theirs is an intimate reckoning, counted in the vanished faces of those they love. from the beginning, they have known there is no escape. from gaza. ..orfrom grief. in al aqsa hospital, in central gaza, the wounded child holds to symbols of a vanished normality. in a bed nearby, rama, aged 13, who lost ten members of herfamily, and fears she will lose her arm and leg. translation: i appeal to the arab countries to help me get urgent - treatment abroad before i lose my limbs. i dream of a life like other children around the world, where i can once again run and draw. fear of death is ever present. we interviewed this person over a month ago. as she tried to escape gaza with her disabled brother. today, our colleagues in gaza caught up with her and her brother. without vital medicine he is suffering from seizures and is terrified by the as many drones in the skies
british soldiers from prosecution. i think this is the honorable approach. we are guarantors of the good friday agreement. we believe that the legacy act injures the good friday agreement violates a core part of the good friday agreement, which is the human rights foundations that underpin it. we do it reluctantly because we are conscious of the need, obviously to maintain good relations with the united kingdom. we have great cooperation on a whole range of issues. we have a desired objective in seeing the institutions restored in northern ireland. we re very disappointed that they haven t been restored to date. but nonetheless, i think the good friday agreement is an international treaty that was entered into by the two governments and all of the political parties in northern ireland. and i m very clear that unilateralism is not the way to deal with issues relating to the good friday agreement. there has to be a collective response. let s speak to mark devenport former the
The Norway Chess and London Chess Classic tournaments as well as the Grand Chess Tour have decided not to invite GM Sergey Karjakin to their tournaments anymore as the Russian GM continues to support Russia's warfare in Ukraine. Also this week, the Russian and Belarusian federations were suspended by.