Hello, you will live with bbc news. I am anna foster injerusalem. A Us Military Ship has set off for gaza, carrying equipment to build a Temporary Floating Port for desperately needed aid deliveries. The us military confirmed that that ship left late on saturday from a Military Base in virginia on its way to the middle east. The un has warned that around a quarter of the population of gaza, more than half a million people, are currently facing famine, which is why this new way of potentially getting aid in is so important. And in the meantime, there is a separate aid ship with around 200 tonnes of food on board which is still waiting to set sail from cyprus, waiting to be given the green light to head towards gaza. That is part of a new maritime aid corridor that the eu announced just in the last few days and said that they were optimistic that it would become operational for the first time this weekend. And of course, all of this comes as the us President Joe Biden gave a new intervie
You from downing street. The battle for your votes and the keys to number ten has begun. The general election is exactly six weeks today on the 4th ofjuly. Politicians are wasting no time in launching their Election Campaign. Rishi sunak started a tour of all four nations, he began that in derbyshire. Sir keir starmer began his campaign in gillingham in kent. In the last hour the Prime Minister was at his first major event of the day, laying out his pitch to voters. Lets have a listen to what he had to say. Eaten listen to what he had to say. Even thou h listen to what he had to say. Even though there listen to what he had to say. Even though there is listen to what he had to say. Even though there is more listen to what he had to say. Even though there is more work listen to what he had to say. Even though there is more work to do and it will take time to see the bennis benefits of that, the time the plan is working and we will have the economic stability back. But with that economic
You can see, they are the really the backdrop of the stage, sitting listening two of these speeches. Chris makes the point is you can see that most of them are in conventional political gear. They have their smart clothes on, their suits and ties. Except that is for sir keir starmer, who has lost his tie and jacket and he has rolled up his sleeves nearly to his elbows. Chris our Political Editor says it is not hot in there. He says this is a deliberate look from sir keir focused he says on getting stuff done. We know there will be no new policies, it will be sir keir setting out six pledges as his pitch before what we know will be a general election probably this year. He is promising to deliver economic stability, that nhs waiting times, create a new Border Security, and, set up a publicly owned firm called Great British energy, crackdown on anti social behaviour, and also recruit 6500 new teachers. As you can see there are a large number of people in there, watching these speeches. T
the challenges faced by the nhs in england as the number of people waiting for procedures is at a record high. 0ur health editor hugh pym reports. i m not half the man i was. compared to what i could do, i am nowhere near the guy. wayne, from derbyshire, has had a painful and sometimes traumatic wait for treatment for gallstones. he was put on the list for an operation early last year, but while waiting he became seriously ill and spent months in hospital. he had to learn to walk again and build up his strength. welcome home! and he was discharged from hospital in february. i should have been dealt with far sooner and this wouldn t have happened. being bitter s not going to solve this. solving it would be putting it to an end so going forward, these queues, these waiting lists are reduced. so what are the solutions? major north london hospitals, including this one, are working together to send patients