Of the president ial palace in the capital, port au prince. There are reports that armed gangs have once again invaded now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. Hello and welcome. In todays unspun world from the bbc s headquarters here in central london, ill be asking bbc correspondents around the world to give us their insights into whats really going on. Whats daily life like in gaza and the west bank at present . Going to the bread queues, to the soup queues where children are struggling to get to the front of the queue before the food runs out. Peace in gaza and in ukraine. What might it look like . How might it happen . It can be because they think that, actually, if they carry on fighting, they might get on the losing side, and they want to make the leap before the situation turns against them. And the closest china gets to a parliament is gathering in beijing. Will it actually decide anything . I think a lot of analysts in particular like to read kind of Smoke Signals and
Aliens have never visited earth. Hello, im samantha simmonds. Youre watching bbc news. We start with the war in gaza. A ship carrying humanitarian aid is expected to set sail to the territory from cyprus this weekend part of a planned maritime aid corridor. Its a joint operation between the eu, us, uk, and united arab emirates, aiming to bring supplies from cyprus to the coast of gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children there are starving to death. Organisers hope the plan could allow additional aid to be brought in, but they continue to press israel to allow more deliveries by road. These are the latest pictures from larnaca in cyprus where, as you can see, aid is being loaded onto a ship, which is due to depart in a couple of hours. The European Unions ambassador to the us told the bbc a little more about the plans for the maritime corridor. Hopefully the pilot, the first try to get aid, already happened over the weekend, but it takes so
this is bbc news, the headlines. the un says once facilities sheltering thousands of people in gaza has been hit leaving nine people dead. a russian military plane crashes, with no survivors. moscow says ukrainian prisoners of war were on board and accuses kyiv of shooting it down. in the us, donald trump defeats nikki haley in the republican primary in new hampshire but she s vowing to stay in the race. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s hugh. alexander zverev has done something he s never done before, beaten a player ranked in the top five at a grand slam. but he broke that duck with a victory over carlos alcaraz that took the german sixth seed into the australian open semi final. zverev lost only two points on his own serve in racing to a first set lead and had a break in the third to beat alcaraz in three, but the spaniard fought back taking the thidr back taking the third on a tie break. but after exchanging breaks of serve early in the fou
it s wednesday, 28th april. the risk of pupils in england suffering serious injury or dying because of a collapsing school building, is both critical and highly likely, according to a new report. the national audit office also found that around 700,000 children are attending schools that need major rebuilding work, and it s taking a toll on their education. the government says it has been significantly investing in transforming schools. hazel shearing reports. that one is still on the list to do. every year at kingsley stjohn s primary school in cheshire, head teacher racheljones to do list gets longer. here you can see they are going to need replacing because there is a significant amount of moisture loss and heating loss. this victorian building has an ageing heating system and thick stone walls, posing a real challenges. in the autumn term what we had in here was condensation, because we were trying to delay putting the heating on, the condensation turned so bad we actual