environmental regulations. welcome to the world today an hour of international news from the bbc. we start with a momentous diplomatic breakthrough on the conflict in gaza, after more than five months of war. for the first time, the united nations security council has called for an immediate ceasefire there between israel and hamas, and demanded the release of all the hostages. several previous attempts at a un ceasefire resolution had failed. the united states israel s closest and most important ally had vetoed three earlier resolutions this time the us shifted its position and simply abstained. that was enough to allow the resolution to go through, with m votes in favour let s take a look now at that ina in a moment we ll be talking to hugo bachega and john sud worth. but first, let s take a look at that historic moment at the un. the result of the voting is as follows. 14 votes in favour. zero votes against. one abstention. the draught resolution has been adopted
being banned in america. shou zi chew released a video on tiktok threatening legal action and warning that if the bill becomes law it will mean the end of tiktok for its 170 million users in the us. here s some of that video. hi, everyone, it s shou here. just wanted to share some thoughts with our us users on the disappointing vote in the house of representatives. there has been a lot of misinformation and i hope to clarify some things. first, thank you to all of our incredible community, you are what makes tiktok so special. thank you for making your voices heard. over the last few years, we have invested to keep your data safe and our platform free from outside manipulation. we have committed that we will continue to do so. this legislation, if signed into law, will lead to a ban on tiktok in the united states. even the bill sponsers admit that is their goal. this bill gives more power to a handful of other social media companies. it will also take billions of dollars out
in on that breeze. not a bad day, actually, for many of us. some sunshine looks like it could break through. and, again, we re in that milder air with temperatures up to around about 1a to 16 for most of us. this is bbc news, the headlines: redefining extremism at the uk government names groups that are a cause for concern and could face restrictions. us senate majority leader chuck schumer says benjamin netanyahu is a major obstacle to peace as israel vows to push ahead with its rafah offensive. elon musk s spacex mission is hailed a success even though the starship rocket is lost on re entry to earth. tiktok warrants a us ban could cost us businesses billions of dollars and thousands ofjobs. and for the first time in its history, glastonbury will have to female headline acts. find out which artists get the prestigious sports. just before we go to business, some breaking news to bring you involving a plane which was carrying the defence minister grant shapps on his way bac
it s ahead of a planned ground offensive in the southern city of rafah, where about 1.5 million people are sheltering. it is being reported this morning, not a huge amount of detail what those humanitarian islands would look like. it is right at the very southern end of the gaza strip, where more than half of the population is now sheltering and is a place where israel has said it needs to carry out a military ground offensive because it says in order to achieve its aim of fully removing hamas run gaza, the only way to do thatis hamas run gaza, the only way to do that is target hamas s remaining leadership when they are believed to be in and among civilians sheltering in rafa. of course this remains an operation which has questions attached, certainly the word ireland is interesting because a central part of the gaza strip has been left severely damaged by months of israeli ground and air attacks. people who live there have left their homes, been going back to those areas but
the european union s foreign policy chief, josep borrell, accused israel of using starvation as a weapon of war, a claim israel rejects. here s what us secretary of state antony blinken said a short time ago. according to the most respected measure of these things, 100% of the population in gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. that s the first time an entire population has been so classified. we also see again, according to, in this case, the united nations, 100% the totality of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance. our state department correspondent tom bateman is in the philippines travelling with mr blinken, he filed this update a little earlier. after this visit mr blinken will head after this visit mr blinken will head to after this visit mr blinken will head to the middle east. on to cairo to media head to the middle east. on to cairo to media gypsy leadership. the point of this to media gypsy leadership. the point of this is to