in nigeria to find nearly 300 school children abducted by gunmen. you are with bbc news. i m anna foster. there is a development in the aid effort towards gaza. a ship has been loaded in cyprus and we can show you pictures of that happening which is going to mark the start of a new maritime aid corridor. it was announced yesterday by ursula von der leyen and is expected to become operational in the next few hours. it would be a new way to get large amounts of aid into gaza and is considered absolutely crucial to change the situation for people in the gaza strip, many of whom the un has warned are facing famine, and they say a quarter of the population at the moment in gaza, especially women and children, are finding themselves at risk of famine, starvation, and the hamas run health ministry says 23 people have died from malnutrition in the last few days. they are hoping this shipment can change the dial in terms of the situation in gaza. this is the scene live in larnaca in c
6th, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. we ll have much more on her testimony in just a moment. back here in madrid, multiple developments this morning on the first day of the nato summit. president biden, he s participating in several meetings with nato allies including a highly anticipated sit-down with the turkish president next hour. so far, the alliance has announced a significant strengthening of forces along the eastern flank. formally invited finland and sweden to become members after overcoming turkey s opposition and naming china in the strategic concept, as it s known, their mission statement. confronting russia as the brutal invasion of ukraine drags on. poppy? we ll take you back to jim in madrid in just a moment. let s begin this hour though with more on yesterday s damning january 6th testimony. our capitol hill reporter melanie zanona with me. you have reporting, significant developments. walk us
time for a look at the weather. it isa it is a good old delve into the mixed bag of weather this week. it is certainly cooler for the south east of england for the flower show, but that will be good for keeping the blooms in top shape. however, there is a lot of clout around today and the cloud comes pouring in across the uk bearing rain for some of us. we never really recover those temperatures that we saw at the weekend. one area of low pressure pushing up from the continent and the weather fronts are trying to tuck down from the north west. the picture across the uk is a bit of a messy one. this area of rainjust to uk is a bit of a messy one. this area of rain just to the east of london at the moment pulling away in the hours ahead. it should be out of the hours ahead. it should be out of the way by teatime, roughly in time for the school run, so hopefully drier conditions. heavier showers in the south west and wales and some nudging into the midlands. showers in scotland
broke out in syria and the war has caused untold loss of life. millions and millions of people are being displaced both inside syria and outside of it and it has led to the greatest refugee crisis since world war ii. a truce between the government and rebel groups is nominally in place but it is continually broken. after six years of conflict, the government is now backin of conflict, the government is now back in control of all the major cities in syria and we will focus on a few of them. the bbc has been looking at 2a hours in the life of several people across the country. we will start in hospital. the the syrian army and its allies drove all rebels from aleppo‘s old city last year. that part of the city last year. that part of the city was almost completely evacuated. sinners, some residents have returned and here is one of their stories. just south of aleppo is a place called. the attempts to go on as normal include football games. finally, we will return to the old ci