in the red sea. he will also know that yemen is one of the poorest countries of the world, suffered a massive humanitarian crisis with over 21 million people in need of support. can i ask the prime minister what will he do to ensure that they are not engulfed all over again particularly the civilians of yemen in hamas humanitarian catastrophe? yemen in hamas humanitarian catastmphe? catastrophe? can i thank my honourable catastrophe? can i thank my honourable friend catastrophe? can i thank my honourable friend are - catastrophe? can i thank my i honourable friend are amazing catastrophe? can i thank my - honourable friend are amazing and incredibly important point and reassure her and the house, and she will know this from my own that we are steadfast in our support of the yemeni people as one of the largest donors of life saving aid to the un appeal and we ve also committed £88 million in this forthcoming year, over the last several years we ve committed £1 billion a
hello, i m ben thompson, welcome to the programme. we begin with a developing story hamas says its deputy head saleh al arouri has been killed in a blast in beirut, in lebanon. local media have described the explosion as an israeli drone attack on the hamas office in the south of the city. reports say five other people were killed in the blast. video footage shows a car in flames and damage to buildings in a busy residential area known as a hezbollah stronghold. the israeli military has told the bbc it will not comment the israeli military said whoever did this it was a surgical strike against hamas leadership. we did reach out to them after local media as you mentioned, attributed this blast to an israeli drone attack, we reached out to the idf who came back to the bbc and said they would not comment on reports from foreign media. we did get confirmation that saleh al?arouri, the deputy head, or deputy chairman of hamas political bureau has been killed in this blast, and
The explosion at the hospital in gaza was carried out by palestinian militants, not israel. The blast is reported to have killed and wounded hundreds of people, many of them women and children. Israel has blamed the incident on a misfiring palestinian rocket, saying the physical evidence at the scene backs up the claim. Arab countries Havejoined Hamas in blaming israel for the explosion. The Gazan Health Ministry says a71 people were killed in the incident. Mr biden told the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that the us would continue to work with israel and partners across the region to prevent more tragedy to innocent civilians. The incident has led to shock waves in the region and the cancellation of a planned summit between mr biden and arab leaders. These are the scenes in the lebanese capital, beirut, where crowds gathered outside the us embassy. Over the next hour, we will look at what we know and what we dont know about the explosion at the hospital, and speak to our
secretary general used a rarely invoked article of the un charity, article 99, to bring to the attention the security counsel, threats to international peace and security, and he urged the consulate to call for a cease fire because he said there was a risk of the total collapse of the humanitarian system. that he anticipated a complete breakdown of public order. he laid out in stark terms the desperate situation in gaza. that there was no protection of civilians there, that they were running out of food, risk and starvation, the health system was collapsing, most of the population were displaced, and more than 17,000 palestinians have been killed. so, here we saw the majority of the council supporting that call by the secretary general, but despite that the united states again cutting an extremely noni figure in the consulate, raised its hand to block the draught resolution to veto it. and the united states said they did not support a cease fire because they thought this reso
general used a rarely invoked article of the un charter. article 99 to bring to the attention of the security council threats to international peace and security. he urged the council to call for a ceasefire because he said there was a risk of the total collapse of the humanitarian system and anticipated a complete breakdown of public order. he laid out in stark terms the desperate situation in gaza, that there was no protection of civilians there, running out of food, risk and starvation, that the health system was collapsing, most of the population displaced and more than 17,000 palestinians have been killed. here we saw the majority of the council supporting that cold by the secretary general but despite that, the united states again cutting an extremely lonely figure in the council, raised its hand to block this draft resolution to veto it. united states said they did not support a ceasefire because thought this resolution was unbalanced and divorced from reality, conclud