conscription to deter vladimir putin. time for a look at the business news now with egon cossou. we start in the uk where the government has unveiled how much companies will have to pay to import certain food from the eu. small imports of things like fish, salami and cheese will attract fees of up to £145 from the end of this month. earlier i spoke to phil pluck. he s the boss of the cold chain federation which represents companies working in the temperature controlled supply chain. i asked him about the impact on food prices. i think it s almost guaranteed to have a negative impact on food prices. food inflation is bound to be affected by the extra cost of administration due to the new food import regulations which are coming in on the 30th of april. so there are two obvious costs. the first cost is actually to the importer, the food producer in europe, they will have to pay for something called an export health certificate issued by a vet to say that their food produce
of aiding and assisting an international wrongful act. the prime minister rishi sunak is already facing growing cross party pressure, after seven aid workers were killed in an air strike. our diplomatic coreespondent james landale has the story. the air strikes that killed international aid workers in gaza have prompted global condemnation, and now they re shaping political choices. more than 600 lawyers have written to the government, urging it to suspend arms sales to israel, because they believe there is a risk it s breaking international law. they said, serious action is needed to avoid uk complicity in grave breaches of international law, including potential violation of the genocide convention. to continue the sale of weapons and weapon system to israel falls significantly short of your government s obligations under international law. the whole framework of international law, governing war, it dictates that the fact that you have been provoked and attacked, howev
targeting his staff. israel s economy minister nir barkat says it s nonsense to suggest that the idf deliberately targeted aid workers, describing the incident as a tragic mistake. lucy williamson reports from jerusalem. israel s army said it had misidentified them. today, colleagues wrote their names on the body bags that carried them out of gaza. john chapman. james henderson. and james kirby. three british men, among seven aid workers killed in israeli air strikes this week. their bodies driven through the rafah crossing into egypt to be flown home to the uk. today, the head of their organisation spoke for the first time about what happened. they attacked the first car. they were able to move in the second one. again, this one was hit. they were able to move in the third one. in the process, we know they were trying to call. but in the chaos of the moment, whatever happened, they. to try to be telling idf that why are they doing, that they were targeting us, and then they
nato leaders descend on brussels for a key summit, with support for ukraine a central topic of conversation british foreign secretary lord david cameron has called on members to ensure they spend at least 2% of their gross domestic product. and we will be live in the capital of haiti with a state of emergency set to lapse today, there are concerns an already dangerous situation could spiral out of control again. we start in the middle east and israel is under growing international pressure after the deaths of seven aid workers, three of them british, killed in an israeli air strike on gaza. president biden has said he s outraged and heartbroken by what happened. the british foreign secretary lord cameron called it a dreadful event, and he paid tribute to those killed, saying they were brave, humanitarian workers . their charity, world central kitchen, released these pictures of the aid workers, who died when their convoy was hit on monday. the seven staff were from
three of the dead are british nationals, including james kirby, from bristol who was a7, and whose family today told the bbc that all seven were heroes. the head of the isreali military says it was a grave mistake due to misidentification, and an investigation is now under way. we ll analyse what happened in the air strike and get the latest on the ground in gaza, but first, dan johnson has been speaking to the family ofjames kirby. humanitarian aid relies on people like this, the three british men killed providing security advice in gaza. he has died a hero. you know, they all have. james kirby s relatives share the grief that s reached bristol and six other aid worker families around the world. for him to lose his life in that situation, it s just heartbreaking that, you know, he s lost his life doing that. but he knew the dangers. he was selfless in that regard and he just wanted to help people. their cars were hit by israel s military as they returned to their base af