World central kitchen released these pictures of the seven aid workers killed when a Convoy Carrying Staff from the charity was hit on monday. Three british men john chapman, James Henderson and james kirby were among them. They were working as security advisers. Israel said the strike was unintended and promised to investigate. The family Ofjames Kirby one of the three british nationals killed in the strike have released a statement. They said they were heartbroken and that. Weve also heard from the family ofjohn chapman. They said. The bbc has been hearing from james kirbys cousin adam mcguire. He was completely selfless, which explains why he went to gaza. His experiences in the british army when he served in bosnia and afghanistan, he served in bosnia and afghanistan, he knew the dangers, he was no fool. And people were telling him, this could be very dangerous for you. But he knew the dangers. He was selfless in that regard and he jUst Wanted To Help people. In that regard and he
Who died in the attack on a World Central Kitchen convoy. Prime minister rishi sunak paid trbute tojohn chapman, James Henderson and james kirby, describing the deaths as an awful, awful tragedy. The group had been travelling in a clearly marked aid convoy at the time. President biden has said he was outraged and heartbroken, and accused israel of not doing enough to protect aid workers. Israel has said the strike was a grave mistake in complex circumstances. Live tojerusalem, and our correspondent hugo bachega. Hugo, correspondent hugo bachega. Huge pressure now hugo, correspondent hugo bachega. Huge pressure now netanyahu hugo, huge pressure now on Benjamin Netanyahu to answer questions about exactly how this happened and how to explain more clearly what sort of investigation will actually be carried out. Investigation will actually be carried out. ,. , carried out. Exactly, so the Israeli Milita is carried out. Exactly, so the Israeli Military is saying carried out. Exactly, so the
War, because, erm, the democracies seem to be able to get together to form a meaningful deterrence, so whenever there is invasion contemplated. So if we deal with the matter very carefully, theres still a great possibility for us to maintain peace as we all need. Cheering. Tsais predecessor, president ma ying jeou, had tried to negotiate with china, even holding a meeting with president xi jinping in singapore. Tsais strategy has been completely different. Instead of trying to conciliate china, shes built up taiwans own defences. Nearly doubling spending, buying new fighterjets and developing taiwans first indigenous submarines. Today, the lion dance is to celebrate the opening of a new Special Forces Training Base on the outskirts of taipei. Another tangible example of where this new Military Spending is going. So i guess for president tsai, this is a sort of demonstration of what shes been trying to achieve in Defence Policy over the last eight years, because, you know, part of her b
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Its a relief for Prime Minister rishi sunak who hopes that, barring any last minute legal objections, flights to rwanda could begin within ten to 12 weeks. Official figures show the backlog of people waiting to be removed from the uk rose from nearly 1800 in july last year. To more than 50,000 a week ago. Well be live in downing street, calais and at the uk Port Of Dover in the next few minutes but first, lets speak to our africa correspondent Barbara Plett usher, whos in the rwandan capital kigali. Barbara . We have actuallyjust barbara . We have actually ust received a fi barbara . We have actually ust received a statement barbara . We have actually ust received a statement from h barbara . We have actuallyjust received a statement from the | received a statement from the government here in response to the uk finally passing the bill. The government spokesman said we are pleased the bill has been passed by parliament, however it does not alter what we have known to be true, that we