Issues with the proposal. A phone call between President Joe Biden and israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, is said to have focused on the negotiations. Americas top diplomat Antony Blinken has arrived in Saudia Arabia at the start of a new trip to the middle east. Hes also expected to visitjordan and israel. Israels military says Aid Deliveries into gaza will increase in the coming days, as the un warns that palestinians are facing catastrophic hunger. The Israel Defense force chief spokesperson Daniel Hagari says aid going into gaza has increased in recent weeks. Lets listen to what he said. Over the last few weeks, the amount of humanitarian aid going into gaza has significantly increased. In the coming days, the amount of aid going into gaza will continue to scale up even more. Food, water, medicalsupplies, Shelter Equipment and other aid. More of it is going into gaza than ever before. Live tojerusalem and our middle east correspondent yolande knell. It is good to have you,
Patrick harvie and lorna slater were given Government Minister Rolls and they were summarily sacked last week in the early hours of the morning. And then turfed out onto the street to face the media, something that made them extremely angry with humza yousaf. The party had been planning to have a meeting at which their own members would have potentially brought that agreement to an end but obviously it would have been on their own time so some felt on the was under pressure to push them out before he jumped was under pressure to push them out before hejumped but the manner in which he did so, he perhaps underestimated the strength of their fury and im not sure if he did the sums and he left himself in the position of requiring the support of ash regan from the albot party which is led by alex salmond, she is the only msp and she defected from the msp ansell humza yousaf was left needing her boat and i believe he would have got her vote but within his own party it was unacceptable to be