now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. hello, and welcome to the first unspun world of 202a. quite a momentous year, it seems, with elections for more than half the world s population. thank you forjoining me. our first question of the year is it a good idea for the americans, the british and other countries, though notably not the french, to be lobbing missiles at the houthis in yemen? the houthis don t seem to be deterred by this. and politically it s done the houthis very nicely. has taiwan s election made a chinese invasion more likely? china is going to take its time and prepare itself very, very well before it makes whatever moves it might be planning against taiwan. and the iowa caucus is donald trump now unstoppable? he cleared it with flying colours. over 50% of the vote. i mean, that is a dominating performance that tells - you that donald trump| could win this election. ever since november, from their bases in yemen, the houthi movement, which is backe
warm until paramedics arrived. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. hello and welcome to the first unspun world of 202a. quite a momentous year, it seems, with elections for more than half the world s population. thank you forjoining me. our first question of the year is it a good idea for the americans, the british and other countries, though notably not the french, to be lobbing missiles at the houthis in yemen? the houthis don t seem to be deterred by this. and politically it s done the houthis very nicely. has taiwan s election made a chinese invasion more likely? china is going to take its time and prepare itself very, very well before it makes whatever moves it might be planning against taiwan. and the iowa caucus is donald trump now unstoppable? he cleared it- with flying colours. over 50% of the vote. i mean, that is a dominating. performance that tells you that donald trump could win this election. i ever since november, from their bases in yemen, the
The report ignores the severity of the problem, and offers cosmetic solutions that do not deal with the enormous scope of hamas S Infiltration of unrwa. Meanwhile, israels allegations against unrwa staff have so far led to the suspension of 450 million to the agency. Criitics of that decision say it has further complicated the humanitarian crisis in gaza. The bbc spoke earlier with carl skau, executive we are predicting famine to be around the corner unless things change substantially in the next couple of weeks. We have over the past three weeks been able to get more into the north. We are using a route along the fence, where we have been able to get approximately ten tracks may be every other, every third day come into the north and distribute in a quite orderly and controlled way. We have also been able to open up four bakeries in the north, bringing in some fuel and gas to have the bran and the weight they need to bake but we need to get completely different volumes. We need at lea
The Prime Minister says the first flight carrying Asylum Seekers to rwanda will leave in 10 to 12 weeks time come what may. He says an airfield is on standby and charter planes are booked. Rishi sunak had originally promised the first flight would take off this spring, but his timetable now suggests a delay until the summer. He says peers and mps will have to sit through the night tonight if necessary to pass the governments controversial rwanda legislation. Our political correspondent, helen catt is in westminster. Helen. New statistics out this morning show one of the reasons why rishi sunak might be so keen to get those flights off soon, last Year Parliament passed a law that said that some asylum cases could only be dealt with by being removed from the uk. But they cant go to rwanda because the Supreme Court ruled it was unsafe and there are now nearly 52,000 Asylum Seekers whose claims simply cant be dealt with here. So what the government did to try and get around this last year