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
Long . Now three british men have been killed in israel in an aid convoy that they were told was safe and the question is arising. Is this now a turning point in this war, particularly with regard to western support for israels air defence . Yes, absolutely. And a number yes, absolutely. And a number of prominent politicians, including the leader of the liberal democrats and a former National Security adviser, lord peter ricketts, have both suggested and among other voices, of course, that britain should now pause arms sales to israel off the back of this incident. We want to know whether your view has changed at all due to this horrific tragedy. We, in terms of whether you still support israels right to defend itself, whether you still support israels aims in the region with regard to gaza, do you accept the idfs apology . Theyve come out and theyve said we did. This was a grave mistake, and theyre going to do an investigation. Do you believe that that investigation will give us the a
Spring flood is now observed in that flooded area, the ministry of emergency situations has taken special control of the situation. The active phase is also in the bryansk, tverdsk and orenburg regions. A largescale flood threatens residents of karelia, the vologda and leningrad regions. Difficult situation in the altai region. There, more than fifty settlements have already suffered from the high water, and the village of the rocket has completely turned into an island, cut off from the big world. The entire region is flooded. Almost 500 houses and more than a thousand household plots, temporary Accommodation Centers with several thousand beds have been set up for residents, not only people are being evacuated from flooded houses, pets are also being rescued along with them. Employees of the ministry of emergency situations are now trying to eliminate the consequences of the flood, they are pumping water out of the premises, clearing drainage systems and storm drains, erecting protect
Before we moved to sport, the latest developments. We have had a statement from the un Secretary General, a new statement from Antonio Guterres. He said the humanitarian system in gaza is facing total collapse come up with unimaginable consequences for more than 2 million civilians. These are some of the live pictures from gaza. The skyline, and we have seen in the last a0 minutes or so intense bombardment and strikes continuing in gaza. I will keep these pictures on the screen as i take you through some of the statements from Antonio Guterres because he says, as the bombing intensifies, needs are growing evermore critical and colossal. About 500 trucks a day were crossing into gaza before hostilities began. In recent days, an average of only 12 trucks a day have entered despite the needs being far greater than at any time before. Given the desperate and dramatic situation, he says the un will not be able to continue to deliver inside gaza that without an immediate and fundamental shif
Sciences, vadim gigin, general director of the national library, head of general knowledge, also a candidate of historical sciences, thats right, yes, and vladimir pertsov, minister of information of the republic of belarus, good evening, thank you very much for coming at the very beginning of the program, let me do something nice today, irina borisovnovichs birthday, congratulations, congratulations, all the best, success, as they say, in your work, etc. And personal life, its a pleasure to work with you, a great professional, thank you for coming to the editors club, thank you for spending this day, including with you, yes , we specifically invited you so that you, so to speak, would share your holiday with us, and so, lets begin, lets begin, the news is sad, well in recent years, as a rule, we have been discussing wars, recently ukraine has somehow pushed it aside, although a special military operation there continues in principle, nothing else has changed, although they say. That R