Provisions to feed 11,000 people for one month. Washington is urging israel to do more to provide a sustained humanitarian access, and says it is deeply concerned about reports of imminent famine. Officials who called for the Rafah Crossing to be reopened as soon as possible. Egypt stopped allowing in supplies. The two countries have blamed each other for its continued closure. The us concern over the amount of aid getting into rafah has been echoed by the un. They are aid chief warmed that vernon is now an immediate threat and that un staff were struggling to help people displaced by the Israeli Offensive on the Israeli Offensive on rafah. We dont need to be a scientist to see the consequences of that lack of food. Forfamine there see the consequences of that lack of food. For famine there are a lot of medical care and nutritional care, which is the precursor to simon, kills for a disease, as well as hunger. Kills for a disease, as well as hunaer. , hunger. Our correspondent is in jer
Said the economy is back on its feet and pledged taxes will go down under and pledged taxes will go down under a conservative government. fin a conservative government. On welfare reform, labour has said they are against sanctions. That will mean more people on our welfare roles, not less. But conservatives know that if businesses are going to find the workers they need without depending on unlimited migration, we need to move people off welfare and into work. Mel strides Welfare Reforms will help i Million People do just that at a cost of £2. 5 billion. The obr say the impact will be to reduce the flow of people signed off work and not having to look for work by two thirds. A Quiet Revolution that will make sure those who can work do work and we give help where it is needed. Labour doesnt want to talk about these decisions because they would duck them. But conservatives know it is simply not possible to grow the economy without a plan for where additional workers will come from, and
Courts previous orders. Detailing inter alia. South africa then rushed to submit another request for provisional measures, its forth, for fear that hamass last significant stronghold would fall. Hamas itself has repeatedly rejected every offer for a ceasefire. On the 25th of april 2024, 18 states called upon hamas to release immediately the hostages still being held in gaza. They said, and i quote, we emphasise that the deal on the table to release the hostages would bring an immediate and prolonged ceasefire in gaza that would facilitate a surge of additional necessary humanitarian assistance to be delivered throughout gaza and lead to the credible end of hostilities. Wattle days ago, on the 13th Of May 2020 for the United States National Security adviser noted in the same vein that, and i quote, there could be a ceasefire tomorrow if hamas simply released women, wounded and elderly hostages. Israel put a forward leaning proposal on the table. The world should be calling on hamas to c
Welcome to bbc new, three hours a fast moving news, interviews, and reaction. We start in gaza, where the first shipment of humanitarian aid to be sent into the territory via a floating pier has been brought ashore in the last few hours. The uk, which has helped the us to build and operate the pier, says this shipment is expected to provide enough provisions to feed 11,000 people for a month. The structure opens up a new route to get food, shelter and other supplies to around 2. 2 million palestinians inside gaza, but thereve been warnings that the pier is only temporary, and appeals for israel to do more to secure routes to get aid into gaza via land. Israels bombardment of gaza has continued, this the scene at Nuseirat Camp In Central Gaza after a strike earlier today. Meanwhile at the uns top court the International Court ofjustice in the hague lawyers acting for israel have been responding to south africas call for an end to Israeli Military action in rafah and across gaza. Well be
To capture the city of kharkiv, in the north east of the country. But, in kharkiv region, police are going door to door in the town of vovchansk to evacuate the remaining residents, as Russian Shelling intensifies. These images are from vovchansk. Russia launched a Surprise Offensive there last week, with one analysis suggesting Russian Forces have advanced by about 10 kilometres, creating a new front in the war on ukraine. A sixteen and a half hour Air Raid Alert has now been lifted in kharkiv itself. Our ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse is in kyiv with the latest. This war has now firmly moved from Trench Warfare in this North Eastern part of the front line. I dont think the words of Vladimir Putin, where he said at a Press Conference in china, that there were no plans, for now, to try and capture the city of kharkiv. I dont think that will bring a collective sigh of relief for the thousands of people still living in the city. I think there are two things at play. Firstly, i do