Aliens have never visited earth. Hello, im samantha simmonds. Youre watching bbc news. We start with the war in gaza. A ship carrying humanitarian aid is expected to set sail to the territory from cyprus this weekend part of a planned maritime aid corridor. Its a joint operation between the eu, us, uk, and united arab emirates, aiming to bring supplies from cyprus to the coast of gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children there are starving to death. Organisers hope the plan could allow additional aid to be brought in, but they continue to press israel to allow more deliveries by road. These are the latest pictures from larnaca in cyprus where, as you can see, aid is being loaded onto a ship, which is due to depart in a couple of hours. The European Unions ambassador to the us told the bbc a little more about the plans for the maritime corridor. Hopefully the pilot, the first try to get aid, already happened over the weekend, but it takes so
Are you an extremist . Next. Are you an extremist . Next. Im Polly Middlehurst and the top story in the gb newsroom tonight i at 9 01, Birmingham City council has approved a wave of budget cuts that have been described as a devastating double whammy of tax cuts and fewer public services. The fewer public services. The labour Led Authority is planning a 21 increase in council tax over two years, and £300 million worth of cuts to public services. Council leader john cotton, unrwa , vividly apologised to the unrwa, vividly apologised to the citys residents , blaming tory citys residents, blaming tory austero , 80, birminghams austero, 80, birminghams conservative leader, said though the cuts will mean streets arent clean and broken, street lights arent repaired and jeremy hunt is expected to ask councils to cut wasteful spending on equality and diversity programmes as he announces britains budget tomorrow. Its being suggested tomorrow. Its being suggested he could announce a £0. 02 in t
Unions are warning therell be thousands of job losses and the leader of the welsh conservatives, andrew davies, told gb news it will be disastrous for the country. Well, lets not forget people need food to survive and live on their everyday so their everyday existence, so were not talking about an industry that isnt industry here that isnt required to feed the nation. Required to feed the nation. We dont have farmers, and if we dont have farmers, we food. By the we dont have food. And by the governments figures, if governments own figures, if this ahead and this scheme goes ahead and changed, 5500 farmers will lose their livelihoods. 125,000 their livelihoods. 125,000 cattle will be lost in wales, 800,000 sheep and £200 million worth of Economic Activity will be lost. So it will be a devastating income impact on rural communities. The length and breadth of wales mps facing threats to their safety will get extra security as part of a new £31 million government package. £31 million go
Evening. Also tonight should Buckingham Palace come clean about the health of king charles and princess catherine to stop rumours and speculation. And as rumours and speculation. And as spice girl geri halliwells husband, finds himself in hot water over alleged messages to a female colleague, is flirting at work, a sackable offence . This is friday night live with me, mark dolan. Bring your own dnnks. Mark dolan. Bring your own drinks. The admission is. Drinks. The admission is. Free. Yes, indeed. On tonights show, yes, indeed. On tonights show, my friday friends , star my friday friends, star historian David Oldroyd b bolt and fearless political commentator peter emma burnell. Commentator peter emma burnell. Yes, indeed. Also tonight weve got former government minister Edwina Currie with her reaction to rishi sunaks speech tonight and tv news legend Nicholas Owen, plus essex expert liz brewer on flirting in the workplace. My friday big opinion is on the way. My first reaction to the e