Proposal is that hamas would agree to the release of 33 hostages from the socalled humanitarian category. So that is women, it is children, it is the elderly, people with serious medical conditions. And in return, israel would agree to a 40day ceasefire and the release of potentially thousands of Palestinian Prisoners. We should stress at this point all we have is this statement from the political wing of hamas. We do not have the detail of what exactly it is that they have agreed to, and there has been pretty frenetic diplomacy over the weekend involving cia director bill burns who started in egypt, flying to qatar, coming here to israel. It is possible that the framework of that deal has changed over the weekend. It is also worth saying that these deals are often structured in terms of first an agreement on a broad framework and then hammering out of the details. As you know, chris, the devil is often in the detail, but there is positive indication for the First Time Since that last
My leadership, the United Kingdom will always stand up for our interests, deter our enemies and defend our values. Now, as my enormous pleasure to introduce general stoltenberg, the nato secretary general. Jens, thank you for joining us today. Jens, thank you for joining us today. Over to you. Today. Over to you. Thanks so much, Prime Minister rishi, it is great to be here in poland together with you today. The United Kingdom is highly valued and staunch and essential nato ally, contributing greatly to our shared security in so many different ways. As you lead nato different ways. As you lead nato forces in estonia, british jets help guard the skies over our eastern flank. The royal navy helps keep critical sea lanes open. Helps keep critical sea lanes open. The United Kingdom is also open. The United Kingdom is also at the centre of the exercise. Steadfast defender currently underway and involving more than 16,000 British Military personnel. And we are today here personnel. And we are
Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. We are going to have a look at how Police Forces are handling pro palestine protests both in the uk and the us. Columbia university announced classes would be held online after last weeks protests. Rishi sunak says Londons Metropolitan Police will need to rebuild trust with Thejewish Community after complaints about the way the force handled an incident at a pro palestinian rally. There have been calls for the Police Commissar sir mark rowley to resign after the head of the campaign against Anti Semitism gideon falter was accused of causing a breach of peace, and threatened with arrest, by walking through a protest while being, quotes, openlyjewish. Heres the Prime Minister giving his thoughts on the met police and its boss. What happened was clearly wrong and its right that theyve apologised for that. And yes, i do have confidence in him, but thats on the basis that he works to rebuild the confidence and trust of notj
Thank you very much. Multiple potentially marketmoving plates are spinning in the air as we kick can off the final hour of trade. Weve got stocks in the red on this day after the Federal Reserve left current Interest Rates on pause but hinted one more rate hike is coming by year end. Weve got the dow down 232 points, s p losing 55. And youre looking at a live picture of the south lawn of the white house where any moment President Biden will greet ukrainian leader zelenskyy, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, before their bilateral meeting this afternoon. It comes after House Republicans again torpedoed their own procedural vote this morning that would have allowed debate on a defense spending bill. General dynamics actually hit a 1year low earlier today. Youve got that in the red, lockheed martin, rtx which used to be raytheon. The funding deadline is just 8 days away, and clashes over military aid for ukraine are part of the holdup. But Charlie Gasparino learned last night wall street is ready to s
In italy and irregular crossings of the Central Mediterranean sea have been increasing since 2020. But its true that over the last 12 months the situation has worsened from this perspective and also it has changed in terms of the composition of the flow. Now we have more people from Sub Saharan African countries trying to reach in. To reach italy and they are departing from tunisia. Paradoxically, tunisian citizens are not the first group represented in the flow towards italy any more, as it has been between 2018 and 20. And last year actually. And probably one of the main causes, the internal situation in tunisia, where policies introduced by the government, the discriminating sub saharan migrants presence or transiting through to the country have been pushing many, many, many people out of the country and towards the italian shores. Europe has tried and failed for many years. Excuse me. To find a collective response to this. Ive sat in on so many summits in brussels when these things