and effective action to ensure basic food supplies reached the palestinian population. i spoke to our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, about the latest developments. well, we are hearing from the syrians very clearly that they blame israel for the strikes. but when i spoke to the israeli military a short time ago, asked them for any comments, they said that they don t comment on reports in the foreign media. that can be quite a stock reaction when it comes to cases in syria of this kind. so it s areas in the countryside around aleppo that were hit, we understand. the uk based syrian observatory for human rights, is saying that these were near to rocket depots belonging to hezbollah, the powerful lebanese armed group that does have sites inside syria. and we are hearing from the syrian observatory for human rights and from other sources that there were hezbollah members among those killed. the syrian state media had initially come out saying that it was syrian militar
being sent to the gaza strip and has denied that it places any limits on the amount getting in. on thursday the un s top court ordered israel to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies reached the palestinian population. i spoke to our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, about the latest developments. well, we re hearing from the syrians very clearly that they blame israel for the strikes. but when i spoke to the israeli military a short time ago, asked them for any comment, they said that they don t comment on reports in the foreign media. that can be quite a stock reaction when it comes to cases in syria of this kind. so, it s areas in the countryside around aleppo that were hit, we understand. the uk based syrian observatory for human rights is saying that these were near to rocket depots belonging to hezbollah, the powerful lebanese armed group that does have sites inside syria. and we re hearing from the syrian observatory for human ri
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hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live. investigators in the us have recovered the data recorder from the ship that crashed into the baltimore bridge, causing it to collapse. these are the live pictures from the scene it s foggy , but you can see part of the collapsed bridge. the cargo ship is under there with the tangled remain of the bridge over its bow. it s hoped the data recorder will throw light, onto why the container vessel lost power and crashed soon after leaving port. six missing construction workers, who were on the bridge at the time, are now presumed dead. the disaster has forced the indefinite closure of baltimore port one of the busiest on america s, eastern seaboard. our correspondent tom bateman is in baltimore. i have been talking to him about what has happened on the ground and the focus of the salvage operation. more detail has been emerging over night about those men who were on the bridge when it fell. the workers, eight of
interviews and reaction. we start this hour in the us city of baltimore where crews have now found the data recorder of the ship which crashed into a major bridge yesterday causing it to collapse. officials are looking into whether dirty fuel may have caused the vessel to lose power. six missing construction workers who were on the francis scott key bridge at the time are now presumed dead and rescue efforts have turned into a recovery operation. these are live pictures from the scene where it is 10am local time. as well as the recovery operation, the other focus is the investigation into what went wrong. the vessel, the dali, is registered in singapore and the port authority there says it passed two inspections last year. the container vessel lost power after departing from baltimore s port, causing it to crash into the bridge. we arejust we are just hearing that one of those missing, presumed dead construction workers is a honduran citizen. it is thought that the six men