Let me take you first of all to eat new york and show you the live pictures coming into the bbc. We are expecting the next few minutes to hear from the un expecting the next few minutes to hearfrom the un Secretary General. To new york. Also talking about the plight in gaza. You can see all the plight in gaza. You can see all the journalists assembled there. We are expecting to hear Antonio Guterres in the next couple minutes. That room beginning to fill up as all the details on the ground continued to get weaker and weaker on this day five bleaker. The update from the idf, talking about 1200 people being killed and many, many more being injured. They expect those numbers to also be up as they go through different parts of Southern Israel as they get to those places and actually find what has happened on the ground. Just as soon as Antonio Guterresjust happened on the ground. Just as soon as Antonio Guterres just to speak, we will obviously return there to new york. We will also regula
Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to verified live. We start with flooding described as the worst in nearly 100 years in russia and kazakstan. Thousands have been forced from their homes cities under threat, evacuations ongoing. The flooding in the urals and Western Siberia has been caused by unseasonably warm temperatures, which has melted snow. In the russian city of 0renburg home to half a Million People the authorities said water levels had reached dangerous levels. Thousands of people have left the city. 0renburg is downstream from the city of 0rsk, which was inundated when a dam burst last week. Live now to moscow and our Russia Editor steve rosenberg. Steve, editor steve rosenberg. Give me a sense of the sc of steve, give me a sense of the scale of this . ,. , , of this . The first thing to say is that spring of this . The first thing to say is that Spring Flooding of this . The first thing to say is that Spring Flooding is of this . The first thing to say is that Spring Flo
others, like china s unfair trade policies and preventing access to advanced us technology. and on the chinese side, president xi reportedly called us support for any taiwanese independence effort a red line and accused the us of trying to suppress china s development of advanced technology. over four days of meetings, treasury secretary janet yellen is expected to meet with some china s top political and economic officials, as well as american business leaders and chinese professors and students. she is expected to warn china against flooding the market with cheap clean energy exports, things like electric vehicles and lithium ion batteries. the white house is trying to bolster that industry domestically by offering its own tax breaks and subsidies. let s get you up to speed quickly with an earthquake this morning in taiwan, because the well s largest contract chip maker has told the bbc it has evacuated some of its facilities there. the company says it is estimating th
there aimed at agreeing a new truce with hamas designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government had reached a dead end . israel s military has intensified its bombardment of gaza since a temporary ceasefire expired yesterday, with air strikes in north western gaza, and khan younis in the south where hundreds of thousands of people fled earlier in the war to escape fighting. according to the hamas run health ministry, 193 people have been killed and 650 injured since the resumption of fighting. a convoy of humanitarian aid has crossed into gaza for the first time since thursday. humanitarian groups are warning of catastrophic consequences for civilians. the international federation of the red cross says aid workers won t be able to reach people in need if the air strikes continue. read on) our first report this hour is from lucy williamson. khan yunis, gaza s southern capital, once labelled safe. america says this new phase of israel s war in gaza must look diff
hello, welcome to the programme. we are going to talk about israel in a moment but i want to bring you some breaking news in the last ten minutes or so. some breaking news in the last ten minutes or 50- some breaking news in the last ten minutes or so. one person has died and another minutes or so. one person has died and another attacked minutes or so. one person has died and another attacked in minutes or so. one person has died and another attacked in central - and another attacked in central paris. one person died, one is injured, according to the interior ministry in france. he posted, the ministerfor the interior, posted on social media to say that one person had died after that attack. the police have courageously arrested an assailant, attacking a passer by in paris and want deceased person and one injured person is being treated by the fire brigade there. and it ends by warning people to avoid the area. so that is an attack in paris, one person has died and an