Hello. This is bbc news. We start with the latest on the israel gaza war. In the past hours, weve heard that the heads of the us and Israeli Security agencies have met to discuss the hostage situation. The Israeli Prime Ministers Office said the cia and mossad bosses met on friday in efforts to advance another hostage deal. In cypius, final preparations are being made for the first aid vessel to use the sea corridor to gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children are starving to death. This is the scene live in larnaca in cyprus where 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies have been loaded onto a barge. It will be towed by a Spanish Charity ship to gaza. The sea corridor is a joint operation between the eu, us, uk and united arab emirates, aiming to take supplies from cyprus to the gazan coast. This video shot today along the Israeli Border into gaza shows more aid being dropped. The parachutes carrying the boxes of supplies to the people of
no problems for women s number one iga swiatek too. and we saw venus williams on centre court today but her championship s over in the women s singles. chetan pathak s there for us. good to see you as always. venus williams looked like she was hampered to begin with today. yeah and frustrated hampered to begin with today. yeah and frustrated venus hampered to begin with today. 121i and frustrated venus williams. i m going to do a massive name drop right at the start, coming out of the lift in the media centre and be bumped into venus williams, who has just come out of a press, understandably disappointed with what happened on centre court, because she slipped, a nasty fall at the nets, and she already had strapping on her left leg and looks to have done more damage to that. she started well against ukrainian at that point, but then a big battle for venus williams to be competitive there after 43 years, a five time wimbledon champion, giving it everything. but it wasn t
moment but now we can head to the sport. hello from the bbc sport centre. there s a big game at the bottom of the premier league this evening as leicester city travel to elland road to take on leeds united. javi gracia s side have lost their last three games and conceded 13 goals in the process sliding down the table and now sitting just a point above tonight s opponents. leicester picked up their first win under new manager dean smith at the weekend. he is hoping thatjamie vardy, harvey barnes and james maddison will be available. they have had a struggle so far, a bit like us, they have been on the back of a couple of heavy defeats at home. but i m sure they will see this game as a big one to try and pull away from the position they are in, like ourselves. all of the remaining games are important and you never know where you will be able to get points. but of course playing at home is the next game and we have to be focused on this game, knowing we are playing against leice
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