benjamin netanyahu, has agreed to send officials to egypt and qatar in the coming days for a new round of talks on a possible ceasefire in gaza. injerusalem, there is an uneasy calm, as palestinians mark easter and ramadan. our international editor jeremy bowen reports. injerusalem, where tension and worse are normal, there is always the consolation of religion. this ramadan, many of those ending a day of prayer at the aqsa mosque were palestinian israelis, around a fifth of israel s population. israel, citing security, restricts access to jerusalem for palestinians from the occupied west bank. just down the road, palestinian christians were deep in their celebration of easter, walking to the old city from the garden of gethsemane, where they believejesus prayed on the night before he was crucified. but in this city, sacred for christians, jews and muslims, religion and politics always mix. all the palestinian people are suffering today. they are suffering from occupation
heathrow saw the highest number of cancellations, followed by gatwick and manchester. there were also reports of thousands of passengers stranded in airports overseas. tenerife airport set up camp beds to assist stranded passengers. in the last hour, the air traffic control service nats says their systems are operating as normal after the technical fault was fixed and they re working to clear the backlog of flights. they added that an investigation has started to understand the root cause of what happened. this report from our transport correspondent, katy austin. the august bank holiday descended into flight chaos, with hundreds cancelled yesterday and more today. we are still at rome airport trying to get home, we have been here since 11.30 yesterday morning. it s now been more than 2a hours. we boarded ourflight last night and then were told to get off the flight because the aircrew have been flying for too long. our flight has been scheduled for this afternoon but there a
the united states feel threatened as they were our allies and we view the export of chips in to the development of an advanced chip industry in china as threatening. so the export controls too. at the same time, the administration has been sending signals to american business about the consequences of investing in china. this notion of them going over there and saying that we want to continue the relationship is very conflicting and ambiguous. to give you an idea, since before donald trump became an president, china s share of us import is down by 25%. in the first six months of this year, us imports from china are down dramatically from last year. china is becoming less of a trading partner for the united states and is becoming less of a trading partnerfor the united states and it is notjust chips. partner for the united states and it is notjust chips. is notjust chips. less of a trading artner is notjust chips. less of a trading partner but is notjust chips. less of a tr
we will shortly show you first hand testimonies, but before that, top united nations officials met today, saying the war has plunged the country into one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history . edem wosornu, director of operations and advocacy at the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, told the un security council of the severity of the situation in sudan. sue dan is on sue dan is on course sue dan is on course to become one of the worlds worst hunger crisis. already 80 million people and one third of the country are facing food insecurity. by the time the season arrives in may, people could face what we term ipc phase five level acute food insecurity. we call this stage a catastrophe. since april last year, sudan has been torn apart by fighting between these two men. one is the head of the country s military, general abdel fattah al bur han and the other is his former ally, general mohammed hamdan dagalo, who leads a paramilitary group
the rsf has repeatedly denied any involvement in the violence in the region and has called for an independent international investigation. the united nations says that with 8.1 million people forcibly displaced, and tens of thousands killed, there are warnings of growing hunger. the un security council has called for a ceasefire in sudan but an agreement is unlikely. bbc arabic s feras kilani has been given rare access with the sudanese army, and managed to make it to the front line of the fighting close to the capital khartoum and sent us this special report. the front line of a war the world has forgotten. sudanese army troops, celebrating success as they push towards the capital. a fragile victory over their rivals, the rapid support forces. this market used to be the life of the city. now look at it. normal life here, destroyed. we heard stories of rape, looting and indiscriminate violence at the hands of the rsf. this war is taking everything from people. millions across