killed by israeli strikes since the start of the war. all major un agencies are now calling for a humanitarian ceasefire. jeremy bowen sent this report from southern israel near the border with gaza. israel promised mighty vengeance. it thundered across beach camp in gaza city. israel s justification is defending the living, as well as avenging its dead. palestinians call this genocide. this girl from jabalia camp is asked what happened to her. she says, a missile came down on us. bricks fell on us. i asked, where s my dad and where s my mum? she is asked, where were you? i was here, in the house. we were at home, and the roof came down on us. we looked in on the war this afternoon from sderot, the closest israeli border town. israel has refused an american request to pause military operations to allow time for humanitarian convoys, or talks to free the hostages. israel might be able to break hamas as a military force, but what happens then? history shows israel s ar
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. poland s incumbent prime minister gets first chance to form a government, after his party won elections, but failed to get a parliamentary majority. the president of poland and rey duda has asked the incumbent prime minister matteush mora vietskee to form a new cabinet. mr mora, vietskee party won the most seats at the election failed to secure the majority. within the next two weeks he will face a vote of confidence a vote he is bound to lose. the coalition of opposition partie waiting in the wings is led by the former president of the european council donald tusk. he is said to have already agreed on key government appointments. no opposition party has indicated it wants to support mr mora vietskee in his last ditch attempt at retaining power. here s president duda on what happens next. translation: if the representative of law and justice fails to form - a government, then in the next step, it will be
king s speech is aimed at people who should be solly tories, they are trying to bring back the base, get themselves back up to 30, 32% regularly and hope that as the economy improves that brings back some of the switchers, the challenge, though, is that some of the language and the home secretary s remarks are part of it. some of the net zero stuff that might win back conservatives might further push away some of the moderate swing voters and make it harder for people saying they are voting for keir starmer. iis harder for people saying they are voting for keir starmer. voting for keir starmer. is there eo ard voting for keir starmer. is there jeepardy in voting for keir starmer. is there jeopardy in anything voting for keir starmer. is there jeopardy in anything tomorrow l voting for keir starmer. is there i jeopardy in anything tomorrow for the labour party? nick was talking about the bear traps that are being set by the conservatives. yes. about the bear traps that a
And fancy working in an enormous Train Station . I dont know if youve noticed, but there seems to have been a lot of election talk of late. This week, click is taking a trip to paris where, this weekend, the french take to the polls in the first round of their president ial election. And curiously, from a Technology Point of view, the way we vote seems, if anything, to be going backwards. In the last election, france did allow online voting for those living overseas. But not this time. For both the president ial elections and the legislative elections injune, it is back to pen and paper. And that is due to the fear of cyber attacks, which the French National Cyber Security agency says are an extremely high risk. Queues of people, paper voting surely there has to be a better way. Well, we asked bbc newsbeats Political Editor Jonathan Blake to have a look. Ancient institutions and modern technology the two do not always go together. As elections are held worldwide throughout 2017 that co
To drop an investigation into links between his Election Campaign team and russia. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week, preparing for the worst in vr. A bunch of new apples. And the bouncy, strokey, stretchy, bendy, slimy world of Soft Robotics. It is hard to believe that the world is safer than it used to be. It is, but the nature of the Terror Attacks in the west in the last few years the increasing use of vehicles, knives and guns to carry out prolonged attacks, have forced the authorities to think differently about how to deal with a terrorist incident. And of course, theyre not confined to the west. In some parts of the world, these atrocities are more common and often have more casualties. Its difficult to predict when and where a Terrorist Attack will occur. But while the authorities cant predict, they can prepare for the worst. This is a large scale counterterrorism training exercise. It was a combined effort, including londons metropolitan police, fire and ambulance