how is the strike affecting you? are you working from home? did you have a trickyjourney to work? do you support the strikes? we d like to hear your thoughts. get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc and use the hashtag #bbcyourquestions. in other news, a senior ukrainian official says russian forces have almost captured the strategic city of severodonetsk, with ukrainian forces holding on to just one factory. a russian nobel peace laureate auctions his medal for £81; million to raise funds for children displaced by the war in ukraine. and to mark his 40th birthday, new photos are released of prince william selling the big issue we look back at his four decades in the spotlight. good morning. the biggest rail strike in 30 years is under way, with an almost total shutdown of the network in england, scotland and wales. members of the rail, maritime and transport workers union are staging the first of this week s three 24 hour walk outs due to an ongoing dispute over pay, p
workers and the railway industry are outrageous. london euston station is eerily quiet this morning. some passengers are hoping to make a journey but there is widespread disruption across the rail network. how is the strike affecting you? are you working from home or did you have a trickyjounrey to work? do you support the strikes or not? we d like to hear your thoughts. get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc and use the #bbcyourquestions. in other news a senior ukrainian official says russian forces have almost captured the strategic city of severodonetsk with ukrainian forces holding on to just one factory. a russian nobel peace laureate auctions his medalfor £81i million, to raise funds for children displaced by the war in ukraine. a former senior united nations official calls for an independent panel to investigate allegations of sexual abuse and corruption in the organisation. he attacks me in the elevator, he comes at me all of a sudden. i pleaded with him to sto
with conservative members. the two of them have faced off tonight in wales. and a hosepipe ban for gardeners in parts of southern england. but how are the farmers coping with the lack of rain? we ll be live in essex to find out. tonight with the context, the former adviser to hillary clinton, amanda renteria, and former senior adviser to george w bush, ron christie. hello, a warm welcome to the programme. she was there less than 2a hours, but the fallout from nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan looks like it might endure for some time. china is about to begin three days of live fire military exercises barely 12 nautical miles off shore, which taiwan says amounts to an air and sea blockade. such was the military response to the speaker s visit yesterday, the flight that transferred her from malaysia to taiwan was forced to take a three hour detour around the phillippines. and it remains tense. at one point today, taiwan scrambled its own fighterjets to ward off those from china tha
Beat. The reidout with joy reid starts now. Tonight on the reidout this is embarrassing for the Republican Party. Its embarrassing for the nation, and we need to look at one another and solve the problem. Kevin mccarthy imparting his limited wisdom to the caucus he briefly led as speaker. And with the world in crisis, republicans at this hour are beginning a game of speaker survivor. Were Behind Closed Doors a new batch of speaker wanna bes will be voted off the island one at a time. But we begin tonight with major developments in the middle east. More hostages released as the Israeli Ground assault on gaza looms. The two hostages identified as nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz have been released by hamas. They released a video on their Legram Channel showing the two hostages apparently filmed bere and during their release. Heres a still from that video showing lifshitz, who is 85yes. Here they are, too, in a video shot by the Egyptian State tv network, showing them inside ambulances
This is cnn breaking news. Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and All Around The World as we continue our breaking News Coverage of israel at war. Im rosemary church. Well, the death toll from the hamas attacks has jumped to more than 1200 as israel steps up its punishing retaliation in gaza. The Palestinian Health ministry now says at least 950 people have been killed by israeli air strikes with more than 5,000 injured. Weve seen huge explosions within the past few hours. Its not clear what the target was in this instance, but in other areas, the idf says it has destroyed hamas systems that detect aircraft, as well as an underground tunnel, and a weapons storage facility. Israels military also says it hit naval targets, including docks used by hamas to launch attacks on the israeli coastline. The hamascontrolled government in gaza is warning that electricity will stop within hours, limiting the ability to provide the most basic services. Meanwhile, i