negotiations are continuing at the united nations in new york to agree a new resolution on gaza. a vote had been expected in the last hour, but its been postponed as diplomats try to agree a form of words that the united states may sign on to. on a visit to israel, the u 5 defence secretary lloyd austin has reaffirmed support for its ally, but demanded the country do more to protect civilians. from jerusalem, lucy williamson reports. they say there s nowhere safe in gaza. the children s unit at nasser hospital hit by a shell yesterday. doctors and parents who once raced to get wounded children in here now scrambling to get them out. the epicentre of the dust and panic, a children s bedroom on the second floor. translation: we were seated - on the bed when something exploded and all the ceiling fell on us. i couldn t do anything. debris fell on us and we couldn t see anything. ijust grabbed my daughter and escaped. i don t know what happened to the others. this was 13 year old
Wednesday 25th january. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. President trump has promised a significant day ahead on National Security, including an announcement about his plans for a wall on the Mexican Border. He tweeted big day planned on National Security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall building a 2,000 mile wall along the Mexican Border was one of trumps key election promises. Hes said the wall would cost 8 billion and will be up to a0 feet high. The new president is also expected to approve Immigration Restrictions on seven mostly muslim countries in the middle east and africa iraq, iran, libya, somalia, sudan, syria, and yemen. And trump wants to make all us cities co operate to deport Illegal Immigrants a move aimed at so called Sanctuary Cities like san francisco, where local police do not help with most deportations. Our washington correspondent david willis has more. Were going to have our borders nice and strong. Were going to build a wall. Were going to
Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak will be Britain's next prime minister after his rivals quit the race, which analysts said had relieved some of the nervousness around the outlook for the UK economy, boosting domestic markets.
Mapping signals, jamming it, drones that can carry big payloads and vehicles that can be used for evacuating civilians from trouble spots. the liberal democrats say the prime minister has been quite cynical because that military aid could have been announced last week when parliament was sitting and not a couple of days before elections in the uk. a senior uk source from the government said that that accusation was cynical because the ukrainians chose when the speech would be done and the kit is advanced on a weekly basis. the us supreme court could be about to overturn the nationwide legal right to abortion, according to a leaked document. protests are being held in washington, after the us website, politico, says it s seen details of a report which states it will strike down the landmark roe versus wade ruling which legalised terminations across america.
In hong kong, it is 38 storeys high. many were having lunch when the fire broke out and were told, instead of going down, to go up to the roof and wait it out essentially until the fire was put out so they could be rescued and evacuated from the building. data released by the office for national statistics this morning shows the cost of living has risen at its fastest rate for ten years with inflation standing at 5.1% in the year to november. the rate of inflation, as measured by the consumer prices index, was substantially higher than analysts had been expecting, up from 4.2% the previous month. the rise was partly driven by sharp increases in the cost of petrol and clothing. earlier i spoke to liz martins who s a senior uk economist at hsbc, and i asked her to explain the reasons for this rise in inflation.