Philippe lazzarini, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. You run the unwra relief agency. You have 13,000 staff inside gaza. You currently are not able to visit gaza. What is it like when you hear that, as yesterday, wednesday, six members of your staff have been killed in an israeli bomb attack? this is always absolutely devastating. Yesterday i was boarding the plane coming from cairo to london, when i heard the news. And this happened in a school which was also sheltering at that time 12,000 people. And they are in this school because they still believe that the united nations flag can protect them. Yesterday, six staff working in the shelter, providing assistance, organising, in fact, the lives of these families, have been killed. Now 220 staff since the beginning of the war. The worst, stephen, is to know that maybe tomorrow we will even have more staff being killed. And the question is, when will this end? not only staff is being targeted, but we have also the united nations
Really sunny on the channel coast, East Anglia and into lincolnshire. Most of the North Sea Coast as well. The wind will change direction, by saturday they will come in from the south west. Through sunday, the milder air will have established itself across the uk, so temperatures once start to nudge up to about 20 or so. Some of us will pay for it, in the South Westerly is we often get Weather Fronts so there will be a few showers on sunday, not everywhere, and certainly some sunny spells. 18 in belfast once again, 17 in aberdeen. To the east of the pennines, not far off 20 celsius. High pressure expected to build across the uk on monday, which means Light Winds, prolonged spells of sunshine, which are expected to last for the days ahead. Monday, tuesday, wednesday across the bulk of the uk, bright and fairly warm. Goodbye. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. When israel fires missiles on gaza, it describes them as precision strikes aimed at hamas targets. What results is often cat
Mr marmonstein went to call on donors not to give money to unrwa, but to fund other humanitarian organisations in gaza. The war has prompted protests on University Campuses in the United States. In the last few hours there have been arrests at New York University after warnings from police. That follows protests at yale where dozens of students were also apprehended and also arrests that Colombia University in new york which cancelled in person classes on monday to ease tensions after a senior rabbi told jewish students it was not safe for them to be there. The white house issued a statement in light of the protests saying that while every american has the right to peaceful protest calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting jewish students and thejewish students and the Jewish Community students and theJewish Community are blatantly anti semitic, unconscionable and dangerous. They have no place on a College Campus or anywhere in the United States of america. Students on bot
Under the policy, anyone entering the uk illegally, could be sent to rwanda, with no limit on numbers. The government hopes the policy will stop people trying to make the dangerous crossing on small boats. The plan has been strongly criticised by human rights groups, and the Uk Supreme Court ruled the policy was unlawful. Here is mr sunak setting out a timeline for his plan. The first flight will leave in 10 12 weeks. Now, of course that is later than we wanted, but we have always been clear that processing will take time and if labour peers had not spent weeks holding up the bill in the House Of Lords to try to block these flights altogether, we would have begun this process weeks ago. Lets speak to our Political Correspondent in westminster, peter saull. Peter, its been months of this being blocked, how different is this evening going to be . Being blocked, how different is this evening going to be . Someone told me earlier on tonight evening going to be . Someone told me earlier on
Back on the early pledge of flights by The End of the spring, some logistical hurdles to overcome and some legal challenges too. But Rishi Sunak confident that by the time we get into the summer months, there will be flights he says regularly taking off from the uk to the East African country of rwanda. Taking off from the uk to the East African country of rwanda. Peter, i wish ou african country of rwanda. Peter, i wish you and african country of rwanda. Peter, i wish you and your african country of rwanda. Peter, i wish you and your sleeping african country of rwanda. Peter, i wish you and your Sleeping Bag african country of rwanda. Peter, i wish you and your Sleeping Bag the best tonight, hopefully you dont have to use it. A review into the palestinian Refugee Agency Unrwa has found it needs to improve its neutrality, staff vetting, and transparency. The review was ordered after israel alleged that Unrwa Staff had participated in the October 7th attacks, and that many others were m