business reporter david waddell. let s have a look at the geography of the situation. right here is the bab al mandab strait. it s right next to yemen, from where those houthi attacks originated. it s at the southern end of the red sea. at the northern end is the suez canal. now, ships cannot pass through the suez canal from the south without first passing through this choke point. a couple of days ago, the maersk shipping container company and hapag lloyd both announced they wouldn t be making that transit. they ve since been joined by other shipping companies. now, if you re a ship master trying to get your vessel from the indian ocean to the atlantic ocean and you cannot or will not traverse through suez, you need to pass by the cape of good hope. that adds an extra 3,000 nautical miles to thejourney. and there are other issues for ships trying to traverse from the atlantic to the pacific ocean through here. the panama canal is accepting many fewer ships right now because
shipping companies may ask and halfback lloyd, another big shipping container company, have both announced they would stop sending shipping through the strait. i ll show you where thatis the strait. i ll show you where that is so it s here, at the south side of the red sea, and at the north side of the rest see, we have the suez canal. that s red sea. these are two of the world s biggest choke if anything, it halts shipping. making its way through to india or europe, or the unit states, it has to come here, they re here, through the straits of gibraltar before going further west or north from there. the alternative is to go south through the cape of good hope, adding 9 11; days potentially on the journey time. the suez canal authority has given a statement, saying, they are quite keen that business continues to flow through their. they have said that on sunday, 77 ships made their way through the suez canal, which i think is fairly normal. they said in recent weeks, since 1
which insists it s only targeting what it calls terrorist infrastructure, and is taking care to avoid civilians. joining us now is rushdi abu alouf, our gaza correspondant who is now in istanbul. we arejust we are just getting a line we arejust getting a line in we are just getting a line in from the reuters agency saying four palestinians have been killed in the refugee camp south of the west bank city of tubas, according to the palestinian health ministry. just talk us through what has happened, particularly in gaza jabalia. many still remain in a refu~ee jabalia. many still remain in a refugee camp. jabalia. many still remain in a refugee camp, there - jabalia. many still remain in a refugee camp, there were - jabalia. many still remain in a i refugee camp, there were about jabalia. many still remain in a - refugee camp, there were about four israeli missiles from the air that struck three buildings in a location in jabalia refugee struck three buildings in a location in
fredricka reynolds used to do all the flowers for the weddings, but in an instant, that key part of her business was snatched away. they rang me on the thursday before the asylum seekers came on the monday, and cancelled all my weddings for the foreseeable. that s a huge amount of work and income to me. and she told me it s notjust the loss of thousands of pounds. me and my boys used to go swimming every saturday there. i ve got two little ones and every time we drive past there, they want to go swimming and, unfortunately, that s closed now. because of the small boats crossing the channel, the number of asylum seekers in hotels has gone from 3,000 to 51,000 in just three years. it s the government policy that almost no one is in favour of not even the government and it s costing the taxpayer £6 million a day. daniel sandford, bbc news, kegworth. more than 100 metropolitan police officers, who are being investigated for domestic abuse or sexual misconduct, are being allo