levels of security for people like me who report outside downing street to go there. over the years, there has been a significant ramping up of security, and at least after an attack a few years ago at the front gates of parliamentjust down the road from me at whitehall about 50 metres from where we are just now, that attack on someone drove there and made it into the front garden, new palace yard of the palace of westminster, so it s definitely right to say that over the last few years, there has been a significant ramping up of the security presence around parliament, which would mean that the police had thought about the possibility of a situation like this with a car driving towards downing street, as we have seen in those images that we brought you a few minutes ago. nevertheless, i can t remember seeing one get through that first security level before and into those front gates of downing street. downing street. nick, stay there, but for peeple downing street. nick,
another day of strikes more than 1,000 ambulance staff in wales walk out in a dispute over pay and conditions. meanwhile in england, nurses continue their strike action for a second day in a row. new zealand s prime minister jacinda ardern makes a surprise announcement saying she ll stand down in less than three weeks time. a day of national strikes begins in france over plans to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64. king charles asks for millions of pounds in profits from the crown estate to be used for the wider public good rather than for the royal family. the government has released details of projects which will benefit from its levelling up fund, which is intended to spread economic growth more widely across the uk. in all, £2.1 billion will be spent on regeneration projects. they span more than a hundred areas across the country. some of the biggest winners include a new eden project at morecambe bay which gets £50 million. there s 50 million pounds for
accountable for the deaths of russian soldiers in a ukrainian attack. thousands queue to pay their respects to brazilian football legend pele, as he lies in state at his former club, santos. and coming up. we ve been talking to a guide dogs charity that s recruiting for more volunteers to tackle a shortage of trainers. we are at the moment looking very heavily to recruit lots of volunteers, and we ve been very lucky lot of people have been so generous with their time, and we are in recovery mode and hopefulfor generous with their time, and we are in recovery mode and hopeful for the future but do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer. as thousands of people prepare to return to work following the christmas and new year break, the rmt union at network rail is staging a 48 hour walk out. this is the latest rail strike in a long running dispute over pay. the walk outs by the rmt on third and fourth january and sixth and seventh january will affect services across
his tax policies and linking it to the nhs. so he is beginning to unpack more of his thoughts. this trust is doing the same, she is out and about in kent later. liz truss. so real battleground is being set out there. of course it is a crucial weekend because a ballot papers gripe this week and because of that people can start voting this week so she do not cram your messages in now, people may have voted and you have six weeks of campaigning by you could just be shouting into the wind. there will be a lot of people watching this morning who can t vote but they will in two years time. that was quite a big speech for him to make he knew all eyes were going to make he knew all eyes were going to be on him. how do you think you did? because i felt he seemed a lot more relaxed off script then on. yeah, it was clearly rehearsed speech. he had key messages to get across and he put them across. but then questions from journalists, questions from party members, some misstatements f
It was unbelievable the casualties that we saw. Israel is at war. We didnt want this war. It was forced upon us. But though israel did not start this war, israel will finish it. That is the path to hell if we are in that zero sum place. Im, like, really in fear. Ijust have the thought of me dying in a bomb in gaza. How do you protect these civilians and also allow israel to respond. The way it wants to respond . This situation didnt come out of nowhere, though. Do i think the west could have done more . Yes. I think arab countries could have done more as well. Why is this happening now and what does it mean for the future of the entire middle east . This is one of the most complex and long running conflicts in human history. So how did we end up here . Hamas is an arabic acronym, its short for harakat al muqawamah al islamiyyah, meaning the Islamic Resistance movement. They are a Palestinian Islamist group dedicated to the destruction of israel. Elected to power in 2006 and fully takin