hello. hello welcome to bbc news. the us national security advisor, jake sullivan, will visit the occupied west bank city of ramallah later on friday, for talks with palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas to discuss issues, including stability in the west bank and the future governance of the gaza strip. it comes after he met the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and other officials in tel aviv on thursday, during which he called for restraint on the war in gaza. the united states has called on israel to scale down its war on hamas in the near future , with president biden urging more to be done to protect civilian lives in gaza. gaza s health ministry says that more than 18,500 people have been killed since the war began. internet and phone networks across gaza had gone down again overnight, according to the region s main telecomms company. and in the last few minutes the israeli military have said its specialforces have recovered the body of a hostage held
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but what we do want to do is to push for and to advocate for these young people being looked after better. there are currently around 8,000 young people on that waiting list, some waiting years without any help at all. the health secretary, steve barclay, says he is clear that the new services providing that help must fully reflect the recommendations from the cass review and these, he says, differ significantly to the services provided at the tavistock. for the families waiting, the sooner they can access that care, the better. hannah barnes. in a statement, nhs england told us it was developing a new training framework for clinicians providing care in children s gender services and would not adopt old training materials previously used by gids. it added that all aspects of the new services would be guided by the ongoing cass review. tomorrow s front pages. the daily mail, fears of chaos of doctors and nurses strike together. the rcn told us they would consider coordinated
good evening, welcome to the programme, we have got a packed two hours for you this evening. including a special investigation tonight into the execution of an unarmed ukrainian soldier. we will tell you who he was and who was involved. and we will get the thoughts of a formerjudge who sat on the panel of the international criminal court. big developments in scotland today, where police have arrested peter murrell, nicola sturgeon s husband, in connection to the snps fundraising and finances. but we will start with the split screen events we have watching through the day, president zelensy in warsaw, emmanuel macron in beijing. it s his first visit to china in four years. and from a chinese perspective, emmanuel macron is probably the most important politician in europe. it is the french president in particular, who has continued to engage with putin to find a diplomatic solution to this war in ukraine. and they see him as the man who can push the european union towards a mor
and he can make the company profitable once again but that it hasn t been easy. it s been really quite a stressful situation over the last several months. not an easy one. but apart from the pain, i mean, so it s been quite painful. we are expecting president biden to arrive here as you ll see university soon and to address students inside. we have spoken to them already today. a huge sense of anticipation inside the university, it is not often that you have a president in town and is the world spotlight on your country. a lot of expectation around what he will say, the words he will use today. we know he will talk about the good friday agreement, 25 years since that was signed, but there will be lots of people looking at the language that he uses, because, of course, there is no power sharing at stormont here in northern ireland. that is something that, we understand he is hoping to address when he meets political leaders here today. the rain and wind has gone, it has been a