this is bbc news. the headlines. a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in bangladesh. the blaze in cox s bazar district has been brought under control. more than 2,000 shelters had been gutted, affecting around 12,000 people. no casualties have been reported so far. after more than a decade of negotiations, un member states have agreed to establish an international treaty to protect the high seas. environmental groups say it will help reverse marine biodiversity losses. military spending in china will increase by more than 7% this year. at the opening of congress, the premier, li keqiang, called for more soldiers to be trained under combat conditions. and prince harry describes writing his memoir as an act of service in the hope that sharing details will help others. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for witness history: lgbt special. hello. i m ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness
shelters are overcrowded and water cannot be pumped orfiltered because of his role s block on fuel and bottled water is now unaffordable for most families. rishi sunak will continue his tour of the middle east today amid growing fears in the region that the conflict in gaza could spread. chiara bleeders gallery in egypt ahead of the summit this weekend to discuss the crisis. in saudi arabia last night the prime minister met the crown prince. number 10 said the pair agreed that the loss of innocent lives in israel and gaza over the last few weeks has been horrific. he said he will encourage saudi arabia to use its influence in the middle east. as you have been hearing withjo votes continue to be counted in the mid bedfordshire and tamworth by elections. we could have declarations in the next hour. turnout in tamworth was 35.9% cent that is low even for a by election. the vote followed the resignation of the former conservative deputy whip chris pincher in september. our team
enforcement agencies all over fulton county to then make sure that these grand jurors are safe. so i think one consideration the court also needs to make in allowing this is the safety of these grand jurors and their concerns that have already been voiced. but i ll just say the georgia supreme court observed the grand jury as a public institution serving the community might suffer if those testifying today knew that the secrecy of their testimony would be lifted tomorrow. the indispensable secrecy must not be broken except where there s a compelling necessity. there s been no compelling necessity raised by this defense to pierce this veil of secrecy of the grand jury. what was the cite for that, the last one? sorry, judge. where is that coming from? kessler, judge. can you spell that one for me? you have that case, judge. in my stack. can we just pause one moment? sure. and then the state talked about this, but i wanted to point out, talking about deliberati
live tv, we saw the turning over of that. it was right in the middle of other business. that is not the way we see it. what about the tone of it? it is civil, but that is a little bit different from the two sides and the judge. well, that is a little bit of the you want a speedy trial, and welcome to the speedy trial, and terabytes worth of discovery you can go through prior to the october 3rd start date. but i see that just what we have seen of the judge before in this case taking a methodical approach piece by piece and playing it down the middle. it is not a lot of, you know, bombasts or a lot of the loud voices. it is a, this is how it should be run, and hopefully how it is going to be playing out for the rest of the trial. one interesting nuance that i picked up on is when the defense attorneys for chesebro and powell were talking to the grand jurors, they said, look, we are not the kind of grand jurors are going to dox them. and they are aware of it. yes, be
continue to work with our israeli counterparts to be as deliberate as we possibly can as they now go on renewed offensive operations. finally if i could, switch into mexico, the u.s. department of treasury today section 17 targets. that is 15 individuals and two companies that are linked through the boat around a labor organization and were known as bilo to the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world and heavily involved in the transportation and distribution of deadly illicit drugs including fentanyl to here in the united states. it has also been ordered to largest suppliers of cocaine to the u.s. market of the last two decades, could lead to department unsealed indictments against 60 defendants on various international drug trafficking offenses, related through the import of illicit drugs like meth, cocaine, marijuana, and of course fentanyl. actions are part of a whole of government effort correlated with the government of mexico to help counter the globa