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the un s special adviser on the prevention of genocide told the bbc that the rapid support forces were targeting communities based on their ethnicity. tens of thousands of people have protested outside taiwan s parliament over plans to give the assembly new powers. opposition legislators want greater oversight of the government but the demonstrators believe the changes have not been properly debated. the american film maker morgan spurlock has died of complications from cancer, at the age of 53. he was best known for his documentary super size me where he lived on a diet of mcdonald s food for an entire month to test the health impact on his body. we start with the latest on the israel gaza war the un s highest court has ruled that israel must immediately halt its military offensive in rafah. south africa had asked the international court ofjustice to issue the order as an emergency measure. it argued israel s actions in rafah amount to a genocidal operation and ....
and how can our politicians play their part? with us now to talk about what might come next is immigration minister robert jenrick. after labour s big by election wins, lisa nandy could soon be representing you all over the world the shadow international development minister joins me from salford. as the un calls conditions inside gaza catastrophic, we ll speak to dr hanan ashrawi a woman who has spent decades at the heart of palestinian politics. and we ll speak to israel s former prime minister naftali bennett. good morning. you might have seen that we were going to speak to israeli president isaac herzog. he has had to postpone, but we hope he ll be with us on a future programme. in the meantime, welcome to my panel. jasmine el gamal, a middle east expert who advised the obama administration, also best selling historian and tv presenter simon sebag montefiore, and lucy fisher, the financial times whitehall editor and host of its political fix podcast. let s have ....
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. ou ....
of former culture secretary nadine dorries. here our political helen kat. these by elections were billed as nail biters. close, tense. in the end, they delivered two significant victories to labour. first in tamworth the 57th safest conservative seat in the country before last night. edwards, sarah siena, labour party 11,719 votes. cheering. the new mp was elated. they are seeing the conservatives do not have anything to offer. the defeated conservative candidate chose not to stick around. in a statement the tories described it as a difficult result on a much reduced turnout . but it was about to get even more difficult for them. over in mid bedfordshire, when the ballot boxes started arriving, it had still been too close to call, in a rare three way fight between the conservatives, labour and the lib dems. the liberal democrats doubled their share of the vote, but once again it was labour who emerged victorious. i therefore duly declare alistair luke strathern ele ....
we ll look at what we ve learned so far. we start in the uk where prime minister rishi sunak has acknowledged a disappointing series of local election results after the conservatives suffered big defeats across england. votes are still being counted in the local elections. the results are seen as the last major test of public opinion, before a general election later this year. there s little good news for prime minister rishi sunak. at a by election in blackpool south, his party suffered its third largest swing to the opposition labour party since the second world war. at a local council level the results are no better. the conservatives have lost half of the seats announced so far. experts say, they could be on track to lose a staggering 500 councillors a staggering 500 councillors, one of the worst performances at the polls in four decades. here s our political editor, chris mason. cheering. northallerton in north yorkshire this afternoon. the prime minister lives a few ....