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of 2020 with cut price meals and has since been blamed for increasing covid deaths. our health correspondent ellie price has the story. katsu curry. it was a don t give up the dayjob moment. his dayjob at the time was chancellor of the exchequer. he didn t give it up, but ended up eventually getting promoted to the topjob. the eat out to help out scheme was his department s brainchild and it s something that keeps coming up at this inquiry. rishi sunak has repeatedly said the government followed the scientific advice, but. i think there were definitely periods when it was clear that the unwelcome advice we were giving was, as expected, not loved. this is exactly encouraging what we ve been trying to suppress and get on top of in the last few months. so it didn t feel sensible to me. it would have been prudent, let s put it that way, for them to have thought about discussing it before it was launched. oh, my golly, that s fantastic! the idea behind it, giving us all up to a te ....
it comes as a senior un aid official warned that half of gaza s population is starving, saying deliveries of food are now almost impossible because of the fierce fighting and aerial bombardment. our middle east correspondent yolande knell has the latest. the misery of life under canvas. fourin the misery of life under canvas. four in five gazans have now fled their home and they are still fighting to survive, with severe shortages of food and drinking water. aid agencies say they are struggling to deliver the basics, even close to the egypt order where supplies come in. supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only - supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only lifeline l at the moment is the only lifeline for people and we are simply not able to get the access that we need to ....
belief in why they are fighting, but in others there is a deep resentment. why can t the un do more to get the kind of world peace that most of us long to see? you ve got a structure here in the united nations that reflects a post second world war order. the new order, the new balances of power, are not reflected in it. and what are meteorites made of? for that matter, what s space made of? when scientists add up all the matter, all the stuff we can see in the galaxy, that matter doesn t create enough gravity to hold that galaxy together, so there has to be something else there. on the battlefields of eastern and southern ukraine at the moment, the temperatures are bitter and the fighting is inevitably limited. but as the russian invasion approaches its second anniversary, things aren t going particularly well for ukraine. there s political infighting in kyiv, with angry arguments about the way forward and criticism of president zelensky s decision making. millions of i ....
humanitarian ceasefire in gaza. every other member of the council backed the resolution, apart from the uk, which abstained. palestine condemned the result as a terrible day for the council, but israel thanked the us, saying a ceasefire would give hamas - which is classed as a terror group by many western governments, including the uk a chance to regroup. our correspondent hugo bachega reports. in gaza, there is no safe place, says the un secretary general. the healthcare says the un secretary general. the healthca re system says the un secretary general. the healthcare system is collapsing, hospitals have come battlegrounds, and palestinians have no shelter or anything else needed to survive, he says. this was the scene in khan younis in the south yesterday, in the aftermath of an israeli abstract, as the military pushes ahead with its against hamas. hours later, the un in new york, the secretary general called for a ceasefire and how did this warning. there is a hig ....
we re up here on the roof of the bbc s headquarters in central london. in our last programme of 2023, not a particularly happy year, we ll be asking, what s morale like in the ukrainian front line as winter closes in? there are some areas where morale is higher, where there have been some gains, and there s a strong belief in why they are fighting, but in others there is a deep resentment. why can t the un do more to get the kind of world peace that most of us long to see? you ve got a structure here in the united nations that reflects a post second world war order. the new order, the new balances of power, are not reflected in it. and what are meteorites made of? for that matter, what s space made of? when scientists add up all the matter, all the stuff we can see in the galaxy, that matter doesn t create enough gravity to hold that galaxy together, so there has to be something else there. on the battlefields of eastern and southern ukraine at the moment, the temperatu ....