On bbc london. Reaction as a Muslim Student on newsnight at 10 30pm. It seems the Prime Minister will get his smoking and vape ban, but only because the opposition rode to the rescue. What does it tell us that a senior cabinet minister, five other ministers and two tory former Prime Ministers refused to support rishi sunak . The vote in the commons was overwelming and never destined to be a close run thing, with labour backing the governments plans to ban anyone born after 2009 from buying cigarettes. 57 conservative mps did vote against the bill, including the business secretary kemi badenoch, arguing it was an attack on personal freedoms. But the Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said, theres no liberty in addiction. In a moment, hugh pym will look at the implications of any new law for the nhs, but first, chris mason is at westminster. Good evening. This is a place normally associated with tribal and noisy Party Politics but there was less of that today because there was widespread a
three of the dead are british nationals, including james kirby, from bristol who was a7, and whose family today told the bbc that all seven were heroes. the head of the isreali military says it was a grave mistake due to misidentification, and an investigation is now under way. we ll analyse what happened in the air strike and get the latest on the ground in gaza, but first, dan johnson has been speaking to the family ofjames kirby. humanitarian aid relies on people like this, the three british men killed providing security advice in gaza. he has died a hero. you know, they all have. james kirby s relatives share the grief that s reached bristol and six other aid worker families around the world. for him to lose his life in that situation, it s just heartbreaking that, you know, he s lost his life doing that. but he knew the dangers. he was selfless in that regard and he just wanted to help people. their cars were hit by israel s military as they returned to their base af
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