Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. As he marks a year since the october seventh attacks, uk prime Minister Sir Keir starmer urges all sides to step back from the brink. Lam iamjust i am just watching some pictures of Tel Aviv at the moment. This is the Night Shot across a city where the Air Raid sirens have been activated in the last few minutes. As far as we can ascertain, there doesnt appear to be much activity around the city, the idea for that activity is they were watching project i coming into space above Tel Aviv from the direction of lebanon, so things tense in the Capital Tonight at a time where people are on the streets marking one year since the october seven attacks. We will continue to watch that and bring you an update as and when things clear. This is the longest war between the israelis and arabs since the end of the conflict that set the boundaries of the israeli state in 1949. But what about the Arab States, Saudi Arabia and the uae, t
A government commissioned report. The un says almost 3000 civilians remain trapped in the iraqi city of mosul, despite claims of victory over good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at six. An appalling tragedy that should never have happened thats what the Prime Minister called the contaminated Blood Scandal of the 19705 and 805. The government today announced an inquiry into the worst Treatment Scandal in the history of the nhs. At least 2,400 people died and 7,500 patients were infected with viruses such as hepatitis c and hiv, after being given Blood Products by the nhs. Our Health Editor huw pym reports. Its been called the worst disaster in the history of the nhs. Patients trusted the service to deliver safe treatments, including haemophiliacs needing blood clotting treatments, but they were given products tainted with life threatening viruses. These are medications for hiv. I take one of those in the morning and one of these, both morning and night time. Andy has had a life o
for households with the cost of living, and of course high petrol prices are part of that cost of living. so the government is already doing things on that. it could of course always do more, but it s got limited funds available, and fundamentally when global oil and gas prices rise, we are all poor and all worse off. the government can t completely shield everyone from the full consequences of that. qt full consequences of that. of course, and people will understand that, but so many people are calling forjust that, but so many people are calling for just a cut to the taxes that, but so many people are calling forjust a cut to the taxes on fuel, or something called the fuel price stabiliser which is basically when prices go up, the government agrees to reduce taxes, than vice versa. do you think they should do that, or are there unintended consequences of even doing that? even doing that? well, i think if ou could even doing that? well, i think if you could do even doing that? well
summed up the situation very i comments? yeah, i think she has i summed up the situation very well. it s absolutely vital that in a police organisation, there is a culture of not tolerating behaviour of this kind. i m absolutely sure that the vast majority of police officers will be appalled by the behaviour of these two officers. but what the case gives rise to, and a number of other cases give rise to, is a that misogynistic comments are concerned that misogynistic comments and disrespectful behaviour may maybe not being reported enough and not being called out, they may be being tolerated and may be what we need is to make sure that police officers are holding each other to the absolute highest standards and that s precisely what she was calling for just there. that s precisely what she was calling forjust there. tithe that s precisely what she was calling forjust there. calling for ust there. one thing that calling forjust there. one thing that sometimes calling forjust there