is facing mounting pressure from within his own cabinet, from the israeli public, and from the relatives of the hostages, who over the weekend stormed a parliamentary session injerusalem to demand more action to secure the release of their loved ones. live now to doha nawaf al thani is qatar s former director of defence intelligence operations and defence attache to the united states. hejoins me now. thank you for being here with us. what are you hearing about the framework of some sort of new deal? thank you for having me. i think first there are two parts of this. the first is the qatari statements in the past days and weeks that they have continued their efforts to restart negotiations and have not stopped their efforts. but the second part of this is also, at least from the qatari perspective, they ve played very close to the vest when it comes to negotiations, it s very sensitive and they don t talk a lot about it before it happens, but all reports indicates we are hea
putting out a statement that is that information from the israelis alleging that it had several staff involved in the october the 7th attacks and the us state department issued another statement talking about what unwra were saying and i2 about what unwra were saying and 12 staff and extremely troubled by the aggravation of further funding to unwra in a significant move and what unwra in a significant move and what unwra have said and they have sacked his 12 workers and full investigations and or people accountable with criminal prosecutions and his allegation standup and putting out such a strong statement and turning the contracts and the fact that the us sorting funding is suggestive of substance to the claim albeit investigation still going on. but unwra is a organisation of 30,000 people and an absolutely critical role in providing health and and welfare services to palestinian refugees pointing gaza but in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem and further out gettin
there is the wreck of the mary rose. it has come to the surface. and it s exactly a0 years since henry 8th s flagship the mary rose was raised from the bottom of the solent, after 437 years under the sea. the bank of england has been forced to intervene once again in the markets warning of a material risk to financial stability. the emergency move this morning will see the bank buy a wider range of government debt, in order to restore conditions in the markets. it follows on from yesterday s announcement of further meaures aimed at ensuring an orderly end to its emergency bond buying scheme. today the institute for fiscal studies think tank warnted the chancellor will need to make big and painful spending cuts to put the country s finances on a sustainable path. it suggests the chancellor could increase working age benefits in line with average earnings, limit public investment to 2% of national income and cut the budgets of every government department except he