hello, i m ben thompson, welcome to the daily global, we start this hour in israel where pressure is mounting on the government to pause its offensive in gaza. the country s most important ally, the united states, has put forward a draught un resolution which calls for a temporary ceasefire. here in uk, prince william released a statement calling for an end to the fighting. in the last few hours, foreign secretary lord cameron said he was deeply concerned about a potential israeli offensive on the city of rafah in southern gaza. in a letter to the foreign affairs committee, he says any attack would have a devastating humanitarian impact . meanwhile, the world health organization says it has evacuated more than 30 patients, including children, from gaza s nasser hospital. the hospital, in the southern city of khan younis stopped functioning last week after an israeli raid. the idf has described its operation as precise and limited accusing hamas of cynically using hospit
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. police say a body has been found in the river thames by officers searching for the chemical attack suspect abdul shokoor ezedi. authorities had been looking for him for almost three weeks after a woman and two children were attacked in south london. the 35 year old was last seen on 31 january on cctv leaning over the railings of london s chelsea bridge. our home editor mark easton reports. with the tide low close to london s tower bridge at around four yesterday afternoon, the crew of a passenger boat saw what looked like a body in the water. scotland yard s marine policing unit attended and recovered a corpse which detectives working on the clapham chemical attack inquiry quickly concluded was their key suspect, abdul shakoor ezedi. because of the amount of time that the body has been in the water, it has not been obvious to do an easy visual identification, or indeed to get immediate fingerprints. however, with the very dis
it s james in the studio in westminster. and it s chris in westminster too. so, the reason you were speaking to the labour leader, sir keir starmer, chris, was because he has made a big u turn today. yes. so this is on what he calls his green prosperity plan. this is the idea of throwing quite a lot of public money into kind of turbo charging what he thinks are the kind of industries of the future that might have a kind of green tinge to them. but they re also about, he hopes, providing the well paid jobs of the future, the industries of the future. two and a half years ago, he said labour would spend in government £28 billion a year on that. that was diluted in the summer of last year to £28 billion a year by the second half of a first labour term. so that would be sort of mid 2027, if they were to win the election and only if they thought it was affordable relative to their economic rules. last few weeks, quite frankly, they ve been in a complete mess about it and not rea
good to have you here. let s start with is this good to have you here. let s start with is this the good to have you here. let s start with is this the end good to have you here. let s start with is this the end of the good to have you here. let s start with is this the end of the story, is he dead? with is this the end of the story, is he dead? , , is he dead? yes, abdul ezedi, the man who smuggled is he dead? yes, abdul ezedi, the man who smuggled himself- is he dead? yes, abdul ezedi, the man who smuggled himself into l is he dead? yes, abdul ezedi, the l man who smuggled himself into the is he dead? yes, abdul ezedi, the - man who smuggled himself into the uk years ago and then collected to criminal conviction for sexual offences along the way is dead. of that there is absolutely no doubt. the thing that allows me to say that with some authority is the value of non cctv sightings. what i mean by thatis, non cctv sightings. what i mean by that is, we ve grown so used