of khan younis and there are reports of house to house fighting in the city. the head of the world health organization has said the war in gaza is having a catastrophic impact on health care there. tedros adhanom ghebreyesus warned health workers are having to work in unimaginable conditions in a desperate effort to help civilians. our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, has the latest. an agonising goodbye. at least 14 people were killed in an israeli strike on a school where they d been seeking safety in khan younis in southern gaza. theirfamilies say. crushed by the rubble. mohamed el rani lost his mum, dad and an unborn brother. what we want is to stop the bloodshed. every day we re losing our loved ones, says this bereaved man. those who lived. and even those still in the womb. nearby, the rumble of tank fire amid fierce street fighting continues. further south, the town of rafah is now a sprawling campsite for displaced palestinians. but even here by the egyptian
room, theyjust wanted to stand outside and see him but will probably catch a glimpse of him very shortly. i think this was boris johnson s big moment, as he saw it, to set the record straight. it feels like we have been building up to this moment in the last two weeks. we ve heard from scientists, civil servants, other politicians, political aides. servants, other politicians, politicalaides. it servants, other politicians, political aides. it feels like it was building up to this man, boris johnson, who ultimately made all the big decisions. questions to answer about lockdowns, about how decisions were made, the culture within downing street, i m sure tomorrow we will get to the likes of partygate and some of the things that happened laterally into the pandemic. but i think the striking moment this morning was his apology, it had been trailed in the newspapers over the weekend that he would apologise, seek to set the record straight, he certainly did that, he saw two took pe
of countermeasures. why did you not say those things? say those things? that is not howl would characterise say those things? that is not howl would characterise the say those things? that is not howl would characterise the situation. i would characterise the situation. the first thing is that i am not confident that by this cabinet meeting, i will have known that sage had concluded that containment was lost. and in fact, i don t think that i was told that for a number of days after. as i said, i m not exactly sure when i was told that. but this meeting was the morning after the minutes of sage coming to that conclusion. secondly, at this point in the department and nphet and the health service, we were working extremely hard to prepare for the pandemic. i had commissioned the action plan and work was under way on that and phe. we were attempting and pushing phe to build the testing system and all of the other things we were directly responsible for. as i say, we were
so the testing rules, who got the tests, what the policy was and what order of priority we use tests in was based on clinical advice throughout. ml was based on clinical advice throughout. was based on clinical advice throughout. all right, that is understood throughout. all right, that is understood and throughout. all right, that is understood and nobody - throughout. all right, that is understood and nobody is i throughout. all right, that is - understood and nobody is suggesting otherwise~ understood and nobody is suggesting otherwise~ the understood and nobody is suggesting otherwise. the point understood and nobody is suggesting otherwise. the point i understood and nobody is suggesting otherwise. the point i am understood and nobody is suggesting otherwise. the point i am making - understood and nobody is suggesting otherwise. the point i am making is. otherwise. the point i am making is a different otherwise. the point i am making is a different one,
process that recognition of risk from june 2022, november 2020, when we know the nature of the clinically extremely vulnerable changed to include down s syndrome? extremely vulnerable changed to include down s syndrome? nervtag is a committee include down s syndrome? nervtag is a committee of include down s syndrome? nervtag is a committee of dhsc, include down s syndrome? nervtag is a committee of dhsc, and include down s syndrome? nervtag is a committee of dhsc, and therefore i a committee of dhsc, and therefore its output is fed directly into dhsc. this question is best addressed to someone in dhsc or the cmo, they were not sage questions, they were important clinical questions and important operational matters, but i wouldn t expect them to come to sage, and i do not think putting sage in the middle of any future planner around this would be a sensible action. future planner around this would be a sensible action. mr i a sensible action. thank you. mr jacobs, a