Hello. This is bbc news. We start with the latest on the israel gaza war. In the past hours, weve heard that the heads of the us and Israeli Security agencies have met to discuss the hostage situation. The Israeli Prime Ministers Office said the cia and mossad bosses met on friday in efforts to advance another hostage deal. In cypius, final preparations are being made for the first aid vessel to use the sea corridor to gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children are starving to death. This is the scene live in larnaca in cyprus where 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies have been loaded onto a barge. It will be towed by a Spanish Charity ship to gaza. The sea corridor is a joint operation between the eu, us, uk and united arab emirates, aiming to take supplies from cyprus to the gazan coast. This video shot today along the Israeli Border into gaza shows more aid being dropped. The parachutes carrying the boxes of supplies to the people of
big ben strikes midnight. it s europe s biggest fireworks display and as the countdown began, more than 100,000 people watched along the river thames as the london skyline lit up and the sounds of big ben chimed. you can actually smell the gunpowder the air, you can smell it. it is fireworks night here. big ben, the chimes have rung and we are now officially in 202a. the best show on earth. amazing, indescribable, no words. so worth it, i am loving it so much. this is my first time for london, coming here and seeing this. i i love it, it is so good. this year s theme is unity, a message played from the king. 0ur society is woven from diverse threads. and the london mayor, who thanked those working in the nhs, the police and the fire service. he said the event took months to organise. we have planned this sincejuly. there is a team of 75 who have been working over the last four days. one of our strengths as a city and country is our diversity. we will be celebrating our dive
team to get the job done? now, if the answer to those questions is no, and i imagine it is for most of you, then neither man is really capable of serving as a u.s. senator or the u.s. president. at least not without a lot of people making decisions for him and, of course, this is exactly what s happening in both cases. now here we are, four months later, sadly vindicated, wondering how two women closest to sick men in declining health can even live with themselves. both jill biden and gisele fetterman know better than anyone how unfit to serve their hubs are. as bad as both men have looked and sounded at various times to the rest of us, imagine how bad they are behind closed doors. but, of course, these women lie to themselves and then they lie to us. how will this episode affect the campaign and his upcoming schedule? and as soon as he s back he ll be back on the trail. i don t think it s going to affect it. the president s campaign this week released an ad just real
it s thursday, the 6th of october. our main story. hundreds of thousands of nurses across the uk are being asked if they re willing to walk out over pay. the royal college of nursing is balloting its members for strike action for the first time in the union s 106 year history. the rcn wants a payrise of 5% above inflation, but no uk nation has offered close to that. our correspondent, caroline davies, has more. through the darkest days of the pandemic, the uk s nurses were some of the nation s heroes. now, they re being balloted to strike over pay. my love for it was to make a difference in people s lives. and that s why i am here. but then, sometimes when i look at it, it s like, is it really worth it? victoria is a mental health nurse in an nhs trust. after she came back from maternity leave, she went part time and receives universal credit because she says her pay wouldn t cover the cost of childcare if she worked full time. even now, she struggles. sometimes you end up ha
when serena williams won her first u.s. open in 1999 tom brady was still at michigan, lebron james hadn t yet played a high school game, bill clinton was in the white house. harry styles was in preschool, napster debuted, tlc demanded no scrubs and the backstreet boys want it had that way. now she is one step closer to another title on her way out the door. good morning, i m brianna keilar with john berman. the almost 41-year-old defeating the number two player in the world bringing the crowd to its feet as she advance toss round three and another magical performance at the u.s. open. it wasn t easy she was facing anett kontaveit one of the world s top players, 14 years her junior but in the critical first set serena rose to the occasion by win ago rousing tiebreaker and went on to grueling three-set victory. the stands were packed with celebrities as they always are. tiger woods, he was right there, serena williams says she is still playing because of him. he helped her fi