I invite these members. To participate in this meeting. It is so decided. I propose that the council and by special representatives of the president s of the state of palestine to participate in the meeting. There being no objection, it is so decided. On behalf of the council, i welcome his excellency. In accordance with rule 39 of the provisional rules of procedure, i also invite the following individuals to participate in this meeting. The chair of the committee on the exercise of enable inalienable rights of the Palestinian People. The European Union a high representative for the middle east peace process. The assistant secretary general of the league of arab states. And the secretarygeneral of the union for the mediterranean. It is so decided. The Security Council will now begin consideration of item two of the agenda. I give the floor to the secretary general. Mr. President , excellencies, the middle east is on a precipice. We have seen a perilous escalation. One miscalculation or
Middlehurst. Middlehurst. Nigel. Thank you. And good evening to you. Well, the top story tonight from the gb newsroom is that the Prime Minister says hes going to be urging his israeli counterpart to show restraint following irans drone and missile attack on israel. Rishi sunak told the commons that hell be speaking to Binyamin Netanyahu later on today to both reiterate the uks solidarity with israel, but also to discuss how to prevent an escalation of violence in the region. There was condemnation of irans military offensive against israel from both sir keir starmer and rishi sunak. Today, our aim is to support stability and security because it is right for the region and because, although the middle east is thousands of miles away, it has a direct effect on our security and prosperity at home. There can be no doubt that the attack perpetrated by Iranian Forces this weekend has left the world a more dangerous place. It targeted innocent civilians with a clear intent to destabilise the
Sir keir starmer speaking earlier on today, now , in other earlier on today, now, in other news, 534 migrants were intercepted while crossing the engush intercepted while crossing the English Channel yesterday. That makes it the highest number of crossings on a single day so far this year. And it means the number of small boat arrivals this year now stands at a provisional total of 6265. It comes as the governments flagship rwanda policy returns to parliament, as you heard, with mps debating the latest amendments by peers this evening , a judge ordered today that prince harry must pay 90 of Home Office Legal costs after losing a case over his personal security. The duke of sussex had security. The duke of sussex had argued the court should reduce the amount he was required to pay by the amount he was required to pay by more than half. He launched legal action against the home office for cutting his Police Protection , after he Police Protection, after he stopped being a full time worki
Where Governor Scott walker is now a serious contender for the republican president ial nomination. We begin in greece where there has been a breakthrough in the ongoing debt crisis. Months of emergency summits greece and europe has reached a decision on the bail out. There will be a new loan package worst 82 and 86 billion euros. Streamline system, greece will transfer 50 billionsarrows euros of assets. A deal at last. After talks that lasted all night euro Assembly Leaders announced they have avoided the worst scenario, a greek exit from the euro. We have reached an agreement after hours of negotiations, we have finally reached it. Someone can say that we have an agreekment. But but its no laughing matter for the greeks. Theyll sell off 50 billion euros of state assets. An clearly exhausted Alexis Tsipras tried to put a gloss on it. The deal is difficult, we prevented the plan of financial asphyxiation and the collapse of a financial system. A plan that was designed in recently start
International understanding to try to stop iran from having a Nuclear Weapon and that is a different circumstance. So in the development of where the iaea was going thisey did come to us for Technical Expertise as they did every other member and in a classified briefing this afternoon i will share with you everything i know about this. Let me ask im also very grateful that the director general on his own cognizance is meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in an informal setting which is extremely unusual because every other country sort of wonders why he is. Did i understand you to say to senator corker that you personally did not see the final document . No. I said i was shown documents that i believe to be the final documents but whether, in fact, there are any further discussions what this is about, senator, are the modalities, the technical modalities that the iaea uses. And i will share with you this afternoon in a classified setting every single thing i know about t