From the sycamore gap tree. Seedlings from the famously felled tree are starting to grow. Hello, im nicky schiller. We start this hour with the latest on the israel gaza war. A Ship Carrying desperately needed humanitarian aid for gaza is getting ready to set sail from cyprus. The spanish vessel, open arms, is preparing to tow a barge with 200 tonnes of food and medical aid provided by the us Charity World central kitchen. Our correspondent anna foster is injerusalem. There is a development in the aid effort towards gaza. A ship has been loaded in cyprus and we can show you pictures of that happening which is going to mark the start of a new maritime aid corridor. A vessel carrying humanitarian aid is expected to set sail from cyprus to gaza in the coming hours. Its the first delivery of supplies to use the maritime aid corridor, announced on friday. It was announced yesterday by Ursula Von Der Leyen and is expected to become operational in the next few hours. It would be a new way to
Hello, youre watching bbc news, this is a sportsday, heres whats coming up. England kick themselves back into six nations Title Contention, beating ireland at the death at twickenham. There are tears ofjoy for the azzurri italy celebrate a rare six nations win in rome, as the scots titles hopes are dashed. In the late winner for arsenal, their back on top of the Premier League for at least 2a hours. Another late winner. But its all over for englands cricketers a 4 1 test Series Defeat as they disintegrate in dharmashala inside three three days. Also coming up on sportsday. Teenager 0llie Bearman makes history by becoming the youngest briton to start an f1 race. And after a knockout win for anthonyjoshua, hes gunning for fury or usyk. I think both of them are very credible fighters and i would love the opportunity to face them at some stage. Welcome. Wow, its been an incredible day in rugby unions six nations, and the championship is going down to the final weekend. That certainly wasnt
Hello. Straight to cyprus with these live pictures of the first ship that would use this new maritime aid corridor being loaded with essential humanitarian supplies to be taken from cyprus to gaza. This is expected to open the the first time in the next few hours, European Commission president Ursula Von Der Leyen said yesterday that they expected everything to be ready. It would take several days for the ship to actually make the journey to gaza. It was announced yesterday, and as you can see, they are continuing to loaded ready for departure. The aid is urgently needed the Hamas Run Health Ministry in gaza said 23 people have died from Malnutition Injust ten days. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children are starving to death. The sea corridor i was mentioning earlier is a joint venture, the us, the uk, United Arab Emirates as well, who have been responsible for some of the airdrop aid happening so far, and of course cyprus have been playing t
Careful. We are in super intense period of the season, we need everybody, now, let us see how long we can use him. Ahead of their Europa League clash with roma, two brighton supporters were attacked as they left a bar in the italian capital on wednesday. The pair were hospitalised with minor wounds, although their injuries were not serious and they have since been discharged. West ham are the final Premier League club in action tonight in the competition as they travel to freiburg. Other ties to keep your eye include marseilles against villarreal and ac milan against slavia prague. Sporting and atalanta drew 1 1 on wednesday. And there are eight matches in the Europa Conference League later perhaps the pick of the ties dutch side ajax at home to aston villa. Villa manager unai emery aiming to add the Europa Conference League to his four Europa League titles with sevilla and villarreal. India ended day one of the fifth test in dharamshala on top, after england won the toss and elected t