Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. The us is preparing for a cicada invasion. An insect that spends the vast majority of its life underground, but this year they will emerge in their biggest numbers in over 200 years. Its making me feel itchy already. Russia says President Putin has ordered Tactical Nuclear weapons drills near ukraine in response to what it called western threats to deploy troops there. The kremlin has also threatened strikes on uk Military Targets in ukraine and beyond. the Foreign Ministry in moscow today summoned both the french and british ambassadors. In ukraine front line troops have told the bbc there needs to be a re think on how ukrainian men are conscripted. Some of them say theyve been fighting without a break since russias full scale invasion more than two years ago. There have been concerns for some time that not enough troops are being recruited, to rotate people off the line who have been there too long. Our ukraine Cor
And khan younis areas. It says tents, food, water, and medication will be available. The Israeli Defence minister yoav gallant said Military Action against hamas in rafah is needed because of the groups refusal to negotiate the release of israeli hostages. A hamas official has described the move as a dangerous escalation. Jordan said what it called another massacre of palestinians was in the making. Egypt has urged israel to exercise maximum restraint. Jan egeland, secretary general of the norwegian refugee council, told us more about the situation in rafah. The fear is all over rafah now, because the idf has given us a map with eight sectors that are red and people are forced to leave them. Its a forced relocation, which is a violation of international law, because there is no safe place to go, there is no aid for them ready there. There is no shelter and there is no return guaranteed for the people. So we are appealing for them to not invade rafah. Its the largest cluster of Displace
Because of the prospect of high numbers of civilian casualties. Meanwhile, officials from israel and its closest ally, the us, have been Holding Meetings to discuss alternative, more focused plans. Its not yet clear if the new Evacuation Orders are part of those. Lets speak to james elder whos a spokesperson for the United Nations Childrens Fund also known as unicef. Juan tell us what you think the impact will be of this evacuation. Absolutely devastating. You have families in rafah, their Coping Capacity has been smashed, this is six months of injuring this wall, moving many times, probably having lost a home already, the children are malnourished, they have already been living in conditions with one shower for 3500 been living in conditions with one showerfor 3500 people, being told to move to a humanitarian zone, unilaterally declared humanitarians and, not a unilaterally declared humanitarians and, nota humanitarian unilaterally declared humanitarians and, not a humanitarian zone w
Noon, and a few minutes after that, the Party National secretary confirmed that there was only one nominee who had reached the threshold of 100 backers across 20 local branches of the party, and that was john swinney. 0f local branches of the party, and that wasjohn swinney. Of course, that wasjohn swinney. Of course, that followed the decision last week of our potential rival, kate forbes, to declare that she was not going to contest this Leadership Challenge with mr swinney. Now it Isjohn Swinney who will be taking over. He has led the party before, from 20002004. He has led the party before, from 2000 2004. He resigned after poor Election Results, but since then, he is a different man, a lot more experienced, 16 years in the cabinet. He says he will govern from the moderate centre left. We expect him to set out more details here at Glasgow University in a speech this afternoon of how he might do that. Of course, he does need to be elected as first minister. He is not automatically b