Spectacular festival fringe. Hello, i m lauren taylor. America s top diplomat, who s on a visit to israel, has said it s a decisive moment and maybe the last opportunity to reach a ceasefire in gaza. Us secretary of state, antony blinken, who s already met israeli president isaac herzog, is currently holding talks with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. Israel and hamas have accused each other of lacking the will to compromise. Mr blinken says it s time for all sides to agree a deal without excuses. This is a decisive moment, probably the best and may be the last opportunity to get the hostages home, to get the ceasefire and to put everyone on a better path to enduring peace and security. I m here on president biden s instructions to try to get this agreement to the line and over the line. It is time for it to get done. It s also time to make sure no one takes any steps that could derail this process. Joining me now is our correspondent tom bateman who is travelling with the us secreta
Hello, i m lauren taylor. America s top diplomat, who s on a visit to israel, has said it s a decisive moment and maybe the last opportunity to reach a ceasefire in gaza. Us secretary of state, antony blinken, who s already met israeli president isaac herzog is currently holding talks with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. Israel and hamas have accused each other of lacking the will to compromise. Mr blinken says it s time for all sides to agree a deal without excuses. This is a decisive moment. Probably the best, maybe the last opportunity to get the hostages home, to get a cease fire, and to put everyone on a better path to enduring peace and security. I m here as part of an intensive diplomatic effort on president biden s instructions to try to get this agreement to the line and ultimately over the line. It is time for it to get done. It s also time to make sure that no one takes any steps that could derail this process. And so we re working to make sure that there is no escalation
Hello, i m lauren taylor. We start in italy where in the last hour, one person has been confirmed dead and six others are still missing after a luxury british registered yacht carrying 22 people has sunk in a sudden incident off the southern coast of italy. The italian coastguard says four britons, two americans and a canadian citizen are missing. 15 other people were rescued. With me is our correspondent tom symonds. So, this is quite a dramatic incident that happened, tell us about how it all unfolded. It unfolded early in the morning at about 5am when there was some very severe weather in this part of the coast near palermo in italy. It is a vessel which is a 56 metre luxury sailing boat, a super yacht, you would probably call it. It appears to have been anchored rather than in the harbour, anchored off shore, near the harbour but not inside the harbour, which i think it s harbour, which i think its relevant. It has been hit by a tornado. A boat alongside it, a yacht alongside, mana
let s go through the main business stories. on monday, uk prime minister borisjohnson said a planned reopening of the economy could take place in england next week, with the opening of all shops, gyms, hairdressers and outdoor hospitality areas. but he said it was too soon to say whether international summer holidays can go ahead this year, a remark that many in the travel industry have interpreted as suggesting that the planned reopening of outbound travel could be pushed back beyond may 17. the business travel association summed up the mood, describing the news as beyond disappointing. joining me now is susannah streeter, senior investment and markets analyst, hargreaves lansdown. the travel industry have been lobbying hard to get this data brought forward. it looks like there which was not granted. it certainly does seem as though caution is the name of the game here. yes, there were high hopes that actually, the global travel task force would say is it safe, certain route
news with shaun ley. we ll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment with aubrey allegretti and sian griffiths first the headlines. more than 150,000 people in the uk have now died within 28 days of a positive covid test since the pandemic began. lawyers for novak djokavic claim he was given a vaccine exemption to enter australia, because he d had a recent covid infection. thousands more flat owners will be spared the expense of replacing unsafe cladding under new government plans to make developers offer £4 billion towards the costs. at least 21 people have died in north eastern pakistan after heavy snowfall trapped them in their vehicles. nasa s james webb space telescope has unfolded its final mirror panel after launching on christmas day. the golden primary mirror will allow the telescope to be properly focused helping scientists to better study the universe. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. wi