The queen has awarded the national Health Service the George Cross for heroism and bravery. Nhs englands medical director has praised his colleagues response to the Coronavirus Pandemic our staff our workforce has stepped up our staff our workforce has stepped up magnificently treating patients with Covid 19 and those with other conditions and i could with Covid I9 and those with other conditions and i could not be prouder and more humbled of the work that i have seen my colleagues who over the last 18 months. The Apartment Block which partially collapsed near miami killing 2a people 11 days ago is demolished before a Tropical Storm Sweeps in and endangers the lives of rescuers. The taliban warns that any foreign soldiers left in afghanistan beyond September 11th, will be treated as an occupying force. 18 year old british wild Card Emma Raducanu is back in action on wimbledon s Court Number one as she bids to reach the quarterfinals. After the Covid I9 situation, i think that you have
happened. president biden has announced longer hours at america s largest port los angeles to try to help ease supply chain blockages in the run up to the black friday and christmas shopping seasons. suppliers around the world are struggling to cope with a rise in consumer demand, as countries emerge from pandemic lockdowns. the shortages are causing steep price rises in everything from food to energy to consumer goods. from washington, here s our economics editor faisal islam. one of the world s biggest parking lots. dozens of cargo ships just waiting in the pacific, full of goods from asia, unable to dock at full terminals in the ports of california, with containers piled high. the same now happening on the atlantic coast off georgia too and in other ports around the world, the plumbing of the world economy not functioning properly. at the white house today, president biden summoned us business bosses to work 24/7 to clear the backlogs. this is an across the board commi
stories coming up in a few moments but let s pause and have a look at the sport. each of the rugby word cup quarterfinals pits a northern hemisphere team against one from the south. and it s so far argentina who have started things off well for those from the southern hemisphere. now new zealand can join them in reaching the last four in france. the three time winners are playing world number one team ireland in paris. 13-10 is 13 10 is the latest score in favour of the all blacks. they have played just under half an hour at the stad to france. so the winner of that match will face argentina, who beat wales, coming from behind twice to make the last four. wales led 10 6 at half time and looked in control, but argentina fought back in the second half to lead 12 10 and then 19 17, before securing victory with a second try late on to win 26 17 and reach the semifinals for only the third time in their history. argentina are tough, they stayed in the fight and i ve got to give the
the israeli military has confirmed there are 126 hostages in gaza but there are fears that number could be as high as 150. a military spokesperson also said the bodies of some hostages have been found on the edges of the gaza strip. our correspondent frankie mccamley has been speaking to families of some of those missing. posted online, this video of shiri and her baby, surrounded by militants. you can just about see nine month old kfir in her arms, believed to be one of the youngest taken hostage. and this is 84 year old ditza heiman, one of the eldest, still missing. her niece debbie says her aunt was hiding in her safe room, on the phone to her family, just before she was taken. when her phone was answered, this time, it was answered by a man speaking arabic, and he said, hamas, hamas . they later heard from a neighbour of hers in the kibbutz that he d heard her crying for help, and he d rushed out of his home and he d seen her surrounded by gunmen, being led away. the af
said that the goal of the operation was to completely destroy the governing and military capabilities of hamas . it comes a week after hamas, which is classed as a terrorist organisation by many western governments, killed more than 1300 people in israel and took dozens hostage. we can show you these live pictures of gaza city right now where it is shortly after 2am in the morning. in a drone strike, the israeli military said on saturday that it has killed a hamas commander who led part of the assault on israel. ali qadhi is the second hamas chief to have been killed in a day. meanwhile, on the ground in gaza, thousands of civilians are on the move. that s after israel warned over one million living in the north to move south beyond the wadi gaza river here, an order the world health organization has said is a death sentence for those already sick and injured. the authorities in gaza say more than 2,200 people have already died in retaliatory israeli bombing including ch