We start with efforts to get desperately needed aid into gaza, lets ta ke lets take you to live pictures in larnaca with a Spanish Charity ship is leaving the port carrying some 200 tonnes of food to gaza along what is going to become a new Maritime Aid Corridor that was announced by the eu. This vessel is being operated by world central kitchen, and it has been in larnaca for the last three weeks. It is towing a barge loaded with items which have been provided by world central kitchen. It is being organised by open arms, you can see the vessel has 0pen organised by open arms, you can see the vessel has open arms written on it. The open arms people say that on that barge being told our 200 tonnes of basic foodstuffs, including things like rice and flour and cans of tuna. The ship will take around two or three days to reach as i but we do not know where it will dock in gaza because there are no ports, so anything which has been set up will have to be temporary. It is an under closed loc
earlier this week, the top us diplomat, antony blinken, left the region without a breakthrough, after israel rejected hamas demands for a ceasefire. gideon levy is an israeli author and columnist for the haaretz newspaper. i asked him if the us concerns would make much of a difference to benjamin netanyahu s plans. no, as long as the us remarks are only remarks or concerns from the us and they are not followed by practical measures, israel will ignore it. in any case, israel learned to ignore advice. if the us wants to prevent the next catastrophe, and rafah is going to be a major catastrophe, the us has got to be precise and take measures, otherwise it will not work. so when i read out the latest line from netanyahu ordering the military to plan ways to evacuate civilians in rafah so he can carry out the intention to target hamas, what do you make of that? is thatjust words, is that to deflect the criticism that is already coming his way? i want to ask you, where to? the peo
in donald trump s homeland security team, the former lieutenant governor of florida jennifer carroll, in new hampshire, the democrat strategist marie ann marsh, and in washington, the post s live anchor leigh ann caldwell. a very good evening. american leadership matters to us all. but perhaps never have the stakes been as high as they are in this 2024 election two hot wars, in ukraine and the middle east, an accelerating climate crisis, and perhaps at stake the future of the transatlantic alliance. this is one of the most important dates in the electoral calendar the republican primary in new hampshire that will tell us so much about the shape of things to come and the mood of this american electorate. if you want four more years of donald trump, let me hear you scream. cheering if you want the race to be over tomorrow, let me hear you scream! cheering you get a lot of democrats voting for her. you have a crazy election let s all get out and let s vote for somebody
following it today it s the final day in court. this court case is the civil fraud trial of course he s facing a number of court cases at the moment. this is the civilfraud trial in new york. he s accused of inflating the of his assets, actually, the court has already proved that has happened. this is about the size of any potential damages paid for that we re aware that the attorney general in new york is asking to find donald trump $370 million for what she calls the outrages schemes. now donald trump to lyse any wrongdoing in this case and was given a few words to speak in court. denies any wrongdoing. we re now waiting to see if he says any more. microphones there as he comes out. just so you know, we will be keeping across these live images. we will come away from new york right now. as and when donald trump gets to the microphone we will see his reaction to what s been happening we didn t have to wait too long, did wade? let’s happening we didn t have to wait too l
with just two days to go into the coronation, excitement is building on the mall where the clouds are camped out. hello, welcome to bbc news. i am lewis vaughan jones. we are starting in russia where president vladimir putin has made his first tv appearance since an alleged attempt on his life. we have got these pictures in the last couple of hours. here he is in these pictures released by the kremlin in a routine meeting with economic development minister maxim reshetnikov. presumably projecting an image of business as usual. russia claims ukraine was targeting putin in this drone atack on the kremlin on wednesday following orders from the united states. both kyiv and washington have denied any involvement. russia launched a series of air raids on kyiv overnight, in apparent retaliation. but authorities say all the strikes were intercepted by air defences which you can see working here. strikes were also reported in zaporizhizhia and odessa. our russia editor, st