Hello, im samantha simmonds. The Israeli Military says about 300,000 palestinians have left the city of rafah since monday when israel told them to move to a nearby district of gaza. The Israel Defence forces have declared a narrow coastal strip at al mawasi to be a safe humanitarian zone, but the un says it has no Running Water or proper sanitation. Israel is planning an assault on Hamas Fighters In Rafah and has ordered Tens Of Thousands more residents from Eastern Districts of the city to leave. Evacuation orders have also been issued for thousands of people in parts of northern gaza. Last night, a Us Government report criticised israels use of american supplied weapons in the gaza war, saying its reasonable to assess they have been used in breach of International Humanitarian law in some instances. Israel launched its war on hamas following their attack in israel on october the 7th. From jerusalem, heres our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. Another desperate exodus, palest
And prince harry and meghan are in nigeria as part of the dukes promotion of the invictus games. You are watching bbc news. More on those solar storms with an expert explaining how that happens, the link between the sun and those storms, in the next 15 minutes or so. Lets talk about ukraine for now. More now on Russian Forces launching a surprise new Ground Offensive in ukraine crossing the border into the northeastern Kharkiv Region. For months fighting has been focussed in the east where russia occupies large areas. Fridays attack may be an attempt to open a new front and intensify pressure on kharkiv, which is the countrys second largest city. Small groups of Russian Troops with armoured vehicles pushed through the front line military sources say they advanced a kilometre, before being pushed back amid reports of sustained russian shelling. Earlier i spoke to maria avdeeva, a security analyst from ukraine. I asked her to explain, what is happening in kharkiv city and in the region t
Shows in many parts of the world. Hello im sarah campbell. Lets start in the middle east israels military has ordered more residents in parts of Eastern Rafah to evacuate the crowded city in gaza. Its told them to go here muwasi. This is the scene live at that location, which has been labelled an expanded humanitarian area by the Israel Defence forces. In a separate Evacuation Order on Monday Thousands were told to leave rafah, ahead of what israel called a limited operation. Theres been fighting in parts since. These developments have happened as a long awaited Us Government report has criticised israels use of american supplied weapons in the gaza war, saying its reasonable to assess they have been used in breach of International Humanitarian law in some instances. Lets cross over to rafah to speak to sam rose director of planning at the un agency for palestinian refugees, unrwa. Thank you forjoining us. Can we talk about the Evacuation Orders, people being asked, thousands of peop
You are watching bbc news. Lets return to our Breaking News that the dutch artist, joost klein, has been disqualified from the Eurovision Song Contest after a backstage incident. Police are investigating a complaint made against the singer by a female member of the production team. The organiser of the event, the european broadcasting union, said it would not be appropriate for him to continue in the contest. The dutch broadcaster said it was shot by the decision, describing it as disproportionate. Joost klein had qualified at the malmo, with his song, europapa, a tribute to his late parents. We will bring you more on that with Maryam Moshiri. Here in the uk , a Police Officer has been shot in the leg with a crossbow in buckinghamshire. After responding to a reported stabbing in high wycombe last night. Our reporter frances read has the latest from the scene well, the Police Officer was apparently responding to reports of a stabbing in this area when he was then shot in the leg with a
Spike in redundancies as employers have to contribute as the scheme is being wound down. white met a saying this is in the right time? if it isn t, when his? it certainly isn t the right time because the whole point of the furlough scheme is to keepjobs point of the furlough scheme is to keep jobs protected as covid as restricting our lives and it is still restricting our lives at the moment. socialspending still restricting our lives at the moment. social spending are still down to about 20% of pre pandemic levels and we saw a fall after the others as well. we should certainly keep the furlough scheme in place until at least this wave has passed and also stop the employer contribution as well. we said dating updates when it came to health policy in the same thing should be true about economic policy as well. are you saying it would be more economic sense to continue furlough for a fifth time rather than pick up the cost of lost jobs? for a fifth time rather than pick up the cost of lo