Hello. Im azadeh moshiri. Youre watching bbc news. Final preparations are under way to send the first shipment of aid by sea to gaza. Humanitarian organisations are co ordinating a delivery of about 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies, which will go via a maritime corridor with israels agreement. But its unclear how or where the boat will actually dock, and even if the aid does arrive, some groups are warning of problems in distributing the aid across gaza. Wyre davies reports from jerusalem. In the cypriot port of larnaca, they have been working around the clock. The spanish ship, open arms, is preparing to tow a barge with 200 tonnes of food with medical aid all the way to gaza. Its a precarious, untested plan with obvious risks. Translation yes, we will tow this platform to gaza, where The Last Mile will be the most complicated operation. The disembarkation will be done on a pier that is being built right now by the world central kitchen. How the aid will be unloaded into gaza,
To help priced out renters find somewhere to live . In sport, theres no stopping liverpool as they hit five in europe against Sparta Prague including a stunner from in form darwin nunez. Including a stunner good morning. A good deal of dry weather on the cards today, some will say sunshine but they will be a cold easterly wind blowing. I will have all the details for today and for the weekend throughout the programme. Its friday the 8th of march. President joe biden has used his state of the Union Address to criticise donald trump his likely opponent in the election and to claim that freedom and democracy are under assault around the world. President biden also announced that the us military will construct a port in gaza to allow the delivery of more humanitarian aid to the territory. Tonight, im directing the us military to lead an Emergency Mission to establish a temporary pier in the mediterranean on the coast of gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine a
Final preparations are under way to send the first shipment of aid by sea to gaza. Humanitarian organisations are co ordinating a delivery of about 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies, which will go via a maritime corridor with israels agreement. But its unclear how or where the boat will actually dock, and even if the aid does arrive, some groups are warning of problems in distributing the aid across gaza. Wyre davies reports from jerusalem. In the cypriot port of larnaca, they have been working around the clock. The spanish ship, open arms, is preparing to tow a barge with 200 tonnes of food with medical aid all the way to gaza. Its a precarious, untested plan with obvious risks. Translation yes, we will tow this platform to gaza, where The Last Mile will be the most complicated operation. The disembarkation will be done on a pier that is being built right now by the world central kitchen. How the aid will be unloaded into gaza, where there is no port or functioning harbour, is n
it s wednesday, 28th april. the risk of pupils in england suffering serious injury or dying because of a collapsing school building, is both critical and highly likely, according to a new report. the national audit office also found that around 700,000 children are attending schools that need major rebuilding work, and it s taking a toll on their education. the government says it has been significantly investing in transforming schools. hazel shearing reports. that one is still on the list to do. every year at kingsley stjohn s primary school in cheshire, head teacher racheljones to do list gets longer. here you can see they are going to need replacing because there is a significant amount of moisture loss and heating loss. this victorian building has an ageing heating system and thick stone walls, posing a real challenges. in the autumn term what we had in here was condensation, because we were trying to delay putting the heating on, the condensation turned so bad we actual