including a nine year old boy after being hit by falling trees during storm malik. and in the us a fierce snowstorm hits the northeast of the us bringing high winds hello and welcome to bbc news. britain is considering sending hundreds more troops to bolster the defences of nato allies in eastern europe amid the build up of russian forces on ukraine s border. the prime minister, borisjohnson says he s ordered the armed forces to prepare to deploy across europe next week. russia has massed around 100,000 troops, as well as tanks, artillery and missiles near ukraine s border, but denies it plans to invade the former soviet republic. 0ur defence correspondent, jonathan beale reports. britain already has more than 800 troops in estonia as part of nato s response to reassure allies after russia s invasion of crimea in 2014. now borisjohnson says he is considering doubling that number in the baltic state and sending more military hardware, including long range artillery roc
comparing israel s war in gaza against hamas, a genocidal tariff side of an organisation, he has disgraced the memory of 6 million jews murdered by the nazis and has demonised them. you should be ashamed of himself. paul adams is injersusalem for us he spoke to me earlier and explained more about how the brazilian president s words are taken by the israeli government. he was clearly very offended. as were other israeli ministers. the brazilian ambassador is likely to be called into the foreign ministry to explain his president s actions both benjamin netanyahu said comparisons between israel and the nazis and hitler was crossing a red line. it is profoundly offensive to all israelis to suggest what is happening in gaza today has any connection or comparison to what the nazis did to 6 millionjews in world war ii. and the israelis are clearly not in the mood to let these remarks pass. he is not alone in expressing concern about the israeli operation in gaza. he is not, and of
the stakes for ukraine and for the entire world remain high. president biden is calling on american politicians to pass the latest package of military aid for kyiv, which has been blocked by congress. look, the ukrainian people fought so bravely and heroically, they put so much on the line, and the idea that now, they re running out of ammunition, we walk away, i find it absurd, ifind it unethical, ifind itjust contrary to everything we are as a country. so i m going to fight to get them the ammunition they need. the ukrainian president was in munich, where senior defence officials and world leaders have been gathering a week before the two year anniversary of russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. president zelensky repeated his appeal for more weapons to avoid what he called a catastrophic situation in europe. translation: we are very much counting on this positive - decision of congress. for us, this package is vital. we are not considering alternatives today because we
and we re still here. tala s daily life, a relentless struggle to care for her disabled brother yazid. three times they tried to escape rafah. like last november, when our cameraman first met them at the border. we were trying to do anything that we can to do to survive, because we just. i simply don t want to die at 24. they didn t get out of gaza then. back home amid the constant noise of drones overhead, tala tried to comfort yazid. and then just a few days ago, we had news from cairo. they d escaped to the safety of a flat in the egyptian capital. tala described the moment they left. i can t hear drones any more and i can t see. i can t. i m sorry. i won t be hearing any bombings or any air strikes. and that felt really surreal. but normality, even being able to boil a kettle for tea, has brought uncomfortable feelings. this is one of the hardest feelings to talk about. tala carries the memory of the people she s left behind. every time i have food to eat or i don t have
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