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concern is growing over the shortage of food. the united nations is warning of looming famine, with half of gaza s population now in a food emergency. people living in isolated northern areas have told the bbc that children are going without food for days, and they re using animal feed to make bread. one in four households is facing a catastrophic lack of food, according to the un, because of renewed fighting and aid convoys being regularly blocked from reaching some areas. our middle east correspondent lucy williamson has this report. in the middle of a war, a battle for survival. men sent to fight over cans of beans and sacks of flour. the un is warning that famine is coming fast, to gaza s northern areas, as aid arrives more slowly. this, the first aid to arrive here for 11 days, brings crowds surging close to israeli forces. who fire to push them back. in northern areas, residents say children aren t eating for days. in some places they are tapping waterfrom undergr ....
it s james in the studio in westminster. and it s chris in westminster too. so, the reason you were speaking to the labour leader, sir keir starmer, chris, was because he has made a big u turn today. yes. so this is on what he calls his green prosperity plan. this is the idea of throwing quite a lot of public money into kind of turbo charging what he thinks are the kind of industries of the future that might have a kind of green tinge to them. but they re also about, he hopes, providing the well paid jobs of the future, the industries of the future. two and a half years ago, he said labour would spend in government £28 billion a year on that. that was diluted in the summer of last year to £28 billion a year by the second half of a first labour term. so that would be sort of mid 2027, if they were to win the election and only if they thought it was affordable relative to their economic rules. last few weeks, quite frankly, they ve been in a complete mess about it and n ....