have stopped passing through here and are now taking the much longer route all the way around africa instead adding costs and delays. here s our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. the threats to shipping in the red sea is very real. this was an attack by iranian backed houthi fighters last month, storming a cargo ship registered in britain. the militia from yemen claiming that any vessels owned by allies of israel were legitimate targets. shouting. there have also been drone and missile attacks so many that shipping companies are pulling out of the red sea, sending their vessels around southern africa instead. in response, the us secretary of defence, who s visiting the middle east, has formed an international military coalition to protect ships and ensure freedom of navigation. these attacks are reckless, dangerous, and they violate international law. and so, we re taking action to build an international coalition to address this threat. and i would remind you that
michel roux, welcome to hardtalk. it is a great pleasure to be sitting in this restaurant, one of the most famous in london, been in your family for the best part of six decades. the countdown to closure has begun. how do you feel about that? incredibly mixed emotions. it s. it s obviously happiness because there s light at the end of the tunnel, and by that, i mean not in a negative way, it s sort of. ..getting control of my life again. and then very, very sad emotions because it s the end of an era and it s. i also feel sad and emotional for all my team here, some of which, in fact, most of which i deem as family. and some of them, we ve grown up together, basically. so very, very mixed emotions. and the last the last week, i know i am going to be a wreck. why? why are you shutting down? because you could fill every table here for the foreseeable future. everybody wants to come and eat here if they can afford it. so why shut it? yeah, i mean, the business is successful an
gansu province. more than 250 other people have been injured in the 6.2 magnitude quake. rescuers are braving freezing weather with temperatures below 13c to search for survivors. the government has dispatched teams of rescue workers to assist local emergency crews. let s go live to our china correspondent, stephen mcdonell who is in beijing, what more can you tell us? a what more can you tell us? powerful, shallow earthquakes struck the plateau as before midnight, bringing down people s homes and killing 118 residents as they slept, of those we are told 105 people died in gansu province and 13 in neighbouring qinghai. the rescue effort started through the night into the early hours of the morning and has continued today in very difficult, freezing conditions. we are told that 11100 firefighters have been sent to assist in the rescue effort. we are getting footage of emergency tents being set up. you can imagine one of the terrible things when this sort of accident happe