the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is on another diplomatic tour of the middle east his fifth visit to the region since the conflict erupted between israel and hamas. he will be visiting saudi arabia, israel, egypt, qatar and the occupied west bank. mr blinken s trip follows days of air strikes by the united states against iranian linked targets in iraq, syria and yemen. ahead of his arrival, a drone attack killed six us backed kurdish fighters at an american base in eastern syria. mr blinken is also expected to discuss boosting aid to gaza, as well as a possible ceasefire and hostage deal between israel and hamas. the israeli prime minister has warned he will not accept the demands of hamas over hostages still held. the un has warned of an impending famine in gaza affecting more than 2 million people. our correspondent, barbara plett usher, explained the main aim of mr blinken s visit. that possible ceasefire deal, which would involve the release of some of the isr
minister today and we are not working on failure, we are working on the basis we are going to be successful. we know we have a lot of work to do but we need the treasury to be engaged because for many years we have been underfunded and we want to transform our health service. we have an entry as long as your arm in terms of the issues we need to deal with and some of that we will discuss today. we have such a vast area of work we need to focus our attention on what we need to be able to have proper financial arrangements to allow us to to have properfinancial arrangements to allow us to do to have proper financial arrangements to allow us to do that. we are not going to give up on day one. we have made the case very strongly and we will continue to do that but the strength now is we are working together to try and secure what we need. we working together to try and secure what we need- what we need. we have been very clear as well what we need. we have been very clear as w
is now levelled at 1 1. despite a commendable batting performance from england, they were bowled out for 292, zak crawley top scoring with 73. india were impressive in their bowling, particularlyjasprit bumrah who took nine wickets. ravi ashwin also took 3 72 and is now on 499 test wickets. the series is poised at 1 1. stokes says he was encouraged by england s performance. i m happy with the way we went after that chase. that is exactly how we play cricket. when an opportunity presents itself and it s a pressure situation, i think that generally brings the best out of people. it doesn t always work, but there were a lot of times when we were on top of india and then india were able to produce something that then put them back on top. well, england won the opening test, before india took the second to level the series. it s well known that it s difficult to get a win in india, so india head coach rahul dravid has been complimentary of england s bazball approach. it is not wil
this is bbc news, the headlines: america s top diplomat visits the middle east for talks after the latest round of us strikes on iran linked targets in the region. a deadly combination of war and drought leaves ethiopia s tigray region facing famine we have a special report. taylor swift! and taylor swift makes history at the grammy awards becoming the first artist ever to win best album four times. becoming the first artist ever to win best album four times. an update from the metropolitan police who are investigating the chemical attack in south london from last wednesday, they have said early this morning a 22 year old man was arrested for assisting an offender and the police are searching for abdo is a:d., the man in the picture, after the attack in clapham last week abdul ezedi. a22 year old man has been arrested and was taken to a police station where he was interviewed before being arrested on bail. they have also given an update on the woman who was injured in
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