and which festive favourite is the christmas number one? and coming up on bbc news. we ll be at villa park where sheffield united are the visitors on a night when victory can take aston villa top of the premier league. hello and welcome to the bbc news at six. in the last hour, the united nations security council has passed a resolution to address the continuing conflict in gaza and the appalling conditions faced by around 2 million people there. it follows days of argument at the un in new york. the resolution calls on asians to create the conditions for the cessation of hostilities and the unhindered delivery of assistance to gaza calls on nations. the resolution the uae has put in blue this morning responds to the calls for a sustainable cessation of hostilities and a massive scale up of humanitarian aid. often in diplomacy, the challenge is meeting the moment in the world we live, not in the world that we want, and we will never tire in pushing for a full humanitarian
good evening. projections following parliamentary elections in france show president emmanuel macron is on course to lose his absolute majority. his coalition is on track to win the most seats, with between 210 and 250. but that s short of the 289 needed for a majority in the national assembly. projections show the left green alliance ofjean luc melenchon is set to win 150 to 180 seats, becoming the main opposition. mr melenchon says the result marks an electoral failure for mr macron. a hung parliament will make it difficult for the president to press ahead with his planned reforms in his second term of office. we re nowjoined by peter conradi, the europe editor of the sunday times newspaper, who joins us from paris. thank whojoins us from paris. you thank who joins us from paris. you forjoining thank whojoins us from paris. you forjoining us. i guess surprising thank you forjoining us. i guess a surprising result? surprising result? yes, i mean eole surprising result? y
good afternoon. at the covid inquiry, the prime minister, rishi sunak, has apologised to all those who suffered as a result of the government s decisions during the pandemic. he s also expected to face questions about his controversial eat out to help out scheme, aimed at helping the hospitality sector. scientific advisers have already told the inquiry they didn t know about the plan until it was announced and there were concerns it would spread the virus. our political correspondent pete saull has been watching. it was at news conferences like this that many of us got to know rishi sunak. he had been promoted to chancellorjust before sunak. he had been promoted to chancellor just before a sunak. he had been promoted to chancellorjust before a global pandemic struck. of course a lot of politics has happened since then. he has moved from number 11 to number ten and this morning made the trip across london for a grilling of his actions at the time of covid. quite something to
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calling for immediate humanitarian aid for gaza. the head of the agency says the war is having a catastrophic impact on healthcare there. our international editor jeremy bowen reports now on the situation on the ground in both the west bank and gaza. you may find some of the images distressing. at al nasser hospital in khan younis, they laid out the wrapped bodies of people killed in the night by israel. at the end of the line was a baby killed on the day she was born. laid across the bodies of her mother and her father. don t cry , he told theirson, mohammed. they are in heaven. gaza has been turned into a living hell for civilians by israel s offensive. thousands of children are among the palestinian dead. theirfamilies say there is only one way to make a difference. everyone is only talking aboutaid , said ibrahim. we don t care about aid, we want them to stop the bloodshed. the americans say israel is killing too many innocent people, but they still blocked the un s