For the aide s arrival. Israel earlier said it wont get in the way of food, water, and medicine getting to civilians, as long as the assistance does not reach hamas. Mr biden says there are a few more things that need to happen before the aid can come in. This has been a very blunt negotiation i have had. And so want to get as many of the trucks out as possible, i guess there are about 150 there. Not all will go. The first tranche, if there is a second tranche we will see how it goes. Lets look at some of the other top headlines from the war at this hour protests across the middle east erupted over the explosion at the Al Ahli Hospital in gaza, tuesday, that left at least a71 people dead. Arab states and the main palestinian militant group, hamas, have continued to blame israel for the explosion, even as mr biden backed israels claim that it had nothing to do with it. And the United States vetoed a Un Security Council vote calling for humanitarian pauses in gaza, a move that was condem
This is the scene live now in gaza. Well have the very latest on the situation from our correspondent there and in israel. And the other news here this lunchtime. A major fire at Luton Airport there are no flights in or out, and part of the car park where the blaze began has collapsed. The children still being taught online, as schools try to deal with unsafe concrete. And, the first team gb athletes are announced for next years olympic games, in paris with ten sailors selected. Coming up on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. Wayne rooney is back in english football. The former england and Manchester United striker is the New Birmingham city manager on a three and a half year contract. Good afternoon from the israeli border. We are here in southern as welljust a few miles from the gaza strip were tensions continue to rise. Wejust heard the sirens going and you can test explosions in the air. The iron dome has been in action for hours this morning and is artillery has continued to
Its seven in the morning in singapore, and two am in israel where we begin our programme as israel continues its mass mobilisation of troops, Hundreds Of Thousands, on the southern border with gaza. The widespread expectation, that a ground offensive, across the frontier, maybe coming. But the un is calling for Essential Supplies to be allowed into the territory where the humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly, as israel enforces a complete siege. It follows the unprecedented attack five days ago on the country, by militants from hamas, a group committed to the destruction of israel and designated a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk. At least 1200 people in israel are now thought to have been killed in the multiple assaults last saturday. At least a thousand palestineans have been killed in retaliatory israeli airstrikes. Well be inside besieged gaza, with our correspondent, rushdi abu alouf. But we begin with a report from our International Edi
hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. rishi sunak, in the last few minutes, has announced he will bring in emergency legislation that will confirm that the wonder is, he said, a safe country after the supreme court ruled that the scheme to send asylum seekers there was unlawful. in a significant blow to the prime minister, fivejudges in a significant blow to the prime minister, five judges unanimously ruled against his flagship policy which aims to stop illegal migration. they said rwanda has a poor record on human rights and also, that if refugees went to a wonder there would be a real risk of them being sent back to the countries they had originally left. welcome in that news conference, in the last few minutes, rishi sunak warrant european courts not to block the flights and he also stressed that the court had confirmed sending migrants to a safe third country was lawful. ., , migra