and dubbed the next david attenborough, a conservationist kid meets one of his biggest heros. hello and welcome to bbc news. teachers are calling for more children in england to be urgently given free school meals in order to support families struggling with the cost of living. they say the programme should be expanded to include all families who receive universal credit. in a letter to ministers, uniions are warning that more than two and a half million children live in households that miss meals or struggle to access healthy food and insist now is the right moment to act. alice key reports. lunch is served at this half term holiday club in stockport. staff here are responsible for keeping 20 children a day fed and entertained. but as rising prices start to hit parents pockets, there are fears that without more support, children could go hungry. we know that a lot of the families who come here are living in food poverty. and have certainly been impacted since the cost o
a mutual security pact with sweden, pledging support should the military come under attack. more could be done to help you with long term chronic pain, specialists say, is a bbc survey suggests a quarter of uk adults live with the condition. doesn t matter how hard i tried, or how much i wait or how much i pray, it most likely isn t going to change. downing street says its target of building 300,000 new homes in england per year still stands after the housing secretary michael gove has said the government was no longer trying to meet it. mr gove said ministers were now focusing on building homes people can be proud of and said that people in england would be given the right to vote on proposed property extensions in their neighbourhood as part of its new levelling up and regeneration bill which has been introduced in parliament today after yesterday s queens speech. labour has said the queen s speech didn t contain enough measures to help people with the rising cost of living
hello, i m samantha simmonds. the israeli military says about 300,000 palestinians have left the city of rafah since monday when israel told them to move to a nearby district of gaza. the israel defence forces have declared a narrow coastal strip at al mawasi to be a safe humanitarian zone, but the un says it has no running water or proper sanitation. israel is planning an assault on hamas fighters in rafah and has ordered tens of thousands more residents from eastern districts of the city to leave. evacuation orders have also been issued for thousands of people in parts of northern gaza. last night, a us government report criticised israel s use of american supplied weapons in the gaza war, saying it s reasonable to assess they have been used in breach of international humanitarian law in some instances. israel launched its war on hamas following their attack in israel on october the 7th. from jerusalem, here s our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. another desper
hello. the israeli military says about 300,000 palestinians have left the city of rafah since monday when israel told them to move to a nearby district of gaza. the israel defence forces have declared a narrow coastal strip at al mawasi to be a safe humanitarian zone, but the un says it has no running water or proper sanitation. israel is planning an assault on hamas fighters in rafah and has ordered tens of thousands more residents from eastern districts of the city to leave. evacuation orders have also been issued for thousands of people in parts of northern gaza. last night, a us government report criticised israel s use of american supplied weapons in the gaza war, saying it s reasonable to assess they have been used in breach of international humanitarian law in some instances. israel launched its war on hamas following their attack in israel on october seventh. from jerusalem, here s our middle east correspondent, yollande knell. another desperate exodus, palestinia
david cameron is travelling to gibraltar today. another of top diplomats will attend. the sides are likely to discuss how to manage the border with gibraltar. the meeting is not expected to result in a final agreement. for more on the let s speak to make it big. tell us how this all came about after brexit. good morning. forthe this all came about after brexit. good morning. for the past four years since brexit, you could say for the past eight years since the fateful vote in 2016, there had been in negotiations between the eu, spain and the uk about what happens to gibraltar and as you outlined, it s geography makes it unique, a british sovereign territory but on the tip of spain and the spanish have said they wanted it back, for the british they say this is a matter of sovereignty and that will not be del carbon and was people living in gibraltar seem to favour british road, some surveys suggest that. the issue is not creating friction on the border between gibraltar and fr