let s get more from our security correspondent, frank gardner. this is a potential route to further escalation of the israel hamas war. the hu theis, who have controlled much of yemen for the last nine years houthis, they control that course, they are backed by iran. time and again they have spoken of what they call their brothers, hamas. three ships have been attacked by their drones and missiles yesterday. the us navy missiles yesterday. the us navy missile guided destroyer that was the in area came to their aid. it is possible that came under fire as well. it is not clear if that was directed against the us warship as well. the us navy warship took defensive action and shot down two of the drones, but there were some hits on the ships. the reason why this is the risk of escalation is that the us has said that this is a threat to maritime security and commercial shipping, and that it was going to consider the appropriate response in conjunction with its allies and partne
at edinburgh zoo. and coming up on bbc news. manchester united s champions league hopes in the balance, with keeper onana in the spotlight after letting their lead slip at galatasaray. good afternoon. rail strikes by the rmt union are over for now. its members have voted to accept a pay deal, to end their year long dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions. they will get a backdated pay rise of 5%. it means the end of the union s mandate for more strikes until at least next spring. but another rail union aslef is pressing ahead with more industrial action starting tomorrow. here s our transport correspondent katy austin. it s been nearly a year and a half since the long running series of strikes on the railway began. commuters like these in west sussex have had to get used to it. if you want to go to work instead of being stuck at home, yeah, it disrupts normal everyday life 100%. i don t understand why there s so many. i haven t been able to go into work as frequently a
those two cases were on the 30th and sist those two cases were on the 30th and 31st of january and there would almost certainly be more. the central point according to these minutes is that government had a plan to deal with illness. yes. you didn t in fact, plan to deal with illness. 133 you didn t in fact, within the department of health and social care, commission until the 10th of february the plan, the battle plan as you describe in your statement, or the action plan as it was published on the 3rd of march. and therefore, what plan was it that you were referring to cabinet colleagues too, to deal with the illness? firstly, we had the pandemic flu strategy set out in 2011, but by this point we had a whole series of different plans for expanding different plans for expanding different areas. so we had a plan for the expansion of testing within the hd. that plan didn t go fast enough and i had to take serious action to change that in the middle of march. we had a plan for
those families of those hostages. the largest number of foreign nationals taken by hamas on october the 7th when they seized 250 people of nationality in breaking news line, the israeli military said they have retaliated today to cross border fire from southern lebanon, the united nations keep peacekeeping force in lebanon has told the reuters news agency who are reporting this and reuters witnesses said they had blasts along the south eastern lebanese frontier with israel and we know this is an extremely sensitive area and hundreds of thousands of israelis have been moved out of that area where there have been skirmishes since october the but reuters reporting the israeli military have retaliated on thursday to cross border fire from southern lebanon and of course that is a his brother stronghold. let s bring you the latest from dubai. c0 p28 co p28 taking place. cop28 taking place. such a significant event. we cop28 taking place. such a significant event. cop28 taking plac