Got dancers, we have popstars we are back! and, no masks, no social distancing just a negative test is the ticket required for 4000 people at tonight s brit awards in london. Hello and welcome. There s been a major escalation in the violence between israel and the palestinians, the worst in seven years. The united nations has warned the conflict is escalating towards full scale war. After weeks of protests 28 people, including 10 children, were killed in gaza following israeli airstrikes, and rockets fired into israel from gaza have killed 3 people there. The israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the palestinians would pay a very heavy price. A hamas spokesman told the bbc israel should stop what it was doing or palestinians would react. 0ur middle east correspondent tom bateman has this report from jerusalem, which contains scenes that some may find disturbing. A street ablaze on israel s normally bustling coastline. People run for shelter. Others have a lucky escape. But
Is the ticket required for 4000 people at tonight s brit awards in london. Hello and welcome to the programme. There s been a major escalation in the violence between israel and the palestinians, 33 people have died in the last 2a hours. Hamas firing large numbers of rockets into israel and the israelis destroying two high rise blocks in gaza. Palestinian groups say they ve launched i30 rockets into southern israel some of them reaching as far as tel aviv, around 60 kilometres from gaza. The new barrage came after an israeli air strike destroyed an apartment building in gaza city following a warning to its residents to leave. Israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has now said that the palestinians will pay a very heavy price . The palestinians say they are ready for any escalation. At least 31 people have already died in some of the worst violence in years. Three people have been killed in israeli areas while at least 28 palestinians have been killed by israeli air strikes. On
violence, let s go to christina at now she is following the story from los angeles, what work he tells christina? democrat mayor ted wheeler strongly opposed to former president donald trump sending in federal agents to help stop the ongoing destruction and violence wreaking havoc in portland. the mayor even stood with protesters and rejected federal support during a riot last summer. while now, portland has seen an uptick in the unrest it has ramped up after the derek schaub invertebrates are not mayor is as the people in the community to help identify members of what he calls self-described anarchist mob who have been engage in acts of violence and vandalism in recent months. the groups are getting smaller yet there are probably more determined. they want to burn, they want to bash, they want to intimidate. they want to assault. however the mayor is still calling for police reform it in a recent statement he said we continue to reform the police to bureau enter public
strange fruit to be a call to arms, anslinger sets agent jimmy fletcher on holiday s case with instructions to infiltrate her inner circle and bring her down. you ve heard those lyrics, they provoke people. # blood on the leaves and blood at the root. written by pulitzer prize winners suzan lori parks and directed by lee daniels who made precious and the butler this retelling of holiday s story imagines a relationship between the singer and the federal agent sent to spy on her. understandable, when he s played by the broodingly handsome travanti rhodes, who made such an impact in the moonlight. it reminds them that they re killing us. ironically undercuts the more powerful narrative about holiday s roles of a voice of civil rights activism and the authorities desire to silence her by any means necessary. it doesn t help that daniels, who s always been a gleefully unruly director, throws the audience several stylistic cu rve balls. careening wildly from stagey interviews to h
many of us. not everyone, however, with some mist and fog patches forming over the next couple of days. i ll be back with all the details. it s saturday, the 27th february. our top story. the chancellor has said he ll use wednesday s budget to level with the british people about the state of the economy in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. in an interview with the financial times, rishi sunak warns that the uk has been left exposed because of its high debt levels, but acknowledges he ll need to keep spending for the time being to supportjobs. our business reporter, ramzan karmali, reports. with government spending heading towards £300 billion to deal with the pandemic, the unemployment rate hitting its highest level in five years, and the uk economy shrinking almost 10% in 2020, all eyes will be on the chancellor next week, when he delivers his budget on wednesday. 0ne delivers his budget on wednesday. one area that will be in focus will be the housing market. 0ver one are