the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is on another diplomatic tour of the middle east his fifth visit to the region since the conflict erupted between israel and hamas. he will be visiting saudi arabia, israel, egypt, qatar and the occupied west bank. mr blinken s trip follows days of air strikes by the united states against iranian linked targets in iraq, syria and yemen. ahead of his arrival, a drone attack killed six us backed kurdish fighters at an american base in eastern syria. mr blinken is also expected to discuss boosting aid to gaza, as well as a possible ceasefire and hostage deal between israel and hamas. the israeli prime minister has warned he will not accept the demands of hamas over hostages still held. the un has warned of an impending famine in gaza affecting more than 2 million people. our correspondent, barbara plett usher, explained the main aim of mr blinken s visit. that possible ceasefire deal, which would involve the release of some of the isr
the metropolitan police have given an update on the manhunt for the man suspected of carrying out a chemical attack in south london last week. detectives hunting for alkali attack suspect abdul ezedi have arrested they say the last sighting was in london. investigators have been trawling through hundreds of hours of sisi ddii and have tracked abdul ezedi s to note movement. he s been on a run for five days. a woman remains in hospital that are thought to be life changing after the attack on wednesday. budget with the police had to say earlier. ~ ., ., ., ~ earlier. where are we on making that hard? is working earlier. where are we on making that hard? is working at earlier. where are we on making that hard? is working at pace earlier. where are we on making that hard? is working at pace with - hard? is working at pace with hundreds of detectives and officers working to follow up every lead we get. i m gratefulfor all the help and support we re getting from the public in
and the products are then sold to the uk. it s not illegal and does not breach the uk s russian oil ban, but critics say it undermines sanctions aimed at restricting russia s war funds. mai rosner leads the ukraine project at the charity global witness which is behind some of the research. she told me about the implications of the loophole. what it means is that countries like india and china and turkey are importing millions and millions of barrels of russian oil, which they then process into fuel products like diesel, jet fuel and gasoline. those products are then sold on to the west to countries that directly embargo russian oil. this means that western countries like the uk are still linked to supply chains that are fuelling kremlin revenues through these oil purchases and that uk flights and cars are still running on products that are derived from russian oil. how much money is that putting into the war chest for moscow, given that there is a reliance and some countrie
minister today and we are not working on failure, we are working on the basis we are going to be successful. we know we have a lot of work to do but we need the treasury to be engaged because for many years we have been underfunded and we want to transform our health service. we have an entry as long as your arm in terms of the issues we need to deal with and some of that we will discuss today. we have such a vast area of work we need to focus our attention on what we need to be able to have proper financial arrangements to allow us to to have properfinancial arrangements to allow us to do to have proper financial arrangements to allow us to do that. we are not going to give up on day one. we have made the case very strongly and we will continue to do that but the strength now is we are working together to try and secure what we need. we working together to try and secure what we need- what we need. we have been very clear as well what we need. we have been very clear as w
but behind the headline number it s not all good news as sales of electric cars to to private individuals are continuing to struggle. let s hear now from the smmt chief executive, mike hawes. this kid to have you with us, mike. apologies for that, a few technical issues. quite a milestone, the 1,000,000th car. it is not private individuals, it is company cars? car. it is not private individuals, it is company cars? evs have been on the market it is company cars? evs have been on the market for it is company cars? evs have been on the market for about it is company cars? evs have been on the market for about a it is company cars? evs have been on the market for about a decade - it is company cars? evs have been on the market for about a decade now. the market for about a decade now and it has taken us that long to get to a million. we need to accelerate that progress and hopefully we can get to the next million in two years rather than ten or 20. it is the business buy