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right thing, last christmas. the world food programme suspends aid distribution in two towns in northern ethiopia after gunmen loot its warehouses. new zealand plans an innovative scheme to stop the younger generation from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime. a bbc investigation finds british rubbish is being illegally shipped to romania and dumped. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the health secretary, sajid javid, says new restrictions in england are needed to buy time in order for people to get their boosters and protect against the spread of the omicron variant, which he said could overwhelm the nhs, if left unchecked. but the government faces a mounting backlash to the plans from its own mps with a substantial tory rebellion expected when the plans come to a vote in the commons, next week. one tory mp suggested it was a diversion from allegations over downing street christmas parties during restrictions last year. plan b restri ....
sunday is looking mild. a bit of rain in the forecast but sunny spells on the way too. it s sunday the 24th of october. good morning. our main story: ministers are to formalise their committment to a skills revolution in england with a series of measures to be unveiled in the chancellor s budget on wednesday. in his autumn statement, rishi sunak will announce £1.6 billion to roll out new t levels for teenagers and £550 million for adult skills. college leaders say the funding is welcome but doesn t go far enough. here s our political correspondent, nick eardley. what we want to see is a high wage, high skilled economy. the government high skilled economy. the government says high skilled economy. the government says it - high skilled economy. the government says it wants to change the way the uk economy works, moving to higher skilled, more productive workforce which earns more money. in this week s budget, the chancellor will have the task of setting out more abo ....
to an israeli offensive in rafah. the us ambassador called russia and china s vetos notjust cynical but petty. russia and china simply did not want to vote for a resolution that was penned by the united states because it would rather see us fail than to see this council succeed. even after inclusive consultations over weeks and weeks. even after negotiations and edits produced a draft that received overwhelming council support. and as you saw today, nearly every council member voted to put the full weight of this body behind the diplomatic efforts to secure an immediate and sustained ceasefire as part of a deal that leads to the release of all hostages, that will allow much more humanitarian aid to get into gaza. but once again russia put politics over progress. russia, who has carried out an unprovoked war on its neighbour, has the audacity and hypocrisy to throw stones when it lives in a glass house itself. so let s be honest, for all the fiery rhetoric, we all know ....
the goal of ensuring israel s long term security. as we have said, though, a major military ground operation in rafah is not the way to do it. it risks killing more civilians, wreaking greater havoc with the provision of humanitarian assistance, and further isolating israel around the world, and jeopardising its long term security and standing. so we are looking for to having israeli officials in washington next week to talk about a different way of achieving these objectives, objectives we share of defeating hamas and ensuring israel s long term security. it an integrated humanitarian, military and political plan. as i said, we will be talking about that next week, going through the details of what we see as the best way forward. we also had an opportunity to talk about the longer term trajectory, what needs to happen once the conflict in gaza is over. conversations we have had with arab partners in the last couple of days, and with israel as well. we are determined th ....
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