Fronts money for first celebrations are being held across morocco to mocKing Muhammad the six twentieth year on the throne. Towns and cities have been decked out the flags and newspapers have published editorials praising the monarchs cheap mints. But theres also been descent with some pointing to inequality in the high rate of youth unemployment. Newman lloyd reports. It was twenty years ago that King Muhammad the sixth of morocco came to the throne. After the death of his father house and the second. He spent his childhood being prepareded for the role. His coronation the thirty five year old promise to come to poverty unemployment and social inequality. There were high hopes for a reformist king after the brutal regime of his father. Two decades on what progress has there b been. Economic g growth has been steay the country has seen Major Construction projects like the Worlds Largest concentrated solar power plant on the edge of the sahara desert. And africas first if a high speed r
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Hello. This is bbc news. We start with the latest on the israel gaza war. In the past hours, weve heard that the heads of the us and Israeli Security agencies have met to discuss the hostage situation. The Israeli Prime Ministers Office said the cia and mossad bosses met on friday in efforts to advance another hostage deal. In cypius, final preparations are being made for the first aid vessel to use the sea corridor to gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children are starving to death. This is the scene live in larnaca in cyprus where 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies have been loaded onto a barge. It will be towed by a Spanish Charity ship to gaza. The sea corridor is a joint operation between the eu, us, uk and united arab emirates, aiming to take supplies from cyprus to the gazan coast. This video shot today along the Israeli Border into gaza shows more aid being dropped. The parachutes carrying the boxes of supplies to the people of
Prime minister leo varadkar says it was a comprehensive defeat. We return now to the situation in the middle east. The us military says its ships and aircraft have shot down more than a dozen drones In The Red Sea after coming under what it called a sustained attack by iranian backed houthi forces in yemen. Us Central Command said the drones represented an imminent threat to merchant vessels, and us and coalition warships. Here s david waddell. The singapore registered propel fortune is the latest commercial ship to be targeted by the houthi movement. The bulk carrier departed india just under two weeks ago, with her automatic Identification System signalling that she was not connected to israel supposedly to deter this kind of attack from yemen. The uk Maritime Trade Organisation said the captain reported no Collateral Damage to the ship and that she was bound for her next port. These attacks have been ongoing since october, both In The Red Sea and in the gulf of aden, causing many c
In hong kong it is just past 8 00 a. M. Probably a week that betty wants to forget. After this article by a former engineer but we are going to dig deeper into the story about the patent fight. In the markets, not a lot of fighting to get to the top in the markets. He saw the dow hit yet another record high. Thenteresting to hear coming back hashtag coming back. Lets get a market check. That puzzlement certainly playing out at the start of trading in asia this friday. They are still set for a fifth weekly gain. With the yen below 113 were of ag pressure, down 7 10 percent. Toshiba on the up almost 4 . A lot of newsline around the conglomerate and it is supposed to begin the process according to reports. We are seeing it snap four days of gains. We got south korea Consumer Confidence rising in february but still below the reading that shows pessimists outnumber optimists. Sydney dragging. Seeing iseme we are the retreat in commodity prices. Particularly movers in sydney. Continuing to f