Mr sunak is expected to meet his israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and israeli president isaac herzog for what he said, on arrival here, he hoped would be productive meetings. This, after urging regional leaders to avoid further dangerous escalation. In gaza, meanwhile, egypt has agreed to let humanitarian supplies in via The Rafah Crossing. An initial convoy of 20 trucks of aid are expected to enter gaza after a deal announced by President Biden and the earliest is tomorrow. Announcing the agreement, the us president warned that the aid convoys would be stopped if any supplies were confiscated by hamas, which governs gaza and is regarded as a Terrorist Organisation by the uk and us. We can bring you live pictures of gaza. It isjust after 11 00 in the morning. Israels military says it hit hundreds of sites in gaza over the last 2a hours targeting, it says, hamas infrustrauctre. With the latest, heres our correspondent wyre davies. As trucks carrying aid queue on the egyptian side
Is in israel for his two day visit to the middle east. He has just sat down with his israeli counterpart, benjamin netanyahu, who welcomed him to the country. Earlier, mr sunak met israeli president isaac herzog and expressed personal condolences over the loss of life. He told the president that the uk stands in solidarity with israel and backed its right to defend itself. Mr sunak said they agreed on the importance of getting aid to ordinary palestinians in gaza and stressed the need to avoid Futher Escalation across the region. Iam glad i am glad we have had the chance to talk. Palestinians are victims of what hamas has done, and it is important that we continue to provide humanitarian access. I welcomed the announcement yesterday. We in the uk have announced further aid that we are prepared to bring into the region, and we are keen to see that that gets to those who need it to enable, as you say, when people have been asked to leave, to protect civilian life, which is the right thin
which is happening specifically in liberal run cities? well couple of thing. if you look at the data from fbi it is not really so much a spike as a study increase and it is about since 2013. we ve seen the levels increase in last several years for a multifacet set of reasons reason they re most pronounce in blue blue cities is because that s where you see the population density. that results in the high levels of crimes we re going to have to take a multifacet approach on local, state, federal level that will address these things for example most of this is pushed by drug gangs throughout the country so we need to use counterterrorism laws some ones used to prosecute people for other crime around country. use that to drug gangs terrorizing communities and across southern border. i think republicans and democrats agree on that. let s reform way we get police officers out of the car back walking a beat knowings enemy their community to inspire type
Fifteen civil society organisations have condemned an EU bid to jointly chair the Global Counterterrorism Task Force with Egypt, saying that Egypt was abusing counterterrorism laws to punish human rights defenders.
from prison injuly this year. the authorities had tried everything, they say, to try to keep him behind bars but they exhausted every legal avenue and as far as new zealand s counterterrorism laws, as they currently stand, this man wasn t able to be kept in prison and that s why for more than 50 days, he was under 24 hour police surveillance and was being very closely monitored when he launched his attack in that supermarket in auckland on friday afternoon. the latest on the new zealand attacker, named as mohammad samsudeen adil. let s look at some of the day s other news. lebanon says syria has agreed to help it import electricity, to help ease power shortages now crippling many areas of life. the project was discussed in damascus in the first high level talks between the two governments for years. it would involve using egyptian gas to generate electricity injordan, which would then be sent