Suffered minor injuries from shell fragments. It happened as checks were carried out on a second convoy of trucks waiting to take humanitarian aid from egypt to the gaza strip. The seventeen vehicles at rafah were being searched to ensure they were carrying only humanitarian aid. Twenty vehicles loaded with medicines and food passed through on saturday, the first since israel tightened its blockade of the territory more than two weeks ago. The Rafa Crossing is on the egyptian border, and is the only route not bordering israel, which means its currently the only potential way to deliver humanitarian aid into gaza. In other developments, irans foreign minister, has accused israel of committing genocide in gaza, and warned the situation in the middle east, risks spiralling Out Of Control. Israel has been continuing to carry out out aerial bombing of gaza. Its nowjust over two weeks since the hamas attacks inside israel, in which iii hundred people were killed. The Health Ministry in gaza
it was still dark when conservative mps arrived at downing street earlier this morning. over breakfast, the prime minister was trying to persuade them to back his latest attempt to send asylum seekers to rwanda. are you going to vote against the bill? are you satisfied? they were tight lipped on the way out about whether they had been convinced. some have been clear about their doubts. we are all of one mind on this. we all want the government to succeed in stopping the boats. we all want this legislation to be the right tool to deliver that. and i am genuinely grateful to the government for what they have done to make sure that this is the toughest ever piece of legislation. it is still partial and incomplete. successive home secretaries have been to rwanda, but so far no asylum seekers. some conservative mps say the government s latest attempt still falls short, and the plan could remain tangled in legal challenges in the courts. others have warned the government against go
conservative mps to back him. if he d lost tonight it would have significantly dented his authority. in total, 313 mps voted in favour of the bill and 269 mps voted against it, meaning the government had a majority of 44 votes. no conservatives mps voted against the bill, but 37 did not vote. chris mason is in westminster. a day ofjeopardy and a day of jitters and the government deploying every tool of persuasion and mathematics, so the phone calls and the snatched conversations in the corridors, the more formal meetings, and on the mathematical side making sure everyone who could vote for the government was here in order to vote for the government. to give you an example, the climate minister who was at the climate talks in the middle east, flew all the way back so that he could vote. that is how nervous the government was, despite the result when we finally got it. quite an evening then after quite a day. quite an evening then after quite a da . . , . , ., day. excuse me,
1 1 draw against newcastle. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. four teenage friends who were found dead in a crashed car in gwynedd in north wales earlier this month died from drowning, a coroner has said. wilf fitchett, jevon hirst, harvey owen and hugo morris had gone missing during a camping trip. our reporter chris deardenjoins us from the inquest in caernarfon. yes, this morning s hearing at the coroners court lasted just four minutes here in caernarfon, and another none of the families of the four young men were present. the senior coroner confirmed the names and ages of all four, 16 year old kevan hurst, wilf fitchett, jevon hirst, harvey owen and hugo morris, all four described simply as being from shropshire, we are told they were in north wales on a camping trip that weekend before last. the coroner said the post mortem exam nations had taken place and showed that all four had drowned when the car they were travelling in left the a4085, the car was l