Test. Englands cricketers are sliding towards defeat in birmingham, five wickets down now on the final day. We will have the latest for you. Thanks olly and matt has all the weather one word wet. We are in the height of the Holiday Season we are in the height of the Holiday Season and the weather is in a cantankerous mood, lots of showers around and wetter weather to come, believe it or not. I will have more details in half an hour. Thanks matt. Also coming up on afternoon live, well have the latest from hong kong where police have fired tear gas to disperse democracy activists trying to enforce a general strike. Hello everyone this is afternoon live im martine croxall. The Prime Minister has pledged to spend 850 Million Pounds on nhs building projects, at 20 hospitals in england. The money over the next five years, will be used to upgrade outdated facilities and equipment. A further billion pounds is to be used to tackle a backlog in hospital improvements. Speaking on a visit to a hos
He was also a very good friend, a good comrade, we worked very closely together for many months in syria, im a little older than him, he turned to me all the time, hes a talented man, hes talented in everything, besides the fact that he was really a real warrior, he also wrote music, played many musical instruments, wrote poetry, a very bright person, a very great friend, whom we will all miss very much here. Semyon, i knew him from syria, we worked together in the arab republic and i always admired his irrepressible energy, you can imagine, we every evening returned from filming, tired, the heat was 40, some took a shower, some rested, some went about their business, changed clothes and went for a run, in this regard he could lead, after some time his cameraman began to run with him, then other guys also joined in. Everyone took an example from him, he was a man who inspired us to good deeds, a man with an iron will with an iron character, for him the concept of an Impossible Task did
In the pile, the water goes away from what is underneath it. The freezer was full of meat, everything was drowned, it was 3 m, then 2 m, now you can walk through. Call from moscow to the yamal tundra. All our people, from the kremlin, are with you, your friends from the kremlin. Putin congratulated the deer family on their wedding. Russia is always ready for peaceful negotiations without imposing schemes, but it is not going to ask for a place where it is not invited. Vladimir putin clearly outlined the difference between pseudopeace summits and meetings, which have already been initiated by moscow and minsk. The heads of state noted the pointlessness of attempts by supposedly neutral switzerland to gather as many as 120 countries to present an ultimatum to russia. Heads also made the assessment that putin himself gave, speaking about the diplomatic maneuvers of the westerners poptikum and there is an explanation for this the idea is being promoted to hold some kind of conference in sw
Of representatives, nancy pelosi. Now this letter comes as a growing number of countries are calling for an independent investigation into the israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers. Thats after the idf published its first account of mondays deadly attack. Britain has echoed calls by the Charity World central kitchen for an independent review into the strike on its convoy of vehicles. Of those seven aid workers killed three were british nationals. The British Foreign secretary, lord cameron, said london would carefully review the initial report by the israeli military. He welcomed the suspension of two senior israeli officers as a first step, but said israel must publish its findings in full. And within the past couple of hours australias Foreign Minister, penny wong, said the Australian Government expects full accountability over the deaths. This has been a deadly failure of deconfliction. Deconfliction is the process by which humanitarian agencies engage with Defense Forc
Allison Kaplan Sommer is a journalist at Israeli Newspaper Haaretz and host of the haaretz podcast. She told us how israelis were reacting to todays news. They want their hostages back. They want them alive. As many as still remain alive. And the mood was encapsulated by a Facebook Post from his sister, she posted. Basically, she was the one who announced as much as the israeli army announced that her brothers body had been recovered and returned to israel. And she wrote on facebook, youre going to hear from the army about their Daring Rescue operation in which they got my brothers body and returned it to israel. And she said, dont let anyone fool you. This is not a rescue operation. This is an incident of my brother having been abandoned to die. The first abandonment took place when the military did not move into the kibbutz from which he was kidnapped, in time, and he was kidnapped. And there were two videos released of her brother alive and in captivity. So they know that he did not