But, without a working port, its not clear yet where the ship will actually dock or how its cargo will be distributed inside gaza. 0ur middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville is in the Port City Of Larnaca in cyprus and sent us this report. Its a drop in the ocean of gazas need, but this is the first direct aid shipment by sea about to leave cyprus. The spanish ship the open arms, seen here in larnaca port, getting ready to set sail. It has a long journey ahead of it. The barge has 200 tonnes of desperately needed essentials rice, flour and pre prepared meals. This has taken months in planning. The cargo was loaded all weekend. The final Security Clearances from israel came through in the last few hours. Well, weve done truckloads of food through the rafah crossing. Weve done airdrops with thejordanian army. This is the next step into providing food aid into gaza. But this is only a small breakthrough. Israels offensive has led to a collapse in civil order. Few Aid Organisations
Thats down from 3. 9 in the three months to november. It marked the lowest level seen since the November 2022 to january 2023 period. Wage growth slowed again in the britishjobs market. But and this is key it is still outpacing price rises, according to the office for national statistics. Lets hear now from michael stull, director at manpowergroup uk. Michael, what are you expecting to see a little later on . Im always very excited for when the numbers come out. Im expecting a couple of things, one is i do think unemployment will take up a little bit, as you mentioned wage growth is going to slow. We will see vacancies down and underlying all of that in the Labour Market we have two bosses, a cold and hot going on. On the cold and hot going on. On the cold side we have sent a dropping, weve seen hiring slowing down and we are not out of the woods. We are blue business and consumer confidence. Manufacturing pmi is a very low, big into caters. 0n the hot side we see a lot of hiring going
Putting them on a path to higher paying jobs. In fact, on this trip alone, these companies are announcing over 1 billion of us investments, including creating Educational Opportunities to over 30 million filipinos. President joe biden has proposed a 7. 3 trillion budget on monday, calling for new social programmes and higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy. The plan offers a stark contrast with Donald Trumps Economic Vision ahead of novembers us president ial election. The bbc s north America Business correspondent Michelle Fleury in new york has more. President biden outlined his Election Year budget pitch including tax breaks for families, lower healthcare families, Lower Healthca Re costs families, lower Healthcare Costs and a higher taxes on wealth incorporation as well as trying to get more money to help your defend itself against russia and for aid for israel. If the biden budget became law, it would save 3 trillion through higher taxes over ten years but it would also push
anniversary. live from our studio in singapore, - anniversary. live from our studio in singapore, this. anniversary. live from our| studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. the us says there will be more attacks against houthi forces in yemen after overnight american and uk air strikes, which hit more than 30 positions. the houthis, who are backed by iran, have been targetting vessels in the red sea since november. they say this is in support of the palestinians in gaza. they are one of several militias in the middle east with iranian backing. the us targeted others in syria and iraq earlier this weekend, and there have been funerals today in baghdad after 17 people were killed. our international editor jeremy bowen considers whether there is any chance of a cessation of the conflict at the heart of all this between israel and hamas in gaza. raf jets rafjets took off from the british base in cyprus bought the long flights to hit houthi targets in yemen. other west
the us says there will be more attacks against houthi forces in yemen after overnight american and uk airstrikes which hit more than thirty positions. the houthis, who are backed by iran, have been targetting vessels in the red sea since november they say this is in support of the palestinians in gaza. they are one of several militias in the middle east with iranian backing. the us targeted others in syria and iraq earlier this weekend and there ve been funerals today in baghdad after 17 people were killed. our international editor jeremy bowen considers whether there is any chance of a cessation of the conflict at the heart of all this between israel and hamas in gaza. rafjets took off from the british base in cyprus for the long flight to hit houthi targets in yemen. other western allies also affected by houthi attacks on shipping decided not to join the american air strikes. britain said these raids do not escalate a widening war in the middle east. others in the mid