nominations in the scottish national partly leadership national party leadership race close at midday, with humza yousaf, kate forbes and ash regan expected to appear on the ballot paper. and new research for the bbc suggests the price of pasta has nearly doubled in two years for uk consumers with the rate of food price rises still running at almost 17%. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine will do everything it can to defeat russia this year in a statement marking the anniversary of vladimir putin s full scale invasion. ceremonies are taking place across the country remebering those killed or forced to flee from the conflict. here in the uk, rishi sunak will urge allies to increase military support to ukraine, during a meeting of g7 countries. there will also be a minute s silence across the uk at 11 o clock. ourfirst report comes from our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. a thud, marking the
Israel has admitted that it carried out the airstrike in Gaza Last Night that killed seven people working for the food aid Charity World central kitchen, including three british nationals. The bbc has learned their names arejohn chapman, James Henderson and james kirby. The Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, said Israeli Forces had caused Unintentional Harm to innocent people and called it a tragic incident this despite the charity having coordinated its movements with the israeli military. The strike has been condemned by governments around the world and raised fears that the already fragile system of delivering aid to starving palestinians could collapse completely. The Hamas Run Health Ministry in gaza claims nearly 33,000 people have been killed there since the war began in october. From jerusalem, our correspondent Lucy Williamson reports. Hey, this is zomi. Were at the Deir Al Balah kitchen. They came from australia, poland, the us and the uk. Their mission to feed people, one o
in the last few hours the israeli military has announced what it s calling a daily tactical pause in part of southern gaza, but not the city of rafah. it says the halt and hostilities will be an daytime hours. humanitarian in the last few hours the israeli military has announced what it s calling a daily tactical pause in part of southern gaza, but not the city of rafah. that is where the focus of the military operation is. it says the halt in operations will be during daylight hours to facilitate the delivery of aid. aid organisations have repeatedly warned of a humanitarian crisis in gaza. israel has released the names of the eight soldiers killed by a hamas rocket in rafah on saturday, the deadliest incident israel has said it happened during an operational operation. has said israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu has the water continue. it says the halt and hostilities will be an daytime hours. first thing this morning, we got a statement from the idf saying that the
let s not beat around the bush, it is a war, the biggest in europe since 1945, it has had enormous consequences for european security, economic damage, globally speaking, and if as you have just been discussing with our colleague in china, if the chinese get more involved on the russian side, the conflict has way more serious global implications. so while president zelensky talks about victory this year, he does not have the wherewithal as things stand to do that and neither do the russians. the answer in that case is the most likely outcome over the next few months is a lot more bloodshed in grinding attritional warfare. jeremy bowen, grinding attritional warfare. jeremy bowen. thank grinding attritional warfare. jeremy bowen, thank you. justin crump is a defence, intelligence and security expert with 25 years service in the british army. he s now chief executive of sibylline, an intelligence consultancy.