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Philippe lazzarini, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. You run the unwra relief agency. You have 13,000 staff inside gaza. You currently are not able to visit gaza. What is it like when you hear that, as yesterday, wednesday, six members of your staff have been killed in an israeli bomb attack? this is always absolutely devastating. Yesterday i was boarding the plane coming from cairo to london, when i heard the news. And this happened in a school which was also sheltering at that time 12,000 people. And they are in this school because they still believe that the united nations flag can protect them. Yesterday, six staff working in the shelter, providing assistance, organising, in fact, the lives of these families, have been killed. Now 220 staff since the beginning of the war. The worst, stephen, is to know that maybe tomorrow we will even have more staff being killed. And the question is, when will this end? not only staff is being targeted, but we have also the united nations ....
After neil armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, billionaire jared isaacman became the first non professional astronaut to walk in space. Our science correspondent phalab ghosh was back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here earth sure looks like a perfect world. Historic words for an historic moment. Out comes the first private sector astronaut to walk in space. Silhouetted on earth s orbit. He d paid billions of dollars for this experience. The capsule has no air logs of the entire spacecraft is in the vacuum of space once the doors open. Then the all important checks to make sure the spacesuits don t leak. They have been upgraded for the spacewalk, stronger and more flexible. The helmets have a heads up display so they see how well their bodies are coping. The air is taken out of the capsule so the pressure inside matches what is outside. The hatch opens, and isaacman exits the spacecraft. There is not much to do outside apart from testing the suit, ....
Good afternoon. Former sub postmasters who inspired a tv drama about the post office it scandal, have been told by the prime minister the government will compensate them as quickly as they can. Sir keir starmer was speaking after the former sub postmistress jo hamilton told bbc breakfast the government was still messing us around over compensation payments. She launched a scathing attack on ministers at the national television awards last night. The itv drama mr bates versus the post office won three awards. Here s our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba. Mr bates vs the post office. Correspondent lizo mzimba. | cheering and applause correspondent lizo mzimba. It was one of the big winners of the night, the itv series watched by millions and hailed for its portrayal of post office sub postmasters and sub postmistresses wrongly accused of theft. While we re just skint little people. Scooping up the award for best drama and tobyjones, who played sub postmaster alan bates, winning b ....
Welcome back to bbc news. Let s turn to our main headlines this half hour. Histroy in the making. The billionaire businessman jared isaacman becomes the first non professional astronaut to walk in space in the first privately funded mission. Sir keir starmer warns the nhs is broken but not beaten after a damning report into the health service in england. And rock starjon bonjovi is praised for helping to talk down a woman from the edge of a bridge. Taylor swift cleans up at the mtv awards becoming the ceremony s most decorated artist. We have all the highlights from the big night. Now with all the latest sport, here s hugh ferris. Mikel arteta has signed a new three year contract to stay at arsenal until 2020. The manager had just entered the final year of his previous contract which had brought the fa cup in 2020 and back to back second place finishes in the premier league behind manchester city. And he says he wants to do much more at the emirates. With more, here s ourfootball ....
In a speech delivered earlier today, sir keir warned the health system must reform or die as working people cannot afford to pay more to revive the institution. He also blamed the previous conservative government for the situation. Let s take a look at some of the findings in that report. It found that if you turn up to an accident and emergency department it s likely that one hundred people could be in front of you waiting for treatment. It also found that there are around fourteen thousand avoidable deaths a year. And the last time the nhs met the cancer treatment target which is 62 days was nine years ago, in 2015. Sir keir starmer says some of their changes won t be universally popular, but he says he will do the right thing for the nhs. Lets take a listen to some of what he had to say. We ve just got to be more ambitious. Like children s mental health or children s dentistry, you know. And look, i know some prevention measures will be controversial, but i m prepared to be bol ....