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the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is on another diplomatic tour of the middle east his fifth visit to the region since the conflict erupted between israel and hamas. he will be visiting saudi arabia, israel, egypt, qatar and the occupied west bank. mr blinken s trip follows days of air strikes by the united states against iranian linked targets in iraq, syria and yemen. ahead of his arrival, a drone attack killed six us backed kurdish fighters at an american base in eastern syria. mr blinken is also expected to discuss boosting aid to gaza, as well as a possible ceasefire and hostage deal between israel and hamas. the israeli prime minister has warned he will not accept the demands of hamas over hostages still held. the un has warned of an impending famine in gaza affecting more than 2 million people. our correspondent, barbara plett usher, explained the main aim of mr blinken s visit. that possible ceasefire deal, which would involve the release of some of t ....
new post brexit trade arrangements between northern ireland, the rest of the uk and the european union have been set out by the uk government. the democratic unionist party refused to support earlier trade plans but has backed this new deal. so what do we know? well, it will reduce checks and paperwork on goods going from great britain to northern ireland. there will be no routine checks on british items being sold to consumers in northern ireland. however, some british products brought in for processing, such as raw materials and components, will still face full customs processes. to discuss what s at stake, i m joined by roger pollen head of the federation of small businesses for northern ireland. roger, lovely to see you again. good morning. roger, lovely to see you again. good morning. good day for you toda ? it good morning. good day for you today? it is good morning. good day for you today? it is a good morning. good day for you today? it is a very good morning ....
the metropolitan police have given an update on the manhunt for the man suspected of carrying out a chemical attack in south london last week. detectives hunting for alkali attack suspect abdul ezedi have arrested they say the last sighting was in london. investigators have been trawling through hundreds of hours of sisi ddii and have tracked abdul ezedi s to note movement. he s been on a run for five days. a woman remains in hospital that are thought to be life changing after the attack on wednesday. budget with the police had to say earlier. ~ ., ., ., ~ earlier. where are we on making that hard? is working earlier. where are we on making that hard? is working at earlier. where are we on making that hard? is working at pace earlier. where are we on making that hard? is working at pace with - hard? is working at pace with hundreds of detectives and officers working to follow up every lead we get. i m gratefulfor all the help and support we re getting from the pub ....
minister today and we are not working on failure, we are working on the basis we are going to be successful. we know we have a lot of work to do but we need the treasury to be engaged because for many years we have been underfunded and we want to transform our health service. we have an entry as long as your arm in terms of the issues we need to deal with and some of that we will discuss today. we have such a vast area of work we need to focus our attention on what we need to be able to have proper financial arrangements to allow us to to have properfinancial arrangements to allow us to do to have proper financial arrangements to allow us to do that. we are not going to give up on day one. we have made the case very strongly and we will continue to do that but the strength now is we are working together to try and secure what we need. we working together to try and secure what we need- what we need. we have been very clear as well what we need. we have been very clea ....
scarlettjenkinson and eddie ratcliffe, the killers of brianna ghey. distressing. the two had been close, trusted friends, at school together, untiljenkinson was temporarily moved to birchwood high where scarlett became friends with brianna. in terms of scarlett, there were no red flags that came up. i think sitting and listening in court to the messages between eddie and scarlett was very, very surreal, and trying to imagine that anyone would talk in that way, plan in that way, and for it to be a child that you ve actually met is even more shocking. brianna s friend had dark fantasies she shared with ratcliffe. she wrote a letter planning how they d attack her. he smuggled a hunting knife out of his home. unaware, on a saturday afternoon, brianna went to meet them. they walked to the park and murdered her in cold blood, stabbing her more than two dozen times before running off across the fields, leaving her to die alone. they were arrested shortly after the attack an ....