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Hello, im in nicky schiller, welcome to the programme. We start this hour with reaction to the news that us lawmakers in the senate have approved a 95 billion aid package for ukraine, israel and taiwan. President biden says he will sign the bill later today and that more arms and equipment will be sent to ukraine within a week. The overwhelming vote in favour of the deal marks the end of six months of deadlock amongst us politicians. The measures approve around 61 billion in long awaited aid for ukraine alone. It also designates more than 26 billion in aid for Military Support for israel and h...

water, safe drinking water at this poses a particularly lethal threat to children. people are sleeping outside on concrete floors. 80% of the population are displaced almost 1 million children and they are being pushed further and further south into areas that are overcrowded and without any of the basics that he need to survive. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only lifeline for people and we are simply not able to get the access that we need to get through. for the past four, five, six these eight agencies such asjosepha only been able to access the rafah crossing and it is on...

and coming up on bbc news: qualification at stake for britain at the olympics. we'll tell you why it matters for england and scotland later at hampden. good afternoon. the home secretary james cleverly is in rwanda signing a treaty this lunchtime on the controversial plan to send some asylum seekers there. downing street hopes it will remove legal obstacles to the scheme after the supreme court ruled last month that it's unlawful. the rwanda plan is aimed at deterring migrants coming to the uk on small boats. mr cleverly is the third home secretary to visit the country, but so far no...

on khan younis and rafah in the south have continued — as have those in the jabaliya refugee camp in the north. israel insists it's making "maximum effort" to avoid killing civilians. hospitals inside gaza are struggling to take in the casualties, with un officials describing a "degree of panic" in medicalfacilities that hasn't been seen before. the un says palestinians who are being told to leave areas which were previously seen as safe, are being pushed into a narrow corner of gaza. our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, reports. ominous warnings — the israeli flares tha...

officials, the head of the cia, mr biden himself making calls to the leaders of both qatar and israel, and so they are heavily involved in these negotiations. and now we have that statement from the israeli government, quite a space statement i would say, basically giving the outline of the deal that these 50 hostages being released overfour the deal that these 50 hostages being released over four days with potential for more overtime. and still waiting to find out exactly when that might start, because there needs to be supreme court approval in israel before it goes through, becaus...