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israel's cabinet will meet tomorrow to to discuss a potential hezbollah peace deal. britain braces itself for more disruption from storm bert after severe floods devastate parts of wales. a bbc undercover investigation exposes a fertility scam, fuelling a black market trade in babies in nigeria. hello. welcome to today's verified live. egyptian authorities say 17 people, including foreigners, are missing after a tourist yacht capsized off the country's red sea coast. an intensive search is underway for survivors. 28 people have been rescued. the yacht had left port halib in egypt's southeast, and was due to dock
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in the town of hurghada. there were 45 people on board — 31 tourists and 1a egyptian crew members. let me show you the first pictures that have come into us. pictures of the tories had been rescued, the people they have got to chile so far. the uk foreign office have been saying that two british people have been rescued and to our missing. it is a major tourist detonation in egypt and they were on a diving tour that was supposed to last five days. the alarm... the alarm was raised by a crew member at approximately 5.30am this morning, prompting the coastguard to launch a search operation. earlier, we talked to our correspondent, sally nabil, in cairo. she told us how many people are still missing. 17 are still missing.
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this is the latest figure we are getting from the local authorities here, and we understand that the egyptian navy ships are taking part in the search and rescue operations. a helicopter has been dispatched as well. we understand that the tourists on board included four british, two americans, four germans, five spanish, among other nationalities. but who exactly has been rescued and who is still missing? usually the egyptian authorities, they take a lot of time to release information and they do not go into specific details. and if we bear in mind that this is the high season for the tourism industry in egypt, we can definitely understand the repercussions such an incident might have on the tourism sector. in one of the major hubs across the country, marsa alam, where the boat left, is a very popular destination among european tourists. it's surrounded with many diving spots known for its clear waters and colourful sea coral reefs. so the fact that there are 17 people still missing, that this boat sank just a few hours after it sailed. it will definitely be very bad news for those working in the tourism industry in this area. what we know so far is that, um, they are still searching for those missing and the survivors, they are receiving due medical care. and there is some talk now about the weather conditions
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and the strong winds, that they might be the cause that pushed the boat to sink. let mejust let me just return to those pictures we showed you a moment or two at a go. these are the first biscuit of the rescue operations. some of those tourists that they have managed tourists that they have managed to find. —— these are the first of the rescue operations. people are still missing. just to recap, there are four british tourists, two americans, cut, for germans, three slovakians, to space, two belgians, two norwegians, and i
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was tourist, a finnish tories, and a chinese. there is where the total numbers on board —— and irish tourist, a finnish tourist. you search is going on. sally was just going on a little bit early about the size of the search operation which has been going on for hours. you talk to teens in the region are a little bit later and get an update. these are some of their pictures from that search operation that is still ongoing in egypt. we turn in the middle east where talks are continuing to try to reach a ceasefire between israel and hezbollah. some reports say progress is being made towards a deal but others suggest the two sides are still far apart. our security correspondent, frank gardner is monitoring events from jerusalem. he gave me his assessment of
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where the negotiations stand. we are very close, but we're not there yet because tomorrow the israeli security cabinet has to endorse this deal. and there has been quite loud public protest online by, um, some of the more right wing elements in mr. benjamin netanyahu's cabinet, who's saying now is not the time to let hezbollah off the hook. now is the time to defeat them altogether. but do you know what? both sides want this deal israel and lebanon. this war has now cost more than 3000 deaths, and there is an intensification of cross—borderfire. there's a huge number of rockets been coming across the lebanese border fired by hezbollah, around 250, in the last 2a hours, and intensification of air strikes by israel on very crowded parts of beirut, the dahiya, the southern suburbs. what is the sticking point with this deal? well, um, israel's
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insistence is that it reserves the right to go back in, whether by air or land, but primarily by air, to if it feels that hezbollah is moving back into southern lebanon and threatening its own citizens. israel has one big aim in all of this, which is to make the north of israel safe again for the 60,000 plus israeli citizens who've had to flee their farms, their moshavs, their kibbutz, their homes, their businesses in the north because of persistent rocket fire from hezbollah in lebanon, which started on october the 8th. so they want to be able to feel that that's safe enough to do. and they want hezbollah to be moved to basically comply with un security council resolution 1701, which came at the end of the last israel—lebanon war in 2006, which is that hezbollah was supposed to have their forces remain north of the river litani, which is about 30km north of the israel—lebanon border. they didn't stay north of that. they moved south. they dug a lot of tunnels.
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and when the gaza war erupted in october last year, they started to fire into israel in support of that. but these are very different. um, there's a really important element to this. when hassan nasrallah was alive, he was the head of hezbollah. he said, we will not stop this war until there is a ceasefire in gaza. there is no ceasefire in gaza, and there's none in sight. but it does appear that hezbollah are prepared to sign a ceasefire without one in gaza. it has been decoupled. and that's an important milestone that is giving people optimism that this deal could possibly pass in the next day or so. of course, there is such a dual strategy going on and there have been strategy going on and there have been at strategy going on and there have been at talks strategy going on and there have been at talks in strategy going on and there have been at talks in the strategy going on and there have been at talks in the one hand. of course israeli operations on the ground. let mejust show you operations on the ground. let me just show you some of the recent pictures because we were told about an hour and a half ago by the israeli army that
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they had struck around 25 hezbollah targets elaborate on in at just one hezbollah targets elaborate on in atjust one hour. this is just one explosion amongst the 25 and is on the pictures coming into us recently. let me show the skyline over beirut at the moment. all the attention is on the possibility of a ceasefire deal. let me read you the latest comments from lebanon's deputy speaker of parliament but they are at the moment. all the attention is on the possibility of a ceasefire deal. let me read you the latest comments from lebanon's deputy speaker of parliament because they are the ones above the lebanese side. there is that there was no serious obstacles implementation of the ceasefire between israel and hezbollah. once seeking ways of he would monitor the ceasefire had been resolved over the last 24 had been resolved over the last 2a hours by agreeing to set up a five country committee, including france and chaired by the united states and a lebanese official and a western diplomat are also telling reuters that us had informed officials that a ceasefire could be announced quite within hours. another indication that we're getting close to some
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sort ceasefire deal. now, to the severe flooding we've seen in the uk. at least five people are known to have died, as a result of storm bert. one of the worst affected areas is south wales, where there's growing anger among some communities, who say warnings, didn't come soon enough. we'll be speaking to our correspondent shortly. but first, this report from alison freeman. the speed at which the water took hold revealed in this cctv. injust three hours, this brook in tenbury wells in worcestershire, rose up and flooded local businesses. another camera catching the moment the wall holding it back collapsed, causing even more damage. the local hairdressers among those affected. we shouldn't have this devastation each time it rains a bit. and yesterday, the wall fell down. so when the wall came down, it flooded all the businesses in market street and in the deep water, a green tractor drove through
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it, made it a lot, lot worse. west mercia police say they are investigating what happened. but for those left with the aftermath, attention has now turned to the clean—up. in wales, the severely flood—hit towns there are also assessing the damage and tackling the mess. in pontypridd, up to 300 homes and commercial premises were flooded. among them, this garage. the owner worried about the future effect on his business after customers�* cars were written off. personally myself, i wouldn't bring my car down here. um, it's not a safe place to leave your vehicle, is it? so, i mean, so, you know, you got to try and explain that to customers now. and like i said, i don't know where they go from here. anger is growing over the level of warning given to these communities. we did not have - an amber last night. and when you consider the - amount of rain that came today and the flooding we've seen, i'm amazed there hasn't - been a red warning either. so that is something certainly, as a locall
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authority, we'll be raising. directly with the met office. last hit four years ago, the emergency services say they are trained to respond, but the past 2a hours have been a challenge. for us, as a fire service, is very testing period. yesterday was quite extensive with the number of calls that we were receiving. they peaked with several hundred calls through a very short duration, meaning that we had to take a lot of calls respond to the most vulnerable members of our communities. travel across the uk has been badly hit too. in northampton, the railway station looked more like a swimming pool, causing severe disruption on services between london and birmingham further up the west coast main line at ulverston in cumbria, debris pushed onto the line by floodwaters was being cleared. northern rail said services between lancaster and barrow are likely to be hit until thursday. fallen trees and flooding have also caused the cancellation of all services in and out of devon and cornwall, and scotrail says it has speed restrictions in place due to high winds.
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all eyes remain on the forecast as the threat of more flooding continues. across the country, there are obviously flood warnings still being issued, so i urge people to sign up to our flood warning service. keep an eye out for that. those hit by the extreme weather brought by storm bert are now trying to pick up the pieces as events like this become more common. alison freeman, bbc news. our correspondent nicky schiller has been to some of the affected areas in south wales. i asked him how locals have been impacted by the storm over the weekend. i'm in pontypridd in south wales, and here over the last 48 hours they witnessed a month's rainfall and this whole street behind me was completely flooded. the river taff is just behind me and it broke its banks and came through.
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and all morning, i have seen people trying to clear out sodden carpets and sofas that have been ruined. and this area was actually hit by flooding in 2020. and some of the residents say that back then they said that it was going to be a once—in—a—100—year event. and here we are four years later with more flooding. and the first minister has even said that climate change could be making things worse, and they will have to get used to this thing. she's been visiting some of the businesses in the area that have been affected, and has defended how much has been spent on flood defences, because some of the residents here say that the drains can't cope when it does flood, and they are also annoyed about the warnings or as they see it, the lack of warning that they got. i spoke to one householder here who's lived here for 12 years, who said that by the time they got the alert on the special app that they have, the water was already coming in to his house. and the authorities say they will look at the alerts that they gave here in this
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south wales area. but their priority has been helping the people affected. indeed, there are ten areas around here, matthew, that are having to boil their water at the moment due to issues with the treatment plant, and within the last half an hour there was another huge downpour. so i think the authorities will be keeping a close eye on the weather forecast, hoping that there won't be more rain. that will add to the problems that the residents here have. i also spoke to our news reporterjo black who gave me this update from northamptonshire. iamjust on i am just on the outskirts of northampton where a major incident has been disk are declared because of the storm. if you look behind me, we are standing behind me. these cars here have been abandoned by drivers, a scene that you can see all over the country and all over this county. we have
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had an update from the emergency services with regard to how busy they have been over the weekend. they tell us that the weekend. they tell us that the fire and police control rooms, they had more than 1000 calls over the weekend, 850 of those that were related to the storm. because about flooded and falling trains and that sort of stuff. there's a flood warning what i am standing as a moment, just a mile up the road, is a holiday park but people do stay on that site for many months of the year. it has got hundreds of static caravans there and it does flood very often and has flooded again. that has now been evacuated and we have had an update this afternoon to what has been going on there at a moment. we are told that this evacuation affects around a thousand people and 84 of those have been taken to a community centre which has been sent up to help people because not
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everybody has got relatives or friends where they can stay. the flood cyrus were in use, we are told, and residents are being taken of the site and they are still people on the side that are being because of the water —— back from the water. without being told that rescues will happen for the rest of the day. on that site. you are watching bbc news. we are heading to the conference where they trust their reeves is talking to these cheek executives several hours after kemi badenoch addressed them. if you think i have felt to ask the right to question, feel free to go for it to yourself. and they will wrap up. what has been going _ and they will wrap up. what has been going on? _ and they will wrap up. what has been going on? it— and they will wrap up. what has been going on? it has _ and they will wrap up. what has been going on? it has been - and they will wrap up. what has been going on? it has been a i been going on? it has been a busy few months, not even five months which has been quite remarkable. obviously, during
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the last two months, there have been three key moments in terms of the big investment summit where there was a lot of talk about growth and to get that inward investment. there has been the budget and then obviously, recently, the speech in which we talked about pension reform and investment in the future of the economy. when you look at those three big set pieces, and you look at them together, what are your reflections on how you have approached it? how well do you think we in the media have understood the messages that have come out from it and may be more importantly, how is it me and you should measure success coming from those events and those promises and pledges and those plans? thank you very much and did a team for inviting me along to your conference.—
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for inviting me along to your conference. the fencing that i did as chancellor _ conference. the fencing that i did as chancellor in _ conference. the fencing that i did as chancellor in that - conference. the fencing that i did as chancellor in that the l did as chancellor in that the first week was to announce a number of things that we wish to be doing —— like the first thing that i did as chancellor. if i thing was we announce reforms to the pelling system and we called in another —— number of planning decisions on wind farms and housing. we ended the effective moratorium on onshore wind and i announced the review of the pension system to attract and i look at long—term patient capital so that start—up and scale businesses can grow and stay in britain. also, in that first week, i said that we were looking at the public finances and the inheritance that i faced as chancellor of the exchequer. i think everybody knows that that inheritance were pretty dire in terms of that coal in the public finances. in the budget in october, i had to make a number of difficult decisions. if i had not to make those difficult decisions, we were not to be
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able to make the stability back to the economy that is desperately needed. think about people who are here today, there will be times where you will have gone into a business as chief executive or cfo and you found that the sums do not really add up and you need to take quite drastic action to put the company that you work for back on a firm footing. that is what i did in the budget in october. we have now drawn a line under the inheritance that i faced. public finances are now on a firm footing and also, our public services are funded in a proper way. we have now set the envelope for those public services for the rest of this parliament which means you are not going to have 1534 00:19:49,293 --> 00
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