, reeta, a success in itself.iplomats ahead of the vote today were speaking of the dire humanitarian need in gaza, and that concern is front and centre of this resolution. but it is also undoubtedly a compromise, the us making its position clear through days of tortuous negotiations that there was no point demanding that israel stop fighting or that it give up israel stop fighting or that it give up its insistence on screening and monitoring the aid going across the gaza border if it has simply no intention of doing either. after the long drawn—out diplomacy, the drafting and redrafting, finally, the moment of truth. the wide show of support from most security council members was no surprise. the resolution the uae has put in blue this morning responds to the cause for a sustainable cessation of hostilities and a massive scale—up of humanitarian aid. often in diplomacy, the challenge is meeting the moment in the world we live in, not in the world we want. all eyes were on the us and russia. in the end, they both a

that's absolutely right reeta. _ to the us veto? that's absolutely right reeta. a — to the us veto?eeta, a rare _ to the us veto? that's absolutely right reeta, a rare pushed there | to the us veto? that's absolutely i right reeta, a rare pushed there for the secretary—general to get the security council to demand an immediate ceasefire by invoking article 99 of the un charter, a power granted to secretary—generals, but rarely used. it hasn't been used in decades but nevertheless what we saw here at the un was a quick reaction to the secretary—general�*s call, with 97 nation sponsoring a draft resolution calling for a ceasefire. but the united states cutting a lonely figure and showing its growing isolation by being based sole member of the council to veto and block that resolution from being passed. now, the united states has accepted israel's argument that a ceasefire would only help hamas, but much of the world disagrees. in fact, 13 of the 15 members voted in favour of this resolution. the uk abstained. and they very much, these members who voted in favour of the resolution, ech

at the moment, it is so unknown, reeta., because basically, a us court has decided that a former president engaged in insurrection and therefore should never be president again. now, it is worth mentioning that multiple lawsuits have been filed in different states across america by voters and advocacy groups trying to get donald trump kicked off the ballot because they say he is unfit due to what happened on 6th janary 2021. those lawsuits have been dismissed, but it stuck in colorado. colorado is not a state that donald trump needs to win, he lost it in 2020, he can afford to let it go, but here is the thing, what if colorado's ruling is upheld, it could make other states, states which donald trump needs to win, look at the ruling and think, hang on a minute, we could be emboldened, inspired by that. as you mentioned ultimately it is the us federal supreme court, based here in dc, that has to decide, but whichever way they decide, it is going to be really controversial, because if they decide we are going to uphold they de

reeta, thank you. there has been a big drop in the backlog so far this year.nak met his pledge — you can see here it's fallen to just 18,000 at the start of december. the immigration minister said today he was confident all the cases that could be dealt with would be by the end of the month. but what's really interesting is how the government are doing it. this is a breakdown — cases granted, withdrawn and refused in the latest figures. this — the number of asylum cases being granted — is going to be a record high this year. that's in part because of a change in the rules which allows people from some countries to be granted asylum without face to face meetings. then there's this — the number of cases being withdrawn. that's a record high too — by some margin. the rules have changed — so this now includes people who fail to maintain contact with the home office — as well as people who don't turn up for interviews or cancel their application. finally, this — the number of people being rejected — that's the smallest proprtion of the total it's ever been since re

reeta, as you can say, there is still a police presence at wensum park, because it is sealed off fromearch teams that have been in and out of the water all day have now gone home, because it is dark, and that naturally hampers the work they do, but they will return tomorrow at first light. police told us that around 30 members of the public have come to talk to them about this investigation, and as you mentioned there, they have released new cctv which they hope will encourage people with information to come forward. this is the last sighting of gaynor lord on cctv before she goes missing. the pictures released today by police show the married mother of three walking down st augustine's street in norwich city centre. officers believe the mother of three came here to wensum park a mile and a half away and, for some reason, may have entered the water. her clothes, phone, glasses and jewellery were found nearby. today, using specialist equipment, the painstaking work of searching the ground and water continued in the hope of finding her. the divers can see about one foot in front of them

reeta.g from nursery school care. new figures for last year show two children a week, on average, went missing eitherfrom nursery or while on trips. a mother — whose three—year—old son got out of his nursery and was nearly hit by a bus — says the early years sector needs to get a grip of a growing problem. andrew picken reports. walk the plank! walk the plank. mummy, keep saying, "walk the plank." ok, walk the plank. another adventure for river wood under the watchful eye of mum kayleigh. but it was a different story last august. he told me... he's like, "it's ok, mum, i crossed the road by myself." this tiny speck circled is three—year—old river escaping from his nursery in aberdeen without staff noticing. into the sea! woo! the bit that really... kind of got me really worried was that he told me that a bus nearly hit him. i have now had people who were on the bus to confirm that the bus did nearly hit him. he talks about it quite frequently. it's been over a year, now and it's quite a freq