i knew that the to stop the royal navy had tried to stop the royal navy had tried to stop the yes, absolutely i didn't know the astonishing 50% astonishing to think it was 50% of the navy royal navy of the royal navy royal navy budget gdp. that is budget at 1% of gdp. that is currently our whole defence budget. >> well, that's right. another thought, may, we've thought, jacob, if i may, we've seen manchester, we've seen seen in manchester, we've seen in brighton, we've seen in london people celebrating london people out celebrating the attacks, the hamas attacks on israel, the loss of life . i'm on israel, the loss of life. i'm heanng on israel, the loss of life. i'm hearing this evening that a london jewish school is telling school kids sort of to sort of cover up the school badge and whilst what is happening in israel and gaza is truly horrendous, we're not in a great place here on this, are we? well, it's a very small number, but these people are wicked. >> i mean, to support the brutal killing of entirely innocent civilian ones. and the stories are heart rending . there's story are heart

i knew that the to stop the royal navy had tried to stop the royal navy had tried to stop the yes, absolutely i didn't know the astonishing 50% astonishing to think it was 50% of the navy royal navy of the royal navy royal navy budget of that is budget at 1% of gdp. that is currently our whole defence budget. >> well, that's right. another thought, may, we've thought, jacob, if i may, we've seen in manchester, we've seen in brighton, we've seen in london out celebrating london people out celebrating the attacks, the hamas attacks on israel, the loss of life . i'm on israel, the loss of life. i'm heanng on israel, the loss of life. i'm hearing this evening that a london jewish school is telling school kids sort of to sort of cover up the school badge and whilst what is happening in israel and gaza is truly horrendous, we're not in a great place here on this, are we? well, it's a very small number, but these people are wicked. >> i mean, to support the brutal killing of entirely innocent civilian ones. and the stories are heart rending . there's story are heart rending. there's story about the

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it's also why we've moved royal navy assets into the mediterranean over the coming week and they will be able to provide humanitarian support if required. we're seeing a blockade of food, medicine and water to gaza and what some are saying is potentially a breach of international law. are you ok with israel potentially committing war crimes and you're providing full moral support regardless? it's important to remember why we're in this very difficult situation, and that's because hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation, committed an appalling act of barbarity and has killed over a thousand israelis, including women and children, in scenes that are, quite frankly, horrific and that we haven't seen in decades. it is unequivocally wrong, and there is no moral ambiguity about that. israel has every right to defend itself and take the action that is necessary to ensure protection and security of its citizens and that nothing like this can ever happen again. even if some of those actions are not in line with international law? no, of course, we should always and we are always having conc

the uk is sending spy planes and two royal navy ships to the eastern mediterranean to support israel'sht against hamas. prime minister rishi sunak spoke to israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu to reiterate the uk's support for the war against the terrorist group. the aircraft are beginning patrols today and will track threats such as the transfer of weaponry . the prime transfer of weaponry. the prime minister is also in sweden today, meeting with northern european allies , leaders at the european allies, leaders at the summit who are expected to focus on the threat from russia . but on the threat from russia. but the gathering has been overshadowed by the conflict in israel and gaza . rishi sunak israel and gaza. rishi sunak reminded the summit that they are the first in line of defence across much of the region . the across much of the region. the eu is investing, stating the social media platform formerly known as twitter , after known as twitter, after disinformation was spread in the wake of the hamas terror attacks in israel in a letter sent to the platform's owner, elon mu

. so well about the royal navy. of fiction books, the accuracy of them, the sort of like the film, i think what peter weir took on, which was they wanted the books to be in they wanted the books to be in the movie, to be a benchmark of history, representing the great success of the royal navy . success of the royal navy. >> your book is called all hands on deck. and thank you very much for being on gb news will suffer in a little later. i'll be talking about travel, writing with author ben aitken. but before that, here's an update on the news from sophia wenzler . the news from sophia wenzler. it's 1230. >> i'm sophia wenzler in the newsroom is rail has issued an urgent warning to residents in northern gaza, telling them to move south. it follows another night of airstrikes . acas. the night of airstrikes. acas. the health ministry in gaza says 266 palestinians, including 117 children, have been killed in the past 24 hours. leaflets and phone messages warn those who stay in the north could be seen as sympathisers wi

everything we can to alleviate the humanitarian situation on the ground, including moving some of our royal navyssets into the region who can provide further support as required. do you worry where the end game of all of this is that it could be an open ended occupation by israel of gaza? i think israel's been very clear that hamas is the entity that's responsible for this. and what they want to do is ensure that their people are safe and that this doesn't happen again and that the the focus of their attention of self—defense is on hamas. and i think that's right. nobody wants to see regional escalation. certainly the israeli prime minister does not. when i've spoken to him, i've been speaking to other leaders around the region. all of us are united and not wanting to see regional escalation. and again, that's something that we can help with. we've already sent surveillance aircraft to the eastern mediterranean last week. they will be able to, as i said, make sure that no arms shipments, for example, are being sent to other terrorist organizations in the region. that's a practical step that we c

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the royal navy was becoming the force that we would know it as in the following century 50 years later after catesby, some the sun never sets on the british empire. so you had all of those historical sources making up the historical times he lived in and i'm never unhappy when i research like that. so i use that had to shape his story. >> thank you. in a moment we will begin taking questions, so if you have any, please approach the podium and the microphone there and we'll come to you in a moment. dean, i wanted to ask you, with john muer, would the early environmental movement have been so successful or as successful as it was if john muer wasn't such a beautiful writer himself? and tell us about that and the persuasion of the pen and effectively what he meant when he was writing? >> i think john muer did give voice to nature in a new way through his relationship with century magazine, certainly, that was a very influential magazine by way of having done an incredible civil war history that doubled their circulation and made that really one of the leading instruments of intellectual e

images are alleged to be proof of the atrocities britain sends in two royal navy ships.i wounded palestinian children. i think to emphasise what's going on there . well, clearly on both on there. well, clearly on both sides of that fence, the daily mail and they've got a bit on bernie ecclestone being forced to pay 653 million, million quid's worth of tax backdated to the tax man . well, there we go. the tax man. well, there we go. i mean, i'm also going to read out the overarching front page story here. pm tells police to get a grip on anti—israel hate. yeah again, that's something we've spoken about a lot on this show. jewish schools are show. two jewish schools are forced shut grow over forced to shut fears, grow over pro—palestinian protests this weekend. rishi reads the riot act. so this is about rishi sunak. our prime minister last night , which sunak. our prime minister last night, which is to night, if that makes sense . telling the that makes sense. telling the police get a police chiefs there to get a grip on anti—israel hate. not before time we over to the bef

states to bring not one but two aircraft carriers and go to the united kingdom and bring in the royal navy, the colonialists are fighting for the existence, the world will never go back to how it was before this war, this war is only beginning and i believe at the end of it, we will see a world based on justice, there is no hope. for the apartate state as we see it, well so how do you see it, because what uh zaker has described, i mean when we look at again, i want to look at these individual western countries that they are continuing of course to support uh the israeli regime, but there seems to be a growing divide between those western regimes and the people on the ground, at the beginning of the show we look live at what is happening right now in washington dc, we saw earlier today huge demonstration in london, and of course this is taking place all over the world, i want to look at the possibility, zaker talked about the demise of that regime, but i want to talk about even beyond that and how these western regimes can be majorly affected by all of this uh two days ago was a massive...

states to bring not one, but two aircraft carriers and go to the united kingdom and bring in the royal navy colonialists are fighting for the existence, the world will never go back to how it was before this war. uh this war is only beginning and i believe at the end of it we will see a world based on justice, there is no hope for the apartate state as we see it. well so how do you see it? because what uh zaker has described, i mean when we look at again, i want to look at these individual western countries that they are continuing of course to support uh the israeli regime. but there seemed to be a growing divide between those western regimes and the people on the ground, at the beginning of the show we looked live at what is happening right now in washington dc, we saw earlier today huge demonstration in london, and of course this is taking place all over the world, i want to look at the possibility, zaker talked about the demise of that regime, but i want to talk about even beyond that and how these western regimes can be majorly affected by all of this. two days ago was a massive demons

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we've royal navy spoiling everybody's enjoyment.nt. we've decided rthey'relvy who've decided that they're going guidance in going to use pronoun guidance in their operations . and the third their operations. and the third one is the nhs trust, which says men with menopausal symptoms should be treated like women. figure that one out menopausal men. lucy look, i think that far too much attention and funding is being given to this particular debate and it is a privileged debate. >> instead, what i would like to see us focusing on is the fact , see us focusing on is the fact, for example, that our phones rely on cobalt extraction from the democratic republic of congo. why are we not talking about real issues in our media? and we are focusing on a debate which is very privileged, very comment . comment. >> colin so we're talking about men, men's menopausal problems come men, menopausal just need to eat yams. >> that's what they eat in jamaica for women. tell me about that. yams yeah, because that's the main component. the main component

conservative party: to build and the development of the most powerful attack submarine of the british royal navy has signed an agreement worth 4 billion pounds with pioneering companies in england. shapps also said advanced nuclear talks would be the basis of uk nuclear deterrence power for another 25 years. the latest statistical data indicates the acceleration of population decline in italy, according to the italian statistics organization , the country's population of 59 million people will reach 54 million people by 205, that is, in 27 years, with a decrease of 5 million people. two years ago , he had predicted this amount of reduction until 2020 that is, it happens 10 years later. the people of niger once again gathered near the french military base and demanded the expulsion of the french soldiers from this country as soon as possible. demonstrators celebrated the expulsion of the french ambassador from niger and announced that they would continue to take to the streets until the last french troops were withdrawn. the french president has announced that these forces will leave niger by the

marines, royal navy sailors, royal marines have operated alongside each other for years. >> but right now we're really focused on deterring any actor, whether it's iran, whether it's one of the non-state actors >> reporter: and just today the u.s. took down two drones targeting american troops at al-tanf in southern syria there were no casualties lester >> courtney, thank you. >>> tonight an alaska airlines pilot is under arrest, charged with trying to bring down a commercial airliner on which he was a passenger. let's get more now from tom costello. >> reporter: held tonight in an oregon jail, 44-year-old alaska airlines pilot joseph emerson, booked on 167 charges including 83 potential counts of attempted murder the fbi and local police allege emerson was off duty, riding in the cockpit jump seat, flying on horizon air from everett, washington to san francisco sunday night when he suddenly tried to pull the engine fire suppression controls to shut down the engines at cruising altitude the pilot and co-pilot stopped and subdued emerson, removed him from the cockpit, then diverted the

happened in the past i think about 30 minutes or so, where britain has announced that it will send two royal navy ships to the eastern mediterranean and will begin surveillance. flights over israel says that's in a sign of military support, has uh decided to show its support, which they say is deterrence factor and a projection of power, but in essence, it may show how weak israel is seen or felts by israel itself, that uk and britain and the us have have the need and they have felt that they should send it and the us have have the need and the... have felt that they should send their military arsenal there? well, i mean, i think israel of course has served as a strategic um benefit for the interests of the united states and and great britain over many years. the crisis that we are seeing unfold before our very eyes now, and the way in which the corporate media in britain, i think as you were alluding to in your opening remarks and indeed the political class in this country who are giving very one. guided um view as to what is actually unfolding in gaza right now and i been and indeed many people

from mine divers and reconnaissance divers. assumption of the official newspaper of the british royal navy editors of which dedicated material to the combat dolphins of the russian navy. as stated, a specially trained group of bottlenose dolphins is one step away from participating in hostilities. the british publication claims that in the north-west of crimea, to protect one of russian naval bases transferred mammals. allegedly, their pens are disguised as an oyster farm. naturally, no clear evidence is provided. but it describes in detail exactly how dolphins can be useful to the russian fleet. they say. intruders are able to detect and transmit a signal about an uninvited guest to human colleagues and even inflict a fatal blow on the intruder. all this, of course, may impress a western reader, but let’s figure it out together to what extent such statements correspond to reality. with vadim zavodchenkov. vadim, good evening. well, another horror story, or is there some truth? alexey, the article is undoubtedly propaganda, but it is possible that the author did not even have to lie. the w

the past uh, i think about 30 minutes or so, where britain has announced that it will send two royal navy it says that's that's in a sign of military support uh what do you think think of that and many are reading between the lines saying that the uk along with the us has uh decided to show its support, which they say is deterrence factor, and a projection of power, but in essence, it may show how weak israel is seen or felt by israel itself, that the uk and britain and the us have have the need. and they have felt that they should send their military arsenal there? well, i mean, i think we israel of course is served as a strategic, benefit for the interests of the united states and and great britain over many years and what i think has been absolutely deplorable is the response of the political class to the crisis that we are seeing unfold before our very eyes now, and the way in which the corporate media britain i think as you were alluding to in your opening remarks and indeed the political class in this country who are giving very one-sided um view as to what is actually unfolding in

we're sending two royal navy vessels . there'll be royal vessels.here'll be royal marines on board and perhaps even more significantly, we'll be setting a of be spending setting a couple of spy be spending setting a couple of spy planes, which will be flying over to see how hamas over the region to see how hamas are being rearmed . and all of are being rearmed. and all of this as as 100,000 israeli soldiers and reservists are lined up opposite gaza for what inevitably is going to be a major ground invasion. and however grim you think the news has been, this week, i think it's quite easy to predict by this time next week it will be grimmer still . and amongst all grimmer still. and amongst all of this , a former leader of of this, a former leader of hamas , a former founder of hamas hamas, a former founder of hamas , khalid mashaal , has called for , khalid mashaal, has called for tomorrow to be a day of rage. it is to stand up to demonstrate, to study and to understand . and to study and to understand. and what jihad to study and to understand. and

the royal navy has decided, has been ordered to send two ships to the eastern mediterranean and americans largest aircraft carrier battle group is already heading this way and in the gaza strip the pounding continues. more of gaza has been flattened by israeli bombing. israel insists its targets are all based on intelligence, to kill the men who massacred israelis and to continue the job of breaking hamas. but hundreds of civilians of all ages have also been killed and israel has been accused of answering the war crimes of hamas with ones of its own. antony blinken, us secretary of state, flew in. he offered solidarity, more military aid and assurances for benjamin netanyahu, israel's prime minister, that america has israel's back. we're here, we're not going anywhere. he compared hamas to the killers of islamic state and said the way israel fights them matters. the value that we place on human life and human dignity, that's what makes us who we are and we count them among our greatest strength. that's why it's so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians. at

and in response to the unfolding crisis in the middle east, the uk is sending two royal navy ships andng street says it's to �*bolster security'. the prime minister, rishi sunak, spoke yesterday to his israeli counterpart, benjamin netanyahu, to offer what he called the �*uk's steadfast support for israel'. let's cross to our political correspondent helen catt. helen, what more can you tell us about the british response? well, the uk government has been absolutely clear that it is standing side by side with israel and israel has a right to defend itself. but we have also been hearing perhaps over the last 2a hours more concerns being expressed about the humanitarian impact and the need to protect civilians, the us secretary of state antony blinken said yesterday that it was important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians, irish irish said that that was something he had also raised on a phone call with the israeli prime minister. we are monitoring the situation very closely. we have formally updated our travel advice, and of course, humanitarian concerns and prote

the uk is also deploying surveillance aircraft and two royal navy ships to the eastern mediterranean.bc correspondents are reporting across the region. international editor jeremy bowen begins our coverage from kibbutz be�*eri in southern israel. he sent this report — and a warning, it contains distressing details. more of gaza has been flattened by israeli bombing. israel insists its targets are all based on intelligence, to kill the men who massacred israelis and to continue the job of breaking hamas. but hundreds of civilians of all ages have also been killed and israel has been accused of answering the war crimes of hamas with ones of its own. antony blinken, us secretary of state, flew in. he offered solidarity, more military aid and assurances for benjamin netanyahu, israel's prime minister, that america has israel's back. we are here. we are not going anywhere. he compared hamas to the killers of islamic state and said, "the way israel fights them matters". the value that we place on human life and human dignity, that's what makes us who we are. and we count them among our grea

in the last half an hour the uk government has announced it is sending two royal navy ships and aircraftin surveillance. let's go back tojeremy bowen and southern israel. what sort of message do you think is coming from the americans with the secretary of state flying into tel aviv today? wholehearted support, offers of more military aid, some sophisticated weapons. some people speculated about some kind of bunker busting bomb capability, but it was interesting that the secretary of state echoed the kind of sentiments that came last night from the presidentjoe biden where he said the us is 100% behind israel, we have got your back. but be careful how you fight this war because preserving civilian lives is all—important. that is also an international legality. don't forget the americans and western countries have been saying regarding the war in ukraine that the rules —based order, the international legality and what is important about that, and what is important about that, and that russia has violated it. they are not making a comparison, don't get me wrong here, but it is interesting t

the training of ukrainian specialists will take place under the mentors of the royal navy of great britain. in general, the united kingdom has become a flagship in the training of our defenders, in particular in the training of naval special forces. for half a year , the royal marines trained almost a thousand ukrainian colleagues, the art of conducting complex amphibious operations. in particular, how to plan and carry out raids using small boats day and night, how to use the weapons provided to britain to assist the armed forces, in particular mortars and light anti-tank weapons nn and anti-tank. stinger, reconnaissance drones and destroyers for destruction, obstacles and fortifications. the british ministry of defense believes that these exercises will contribute not only to the return of lands occupied by the russians, but also to the further support of ukraine's ability to develop own naval forces and the concept of international marine training. in general, from the spring of 2022 , more than 20,000 ukrainian soldiers, including pilots, have undergone training in various directions i

from mine divers and reconnaissance divers. assumption by the official newspaper of the british royal navynews. the editors of which dedicated the material to the combat dolphins of the russian navy. as stated, a specially trained group of bottlenose dolphins is one step away from participating in hostilities. british edition. claims that in the north-west of crimea , mammals were transferred to guard one of the russian naval bases, allegedly their pens are disguised as an oyster farm, of course there is no clear evidence... how exactly dolphins can be useful to the russian fleet, they say intruders are capable of detecting and transmitting a signal about an uninvited guest to human colleagues and even inflicting a fatal blow on the intruder; all this, of course, can impress a western reader, but how such statements relate to reality, let’s figure it out together with vladim zaodchenkov. the western media are starting the old barrel organ: putin throws fighting dolphins against the ukrainian teams. this is a literal translation of one of today's headlines in democratic media. the primary s

we're sending two royal navy vessels . there'll be royal vessels.here'll be royal marines on board and perhaps even more significantly, we'll be setting a couple of be spending setting a couple of spy be spending setting a couple of spy which will be flying spy planes, which will be flying over to see how hamas over the region to see how hamas are being rearmed . and all of are being rearmed. and all of this as as 100,000 israeli soldiers and reservists are lined up opposite gaza for what inevitably is going to be a major ground invasion. and however grim you think the news has been, this week, i think it's quite easy to predict by this time next week it will be grimmer still . and amongst all grimmer still. and amongst all of this , a former leader of of this, a former leader of hamas , a former founder of hamas hamas, a former founder of hamas , khalid mashaal , has called for , khalid mashaal, has called for tomorrow to be a day of rage. it is to stand up to demonstrate, to study and to understand . and to study and to understand. and what jihad

there's twice as many people in prison today as there are royal navy. and are in the royal navy.ow, pretty depressing in my opinion. alex chalk decent chalk is one of the decent people. person . i people. he's a good person. i think agree that across think we can agree that across the political divide. but this idea he's going to turn the political divide. but this idea some1e's going to turn the political divide. but this idea some sortgoing to turn the political divide. but this idea some sort of ng to turn the political divide. but this idea some sort of boss turn the political divide. but this idea some sort of boss hogg into some sort of boss hogg figure with a chain figure in a texan with a chain gang working up and down the western avenue, picking up graffiti you know , graffiti and singing, you know, work and chain gang songs, work songs and chain gang songs, you know, bonkers. look, we you know, it's bonkers. look, we we've had for years, we've had this we've had community service. we've service. you know, we've got round way, people round my way, have people cleaning up

so also said that he was set to deploy the royal navy to protect ukrainian call go vessels in the black sea. and he also encourage all the companies to follow the lead of the systems, the process defense industry companies, set up shop inside ukraine in order to develop a manufactured homes, weapons, other things, some speculation that soon after months came off to russia, said any, put your suits inside ukraine would be legitimate targets. the british defense secretary decided to transfer english training courses for ukrainian soldiers to the territory of ukraine itself. that is there and its own instructors and the legal targets for our on forces. knowing well that they will be destroyed with no mercy and not as most of the res, but precisely as british data specialists. now very strong. where is it from med with that? who is this to the cold shots on his counterparts? it is uh, 2 years hedlam towards world war 3. now you were cool last year that the ladies a position, ukrainian political figure, a victim adventure, and an exclusive interview with all to you. soon off that he was rele

do you back or do you back the royal navy? >> but do you back that? mean, let me bring you in as well. atal what do think about our atal what do you think about our position response position and our response and what doing? what we're doing? >> i think important that >> i think it's important that that goes to israel that rishi sunak goes to israel and disagree with richard on and i disagree with richard on for one, to show for three reasons. one, to show that the members of the jewish community in britain this matters and it's not just a transactional political thing. it's important enough for the leader of the country to go because it's such a trauma for the jewish community in this country. two, there are britons who are kidnapped and in gaza and to make whatever we can do to push this up the agenda, the freedom for those britons, and instead maybe some of those assets being moved into the eastern mediterranean. it's around exit routes for all kind of preparations for if we can get get the captors, the british captives out. but i think number thre

he had applied tojoin the royal marines and the royal navy in february 2021, the army in april.e applications were withdrawn. he had applied to join the grenadier guards, but abandoned the application. he had written in his journal, "i am choosing grenadier guards. you can probably guess why." and said that it was to get closer to his target. however, he also said that he had read entries in his journal which made him think that he wanted to do the job is to protect people or serve his country, that he said that that was not the case, it was just a means to an end. said that that was not the case, it wasjust a means to an end. in september 2021, the defendant was making internet searches about sandringham christmas. on the 9th of november, he purchased his crossbow online. it was sent to a place of work rather than to his billing or home address. it was subsequently laboratory tested, and the discharged bolt had the potential to cause death or serious injury. at a distance of 20 metres, the bolt penetrated to a depth of 5.5 inches into simulated flesh. in early december, the def

to me, it looks like the black sea fleet ineffective now, if we compare to the british royal navy, iftsmouth were hit and there were as many casualties as we are losing at sevastopol, the whole fleet would essentially cease to exist in any viable form, i believe that crimea is an absolutely key issue in this war, and the operations of the ukrainians in tela are very impressive. we usually do not think of crimea as a front line, because here... two armies do not meet here in battle, there are no ukrainian forces on the ground here and it is unlikely that they will enter crimea, but here, a very important part of the war is aimed at impairing russian capabilities, first of all, in order to carry out an offensive, as well as to impair russia's ability to defend itself and hold the occupied territories. in crimea, ukraine is hitting not only the headquarters in sevastopol, not only naval and air bases, but also oil depots, warehouses with ammunition, logistics centers, and it is incredible that for all these months russia has still not managed to establish adequate air defense to secure i

i have deployed a royal navy task group to the eastern mediterranean as well as three merlin helicopters royal marines ready to offer arms and support. we are bolstering our forces in cyprus and across the region and let me be clear, we are not engaging in fighting, or in the offensive in gaza but we are increasing our presence to prevent broader regional instability at this dangerous moment. second, i'm proud that we are a long—standing and significant provider of humanitarian aid to the palestinian people. i can announce that we are increasing our aid by a third with an additional £10 million of support. an acute humanitarian crisis is unfolding to which we must respond. we must support the palestinian people because they are victims of hamas as well. like our allies, we believe that hamas does not represent the palestinian people or their legitimate aspirations to live in equal measures of security, freedom and justice and opportunity and dignity. hamas simply does not stand for the future that the palestinians want. and they seek to put the palestinian people in harms way. so we must

, the news that is broken within the last hour is that the uk is now sending spy planes and two royal navy ships to the eastern mediterranean in new plans to support israel . the aircraft support israel. the aircraft will begin spy patrols tomorrow. surveillance aircraft, they're believed to be to track threats. the government government's saying to regional stability such as the transfer of weapons to terrorist groups. the prime minister rishi sunak, making clear the ministry will be supporting a prevention of a further escalation of the conflict in the area. the british armed forces on standby and they're there to deliver practical support to israel and partners in the region . can they partners in the region. can they say, to offer deterrence , peace say, to offer deterrence, peace and reassurance ? yes. well, the and reassurance? yes. well, the government's also been organising flights for british nationals in israel. the first is due to leave tel aviv for the uk today. the foreign secretary, james cleverly, has been urging british citizens who want to get out to register their presenc

we've got the royal navy sending forces to the eastern mediterranean in a humanitarian capacity. got britain's trapped in gaza as many as ten, maybe ten of the 200 hostages held by gaza are british. it's very much a british issue here. we've got attempts by mr sunak to talk to other other senior figures in the region to avoid any further escalation in bloodshed. but it's a very, very difficult and a tense time behind me. patrick, you'll see if we scroll up the ukrainian flag on the top of number 10 downing street now until friday, 8 pm. that was the israeli flag. it was replaced by the ukrainian flag just before the protest, just down the road from me down whitehall. but it shows to me the twin stresses on the building behind me between the battle to help ukraine against the invaders and now battle to help ukraine against the massive nvaders and now battle to help ukraine against the massive crisis rs and now battle to help ukraine against the massive crisis escalating this massive crisis escalating in the middle east. >> now, indeed, we're also going to be hearing, i expect from

that's why i'm deploying raf and royal navy assets, monitoring threats to regional security and supportingort for a two state solution is highly valued across the region. but it can'tjust be a cliched talking point to roll—out at times like this. the truth is that in recent years energy has moved into other avenues like the abraham accords and normalisation talks with saudi arabia. we support those steps absolutely and believe that they can bolster wider efforts. but we must never lose sight of how essential the two—state solution is so we will work together with our international partners to bring renewed energy and creativity to this effort. it will rely on establishing more effective governance for palestinian territories in gaza and the west bank. it will also mean challenging actions that undercut legitimate aspirations for palestinian statehood. mr speaker, hamas care more about their paymasters in iran than the children they hide behind. so let me be clear, there is no scenario where hamas can be allowed to control gaza or any part of the palestinian territories. hamas is not only a

an editor of the georgetown journal of international affairs and former officer in the british royal navy and holds a master of arts and security studies from georgetown university. also with us is brent sadler, who after a 26 year navy career with numerous operational tours on nuclear powered submarines was assigned to chief of naval operations staff at u.s. pacific command and the senior defense official in malaysia. as the heritage senior research fellow he focused on maritime security and the technologies shaping our future maritime forces in the navy and is the recent author of the book "naval power in the 21st century," what he describes as a contest in the chinese designs to reorder the world to its interests by playing to u.s. strengths and china's weaknesses. we will start on stage by asking the experts some questions and after a bit of that we will go to you the audience for your russians, both online and the ones in the auditorium here. when we get to that version, please be thinking of a question. if you are online you can use the application to submit a question at any point

the uk will send royal navy ships to the eastern mediterranean and plans to bolster security.threats to regional stability such as the transfer of weapons to terrorist groups. helicopters are also being dispatched. in brighton, a 22—year—old woman has been arrested on suspicion of supporting hamas at a demonstration. the group has been declared a terrorist organisation in the uk. hamas members, or those who are found guilty of inviting support for the group, can be jailed for up to 1a years. the metropolitan police says london has seen a "massive increase" in reports of anti—semitism since the conflict erupted. in the past two weeks, there have been 180 offences and incidents, compared with 26 in the same period last year. rishi sunak called the rise disgusting, adding extra funding had been given to protectjewish institutions. you're live with bbc news. let's look at some of the diplomacy going on. several missions happening as we speak. with me is our diplomatic correspondent james landale. we are waiting to hear, we think in the next little while, but yesterday it was delay