quentin sommerville has the latest. the? sommerville has the latest.ad sommerville has the latest. they finally had the _ sommerville has the latest. they finally had the security _ sommerville has the latest. tie: finally had the security clearances and they leftjust before nine o'clock local time today. as you said, it will take a while to get by, perhaps as long as 50 hours, two days. the difficulty they face when they arrive is that gaza, which is in a state of war agenda under israeli bombardment has no infrastructure and no functioning port, so they are busily building hrt to receive this aid using the rubble from some of the destruction —— they are busily building a jetty. the ship has 200 tonnes of aid including rice, flour and preprepared meals. it is on the way to gaza but it is a tiny amount compared to gaza's need. they have been receiving aid supplies by truck and air drops. this is the first time the maritime corridor has been opened and the expectation is that will be many more ships after this, notjust world central kitchen. they have t

sumi: quentin sommerville their peer that comes as relations between president biden's administrationli prime minister netanyahu are growing strained. mr. biden underlined the need to get a's -- aid into gaza and warned against many israeli invasion. mr. netanyahu has pushed back against those comments pointing to the support he says he has among the israeli public. i talked about ties with former israeli ambassador to the west, michael oren. i want to start with the u.s. relations now. if we look at an interview that president biden gave to msnbc over the weekend, he said about prime minister netanyahu,hat his disregard for innocent lives is "hurting israel more than helping the country." he said a ground invasion of rafah would be a redline. but he also said he would "never leave israel." what did you make of these commts? >> very hard comments. painful comments. israel is not bombing indiscriminately. every -- it has to go through a long approval process by experts, lawyers. the big criticism of israel is the army is taking too many risks and casualties in its attempts to reduce ci

quentin sommerville, bbc news, larnaca.me minister benajamin netanyahu says he will defy us presidentjoe biden�*s warning about a ground invasion of gaza's southern city of rafah. mr biden said an invasion would be a red line and escalate the conflict. in an interview with german media, netanyahu said: "we'll go there. "we're not going to leave. "you know, i have a red line. "you know what the red line is, that october 7th "doesn't happen again. "never happens again." around half of gaza's 2.3 million people are sheltering in rafah. aid organisations say an attack there would result in widespread civilian casualties. mr netayahu's comments come on the eve of the muslim holy month of ramadan. israel has continued military operations in gaza and ceasefire talks appear to have stalled. 0ur senior international correspondent, 0rla guerin has more — and a warning, her report contains images you may find distressing. from the skies over gaza, aid comes dropping. but so little, and so late. 0n the ground, a desperate rush. many co

our corresponding quentin sommerville in larnaca in cyprus. was talking about, the fact there is a proven far more effective way to get aid into gaza and that is by road. i spoke to jane kinninmont — who is the policy and impact director at european leadership network. this is new territory, really, for the us to be embarking both on this floating port idea and on the airdrops of aid already being carried out when it's trying to access territory where the access is basically controlled by one of its allies. it is a very strange thing. but to kind of look at the bigger picture, one of the core issues for gaza and for the palestinian territories is that the palestinians are unable to control their own borders. they're unable, also, to have an army because they don't have a state. so, this issue of access into gaza has been kind of festering for a very long time. it's brought into sharp relief now by the looming famine and the extremity of the needs in gaza, but it illustrates what has been one of the sort of fundamental bones of contention. now,

quentin sommerville reports from cyprus. there is no functioning port in gaza.devastated infrastructure there, so there is nowhere for this aid to land. so the charity involved, world central kitchen, has hired heavy lifting equipment, is moving huge boulders, and is building its own pier, its own jetty out into the mediterranean to get ready to receive aid. the problem might be that that jetty may not be ready yet. thejourney from larnaca, where i am now, to gaza, it usually takes about 15 hours, but is is expected to take this boat and the barge it is towing about 50 hours, much longer because of the cargo and the nature of the vessel. it's a tiny, tiny, tiny drop in terms of gaza's need and in some respects maritime sea corridors and air drops are not the way to get the humanitarian aid that gaza needs so urgently to the people of gaza. the reality is the quickest way to do that is by truck, through the two entry points at the south of gaza and despite pleas from israel's allies to increase the number of trucks up to 500 today as it was before the war, israel

our middle east correspondent quentin sommerville is there.edia reporting it will leave some point this afternoon. they are waiting for final security clearances from israel, which provides all of the aid that makes its way into gaza. there is about 150-200 its way into gaza. there is about 150—200 tonnes of aid on board, from everything from flower to rice and preprepared meals and water. it is quite a long journey, 210 nautical miles. usually thatjourney quite a long journey, 210 nautical miles. usually that journey from larnaca to gaza would take 15 hours, but because of that heavy barrage, it might take longer. the organisations involved have said that the most difficult part of the journey will be the last mile. you touched on that in your report, because landing in gaza will be very difficult, it does not have a functional port and in parts of gaza, law and order, civil society has broken down since israel's bombardment and ground invasion, and the need from the people in gaza is absolutely desperate. there is always the danger that when

quarter of the population in gaza is at risk of starvation. 0ur middle east correspondent quentin sommervillernica. i spoke to him a little earlier, and asked if there is any indication of what might happen once that aid finally arrives. this is the first time it has been attempted. the surplus corridor and they hope that where they're hoping that once the open arms, the spanish vessel, which set off from here in larnaca earlier this morning, gets there and offloads its 200 tonnes of aid, that plenty of other ships will follow in its wake, delivering more aid. but it is going to be challenging. first of all, it's going to take them a long time to get there. it's going to take at least two days for the ship and the barge to make it across the eastern mediterranean when they arrive in gaza. of course, the part of gaza which we think they're heading towards has been absolutely flattened in places. most of the infrastructure has gone and there is no functioning port. so the charity behind this operation, world central kitchen, is, while the ship is in the water, building a jetty using the debris,

let's go live now to our correspondent, quentin sommerville.en a while until it left but they resolved all the problems in the end? , but they resolved all the problems in the end?— in the end? they resolved all the roblems in the end? they resolved all the problems this — in the end? they resolved all the problems this ends _ in the end? they resolved all the problems this ends but there - in the end? they resolved all the problems this ends but there are i problems this ends but there are still considerable problems on the other end. at the weekend they loaded up the ship which had been here for about three weeks, they finally got security clearance and today they left just before finally got security clearance and today they leftjust before 9am local time. as you said in the introduction, it will take a while to get there, perhaps 50 hours, two days, and the difficulty they face when they arrive is that gaza, which is in a state of war and under israeli bombardment, has no infrastructure and no functioning port. so while the ship is at sea t

quentin sommerville is in the port city of larnaca. he sent this report.op in the ocean of gaza's need, but this is the first direct aid shipment by sea about to leave cyprus. the spanish ship the open arms, seen here in larnaca port, getting ready to set sail. it has a long journey ahead of it. the barge has 200 tonnes of desperately needed essentials — rice, flour and pre—prepared meals. this has taken months in planning. the cargo was loaded all weekend. the final security clearances from israel came through in the last few hours. well, we've done truckloads of food through the rafah crossing. we've done airdrops with thejordanian army. this is the next step into providing food aid into gaza. but this is only a small breakthrough. israel's offensive has led to a collapse in civil order. few aid organisations dare risk delivering to the north. gaza is on the brink of famine. world central kitchen, the us charity, provided the speeded—up footage of preparations under way to build a pier to receive the aid. gaza has no functioning port. and israel will be

called the open arms, will set off from the port of larnaca, our special correspondent quentin sommerville it's taken an enormous effort to even get this far with this relief mission. but the real challenge will come as they get closer to gaza. it might take as long as 2—3 days for as long as 2—3 days closer to gaza. it might take as long as 2—3 days for them to make the 210 nautical miles from here in cyprus to gaza. but when they get there, they are arriving at a territory that has no functioning port so they have to off—load that aid, and in the north of gaza distributing aid, it's the most badly affected, most desperately in need part of gaza. distributing aid there is extremely difficult. all law and order has broken down there, it's absolute chaos on there, it's absolute chaos on the ground, so they were also have to manage that. that will be a great success if they managed to open this first maritime aid quarter. there are others who say, in fact, maritime aid core and air drops by western governments are a sign of western failure because the list has been asking israel for months t

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quentin sommerville, bbc news, larnaca. health ministry says more than 31,000 palestinians have now been killed since israel began its military action following hamas�*s attack on october the 7th. around 1,200 people were killed, and more than 250 people were taken hostage. with the latest — here's our senior international correspondent, orla guerin — and a warning, her report contains images you may find distressing. from the skies over gaza, aid comes dropping. but so little, and so late. on the ground, a desperate rush. many come away empty—handed. like this woman. "i'm taking care of orphans," she says. "i want to feed them." and here, some of the most vulnerable, born prematurely into war and man—made hunger. staff say all the babies delivered at this hospital in rafah since december have been underweight. struggling from their first breaths as many mothers have struggled. dr ahmed al—shair says there's been no properfood for pregnant women for the past four months. no meat, milk, eggs, fruit or vegetables. barak is fi

our middle east correspondent quentin sommerville is in lanraca, he is watching the aid operation fromaid to land. so the charity involved, world central kitchen, has hired heavy lifting equipment, is moving huge boulders, and is building its own pier, its own jetty out into the mediterranean to get ready to receive aid. the problem is that thatjetty may not be ready yet. thejourney from larnaca, where i am now, to gaza, it usually takes about 15 hours, but is is expected to take this boat and the barge it is towing about 50 hours, much longer because of the cargo and the nature of the vessel. the conservative mp alicia kearns, who's chair of the foreign affairs committee, has just returned from a trip to the middle east. she says not enough aid is getting into gaza — and she had some harsh words for the israeli government. so they have rules that seem to change on a daily basis. so on one day we heard nothing was allowed to be brought in in metal containers. now you can understand that. i am absolutely opposed to anything going into gaza that could be dual use. for example, there were

quentin sommerville, bbc news, larnaca.ars, scooping seven awards including best picture and best actor. its rival at the box office, barbie, took home one award — but still managed to steal the show, as our entertainment correspondent colin paterson reports. oppenheimer. these were the oppenheimer oscars. cillian murphy. the biographicalfilm about the father of the atomic bomb won seven — with cillian murphy becoming the first—ever irish—born winner of best actor. for better or for worse, we're all living in oppenheimer�*s world, so i would really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere. christopher nolan, oppenheimer. christopher nolan was best director. movies are just a little j bit over 100 years old. i mean, imagine being there 100 lyears into painting or theatre — i we don't know where this incredible journey is going from here. - robert downey jr! while robert downeer won his first oscar — more than 30 years after he was first nominated. i'd like to thank my terrible childhood... laughter. ..and the acad