live from london, this is bbc news. shouting. 59 mp5 called on the 59 mps called on the house of commons�* speaker to quit after went to�*s vote in chaos, over a ceasefire in gaza. —— over wednesday�*s vote chaos. aid agencies say hunger and disease are spreading in gaza, we have rare access to a uk—funded flight air—dropping fuel and food into the strip. they�*re about to open the door, it�*ll fly out, and land in northern gaza, and get help to the people of gaza. former barcelona footballer dani alves is sentenced to four and a half years injailfor rape. hello, i�*m lewis vaughanjones, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news,

interviews and reaction. here in the uk, calls for the speaker to resign. we have these life pictures, and we are monitoring what has been said, because there has been an extraordinary reaction to the events yesterday. calls for the speaker of the house of commons to resign. that number is now up to 59 mp5. it was 30 just a few hours ago, now that latest number we have is 59 mps saying that they have no confidence in the speaker. this all because of a debate on the israel gaza war, held yesterday, all about the wording around a call for a ceasefire, but the way the debate was run, was seen pretty quickly as chaotic, and the speaker of the house, there he is, lindsay hoyle, who is in charge of running debate in parliament, his handling of it has been criticised and now, as we have been a saying in the last few moments, 59 mps say they have no

confidence in the speaker, which is a fairly unusual move. yesterday, there appeared to be a walk—out, mps from the snp, and opposition, and also the conservatives. you can see them leaving the chamber here. in a moment, we will speak to our political correspondent, get up to date with what has happened in the last few moments. to run through actually what happened, to start all this, it centres around the speaker, so lindsay hoyle, and his decisions about what would be debated in the house of commons. as a speaker,... as speaker, he�*s an elected mp but he does not represent any political party. his main role is to enforce, impartially, the rules which govern mps at westminster. on wednesday, it was the scottish national party�*s turn to put forward the subject for debate, and they chose gaza, and calls for a ceasefire. other parties can put forward amendments, and the labour party did so. it�*s rare for one opposition party to try to amend another opposition party�*s motion.

lindsay hoyle accepted that labour amendment for debate, infuriating the snp and several mps from the ruling conservative party. sir lindsay has said he regrets what happened and will hold meetings with all concerned parties. let�*s get our now see what happens just a few moments ago in the house of commons, we heard from penny mordaunt, the conservative who addressed this issue, and addressed what happened. she is the leader of the house. let�*s take a lesson. it fell to the government benches to defend the rights of a minority party in this house. if the honourable lady opposite cannot bring herself to reflect on the appalling consequences of her party�*s actions yesterday, if she cannot rise above the narrow and

immediate needs of her weak and fickle leader... to fulfil her duties to this house, as it shadow leader, perhaps she might like to reflect on the damage her party has done it to the office of the speaker. i would done it to the office of the speaker. iwould never done it to the office of the speaker. i would never have done it to him what the labour party have done to him. so that was just in the last 15 minutes or so. let�*s go to westminster. harry is standing by for us. just talk as three what has happened in the last 20 minutes. good morning. as you say, penny mordaunt, the leader of the house of commons there, she was trying to put the situation that the speaker finds himself in the this money, tried to place the blame on the labour party because from her perspective, she says that the labour party put pressure on the speaker to allow their wording to be debated as well as the government�*s words and command as you explained there, very

well, that was an unusual move, that was a breach of convention, and that was a breach of convention, and that was partly why so many mps out so angry at the speaker. they say that he caved under pressure from the labour party, and that he has... by citing the safety of the mp5, they say well, you are allowing threats of violence to govern the rules in the house of commons, from a labour perspective, they deny that they have put any pressure on the speaker. they defended him, they said that he was right to allow the mps to debate as wide a range of emotions as possible, and what is a very sensitive issue, and there were significant differences between the snp is' significant differences between the snp is�* wording around the ceasefire and the labour wording of a ceasefire. as you say, 59 mps has now signed that call for the speaker to quit, they say they have no confidence in him. in context, in a political history, in 2009, when the speaker michael martin quit, 23 mps

had called for him to quit, when he did resign. there is no indication that the speaker is going to resign, but certainly it is fair to say that the pressure is growing on him this morning. the pressure is growing on him this morninu. , ., , morning. interesting. harry, stay there. morning. interesting. harry, stay there- we'll— morning. interesting. harry, stay there. we'll come _ morning. interesting. harry, stay there. we'll come back _ morning. interesting. harry, stay there. we'll come back to - morning. interesting. harry, stay there. we'll come back to you. i morning. interesting. harry, stay. there. we'll come back to you. just there. we�*ll come back to you. just want to remind us about we actually saw in the house yesterday. let�*s take a look now at some of the chaotic scenes and then we will get harry to talk us through. that is... that is put... cheering. how do we _ that is... that is put... cheering. how do we same _ that is... that is put... cheering. how do we same him _ that is... that is put... cheering. how do we same him t0 - that is... that is put... cheering. how do we bring him to that. that is... that is put... cheering. - how do we same him to that seat? so, that was a kind of edited highlights, lowlights, whatever way you look at it! talk us through how unusual that was. it you look at it! talk us through how unusual that was.— unusual that was. it was highly unusual. unusual that was. it was highly unusual- i _ unusual that was. it was highly unusual. i was _ unusual that was. it was highly unusual. i was out _ unusual that was. it was highly unusual. i was out in _ unusual that was. it was highly unusual. i was out in the - unusual that was. it was highly l unusual. i was out in the central lobbyjust unusual. i was out in the central lobby just a unusual. i was out in the central lobbyjust a few metres outside the house of commons, and around me, we were all, loads of other

journalists, broadcasters around, all of us trying to work out what on earth was going on. it was complete chaos, and really, this debate around what is such an important and sensitive issue, a ceasefire in gaza, the humanitarian situation there, which descended into farce, and a debate around procedure. i english is worth reminding viewers exactly what was being debated. three different motions that the speaker controversially chose to allow, the snp is�* wording which called for an immediate ceasefire, and use the phrase, collective punishment when it referred to israel�*s treatment of palatine people, amounts to accusing people back israel of war crimes. —— palestine people. hamas was also blamed, saying that they must also stop their violence. the government�*s motion, on the other end of things, calling for a humanitarian pause, because they argue that there are several steps that need to be in place before they

can call for a ceasefire, like hamas no longer being in charge of gaza, and like the hostages being released. there are three different versions of wedding and i suppose this is where the finely tuning —— finely tuned wendy —— finely tuned winding of democracy comes for the house of commons, because as explained, the speaker co ntroversially explained, the speaker controversially allows all three to be debated and what that meant was the snp, the conservative mps walking out in process. they say that he came to pressure. the reason for that is that if he had stuck by procedure and just allowed the snp widen, calling for immediate ceasefire, criticising the collective punishment of palestinian people, or the government�*s version, which calls for a humanitarian pause, and not yet a ceasefire, the feeling that a loss of —— a lot of labour mps would have rebelled against their own party and gone with the snp option. that would have put the labour leader qa serkis derby, and the labour party in a very difficult position, and the

feeling is that he let the labour party off the hook.— party off the hook. thank you very much for talking _ party off the hook. thank you very much for talking us _ party off the hook. thank you very much for talking us through - party off the hook. thank you very much for talking us through that. l party off the hook. thank you very i much for talking us through that. we just want to look at the speaker, speaking yesterday. let�*s ta ke let�*s take a listen to what he said. i�*m honest to this house, i�*m true i'm honest to this house, i'm true to this _ i'm honest to this house, i'm true to this house, i believe in all members _ to this house, i believe in all members of this house, and i have tried _ members of this house, and i have tried to _ members of this house, and i have tried to do — members of this house, and i have tried to do what i thought was the film tried to do what i thought was the right thing for all sides of this house — right thing for all sides of this house it_ right thing for all sides of this house. it is regrettable, and i apologise. 0k, ok, so, i apologise, ok, so, iapologise, they ok, so, i apologise, they were the that he finished with. what do you make of this position are now? i thought was an interesting statement that he made, every emotional one, he seemed almost close to tears at one point, while making that apology. he is now meeting with

representatives from the main political party, to try and find a way forward. he mentioned 59 at the moment, and listening to penny mordaunt, just a few minutes ago... she referred to him as an innocent man and cited his choice to come back and apologise, so it seems like penny mordaunt from her perspective is holding off on the criticism of the speaker, but certainly that is not the case for many of them. lets take a step back. we have done the detail, you�*ve done the to, brilliantly! 0n the procedural issue, we have explained what position, an unusual position of the speaker now finds himself in. if we take a step back, what does this all potentially matter, if the speaker of the house stays or goes? what difference does it make? the debate itself, the debate not different does it make?— itself, the debate not different does it make? ., ., ,,, ., ~ ., does it make? removing a speaker of the house of — does it make? removing a speaker of the house of commons _

does it make? removing a speaker of the house of commons is _ does it make? removing a speaker of the house of commons is a _ does it make? removing a speaker of the house of commons is a very - the house of commons is a very significant move, normally does not happen between elections. and i think that will be very significant if mps did choose to go ahead with that. there is no formal mechanism for them to do that, if we did have pressure on them, that he no longer has the confidence of the house, to see what it all means. it is irrelevant, to the ultimate this motion, even if it had even if the snp motion have passed, it would not have affected uk foreign policy, it was not binding on the government, the government does not have to change it from policy because of what mps in the house of commons say, so in terms of making a practical difference on the ground, it matters very little. i think it does have a very real impact on a set lindsay hoyle, if he stays as a speaker of the house of commons, or whether he will feel under pressure to resign. —— set lindsay hoyle. interesting, thank you so much for that. we will be back, and we will be hearing from lots of different voices in the box on the right, as

well as the box on the left, if you follow my dress! those alive pictures on one side of the screen is the house of commons, of course, that we are keeping a cross because we are expecting more political reaction from there. i wonder now if we canjust quickly reaction from there. i wonder now if we can just quickly hear from a penny mordaunt again, that we heard from at the top of the programme. i don�*t think we can. we will keep that up and trying to get that again, because the first politician to speak in a position that we have had for reaction to it. if we do get it, of course we will bring that to you. we can show you the live page, these numbers that we are talking about at the moment, so... this number, which kind of seems not to make a great deal of sense, in isolation, and on its own, but what we�*re seeing here is number of mps who say they have no confidence in the speaker, set lindsay hoyle. that is what that is. it is now at 59.

let�*s listen to penny mordaunt again. it let's listen to penny mordaunt aaain. ., ., again. it fell to the government benches to _ again. it fell to the government benches to defend _ again. it fell to the government benches to defend the - again. it fell to the government benches to defend the rights of| again. it fell to the government | benches to defend the rights of a

around the world and across the uk this is bbc news. it is going to take a look at some other stories now. an inquest has heard that a grandmother died from a bite wound to her upper right limb. she was visiting her grandson in essex when she was injured earlier this month. an inquest opening in chelmsford was told police found her with un—survivable injuries. epilepsy charities are warning that ongoing shortages in the supply of life—saving medication are putting patients at a higher risk of seizures. they say many more people are calling their helplines, after struggling to get hold of the drugs they need. industry experts say there are also problems with the supply of many other medicines. police chiefs are warning that an increasing number of people are getting behind the wheel after using drugs such

as cannabis and cocaine. merseyside police say they�*re now catching more drivers under the influence of illegal drugs than of alcohol. we will head to gardener, and the problem of getting aid into the north of gaza. —— gaza. for first time — uk airdropped aid out of a plane. jordan airforce plane quentin somerville. they are just suiting up now, they arejust suiting up now, the jordanian air force crew. we are getting close to the north of gaza, the crew isjordanian, the plane is ordaining, but all this aid is british. to try and get into gaza, and the reason for that is there is pretty much no other way. normally,

the most basic... most of the people have been forced out, still about 300,000 palestinians there and they are in desperate need. there is too much violence on the ground... for that part of the gaza strip. this airdrop, you can see the parachute on top, they are about to open the door, and they will fly out and land in northern gaza. this is one of the few remaining ways to get help to the peace of desperate people of gaza. earlier on thursday there was a shooting in the west bank settlement of maa�*ala adoomeem — east ofjerusalem. israeli police say one person has been killed and eight wounded.

casualties have been taken to a hospital injerusalem. the attacks come ahead of the latest visit to israel by a senior us official seeking a ceasefire deal for gaza. let�*s focus on the issue of aid. let�*s speak to nebal farsakh, the spokesperson for the palestinian red crescent, who isjoining me in ramallah. thank you for coming we saw those images, our correspondent on board that plane, air dropping uk plane, physically dropping eight out of the back of a plane, to try and get to the hard to reach areas in the north. what do you make of that latest efforts to get enough aid in? the humanitarian situation across all gaza is dire. people are dying, or starving, families often only have make sure they have something for their children. the situation is

absolutely catastrophic. many children suffer from malnutrition, and they are at risk of death. 0n and they are at risk of death. on top of that, 100,000 palestinians sufferfrom infectious top of that, 100,000 palestinians suffer from infectious diseases, this includes respiratory diseases, skin diseases, and other diseases because people are just overcrowded in shelters, in a tense, and so they don�*t even dare make some don�*t even have tense, because of the lack of tents —— tents. the entire population are lacking access to food, clean water and even medicines.— food, clean water and even medicines. ., . ., ., ., , medicines. how much of all of this roven medicines. how much of all of this proven -- — medicines. how much of all of this proven -- provision _ medicines. how much of all of this proven -- provision of— medicines. how much of all of this proven -- provision of aid, - medicines. how much of all of this proven -- provision of aid, getting proven —— provision of aid, getting more aid, depends on a ceasefire of whatever description?— whatever description? absolutely, havinu whatever description? absolutely, havin: a whatever description? absolutely, having a ceasefire _ whatever description? absolutely, having a ceasefire will— whatever description? absolutely, having a ceasefire will at - whatever description? absolutely, having a ceasefire will at least - having a ceasefire will at least ensure having a safe access of

humanitarian aid into gaza. it also will help the work of the humanitarians and aid agencies, to be able to distribute the aid safely, for all those who are in need of it. the problem is that age thatis need of it. the problem is that age that is getting into gaza, it does not even scratch the surface. even the past two weeks, we are witnessing great challenges in having the age, and we have seen a great reduction in the number of aid trucks that are allowed to be into the gaza strip. yesterday, we only received around 38 tracks through rafah crossing, —— 30 aid trucks. the crossing was closed, as well as another. and even when both crossings are opened, we only receive around 170 aid trucks, which

should —— but that is not enough aid trucks to be allowed in to help, we need 500 trucks per day.— trucks to be allowed in to help, we need 500 trucks per day. thank you ve much need 500 trucks per day. thank you very much for— need 500 trucks per day. thank you very much for coming _ need 500 trucks per day. thank you very much for coming on _ need 500 trucks per day. thank you very much for coming on that - very much for coming on that programme, sorry, we have a out of time. we had to the us now, and to alabama. —— head. ivf fertility treatments are on hold at the main hospital in the state. the top court in alabama ruled that frozen embryos were classified as children. the hospital authorities say they are concerned patients or doctors could face prosecution, if something happened. let�*s get more on this with cbs correspondent jarred hill — who�*s in new york. this all started off with a court case in alabama, in which you had a number of families who are challenging a situation that happens there, where embryos were unintentionally destroyed. —— where

there embryos. we see this court ruling where the embryos are failing to prison, and the frozen embryos can be treated as children, which is a wrongful death case, in the situation of the embryos that were destroyed, unintentionally. this law is having this ripple effect that we are seeing, where the hospital system throughout the state of alabama are saying that they are not certain whether they can do the business of ivf, which can often include the destruction of embryos. safely and, in what the law is now, so you have a lot of families who are essentially putting their fertility treatments on hold because they don�*t know how to move forward. and what does this mean for other states in the us? fin and what does this mean for other states in the us?— and what does this mean for other states in the us? on a purely legal basis, this does _ states in the us? on a purely legal basis, this does not _ states in the us? on a purely legal basis, this does not mean - states in the us? on a purely legal basis, this does not mean anything for any other states, at least not right now, because this is an issue for alabama. they could be some ripple effects, and on one hand, you have state, surrounding alabama, an increase in people seeking ivf

treatments, because they are potentially trying to manoeuvre outside of the state of alabama. there is also this question about whether we would see others, other anti—abortion rights groups, trying to get similar pieces of legislation pushed through, in their states, that would make ivf more difficult. in fact, there are some anti—abortion rights groups that are saying that they hope that this changes the way that ivf is done across the country. it is yet to be seen what this means, specifically when it becomes law outside the state of alabama, but this could potentially reshape how ivf is done nationwide. g ., ., ., ~ , ., potentially reshape how ivf is done nationwide. g ., ., . ~' , ., nationwide. jarrod, thank you so much for that. _ albania�*s parliament has approved a controversial asylum deal signed with italy in november. it involves reception centres being set up on albanian territory for people who went to italy seeking asylum. albania could now potentially process up to 36,000 people a year. let�*s speak to our

correspondent guy de launey. hello. talk what the idea here is? the idea is simply that albania, as the prime minister puts it, take some of the burden from italy, in terms of processing all of these asylum claims. it has to be said, though, is still going to be an italian operation, albeit in albania, that is where a lot of the controversy comes from. what has been agreed in in albanian parliament today, the green —— agreement between edi rama and his italian counterpart, the reception centres in albania, there will be one for initial screening, and another one for somewhat longer term accommodation. the goal is to process each person�*s asylum claim within a month. 3000 people will be in albania at any given time, claiming asylum in italy, and if they are taking a month each, that could be 36,000 people per year,

going through albania, despite the fact that actually they have claimed asylum from italy. find fact that actually they have claimed asylum from italy.— asylum from italy. and what repercussions, _ asylum from italy. and what repercussions, potentially, l asylum from italy. and what - repercussions, potentially, does this have from other countries in the region, other countries�* asylum policy is? it the region, other countries' asylum oli is? , ., , ., policy is? it is an interesting one, in terms of _ policy is? it is an interesting one, in terms of the _ policy is? it is an interesting one, in terms of the specificity - policy is? it is an interesting one, in terms of the specificity of - policy is? it is an interesting one, in terms of the specificity of it. i in terms of the specificity of it. —— policies. in terms of the specificity of it. -- policies-— in terms of the specificity of it. -- olicies. ., ., ., , -- policies. edi rama said that this would not have _ -- policies. edi rama said that this would not have happened, - -- policies. edi rama said that this would not have happened, that - would not have happened, that albania would not have made a deal with any other country other than italy. he describes italy as being a sister country, whereas he considers the rest of the european nations because an countries. he also says there have been offers and requests —— offers all requests from other countries, britain was one of those, who are interested in albania performing a similar function for them. those were all refused, because nobody has those special ties with albania, as italy does. it is very interesting, mr edi rama has my comments come after the bill went through, he says that albania is standing together with italy by

choosing to act as a european union member states, and a green to share a burden as a united family, in face of a bold challenge. it is very much positioning albania�*s prospective eu member state, and indeed, positioning albania�*s prospective eu memberstate, and indeed, it positioning albania�*s prospective eu member state, and indeed, it has in the past year or so, received a green light to start those negotiations.— green light to start those neuotiations. ., ,, , ., , . negotiations. thank you very much for that. we ta ke we take you live now to the uk, in london, to the house of commons, mps are there after an extraordinary 2a hours, really, and the number now that we have is 59 mp5, who have signed an early day motion which says they have no confidence in the speaker of the house of commons. the speaker of the house of commons. the speaker of the house of commons. the speaker of the house of commons is in charge of discipline in charge of the house of commons, but 59 mp5, the house of commons, but 59 mps, in a strange move, they say that they have no confidence in the speaker. stay with us on all the updates. i am lewis vaughanjones.

hello again. currently, there are a lot of flood warnings in force across england in particular. there are also a few in wales. something to keep a close eye on because, today, again, it is going to be a wet and windy day and it is also turning colder, particularly so through the day, in the south. that is where the passage of this weather front bringing the rain is moving eastwards. another one following on hot on its heels. behind that, we will see a return to cooler conditions. so we start the afternoon with the milder conditions but look how the colder air follows through, through the course of the day. this is the band of rain and squally winds, both of them pushing eastwards. you could well see on the back edge of this, some wintriness on the hills, the welsh hills in the south—west with gales and severe gales at times through the english channel. and strong winds across the

coastlines of kent and east anglia. inland, you can see from the black circles the strength of the gales we are looking at. it will brighten up behind those bands of rain and for scotland and northern ireland, it is a day of sunny spells and showers, some of the showers could be heavy and thundery with hail, wintry on higher ground and later we could see some of that wintriness getting down to lower levels across the north—west. the rain pulls away through the course of the evening. clear skies following behind. there will be a lot of showers coming in on the wind in western areas. it will be a colder night, especially further south, than it has been of late. we are looking at frost and the risk of ice in the north—east. heading into tomorrow, this weather front will enhance the showers coming into the rest. we still have a westerly wind. most of the showers will be in western areas but some of them blow over toward central and eastern parts of the country but equally, a lot of dry weather with some of those showers, because we are now in the cold air mass, could be wintry, especially so in the hills, the temperature is between 6—10 degrees, more like you would expect in february.

heading into the weekend, we have a slight ridge across us, so things are fairly settled, then we have this area of low pressure skirting past the south—west. on sunday it may bring rain, and windy conditions, but into the weekend there will be some mist and fog around, a slow to clear in the mornings, with some frost and some showers at times.

of many other medicines. this is bbc news, the headlines we have a special report from a ukrainian village that lost a fifth of its population in a single russian strike. us prosecutors charge an alleged member to camp to traffic nuclear materials to iran. and, scientists say they�*ve finally worked out the mystery behind whale song. the brazilian footballer —— and former barcelona star — dani alves, has been sentenced to four and—a—half years in jail for rape. he was convicted of raping a woman in a nightclub in barcelona december 2022. he�*s been ordered to pay a— hundred— and— fifty— thousand euros to his victim.

alves, who�*s forty, is one of the most— capped brazilian internationals.