Mike Robinson, Charles Malet and Vanessa Beeley with today's UK Column News.
Rafah Destruction: With An Election Coming, Will Anyone Talk About It?
00:23 The Jerusalem Post: Knesset to hold preliminary vote designating UNRWA a terror organization
Reuters: ICJ Gaza ruling: Israel was ordered to halt its Rafah offensive and open the Gaza-Egypt crossing for aid
Al Jazeera: Shooting between Egyptian, Israeli personnel near Rafah kills one Egyptian
PressTV: 'Most cruel abomination': UN blasts Rafah carnage as EU weighs sanctions on Israel
Haaretz: Flattened Buildings, Widespread Destruction: This Is What Israel's 'Limited Operation' in Rafah Looks Like (Archived)
Warlike Rhetoric, Falling Into 'Wartime Ecstasy'
09:21 UK Parliament: National Service
GOV.UK: Chief of the Defence Chatham House Security and Defence Conference 2024 keynote speech
No one in the Ministry of Defence is talking about conscription in any traditional sense of the term.
Bundeswehr: Voluntary Military Service: An Opportunity, Not an Obligation
Anadolu Ajansı (Turkey): Italy's League party introduces bill to bring back compulsory military service
The Economist: NATO’s boss wants to free Ukraine to strike hard inside Russia
Atlantic Council: 'The time has come': Calls grow to allow Ukrainian strikes inside Russia
NATO PA: NATO PA urges Allies to step up military assistance to Ukraine, lift restrictions on weapons use
Reuters: French military instructors to visit Ukrainian training centres soon, Ukraine commander says
Financial Times: America breaks global rules as it defends the free world
Operating with Impunity: New Definition of Extremism
20:34 GOV.UK: Statement on Lord Walney’s report 'Protecting our Democracy from Coercion'
GOV.UK: New definition of extremism (2024)
GOV.UK: Operating with Impunity: Summary Version (PDF)
Thanks To The Organisers Of Stand In The Light Festival
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The Last American Vagabond: Pathologist Arne Burkhardt's Final Interview—Revealing the Grave Dangers of mRNA Vaccines
UK Column interview: Reclaim your Rights and Control: The Control Group
Investment Pitch From The World Health Organization
28:13 World Health Organization (WHO): WHO’s investment case launch draws expressions of support, pledges to sustainably finance four-year strategy
World Health Organization (WHO): Programme Budget
Dust Off The Swine Flu (2009) Playbook, It’s Bird Flu Time
31:35 GOV.UK: HAIRS risk statement: Avian influenza A(H5N1) in livestock
GOV.UK: Avian Influenza in US cattle—DEFRA in the media
BBC: Cows in the US have bird flu—is it inching closer to humans?
GOV.UK: AWC Opinion on the use of high-expansion nitrogen foam for culling poultry
Auckland Council (New Zealand): Check if you need a licence to keep birds and poultry
Ministry for Primary Industries: High pathogenicity avian influenza and the risk to New Zealand
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): How CDC is monitoring influenza data to better understand the current avian influenza A (H5N1) situation in people
GOV.UK: Avian flu detected in two individuals taking part in testing programme
Penn Medicine: Penn Researchers Develop Experimental mRNA Avian Flu Vaccine
Reuters: Bird flu vaccines for laying hens prove effective in practice
Wageningen University (WUR): Two vaccines effective against bird flu
American $320 million Gaza Pier Goes Surfing
40:29 Politico: Biden officials are in talks with EU group to help reopen Rafah crossing
European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM): Who we are
The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Cooking the Books?
44:54 GOV.UK: Energy Trends March 2024
GOV.UK: Digest of UK Energy Statistics Annual data for UK, 2022 (PDF)
National Grid ESO: Future Energy Scenarios (FES)
This year’s Future Energy Scenarios continue to set out credible ways that the UK can achieve net zero by 2050 […]
[…] Projected increase in annual demand, by 2050, is 254%
Recharge: "It's much cheaper to produce green hydrogen from waste than renewables"
National Grid ESO: Data Centres (PDF)
Bank of England: The digital pound: Technology Working Paper
Sino-Arabian Renaissance
51:34 Al Mayadeen English: 'Israel' denies Egypt account on Rafah cross-border skirmish
Al Mayadeen English: Egyptian Nasserist Party calls for cancellation of Camp David Accords
China Global Television Network (CCTN): China-Arab Ties: Heads of Egypt, Bahrain, Tunisia, the UAE to attend cooperation forum in Beijing during state visits to China
UKC Verify: Rapid Changes In Gravitational Force: Thanks, BBC
55:16 BBC: Singapore Airlines plane dropped 178ft in five seconds, black box data reveals
Declassified UK: King Charles accepted award from Nazi veteran