内容摘要：The company is keen to begin larger-scale trials but believes it will work for any type of plant crop.

The company is keen to begin larger-scale trials but believes it will work for any type of plant crop.

was issued by the Environment Agency for a stretch of the River Soar in Barrow upon Soar.It said rising levels at the Pillings Lock posed a risk to properties at a nearby marina and caravan park.

59 members of the public had been rescued so far.Judi Beresford, assistant chief fire and rescue officer, said: "Flooding poses a serious risk to lives and property, and we urge everyone to take these warnings seriously."Our control room and crews are working tirelessly to assist those in need and to keep people safe.

"We are working with our partners to reduce the impact of this major incident and ask the public to avoid flooded routes when travelling and never to enter flood water."She added there was no more significant rain forecast and water levels were beginning to fall.

Leicestershire County Council told the BBC it had been called to 160 flood-related incidents in the county so far.

Cars have been submerged, with disruption to the roads and rail services, including the closure of lines between Peterborough and Leicester, and lines between Derby and both Nottingham and East Midlands Parkway.In April, some 600 British lawyers including four former Supreme Court justices, signed a letter to the UK Prime Minister, asking him to stop arms sales to Israel and referring to “a plausible risk of genocide”.

That triggered a counter-letter from UK Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI). The 1,300-strong group said the ICJ had only ruled that Gaza Palestinians had a plausible right to be protected from genocide - in other words, that it had been dealing with a complex and somewhat abstract legal argument.The dispute continued in more letters and interpretations.

Many in the first group described UKLFI’s interpretation as “empty wordplay”. The court, they argued, cannot have been solely concerned with an academic question - because the stakes were far higher than that.And, of all places, the debate crystallised in legal sparring before a UK parliamentary committee, debating the question of arms exports to Israel.