i am mark lowen, i will bring you the latest from southern israel. israel says it has completed its encirclement of gaza city in effect splitting it into north and south. # memories, like the corners of my mind...#. the funny girl on the way we were — barbra streisand reflects on the challenges of being a woman at the top of her profession during her six—decade long career. hello, i'm sarah campbell. welcome to bbc news. we start with the latest from the israel—gaza conflict. it's been one of the heaviest nights of bombardment in gaza since the start of the war with israeli air strikes hitting

the north of the territory — and reports of huge explosions. israel says it's now effectively divided gaza into two parts — north and south. 11 un agencies and six humanitarian groups have called for an immediate ceasefire, urging israel to protect civilians and allow more food, water, medicine and fuel into gaza. they also called on hamas to release the hostages captured on october the 7th. some aid continues to get through — a royaljordanian air force cargo plane has dropped several containers of humanitarian relief supplies over the gaza strip. the update was shared in a tweet by thejordanian king. jordan's state news agency said the consignment was urgent medical aid for thejordanian field hospital in gaza. israeli media reports say the air drop was carried out in co—ordination with the israeli military. meanwhile, the us has stepped up diplomatic efforts in the region. secretary of state antony blinken

has held talks with his the turkish foreign minister in ankara. the country's cia director william burns is also now in israel — urging greater effort to avoid civilian casualties. and in the last few hours, the white house has said vice—president kamala harris will discuss the conflict in a phone call with unnamed foreign leaders today. let's go live to southern israel — and my colleague mark lowen. thank you. good morning, good afternoon from southern israel, we are three kilometres away from the gaza strip and have been hearing the constant thud of artillery this morning, plumes of smoke as israel continues and intensifies its air campaign and ground offensive in gaza. we have been hearing outgoing artillery fire from israel and loud explosions from inside the gaza strip. the israeli military said

they have hit a50 targets yesterday inside gaza including taking out hamas command centres. the palestinians say 200 civilians as they put it were killed last night, israel says it is not targeting civilians but hamas control centres, and civilians are being caught up in crossfire because they are being used as human shields. meanwhile the time now here is ipm which means that three hours the key road running north to south in gaza from the northern part of the strip, has we understand been opened by israeli forces on the ground to get some of the a00,000 civilians still estimated to be sheltering in the north to move them further south as israel says it has in effect cut the territory into two, a northern part under intense bombardment and completely surrounded, and then the

southern part which it is trying to persuade civilians to move to. let us get the latest from our middle east correspondent. explosions. the relentless bombardment continues. the latest israeli strikes in northern gaza among the most intense so far and, once again, phone and internet lines were cut. this was yesterday's aftermath. locals say dozens were killed. said's wife and daughters were wounded. he searches on for his neighbours. "can anyone hear me inside?" he shouts. "there are people." this is part of gaza where civilians had been told to flee to. israel's military says it is looking into whether it was operating in the area at the time. israel's ground invasion is advancing. its military says it has now divided the territory into two and that it is doing what it can to avoid civilian casualties.

for several hours, israeli forces say they opened a route for gazans to head south. but relatively few made the journey. on his latest stop in turkey, the us secretary of state is hearing calls for an immediate ceasefire from around the region. washington backs short pauses in fighting. everyone would welcome it because, again, it would advance things we are all trying to accomplish, including getting hostages back, including getting a lot more assistance into gaza, including getting people out of gaza. one of the more than 2a0 hostages being held in gaza is 8a—year—old elma avraham. her family found this photo online, where she is seen being taken by hamas. her son worries how she is coping without her medication. right now, we are four weeks after that. four weeks and one day and they are still not here. and they should be here yesterday. not today, yesterday.

i am like in some horror movie that does not stop. but, yeah, i still have hope. israel says that without progress on releasing the hostages, it won't agree to any pause in hostilities. for now, for so many, each day brings only more suffering. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. reporting on the strike on the refugee camp that killed dozens according to the palestinians, and israel, we are still awaiting confirmation from the israel military and their troops were operating there. israel maintains the places it is striking places hamas is operating from in underground tunnels under hospitals, showing slides and videos to reporters last night purporting to show hamas of tunnels operating

underneath the two biggest hospitals in northern gaza. hamas says that is baseless and a un team should come into disprove those claims. 0n the ground humanitarian needs of the civilians are worsening further. there was a communications blackout last night for a few hours, all phone and internet signals went down. this morning we managed to speak to our bbc correspondent inside gaza and i asked him what he had witnessed this morning and overnight. very intense air strikes. the people in gaza say they may have been the biggest since the start of this war, about a50 targets were hit across the gaza strip. the main focus of the strikes were north—west and south—west of gaza, with the israelis expanding the ground operation and now they say they are in control of the coastal road, isolating gaza completely. the air strikes, according

to the director of al—shifa hospital who i managed to speak to this morning after the communication were resumed, said around 200 people were killed in the strikes overnight and they were transported by people, they said people were carrying the dead bodies on their cart by donkeys and in their own cars because the communications were cut and people couldn't communicate with the ambulance services and the hospital was overwhelmed by the number of bodies and injuries. he expects the number to go up again and he said there is over 10,000 people have been killed. the strikes were not only in gaza city with the focus of the israeli operation but a safe area where israel asked 1.2 million people to come in, and we have about 67 people who were killed overnight in three air strikes in the middle. it was a very tough night with the communication suspended, mobile phones were off and the internet in the entire gaza strip.

this morning communications were resumed but getting information is still very hard from the gaza city, verifying some of the information is very hard, getting witnesses from the area is very hard, so we are struggling as journalists to get any sort of information concerning the al—shifa hospital. the director of the hospital this morning said they had called the un to send a delegation in to check the hospitals because he said israel is lying about having a hamas infrastructure in the hospital and they said our hospitals are open for the un and an international body want to investigate. he said this is the hamas—run director of the hospitals in gaza who was speaking this morning tojournalists here in khan younis in the mass hospital. can i ask about the movement south?

you talked about how parts of the safe area, or largely safe area had also seen air strikes. that road south, salah al—din road, going from northern gaza to southern gaza, is supposed to be open again today. do you get any sense that civilians are moving, or do they feel too unsafe to take that road? people did manage to go but on foot but you know the distance is about seven or eight kilometres because the road itself is damaged. my colleague here in the hospital his family is still in the north injabaliya. i talked to his family yesterday and he said they decided to leave and they took their cars and drove about five kilometres from the north into the middle of gaza city and he said the road was completely blocked. the only way out of this is to walk. and imagine for people who are exhausted by a month of no

clean water or proper food, they had to walk about six or seven kilometres to cross this line which is where israel said is the line between the safe area and the operation area. so they decided to go back because he said my mum is old, she can't walk five kilometres along this road. many people are without access to cars or any transportation to get the people out. for now, what we understand is that very few people who are fit enough to walk, they managed to walk but we are talking about a few hundreds. still according to the un there are a00,000 people, remain in gaza city and the hamas authority here are saying 700,000 people still remain in the area. it is a huge number of people. even the few trucks that come from egypt when the road was open, when the humanitarian corridor

was open about four days ago, none of these trucks or aid or medical were allowed to the northern part of gaza. so the people who are in the northern part are most affected than the people in the south. israel is still carrying out attacks in the south and it is targeting hamas infrastructure or hamas people. but in the south by far it is safer, less air strikes and less people are dying. but still everybody you ask here in gaza or in the middle or in rafah they say no place is safe. an increasingly catastrophic situation on the ground. there are about 100 humanitarian trucks delivering aid and water and food coming in across the raffle crossing from egypt into gaza, per

day. the us say it is grossly insufficient, a fraction of what the territory demands in terms of food and water and fuel which is not being delivered. that is the situation in gaza. the other area where there has been military activity is in northern israel into lebanon where the israeli army have sheued lebanon where the israeli army have shelled a car in southern lebanon, the lebanese media say it killed three children and their grandmother, overnight. the israeli forces say it was a suspected terror vehicle, and it was in response to missiles fired from the lebanese side into israel. earlier i spoke to our correspondent in southern lebanon hugo bachega. last night the lebanese authorities said four civilians were killed including three children. i think this is the worst attack so far in terms of civilian

casualties since this war started, and the israelis are saying that they targeted a car that was suspected of transporting terrorists, and that they were looking into reports that civilians were killed. but there has been strong reaction here in lebanon following this attack. the caretaker prime minister here has described it as a crime. pictures of the destroyed car have been widely shared here on social media and also on lebanese television. a hezbollah politician has said that israel would pay the price. so i think this is perhaps raising fears that violence here could escalate because this happensjust days after the hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah gave his first speech since the war between israel and hamas broke out. he did not talk about any immediate escalation of hostilities here, but he did leave the door open

for more attacks. and i think he made the point that hezbollah could return to what he described as a civilian for civilian strategy if lebanese civilians were killed as a result of these israeli strikes. so again, concerns here that this violence could escalate and this morning we could hear the sound of explosions in the distance coming from the border zone here in southern lebanon. reports that the israeli military have been targeting some positions in the south of the country. so again, violence along the border continues. so far this fighting has been contained, it has been happening in areas along the border. but again, there is concern that this violence could escalate with more attacks from both hezbollah and also israel. the constant fear that this could escalate and widen and ignite a

combustible region. antony blinken has directly warned hezbollah we understand that if they were to escalate this the us would be ready to take in his words, to act militarily against them, according to a report to the new york times. antony blinken has spent the last few days shuttling around the region and his last stop has been in turkey and his last stop has been in turkey and we can see live pictures of antony blinken about to board his aircraft in ankara having had talks with the turkish foreign minister who told him in no uncertain terms israel offensive. turkey has been a vociferous voice against the israeli offence as have arab leaders. antony blinken was injordan hearing similar sentiment from arab leaders. we can see antony blinken about to

board our aircraft. a short meeting in turkey. the calls for a ceasefire had been rejected so far by the us because we understand the americans are saying... ratification protocols are now before — ratification protocols are now before the turkish government. turkey— before the turkish government. turkey has_ before the turkish government. turkey has played a critical role over_ turkey has played a critical role over the — turkey has played a critical role over the last couple of years particularly trying to get food out of ukraine and supporting its electricity grid. we discussed our work_ electricity grid. we discussed our work to— electricity grid. we discussed our work to strengthen our counterterrorism partnership, growing — counterterrorism partnership, growing our economic relationship, and we _ growing our economic relationship, and we discussed the crisis in gaza, including _ and we discussed the crisis in gaza, including the efforts to expand humanitarian assistance to people in need _ humanitarian assistance to people in need and _ humanitarian assistance to people in need. and prevent the conflict from spreading — need. and prevent the conflict from spreading. and what we can do to set

the conditions for a durable, sustainable lasting peace for israeiis — sustainable lasting peace for israelis and palestinians. 0n the _ israelis and palestinians. 0n the humanitarian piece, i think we have _ 0n the humanitarian piece, i think we have made good progress in expanding that. we have also had important — expanding that. we have also had important conversations with countries _ important conversations with countries in the region on the role everyone — countries in the region on the role everyone can play making sure the content _ everyone can play making sure the content does not spread. and of course _ content does not spread. and of course we — content does not spread. and of course we remain very focused on the hostages _ course we remain very focused on the hostages held by hamas including americans, making sure we do everything possible to bring them home _ everything possible to bring them home. one of the common denominator is i home. one of the common denominator is i have _ home. one of the common denominator is i have heard throughout the gaza strip is— is i have heard throughout the gaza strip is the — is i have heard throughout the gaza strip is the imperative of american engagement, american leadership. every— engagement, american leadership. every country i have talked to is looking — every country i have talked to is looking to — every country i have talked to is looking to us to play a leading role with our— looking to us to play a leading role with our diplomacy to make progress on all_ with our diplomacy to make progress on all these — with our diplomacy to make progress on all these different aspects of the crisis — on all these different aspects of the crisis. from here we are heading

to japan— the crisis. from here we are heading to japan for— the crisis. from here we are heading to japan fora— the crisis. from here we are heading to japan for a meeting with the g7, iwitt— to japan for a meeting with the g7, iwitt have — to japan for a meeting with the g7, i will have an opportunity to debrief— i will have an opportunity to debrief my colleagues on what we have learned and done during this trip and _ have learned and done during this trip and to— have learned and done during this trip and to continue that work. i will be — trip and to continue that work. i will be debriefing president biden and discussing the way forward in the days— and discussing the way forward in the days ahead. at the same time we will be _ the days ahead. at the same time we will be not _ the days ahead. at the same time we will be not only in japan but the days ahead. at the same time we will be not only injapan but in korea, — will be not only injapan but in korea, on _ will be not only injapan but in korea, on to india, evidence of the fact even— korea, on to india, evidence of the fact even as — korea, on to india, evidence of the fact even as we are intensely focused _ fact even as we are intensely focused on the crisis in gaza, we are very— focused on the crisis in gaza, we are very much engaged and focused on the important work we are doing in the important work we are doing in the indo—pacific and other parts of the indo—pacific and other parts of the world — the indo—pacific and other parts of the world to advance american interests _ interests. thank you. you interests. — thank you. you mentioned people are looking _ thank you. you mentioned people are looking to _ thank you. you mentioned people are looking to the — thank you. you mentioned people are looking to the united _ thank you. you mentioned people are looking to the united states _ thank you. you mentioned people are looking to the united states to - thank you. you mentioned people are looking to the united states to makel looking to the united states to make progress _ looking to the united states to make progress but — looking to the united states to make progress but thus— looking to the united states to make progress but thus far _ looking to the united states to make progress but thus far we _ looking to the united states to make progress but thus far we have - looking to the united states to make progress but thus far we have seen l progress but thus far we have seen little concrete _ progress but thus far we have seen little concrete apparent _ progress but thus far we have seen little concrete apparent progress . progress but thus far we have seenl little concrete apparent progress on a lot little concrete apparent progress on a tot of— little concrete apparent progress on a tot of the — little concrete apparent progress on a lot of the issues _ little concrete apparent progress on a lot of the issues as _ little concrete apparent progress on a lot of the issues as israel- a lot of the issues as israel continues— a lot of the issues as israel continues to _ a lot of the issues as israel continues to reject - a lot of the issues as israel continues to reject the -

a lot of the issues as israel- continues to reject the humanitarian issues~ _ continues to reject the humanitarian issues~ given— continues to reject the humanitarian issues. given this _ continues to reject the humanitarian issues. given this do _ continues to reject the humanitarian issues. given this do you _ continues to reject the humanitarian issues. given this do you feel- continues to reject the humanitarian issues. given this do you feel you i issues. given this do you feel you have _ issues. given this do you feel you have accomplished _ issues. given this do you feel you have accomplished the _ issues. given this do you feel you have accomplished the mission i issues. given this do you feel you i have accomplished the mission you set out _ have accomplished the mission you set out with? — have accomplished the mission you set out with? gill— have accomplished the mission you set out with?— set out with? all of this is a work in progress- _ set out with? all of this is a work in progress- we _ set out with? all of this is a work in progress. we know _ set out with? all of this is a work in progress. we know the - set out with? all of this is a work in progress. we know the deep l in progress. we know the deep concern here for the terrible toll gazais concern here for the terrible toll gaza is taking on, men, women and in, civilians. a concern we share and we are working on every single day. we have engaged the israelis on steps they can take to minimise civilian casualties. we are working very aggressively on getting more humanitarian assistance into gaza. and we have very concrete ways of doing that and you will see in the days ahead that resistance can expand in significant ways so moore gets into people who need it. as well as making sure people can continue to come out of gaza. we have had important conversations. we are making sure the different

influence and relationships the countries in the region have including the countries i visited or spoke to, that they are using that to make sure this conflict does not spread. that is critical. countries are very much engaged in trying to make sure that does not happen. that is important. sometimes the absence of something bad happening may not be the most obvious evidence of progress. but it is. also tremendously important are the conversations we are having about how we can set the conditions for a just and durable and sustainable peace. we had a very important engagement with many of the countries in the region on that so we are doing that work even as we are focused on getting through this crisis, we are focused on making sure there is a better path forward coming out of it. so in each of these areas, we have

made progress, and i come back to the proposition what i heard in every single place in a variety of ways, all these different issues, is the indispensability of american leadership and diplomacy and engagement. countries are looking for us to do things. we don't obviously agree on all things but there are common views on some of there are common views on some of the imperatives we are working on together. in other areas we are making sure we are communicating clearly and understanding where each other is coming from. have you seen the israelis take any of these _ have you seen the israelis take any of these steps you discussed with them _ of these steps you discussed with them on — of these steps you discussed with them on friday, and how long can this catt— them on friday, and how long can this call for— them on friday, and how long can this call for a pause in ceasefire be tenable? be tenable ? as - be tenable? as i - be tenable? as i said we are working on this almost every single minute. the ambassador remains in the region working on the details every day particularly with regard to humanitarian access and significantly increasing what is getting in. as i discussed when it comes to humanitarian policies we

are engaged with the israelis on the practicalities. 0ne critical aspect is seen progress on hostages, something we are intensely focused on. we also believe a pause could help advance that proposition as well. we are also very focused not only on gaza but what is happening in the west bank. we made very clear our concerns about extremist violence in the west bank, we have had the israeli government make commitments on dealing more effectively with that and we're watching very closely to make that happens. you touched upon what i wanted to ask regarding — you touched upon what i wanted to ask regarding the _ you touched upon what i wanted to ask regarding the hostages. - you touched upon what i wanted to ask regarding the hostages. you i you touched upon what i wanted to i ask regarding the hostages. you came out of— ask regarding the hostages. you came out of meetings — ask regarding the hostages. you came out of meetings with _ ask regarding the hostages. you came out of meetings with turkey. - ask regarding the hostages. you came out of meetings with turkey. do - ask regarding the hostages. you came out of meetings with turkey. do you l out of meetings with turkey. do you believe _ out of meetings with turkey. do you believe turkey. _ out of meetings with turkey. do you believe turkey, egypt, _ out of meetings with turkey. do you believe turkey, egypt, qatar, - out of meetings with turkey. do you believe turkey, egypt, qatar, still. believe turkey, egypt, qatar, still have enough — believe turkey, egypt, qatar, still have enough leveraged _ believe turkey, egypt, qatar, still have enough leveraged to - believe turkey, egypt, qatar, still have enough leveraged to be - believe turkey, egypt, qatar, still have enough leveraged to be able | believe turkey, egypt, qatar, still. have enough leveraged to be able to work with— have enough leveraged to be able to work with hamas _ have enough leveraged to be able to work with hamas to _ have enough leveraged to be able to work with hamas to get _ have enough leveraged to be able to work with hamas to get hostages . have enough leveraged to be able to i work with hamas to get hostages out, or is that _ work with hamas to get hostages out, or is that out — work with hamas to get hostages out, or is that out of — work with hamas to get hostages out, or is that out of the _ work with hamas to get hostages out, or is that out of the question - or is that out of the question unless— or is that out of the question unless israel— or is that out of the question unless israel stops— or is that out of the question unless israel stops its- or is that out of the question . unless israel stops its bombing

campaign? _ unless israel stops its bombing campaign? and— unless israel stops its bombing campaign? and with _ unless israel stops its bombing campaign? and with regard - unless israel stops its bombing campaign? and with regard toi unless israel stops its bombing - campaign? and with regard to turkey, have they— campaign? and with regard to turkey, have they given — campaign? and with regard to turkey, have they given any— campaign? and with regard to turkey, have they given any assurances - campaign? and with regard to turkey, have they given any assurances they l have they given any assurances they are prepared — have they given any assurances they are prepared to— have they given any assurances they are prepared to support... _ have they given any assurances they are prepared to support... 0“- have they given any assurances they are prepared to support. . ._ are prepared to support... on the hostages. — are prepared to support... on the hostages. i _ are prepared to support... on the hostages, i can't _ are prepared to support... on the hostages, i can't get _ are prepared to support... on the hostages, i can't get into - are prepared to support... on the hostages, i can't get into the - hostages, i can't get into the details. i can say this is an intense focus for us. we also believe and we are seeing other countries can play an important role helping to get hostages back. i am very much convinced that remains the case and that not only is there still opportunity, there is a necessity to see that happen and it is important other partners to the extent they have relationships with us can help. extent they have relationships with us can help-— extent they have relationships with uscanhel.�* ., y�* ,, ,, us can help. antony blinken speaking to reporters — us can help. antony blinken speaking to reporters before _ us can help. antony blinken speaking to reporters before boarding - us can help. antony blinken speaking to reporters before boarding his - to reporters before boarding his plane out of turkey at the end of his middle east tour. he talked about the need to stop the conflict from spreading into the wider

region. you talked of the need for a durable, sustainable and lasting peace, talking about what would happen in gaza the day after. for example, there had been reports about who could run gaza. could there be some kind of palestinian command over gaza, some kind of international body running over gaza? all these questions for future days as the conflict continues. you have been watching bbc news. hello again. the weather this week is much quieter than it was last week. for most, notjust today, but for much of this week we're looking at sunny spells and scattered showers. some of the showers will be heavy and thundery, particularly in the west. and on wednesday, we'll see some rain crossing from west to east. more on that later. but what we have this afternoon are still a lot of showers in the west,

some of them spreading into the midlands and north—east england. but in between and ahead of them, we will see some sunshine, especially north—east scotland, parts of eastern england and the south—east. the temperatures today ranging from nine to about 1a degrees. so feeling fresh if you are out and about. through this evening and overnight, the breeze will tend to ease a touch in the english channel. there still will be some showers in the west and also parts of north—east england, the midlands, but under clear skies the temperature will fall away to around freezing in the north—east of scotland. so here there will be a touch of frost, but it will be a chilly start to the day wherever you are. and during the course of tuesday, again, we start off with all these showers in the west. some of them could still be heavy. but then we've got this ridge of high pressure building in. so things will ease, the showers will ease as we go through the course of the afternoon with temperatures 9 in the north to about 13 as we push further south. now, moving on into tuesday evening and overnight and through wednesday,

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jim plans to shut down its furnaces as an attempt to go green. but it puts 2000 jobs at risk. leaders from

across the channel industry meet in london. we will speak to the boss of saudi arabia's national airline. the dirty side of fast fashion. the bbc finds online retailer boohoo has failed to overhaul its poor working practices, despite promises to do so. welcome to world business report. i'm ben thompson. we start with breaking news in the last hour or so news that british steel is planning to shut down its blast furnace in scunthorpe that puts 2000 jobs at risk. the business that is owned by chinese group wants to replace the furnace with two electric arc furnaces as they are known. 0ne furnace with two electric arc furnaces as they are known. one at scunthorpe and one at teesside. the construction is expected to take up to two or three years, all at put in to two or three years, all at put in to try and transform the firm into a green and sustainable company. then speak to our business editor who has got the details of this. what do we know so far? this has been a long

time coming but