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a funeral is held for a 19—year—old soldier taken hostage by hamas. israel says her body was found near al—shifa hospital. here in the uk, it's the start of an important in sport, everton are docked ten points for violating premier league financial rules — the biggest sanction in the competition's history. we look ahead to another important week in the westminster, where the chancellor is expected to make his autumn statement. hello, i'm rich preston. a warm welcome to the daily global. where we'll bring you the top stories from around the world. israel says it will allow two fuel lorries into the gaza strip every day to enable the united nations to continue its humanitarian work. the war cabinet said it would allow a minimal quantity in after the un said it was no longer able to bring
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in and distribute aid due to lack of fuel. the world health organization says disease is spreading in the territory more rapidly than expected, with people living so close together in shelters and because of a lack of clean water. meanwhile, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says there were "strong indications" that hamas was holding hostages at al—shifa hospital in gaza, but that they'd been removed by the time troops raided the complex. israel says its troops have found the body of a second woman held hostage by hamas, during a search close to the hospital complex. noa marciano, a 19—year—old soldier, was one of about 240 people kidnapped by hamas on the 7th of october. on thursday, the military also discovered the body of 65—year—old yehudit weiss. and in the occupied west bank, the israel defense forces says its troops have killed at least five gunmen during clashes in jenin overnight. our senior international correspondent orla guerin has the latest on the situation.
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childhood in gaza, six weeks into israel's assault. more wounded rushed to hospital. they were bombed in their own homes. israel says it was targeting hamas operatives. the un says gaza'si million children have nowhere to turn and many have no homes left. parts of gaza now in ruins. the eu says it understands israel's rage, but one horror doesn't justify another. today, israel burying more of its dead, a young soldier called noa marciano. she was 19. the army says her body was found near al—shifa hospital in gaza. hamas held her hostage and is still
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holding almost 240 others. chanting: bring them home now! their families and friends are marching towardsjerusalem, heading for the prime minister's office with one demand, bring them back, whatever it takes. heading for the prime minister's office with one demand — bring them back, whatever it takes. the marchers have been on the move for days now. they want to keep their loved ones in the public eye. they want to keep up the pressure on the government. hopes have been raised of a deal that might bring some of the hostages home, but for now, all they have is the agony of waiting. i can't stop thinking about it. this is my days. these are my days. tagit zin has two much—loved nieces who are among the hostages. ella is eight and a keen dancer. 15—year—old daphna is into tiktok and make—up.
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hamas livestreamed the attack on their home on october 7th. theirfather, noam, in the black t—shirt, was killed, with his partner and her son, who were seated alongside him. do you have hope that they will come home? i know that they will come home. i know they will be back. but it takes too much time and our government, they are the only ones that can stop this in this minute. for now, there's no deal and the hostages are at risk,, notjust from hamas, but from israel's air strikes on gaza. orla guerin, bbc news, jerusalem. ijust want i just want to bring you
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ijust want to bring you some breaking news. this is coming from the reuters news agency, saying that the reuters news agency, saying that the vatican officials have confirmed that the pope will meet relatives of israeli hostages being held in gaza. that will happen on wednesday. this is according to the reuters news agency. pope francis has previously said his thoughts go daily to the suffering and the serious situation on israel and has called for civilians to be protected and hostages to be freed. the vatican they are confirming that the pope will meet relatives of the gaza hostages on wednesday. while it is difficult to verify what's happening on the ground in gaza, doctors at the main al—shifa hospital have been describing desperate conditions, with operations carried out without proper anaesthetic and premature babies dying. israel's government has justified its military operation saying hamas uses patients as human shields. the reuters news agency was able to reach a surgeon working inside al shifa, ahmed el mokhalla—lati. he described the situation there, and said israeli troops have not found anything.
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it's a really totally terrifying situation here. the israeli tanks and the israeli troops have been the israeli troops have been around, moving within the hospital area, all over the hospital. the situation is totally, you know... they are shooting all the time, all the areas. they are bombing shelters in the area of the hospital. they have found nothing. nothing but gunshots against them within the hospital. israel says it will let two lorries of fuel a day into gaza for un agencies to use after a lack of diesel caused aid deliveries to be halted and communications to be cut off. let's go back to the images that have been released by the idf. bbc iverify has taken a closer look.
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since taking control of al—shifa hospital earlier this week, the israeli military has been under pressure to provide evidence to support its claim that it was a hamas command command and control node. and it has released video evidence to support its case. we want to show you where in the hospital compounds we have found these videos to have been filmed. this map shows the hospital premises. and here is the entrance, and this building is the mri unit. yesterday, the idf shared a video claiming to show weapons inside this building. you can see the soldier here point at two bags on the floor — these two bags both contain weapons. we know the location as it was later visited by a bbc team escorted by the idf. the idf published two more videos claiming to show evidence of the hospital being used for military purposes by hamas. let's look at them together. the first video here shows the idf�*s
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claim to have found the entrance of a hamas tunnel network beneath the hospital. we can see a hole, but without further independent images, we can't say anything about its purposes. but we do know it's at the al—shifa hospital, because in the video, we can see and spot the features matching known images of the building, of the hospital. and this place is actually located right here, just behind the intensive care unit building. a second video shared by israeli forces show what they claim to have found in a vehicle parked on hospital premises. so, we can see this video here — and, as soon as the soldiers pass in front of the camera, we can see what has been laid out on the ground, and this is guns, grenade launchers and other military equipment. the idf says that all this equipment was found inside this vehicle.
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we know this video was taken inside the hospital grounds because, further on, the area of the excavated hole is also shown. and again, we can see the same buildings, and we can point this out in the main map of the hospital premises on this point, just behind the intensive care unit again. we're hoping to shed a light on these scenes and more widely across gaza — but, with the internet communication currently severely disrupted, this has proved to be very difficult. but we will continue to monitor the situation. israel says it will allow two the gaza strip allow two every day to enable the united nations to continue its humanitarian work. the war cabinet said it would allow a minimal quantity in after the un said it was no longer able to bring in and distribute aid due to lack of fuel.
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the main un agency for palestinian refugees says israel must help to restore phone lines, too, otherwise transporting aid israel allowed a small amount of fuel to enter for un vehicles earlier this week, but it's already run out. we're joined now by toby fricker, spokesperson for unicef. just explained was how significant these are to your operations. it’s these are to your operations. it's a tl these are to your operations. it's aptly critical- _ these are to your operations. it�*s aptly critical. it's a matter of life and death for children inside the gaza strip. it's essential for obvious reasons to move our supplies around, to move to other areas were redeliver medical supplies, food, water, etc. it's also criticalfor the hospitals to operate. for the water desalination plant to operate and for sewage treatment plants to operate, which have now stopped. it's essential because if it's not working, you have this whole breakdown in the system and child healthcare service group breakdown at a time when you needed it the
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most. when the shelters are overcrowded, sanitation conditions are horrific. fuel is aptly essential.— are horrific. fuel is aptly essential. �*, essential. israel has said it's concerned — essential. israel has said it's concerned about _ essential. israel has said it's concerned about allowing i essential. israel has said it's. concerned about allowing fuel essential. israel has said it's - concerned about allowing fuel into gaza in case it gets into the hands of hamas, a terrorist organisation, in israel's view. what are you doing to allay the concern that fuel will just be for you in purposes is? we have a just be for you in purposes is? - have a very strict system in place -- un have a very strict system in place —— un purposes. we have that monetary system in place in any conflict in the world, and right now, the urgent thing is really to massively scale of the amount of fuel. we need to keep the hospital operating. we turn reports of premature babies, there's more than 70% of hospital announcements not functioning. —— now not functioning.
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you have 10—20 families in a classroom and it's absolutely critical that we get that fuel in so we can provide the services of safe water for people and children across the gaza strip. water for people and children across the gaza strip-— water for people and children across the gaza strip. when it comes to the care of children, _ the gaza strip. when it comes to the care of children, what _ the gaza strip. when it comes to the care of children, what are _ the gaza strip. when it comes to the care of children, what are your - care of children, what are your biggest challenges right now? the first biggest challenges right now? tue: first challenge biggest challenges right now? tte: first challenge obviously biggest challenges right now? tt9 first challenge obviously is the protection of children. we seem far too many being killed. we still have israeli children held hostage, we've had israeli children be killed. the protection of children is aptly paramount in any conflict. the second thing is what we want to do is urgently avert the another catastrophe. it is way below the 15 leaders that is an emergency threshold standard, and you have the shelters where people are so densely
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populated, it's so easy for diseases to break out. sewage from taming the water that is there —— contaminating. when the system isn't working itself. there's no support if children get sick, particularly those underfive. if children get sick, particularly those under five.— if children get sick, particularly those under five. toby, thank you very much- _ everton football club has dramatically fallen foul of the strict financial rules which regulate the premier league. the club has received a ten—point deduction — the club has received a ten—point deduction — the biggest sanction in the premier league's history. it means the club drops to 19th in the table and it's now in the relegation zone, although the season is less than a third of the way through. the sanction has been imposed after an independent commission found it breached the rules governing how much clubs are allowed to overspend by. everton said it was "shocked and disappointed" and that it intends to appeal against the ruling. it raises questions for other major clubs such as manchester city, who are currently being investigated
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for breaching financial rules. with the details, here's our sports editor dan roan. everton fans tonight no doubt will feel somewhat hard done by that. feel somewhat hard done by that, their club is perhaps an easy target. having said that, the supporters of rival clubs who have stuck by the rules, especially those that have been relegated in recent seasons, will say that the rules are there for a reason. and with an independent regulator on the horizon, it was time for the premier league to show its teeth. what's certain is that this will be concerning for the fans of manchester city and chelsea. everton were facing just one charge. they got ten—point deduction. it could well be that if those clubs are found guilty, then they might be facing even heftier points deductions and perhaps even relegation. everton�*s fans no doubt tonight will perhaps feel that they've been made something of an easy target, scapegoated, perhaps. having said that, the supporters of other clubs that have stuck by these rules, especially those that have been relegated
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in recent seasons, will no doubt say they're there for a reason. and with an independent football regulator on the horizon, it was time for the premier league to bare its teeth and show that it was serious. what's certain is that fans of the likes of manchester city given the punishment, given the scale of what everton are facing, that if they're found guilty they may face an even heftier points deduction and perhaps even relegation from the premier league. that's all to play out. i think the fear is that a league table that's meant to be based on the performances of world class players could be dictated on the performances of world—class players could be dictated by the workings of accountants and lawyers. they say the league table doesn't lie, but perhaps that's no longer the case now that financial fair play is clearly so important. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. a man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of irish schoolteacher ashling murphy in january last year. 33—year—old jozef puska was found guilty last week of attacking the 23—year—old as she was jogging.
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she was stabbed 11 times in the neck. two 12—year—old boys have been remanded into youth custody after being charged with the murder of a 19—year—old man in wolverhampton. shawn seesahai was stabbed on playing fields near a school in east park on monday. the boys, who appeared at birmingham magistrates' court, cannot be named due to their age. a sheffield wednesday supporter who taunted rival fans by mocking the death of mascot bradley lowery has been given a 12—week suspended prison sentence. dale houghton was seen laughing as he held up an image of the six—year—old at a match against sunderland, the team bradley supported before he died of cancer in 2017. you're live with bbc news.
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the bbc�*s been told the chancellor is thinking of cutting inheritance and business taxes in next week's autumn statement. the decision hangs in the result of an independent forecast for the uk economy that was due to be submitted to jeremy hunt today. a treasury source said no final decisions had been made. live now to our political correspondent ione wells. just another quiet week on the horizon. what are some of the headlines?— horizon. what are some of the headlines? :, �* , ~ headlines? that's right, next week is an event — headlines? that's right, next week is an event that _ headlines? that's right, next week is an event that lots _ headlines? that's right, next week is an event that lots have - headlines? that's right, next week is an event that lots have been - is an event that lots have been waiting for for quite some time. the chance to outline both the state of the economy, but also his pack spending plans and forecasts for the next year ahead. one of the big areas of speculation has been around tax cut — in particular, ministers mulling whether or not to cut inheritance tax or business taxes as
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an offering ahead of next year. certainly, the chancellor and the prime minister have been under a lot of pressure from fellow conservative mps in particular to cut taxes. this particular decision on whether or not to cut inheritance tax has the potential to be quite controversial. as you mention, this will probably depend on what economic forecasts are saying at the moment. the chancellor we're told has not made any decisions yet, but will be considering the forecasts over the weekend and deciding what to consider or not. inheritance tax in particular has the potential to be quite controversial. it is a 40% tax on wealth inheritance over a certain threshold. £325,000 of assets. it's a value above which people pay inheritance tax.
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some critics of this move say if they do go ahead and cut the rate of inheritance tax, that would be a cut taxes for some of the wealthiest people in society or their children or those inheriting their wealth rather than a tax cut for working people — for example, like national insurance being cut. fine people - for example, like national insurance being cut.— uk is facing one of its highest tax burdens in decades. there has been growing calls from conservative mps and opposition parties for the burden to be lightened. whether or not the chancellor will go ahead is still yet to be confirmed. i think one thing that is certain is that as part of the statement next week, there will also be quite strong words around benefits and welfare �*s. certainly, the chancellor has already been there to stress that he wants to encourage more people back to work, and some of that might
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involve tougher penalties for those who can't find work within set periods of time.— periods of time. ione wells, covering _ periods of time. ione wells, covering all _ periods of time. ione wells, covering all the _ periods of time. ione wells, covering all the bases - periods of time. ione wells, covering all the bases for i periods of time. ione wells, i covering all the bases for that, thank you very much. bbc news has found that many thousands of men have been fleeing ukraine illegally since the beginning of the war with russia to avoid being drafted. after russia's invasion last year, most men aged between 18 and 60 were banned from leaving. but some have taken great risks to get out. data obtained from five neighbouring countries shows that almost 20,000 men have crossed the border illegally since the war broke out. a further 21,000 have been caught by the ukrainian authorities. our correspondent zhanna bezpiatchuk reports on thousands of men in ukraine who've been trying to escape the war in their country. shouting. stopped by border police, the men are ordered on to their knees. for ukrainians without a military exemption, crossing the border illegally is the most popular way of escaping the draft. some get caught, but for much of this war, dozens of men have
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managed to flee this way every day. using freedom of information requests, bbc eye has established that the most common route out is over ukraine's border with moldova. in a refugee centre in moldova, we meet erik, a musician who is hoping to go to the us to be reunited with his family. he's arrived from ukraine on foot. translation: ijust looked at the map. i i heard rumours about where to go, took a risk, and it worked out. erik says he has a serious health condition but wasn't granted condition, but wasn't granted a medical exemption, commonly known as a white ticket. translation: i tried to process the documents for six months, l but no—one allowed me to do it. my patience ran out and i decided to leave this way.
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we heard that some men are paying substantial bribes to obtain a white ticket. to find out more, we asked a local journalist to pretend to be a man who wants to leave ukraine. a quick search reveals at least six groups offering help on the messaging app telegram. our undercover journalist contacts one of them and is soon offered a white ticket. officials at these centres work closely with military doctors to decide who can get a medical exemption. they sent me an example of this white ticket. for me, the document looks real. probably they know somebody in that office, so this is corruption. the bbc showed its findings to a senior politician from the ruling party. translation: we are doing our best to reduce the number— of corruption cases.
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those who try to avoid - mobilisation are about 1—5%. they are definitely not critical to the defence of ukraine. - ukraine doesn't release official figures on the size of its army, but says it has over 800,000 troops. as this conflict turns into a war of attrition, ukraine will need all the soldiers it can get. zhanna bezpiatchuk, bbc news, kyiv. let's go to sudan now, where two darfur rebel groups say they will fight alongside the army in the country's civil war, which broke out in april. the us, uk and norway have condemned escalating violence and human rights abuses in the country. more than 6 million people are now displaced in sudan and the norwegian refugee council says hunger levels are soaring. humanitarian talks are taking place this weekend in cairo led by sudanese civil society. previous peace talks have failed. earlier, i spoke to will carter, the sudan country director
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for the norwegian refugee council. he addressed the complicated situation on the ground i mean, there are two pictures. one is an overwhelmingly desperate one. we've had a capital city that's been been air strikes pillaged. there's been abuses, urban warfare. now, almost over six million people have recently been displaced and are living in, you know, abandoned schools, public buildings, really cramped into collective shelters. and there's been such little aid
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mobilised or reaching them that in the last few weeks there's been some massive disease outbreaks and some really unsanitary conditions. that's on one side, you know, and on the other. and i was just there last month helping our teams set up in darfur. we see really a brutal set of suffering. i took a helicopter to eastern chad. there's hundreds of thousands of refugees that have fled from atrocities there. and we drive in and there's devastation in these cities, this whole neighbourhoods that have been shot up. and many people couldn't leave. i met myself war widows, whole communities of them, many of them abused in what has just happened. in what has just happened, and now pregnant and very, very vulnerable. but the numbers are just overwhelming. and so, on one side, it's overwhelmingly desperate and the other is really brutal. but there are little rays of hope getting through. now, there is some aid getting through. three and a half million people assisted by ngos at least, but also these heroic local efforts that have helped people in some of the darkest parts of the country. much more still to come. stick with us on bbc news. hello again. well, it's been a lovely sunny day across the vast majority of the country with blue skies,
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some wonderful autumn colours at the moment, but our weather won't be looking like this as we head into the weekend, into the weekend — no, because we leave behind this slice of sunshine and we have to look out into the atlantic to this area of cloud. this is an area of low pressure that's going to be bringing us some wet and some windy weather, both on saturday and on sunday, as well. the winds coming in from a south—westerly direction and they will ultimately be bringing in some much milder weather conditions. back to tonight's forecast, first of all, and we've got that rain beginning to arrive, pushing its way steadily north and eastwards with the wind strengthening, particularly into coastal areas of western scotland where, by the end of the night, we will probably see some gusts of around a5—55mph. but it is one of those nights where temperatures will be rising through the night across the south—west, so by dawn, we're looking at temperatures of around 1a degrees. and in terms of the rainfall on saturday, we're all going to get some,
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but it's across south—west england where there are one or two concerns. 15—30 millimetres of rain — in the grand scheme of autumn lows that's not a huge amount, but across this part of the uk, we've already seen well over the november average rainfall so far, so this extra rain could cause one or two problems with surface water flooding. the rain band does push its way through, a lot of cloud following. then come the showers, with blustery winds everywhere, but particularly so for a time across the western coasts of scotland. it will be a mild day, milder than it was on friday, with temperatures for most between around 12—16 degrees. on into sunday's forecast, and low pressure is moving across into northern scotland. across into northern scotland — not particularly windy here. the strongest winds will be heading into the south—west of england, where we could see some gusts of 40s, maybe even 50s in miles—an—hour. the wettest weather for northern ireland, northern england and north wales, with rain looking like it's going to be quite persistent here. it will be another mild day, temperatures around 12—14 degrees for most. that area of low pressure starts to slip away into monday. we'll get these north—westerly winds feeding in, so it's going to start to feel a little bit cooler
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and the rain will tend to turn a bit more showery in nature. then a slightly quieter spell of weather towards the middle part of the week. we then start to see the weather turning colder and, for some, we might start to see some snow showers over the mountains of northern scotland by the end of the week.
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this is bbc news. the headlines: israel says it will allow two fuel
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trucks a day into gaza, after the un is forced to suspend aid deliveries to the territory. families of the people taken hostage by hamas continue their march tojerusalem. one relative tells us what they are hoping to achieve. we will not give up and we will not cease to do whatever we can to bring him back home. new york police say there is currently no investigation into the rap artist sean combs, also known as puff daddy, who's been accused of rape and sex trafficking by an ex—girlfriend. the families of israeli hostages held in gaza are continuing their five—day march from tel aviv to jerusalem to increase the pressure on the government to secure their release. thousands of people have joined the march, which will end in a protest outside the residence of the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, on saturday evening. i spoke to matan eshet, who is on the march. his cousin evyatar david was kidnapped by hamas

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