we'll find out what creature these belong to. i'm helena humphries — good to have you with us. it's been nine weeks since the attacks by hamas in which 1200 people were killed and hundreds taken hostage. now, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says �*it�*s the beginning of the end' for the group. but the number of civilian causalities in gaza continues to mount — with the hamas—run health ministry reporting that 18,000 palestinians have been killed since the start of israel's offensive. the head of the un agency for palestinian refugees has described the situation in gaza as �*hell on earth' and the world health organisation has adopted a resolution calling for immediate humanitarian aid in gaza — saying there has been 419 attacks on healthcare facilities in the region.

live now tojoseph belliveau — exective director of doctors without borders in canada. joseph, the head of the who has called the health care situation in gaza, �*catastrophic�* — what are your colleagues now seeing on the ground there? that is not an understatement, from what my colleagues are describing this as a full until military attack on an entire population, who has nowhere to 90, population, who has nowhere to go, nowhere to escape and part of this has been a systematic destruction of the healthcare i ,so it , so it direct bombing of healthcare facilities, bombing of ambulances including very clearly marked vehicles, doctors without borders vehicles and the siege style warfare in which there is a denial of the most basic items necessary to do medical care but also the most basic items necessary for survival, food,

water, the medical supplies and so on. really, the systematic nature and the brutal nature of the way hostilities are being conducted represent egregious violations of international humanitarian law that very likely amount to war crimes. i'm sure your colleagues are seeing terrible scenes of people being killed or injuries but on top of that i understand now severe concerns about the spread of disease as well, which can prove deadly. tell us about what they are seeing in terms of health conditions and potential for more disease? right, as the health system in the north has been all but annihilated, doctors without borders has moved further south supporting some clinics in the south and hospitals and what colleagues are describing is the continued injuries so the

results of the bullets and the bombs, really an overwhelming number of injured people and because we cannot do proper wound care, we cannot do it disinfection care, we are seeing 60% of the wounded people and the majority of these are women and children, are showing up with infected wounds, sometimes with worms inside the wounds, there are way too many injured people, many, many thousands now to deal with properly and as you indicated now we are starting to see these secondary impacts. so as people are getting more tightly squeezed into tiny little sheltered areas or in many cases just sleeping out on the streets and being exposed to colder temperatures, they do not have sanitation facilities, and some of the shelters and clinics doctors without borders is serving, up to 600 or more people per toilet. there is not

adequate water available, clean water available, there is not enough food, so these conditions are an absolute recipe for outbreaks of diseases and we are seeing it, we are seeing now respiratory tract infections, diarrhoea, the situation from a disease standpoint is really set to get much worse. standpoint is really set to get much worse-— standpoint is really set to get much worse. you have said in some instances _ much worse. you have said in some instances aid _ much worse. you have said in some instances aid workers i much worse. you have said in some instances aid workers ifj some instances aid workers if they do not have the supplies cannot treat people to the fullest extent they would wish to with the best intent. how do they cope with that, talk to us about the mental trauma for your colleagues and also the palestinians?— your colleagues and also the palestinians? . ., ., palestinians? the mentaltrauma i think isiust _ palestinians? the mentaltrauma i think isjust so _ palestinians? the mentaltrauma i think isjust so severe, - palestinians? the mentaltrauma i think isjust so severe, i - i think is just so severe, i heard on one of my colleagues voices earlier today just describing it, she literally

said, i wish that for more of us we would have just died in the earlier days because having witnessed now, more than 60 days of this type of direct violence on a civilian population, isjust violence on a civilian population, is just from a mental point of view overwhelming. she also described a five—year—old boy with suicidal thoughts, so you know, you do not see that unless there is something incredibly intense and people are under intense duress. my colleagues i having to make every day is choices do i stay in the medical facilities and the hospitals, we have been forced to evacuate very recently from some of the clinics we have been supporting, others at l mouser hospital in khan younis is now surrounded being bombarded regularly so my colleagues are making minute to minute almost

such an impossible choice, do i flee? try to go somewhere safer or do i stay and try to serve patients? we have also had colleagues in the last days calling us as the israeli forces are telling them to evacuate some of these areas, calling us outside of gaza and saying we do not know where to go? can you tell us we are is it safe to go. there is just literally no more safe place to go. then you mention having to work with such limited supplies, just across the border a few kilometres away there are hundreds of tons of medical supplies, food, water, fuel, the basics for survival and people, we have huge numbers of medics who are willing to come and provide some reprieve for the medical workers in gaza but we cannot get across that border. again and absolute crime of war. that is the director _ and absolute crime of war. that is the director -- _ and absolute crime of war. that

is the director -- executive - is the director —— executive director of doctors without borders and canada. thank you for sketching out the situation on the ground. the un general assembly is likely to vote on a draft resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the conflict on tuesday. last week, the us vetoed a un security council demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, spoke on abc news about the worsening humanitarian situation in gaza. we are trying to do do everything we can to ensure civilians are protected, that humanitarian assistance gets into people need it in gaza. we are deeply deeply aware of the terrible human toll this conflict is taking on innocent men, women and children and we are working to minimise that to the greatest extent possible. for more on the us perspective, i spoke with congressman seth moulton, who's a democrat from massachusetts — and sits on the house

armed services committee. congressman thank you for being with us on bbc news. as you know we are two months into this conflict and the secretary of state said today talking about the conflict in gaza, we are doing everything we can to ensure civilians are protected. what are your thoughts on that? is america doing enough in that regard? is america doing enough in that reaard? ,., ., , regard? the bottom line is israel is — regard? the bottom line is israel is not _ regard? the bottom line is israel is not doing - regard? the bottom line is israel is not doing enough| regard? the bottom line is . israel is not doing enough and israel is not doing enough and i say that notjust because of the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in gaza, the fact israel will not achieve military objectives that kills so many civilians this is a principle of counterinsurgency warfare that this tends to help terrorists recruit more to their cause. we all want hamas to be defeated and israel must be succeeding in that mission my concern is by killing too many civilians it is notjust a

moral mistake but a military mistake as well. {iii moral mistake but a military mistake as well.— moral mistake but a military mistake as well. of course the us is a key _ mistake as well. of course the us is a key ally _ mistake as well. of course the us is a key ally and _ mistake as well. of course the us is a key ally and support i mistake as well. of course the us is a key ally and support of| us is a key ally and support of israel in this, secretary blink and said the administration is in constant discussion with israelis to make sure they know what their obligations are when it comes to the protection of civilians at the same time we have seen the administration bypass congress to send or take ammunition to israel. to think thatis ammunition to israel. to think that is sending the right message? i that is sending the right message?— that is sending the right messaue? ~ , ., message? i think israel should be held to _ message? i think israel should be held to the _ message? i think israel should be held to the same _ message? i think israel should | be held to the same standards, no more, no less than every other nation to which we send military aid. and that should be the standard. we should not be the standard. we should not be making exceptions for israel but we also should not be holding them to different standards and we apply to everyone else. some people who say we should condition aid to israel is today we should ratchet up conditions on israel we do not have on nations like saudi arabia and that is obviously inappropriate. d0

saudi arabia and that is obviously inappropriate. do you think congress _ obviously inappropriate. do you think congress should - obviously inappropriate. do you think congress should have - think congress should have signed off on that shipment? figs signed off on that shipment? as a signed off on that shipment? e; a member signed off on that shipment? is a member of congress i would much prefer we sign off on the ship and, i'm certainly not going to abrogate the duty we have in congress so i do not like to hear when the state department is bypassing us on any thing, whether it be aid to israel or any else.— israel or any else. you yourself _ israel or any else. you yourself are _ israel or any else. you yourself are a - israel or any else. you yourself are a veteran | israel or any else. you| yourself are a veteran i israel or any else. you - yourself are a veteran i want to touch on your latest it in time magazine entitled the lesson israel must learn from america's fight and in you quote the us defence secretary lloyd austin saying in this kind of light the centre of gravity is the civilian population. if you drive them into the arms of the enemy to replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat. do you see that as a possibility, palestinian civilians being driven into the arms of hamas? yes, i think it is a real

distinct possibility of israel continues killing so many innocent civilians in the course of its military campaign, to write me what the rightful goal of eradicating hamas. there is a poll done a palestinians in the gaza strip just before october seven, and it showed 62% of palestinians did not want to live under hamas, this is not surprising, nobody wants to live under a terrorist regime but i am concerned what that poll would say today. we have a principle in america called insurgent maths, where there is an estimate that for every innocent civilian you kill, it creates ten terrorists, till —— to new adherence to the cause, by that maths israel has created 100 thousand new terrorists as they have gone about this campaign. that does not bode well for israel in the long run. not bode well for israel in the long run-— not bode well for israel in the lona run. ., ,, ., long run. congressman, let me ask ou long run. congressman, let me ask you this. — long run. congressman, let me ask you this, how _ long run. congressman, let me ask you this, how does - long run. congressman, let me| ask you this, how does america take on that lesson which you

just set out, that lesson from iraq while continuing to support its key ally, israel in the wake of the atrocities of the wake of the atrocities of the seven 0ctober the wake of the atrocities of the seven october to make sure something like this never happens again?— something like this never happens again? there is a coule happens again? there is a coople of _ happens again? there is a couple of things _ happens again? there is a couple of things we - happens again? there is a couple of things we have i happens again? there is a l couple of things we have to happens again? there is a - couple of things we have to do we are in constant communications with the israelis and we do know they are listening to us. we received a classified briefing in congress about the bendik getting of the ground operation and then it was significantly delayed because they were listening to our advice on heeding the warnings of the administration. the second thing we need to do is make sure that we get everyone on board with the principal tier of this conflict, which is hamas has to go and if everyone can agree hamas has to go on both sides of this whether you are primarily concerned about israel's success or primarily concerned about the fate of the palestinian civilians you can realise we all share the same goal, we want to get rid of hamas we do not want to kill

innocent palestinians and at the end of the day neither israel or the palestinians will have security israel is not secure, palestinians are not free, and if there is killing on both sides does not come to some kind of peaceful conclusion that i think ultimately must be a two state solution. is ultimately must be a two state solution. �* , , ., . ultimately must be a two state solution. ~ , , ., ., ., ., solution. as you are well aware senate republicans _ solution. as you are well aware senate republicans blocked - senate republicans blocked foreign aid to ukraine and israel over border demands this week. are you concerned that infighting in washington risks making the us appear to be an unreliable partner on the world stage? unreliable partner on the world stale? , , �*, stage? yes, absolutely, let's be clear there _ stage? yes, absolutely, let's be clear there is _ stage? yes, absolutely, let's be clear there is infighting i be clear there is infighting primarily in the republican party, there is a civil war playing out in the republican party, it came to a hidden house a couple of months ago when they could not even have a speaker for three straight weeks, something that has never happened or an american history, what is happening right now is pot republicans

are playing politics with national security, with a two essential allies, and that is sending a message to our admin series, people like vladimir putin and xijinping who is contemplating doing in taiwan exactly what vladimir putin has donein exactly what vladimir putin has done in ukraine. sending a message to them they may be able to get away with this because america is not going to stand by our democratic allies. we need to get our act together at home, provide the aid republicans and democrats no needs to be provided and stop playing politics with something thatis playing politics with something that is essential notjust to israel, notjust ukraine but fundamentally fundamental to our national security as well. 2024 is an election year, according to a poll most americans disapprove of president biden�*s handling of the israel —— passable. are you

concerned this could impact his chances for re—election? iam i am concerned it could impact his chances for election — that is pretty obvious from the pole. i think a sober analysis of what the biden administration has done, the leadership the president has provided, would tell you he is really walking a narrow line here to get israel what it needs but also make sure they are not going overboard in their response to the heinous attacks of october seven. likewise in ukraine, to get the ukrainians what they need to win but not provoking a larger war with russia, the challenges it is easy to find critics on both sides. i think that is what this poll shows. there are a lot of things you can come up to criticise the president, but the reality is, much worse outcomes, like starting a war with russia or having a wider more in the middle east, those are things this president has avoided and we need to make

sure he gets credit for that by the time of the election. thank you so much for your time. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at another story making news in the uk. it's a big week for prime minister rishi sunak — on monday, he gives evidence at the covid inquiry, and on tuesday mps will vote on his revised plan to send some asylum—seekers to rwanda. that plan has faced strong criticism from former immigration minister robertjenrick, who gave the bbc his first broadcast interview since resigning. i think that a political choice has been made to bring forward a bill which does not do the job and i think that at this moment, when you have a small boat's crisis, where 104 moment, when you have a small boat's crisis, where10410,000 people have crossed the channel on dangerous, unnecessary, a small boats, that we cannot take that risk. cabinet minister michael gove

also spoke to the bbc�*s laura kuenssberg. he's defended the plan, saying only a �*vanishingly small�* number of appeals would be allowed under the new scheme. rishi sunak has staked part of his political reputation on stopping small boat crossings, so the coming days are seen as a crucial test. you're live with bbc news. president biden has invited president volodymyr zelenskyy to the white house on tuesday, as a new military support package for ukraine remains stalled in the us congress. mr zelenskyy has warned that his country risks losing its war against russia if new funding is not available. 0ur north america correspondent, shingai nyoka has more. this is president zelensky�*s third visit to the us since the war broke out in february last year. it is hugely significant. there has been a sharp drop in the us's public and political support for the war in ukraine and the two presidents are

hoping that they will break this impasse. the stated aim of this impasse. the stated aim of this visit is for the us to reaffirm its unwavering support for ukraine and also for the two countries to discuss the urgent needs that ukraine has. this comes as president biden has faced resistance in congress. he has asked for 60 billion us dollars in military and humanitarian aid and the republicans, many of them in congress, want to see greater accountability for the money that the us has already committed. last week, president zelensky dispatched another delegation — is chief—of—staff and defence minister to washington — where they stressed the urgent need for this new aid. they say that without it the troops on the ground will not be able to maintain the ground that they have retrieved from russia. they also say that some people will not be able to survive through winter. some members of

the white house are optimistic that this deal will be passed, but the christmas break is coming up. mr zelensky is expected to meet the republican house speaker mikejohnson, who house speaker mike johnson, who is house speaker mikejohnson, who is one of his strongest critics, all in a bid to ensure that this new aid is passed before the end of the year. she was donald trump's ambassador to the united nations — now nikki haley is taking on herformer boss for the republican nomination to run for us president next year. 0ur north america editor sarah smith reports from iowa. nikki haley tells supporters that she is so often underestimated, it's become a superpower. and in this race, it's worked again, as she has quietly risen to overtake most of her rivals. she is promising tax cuts, beefed—up border security and smaller government if she becomes the first female president. wielding their puppet right up here tonight.

four televised debates saw her shine, with her rising profile making her a target for the others. i love all the attention, fellas — thank you for that! her campaign here in iowa has been boosted by big influential donors who are giving billions to try to cement her as the sole anti—trump candidate. so there's chaos all around us, but what i know is you don't defeat democrat chaos with republican chaos. and that's what donald trump gives us. i see nikki haley as too much of already the establishment. i don't agree with her views on ukraine or the world environment at all. nikki, she's more composed and calm in everything she says. - it establishes a lot - of confidence in her as well. i think she does a good job of walking the middle ground, too. of not being so party versus party. you have supported trump in previous elections and now you are backing nikki haley. why? you know, i see her bringing people together. and with donald trump there's a lot of divisiveness. and i don't think our country

needs that right now. nikki haley, ambassador to the united nations, has been very special to me. haley did work for donald trump. she says he was the right president at the right time, but the country now needs more sober leadership. and she quotes recent polls that suggest she is more likely than trump to win. in every one of those polls, i defeat by 10 to 13 points. applause nikki haley is selling pretty traditional conservatism. it could have won her the nomination a few years ago, but don't forget, the republican party has been transformed by donald trump. and many of them now reject this kind of establishment politics. there is a big chunk of the republican party still looking for a trump alternative. but even if they all coalesce around haley, they still seem likely to lose to the former president. nikki haley is doing well in what right now is really just a battle for second place.

sarah smith, bbc news, clear lake, iowa. a huge fossil of a 150—million—year—old sea monster has been unearthed from the cliffs of thejurassic coast in southern england. 0ur science editor rebecca morelle went to see it. oh, wow! there you go. it's huge! unveiling a jurassic sea monster. this is the two—metre—long skull of a pliosaur, one of the most fearsome predators the planet has ever seen. it's got big teeth — excellent for stabbing and killing its prey. it doesn't chew its food, itjust breaks into bits. steve etches lead the effort to unearth this enormous fossil. so what makes this unique is its complete. so the lowerjaws and upper skull are meshed together, as it would be in life. to find that, i think worldwide, there's hardly any specimens ever found to that level of detail. it's one of the best fossils i've ever worked on. i'll never probably work on another one. this is one of the pliosaur�*s teeth.

around here, the back is flat, and there are these two sharp edges and an extremely sharp tip. around here, though, there are these fine ridges. and these would have helped it to sink its teeth into its prey and pull them out again. this really was a killing machine. the snout was discovered by a fossil enthusiast near kimmeridge bay in dorset. i just found something quite extraordinary. it must�*ve just come out of the cliff up there somewhere. the rest was excavated by a team dangling off ropes halfway down a fast—eroding cliff face. it was all followed by a bbc documentary team and sir david attenborough. in these waters, underneath my feet, lurked the ultimate marine predator, the pliosaur.

this gigantic reptile grew to more than 12 metres, powering through the water with huge paddle—like limbs. it would have terrorised the oceans. this is a surface scan of the skull of the pliosaur. scientists have learnt that it had a bite force similar to a t—rex. what we're looking at here is the top predator in the environment. you know, this animal had a huge bite. it would have been able to eat pretty much everything else that was around in the water at that time, including some other very large animals. the exact location where the pliosaur�*s head was found is a closely guarded secret. the rest of its skeleton is probably still there and the team wants to get it out. i will stick my life that the rest of the animal is there. it won't be long before

the rest of it drops out and gets lost so it would be advantageous to do this because the opportunity is once—in—a—lifetime. the pliosaur will go on display in dorset in the new year, providing a close—up look at this monster of the seas and the world it lived in all those millions of years ago. rebecca morelle, bbc news, thejurassic coast in dorset. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. for the second evening in a row, we have seen gusts over 70mph in west wales. of course, on saturday evening, it was storm elin that brought the very strong winds — whereas on sunday evening, it was storm fergus, with a top of 74mph recorded at aberdaron. now those blustery conditions will tend to ease over the next few hours, with the winds picking up across the midlands, east anglia, and southern counties of england — might be strong enough to wake you from your slumbers.

further north, the winds will be that bit lighter, and it's here where we will see the lowest temperatures. in scotland, 2—5 degrees. otherwise the winds keeping those temperatures up for northern ireland, england, and wales, so between 6—9 celsius. so quite a mild start to the day on monday. now monday, any rain left over across eastern england will be clearing pretty quickly, but there will be some patches of light rain coming and going through the day across eastern scotland. some showers work in across merseyside, greater manchester, and north—west midlands — but otherwise, it's a day where the weather will continue to get brighter and brighter with sunny spells breaking out widely, and those temperatures lifting in places into double figures. make the most of that relatively quiet spell because, on tuesday, we're back to another area of low pressure. this one slowly rolling in off the atlantic, bringing with it some persistent rain in scotland — aberdeen�*s already had over a month's worth of rain, so we could see some localised flooding impacts. bit of snow over the high scottish mountains but nothing to get excited about, it's really high up. blustery conditions in the southwest with plenty of showers, some of them turning quite heavy, with an odd

rumble of thunder. temperatures again quite widely into double figures, but again, scotland seeing temperatures around 6—7. now, that low pressure starts to pull away during wednesday — as it does so, the winds go round to a northeasterly direction, bringing some damp weather to eastern areas of england, but also dropping the temperatures progressively through the day — such that by the time we get to the afternoon, we're looking at temperatures typically around 6—7 celsius, feeling quite a bit cooler, but in scotland, around 3—4 for some. and then we have a weather front moving into that cold air wednesday night. could turn to snow for a time over the hills above 300 metres' elevation. the snow is short—lived — it will turn back to rain as slightly milder air begins to push in off the atlantic once again. that damp weather then continues eastwards on thursday. high pressure then takes over, giving us quite a long spell of dry and sunny weather. we have to wait until friday

to see the best of that.

barnett shut down a major highway in india protest against the ban on onion exports. argentina has a new president but where does the country's relationship with major trading partner china stand?

major trading partner china stand ? welcome major trading partner china stand? welcome to asia business report. we start in india where the government has banned exports of onion in a bid to curb surging prices. 0ver exports of onion in a bid to curb surging prices. over the weekend hundreds of farmers blocked a key highway in protest, for more on the story let's go to mumbai and india business correspondent. great to see you. why has the indian government introduced this man, and will it work?— and will it work? well, it is sharl and will it work? well, it is sharply to _ and will it work? well, it is sharply to keep _ and will it work? well, it is sharply to keep inflation i and will it work? well, it is sharply to keep inflation in | sharply to keep inflation in check and call of rising prices in this election year. remember onion is not the first kitchen stay for the government has put export restrictions on, earlier this year it was right then wheat, they have also been put on export curbs so to cool off prices, and months coming up to the general election next year.

while india's growth story is