rishi sunak confirms that the government is looking at legal options to exonerate postal staff wrongfully convicted of fraud. and hollywood rolls out the red carpet for one of its biggest nights — the golden globe awards. hello, i'm lukwesa burak. welcome to bbc news. there's been a upsurge in the fighting in gaza over the past 2a hours, with israel stepping up its attacks. eyewitnesses in the jabalia refugee camp say many people were killed in an overnight israeli air strike. israel has yet to comment. twojournalists have been killed in a strike on their car in gaza.

israel has denied targeting them. aljazeera, whose gaza bureau chief lost a son in the attack, has called for the international criminal court to hold israel accountable. there's been violence in the west bank too, — in the west bank, too — eight palestinians and two israelis have been killed on sunday. all this as us secretary of state anthony blinken tours the region — hoping to start negotiations on gaza's future. meanwhile, at a cabinet meeting, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu pledged to continue the war in gaza until all of their goals are achieved. translation: we are not stopping until victory. - the war must not be stopped until we achieve all of its goals — the elimination of hamas, the return of all of our hostages, and ensuring that gaza no longer poses a threat to israel. i say this to both our enemies and ourfriends. this is our responsibility and this is our commitment. every other consideration

must be set aside and we must continue until total victory. our correspondent wyre davies has been monitoring events for us injerusalem — he gave us his assessment of mr netanyahu's comments. some interesting points in that statement by benjamin netanyahu, a message both to our enemies and ourfriends. and that's the clear message to the americans, to european governments, who perhaps would like israel to show more restraint in its bombing campaign in gaza, to even call for a ceasefire. but that simply isn't going to happen. israel has two goals in this war which has been going on for more than three months now, and that is to completely crush hamas and to secure the return of all of israel's hostages. with that first point, completely crushing hamas, the bombing campaign absolutely continues. there have been some horrific scenes from gaza in the last 2a hours. there was one attack on a house, a building injabalia in northern gaza in which around 70

people were killed. the images are appalling coming out of there. people's bodies blown to bits, children, women, other civilians. similar scenes from khan younis in the south where 63 people are said to have been killed in israeli air strikes. the number of dead in gaza is now almost 23,000 according to the hamas—run health ministry in gaza. that's since the war began on 7th of october. so it's clearly a devastating picture. israel is showing absolutely no signs of restraint at all, and that is because it says its goals simply are not yet met. that was wyre davies. here in the uk, the prime minister confirmed a review of the post office — after the it scandal which saw hundreds of post masters wrongly convicted thanks to faulty software which made it seem that money was missing from the system. rishi sunak has called the scandal an "appalling miscarriage ofjustice" and said he hoped

to "make this right." 0ur our business correspondent marc ashdown explains. the public outcry has only grown in the past week or so after this dramatisation of these events on itv aired from new year's day and it centres on all these post office branch managers, local pillars of the community in the local post office, and the new it system was installed from 1999 called horizon and it threw up anomalies. money that they say was passing through their systems. as a consequence 700 of them to date, postmasters and mistresses, they have been convicted of either false accounting orfraud and it's ramped up in the past few weeks because of this documentary. now the focus is on overturning this

and it's accepted that the vast majority are innocent and they've been fighting for years to clear their names. rishi sunak was on the airwaves today was on the airwaves today. we understand the government is looking at this. the justice department is looking at ways that they can speed up the process. each and every one of those people has to appeal directly to the post office — it handles the appeals, and just 90 or so to date have been overturned and people say they've been traumatised, terrorised for years and years, chased through the courts. there has been a body set up, a compensation committee to oversee the whole process and to make sure it works properly. i've been talking to one of those members, lord james arbuthnot. he's been working with one of his constituents who was convicted in 2009 and he outlined part of the problem for me. for them to have to come forward is itself an affront, because they have to come forward and they have to apply for their conviction to be overturned and they then have to, according to current rules,

have the burden of proof of showing that their conviction is unsafe and that's all wrong given the way the post office has behaved over so many years, it ought not to be for the sub—postmasters to have to prove they were badly treated. we all know they were badly treated. it ought to be something that is done en masse so we can put this behind us and move on. so the post office have apologised time and again for this, and lord arbuthnot pointed out there were good people working there now trying to sort this out but it will take time. there is a public inquiry going on at the moment and the post office did tell us that they are behind the inquiry and want to see accountability

for what went wrong and a few ideas have been mooted and certainly the government is looking at whether the post office could be removed from the appeal system and whether the cps could take over but no matter who takes over it could take years and years to work through hundreds of cases to get people having their convictions overturned. so another idea floated is a state intervention to exonerate them en masse and it would require an act of parliament and this is something they're looking at doing and there is a mounting case and many of them have been trying to clear their names for two decades or so. that was marc ashdown. prime minister rishi sunak also told the bbc�*s laura kuenssberg that his government has successfully negotiated pay disputes

with a majority of nhs workers. although he admitted that that junior doctors have yet to settle their dispute. the government has now reached resolution with every other part of the nhs. nurses, midwives, paramedics, consultant doctors, speciality doctors most recently, so every other part of the nhs workforce, and i'm grateful to them for everything they're doing, has reached a resolution with the government on a reasonable, fair pay settlement. the only people that haven't are the junior doctors. the numbers that you gave... let me just finish answering. the numbers that you gave demonstrate that actually the pay offer that the junior doctors already have is more generous than any other part of the nhs. so those are the facts. right? and so given that we have managed to find resolution everywhere else and that the junior doctors have now the most generous pay offer out of anybody in the nhs, i would strongly urge them to come back, talk to the government so that we can resolve this industrial action

and start getting the waiting lists down. let's discuss the latest development is ongoing in the war between israel and hamas. the us secretary of state antony blinken is currently touring the middle east today in qatar, and he spoke a short time ago that so let's go through some of those points there have been raised. to discuss the latest, i'm joined live by frank lowenstein — former us envoy for middle east peace. thank you forjoining us. i think one of the comments from secretary blinken strikes you. he said this is a moment of profound tension in the region, the conflict could easily metastasise. what a warning that is. i think we are really concerned about that right now. in fact i think we have already seen regional escalation to the point where this could spin out of control very

quickly in yemen, iraq and lebanon. i think that's why antony blinken is going not only to israel but other countries in the region to get everybody on the same page in preventing a regional escalation that nobody wants. he preventing a regional escalation that nobody wants.— preventing a regional escalation that nobody wants. he has quite a to-do list on _ that nobody wants. he has quite a to-do list on this _ that nobody wants. he has quite a to-do list on this tour. _ that nobody wants. he has quite a to-do list on this tour. which - that nobody wants. he has quite a to-do list on this tour. which of i to—do list on this tour. which of his goals do you think you will achieve? i his goals do you think you will achieve? ~ , ., ., achieve? i think preventing regional escalation is — achieve? i think preventing regional escalation is probably _ achieve? i think preventing regional escalation is probably possible. - achieve? i think preventing regional escalation is probably possible. i i escalation is probably possible. i don't think lebanon or hezbollah once that war and i don't think iran wants a war so i think it's a matter of trying to calm everybody down. i think probably try and put the dialogue with respect to southern lebanon on a trajectory to be able to solve that and finally demarcate the border and that kind of thing. i think that goal is attainable for secretary blinken. king think that goal is attainable for secretary blinken. king abdullah of jordan has been _ secretary blinken. king abdullah of jordan has been speaking _ secretary blinken. king abdullah of jordan has been speaking because l jordan has been speaking because secretary blinken was there. he left, chapterfrom jordan secretary blinken was there. he left, chapter from jordan to qatar. the king said and warned secretary blinken against the catastrophic

repercussions of continued aggression against gaza. just how much sway do these regional leaders have in trying to resolve this issue? , ., have in trying to resolve this issue? , . ., ., , ., ., issue? they have a tremendous amount of swa and issue? they have a tremendous amount of sway and not — issue? they have a tremendous amount of sway and not only _ issue? they have a tremendous amount of sway and not only what _ issue? they have a tremendous amount of sway and not only what happens - issue? they have a tremendous amount of sway and not only what happens in i of sway and not only what happens in the present tense but what we do going forward and that's very much what secretary blinken is working on, getting their input, not only how to bring this conflict to a reasonable conclusion but also what comes next. the problem is ultimately the israelis don't really care what anybody else has to say on how they conduct their operations in gaza so the tension there is between the impact of the united states and all of our regional allies and what israel decides it wants to do irrespective of what anybody else says. irrespective of what anybody else sa s. , , ., irrespective of what anybody else sa s. , h, ., says. does israel care about the united states? _ says. does israel care about the united states? they _ says. does israel care about the united states? they do - says. does israel care about the united states? they do but - says. does israel care about the united states? they do but only says. does israel care about the i united states? they do but only to says. does israel care about the - united states? they do but only to a oint, the united states? they do but only to a point. the main _ united states? they do but only to a point, the main point _ united states? they do but only to a point, the main point of _ point, the main point of disagreement between us and israel is in the humanitarian situation, we would want to see a huge amount of humanitarian assistance going on and a pause in the fighting work hostages can be released and there is an opportunity to actually get humanitarian assistance to a lot of

the people desperately in need. i guess that is something the israelis would be receptivity but it's just a matter of timing. in would be receptivity but it's 'ust a matter of timingfi would be receptivity but it's 'ust a matter of timing. in terms of moving forward, matter of timing. in terms of moving forward. we — matter of timing. in terms of moving forward, we heard _ matter of timing. in terms of moving forward, we heard following - matter of timing. in terms of moving forward, we heard following talks - forward, we heard following talks with president erdogan, secretary blinken saying that i think from our conversations today it is clear turkey is prepared to play a positive and productive role in the work that needs to happen the day after the conflict ends. when is this conflict going to end? really aood this conflict going to end? really good question- _ this conflict going to end? really good question. i _ this conflict going to end? really good question. i think— this conflict going to end? really good question. i think it - this conflict going to end? really good question. i think it will - this conflict going to end? really good question. i think it will end| good question. i think it will end not so much in the sense of stopping completely but in the sense of transitioning from one phase to another and i think that's very much on the mind of secretary blinken during this visit, pushing the israelis to change their tactics to do much, much more to prevent civilian casualties and allow humanitarian assistance in and the israelis have said they are doing it in the north now. their actions

haven't really changed in the south so i think there will be a main point of emphasis for the secretary. 0n the israeli tactics, today they announced they dismantled hamas's command structure. what exactly does that mean? but also, it was pointed out the of the approach for central and southern parts of gaza will have to change. have they done something wrong? i to change. have they done something wron: ? ~ ., , to change. have they done something wron: ? ~ . , ., to change. have they done something wron. ? ~' ., , ., , wrong? i think what they are saying about southern _ wrong? i think what they are saying about southern gaza _ wrong? i think what they are saying about southern gaza and _ wrong? i think what they are saying about southern gaza and central - wrong? i think what they are saying i about southern gaza and central gaza is there going to try not to kill so many civilians and trying to do more on the humanitarian front. it remains to be seen whether they are serious about that. that's one of the things concerning the us the most, they say they will change their tactics but nothing is going to be any different on the ground. i think we are pushing the israelis notjust for think we are pushing the israelis not just for words but factions on the ground on those two key fronts, civilian casualties and humanitarian assistance. there is an implicit

acknowledgement that too many civilians were killed in the north and that kind of approach is not sustainable in the centre and the south. ., , ., sustainable in the centre and the south. ., ., , m south. there was an uptick in violence in — south. there was an uptick in violence in the _ south. there was an uptick in violence in the occupied - south. there was an uptick in j violence in the occupied west south. there was an uptick in - violence in the occupied west bank. just how concerning is it that things will actually spill over? how difficult is it in your experience, frank, to carry out negotiations in this part of the world?— this part of the world? festival on the west bank— this part of the world? festival on the west bank we _ this part of the world? festival on the west bank we are _ this part of the world? festival on the west bank we are extremely. the west bank we are extremely concerned about that. i think everybody should be. there is every possibility that that situation will continue to deteriorate and you could have another sort of mini gaza injanine, a palestinian refugee camp. i think that would be a whole new front in addition to lebanon that we are trying to prevent turning into another disaster. negotiations are incredibly difficult over there. as the united states, and we have done this many times in the past, secretary kerry and i did it in 2019, going back and forth between some of the key arab

countries, qatar and egypt and some of the others and the israelis, and you are the middle man as the united states and you wind up conveying the wishes of one country or a series of countries to israel and they are very reluctant to listen to any of that so we were put in a difficult situation there.— that so we were put in a difficult situation there. everybody is saying that the way _ situation there. everybody is saying that the way to _ situation there. everybody is saying that the way to resolve _ situation there. everybody is saying that the way to resolve this - situation there. everybody is saying that the way to resolve this really l that the way to resolve this really does come down to the us because of what we saw at the un security council. what is america's red line? because they have continued and continued to express their support for israel. what is the red line, though? for israel. what is the red line, thou~h? �* ., for israel. what is the red line, thou~h? ., , ., for israel. what is the red line, thou~h? ., ., though? i'm not sure we have a red line er though? i'm not sure we have a red line per se. — though? i'm not sure we have a red line per se. but— though? i'm not sure we have a red line per se, but one _ though? i'm not sure we have a red line per se, but one of _ though? i'm not sure we have a red line per se, but one of the - though? i'm not sure we have a red line per se, but one of the things i line per se, but one of the things we made clear to the israelis as we will not continue to defend them if they don't do much more for humanitarian assistance and i would like to stress there are 2 million palestinians who don't have enough

food, water, medicine, fuel, any of the things they need to survive, they have no homes. what we have said to the israelis is it is essential you do more on the humanitarian front, there is no excuse not to do that. to the extent to which we are leveraging the israelis is on the humanitarian assistance front. 0n the weapons and general approach to the war, it will all depend on whether israel really changes its approach in southern gaza and central gaza in the days and weeks ahead. fiiq gaza and central gaza in the days and weeks ahead.— and weeks ahead. 0k, frank lowenstein, _ and weeks ahead. 0k, frank lowenstein, former - and weeks ahead. 0k, frank lowenstein, former us - and weeks ahead. 0k, frank| lowenstein, former us envoy and weeks ahead. 0k, frank - lowenstein, former us envoy for middle east peace, thank you for being with us. the environment agency is warning more properties could flood over the next week as river levels continue rising. more than 1800 properties have already flooded after prolonged wet weather and intense rainfall. currently, there are nearly 350 flood warnings and alerts in place in england and five in wales. jessica lane has the latest from

collingham in nottinghamshire. collingham is here in nottinghamshire, it's in between nottingham and lincoln and it's quite a large village. and as you can see it as one of the villages that's been affected. it's notjust here, though, there are several of the smaller villages in this area which have been totally cut off over the last few days. and some residents have had to be evacuated because the floodwaters have just covered the roads going in and out. and that's because levels in the river trent have reached record highs over the last few days. i'm told that here it is a slightly improving picture, though. the road sign you can see over my shoulder, yesterday it was covered by water and now you can read what it says it so it is hoped that the water levels are starting to drop. there is a family that live in the house about half a mile up the road and they have been totally cut off for days and this morning the fire brigade have had to send out boats filled with bottles of water and tins of food to make sure they have enough provisions for the next few days. simonjones reports now on the situation elsewhere as well as along the river trent. the rain may have stopped but the worry hasn't. in torksey in lincolnshire families are saving what they can from the advances of the river

trent. people living alongside the river lambourn in berkshire have been up all night monitoring the situation with some properties already flooded. we thought we had peaked on all of the water levels by friday. however, over the last 12 and 2a hours, although we have had a considerable period of dry weather and it was even sunny yesterday, water levels have continued to rise. hundreds of flood alerts and warnings remain in place across england and wales. getting around isn't easy. dunham bridge connecting lincolnshire and nottinghamshire remains closed. even though we have some dry weather in the forecast, thank goodness, we are pleased about that, it will take a while for the peaks in the rivers to move down through to the sea and take the pressure off communities like those we have seen in recent days. the prime minister meets the environment agency team in oxford. the government has been accused of being asleep at the wheel by labour in its response to the widespread flooding chaos. ministers say affected communities in england will be able to apply for funding to help them through these extremely challenging times. now it is set to get a lot chillier, too. a cold weather alert has been issued

by the uk health security agency with the cold snap expected to last several days, bringing with it the threat of ice. simon jones, bbc news. police in lincolnshire say two people have died, after their car became submerged in water. it happened on saturday in tetney lock, in the early afternoon, near grimsby and the mouth of the river humber. police say there was a collision, and a blue mercedes 300 left the road. a 16—year—old boy and a forty year old man a 16—year—old boy and a ao—year—old man were pronounced dead at the scene — their next of kin have been informed. in bangladesh prime minister sheikh qasim is on course to be re—elected according to the afp agency. voting took place amid tight security after violence on the eve of the poll. at least 1a polling stations were set on fire.

it's set to be a fourth straight consecutive term for prime minister sheikh hasina as prime minister of bangladesh. the country's chief election cmomissioner has described the violence as an attempt to sabotage the vote. the main opposition bangladesh nationalist party asked people to shun the poll. and international observers, including the un, said the election took place in a repressive environment. live now to the capital, dhaka, and our south asia correspondent samira hussain. bring us up to date with the latest. we are standing outside the election commission and the commissioner has told the bbc that the one league, that's the ruling party, has won more than 50% of the seats, but to be clear they haven't actually declared the election a win for sheikh hasina but it is pretty much

accepted that that will be the likely outcome because as you rightly pointed out, the main opposition party, the bangladesh nationalist party, did not contest in these elections. they accuse of the government of being unable to hold free and fair elections. so with really no strong opposition to oppose sheikh hasina and her awami league party, it seems there is little doubt she was going to cruise through to yet another victory. 50 through to yet another victory. so the bnp did not take part, they boycotted the elections, there has been violence in the run—up to today. in terms of the legitimacy of the vote, should sheikh hasina be concerned? has she expressed any concern? i concerned? has she expressed any concern? ~ , concerned? has she expressed any concern? ~' , ., ., ., concern? i think there is a lot of questions _ concern? i think there is a lot of questions being _ concern? i think there is a lot of questions being raised - concern? i think there is a lot of questions being raised about. concern? i think there is a lot of| questions being raised about the legitimacy of this vote which is why there are so much effort being made

by the sheikh hasina government to make sure there were no voting irregularities and that they went through, that these elections, the voting process went through as smoothly as possible. yes, there was some reporting of irregularities at polling stations that were quickly dealt with. and yes, there were some incidents of violence at polling stations were they were set ablaze but they didn't have an impact on the voting process. and there were some other small incidents of violence. but by and large, what the prime minister wanted to show to the international community is that the country is able to hold an electoral process under the democratic principles. however, these elections are coming during a climate in which there has been a severe crackdown on freedom of expression and freedom of protest. and any kind of dissent against the government has received

quite severe backlash. so if you speak to members of the bnp, they will say, well, look, we couldn't even contest these elections because thousands of our leaders and our supporters are either in prison or injail. 0r supporters are either in prison or injail. or in hiding.— injail. or in hiding. samira hussain. — injail. or in hiding. samira hussain, thank— injail. or in hiding. samira hussain, thank you - injail. or in hiding. samira hussain, thank you very i injail. or in hiding. samira i hussain, thank you very much injail. or in hiding. samira _ hussain, thank you very much indeed. hollywood's award season gets under way in la in the next few hours — with the golden globes award ceremony. barbie and 0ppenheimer are tipped for success — as emma vardy reports. hi, barbie. hi, ken. it was neverjust about a plastic doll. barbie, a satire on a female's role in society, became a sensation last summer... hi, barbie. ..as audiences dressed in pink and headed to the cinema, making director greta gerwig the first female to make a $1 billion movie. i got us both ice cream. cool i don't know if we can be trusted.

for best drama, 0ppenheimer, the three—hour epic about the american physicist who developed the atomic bomb, is battling it out against martin scorsese's killers of the flower moon. leonardo dicaprio is up for best actor, but it's his co—star, lily gladstone, who may become the first native american to win best actress. i didn't realise this was a race. he's on the floor, tom. explain to me what he's doing. and succession, the drama about a media dynasty is predicted to be the big winner in the tv categories. studios are hoping for a boost from the awards, as the globes are the first major event since actors�* and writers' strikes saw hollywood productions grind to a halt, costing the industry dearly. so there's a lot at stake. but the globes are also known as the biggest party in town. throughout the night, the champagne will be flowing, because this event has something of a reputation for being one of the most raucous of awards season. getting ahead is popular here because winning a golden globe can help influence the oscars in two months�* time. emma vardy, bbc news, beverly hills.

just to remind you of the latest development in the coverage of the israel—hamas war, the us secretary of state antony blinken has arrived in qatar and he has held a press conference with his counterpart and they have been discussing some key issues including containment of the conflict, the need to get aid to those in need and also the reduction of civilian casualties and secretary blinken also saying palestinians should be allowed to stay. all of that on our website. good evening. high pressure has brought a welcome change to much drier weather for

most this weekend but there are still numerous flood warnings in force, around 170 during the day to day. as ever there is more detail on those on the weather website including a warning for ice for the night ahead. the high pressure that has brought the dry weather this weekend is staying put as you can see through the working week. there will be a keen wind in the south accentuating the chill but for most little rain in the forecast. it looks much drier therefore. but it is already colder and it will remain so. we have had some stubborn fog this weekend. during sunday across parts of northern ireland, scotland, northern england and where is, and indeed it will thicken up through the coming night, there could be the odd pocket further south as well. we will find more showers coming into east anglia and the south—east. widely frosty even where we see the towns and cities just above freezing

the ground will still turn potentially frosty and icy because we have had a lot of rain. but overnight we are going to see those showers and into monday pepene up across the east anglia region and south—east of england. there will be snow even at lower levels, it is cold air. with a few centimetres potentially over the downs it will be very slippery potentially because they wash off the salt. ice is certainly an issue, in the south and east, but also elsewhere because it has been so damp, and the fog again for central and southern scotland, northern ireland, northern parts of england and wales might well linger. we will see brightness and sunshine as well. the wind is a little bit stronger again across southern parts compared to today push wintry showers across other southern counties through the day, and indeed making it feel colder still. we will see a smattering of snow and showers further south over the hills and

through the channel islands. into tuesday the high—pressure system stays towards the north, those east winds or north—east winds continuing in the south but that might benefit pushing the showers out of the way and breaking the cloud up a bit more for more sunshine. but again plenty of it for north—west scotland, northern ireland, western england and wales but more so in the south. might pick up a bit of cloud across north—eastern coast but as you can see temperatures below par. through the rest of the week it stays largely dry but still pretty chilly.

this is bbc news. the headlines... at least 70 people have reportedly been killed injabalia. eyewitnesses in the refugee camp in northern gaza say many people were killed in an overnight

israeli air strike. officials say bangladesh's prime minister, sheikh hasina, has won re—election for a fourth consecutive term. the election commision said that her party had won more than 50% seats, with counting still ongoing. most opposition parties boycotted the election. rishi sunak confirms that the government is looking at legal options to exonerate sub—postmasters who've been wrongfully convicted of fraud because of a faulty computer accounting system. the now discredited �*horizon' software was used by the post office between 1999 and 2015. now on bbc news, the arts interviews: sir anthony hopkins. 30 seconds to on air! 0k, and you are just here.

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