as hamas responds to a temporary ceasefire proposal for gaza. a federal appeals court has ruled that donald trump can be prosecuted for his attempts to overturn the 2020 us election. and in the uk, urgent financial help should be given to families of children left disabled by an epilepsy drug and women injured by pelvic mesh implants. good to have you with us. let's get started. israel's chief military spokesperson says 31 of the remaining hostages held in gaza are dead. rear admiral daniel hagari said theirfamilies had been informed. israel has previously said 136 hostages were held in gaza.

the israeli government has faced growing pressure to make the release of the hostages its main priority. a few hours ago, us secretary of state antony blinken arrived in tel aviv — the latest stop on his fifth trip to the middle east since the war began. earlier on tuesday, secretary blinken was in doha. along with the qatari prime minister, he confirmed hamas has given a "positive" response to a proposed ceasefire with israel. here's a little of his statement. we had meetings already on this trip. we are focused on ensuring as well that we can use any pause to continue to build up plans for the day after in gaza, security, humanitarian, reconstruction, governance. all bring real challenges with them but that

is exactly why we need to be focused on them now. we also determined to use any pause to continue to pay the diplomatic path forward to a just and lasting peace and security for the region. following this, a senior hamas official told the bbc that the group had asked for amendments to the proposal. with me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic. hello again. let's talk about these latest developments on a possible truce. what more can you tell us?— you tell us? there is now a resoonse — you tell us? there is now a response from _ you tell us? there is now a response from hamas - you tell us? there is now a response from hamas to i you tell us? there is now a l response from hamas to the proposal that has been made in paris earlier injanuary. this proposal was described by qatar as positive but was described by the american president as over the top. antony blinken will be discussing this response from hamas in israel today with the israeli

officials, including the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. in israeli prime minister ben'amin netanyahufi netanyahu. in terms of the fighting. — netanyahu. in terms of the fighting. what _ netanyahu. in terms of the fighting, what is _ netanyahu. in terms of the fighting, what is the - netanyahu. in terms of the fighting, what is the latest| netanyahu. in terms of the i fighting, what is the latest on that? ., , , that? fighting has intensified in gaza at the _ that? fighting has intensified in gaza at the moment. - that? fighting has intensified| in gaza at the moment. there are shelling in multiple cities. there are reports about one officer killed from the israeli side. there are tens of killings from these shelling source of the humanitarian situation now in gaza is dire. the humanitarian organisation is the health system is collapsing and there are two hospitals that might be out of service. one hospital in the middle of gaza. everybody is now feeling optimistic that this truth might happen and it might be a longer truce that will allow the humanitarian aid to come inside gaza and this

fighting also to stop. i want to add something to this truce, benjamin netanyahu at the moment is wishing to link this truce with normalising the relationship building diplomatic relations with saudi arabia. it may give him if he has to withdraw from his targets and fighting in gaza, which is destroying hamas and keep military presence in gaza along with returning the hostages with the military action. in hostages with the military action. , ., , ., action. in terms of the israeli chief military _ action. in terms of the israeli chief military spokesperson l chief military spokesperson saying 31 of the remaining hostages that are held in gaza are dead, that is the new news where the families have been informed. what is being said about that, if anything, in the arabic press?— arabic press? hamas already announced — arabic press? hamas already announced it _ arabic press? hamas already announced it before - arabic press? hamas already announced it before that - arabic press? hamas already. announced it before that there is a number of hostages who

died because of the military action in gaza. they said this is proof that the military action will not be able to get these hostages out and the only way for these hostages to get out is to exchange these hostages with palestinian prisoners. benjamin netanyahu said last week that he will not do that because practically this is the end of his government with the right—wing ministers pausing in exchange with the hostages with palestinian prisoners. once auain, palestinian prisoners. once again. thank— palestinian prisoners. once again, thank you _ palestinian prisoners. once again, thank you for - palestinian prisoners. once. again, thank you for keeping palestinian prisoners. once - again, thank you for keeping us up—to—date. a federal appeals court has ruled that donald trump can be prosecuted for his attempts to overturn the 2020 us election. a unanimous decision by a three—judge panel marks a watershed moment in the prosecution and sets up a likely trial date sometime

in late spring or early summer. trump's lawyers had argued in court that "a president "of the united states must have full immunity," without which they said it would be "impossible for him "or her to properly function." our correspondent gary o'donoghue has been following the story from washington. of all the cases donald trump is facing, this is the most serious one. it deals with those accusations that he tried to overturn the 2020 election. now, he argued that he had immunity from prosecution because these were acts he took as president. the court said that wasn't true and that he was now citizen trump, not president trump, and did not enjoy those kinds of immunities. now, donald trump's strategy has always been to try and delay these cases for as much as possible, and he will appeal to the supreme court. if he can delay things long enough so the trial doesn't take place until after november's election and he wins that election, he can make all of this just go away.

the problem for him is if the trial goes ahead before the election and he is convicted, there are large numbers of voters in key marginal states who are telling the pollsters they will not vote for a convicted felon. the timing and the outcome of this case is crucial not just to this election, but to the future of american politics. live now to los angeles, where we can speak to neema rahmarni, a former federal prosecutor and president of the firm west coast trial lawyers. good to have you on the programme. what do you think this latest development means for donald trump and his hopes to become a president again? i don't think it will harm a politically. every time he has a setback in court, his poll numbers seem tojump. a setback in court, his poll numbers seem to jump. legally, this is a bad decision, where thejudges rejected all

this is a bad decision, where the judges rejected all three of his legal argument is that the supreme court in the courts have no authority over him, a separation of power argument. that he is fully immune. this is something he settled through the social, he is a social media platform. this is double jeopardy because he was tried but acquitted by the united states senators and he lost three out of three. ii states senators and he lost three out of three.- three out of three. if this trail goes _ three out of three. if this trail goes ahead - three out of three. if this trail goes ahead in - three out of three. if this trail goes ahead in the i three out of three. if this - trail goes ahead in the spring or summer and trail goes ahead in the spring orsummerand he trail goes ahead in the spring or summer and he loses, what does that mean? theoretically, he could be _ does that mean? theoretically, he could be a _ does that mean? theoretically, he could be a convicted - does that mean? theoretically, he could be a convicted felon i he could be a convicted felon and sitting in federal prison and sitting in federal prison and still be us president. i think that will turn off a lot of swing voters... he think that will turn off a lot of swing voters. . .- think that will turn off a lot of swing voters... he will not be present — of swing voters... he will not be present in _ of swing voters... he will not be present in the _ of swing voters... he will not be present in the spring - of swing voters... he will not be present in the spring or. be present in the spring or summer, will he? you mean in the year after?— the year after? the hereafter. the cases _ the year after? the hereafter. the cases still— the year after? the hereafter. the cases still in _ the year after? the hereafter. the cases still in that - the year after? the hereafter. the cases still in that is - the year after? the hereafter. the cases still in that is an - the cases still in that is an important issue. estee issue. a stay is a pause in proceedings. thejudge stay is a pause in proceedings. the judge still has the stay in place and even the dc court of appeals issued a one—week stay so donald trump can appeal this

to the supreme court. before he does, he will ask for a petition for a hearing, he will ask whether the full panel of judges to review it. again, and i think he will win but that is a procedural tactic to delay the case even further. what reaction has _ the case even further. what reaction has there - the case even further. what reaction has there been - the case even further. what reaction has there been so. the case even further. what i reaction has there been so far from the republican party to this? , , , this? even republicans in congress _ this? even republicans in congress are _ this? even republicans in congress are a _ this? even republicans in congress are a bit - this? even republicans in| congress are a bit gumma this? even republicans in - congress are a bit gumma shy about the argument. we are a nation of laws and its legislators here in the united states senators and representatives have taken issue with the drum's lawyers argument in this case that even if a president assassinated his political rival riverleigh sells a secret, he would be immune from prosecution. i think that is a bridge too far even republicans.— think that is a bridge too far even republicans. given the latest development, - even republicans. given the latest development, dorcas| latest development, dorcas street strategy now of his lawyers in this case. what will they do? to delay as much as possible?— they do? to delay as much as

ossible? ~ ,,., , a, . possible? absolutely, the march trail they will _ possible? absolutely, the march trail they will not _ possible? absolutely, the march trail they will not happen. - possible? absolutely, the march trail they will not happen. i - trail they will not happen. i will be surprised if anything happens this summer. they will both petition for that hearing and then go to the supreme court and if the supreme court does not expedite the case, and let's not forget special counseljack smith, even though he won at this very issue in the trial court, he asked for an expedited briefing, going straight to the supreme court and the justices said no. straight to the supreme court and thejustices said no. to the extent that the supreme court delays this, that is added to the benefit of the former president as long as these proceedings remain on hold. ., ~' these proceedings remain on hold. . ~ ,, these proceedings remain on hold. . ~ ., these proceedings remain on hold. . ., hold. thank you for your thoughts _ hold. thank you for your thoughts and _ hold. thank you for your thoughts and analysis i hold. thank you for your | thoughts and analysis on hold. thank you for your - thoughts and analysis on them. very interesting. meanwhile, president biden has accused donald trump of undermining attempts to introduce new measures aimed at combating the record increase in illegal migration along america's southern border. republicans in the house of representatives rejected a bipartisan bill which has taken months to put together, prompting an angry response from the president, who accused them of "lacking spine" in their failure to stand up to mrtrump.

meanwhile, in another vote, the us secretary of homeland security alejandro mayorkas survived an impeachment attempt by house republicans. republicans suffered a stunning defeat, falling short of the simple majority voted needed to charge mr mayorkas with high crimes and misdemeanors forfailing to secure the us—mexico border. speaking to the bbc, the republican congressman tim burchett said it was possible there would be a further attempt to impeach mr mayorkas. i think this was just an effort to put the votes on the board to put the votes on the board to see where we are rats. folks can go home and know their constituents and i suspect someone will be very unhappy about this outcome. i suspect there might be one or two macro clamouring to get the vote up again. we will see. i suspect it will come back again. alejandro mayorkas has told us,

as you know, the water is fine and functioning and keeping people at and yet in the last three years we have had anywhere from 8— 10 million people come over the border illegally. i don't know in what form that is a success. in the past three years we have had 10 million people over the border into the cost is 400 billion a year to keep these people out. we have closed schools down to house these people. the people in new york i put into credit cards to allow these people to live for free. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. dentists will be offered a cash incentive of up to £50 for every new patient taken on under a government scheme to boost the provision of dental care across england. they are also offered a £20,000 bonus to work in the areas of england with the poorest access to nhs care. the metropolitan police have released new images

of abdul shokoor ezedi — the man wanted in connection with a corrosive liquid attack in clapham last week. police have tracked mr ezedi moving from near southwark bridge in central london towards victoria embankment. eight million people on means—tested benefits are now receiving their final cost—of—living payment to help with high prices and bills. the £299 pound payment will go directly into bank accounts of those eligible before 22 february without the need to make a claim. there is more details about the website. you're live with bbc news. ajury in the us has found a michigan mother guilty of involuntary manslaughter, after her son killed four students in a mass shooting at a high school three years ago. jennifer crumbley and her husband bought their son a gun

just days before the shooting. our north america correspondent john sudworth reports. i do. amid an epidemic of us school shootings, this is a legal first — a criminal trial not of a perpetrator, but a parent. jennifer crumbley didn't pull the trigger that day, but she is responsible for those deaths. 15—year—old ethan crumbley had already been convicted for the shooting at an earlier trial, but prosecutors argued that his mother, 45—year—old jennifer crumbley, had been grossly negligent. despite her son's deteriorating mental health and his disturbing drawings of shootings, she had failed to stop him accessing the gun he had been bought for christmas. that was the hardest thing i had to stomach, is that my child harmed and killed other people. her defence lawyers argued she had done all she could and that the trial set a dangerous precedent for struggling parents who shouldn't be held

responsible for every action of their children. but the michigan jury disagreed. we find the defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter. delivering a landmark guilty verdict on four counts of involuntary manslaughter — one for each of the students her son shot dead. she could face a decade or more in prison and she'll be sentenced at a later date. john sudworth, bbc news, new york. the families of thousands of children in england who were harmed after their mothers were given a drug to treat epilepsy while they were pregnant should receive urgent financial help. that's the verdict of a report by the patient safety watchdog which is being published in the coming hours after people affected have fought for decades to get help. the report also looks at women who've suffered terribly after operations using pelvic mesh and concludes they too should also get help.

our health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. there was people in the health authority that knew about all of this and i wasn't told. why did it take for me to have four children before somebody said, "that child looks like it's got sodium valproate "syndrome" ? it felt like cheese - wire that was running around my groin. a handful of the thousands of women who've been fighting forjustice, some for 40 years, after medical treatments went badly wrong. i first filmed with andy seven years ago. hello. it's sophie! how lovely to see you. he's now 25 but will never live independently. he has severe learning disabilities and autism caused by the epilepsy drug sodium valproate that his mum emma was on when she was pregnant. oh, you did drama today? i was the big bad wolf today. i am the big bad wolf!

andy is one of an estimated 20,000 children in the uk harmed. tomorrow the first redress scheme in england, proposing financial help for them will be published, but his mum emma is sceptical. this isjust a proposal. i know that there's going to be years until this actually comes into fruition and then for me to try and trust these people, to actually believe that this is going to be until andy dies. the scheme also recommends help for the 10,000 women in england harmed by pelvic mesh used to treat incontinence and prolapse, but which left some women like sadie with debilitating injuries. in december, i went into hospital. i was suicidal. the pain got too much. i couldn't manage it. i'm not able to be the mum that i need to be. my 15—year—old son has had to undress me to help me into bed because the pain has been too much. the proposal by the patient

safety commissioner is for a two stage redress scheme — an interim payment due next year for those directly harmed. £20,000 for victims of mesh, and 100,000 for sodium valproate, followed by a main scheme offering further financial and non—financial help, tailored to families' needs. the commissioner has compared the number of children harmed by sodium valproate to thalidomide, the most notorious birth defect story in history. this is a scandal that's bigger than thalidomide. people have been campaigning for this for decades. and she told us that ministers must now listen and introduce the redress scheme. if the patients still don't have their voices heard, then it really shows that there's a callous disregard for the pain and the suffering that all of these patients and families have experienced. but the government in england is yet to confirm whether it will accept the scheme to give

financial redress to families like these who have suffered for so many years. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. yeah? hmm. the king has been seen for the first time after revealing he has cancer. he travelled by helicopter from buckingham palace to sandringham, the royal estate in norfolk, with the queen. before he left, he met prince harry, who'd flown in from california — their first face—to—face meeting since the king's coronation in may. the king has now withdrawn from all public facing duties for the time being. our royal correspondent daniela relph reports. a first image of the king since news of his cancer diagnosis was made public. being driven into buckingham palace with his wife, queen camilla, after beginning his treatment in a london hospital. with the chance to escape to the north avoca estate after the north avoca estate after the start of his cancer

treatment. i the start of his cancer treatment.— the start of his cancer treatment. ~ treatment. i think the king will be stoic _ treatment. i think the king will be stoic about - treatment. i think the king will be stoic about this. - treatment. i think the king will be stoic about this. he j will be stoic about this. he will be stoic about this. he will accept this as a challenge that has to be dealt with, something he has to get through. the overriding sense with him will be one of frustration. he will not be wanting to let people down by cancelling engagements, things of that nature. i think he will be determined to get through it as quickly as he can and the best way that he cancer he can get back to full duties as quickly as possible. the king sta ed quickly as possible. the king stayed in _ quickly as possible. the king stayed in london _ quickly as possible. the king stayed in london on - quickly as possible. the king stayed in london on tuesdayj quickly as possible. the king i stayed in london on tuesday to see his youngest son. the duke of sussex arrived from california went straight to clarence house to meet his father. they have seen little of each other over the paused years. they spent 45 minutes together yesterday. this is to be a thaw between father and son but the sibling relationship remains strange. there are currently no plans for prince harry to see the prince of wales while he is in the uk. with making king

clearing his diary and focusing on his cancer treatment, royal duties and a fairly wider family. princess and already has one of the busiest diaries and with others may need to do more to support her brother while she is unwell. prince william is back on royal duties of for the first time in just under a month. of for the first time in just undera month. he had of for the first time in just under a month. he had taken time out to support the princess of wales after abdominal surgery. the king will now rely heavily on the support of his family both privately and publicly. i think this is the — privately and publicly. i think this is the milling _ privately and publicly. i think this is the milling that - this is the milling that members well is changing, so will the royal household. this willingness to be open, not only signals a change in the way in which the king relates to people but also encourages others to be much more open and explicit about the health issues and to do something about it. ., , about it. sandringham is where the r0 al about it. sandringham is where the royal family _ about it. sandringham is where the royal family gather - about it. sandringham is where the royal family gather for - the royal family gather for christmas. now it is where the king can rest out of the public

eye as he concentrates on his recovery. let's get some of the day's other news now. chilean ex—president sebastian pinera has died in a helicopter crash in the south of the country. the three other people on board survived the accident. three days of national mourning have been declared. the winner of a beauty pageant injapan, whose ethnicity sparked a discussion around national identity, has stepped down after revelations of an extra—martial affair. karolina shiino won the miss japan title two weeks ago. a tabloid newspaper reported ms shiino had had an affair with a married man. a door panel that flew off a boeing 737 max 9 jet mid—flight last month appeared to be missing four key bolts, according to a preliminary report from us investigators. since the incident, loose bolts have been found in similar locations on other planes.

we will have more in a story in our business coverage. oppenheimer — the film about the physicist behind the atomic bomb — is leading the charge at both the baftas and the oscars. our culture editor katie razzall has been speaking to the film's lead, cillian murphy, who has been nominated for an oscar for the first time. hello! from dodging the undead in 28 days later... hello! ..to a murderous gangster in peaky blinders that made him and his haircut a household name. and i know what it means... and now the father of the atomic bomb. if the nazis have a bomb. when christopher nolan comes to you and says, i want you to play the theoretical physicist, oppenheimer, how do you know that you're going to be able to do it? i need to not know, and if i know instantly i can do that, i generally don't take the part, because then it doesn't represent any kind of challenge to me. and you never kind of fully know you've got it. you know, it's neverfinished,

the process, you know. i had six months of preparation, and i went deep, deep into it, but i could have done that for another 18 months. oppenheimer and a team of scientists working for the us government created the bomb that was used controversially to end the second world war, a weighty subject for director christopher nolan. the three—hour—long epic was a huge box office success. his movies become like events. there's no—one else that does it like that. for some reason itjust clicked and people started going and it gained this momentum. and we were all on strike at the time, so we were just sort of texting each other, just watching this thing happen. you know, people come up to me in the street and say that they've seen the film four and five times, which isjust phenomenal and very flattering. are we saying there's a chance that when we push that button, we destroy the world? chances are near zero. near zero. what do you want from theory alone? zero would be nice.

i think oppenheimer�*s story is a story of the 20th century, and i think it has to be entertaining primarily. but if it's provocative, and makes you think about what's happening in the world today, i think that's a really good bonus. over the last few years, but certainly last year and this year, we've seen the most incredible amount of success coming out of ireland, whether that's writers, actors. why now? irish people tell stories very well, i think, just in the pub to each other. we're good at it, we have a long history of it. it is kind of phenomenal the level of talent that the country is producing for, like, five million people. it's kind of extraordinary. and one of them has an oscar nomination for the first time. the world will remember this day. next month, cillian murphy mayjust bring that award home. katie razzall, bbc news. we have it's obvious a story see next. —— the top business

stories next. hello there. the weather is changing, it's getting colder and that's going to bring the risk of some snow to some parts of the country. now, on tuesday, the temperatures were 14 degrees in surrey, ahead of that weather front, which is taking rain down into the english channel. and following on from that, we've got the colder air moving down from the north. and we've seen some wintry showers falling in scotland. could well be a covering of snow in many places here, particularly in the northwest. but there's a danger there may well be some snow falling in the central belt of scotland early in the morning, too. now, increasingly, those wintry showers will become confined to northern scotland. the rest of scotland seeing sunny spells developing. so too northern ireland, and for much of england and wales, although in the south it still could be quite cloudy. still a bit of rain through the english channel, not far away from the south coast of england. here, it's going to be colder than it was on tuesday, but it's going to be much less windy. typical temperatures are going to be six or seven degrees. so a chillier day. and into that colder air, that weather front that's in the channel is going to get swept northwards by this big area

of low pressure that's moving into the colder air. and that's going to give us the risk of some snow. and these are the temperatures we've got first thing on thursday morning. so, frosty start, particularly in scotland and northern parts of england. in the south, it's a little milder. we're going to have rain across southern parts of england and wales heading into the midlands, but as that weather moves northwards into that colder block of air, so we're going to find some sleet and snow falling as well. now, we still have this yellow warning out from the met office. the area has changed a bit, so we're seeing snow less likely in the midlands. there's snow extending into northern ireland. while there be some snow to low levels, it's mainly over the hills, with significant falls over the higher hills, which will bring some disruption. we've still got that snow continuing into the evening across northern england, northern ireland, and heading into southern most parts of scotland. another band of wet weather coming into the south of england before midnight. and low pressure is going to spin its way across the uk to end the week, and that's going to bring this mixture of rain, sleet and snow.

but we never remove that block of colder air in scotland. so we're going to find snow developing more widely away from the east coast. there'll be some more snow in the northern pennines for a while as well. cold easterly wind in scotland will keep temperatures four or five degrees at best. further south, it will be milder. we're more likely to have some rain, which could be on the heavy side.

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the us national transportation safety board has revealed new details about the door plug that