to bring down wants to find a way to bring down the tax burden ahead of the spring budget this week. —— uk chancellor. and it's a record—breaking night at the brit awards, raye picks up six prizes. best night of my life, hands down, without a shadow of a doubt. will it ever get better than this again? hello. we start this hour in the middle east. mediators have arrived in the egyptian capital cairo to try to reach an agreement on a temporary ceasefire between israel and hamas. there are reports that hamas says a gaza truce is possible "within 2a to 48 hours," if israel accepts demands. it comes as a top us official says

israel has "basically agreed" to a framework for a six—week ceasefire. the official says it could begin immediately, if hamas is ready to release the most vulnerable israeli hostages it holds. but one egyptian official says there are still technical issues to resolve, including agreement on the number of palestinian prisoners the israelis would be prepared to release in exchange. meanwhile, the us carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid for gaza on saturday with more than 38,000 meals parachuted by three military planes. so that's the latest on the ceasefire talks. all the time inside gaza, there is, as we've mentioned, a desperate need t he hamas—run health ministry has said 15 children have died of malnutrition and starvation in gaza's kamal adwan hospital — in the north of the strip.the head of the norwegian refugee council, jan egeland, who has visited the area, has said he believes there is now a famine in northern gaza. i think there is a famine in the north. yes. there is no other way to describe what has befallen on the 300,000

people who live in the ruins of the north and who haven't had really any aid for a very long time, because israel is not opening the border crossings from where we could have had hundreds and hundreds of trucks to feed the women, the children, the families, the innocent. i was there for three days. two nights i was prepared for nightmare. but it is worse. it's much worse to be there to meet with the thousands of people who are trying to take your hand, get your attention, and to tell you, "we're starving here, were dying here." "we will be attacked here. "we have fled five times to reach rafah," which is the southernmost point in the little gaza strip,

and they've been under bombardment, you know, every day since mid—0ctober. it's beyond belief. the main israeli army spokesman has said the military has completed a preliminary review into the incident last thursday in which dozens of palestinians were killed as an aid convoy arrived in gaza city. rear admiral daniel hagari says that the review has determined that forces did not strike the convoy and that most palestinians died in a stampede. the idf has concluded that gazan civilians were trampled to death and injured as they charged to the aid convoy. however, he did also say that after warning shots were fired by the idf, several palestinians approached forces, posing what they called an "immediate threat" and the idf responded by firing towards several individuals. it is going live now to our correspondent with a davies in

jerusalem. a number of elements for us to go through today. let us start with those ceasefire talks resuming in cairo. you have those reports of mass saying it who should be possible if israel steps towards —— of a hamas thing a truce should be possible if israel agrees... relatively positive. the pots in the united states and also cairo seem to say that both sides, the israelis and hamas seem to be acknowledging we are close to some sort of truce but that doesn't mean we're over the line yet and we should not assume there should be a deal because there are some key sticking points and on the israeli side the main point that i miss the hostages. they want to know which hostages hamas wants to release under the deal and also how many palestinian prisoners from israeli deals would be exchanged in a release for that number. hamas has

always insisted on previous occasions that israeli troops should withdraw from gaza and guards in civilian should be allowed back, particularly to the homes are what is left of their home areas in northern gaza. there are some significant sticking points and i don't think as i said, we should assume a deal is in the offing just yet. but what's driving this, and this is really important, is the increasing humanitarian crisis that you've been alluding leading tea them in parts of gaza. there's increasing international pressure on israel in particular to allow the ceasefire to happen and in particular to facilitate more aid any americans are very frustrated. 0ne any americans are very frustrated. one of the reasons they took this unprecedented move of an air drop dropping around 30,000 food parcels in garda was because clearly not enough aid is able to get into gaza assault by road. —— 30,000 food parcels and gaza. the security situation in the north led to what

happened there last week with the deaths but also the fact not many of the crossings are open allowing mode aid in and i think the aid agencies and international governments clearly see that as a priority. the ceasefire, a ceasefire, would facilitate greater aid into gaza itself. what might yeah, yeah villages in the word famine in the north. the north in particular, it is very hard to get aid in there, isn't it? yes, a lot of people with the initial israeli bombardment of gaza did move south but some people go back and many people stayed away because there isn't a facility, there is in the room, there aren't there is in the room, there aren't the supplies for the meat in the south. there are crossings. the main erez crossing into gaza in the north. if that was open, if aid was allowed into their it would help alleviate some of those problems. the famine, the malnutrition we have heard about from governments and aid agencies in particular. so i think thatis agencies in particular. so i think that is what is driving this and perhaps that is what may get a

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islamic jihad near the hospital hospital islamicjihad near the hospital hospital in rafah. palestinian sources say that civilians were killed in the attack which also damaged parts of the hospital so thatis damaged parts of the hospital so that is clearly ongoing fighting, ongoing military operations and a differing narrative from either side about what, who was responsible. yonahjeremy bob is a senior military correspondent forjerusalem post. thank you so much adjoining joining us on bbc news. i wanted to first ask you what you made that preliminary report from the idf saying it did not strike that can buy? saying it did not strike that can bu ? , ., , , saying it did not strike that can bu ? , ., _ �* saying it did not strike that can bu? ., buy? obviously, i wasn't there and i cannot tell — buy? obviously, i wasn't there and i cannot tell 10094. — buy? obviously, i wasn't there and i cannot tell 10096 and _ buy? obviously, i wasn't there and i cannot tell 10096 and we _ buy? obviously, i wasn't there and i cannot tell 10096 and we need - buy? obviously, i wasn't there and i cannot tell 10096 and we need to - buy? obviously, i wasn't there and i l cannot tell 10096 and we need to stay cannot tell 100% and we need to stay objective here but the idf did release a lot of specific information. they released videos. but does mean nothing to me. i look to the video is a number of times. i couldn't see, you know, 100 people trampling each other but i did see chaos. the idf also has admitted that basically there were three

incidents, it wasn't one incident, and in the third incident idf forces did fire on the palestinians. we can get on that third incident about exactly what happened there. so the idf... i always say, if somebody is willing to admit fault to some extent in the giving of information, then give them a certain bounds of credibility. i have heard the reports of, you know, bullet wounds, but i haven't seen anything produced. i'm sure since the idf admitted that they said about ten palestinians were killed by bullets that there were at least that many. was it more than that? i would need to see evidence. but, look, let's step back and see also this is a horrible tragedy, however it happened. the main thing that needs to happen here is that humanitarian aid needs to get in and it needs to be under the control of somebody other than hamas. that's part of what happened in the second incident. hamas forces fired on the humanitarian talks and stole the talks. so part of what happened here was chaos but part of what happened

here was hamas upset with the fact that as well are trying to get a few directly to the palestinians are not in their control. {131 directly to the palestinians are not in their control.— in their control. of course, we don't have _ in their control. of course, we don't have any _ in their control. of course, we don't have any independent i don't have any independent confirmation of that happening in the palestinian officials accusing israel of the massacre. you think there is a way forward? are we ever going to find out the truth? there are calls for an independent international inquiry into what happened. it’s international inquiry into what happened-— international inquiry into what ha ened, �*, ., ., , , happened. it's going to be very difficult to _ happened. it's going to be very difficult to find _ happened. it's going to be very difficult to find out _ happened. it's going to be very difficult to find out 10096 - happened. it's going to be very difficult to find out 10096 of - happened. it's going to be very difficult to find out 10096 of the difficult to find out 100% of the truth because you would need, you know, all the palestinians who were involved to come forward, you would need to be able to identify that they were actually the ones there, you would need to identify, you know, the bullets came from the idf bullets are not from hamas bullets, and if you saw the pictures of, i mean, there was chaos happening there. the chaos i don't think was planned by hamas per se. i think there are a lot of hungry people. this is a tragic, problematic situation. so i don't think we're going to get to the bottom of it but i think that had been an independent probe. we can find it as much about it as we can because at the end of

the day, we want to prevent future incidents like this from happening and the more light that we shed on it, the more likely we can avoid this from happening again. yonah jeremy bob _ this from happening again. yonah jeremy bob from _ this from happening again. yonah jeremy bob from the _ this from happening again. yonah jeremy bob from the jerusalem . this from happening again. yonah - jeremy bob from the jerusalem post, jeremy bob from thejerusalem post, thank you very much forjoining us. to pakistan now, and shehbaz sharif has been re—elected as prime minister. it comes weeks after a controversial election marred by allegations of widespread vote—rigging. we have seen empowerment in the last hour mr sharif addressing lawmakers after his victory. sharif was elected by 201 votes to 92, and will preside over a coalition that has shut out followers ofjailed opposition leader, imran khan. last month's election produced no outright winner. independent candidates backed by imran khan's party won the most seats, but failed to get a majority. 0ur bbc urdu news reporter — sahar baloch — has more. he is returning a spy ministerfor

the second time and it was quite a day to day of the parliament because as soon as it was announced by the speaker that shehbaz sharif was going to be the prime minister there was an uproar by the opposition benches as well because they were not happy with the fact that shehbaz sharif has won again. so the speaker of the assembly basically announced that shehbaz sharif has gotten around 200 and once seats, votes, and his candidate, his opposing candidate has got only 92 votes. to give you a bit of background also, this time the general elections were quite contentious as well. there were a lot of lot of allegations of fraud in rigging and everything. pti backed candidates in the parliament today were protesting the most about pm shehbaz sharif getting elected again. might that you mentioned that there was that uproar. does that mean that the coalition that they've managed to bring together could be shaky going forward or is it secure?

well, so far, the coalition has been formed and it seems as if they are quite in agreement with each other because if you even look at the formation of the government, they have very understandably distributed different ministries amongst each other. it is only the opposition at the moment which is basically led by imran khan's pti party and also in the pti backed candidates in the parliament to actually creating quite an uproar because a lot of people, not only does the pti but a lot of political parties in pakistan, are claiming that and accusing the government of holding rigged elections and a lot of fraud is being accused on them as well. so right now, what we have to see is that you know, if this polarised parliament is going to come up to the challenge and deliver what they promise to do here. find the challenge and deliver what they promise to do here.— promise to do here. and is imran khan's party. _ promise to do here. and is imran khan's party. of— promise to do here. and is imran khan's party, of course _ promise to do here. and is imran khan's party, of course he - promise to do here. and is imran khan's party, of course he is - promise to do here. and is imran khan's party, of course he is still| khan's party, of course he is still injail, likely to go khan's party, of course he is still in jail, likely to go forward with their protests over him being elected by minister? welcome the riaht now, elected by minister? welcome the right now. yes. — elected by minister? welcome the right now, yes, they _ elected by minister? welcome the right now, yes, they are _ elected by minister? welcome the i right now, yes, they are protesting,

and even yesterday they were protesting out on the streets as well. so imran khan's party has been protesting a lot for the past 2—3 years only because they claim that imran khan has been alleging that he was ousted from the parliament due to, you know, some conspiracy by the united states. and then he later changed his stance and said that it was actually the former army chief of pakistan who, you know, conspired against him. so since then, you know, he has been saying this. so his party is expected to protest even a selection as well. so far, they are recording their protest on twitter and other social media outlets. w ., twitter and other social media outlets. ., ., ~ ., outlets. sahar baloch talking to me earlier from — outlets. sahar baloch talking to me earlier from islamabad. _ now it's time for a look at today's sport. we start with some history in the nba. lebronjames has become the first player to score 40,000 career points. this is the moment he reached the milestone against the denver nuggets. the crowd gave james a standing ovation during a timeout and the ball he used

to score that historic point was removed from the game. he described it as "bittersweet", though, because his team — the la lakers — lost to the defending nba champions. i'm never thinking about a milestone when i'm out there battling but when it happens, obviously, we acknowledge it. and, obviously, you know, much respect and much loyalty to the laker fan know, much respect and much loyalty to the lakerfan base know, much respect and much loyalty to the laker fan base for showing know, much respect and much loyalty to the lakerfan base for showing me their love during the time and me being the first player to do something is pretty cool in this league because you just know the history and you know the greatest. the greatest who have competed. the main thing in me was always to win and that had to happen in a defeat. impressive achievement. staying in america... lionel messi and luis suarez scored two goals each to take inter miami to the top of the standings in major league soccer. it was a thumping win over local rivals 0rlando city, suarez started off the scoring afterjust three minutes.

the uruguayan might be 37, but hasn't lost his ability to finish. suarez got a second, before messi's two goals rounded off a 5—0 win. the last one was set up by suarez — as he did many times before when the two played together at barcelona. so difficult to start again because i changed my form, how i play, and i think he knows everything about myself and i think we could continue for the help that continues most important for us. to the english premier league and manchester city will host derby rivals manchester united later on sunday with the home side looking to close the gap on leaders liverpool after their win over nottingham forest on saturday. despite being 6th and coming off the back of a loss to fulham, united manager city manager

pep guardiola says manchester city must not be distracted by emotions in sunday's derby what i learn from experts in this kind of matches don't talk about many things, just talk about tactics issues. you cannot talk about emotional, emotional cannot be there. always expect the best performance of my openers, always. the best performance for them is always about respect. we are also in good spirits. spirit is very— we are also in good spirits. spirit is very good. we are united. we have togetherness to make a good game plan _ togetherness to make a good game plan. players are ready for it. players — plan. players are ready for it. players are looking forward to it. i can smell— players are looking forward to it. i can smell it — players are looking forward to it. i can smell it. very enjoyable. looking _ can smell it. very enjoyable. looking forward. excited. tennis and alex de minaur has won the mexican 0pen again. that's two years in a row for the australian. he beat norway's casper ruud in acapulco in straight sets. meanwhile, his girlfriend, katie boulter is into her first wta 500 final, after winning her semi at the san diego 0pen. the british number one has never been beyond the last 16 of such a high ranking event.

until now. she made it look quite straightforward against the number three seed emma navarro, beating the american 6—3, 6—1. boulter will play ukraine's marta kost—yuk in the final later on sunday. nathan lyon took six for 65 as he spun new zealand out for 196, helping australia to victory in the first test in wellington. lyon ended with match figures of ten for 107. new zealand's fifth wicket pair of rachin ravindra and tom blundell provided early resistance before lyon went to work, helping australia win by 172 runs. the second and final test starts on thursday in christchurch. and that's all the sport for now. thank you very much indeed. of course you can keep up—to—date on the bbc sport website or app. even the bbc sport website or app. even the uk, the chancellor says he wants to find a way to bring down the tax burden — but insists he'll do it in

a way that's responsible. jeremy hunt will set out the government's tax and spending plans on wednesday — with growing calls within the conservative party to bring down taxes. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent harry farley — he told me the conservatives were hoping to go further in their tax cutting ambitions that has changed largely because the treasury has less money to play with if it sticks to the rules are to set “p if it sticks to the rules are to set up to itself to manage the economy. in the one hand, conservative mps are putting pressure onjeremy hunt to cut taxes and a major way but on the other had ministers like michael gove say he is begging the chancellor for more money for housing, grant shapps the defence secretary has written to the chancellor asking for more money for defence. this is what grant shapps had to laura kuenssberg this morning. —— this is whatjeremy hunt said. morning. -- this is what jeremy hunt said. ~ . ., , morning. -- this is what jeremy hunt said. . . ., ., , said. we have always said and been clear that we _ said. we have always said and been clear that we will _ said. we have always said and been clear that we will only _ said. we have always said and been clear that we will only cut _ said. we have always said and been clear that we will only cut was -

said. we have always said and been clear that we will only cut was put l clear that we will only cut was put down _ clear that we will only cut was put down my— clear that we will only cut was put down my taxes in a way that is responsible and prudent and may say the most _ responsible and prudent and may say the most conservative thing i can do would _ the most conservative thing i can do would be _ the most conservative thing i can do would be to— the most conservative thing i can do would be to cut taxes by increasing borrowing, — would be to cut taxes by increasing borrowing, because that isjust cutting — borrowing, because that isjust cutting taxes and saying future generations have to be that the tax. i wouldn't _ generations have to be that the tax. i wouldn't do that but i do want where — i wouldn't do that but i do want where it's— i wouldn't do that but i do want where it's possible to do so responsibly to move towards a lower tax economy and i hope to show a pack— tax economy and i hope to show a pack in_ tax economy and i hope to show a pack in that — tax economy and i hope to show a pack in that direction but this would — pack in that direction but this would he _ pack in that direction but this would be a prudent and responsible budget— would be a prudent and responsible budget for long—term growth, tackling — budget for long—term growth, tackling inflation, more investment, more _ tackling inflation, more investment, more jobs _ tackling inflation, more investment, more jobs and that path to lower taxation— more jobs and that path to lower taxation as and when we can afford it. ~ taxation as and when we can afford it. . ., ., taxation as and when we can afford it. ~ ., ., ., ~ taxation as and when we can afford it. . ., ., ., ~ , taxation as and when we can afford it. we have to take everything at this sta . e it. we have to take everything at this stage a _ it. we have to take everything at this stage a few— it. we have to take everything at this stage a few days _ it. we have to take everything at this stage a few days out - it. we have to take everything at this stage a few days out from i it. we have to take everything at. this stage a few days out from the budget with a bit of a pinch of salt. there is a with expectation management because chancellors love to lower expectations that they can pull a rabbit out of the hat is a dispatch box on wednesday so the chancellor not ruling out tax cuts but all the indications are that this is going to be a more limited budget that perhaps

this is going to be a more limited budget that perhaszeremy hunt had hoped for a few weeks ago. £311" hoped for a few weeks ago. our olitical hoped for a few weeks ago. our political correspondent harry farley. let's get some of the day's other news now norway's king harald is flying home via medical evacuation plane, after being discharge from hospital in malaysia. the king was hospitalised while on a private trip to the country, and received treatment for an infection as well as a temporary pacemaker. earlier this week the palace said that the king was doing well under the circumstances, but still required rest. delegates are beginning to arriving in china for the annual meeting of the national people's congress. the event will lay out the government's policy blueprint for the year ahead. high on the agenda is the economy, with the ruling patry being closely watched to see how they might try to rescue china's struggling economy. a zoo in south korea threw a farewell party for the first giant panda born in the country, ahead of the animal's return to china. thousands queued up to say their farewells , the panda has attracted a huge fan base since she was born in july 2020. she will now spend a month in quarantine before heading home

to the sichuan province. enjoying a munch on that bamboo! it's was british music's big night last night with the brit awards. and someone who was certainly celebrating is singer—songwriter, raye. she swept the board at the event making history winning six — the most awards in a year. she was also the first women to win songwriter of the year. dua lipa won best pop act while kylie minogue won the global icon award.0ur music correspondent mark savage has the highlights. she is real, she is raw, she is raye. this was raye's night. # a little context, if you care to listen...# the winner... ..raye. raye! two years after fighting for her freedom from a record label that refused to put out her debut album, she swept the brit awards... what the hell is happening?

i'm an artist with an album of the year! ..and even brought her grandmother on stage to celebrate. backstage, she came armed with all six of her trophies. my god! you're going to need two tesco bags. i know, i am going to need two tesco bags! you know who got six in their entire career? who? michaeljackson. you know who else got six in their entire career? david bowie. you're equal to them now in terms of brit awards. what even? nah. yeah. best night of my life, hands down, without a shadow of a doubt. will it ever get better than this again? mate... tell me about your grandma, agatha. isn't she beautiful? she's amazing. listen, that woman raised me. my parents worked full—time, so she took me to school. she lived with us. she moved from ghana to raise me. i owe her everything. but raye wasn't the only winner. dua lipa won best pop artist and opened the show with a spectacular performance of her new single, training session. # not the best idea...#

sza won the best international artist award. chase & status celebrated their win for best producer with a performance of disconnect with becky hill. and the show closed with a celebratory performance from kylie minogue. # i know you wanna take me home padam, padam...# she had been awarded the global icon prize, recognising 37 years of hits. amazing. there's a part of my brain that's scanning the years to go, "wow, how did i get here?" i mean, i'm trying to compute it myself. it's not that easy.

in a night where female artists dominated, closing the show with one of the trailblazers was a fitting end. yes, kylie's performance at the brits was amazing. i have been lucky enough to meet interview her in the past and she is lovely. we can get more highlights on our website. stay with a here on bbc news. ——stay with us here on bbc news. hello. some of our rain—sodden fields will get a little bit of respite later this week, a sign that things could turn a bit drier and even today, drier than it was yesterday. fewer showers around and a little bit more sunshine. the big picture, though, does show a few complications as this weather front, which stretches all the way from the mediterranean to the north of scotland has been producing heavy rains,

gusty winds in northern scotland and it's very close to parts of eastern england, especially east anglia. still the chance of some rain falling from that across parts of norfolk and suffolk. come further west, well, the sunshine is a bit more there in abundance, but a few showers around western scotland, northern ireland and more especially south wales, south west england and the channel islands, mainly of rain, a little bit of sleet over the hills. but for many of you, actually, it's going to be a shower—free day and it will stay largely dry and not as cold as yesterday. into tonight, lose the sun and the temperatures will drop quite markedly. some dense patches of fog forming east wales and into parts of the midlands in particular, and a widespread frost tonight to take it into the monday morning commute. so a chilly morning out there, but it should be a bright one. changes afoot, though, towards the south—west as this next weather system pushes its way in. this will bring some wet weather, probably the wettest stage and wettest day of the week at the moment on monday. a dry start for many, lots of brightness, except where you've got those dense patches of fog for the morning commute. they will gradually lift and clear.

rain quickly spreads into the channel islands, southwest england and through much of wales morning and early afternoon, outbreaks of rain and strengthening winds to northern ireland too. many though across scotland away from the far northeast and of course much of northern eastern england will stay dry during daylight hours. and again, temperatures lift a little bit, but more breeze around that rain then spreads its way across other parts of england into southern scotland, it starts to fragment. and that's because we're going to see a battle this week between high pressure in scandinavia, low pressure in the atlantic. we're sandwiched in between. that means it's not a completely dry week. certainly as we go into tuesday. still plenty of cloud around from that weather front. on monday, a few showers but brightening up as we go through the day as high pressure starts to exert a bit more influence. still a few showers to come here and indeed a few more showers throughout this week. but the general pattern is fewer showers, more, longer spells of drier weather. still a few showers to come here and indeed a few more showers throughout this week. but the general pattern is fewer showers, more, longer spells of drier weather. great news, of course,

for the ground out there at the moment. and temperatures will liftjust a little bit above average and the nights still rather cool. take care.

this is bbc news, the headlines... mediators start arriving in cairo to try to reach an agreement on a temporary ceasefire between israel and hamas. reports suggest that hamas says a gaza truce is possible �*within 26 to 48 hours' if israel accepts their demands. pakistan has re—elected shehbaz sharif as it's new prime minister — after weeks of uncertainty following last month's election, which was marred by vote—rigging allegations.

uk chancellorjeremy hunt has said he wants to find a way to bring down the tax burden , ahead of the spring budget this week. jeremy hunt will set out the government's tax and spending plans on wednesday and it's a record—breaking night at the brit awards as singer—songwriter raye picks up six prizes, including best artist and best album. she is also the first woman to win songwriter of the year. now on bbc new — inside museums. as an art critic and a journalist, i feel like a very lucky man indeed, because i get to spend tonnes of time inside museums, places i've loved ever since i was a boy. and during my working life, i've witnessed something astonishing how radically they've changed. the days of museums as grand, intimidating treasuries for dusty objects, they're long gone.

they're becoming much more dynamic and inclusive places,