to abortion in its right to abortion in its constitution. hello and welcome. the un high commissionerfor human rights has warned that the war in gaza could ignite a broader conflagration across the middle east. in an address to the un human rights council, the escalation in southern lebanon between israel and his mic has been described as worrying. there has already been dangerous spill—over in neighbouring countries, and i am deeply concerned that in this powderkeg, any spark could lead to a much broader conflagration. this would have implications for countries in the middle east and beyond. talks are

continuin: middle east and beyond. talks are continuing on _ middle east and beyond. talks are continuing on a _ middle east and beyond. talks are continuing on a possible _ middle east and beyond. talks are continuing on a possible six - middle east and beyond. talks are continuing on a possible six weekl continuing on a possible six week ceasefire, despite israel not attending. israel says it won't attending. israel says it won't attend until hamas comes up with a list of hostages still alive. hamas took 253 hostages on the 7th of october. hamas says it cannot provide the information because of his royal�*s continuing bombardment of gaza and says hostages are being held by different palestinian groups and in different areas of the gaza strip. another night of intense israeli strikes in gaza. with homes flattened, people crushed. ushering in another day of grief stricken goodbyes. after six months of brutal war, even israel's closest ally, the us, is ratcheting up the pressure for a new truce with hamas. given the immense scale of suffering in gaza, there must be

an immediate ceasefire. for at least the next six weeks, which is what is currently on the table. but it's increasingly unclear if such a deal can be reached soon. israel is demanding a complete list of the surviving israeli hostages held by hamas who would be released. hamas has told the bbc it can't gather that information underfire. there are new truce talks going on in cairo with hamas meeting egyptian and qatari mediators. however, israel has not sent a delegation and reaching a new truce deal between the islamic holy month of ramadan starts next week now looks much harder. for palestinians in dire need of aid, every day of delay is a disaster. more and more babies at this hospital in rafah are being treated for easily preventable conditions. translation: i'm here because of my child. . she is sick.

her sister died, she was only 20 days old. she died of cold. it was very cold and we didn't have enough to cover her. we left our house without anything. and in israel too there is desperation. today another protest by hostage families demanding their government bring their loved ones home. we will move away from the middle east, because we have some breaking news which relates to the us and the presidential race. in the past few minutes, america's highest court, the us supreme court, has ruled that donald trump can stand as a republican presidential candidate in the colorado primary. those are the live shots there of that famous building, the us supreme court building, the us supreme court building in washington, dc, and they

havejust ruled building in washington, dc, and they have just ruled that mr trump is able to stand in the republican primary in colorado. he had been struck off by the state supreme court under the 14th amendment to the us constitution, which bars those guilty of insurrection from federal office. of course, this all relates to the 6th of january 2021, those capitol hill riots there, when the former president's supporters stormed congress while lawmakers were certifying presidentjoe biden's election victory. the state had ruled in colorado that mr trump would not be able to run, and he had been struck off, but he took that to the next level, to the supreme court, the highest court, and in the past few moments they have ruled that mr trump can stand in that republican presidential primary.

colorado is one of 15 states and one territory which is holding primaries tomorrow, on what is known as super tuesday. we can go live now to washington, dc, to the supreme court itself, and join my colleague normally me are a cabal. this is a huge victory for mr trump. he has taken his fight to america's top court, where you are, and they say you can run in that primary. yes. court, where you are, and they say you can run in that primary. yes, it was a unanimous _ you can run in that primary. yes, it was a unanimous decision - you can run in that primary. yes, it was a unanimous decision as - you can run in that primary. yes, it was a unanimous decision as well. | you can run in that primary. yes, it i was a unanimous decision as well. to be honest with you, i don't think it was also mike surprising, because in the oral arguments last month, the justices pretty much across the ideological spectrum expressed scepticism about the way this amendment was used. this is the 14th amendment, section three. it is an amendment that came in after the civil war, and it referred to former confederates not being able to return to power because, to quote,

it bans those who engaged in insurrection. a group of colorado voters, including republicans, argued that donald trump should not be allowed on the primary ballot for the republican party because he engaged in an insurrection, as you mentioned, to do with the 6th of january. thejustices mentioned, to do with the 6th of january. the justices argued that the entire point of this amendment was to restrict the power of states, so why would you therefore allow one state to have this much power? if they had upheld the ruling, what would have happened is that other states would have moved to kick donald trump off the primary ballot, and then you have conservative states who said, well, if you are going to kick donald trump off the ballot, we will try to kickjoe biden off, and it would have caused chaos in an election year that has arguably already chaotic. it is not surprising that the supreme court has unanimously decided in the last

few moments to strike down this ruling by the colorado supreme court, and it comesjust ruling by the colorado supreme court, and it comes just a ruling by the colorado supreme court, and it comesjust a day before voters go out to vote in the primary election. this before voters go out to vote in the primary election-— before voters go out to vote in the primary election. this will be seen, as we were — primary election. this will be seen, as we were saying, _ primary election. this will be seen, as we were saying, personally, - primary election. this will be seen, as we were saying, personally, mrl as we were saying, personally, mr trump is likely to use this to boost and bolster his campaign. can you remind us where we are when it comes to how close he is to becoming the republicans' candidate of choice this year? he republicans' candidate of choice this ear? , , this year? he will definitely use this year? he will definitely use this to boost _ this year? he will definitely use this to boost his _ this year? he will definitely use this to boost his campaign. - this year? he will definitely use this to boost his campaign. hel this year? he will definitely use i this to boost his campaign. he will comment on this ruling, we expect, in a couple of hours from florida. he has already said that this was an attempt to interfere in the election. it will be seen as a victory by him. super tuesday tomorrow, with multiple states deciding who they want as their candidate, and it will be pretty much sewn up then, i think. even

when we were in iowa injanuary, it was one of those things where we knew unofficially that donald trump was likely to be the republican candidate, but tomorrow it is getting close. they do not officially declare the candidate until the convention in the summer, but tomorrow will give us more of a concrete sense of where we are, and it is likely that donald trump will get that nomination.— it is likely that donald trump will get that nomination. thank you very much for the — get that nomination. thank you very much for the moment. _ get that nomination. thank you very much for the moment. it's - get that nomination. thank you very much for the moment. it's a - get that nomination. thank you very much for the moment. it's a busy i much for the moment. it's a busy afternoon here. let's go live to the uk houses of parliament, where we can listen to george galloway, who has returned to parliament. he was sworn back in as the new workers party mp for rochdale. let’s sworn back in as the new workers party mp for rochdale. let's listen. one of the richest _ party mp for rochdale. let's listen. one of the richest towns _ party mp for rochdale. let's listen. one of the richest towns in - party mp for rochdale. let's listen. one of the richest towns in the - one of the richest towns in the whole country. it's heart has been taken out. its economy has ebbed away. and it is myjob to try to

make rochdale great again. i know some of you don't like that slogan, but rochdale was great, and why should it not be great again? for that to happen, we have to arrest the flow of blood out of the town, in particular we have to save the football team. rochdale has been relegated, relegated, relegated again, out of the league altogether, and is now weeks if not days away from liquidation. so i'm doing everything i can to try and stop that outflow of lifeblood in rochdale, and to transfused blood thatis rochdale, and to transfused blood that is needed to revive the town centre in particular. by supporting the opening, the reopening of the

open—air market, by getting our a&e facility and our maternity facility back. rochdale is a town in which you cannot be born, in which you cannot die, and i discovered at the weekend, you can't even be locked up in rochdale. if you are picked up by the police, you get banged up somewhere else, in a neighbouring town. to what extent is the question, is rochdale to be a town? our postcode is r o l, as if we were a subdivision of old and, while the letter r is available in the post office. let's put rochdale on the map by giving it its own postcode, will be one of the questions that i will be one of the questions that i will be one of the questions that i will be asking here. any questions? i'm not going to re—fight the election, let me say, so let's look

forward. yes, sir?— election, let me say, so let's look forward. yes, sir? have any of them had any harsh _ forward. yes, sir? have any of them had any harsh words _ forward. yes, sir? have any of them had any harsh words with _ forward. yes, sir? have any of them had any harsh words with you? - forward. yes, sir? have any of them had any harsh words with you? not. forward. yes, sir? have any of them. had any harsh words with you? not to m face, had any harsh words with you? not to my face. but — had any harsh words with you? not to my face, but then _ had any harsh words with you? not to my face, but then that _ had any harsh words with you? not to my face, but then that would - had any harsh words with you? not to my face, but then that would be - my face, but then that would be perhaps part of the course in this parliament. i did see a couple of nasty tweets from producer at gb news, as it happens. the gb news is this minute desperately seeking to attract me onto their programmes whilst their producers are sending beastly tweets, so you can let them know the answer is no. the people of rochdale voted for me. that is the first and obvious point to make, and it is not for the unelected prime minister, rishi sunak, to pick the mp in rochdale. the people of

rochdale have that prerogative and they exercised it, very clearly, with a thumping majority in which the governing party didn't even come second. actually, it only got a tiny handful of votes. they were soundly beaten notjust by me but by the independent candidate that none of the media even mentioned in the course of the by—election campaign, so it is frankly horrifying that we have a government so bereft of public support that they cower, frightened of calling the general election that this country badly needs. i certainly will work with the snp to try and force a proper vote on a proper ceasefire. i'm not a supporter of the snp, as you know,

or they are central cause of separation, but i think they've been outstanding on the gaza question, at least by comparison with the two big parties of the state. i feel sorry for the speaker, whom i've known for a very long time, and was a close friend of his now 98—year—old father, lord hoyle, a former trade union colleague of mine, aged 98, who remembers our time at trade union schools fondly, the speaker told me. ifeel sorry for the speaker because he was placed in an impossible position by the double—dealing of the labour leadership. it is they who should face the opprobrium of right—thinking people and not him, in my opinion.

it will be about gaza, but because there is a genocide going on. i know that manyjournalists like to shop that manyjournalists like to shop that g word down, but when the highest court in the world finds that there is that there is a plausible case that israel is committing crimes of genocide and sends israel for trial on genocide charges, it doesn't get much more serious than that. i always ask the journalists, though it never made it into print yet, let's see if i can do it this time, if the by—election had been in february of 19110 or 1941, would had been in february of 1940 or 1941, would anyone seriously have condemned me for putting the crimes of the holocaust at the centre of my election campaign? actually, in some papers, they would, because some of the papers or supporting the black

shirts. hurrah for the black shirts, screamed the daily mail in the run—up to the second world war. some of them would, but most would not, i hope. and yet, the same fourth estate seemed or pretended to find it inexplicable that i would put a genocide in gaza in front of the voters in a by—election in 2024. d0 voters in a by-election in 2024. do ou voters in a by—election in 2024. do you think hamas should be allowed to run gaza _ you think hamas should be allowed to run gaza after the atrocities of the 7th of— run gaza after the atrocities of the 7th of october?— run gaza after the atrocities of the 7th of october? perhaps they should let the bbc pick— 7th of october? perhaps they should let the sac pick the _ 7th of october? perhaps they should let the bbc pick the government - 7th of october? perhaps they should let the bbc pick the government of i let the bbc pick the government of gaza. d0 let the bbc pick the government of gaza. , ., let the bbc pick the government of gaza. ,, ~' let the bbc pick the government of gaza. ,, ~ , ., gaza. do you think it is right to su ort gaza. do you think it is right to support ukraine _ gaza. do you think it is right to support ukraine against - gaza. do you think it is right to support ukraine against russiaj gaza. do you think it is right to - support ukraine against russia and its illegal— support ukraine against russia and its illegal invasion?— its illegal invasion? these are big auestions its illegal invasion? these are big questions that _ its illegal invasion? these are big questions that would _ its illegal invasion? these are big questions that would take - its illegal invasion? these are big questions that would take me - its illegal invasion? these are big i questions that would take me some time to deal with and do justice to. but it's an intriguing question.

dripping with imperial condescension. do i think that hamas should be allowed to govern gaza? should we ask britain to decide who runs gaza, or the bbc perhaps? the people of palestine must pick their own government. i would not myself have voted for hamas. i am a yasser arafat man and have been since the 19705. but arafat man and have been since the 1970s. but the palestinian people picked hamas, and as i said in some quite substantial speeches here back in 2008, when the siege began, no good can come of former countries, particularly former colonising countries, trying to pick the leaders of other people's lands. ukraine is a very long story indeed, not fit for an outdoor press

conference, but i absolutely oppose the ironclad consensus for war across the two frontbenchers in this british parliament, and many people in britain agree with me. inaudible well, he was really talking about muslims, because that's the imminent theme of his, i think, forlorn hopes of re—election, to whip up islamophobic, racist fervour in the likes of gb news, which has been at the forefront. yes, i'm talking about you. gb news at the forefront, presenter of the presenter, programme after programme, pumping

out hatred of muslims, thinly disguised as hatred of extremism, but when you ask them, what do you mean by extremism? who are the extremists? they can never tell. it is clear to me that rishi sunak has identified muslims and gaza as the approximate centre of that wedge issue that he intends to use as perhaps his only hope of re—election. it's quite clear that there is going to be a raft of measures that will take away still further freedoms from the british people — freedom to speak, freedom to assemble, freedom to protest and to assemble, freedom to protest and to demonstrate. and if they had their way, freedom to elect people that the establishment doesn't like. that was also the meaning of his rather embarrassing impromptu performance outside number ten. and

what do i mean by a wedge issue? they want to force keir starmer either to stand up and defend the democratic rights of the british people, including the rights of its religious and ethnic minorities, and if he does that, i am a dutchman. or to engage him in what will turn out to engage him in what will turn out to be a dutch auction of nastiness. if he chooses, as i suspect he will, the latter, that's going to allow us and independent candidates to pick up and independent candidates to pick up potentially millions of votes from those who treasure the free rights that we have enjoyed since the second world war in this country, and who wish to defend the muslim communities in britain. either way, that suits rishi sunak, so that is what i am predicting

here. the next election will be about muslims, and will be about the taking away of civil liberties in this country. it is rishi sunak�*s last hope. i pray for the social piece of our country that it is a forlorn hope. i , social peacefulness. well, you wouldn't be here, and all these people wouldn't be here, if they suspected that i was only a single mp with no party to back me. that is, i think, mp with no party to back me. that is, ithink, a mp with no party to back me. that is, i think, a given. mp with no party to back me. that is, ithink, a given. if mp with no party to back me. that is, i think, a given. if i werejohn doe from anywhere that had just won back a by—election last thursday, none of you would be here. consult the truth is that you know, and certainly cure starman knows, that i am speaking for a very large number

of people in britain, and that in dozens if not scores of parliamentary constituencies, people who support my point of view or who will vote for it, or who will vote for independents who think similarly, could alter the outcome of the general election. if i give you just one example — angela rayner has a parliamentary majority i think of around 3000. there is at least 15,000 supporters of my point of view in her constituency. so we will be putting a candidate up against her, eithera be putting a candidate up against her, either a workers party candidate, or more likely an independent candidate that we support, and that will vitally affect the election of the labour deputy leader. and there are many constituencies in london, from ilford to bethnal green in the heart of the city of london, in

birmingham, in other parts of the west midlands, in north west england, in the towns around rochdale, oldham, blackburn, burnley, nelson, bury. we will put candidates up in all these places, and we will either win or we will make sure that keir starmer doesn't win. ~ , ., .,, win. we will 'ust leave those comments— win. we willjust leave those comments there. _ win. we willjust leave those comments there. that - win. we willjust leave those comments there. that is - win. we willjust leave those - comments there. that is george galloway, who hasjust been comments there. that is george galloway, who has just been sworn in as the member of parliament here in the uk for the constituency of rochdale. he was sworn in earlier today. we can show you some of those images there. just to remind viewers, george galloway has a career spanning four decades. he has been hailed as a hero of the anti—war left. he has been ridiculed as reality tv contestant, and he has been elected to parliament seven times for three different parties, including the uk's labour party. he

has been sworn back into day as the new workers party mp for rochdale. it was a by—election in which the issues around the ongoing war in gaza were front and centre of some of the debate there. and he ended up winning almost 40% of the vote there in rochdale. as we heard him say just then, his party plans to stand candidates against other figures in the labour party, including angela rayner. it could be interesting to see where they field candidates and how that impacts this year's likely general election. more on that story later in the programme. more on that news that we brought you at the top of the hour, that the us supreme court has ruled that donald trump

can stand as a republican presidential candidate in the primary race in colorado. joining me to discuss that in more detail is shannon felton spence, a political strategist at harvard university think tank the belfort centre. first, let's go back to basics a bit. to become the republican party candidate, you need to when primaries or caucuses, which are effectively many votes, in different states across the us. —— mini votes. a court in colorado tried to strike him off the ballot there. for his alleged involvement in the 6th of january riots in 2021. now the supreme court has overruled that decision in colorado, so he can now run in that primary. tell us how significant this is for mr trump's ongoing campaign.

significant this is for mr trump's ongoing campaign-— significant this is for mr trump's ongoing campaign. thank you for havin: ongoing campaign. thank you for having me- _ ongoing campaign. thank you for having me. this _ ongoing campaign. thank you for having me. this is _ ongoing campaign. thank you for having me. this is breaking - ongoing campaign. thank you for| having me. this is breaking news, ongoing campaign. thank you for - having me. this is breaking news, so we are learning how it will develop as we go on. it's important for viewers to know that in the united states we have 50 different primary elections, and they are all held in different ways. each state decides whether it is a primary or a caucus, whether it is a primary or a caucus, whether independents get to vote on either ballot all you have to be party register. it is kind of a mess. it is a hodgepodge of how primaries are run. what happened in colorado is that a local court ruled that donald trump was not allowed to be on the ballot, based off of the 14th amendment in the constitution. colorado, you can show up at a ballot box and not have to mail in your ballot, or you can handed in, but basically all the ballots went out two weeks ago. they are only counting them tomorrow. this ruling comes in just counting them tomorrow. this ruling comes injust in the nick of

counting them tomorrow. this ruling comes in just in the nick of really. it's not all that surprising. we knew the court was going to rule in this way, we knew they would ruled unanimously, no matter which way they decided, and they have. they have said that the colorado lower ruling that said that donald trump could not be on the ballot doesn't stand. so donald trump can be on the ballot. the essence of the argument is that the court does not want to be a political body, so it says if you are going to remove somebody from the ballot under the 14th amendment, congress must first give us a road map on how that is possible. this is significant because it's the first time the court has ruled in this way at all about whether or not somebody can be on the ballot, and also it sets up a precedent for every other election going forward. precedent for every other election going forward-— precedent for every other election going forward. thank you very much for takin: going forward. thank you very much for taking us — going forward. thank you very much for taking us through _ going forward. thank you very much for taking us through the _ for taking us through the significance there. just to say that in the last few moments we have heard from donald trump, who has posted on his website, true social

—, saying, this is a big win for america. a big win for him after the supreme court struck down a bid to remove him from the republican primary ballot in colorado. it means he will be able to stay on the ballot there. stay with us. hello there. the weather isn't looking that bad this week. actually, compared to last week, we should start to see a lot of dry weather around with increasing amounts of sunshine, particularly wednesday onwards. in the short term, we do have low pressure nearby. so there will be a little bit of rain, a few showers dotted around. now, this first low pressure system will bring a band of rain and stronger winds into southern and western parts of the country. as you move through the course of the day, the rain pushing across south west england, south wales, up in towards northern ireland, a bit more cloud generally across western edges. but after that chilly starts with the frost and the fog, most of the country should have a fine afternoon with plenty of sunshine around. this.

temperatures lifting up to around 11 degrees, i think, in the warmest spots. through this evening and overnight, that cloud, the wind and the rain push its way slowly northwards and eastward. you see a few showers running in behind across south west england, through the channel islands, the odd heavier one there. but while the skies are clear, then it's likely we'll see a touch of frost, maybe a little bit of fog again. but where we hold on to the cloud, the rain across northern and eastern areas, it'll be less cold here. tuesday, we've got that weather front slowly pushing northwards and clearing the east of the country later in the day. but further weather fronts will tend to push into northern ireland, western scotland as we head through the day. eventually that weather front, i think, will clear eastern areas, but it might take its time. so it could be quite grey and appear quite breezy. but elsewhere across the country, after a fine start through the morning, variable cloud, there should be plenty of sunshine into the afternoon. top temperatures up to around 12 degrees, but a little bit cooler than that where we have the breeze and the cloud in northeast scotland. and then as we head into wednesday, this area of high pressure, this blocking high across scandinavia, begins to exert its force across the country, pushing the weather fronts out

towards the atlantic. so i think a largely fine day to come for many of us. it could be a bit cloudy across eastern scotland, eastern england, those north sea coasts affected by the southeasterly wind, maybejust one or two showers out west. but for much of the country, it should be dry, settled, plenty of sunshine, temperatures up to 12, maybe 13 degrees in the southeast. for thursday and friday, that area of high pressure keeps those weather fronts at bay. it should be mostly dry, southeasterly breezes and plenty of dry and sunny weather at times as well, particularly on thursday. friday could start to see a bit more cloud just edging into western areas later in the day. but these temperatures are what we expect this time of year.