and a man who has been running the entire length of africa in a mammoth challenge taking him across 16 countries, has reached the finish line of his year long quest. hello, i'm lukwesa burak. the israeli military says it has withdrawn all its ground troops, apart from one brigade, from southern gaza to focus on other offensives including rafah. it's six months since hamas gunmen stormed into southern israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping more than 250. the attack sparked what's become the deadliest and most destructive israel—gaza war, killing over 33,000 palestinians. 0ur international editor, jeremy bowen, has more from jerusalem

mr netanyahu says that they will go back and they will do that military operation in rafa, where1.4 million palestinian civilians are sheltering. that is something that the americans do not want them to do. benjamin netanyahu has been saying they are one step away from victory. there are lots of israelis who say that is absolutely untrue, that he has not, quite patently he has not, succeeded in the war aims that he stated. getting the hostages back and eliminating hamas as a force in gaza, because they are still able to fight. and his critics also say that he is prolonging the war artificially for his own political reasons to escape a day of reckoning for mistakes that he may have made. on both sides, six months on, is a very significant milestone. a lot of people did not think this war would last this long, but i think it might even last a lot longer.

i have been to one of the israeli border communities which was kibbutz nir oz, which was probably among the worst hit on that day six months ago. 0ver six months, gaza has been ravaged by war, disease, death and now imminent famine caused by israel's siege. the un calls it a betrayal of humanity. kibbutz nir oz, right on israel's border with gaza, feels like a time capsule, stuck in the horrors of the 7th of october. hamas broke in at dawn, they killed and took hostage a quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived here. he was laying there... dead. murdered. you could see that he was trying to hold the door closed. actually, the door was locked. the army opened the door later.

ron and his family survived in their safe room, and then he recovered dead friends and neighbours, some in pieces. in this house, you know, that was the first time that we realised that we were not looking for only bodies because in the beginning we took a lot of bodies. the interrupted, terminated lives, laundry neatly folded the night before attack, give it israelis the sense of moral clarity. going around this place you understand why israelis believe very strongly that they are fighting a just war in gaza. of course their allies feel the same. their quarrel is with the methods that israel has been using that have crossed so many innocent palestinian lives. and as for the family who lived here, in this house, they are dead. israelis support the war, many are also back on the streets

demanding the resignation of the prime minister. netanyahu's stated war aims, total victory over hamas, as well as freeing the hostages, have not been achieved. the demonstrators say that is because they come second to his own political survival. this woman leads a movement called shame. netanyahu has an interest to lengthen the war as much as he can because as long as the war is still going on he can say that now is not the time for new elections, now is not is not the time to look for who is responsible, which is him. everyone here faces uncertainty, sometimes fear and a forbidding future. israelis and palestinians look at each other with horror, since the 7th of october. the old city ofjerusalem, the heart of their conflict, has been mostly quiet. during ramadan many palestinians under 55 need police permission to join the crowds moving

to the holy mosque. palestinians were already convinced that their lack of rights under israeli occupation amounted to apartheid. israel denies that allegation, and another, considered plausible by the world court that it is committing genocide in gaza. both sides believe that the other has carried out inhuman, unforgivable crimes since the 7th of october. new wounds on a century of scars. dimitri, a palestinian christian activist, says israelis are in denial. killing children is killing children, it does not matter who is the child that is being killed, it does not matter who is doing the killing. i do sympathise with the holocaust, i recognised the holocaust, but that does not mean a green light for israel to commit genocide against my people or any other people, in fact. this is ramallah on the west bank,

polls show palestinians have strong support for the hamas attacks. but like most israelis, they deny that their side commit atrocities. what happened on october the 7th was just one... what is the word? ..one thing that happened in a long time, many years of oppression. so again, i am going to repeat myself, that our struggle will continue until we are free. that is what any people under occupation, under oppression, under colonial settler regimes, will do. we can report first hand here on the occupied west bankjust as we can from israel, but foreign journalists are not allowed into gaza, by israel or egypt. the bbc commissioned a palestinian freelancer in rafa to film this young girl getting food for her family. translation: if we get there early |we get some food but if we are too | late to food runs out. so we won't have anything to eat. the food we bring is only

enough for one meal. this has become a daily ritual for the children who fled to this part of rafa with their families. much less aid reaches northern gaza, where famine is imminent. israel, under us pressure, is letting more food in, but it is also insisting that it cannot finish off hamas without attacking this town. where 1.4 million palestinians are sheltering. she says getting her family food makes her happy, but this young girl's pot is all that seven people have to eat in a single day. six months on, the gaza war is not over. a wider middle east war threatens. this could get worse. studio: and jeremy is with me now. jeremy, just how much worse?

well, the big concern at the moment is that if you remember back at the beginning of the week, the israelis did an air strike against the iranians diplomatic compound in the syrian capital, damascus, and in the process they killed a very senior iranian general and a number of other senior officers. ever since then on a daily basis the iranians have been swearing revenge. so israel itself has been on high alert, and the americans have also said, and published, there have been reports, i should say, that the americans believe that the iranians are plotting some kind of revenge. now, the thing is that has to fit into the context of a lot of tension on the northern border where i was also last week, the northern border with lebanon. there has been a growing deeper and deeper tit—for—tat

going on there between israel and hezbollah who are iran's allies. so there is that worry about the wider situation, the wider war, that can happen. and also when it comes to gaza. gaza itself, there is no end in sight in that war. there is a massive humanitarian catastrophe going on, imminent famine, not clear yet whether it can be staved off. so if you look at really every measure of misery, i am afraid it ticks all boxes. and that was jeremy bowen and that wasjeremy bowen speaking to me earlier. the israeli military says it has withdrawn all its ground troops, benjamin netanyahu benjamin neta nyahu has benjamin netanyahu has said a ceasefire would not be agreed until it hostages were released. the achievements of the war are great.

we eliminated 19 out of 24 of the hamas battalions, including senior commanders. we killed, wounded or captured a significant number of hamas terrorists. we purged shifa and many other terrorist headquarters as well. we destroyed factories, manufacturing rockets, control rooms, weapons, ammunition, and we continue to systematically destroy what is underground. we are one step away from victory. israel is not the one preventing a deal. hamas prevents a deal. its extreme demands were intended to bring about an end to the war and leave it intact, meaning to ensure its survival, its rehabilitation, its ability to endanger our citizens and our soldiers. surrendering to hamas demands will allow it to try to repeat the crimes of october seventh again and again, as it promised to do. hamas hopes that the pressure from outside and inside will make israel surrender

to these extreme demands. it will not happen. israel is ready for a deal. israel is not ready to surrender. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu speaking, there. ijust want i just want to show you some live pictures from jerusalem. this is the latest in a series of rallies which have been held over the last week. today, of course, a very special or sad marking of the six month anniversary since that attack by hamas entering israeli territory, southern israel. and what we have seen over the past week is to sets of groups, essentially coming together, this could be significant. i will discuss this in a moment with my guest, we have two groups, the anti—government protesters who are calling for benjamin netanyahu to

stand down, they want elections, they are not happy with the strategy that has been followed during this war, and we also have the families of the hostages who are calling, again on the prime minister, to bring their loved ones home. joining us now isjournalist noga tarnopolsky who is at the rally injerusalem. noga tarnopolsky, i wonder if you can hear me. i appreciate that it is very noisy. can hear me. i appreciate that it is very noisy-— very noisy. yes, it is. good evening- — very noisy. yes, it is. good evening. good _ very noisy. yes, it is. good evening. good evening, . very noisy. yes, it is. good i evening. good evening, noga tarmpolsky- _ evening. good evening, noga tarmpolsky- i— evening. good evening, noga tarnopolsky. i am _ evening. good evening, noga tarnopolsky. i am going - evening. good evening, noga tarnopolsky. i am going to i evening. good evening, noga i tarnopolsky. i am going to hand evening. good evening, noga - tarnopolsky. i am going to hand it over to you to make it easier for viewers to understand what is going on. just take us through the rally this evening and what people are saying. this evening and what people are sa inc. ~ , this evening and what people are sa in. _ . , ., this evening and what people are sa in. ._ saying. well, it is a massive rally, i understand _ saying. well, it is a massive rally, i understand that _ saying. well, it is a massive rally, i understand that there _ saying. well, it is a massive rally, i understand that there are - saying. well, it is a massive rally, i understand that there are more | i understand that there are more than 80,000 people here. families of hostages have taken the stage and

recounted, i have to say, horrors. especially the families of hostages who were killed or who died and had a dead body stolen. the entire event is being led by a very famous israeli actor, and i have tojust tell you, it is a remarkable situation. these masses of people are here in front of the israeli parliament, there is not a single member of parliament here. they have gone on a recess. no member of the government has come here. it is as if these people are screaming at a complete vacuum of leadership. i understand that there have been several rallies that have been held around the world, washington will be holding one, there was one in london earlier today, holding one, there was one in london earliertoday, new holding one, there was one in london earlier today, new york, holding one, there was one in london earliertoday, new york, berlin, amsterdam, paris. how effective have

these rallies been on putting pressure on the prime minister? it is very hard to answer you because there are rallies around the world, there are rallies around the world, the president of the united states has asked explicitly to grant authority to his negotiation team to make a deal to release the hostages. the american secretary of state has come out and said a deal is on the table, and benjamin netanyahu, the israeli prime minister, appears really not to be hearing this. i have to tell you that beside all of these events that you have just listed, the israeli government has not had any commemoration today, for any of the six months, and the government has not made a statement and there isjust government has not made a statement and there is just a government has not made a statement and there isjust a kind of government has not made a statement and there is just a kind of absence which is very difficult to describe.

what are is really saying about that? you are there, you are on the ground, what sort of sentiment is coming across? fist ground, what sort of sentiment is coming across?— ground, what sort of sentiment is coming across? at this rally we have one speaker— coming across? at this rally we have one speaker after _ coming across? at this rally we have one speaker after another, - coming across? at this rally we have. one speaker after another, screaming at the government. in some cases, later release primal screams. making demands. one mother was in tears saying that we have to bring them back. anotherfather who met with benjamin netanyahu one week ago describing a terrible situation in which he asked the prime minister, what are you willing to give in order to get them back? and he said the prime minister said in front of his all public that the prime minister recounted his own stories from when he was a young man in the army. i have to say, it is a strange situation. we think of a country

that as a nation under such trauma and today these commemorations in israel are individual, private initiatives. the government are simply not part of it, the prime minister has not said a word. what minister has not said a word. what can ou minister has not said a word. what can you tell— minister has not said a word. what can you tell me — minister has not said a word. what can you tell me about _ minister has not said a word. what can you tell me about this - minister has not said a word. what can you tell me about this idea that these two groups of people, the anti—government protesters, the bring my loved ones home protesters, coming together, they are now protesting together, how significant is that? ~ , , .., is that? well, it is significant in terms of the — is that? well, it is significant in terms of the impact _ is that? well, it is significant in terms of the impact that - is that? well, it is significant in terms of the impact that they l is that? well, it is significant in i terms of the impact that they have on the public, and yet the government has made many efforts to really delegitimise them. and the word that is being used is that they are politicised, as if that diminished their legitimacy as citizens who are asking for redress from the government. it could only

be toppled by a parliamentary manoeuvre, it cannot be toppled even by hundreds of thousands of people on the streets making demands. we still have to see how this develops. noga tarnopolsky, how are the talks in cairo, how is that being reported at locally? because i understand that there is something, i don't know whether it is promising but it has certainly been picked up that the israeli delegation that is headed to cairo has been given an expanded mandate. what exactly does that mean? that expanded mandate. what exactly does that mean? ., , ., , , ., that mean? that is our response to president biden's _ that mean? that is our response to president biden's explicit, - that mean? that is our response to president biden's explicit, overt . president biden's explicit, overt request for netanyahu to send a delegation to cairo with authority to make a deal. this confirmed these horrible rumours making rounds in jerusalem in the past weeks which is that netanyahu had been slow walking

the negotiations by not actually granting his representatives any authority. so what we are hearing now is that the government is acquiescing to biden's request, some of the people on stage yet explicitly said how can it be that the american president has to defend us from our own prime minister? that was one of the sentences which i just heard. but we have to hope, i think certainly for families, that this is more than spin. h0??? think certainly for families, that this is more than spin. how often in the early days _ this is more than spin. how often in the early days of— this is more than spin. how often in the early days of this _ this is more than spin. how often in the early days of this war, - this is more than spin. how often in the early days of this war, it - this is more than spin. how often in the early days of this war, it was . the early days of this war, it was very off ps about the israeli government were coordinating and speaking with some of those families who had family members taken hostage in gaza, do we know if that is still taking place? is the government still looking after them? i taking place? is the government still looking after them?- still looking after them? i don't think the government - still looking after them? i don't think the government is. - still looking after them? i don't think the government is. what | still looking after them? i don't| think the government is. what i still looking after them? i don't - think the government is. what i hear is that the government is not, and

in fact even released hostages report that they have never heard a single word from the government. i reported today a family who lost six members who were murdered on october the 7th and have never heard one word from the israeli government. it is really very difficult situation to grasp. is really very difficult situation to a-ras. ., ., ., to grasp. noga tarnopolsky, yesterday — to grasp. noga tarnopolsky, yesterday there _ to grasp. noga tarnopolsky, yesterday there were - to grasp. noga tarnopolsky, | yesterday there were protests to grasp. noga tarnopolsky, - yesterday there were protests which were held in tel aviv and there were scenes towards the end of that protest, and security members, it looked like there was smoke, some scuffling, members of the rally were pulled to one side and made to sit on the floor. in terms of security at the rally where you are, can you just describe what it feels like and their presence?— just describe what it feels like and their presence? yes, i have to say, there are very _ their presence? yes, i have to say, there are very few _ their presence? yes, i have to say, there are very few people, - their presence? yes, i have to say, there are very few people, you - their presence? yes, i have to say, l there are very few people, you might cease some police and soldiers around me, buti cease some police and soldiers around me, but i have not felt any sense of violence or that kind of

tension. tel aviv last night was really astonishingly violent as an event. it was a different sort of rally. this rally really is to commemorate six months and yesterday's rally was explicitly a rally demanding that the prime minister resigned.— rally demanding that the prime minister resiuned. ., ., ., ., minister resigned. noga tarnopolsky, 'ust to minister resigned. noga tarnopolsky, just to finish. — minister resigned. noga tarnopolsky, just to finish, when _ minister resigned. noga tarnopolsky, just to finish, when you _ minister resigned. noga tarnopolsky, just to finish, when you look- minister resigned. noga tarnopolsky, just to finish, when you look at - minister resigned. noga tarnopolsky, just to finish, when you look at the i just to finish, when you look at the pressure that these families are putting on the prime minister, and we also see the political pressure, the anti—government pressure which is being put on benjamin netanyahu, how would you describe is really atmosphere right now? is the country unified, is it divided? it is atmosphere right now? is the country unified, is it divided?— unified, is it divided? it is kind of still shell-shocked, - unified, is it divided? it is kind of still shell-shocked, i - unified, is it divided? it is kind of still shell-shocked, i would | unified, is it divided? it is kind - of still shell-shocked, i would say. of still shell—shocked, i would say. it is a very confusing situation, as you hear me... it is no less confusing for israelis themselves to

find themselves in a situation in which officially they have a government and yet the government is not even pretending to represent them. netanyahu's popularity right now is a very low, under 20%, but israelis are still unified in the sense that they want to get the hostages back, and that they would like for hamas not to pose a threat any more. like for hamas not to pose a threat an more. ., ., ., ., any more. 0k, noga tarnopolsky, before i leave _ any more. 0k, noga tarnopolsky, before i leave you, _ any more. 0k, noga tarnopolsky, before i leave you, anything - before i leave you, anything significant that you can transmit to us about what is being said by those on the stage?— on the stage? well, the event has 'ust on the stage? well, the event has just wrapped _ on the stage? well, the event has just wrapped up — on the stage? well, the event has just wrapped up now _ on the stage? well, the event has just wrapped up now with - on the stage? well, the event has just wrapped up now with the - just wrapped up now with the national anthem, and i think that there arejust cries national anthem, and i think that there are just cries of the families who feel completely and totally forsaken, that is the thing that i want to take away most. really an astonishing sense of people whose loved ones were stolen out of their bedrooms on a saturday morning six

months ago and feel that very little, are certainly not enough, has been done to get them back home. there is still a sense of unreality about the whole thing. mega about the whole thing. noga tarnopolsky. _ about the whole thing. noga tarnopolsky, thank - about the whole thing. noga tarnopolsky, thank you - about the whole thing. noga tarnopolsky, thank you very | about the whole thing. noga tarnopolsky, thank you very much for your time. just taking us around that rally injerusalem. thank you. this is bbc news. ceremonies are being held across rwanda to mark 3 decades since the start of the genocide against ethnic tutsis and moderate hutus. injust 100 days, 800,000 people were killed in 1994. rwanda's president, paul kagame, said the international community failed his country. france has acknowledged that it could have stopped the genocide, along with its allies, but lacked the will power to do so. bbc�*s senior africa correspondent anne soy has been following the occasion from nairobi.

a very symbolic lighting of the flame of remembrance by the president in kigali. this flame will burn for the next 100 days to signify the duration of the genocide, 100 days, more than 800,000 people, mostly of an ethnic minority, were killed. and moderate hutus as well. the events from the 7th of april 1994 and for the next 100 days were triggered by the downing of the plane of the then president over kigali, who was a hutus and therefore had the hutus forces across rwanda. the opposing forces across rwanda. the opposing forces which were led by paul kigali were then to take over the country within just 100 were then to take over the country withinjust100 days were then to take over the country within just 100 days and were then to take over the country withinjust100 days and ended at nausicaa. there has been a lot of

reflection of what the international community could have done better. un peacekeepers have been downsizing in the country and they stood by and watched as the slaughter was going on. and therefore today has been a moment to reflect on that. to reflect on what happened in 1994. the general said that we must never forget, the world must never forget that, and it must never be repeated anywhere. and now that acknowledgement from france, very significant step towards the recovery of rwanda a country. add the soy there. a british man has become the first person to run the entire length of the african continent. 27—year—old russ cook, an ultramarathon runner who calls himself the hardest geezer has finally reached the finish line after a year on his feet. his epic journey and pitfalls along the way and it finally ended earlier this

evening in tunisia. congratulations to him. i believe he was kidnapped as well at one point. more on that story as ever on the bbc news website. this is bbc news. hello there. it certainly has been a weekend of contrasts — wet and windy, stormy for some, glorious for others. you had to make the most of the sunshine when you had it. after the warmest day of the year so far in east anglia, it was not a bad start to sunday morning. it did cloud over a little as the day progressed. and the week ahead is going to stay pretty unsettled, i'm afraid. often wet and windy, a little bit cooler as well to begin with. but then there's a potential for something warmer to return from wednesday into thursday later on. more on that in just a moment. but we've got this deepening area of low pressure for monday, which is going to bring some wet weatherfor some of us. so we'll start off on monday morning with rain into the channel isles,

moving up through cornwall, gradually into south wales, up through the irish sea. ahead of it, we'll have this band of showery rain developing as well. so across england and wales it's a case of quite a lot of cloud around. there will be some showery outbreaks of rain. top temperatures, though, still on the mild side, 17 celsius here. in the east, the pennines, 17 celsius and it may stay dry for much of the afternoon. heaviest of the rain through the isle of man, just fringing into northern ireland. the bulk of scotland for monday afternoon, staying fine with some sunshine, highs of ten to 12 celsius. but that rain will move its way across northern england into scotland overnight, and also the wind direction is set to change back to a north—westerly, which is going to push that milder air over into eastern europe. a cooler air source arrives for all of us on tuesday. tuesday doesn't look a particularly pleasant day either. there'll be a spell of heavy rain which will grind to a halt for a time across southern scotland and northern england.

quite a lot of cloud and plenty of frequent showers. temperatures on the whole will struggle due to the strength of the wind gusts in excess of 35 to 40 mph, so on your thermometer, probably only looking at between eight and 12 celsius as a high. wednesday will start off for some of us quite promising. we've got this little ridge of high pressure quieting things down, but the next frontal systems are waiting in the wings to move in from the west. so eastern areas seeing the best of the dry weather on wednesday with some sunshine coming through. that rain clears through to sunny spells and scattered showers in the north, but it is going to allow more heat to return in the south later on.

this is bbc news — the headlines... israel says it has withdrawn more ground troops from southern gaza. the move was announced as benjamin netanyahu claims his troops are "one step from victory". the israel gaza war reaches its six—month mark. hamas attacked israel killing about 1,200 people and taking hundreds hostage in october. in the war that has followed, the gaza health ministry says at least 33,000 palestinians have been killed.

events are being held across rwanda to mark three decades since the beginning of the genocide against ethnic tutsis and moderate hutus. and a man who has been running the entire length of africa in a mammoth challenge across 16 countries, has reached the finish line of his year long quest. now on bbc news, it's sportsday. hello, and welcome to sportsday — i'm jane dougall. a breathless match at old trafford where liverpool slip up and miss the chance to go top — while united grab a point. a six—goal thriller at ibrox, but it's as you were in the race for the title — with point a piece for the old firm. back to winning ways for max verstappen — he tops the podium injapan after a non finish last time out. and new zealand's women win the final one—dayer in hamilton,

but england have already taken the series.