and a man who has been running the entire length of the african continent in a mammoth challenge taking him across 16 countries, has reached the finish line of his year long quest. hello. the israeli military says it has withdrawn all its ground troops, apart from one brigade from southern gaza, to focus on other offensives including rafah.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 rafah, where1.4 million palestinian civilians are sheltering. that's something the americans, as things stand, do not want them to do. mr netanyahu isjust saying, you just heard him saying they're one step away from victory. you know, there are lots of israelis who say that is absolutely untrue, that he hasn't, quite patently, he hasn't 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's prolonging the war artificially for his own political reasons, to escape a day of reckoning for mistakes that he may have made. now, of course, on both sides, six months on is a very significant milestone.

a lot of people didn't think that this war was going to last that long, but i think it might even last a lot longer now. i have been to one of the israeli border communities, which was kibbutz nir oz, which is was probably among the worst hit on that day, six months ago, 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.

there were laying there, dead. you could see that he was trying to hold the door closed and actually the door was locked. the army opened the door later. ron and his family survived in their safe room. 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 are not looking for only bodies, because the beginning, you know, we took a lot of bodies. the interrupted, terminated lives — laundry neatly folded the night before the attack give israelis a sense of moral clarity. going around this place, you can understand why israelis believe very strongly that they're 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 cost so many innocent palestinian lives. and as for the family who lived

here in this house, they're 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's because they come second to his own political survival. nava rosalio leads a movement called shame. netanyahu has an interest to lengthen the war as much as he can because as long as the world is still going on, he can say that now is not the time to know elections. now is not the time to look for who is responsible. which is he. 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 diliani, a palestinian christian activist, says israelis are in denial. killing children is killing children. it doesn't matter who is the child that's being killed, it doesn't matter who is doing the killing. i do sympathise with the holocaust. i recognise the holocaust. but that does not mean a green light for israel to commit genocide against my people

or any other people. 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 commits atrocities. what happened on october 7th wasjust one, one... what's the word? one thing that happened in a long... many years of oppression. so again, i'm going to repeat myself that our struggle will continue until we are free. that's what any people under occupation, under oppression, under colonial settler, colonial settlers will do. we can report first—hand here on the occupied west bank, just as we can from israel. but foreign journalists are not allowed into gaza by israel or egypt. the bbc commissioned a palestinian freelance in rafah to film ii—year—old rima getting food for her family. translation: if we get - there early, we get some food.

but if we're too late, the 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 ritualfor the children, like rima, who fled to this part of rafah with their families. much less aid reaches northern gaza, where famine is imminent. israel, under us pressure, is letting more food in, but it's also insisting that it can't finish off hamas without attacking this town, where 1.4 million palestinians, including rima, are sheltering. she says getting her family food makes her happy. but rima's pot is all 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. jeremy, just how much worse?

well, the big concern at the moment is, if you remember back to the beginning of the week, the israelis did an air strike against the iranian diplomatic compound in the syrian capital, damascus. and in the process, they killed a very senior iranian general and his second command and a number of other senior officers. and ever since then, virtually 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, well, there have been reports, i should say, that the americans believe that the iranians are plotting some kind of revenge now. now, the thing is, that has to fit into the context of a lot of tension up on the northern border, where i was also last week, the northern border with lebanon. and 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's that worry about the wider the wider situation, the wider war that could happen. and also when it comes to gaza, gaza itself, there is no end in sight in that war. there's a massive humanitarian catastrophe going on, imminentfamine. not clear yet whether it can be staved off. so if you look at really every measure of misery, i'm afraid ticks all boxes. the israeli cabinet has approved sending a delegation to cairo to renew talks with hamas. but prime minister benjamin netanyahu said a ceasefire would not be agreed until israeli hostages were released. translation: 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 7th 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. two days ago, the world health organization was granted access to what remains of the al—shifa hospital in gaza's north. these are pictures from the world health organization, which they have now released which show the scale of devastation. most of al—shifa's medical complex has been left in ruins. the israel defense forces said it had killed 200 "terrorists", detained over 500 more and found weapons and intelligence "throughout the hospital" after a two—week raid. let's speak to tarik yasarevic from the world health organisation. lovely to have you with this in the programme. first off, we saw the

devastation there on the screen, but just take a see what you find as you walk through al—shifa hospital. what walk through al-shifa hospital. what we are seeing _ walk through al-shifa hospital. what we are seeing in _ walk through al-shifa hospital. what we are seeing in gaza _ walk through al—shifa hospital. “misgt we are seeing in gaza is walk through al—shifa hospital. lanai we are seeing in gaza is really systematic dismantling of health system. al—nassr medical complex has stopped to function and now al—shifa hospital as well, it was the largest hospital and the main referral centre with more than 700 beds, 26 surgical theatres, 32 intensive care units, there is nothing left. there is no more patient and there is no really anyway that in a short period, in the short—term, this hospital could be revived. whatever teams have seemed, it is reallyjust the devastation and most of the buildings being reduced to rubble.

they have also seen bodies, just like limbs sticking out of the ground and the smell of bodies. it isjust ground and the smell of bodies. it is just utter devastation and again, it leaves people in gaza without access to health care, there is only ten out of 36 hospitals right now providing some basic, really, medical care for more than 70,000 people who have been injured during the bombardment on top of people with chronic diseases, pregnant women and people suffering from infectious diseases. so there is more people in need of medical care, there is less medical care available and really, the worst part of this is that our teams that are trying to get to these hospitals and trying to bring medical supplies are facing on a regular basis delays. denial of

missions and something that really is what we're seeing is the humanitarian space need is shrinking. something we really need that humanitarian space to continue our work. ., ., , , ., our work. you are seeing your experience — our work. you are seeing your experience of— our work. you are seeing your experience of with _ our work. you are seeing your experience of with the - our work. you are seeing your experience of with the idea i our work. you are seeing yourl experience of with the idea has our work. you are seeing your- experience of with the idea has been less than straightforward. i think about what happens with the health workers, it would have given them protection normally. what have you experienced? deconfliction is not new. the who sa this is deconfliction is not new. the who say this is the _ deconfliction is not new. the who say this is the way _ deconfliction is not new. the who say this is the way we _ deconfliction is not new. the who say this is the way we want - deconfliction is not new. the who say this is the way we want to - deconfliction is not new. the who say this is the way we want to go, | say this is the way we want to go, this is the route we are taking, please make sure we can get there in time. over half of our missions

until april have been either denied, they are being delayed, or they are being impeded in a way we had to this is not acceptable. last week we had one of the drivers being detained and that slows down completely our work. lien; detained and that slows down completely our work. very quickly because we're _ completely our work. very quickly because we're running _ completely our work. very quickly because we're running out - completely our work. very quickly because we're running out of- completely our work. very quickly l because we're running out of time, what you're describing is the buildings, we could see for ourselves completely shattered. there no equipment left in al—shifa hospital, there are bodies lying in shallow graves. the oxygen plant has been completely decimated. how safe was it? i understand it was a very complex mission to move around al—shifa hospital once the secret come to an end. how safe was it to make your way around the grounds? was there, was the area clear of ordnance? ourteams was there, was the area clear of ordnance? our teams are trying on a daily basis to move and it is never safe. we have seen that with

colleagues from the world central kitchen who have been killed. we need the space, it is never safe but we are continuing and we will stay there and try our best to again come up there and try our best to again come up when you security, the risks that we are facing is nothing compared to what ordinary people of gaza are facina. so what ordinary people of gaza —.e: facing. so really we what ordinary people of gaza 22 facing. so really we need to what ordinary people of gaza 2"2 facing. so really we need to help health workers doing an incredible job, to help them and provide health services but right now things are only getting worse unfortunately. now it's time for a look at today's sport with lizzie greenwood—hughes. hello from the bbc sport centre. hello, we're starting with the premier league where liverpool missed out on going top again, held to a 2—2 draw by their old rivals manchester united at old trafford. it means liverpool stay second in the table behind leaders arsenal on goal difference. our football correspondent john murray reports.

liverpool will be wondering how they did not win this match, having led through a luis diaz goal and being so dominant. yet in fact they needed a late mo salah penalty to salvage a point, which means this exciting three—way premier league title race has tightened up. against expectations, manchester united came out and proceeded to turn the game around. an error led to bruno fernandes equalising from the centre circle and united went in front with a curling finish from kobbie mainoo 18—year—old with his first goal at old trafford. liverpool level that will hold events don't ultimately cost them. i'm ok with it. i know that in a lot of moments, we could have turned or pushed this game in our direction. being at half time 1—0 up and 15—0 in shots is a crazy away game, to be honest. we cannot talk about things we didn't do right. we know we can improve and be calmer in moments.

that is what we will work on. as far as i know, we have a point more than before the game. we are still in that race, so it is fine. very mixed emotions. on one side, i'm very disappointed to drop seven points in one week. when you are in winning positions, and we have to blame ourselves i for making stupid mistakes. we have to learn from it. on the other side, i'm very proud. you see how we are improving, and the potential for the squad| and this team is amazing. i'm very proud today as well. in the day's other games, bottom side sheffield united forced a late draw with chelsea and tottenham moved into the top four after beating nottingham forest. the much—hyped top of the scottish premiership clash had everything from early goals to late equalisers, but ultimately, it ended in a 3—3 draw to keep leaders celtic a point ahead, while rangers

have a game in hand. celtic dominated the first half. daizen maeda putting them ahead early on, before a penalty made it 2—0. rangers also scored from the spot, before abdullah sima equalised in the 86th minute. and there was a frantic finish, with adam idah putting celtic ahead, before rangers' rabbi matondo levelled again. the former newcastle and wimbledon managerjoe kinnear has died at the age of 77. as a player with tottenham, kinnear won the fa cup, two league cups and the uefa cup. he was also capped 26 times for the republic of ireland. afterfailing to finish in australia a fortnight ago, normal service resumed for formula one world champion max verstappen at the japanese grand prix. the dutchman took a clean sweep of pole position, fastest lap and race win — the 57th victory of his career. verstappen beat his red bull team mate sergio perez by 12 and a half seconds. carlos sainz continued his impressive start to the season with third at suzuka.

england's women lost their final one—day international against new zealand in hamilton, although they'd already won the series. new zealand reached their target of 195 to win with seven wickets in hand and 66 balls remaining. sophie devine hit a six to not only win the match, but reach her century too. mathieu van der poel broke his own record time to win the paris—roubaix race for the second year in a row. after a gruelling 260—kilometres on the cobbles, the dutch world champion broke away near the finish, taking almost three minutes off the mark he set last year. it was his sixth win in a monument — the name given to road cycling's five most prestigious one—day races. and that's all the sport for now. ceremonies are being held

across rwanda to mark three 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. let's speak to linda melvern, an investigative journalist whose extensive archive of documents on the planning of the rwandan genocide formed part of the evidence used by the prosecution. thank you forjoining us on the programme today. just picking up on what france have said and acknowledging they could have done more, there was also a tweet from secretary antony blinken

acknowledging the three decade remembrance of the genocide. what are your thoughts on the nations speaking up like this on this anniversary? i speaking up like this on this anniversary?— speaking up like this on this anniversa ? ~ , , anniversary? i think firstly with france, there _ anniversary? i think firstly with france, there was _ anniversary? i think firstly with france, there was really - anniversary? i think firstly with france, there was really no - france, there was really no alternative. for many years, france has been accused of complicity in this genocide and finally archives were opened and has been a report, a presidential commission of 14 historians to have a look at the role of france and it's absolutely damning. belgium has also conducted an inquiry and apologised to the people of rwanda. there is no doubt the security council of the un did fail rwanda in 1994. i think that all inquiries have shown that. i

think there has also been a lot of criticism or rather still a lot of pain that not everyone can remember the dead stop i wonder if you could explain that to our viewers. i do think that _ explain that to our viewers. i do think that the _ explain that to our viewers. i do think that the crime _ explain that to our viewers. i it think that the crime of genocide explain that to our viewers. i u�* think that the crime of genocide and recognise as it has been, in no wind that in 1994, was on just one recognise as it has been, in no wind that in 1994, was onjust one more episode in a long line of bloody episodes. it stands out by its magnitude, its scale, its speed and also in the failure of the security council which is central to the application of the genocide convention. the failure to heed the warnings beforehand to provide an inadequate peacekeeping mission and then to fail to recognise that

genocide was under way once it began, ifind quite astonishing. it is a big scandal of the last century. is a big scandal of the last century-— is a big scandal of the last centu. ., .,. ., century. there is a lot of criticism that the government _ century. there is a lot of criticism that the government is _ century. there is a lot of criticism that the government is adamant l century. there is a lot of criticism i that the government is adamant the tutsis and it may also be getting on the way of true reconciliation and true unification of the country. ida. true unification of the country. no, i'm not true unification of the country. no, i'm not sure _ true unification of the country. no, i'm not sure that _ true unification of the country. no, i'm not sure that is _ true unification of the country. iilifi, i'm not sure that is the case. this stands out in its magnitude. there were not two genocides in 1994, as some genocide deniers claim, there was one and it has been investigation into the other massacres that took place and there was nothing on the scale of the genocide. it lessens their own crime and i think we should be very

careful of moral equivalence in this case. ., ., y careful of moral equivalence in this case. ., ., , ., ., case. unfortunately we have run out of time. i know _ case. unfortunately we have run out of time. i know you _ case. unfortunately we have run out of time. i know you have _ case. unfortunately we have run out of time. i know you have done - case. unfortunately we have run out of time. i know you have done such| of time. i know you have done such extensive work on the genocide of rwanda, but for now, thank you very much indeed. thank you. 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. let's return to our top story. 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. tens of thousands of protesters are again rallying injerusalem and other cities to demand that the government do more to secure the release of hostages held by hamas. as the protesters gathered, teams from israel and hamas were preparing ceasefire talks in egypt. rallies are also taking place

across the globe including paris, berlin and the united states. washington where families took food to the stage, and also telling their story. i spoke earlier to noga tarnopolsky, a journalist who was at a rally in jerusalem. at this rally, we have one speaker after another screaming at the government, in some cases, literally primal scream. they have been making demands. one mother here screaming. this is the job of them to bring them back. another father who met with a 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,

he said in front of his whole public that the prime minister recounted his own heroic stories from he was a young man in the army. it's... i have to say, it's a strange situation when you think of a country that as a nation underwent such a trauma. and today, these commemorations and these are all individual private initiatives, the government is simply not part of it. the prime minister hasn't said a word. noga, what can you tell me about this idea that these two groups of people, you have, the anti—government protesters, you have the bring my loved ones home. protesters coming together. they are now protesting together. how significant is that? well, it's significant in terms of the impact they have on the public. and yet the government has made many efforts to really delegitimize them. efforts to really delegitimise them.

and the word that's being used is that they're politcised. and as if that diminished their legitimacy as citizens who are asking for redress from the government. so...could only be toppled by a parliamentary manoeuvre. it can't be toppled even by masses, hundreds of thousands of people on the street making demands. so we will still have to see how this develops. noga, how is the talks in cairo, how is that being reported locally? because i understand there is something i don't know whether it's promising, but certainly it's been picked up that the israeli delegation that is headed to cairo has been given an expanded mandate. what exactly does that mean? that...that is a response to president biden's explicit,

overt request for netanyahu to send a delegation to cairo with authority to make a deal. and this confirms these horrible rumours making the rounds in jerusalem the past weeks, which is that netanyahu had been slow walking the negotiations by not actually granting his representatives any authority. so what we're hearing now is that the government is acquiescing to biden's request. some of the people on stage here 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 ijust heard. what we have to hope, i think, certainly for these families is that this is more than spin. gaza's health ministry says at least 33,175 people have been killed in the territory. many of those people have relatives here in the united kingdom. i spoke earlier to ehab omar, who is one of them. ehab is a member of the british palestinian families group. i asked him how difficult the past few months have been.

extremely difficult, extremely difficult to wake up by the news and we sleep by the news and it's not getting better, as you say. and every day is more loss and pain for our community in the uk. what loss have you undergone? i lost a lot of family members in in gaza, including some of the pictures you might be sharing today about cousins and cousins today about cousins. ..cousins who have been displaced all over the country and also have family members who are sheltering in north gaza with no access to supplies and key supplies like flour, bread and water. but i did lose a lot of family members who were actually killed by a number of strikes across gaza. how does your family...how

does your family deal with that? it's difficult, to be honest, is just trying to explain it to the kids. they explain the very, i would say, the long history of the struggle and the occupation and try to explain it to our children why this is happening and why nobody is stopping it. this is even more more difficult because if a child can understand it and a politician cannot understand it, there's a big question that we need to raise there. so we try to take it day by day and focusing on hope and how we could support our family members in gaza. and have what's the most difficult question that the children ask you about what is going on? what have you struggled to answer? is why nobody is stopping this. why can't people see it can be perceived, this level of devastation and the bloodshed and why we can't have our family members safe. what would. . .what would you like to happen next? you're obviously part of this group,

the british palestinians group. what would you. . .what are you calling for? well, i think we are calling for what, the hundreds of thousands of people marching in the streets calling for for an immediate ceasefire. and this is the only way forward. and this is number one, to allow the people, our families, to just to mourn the people, the losses we had and take whatever is remaining of their lives and homes, if they have any remaining. and also for the international community to take the responsibility towards the palestinians and help them to rebuild gaza to what it was before. how much family do you have left in gaza? a lot. in north gaza i had, my aunties who are elderly cannot move out in north in central gaza. i have my cousins who lives there, their father kids, four

kids with ages 10 to 15. and i have also family sheltering in rafah, like the remaining of the one and a half million palestinians sheltering there, living in a makeshift, makeshift tents with no access to sanitation or services. i don't know if you're part of the gaza families reunited campaign that are lobbying the british government for unifying you reunification of of family in gaza with family in the uk. is this something that you would like to do as well? of course, of course. we have been talking to a lot of the parliamentarians about this initiative or this campaign, and we are a small community in the uk and because of this devastation to our families, we'd like to have a similar scheme to the scheme effort to the ukrainians during the current horrendous war in ukraine. and it's very simple about temporary shelter or safe haven for our families until the war is finished and when it's finished, they can go back.

but it's very difficult to live under these conditions, try to explain it to our children while our loved ones are living in those dire conditions in gaza now. people are starving, obviously in gaza. how much time do you have? what has the british government told you about that? how have they responded so far? we don't have much time. and to be honest, there have been, i would say, a mix of responses, no official response from the british government yet. we as a community requested to meet with the prime minister, which we haven't received a response to yet. in general, the parliamentarians are very supportive. they are asking key questions around the mechanisms around that which will be acceptable to the public in the uk. but till this minute we haven't received any positive response yet. here in the uk, the foreign secretary has warned that the uk's support for israel

is "not unconditional". writing in the sunday times, lord cameron said there was "no doubt where the blame lies" warning it "must never happen again" — after 3 british men were among 7 charity workers killed when their convoy was hit in gaza last week. however, the deputy prime minister, oliver dowden, defended the uk's continued arms sales to israel. he's rejected calls for the government to publish the legal advice it's had about whether israel's conduct in the war has breached international law. with the latest here's our political correspondent helen catt. he was pushed on this morning. and, yes, he said that israel's war was legitimate. he also said that it was the uk government's assessment that it was still legal for british companies to sell arms to israel. now, if a british company wants to do that, it has to get an export licence from the government and that takes into account criteria like the uk's international law obligations and the risk that any goods or products that

are being sent to a country could be used to violate human rights. now what mr dowden said was that the government's assessment of that hadn't changed, that it was still legal. he also suggested that if that changed and israel was found to have broken international law, then those exports could stop. but he insisted, and speaking to the bbc�*s laura kuenssberg earlier, that israel was being held to high standards. of course, we have concerns about the way in which israel is conducting itself. that is why we have raised issues, for example, in relation to aid and getting more aid in, and that's why we've raised issues that is why we have raised issues, for example, in relation to aid and getting more aid in, and that's why we've raised issues in relation to deconflicting, but that is in the context of of a legitimate conflict that israel is pursuing.

and helen, what did he say specifically about any legal advice that the government had received? well, there's been a big question about this, because what i've set out for you just now is the government's assessment, the government's position. but there's been lots of questions asked over the last week about what advice the government has been given by lawyers on which it's come to that conclusion and come to reach that. and mr dowden didn't directly deny a claim that was made by a conservative mp earlier this week that at least some of the advice that lawyers had given government was that israel had broken international law. instead, he said that the government wasn't intending to publish any of this advice. labour, the main opposition party in the uk, has said that that is the wrong call. the shadow foreign secretary, david lammy, told the bbc earlier that he believed they should be publishing a summary of that advice, so that people could be certain that international law was not being broken. this is a very serious issue. it's now gone on for six months. on issues of proportionality and precaution and distinction, there are real concerns notjust from judges, from the intelligence community, but the broader public. for that reason, let us be sure

that we are not in breach. now, labour is not calling for arms exports to be suspended as some other parties in the uk like the liberal democrats and the snp are. but what david lammy said he wanted was for the foreign secretary, lord cameron, who plays a key role in setting out and deciding the government's position, to be asked more questions about this in the house of commons. lord cameron is a member of the house of lords. that means he doesn't usually get asked them. he can't go into the commons to be asked questions by mps in the usual way, but there is a way of doing it, working with the convention and david lammy wants to see that happen. here, police in bradford have released the name of a man who's wanted in connection with the murder of a woman on saturday afternoon. habibur masum is 25 and from the oldham area. he is wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing in bradford city centre. a knife has been recovered from the scene of the incident. our correspondentjudith

moritz was at the scene. it was just behind me in broad daylight. a busy part of bradford city centre as well, just north of the city centre here. we don't know if the man is still armed, they are searching for him and they say he has links to various parts of the north of england including burnley, chester and oldham, so west yorkshire police are liaising with forces around the region to trace and felt that they want to hear from anybody who has information about what happened, perhaps from drivers with dash cam footage, witnesses in this area as well, and they are saying anybody with information could help to trace him, they say he's 25 years old,

they believe he is known to the woman but no more information than thatis woman but no more information than that is given outjust at the police are wanting to speak to him urgently. a british man hasjust become the first person to run the entire length of africa. 27—year—old russ cook, an ultra marathon runner, who calls himself the �*hardest geezer�*, has finally reached the finish line after a year on his feet. his epicjourney had pitfalls along the way — it ended in the last half an hour in tunisia. let�*s go. day four. day six. only the hardest geezer could run nearly every day for more than 350 days. covering more than 10,000 miles, the entire length of africa. russell cook has done it. day 349. of running the entire length of africa. he has run through desert, rainforest, savannahs, mountains,

jungle, and 16 countries. he has so far raised nearly £700,000 for the running charity sandblast. charity and sandblast. he has had complications with his health... ..visas. .. ..the weather... ..and he was even robbed at gunpoint. i was pretty terrified, i won�*t lie. but he has taken it all in his stride. in this final stretch he had a little help from his friends. are you ready to run a marathon? he has achieved something no one else in this world has ever done and his immediate plans now? a strawberry daiquiri on the beach. ell price, bbc news. now solar eclipse fever is building. millions of people in north america will be able to witness a rare solar eclipse on monday — hoping to spend around 4 minutes in total darkness —

as the moon�*s shadow blocks the sun�*s light. emma vardy reports from texas. the daily cattle drive — usually the main attraction here, but now, thousands of people are herding to see this city of cowboys plunged into darkness. a first for some, others travelling to witness an eclipse again. the birds are quiet, nothing moves. there�*s just this magical hush. i feel like it's going to be really fun and cool. people are rolling into the path of totality from all over the world and will be craning to get a good view. oh, my neck. nine of you in this trailer. yes, ma�*am. how is that going? it�*s going ok. what do you think it�*s going to be like? crazy. i think it's going to feel. pretty intense, you know, just watching it happen. what are you expecting to feel? maybe something spiritual come over me or it may touch my soul. i don�*t know. we planned this elopement

in three weeks. more heavenly alignments are happening in arkansas, where a mass wedding will see some 300 couples tie the knot beneath the celestial event. this seems like the perfect storybook wedding, - the coolest wedding ever. this is a memory we'll take with us for the rest of our lives. this is the moon moving into perfect alignment between sun and earth. not since 1970 has there been a total eclipse passing over such a populated area of north america — an experience for humans and animals alike. and during the eclipse, gordon had been crowing all morning, suddenly was quiet and just shuffled about rather nervously. and it�*ll be another 50 years before it happens again. the shadow of the moon has been approaching the earth for several hours this morning. we're going to have a huge impact across the us. - so over 30 million americans are in the path of totality - and another 150 americans are within 200 miles drivel of that path of totality. so the impact that this eclipse - is going to have on everyone's daily life is fascinating.

while scientists can predict the precise time and path of an eclipse centuries into the future, what�*s harder to forecast is the weather. and with it looking pretty overcast here at the moment, people will have to hope for a glimpse during a break in the clouds. god, if you�*re listening, you know, clear it outjust forfour and a half minutes! a prayer that millions across america are hoping to be answered, or they�*ll be waiting for the next one till the cows come home. emma vardy, bbc news, texas. let�*s speak to marcel corchado—albelo who�*s an astrophysicist at the university of colorado boulder, who�*s in texas in preparation to study the total solar eclipse tomorrow. thank you very much forjoining us here on the programme. the big question is, are you in the path of

totality, then? question is, are you in the path of totality. then?— question is, are you in the path of totality, then? yes, thank you very much for having _ totality, then? yes, thank you very much for having me. _ totality, then? yes, thank you very much for having me. definitely, - totality, then? yes, thank you very much for having me. definitely, we flew all the way from boulder, we are here in eagle pass, we are hoping we get some clearing skies, at least a little patch to see that total corona.— at least a little patch to see that total corona. this is going to be a ve bus total corona. this is going to be a very busy day. — total corona. this is going to be a very busy day, isn't _ total corona. this is going to be a very busy day, isn't it, _ total corona. this is going to be a very busy day, isn't it, and - total corona. this is going to be a very busy day, isn't it, and for - very busy day, isn�*t it, and for months afterwards, for scientists. what can you learn from the solar eclipse, a total solar eclipse? so one of eclipse, a total solar eclipse? sr“ one of the eclipse, a total solar eclipse? 5rl one of the main things that we are trying to do here is we are trying to get the best quality data, so usually if we want to see the corona, because it�*s so dim compared to the solar disk, we need to use instruments called corona grams. these are highly technical instruments but they have their issues. they provide us with a very unique and very high—quality opportunity to observe the solar corona, so we are expecting to see information about the temperature,

the density and the magnetic field which are also very important to be able to predict the weather, huge solar eruptions and massive injections. solar eruptions and massive injections-— injections. they've got four -ro'ects injections. they've got four projects running _ injections. they've got four projects running using - injections. they've got four - projects running using scientists around the world, and there been a lot of talk about sermon and them running their projects with the hadron collider, that is nothing to do with the solar eclipse, does it? fundamentally they are both very much physics projects but they have nothing to do. i do expect that some of the people from, some of them have flown to the us and gotten it glimpse of the total solar eclipse but the experiments themselves are probably very different. i but the experiments themselves are probably very different.— probably very different. i know that in ast probably very different. i know that in past solar _ probably very different. i know that in past solar eclipses _ probably very different. i know that in past solar eclipses there - probably very different. i know that in past solar eclipses there have i in past solar eclipses there have been some significant scientific discoveries including helium. nasa is using citizens scientists as part of a listening party. what is that

all about? , ., of a listening party. what is that all about? ,., �* , ., of a listening party. what is that all about? �*, ., , all about? yet, so there's a couple of different — all about? yet, so there's a couple of different nasa _ all about? yet, so there's a couple of different nasa experience - of different nasa experience experiments, some of them i�*ve heard of include saponification, this is basically taking things like the images that we see or the light that we are saying and converting it into sound so that people that might have limited vision or blindness can actually experience as well the eclipse, nonetheless we have experiments like the citizen k project, through the full top path of totality people are going to be observing the solar clip were not only getting four and a half minutes of data like we�*re going to get over here but we might get hours. an hour or of data that we can as you said, spend the next couple of months looking at and seeing all the different things we can learn about the solar corona. i different things we can learn about the solar corona.— the solar corona. i know that the sun is set _ the solar corona. i know that the sun is set to _ the solar corona. i know that the sun is set to be _ the solar corona. i know that the sun is set to be approaching - the solar corona. i know that the | sun is set to be approaching solar maximum later this year. what sun is set to be approaching solar maximum later this year. what does that mean? — maximum later this year. what does that mean? yes, _ maximum later this year. what does that mean? yes, so _

maximum later this year. what does that mean? yes, so that _ maximum later this year. what does that mean? yes, so that means - maximum later this year. what does that mean? yes, so that means the| that mean? yes, so that means the way that we classify solar maximum or minimum all depends on the amount of sunspots, we look like little dots on the sun if you are looking through binoculars or telescopes, but they are actually imprints a very strong magnetic fields, magnets like you have on your fridge but much, much stronger, these are very important because in these sunspots is where you can get solar flares and coronal injections. solar maximum says there is a lot of them over the sun and especially if you�*re looking at the eclipse and he saw the 2071, the corona itself will look very different, we are expecting a lot of activity happening this time around, so we�*re very excited. happening this time around, so we're very excited-— very excited. you've mentioned the corona a lot- _ very excited. you've mentioned the corona a lot. and _ very excited. you've mentioned the corona a lot. and a _ very excited. you've mentioned the corona a lot. and a lot _ very excited. you've mentioned the corona a lot. and a lot of— very excited. you've mentioned the corona a lot. and a lot of these - corona a lot. and a lot of these nasa experiments are looking at the corona, i know beforehand you get something called bailey�*s beads forming and then you get the corona, why does the corona matter to us here on earth? 50

why does the corona matter to us here on earth?— why does the corona matter to us here on earth? so one of the main reasons that _ here on earth? so one of the main reasons that we _ here on earth? so one of the main reasons that we really _ here on earth? so one of the main reasons that we really focus - here on earth? so one of the main reasons that we really focus on - reasons that we really focus on the corona for the total solar eclipse, we don�*t see it enough with our naked eye so this is an experience to see that. why we should care about it on earth, the corona is where actually all these solar flares, coronal mass injections, all of these very energetic eruptions that happen on the sun actually originate. so this is a very important region because sometimes these explosions, these eruptions, head towards earth and they can cause geomagnetic storms and i can trickle down into maybe our satellites have issues, some of them even there�*s so much drag that they burn off and we lose them. we can also have issues with telecommunications and there�*s actually been historical evidence a couple of years ago in canada that some electrical grids actually got fried up, so of course there is a lot of investment from the government in terms of trying to understand and predict when these

things will happen so that back here on earth, we can make sure to pull the plugs on all these things and make sure they�*re safe. i got the plugs on all these things and make sure they're safe.- make sure they're safe. i got so many questions _ make sure they're safe. i got so many questions but _ make sure they're safe. i got so many questions but we've - make sure they're safe. i got so many questions but we've run i make sure they're safe. i got so i many questions but we've run out make sure they're safe. i got so - many questions but we've run out of many questions but we�*ve run out of time! you tell such a fabulous story. enjoy your eclipse. story. en'oy your eclipse. thank you ve story. enjoy your eclipse. thank you very much- — story. enjoy your eclipse. thank you very much. thank _ story. enjoy your eclipse. thank you very much. thank you _ story. enjoy your eclipse. thank you very much. thank you so _ story. enjoy your eclipse. thank you very much. thank you so much. - story. enjoy your eclipse. thank you | very much. thank you so much. 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.

live from london, this is bbc news. israel says it has withdrawn nearly all ground troops from southern gaza to regroup for the next stage of war. six months on since the attacks, tens of thousands rally injerusalem and other cities to call on the government to reach a deal to free the hostages. hopes for new round of ceasefire talks, amid warnings of catastrophic levels of hunger in gaza and an imminent famine. as millions prepare for the solar eclipse in north america, we look at how to safely watch the total blackout.

and a man who has been running the entire length of the african continent 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. our international editor, jeremy bowen, has more from jerusalem.

over six months, gaza has been ravaged by war, disease,