hello, i'm anna foster. we start in the middle east, where israel appears to be moving to a new phase of its military operation in gaza. displaced people from the southern gazan city of khan younis have started returning home, after the israel defense forces said they have withdrawn nearly all of their maneuvering ground forces from that area — leaving just one brigade. israel's defence minister yoav gallant said troops have been pulled out to prepare for future missions, including into the now overcrowded city of rafah. much of the khan younis area is now in ruins, after months of bombardment and heavy conflict between israeli troops and fighters from palestinian militant groups.

sunday marked six months since hamas, designated a terrorist organisation by the us, uk and other countries — attacked israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, vowed to "crush and destroy hamas" so that it no longer posed any threat, and said he would secure the release of the remaining hostages still being held in gaza. in the war that has followed the 7th of october attacks, gaza's hamas—run health ministry says more than 33,000 people have been killed there. on sunday, tens of thousands of protesters in israel called for the israeli government to strike a deal to bring the hostages home and for mr netanyahu to resign. the israeli authorities are saying their mission in khan younis has been accomplished and that these troops are now being prepared for future operations in gaza. i think the israelis

are under a lot of pressure, especially from the americans, to de—escalate the conflict. i think the big question here is about what will happen in rafah. because the israelis have been saying that it is essential to launch a major offensive into rafah. this is where they say hamas still has four active units and they say it is imperative to enter rafah to destroy those units and to be able to claim victory. the problem is that more thani million palestinians are now sheltering in rafah in overcrowded camps, in crowded shelters. there have been concerns that any kind of major military offensive in rafah could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. i think virtually everyone outside israel is against the idea of a major military offensive in rafah. the israelis say they have a plan to evacuate civilians. the americans say this is not enough, they think the israelis should instead launch targeted operations against hamas

to prevent another major displacement of civilians. so we still don't know what is going to happen next. to give you a sense of how this announcement, the reaction to this announcement, earlier today the national security minister, itamar ben—gvir, a far—right member of prime minister netanyahu plasma coalition, said without a major offensive in rafah, it would mean prime minister netanyahu would not have a mandate to continue as prime minister. ceremonies are taking place in both england and france to mark the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of the entente cordiale — which paved the way for strong diplomatic co—operation between the countries. this was the scene in paris as british troops joined their french counterparts in a parade outside the elysee palace.

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the relationship with france. last year, it was a high point to visit and it was something he felt strongly about. we can see the durability of blood lines stretching back 120 years and that is sustained through two world wars and the modern age, as well. we through two world wars and the modern age, as well.— through two world wars and the modern age, as well. we are watching this daily ceremony _ modern age, as well. we are watching this daily ceremony but _ modern age, as well. we are watching this daily ceremony but slightly - this daily ceremony but slightly different today because of the presence of those french soldiers. let's head to paris, our correspondent hugh schofield is there. we've seen similar things this morning in paris. they've held their own military ceremony there. not on quite the same magnificent stage as buckingham palace and it did not go on as long either but in my view, this is... this must be the first time that british soldiers

have been inside this palace since the napoleonic wars and waterloo, so it's a historic occasion. in my knowledge of history, i can't think of any other occasion where this could have happened. so it is significant. the entente cordiale signed in 190a but went back longer than that but the growing friendship, post—london napoleonic wars, into the 18405 when queen victoria first began to warm relationships with the french. she visited the tomb of napoleon and that was seen as a great gesture and then after that, in the 18505, the two armies fought side by side in the crimea so there was a mini entente cordiale going on before the

19th century but there were these deal5 between the colonial powers of britain and france that sealed it. i don't think either country was aware at the time of what it would herald, which was an alliance that saw them through the two world wars and a friendship and shared sacrifice which is still felt today and the queen's mother having lived through the second world war really did feel that shared sense of suffering and sacrifice and the king, as was said, likewise. his visit went down very well last year. he was seen as a worthy heir to the queen it was much loved here. . ~ worthy heir to the queen it was much loved here. ., ~ , ., .,

loved here. thank you, to hugh schofield our— loved here. thank you, to hugh schofield our palace _ loved here. thank you, to hugh - schofield our palace correspondence. and to sean as well, our royal correspondent. we can watch that ceremony continue to mark the 120th anniversary of the entente cordiale, signed between england and france. the next phase of the uk post office horizon inquiry begins this week. it will be the second to last chapter of an independent investigation into one of the nation's biggest miscarriages ofjustice. our business correspondent emma simpson has been looking at the story so far. fenny compton. fenny? compton. just the place to start i really annoying the hell out of the post office. she chuckles the moment in the itv drama where former subpostmaster alan bates picks the spot for the fightback. alan!

jo hamilton is there to meet him. they'd no idea how many would come for the first meeting, but come, they did. hello, jo! hello! the realjo hamilton remembers it well. it galvanised me, certainly, made me so angry when we all told exactly the same stories, and you realised we'd all been shafted. in the beginning, we were just a little circle in the middle. but it ended up — the word spread, and more and more postmasters came. and, er, yeah, we... look where we are. it's been a long road, though. that first campaign meeting in fenny compton was in 2009. eight years later, alan bates took legal action against the post office, and his group eventually won. in 2021, the court of appeal quashed the convictions of 39 subpostmasters in a landmark ruling.

the year after, the public inquiry began hearing evidence — starting with the victims. the next phase starts in this room tomorrow. the inquiry has slowly been trying to join the dots, and it's now focusing on who knew what at the top. centre stage will be former post office boss paula vennells. here she is in parliament defending the horizon it system. if there had been any miscarriages ofjustice, it would have been really important to me and the post office that we actually surface those. and, as the investigations have gone through so far, we've had no evidence of that. of course, there'll be dozens of other witnesses — from board members and barristers, to key politicians and government officials. first up, though, in the witness chair, will be alan bates. people have got to be held accountable. i see no sign of it yet, er... but i think, after the inquiry, then i think that's definitely the next stage. and then we start looking at prosecutions. notjust that, as well —

i mean, huge bonuses have been paid to people over the years. some of that should be clawed back. all eyes are now on what this inquiry is about to uncover. we've done the groundwork. we've found out the system was broken and that people knew the system was broken. so now we're going to find out what the leaders of the post office did with that information. we are deeply concerned that there is growing evidence that there was a cover—up. victims will be watching. they want accountability, too — as well as full and fair compensation. emma simpson, bbc news. the post office minister, kevin hollinrake, has been speaking to bbc breakfast — and says the inquiry is important to make sure those responsible are held to account. what evidence has been established and people should be prosecuted. that's my view. and i think you and other people i've spoken to, i certainly feel

people within the post office and possibly further afield should go to jail. with more on this, our correspondent, garaham satchell. how does that compare to what politicians have said about this before now? he politicians have said about this before now?— politicians have said about this before now? , , ., , before now? he said this before but i think it's a — before now? he said this before but i think it's a significant _ before now? he said this before but i think it's a significant moment - i think it's a significant moment because it is unusual for any government minister to suggest that people should go to jail. that really is the job of the prosecutors and law courts but he was speaking there in a room full of sub—postmasters, the place where they first met to start their campaign and he was responding to the welter of anger and upset in the room, and in the country, and also in the face of what is now growing evidence of wrongdoing on all sides of the scandal. the post office prosecuted hundreds and hundreds of

sub—postmasters, accusing them of stealing money from them, and, as more and more investigation and inquiry has gone on, it's become apparent that that was not what happened. there was a problem with the computer system and people all the computer system and people all the way through the also station were covering it up. so it's an interesting development for a government minister to say people should go to jail. he did caveat it because there is a process for the police to navigate and the courts to follow. . , . , ., , follow. has anything mall been said about compensation. _ follow. has anything mall been said about compensation. some - about compensation. some sub—postmasters have received it. some haven't and many are still waiting, did he touch on that? he did waiting, did he touch on that? he: did and that was put to him by a number of sub—postmasters. he said it was taking too long, that it needed to be speeded up. 800 postmasters were convicted and it's taken a long time for those prosecutions to be quashed, so the

government has taken the extraordinary step earlier this year to quash all the convictions of all the sub—postmasters, that will eventually work its way through in july and from that point on the process of compensation, it should become speedier but there was a feeling in the room it was too adversarial, too many lawyers involved and the should be paying compensation and paying it now. he was aware that there was considerable upset, notjust at was aware that there was considerable upset, not just at the level but of the speed that compensation was being paid out. around the world, and across the uk, this is bbc news.

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condemned a drone attack on the russian—occupied zaporizhzhia power plant in ukraine. rafael grossi said no one could benefit from such attacks. russia's nuclear agency said three people were injured when a canteen was hit and blamed ukraine for the attack. ukraine has denied responsibility. 0ur eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford is in kyiv and told me more about the specifics of the attack. the iaea, the un's atomic energy watchdog, has been talking about a very significant threat, and a very significant attack on this nuclear power facility. rafael grossi has talked about three direct hits on facilities, he described it, calling it reckless, saying this cannot happen. he said it was a major escalation of security dangers there. we have also seen a report that refers to iaea staff on the ground at the power facility. they talk about hearing explosions during the day as well as a rifle fire. they saw the remnants of drones,

they have described that. they also said there were blood stains at one site, suggesting at least one person, one casualty, one person injured there. but all of the iaea statements have made clear there is no structural damage to the power plant, no increased risk from this attack. in terms of who is actually responsible, there is complete confusion on that. russian officials in charge on the ground are saying this was a ukrainian drone attack. ukraine's military intelligence agency, the gru, is denying that, saying kyiv was not involved, they wouldn't endanger the facility or civilian populations and are blaming russia for it, saying it is an attack carried out by russia in order to blame it on ukraine. it has highlighted the risk around this power plant, which is right on the front line, and where there have been since the start of the full scale invasion, numerous occasions where the atomic agency, the nuclear agency, the iaea, has talked about its concerns. but these statements today

are particularly stark and strong. are those warnings likely to be listened to, sarah? at the moment, as we say, it is pretty difficult to know who is responsible, with both sides blaming the other. it is difficult to know what changes. i don't think ukraine is looking for a nuclear accident, but there are drones flying around that area, it is an active front line and the danger is real. it's an attempt by the iaea to underline how dangerous this kind of attack is and to make sure all sides understand that and refrain from any kind of putting the facility at any kind of risk. sarah rainsford, eastern european correspondent in kyiv. the bbc has found that hundreds of muslim ethnic minority rohingyas have been conscripted to fight for myanmar�*s embattled military junta. this is despite the fact that rohingyas are denied citizenship, and are subjected to a range of discriminatory restrictions, including a ban on travel

outside their communities. 0ur south east asia correspondent, jonathan head is in bangkok and told me more about what he's learned. with my burmese colleagues, we have spoken to seven different people in five camps and you have to remember that while millions of rohingyas have left rakhine state — 700,000 were driven out in the dreadful attacks on them by the military back in 2017, an operation described by the un as possible genocide, another 600,000 remain in rakhine state in this precarious situation. a quarter of those are confined to these squalid idp camps. they have been there since 12 years ago. they can't move. we spoke to these seven people in five different camps just to confirm that this systematic conscription was going on. the military government has denied it and say they're getting rohingyas prepared to defend their own camps. this is not what we heard. we heard that the military have been going around and telling the camp organisers that they must provide lists of young men ready to be

conscripted, between 15 and 25 from each camp, each time they came. these men were then selected, they were told they had no choice, that their families would be threatened by the military if they didn't comply. and they were sent for training and taught how to fire guns and then thrown into battle. and in rakhine state there is a huge amount of conflict at the moment between the resurgent arakan army and the military. the military has been pushed back and been defeated there, as it has been in many other parts of myanmar and it's struggling to fill its ranks. it's lost a lot of its troops through injuries or desertion and it is simply using the rohingyas instead. and they have described horrific experiences of being thrown into these brutal battles, chaotic battles, where they've suffered injuries. they saw other rohingyas killed. eventually they were sent back home after the battle was over. but some of them have gone into hiding because the have been told they might be summoned to go back and fight again. and presumably they have no hope of that situation changing? they are trapped.

we know of lots of people in myanmar after this conscription law was enforced in the last few weeks because the military can't get people to join the army, it's so unpopular, lots of people in myanmar are fleeing and either coming here to thailand or are going underground. these rohingyas are stuck in these camps and they are never allowed to move anyway. they are completely trapped and it's very easy for the military to go and point a finger and say, "you've got tojoin". but think of the hideous irony here. the military in particular does not recognise the rohingyas as having any legal right to live in myanmar, they have pursued these dreadful policies against them, discrimination outright and killings back in 2017. they have always been regarded as people who just don't belong. and yet now they are being forced to fight the military�*s battles. and it has another bad knock—on consequence because the local buddhist population, the other community in rakhine state, supports the insurgence.

it is only going to inflame tensions between them on the rohingyas when the rohingyas are seen, unwillingly of course, fighting on the military�*s side. so it's going to store up a lot of problems in the future. millions of people in north america are gearing up for a total solar eclipse today. the path of totality, the area that will be plunged into darkness when the moon blocks the sun's light, will extend across parts of mexico, the usa and canada. 0ur north america correspondent, nomia iqbal, reports. music this park has turned into a family music festival. there's a stage for dancing, food stalls, bouncy castles, and people camped out. the big star everyone is here to see is in the sky. we wait for things like this, to be able to be outside and not stuck inside on doing something, or school, or whatever is going on. to be able to spend time together as a family is amazing, especially to see something so cool. the one in 2017 was the first one i had experienced — or the first total one that i had

experienced — and, yeah, it was... it was pretty mind—blowing. the moon will move in front of the sun, blocking its light and plunging the earth into darkness for up to four minutes in most places. there will be a total eclipse of the heartland, the path of totality will stretch from mexico, across the us and through to canada. the weather is sadly looking cloudy, but everyone is trying to be upbeat. even if you have clouds, you will be able to see the drop in light, the drop in temperature. but one of the great things about a total solar eclipse is you can see the corona — or the outer atmosphere — of the sun, which is this beautiful, stunning thing we don't normally get to see. and, unfortunately, if there's clouds, we won't see that. last time this celestial phenomenon happened in the us was in 2017. you may remember this moment. to view the sky safely, definitely don't do what mr trump did there, and stare right at the sun — these solar eclipse glasses are your best friends. they are much, much darker

than regular sunglasses. they block out the light and radiation. they should also carry this authentic label, which means they meet a high standard of safety. but what if you're visually impaired? scientists have made sure you won't miss out using this box that converts light into sound. if we think about, you know, my finger crossing over as, like, the moon... pitch decreases ..then it'll slowly change pitch as that light is being blocked into lower and lower pitches, and a slower sound, too, once we hit totality in this case, when that sensor is fully blocked. as we exit back out of that, we can hear it increase in the pitch. pitch increases the total solar eclipse is not just something you see, but experience with your whole body. you feel temperatures drop, you hear nocturnal animals wake up as day becomes night for several breathtaking minutes. nomia iqbal, bbc news, texas.

for continuing coverage of the build—up to the total solar eclipse from our correspondents across north america — go to the bbc�*s live page on the bbc news app and website. we've got correspondence right across north america so stay with us on bbc news. we are in for another changeable week of weather. yes, some sunshine at times but we are also looking at some wet and windy conditions. it will be cooler, especially so on tuesday and then it will turn that bit warmer later on in the week and by the weekend london will be back up by the weekend london will be back up to 20 celsius. this pressure over scotland is what's left of storm kathleen pulling away but we have this other area of pressure with rain attached to them. rain pushes

northwards across parts of wales, northern england and also northern ireland, with showers following on behind, we will see showers in scotland. temperatures 10—18 c, north to south. if you were hoping to see a partial solar eclipse tonight. you'll be lucky, there's a lot of rain and cloud around so you might see it in the western isles. temperatures falling away between 4-9 c. temperatures falling away between 4—9 c. heading on through tomorrow. we've got this rain, some a bit heavy and persistent, drifting east, snow in the mountaintops in the highlands. blustery showers. windy wherever you are in wales and the english channel. temperatures, cooler than today, 8—12 c, north to

south. as we head on into wednesday, well, we start off on a bright night and some sunshine but the cloud will come in quite quickly. a south—westerly breeze, with temperatures going back up, 8—15 celsius, as we push down towards norwich. thursday is looking bright and breezy. a few showers knocking around and at times, large areas of cloud as well. it will be dry with a fair bit of sunshine with temperatures continuing to climb, 17-19.

"tough conversations" are what's needed, says janet yellen as the us treasury secretary seeks to build bridges with china. fresh headache for boeing, as a part falls off one of its 737 planes whilst taking off in the us. welcome to world business report.

i'm ben thompson with the top business stories, starting in china where the us treasury secretary is having what she calls "tough conversations" with counterparts in beijing. in recent days janet yellen has been meeting senior officials including the premier li qiang. both china and the united states have a number of key concerns, much of it rooted in trade tensions which have been gathering pace for years. dr yellen�*s seeking to navigate these issues and smooth a few feathers in beijing. here's our business reporter david waddell. soon after arriving, secretary yellen addressed us business leaders in guangzhou and promised to address the oversupply of chinese goods in key industries such as electric vehicles and solar panels. on sunday, she met the chinese premier, li qiang, and struck an emollient tone. we've put our bilateral relationship on a more stable footing. this has not meant ignoring our differences or avoiding tough conversations.

it has meant understanding that we can only make progress