israel announces an hour's pause in military activity in southern gaza. president zelensky talks of nuclear security. a man wielding an axe is shot by police in hamburg. a plea for all families to be more transparent about nhs funding. —— a plea for all political parties. and a father's day message from prince george and family and prince william. we start this hour with the latest on the israel—gaza war.

in the last few hours the israeli military has announced what it's calling a daily tactical pause in part of southern gaza, but not the city of rafah. it says the halt and hostilities will be an daytime hours. humanitarian in the last few hours the israeli military has announced what it's calling a daily tactical pause in part of southern gaza, but not the city of rafah. that is where the focus of the military operation is. it says the halt in operations will be during daylight hours to facilitate the delivery of aid. aid organisations have repeatedly warned of a humanitarian crisis in gaza. israel has released the names of the eight soldiers killed by a hamas rocket in rafah on saturday, the deadliest incident israel has said it happened during an operational operation. has said

israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has the water continue. it says the halt and hostilities will be an daytime hours. first thing this morning, we got a statement from the idf saying that they were going to introduce a daily tactical military pause in the area around the kerem shalom crossing, which is on the israel—gaza border right in the south of gaza, very close to rafah. and along the road that travels in to the coastal road, which would then allow for aid to be more easily distributed through the gaza strip. this pause, it said, would be from 8:00 in the morning till

7:00 at night. however, within about an hour of that announcement being made, the idf issued a clarifying statement saying this didn't mean an end to hostilities in rafah or in southern gaza. and we had the hardline right wing israeli national security minister itamar ben—gvir saying that whoever made the decision to announce some sort of temporary daily pause was evil and a fool. so they don't really seem to have the politicians don't really seem to have been talking to the military this morning. the head of the humanitarian action group told me it is not available to be delivered to gaza insufficient scale. any pauses in fighting to get lifesaving to civilians and to save civilian lives can help. but sadly, at this moment, they survive it. our policies are not going to help us to get aid at the scale that is required to gaza and to the civilians of gaza. how much aid are you managing to get in at the moment? aid operation has generally been very limited since

the operations in rafah started. before the invasions and the military operations in rafah had started we had a daily average of around 169 trucks getting in and getting into gaza. since may, the daily average has dropped to less than 100 trucks. a reminder for the listeners that the daily average of trucks that was getting to gaza before 7th of october was 500 trucks. so we are no way near the required amount of aid and type of aid that we are required that we need to deliver the civilians of gaza. we anticipate at this stage given the severe food and security we will need at least between 100 to 500 trucks of aid per day. we don't think that the current environment in gaza will allow us to deliver that because these forces are not sufficient. we need a permanent ceasefire that can ensure that civilians are protected. the need for aid start to decline. and so we can restore water pipes, we can restore electricity lines,

because now we also need a lot of water and fuel to be able to get to the gaza strip to allow hospitals and bakeries to work. this type of aid are not things we used to get at a high scale before 7th of october. so because of this damage to the water networks that the military operations has created, we need to deliver a lot of water. access to water now is very low. we had some data that the daily amount of water currently available for civiliand in gaza is falling below 0.7 litres, which is way below the internationally recognised limit for survival, which is three litres per day for per person. the united states national security adviser has dismissed our proposal for a ceasefire proposed by vladimir

putin is unreasonable. more than 100 nations attended the event a load washer was not invited to take part. a draft of the key issues like on saturday night reaffirmed the political geographical activity of ukraine and said any use of nuclear weapons against it was inadmissible. it said foot security must not be weaponised in any way and also called for a complete sense of personal war and the return of displaced ukrainian children and civilians. president zelensky said russia had caused food security that had affected every country in the world.

it is vital anywhere in the world because it determines the price of life and any food insecurity as a direct path to chaos. unfortunately russia has too often tried to push the world down the road to destabilisation and chaos and so we know all need to unite as much as possible to guarantee every family in the world, every person the right to food and protection from chaos and prices and i'm especially gratefulfor and prices and i'm especially grateful for the panel of the relief of people —— release of people know and russian captivity. we are talking about a significant number of people and they must bring each and every one of them home. hostages of russia, children who have been taken from our land and scattered

across the territory of russia and of course every day in captivity is terrible and we have two free thousands of people. we have had years of their lives taken away who had been tortured. the years of their lives taken away who had been tortured.— had been tortured. the general election campaign _ had been tortured. the general election campaign in _ had been tortured. the general election campaign in the - had been tortured. the general election campaign in the uk - had been tortured. the general election campaign in the uk isl had been tortured. the general. election campaign in the uk isjust past the halfway mark. 0ur pollsterjohn curtice tells us in 60 seconds how the overall picture is looking for the main parties in the polls. 0ne poll this week stole the headlines. a yougov poll put reform one point ahead of the conservatives. but no other poll reported the same finding, though every poll has reported a fall in the conservative support and nearly all, a narrowing of the conservative

lead over reform. so what last week was an average eight—point conservative lead over reform has now halved to just four points. and standing atjust 20%, conservative support is now at its lowest—ever in british polling history. mr sunak, whose own personal ratings have clearly fallen, must be beginning to doubt his decision to call the election early. not that labour have had it their own way. like the conservatives, their support is also down by two points. labour are being challenged by the greens, still on 6%, and the liberal democrats, whose vote, up in every poll this promises about health service funding has been criticised by an independent think tank and in particular the nuffield cup might

trust said proposals by both the conservatives and labour meant the tightest nhs budget in a0 years. this followed both parties talking about changes they had made to cancer care. spending is due to go up but not by as much as it usually does not enough as the nuffield cup might trust says is required. a big part is dealing with issues around social care and the shadow health secretary wes streeting who could actually be the health secretary was asked this morning on the bbc why his party had

not come up with a clear plan about how to reform social care. i make no bones about the fact, of course, on social care, i would have wanted the manifesto to be more ambitious, but to get policies in the manifesto, you had to run the gauntlet of answering two fundamental questions. can we keep this promise? can the country afford this promise? and if the answer to either of those questions was no, it's not in the manifesto. and that is why when people pick up labour's manifesto as they're deciding how to vote, they should know that they can trust every single policy in there that would offer real change for our country. and of course, once we get the economy growing, which is the central starting point of a labour government, if we win the next general election, we will have more available to either invest in our public services or put back into people's pockets. the conservatives jumped on the admission that the labour party would like to do more to try to

suggest that they would suggest more of taxpayers money and this was the response of the transport secretary, matt harper. i thought your interview was very constructive. he confirmed on your show and another one earlier that the manifesto was not the whole story, it was a document to get through the election campaign and is confirmed there are more spending promises to come and that can only mean more taxes and exactly what we've been saying all the way through. he said after a campaign we would hope if we win to have a spending review on for the budgets and nobody can say the conservative manifesto 2019 is something you stuck to strictly. we've had the pandemic and the war in ukraine, both things were huge.

the nuffield trust are suggesting that neither party is transparent about this and their calculation suggests the liberal democrats want to spend slightly more on health care, still not enough they say but leader ed davey spoke about how his party had the most ambitious plans. improving care is right in itsself. i just don't believe you can sort out health and it is hugely important to help the health service. i just don't believe you can sort out health and if not sorting out social care. it is partly because of my personal experience, i was a young carer when my mother was terminally ill

and then my grandmother looked after me when my mum died, i looked after her and then i have my disabled son so i have a lifetime of caring. and with my own experience and experience millions of people out there is that the family carers are critical. what i want to see at this election is if you don't support the family carers as well as the care workers you will not sort this out and i absolutely passionately will do that and we have come forward with probably the most ambitious agenda and i'm really excited about it because when we've talked about it we have had a really strong reaction from people. social care is an issue i think both main parties would admit indifferent parliaments they have not managed to get on top top of and the way that really might have helped the nhs system. that nhs system really close to the hearts of voters so in any general election campaign i think the question going forward and this is which party voters will trust the most to deliver any kind of change to both the nhs and social care. police in hamburg have shot and severely injured a person who

threaten them with a pick axe. these pictures show a man wielding an axe you can see there at the front of the pictures by the card in. they then fire that pepper spray and the police do then fire several shots. we have paused the video, it went up black because we will not show you that. that was the moment the police fired several shots. the video doesn't show all of those being fired. you can now see the activity that happened after that. the attacker is receiving medical attention and as you can imagine a major operation is taking place in the city. german media say that situation took place near a fans zone for dutch reporters. ahead of the euro 202a match between poland and the netherlands. i spoke to bbc sports journalist on the phone and he is currently in hamburg for the

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stadium, as you say, everything seems to be on track for the scheme to start in just over an hour? seems to be on track for the scheme to start injust over an hour? i spoke with officials about how fanatical and there is no indication that it would have an impact on the game. i believe in the police statement did not say anything about the in the statement so i think they're keeping the two incidents separate for the time being and for the fans at this oedematous preparation and the team should be coming out shortly for the warm—ups and everything is going ahead as planned. find and everything is going ahead as lanned. �* , ., ., ., , planned. and the german authorities are on hiuh planned. and the german authorities are on high alert _ planned. and the german authorities are on high alert during _ planned. and the german authorities are on high alert during the - planned. and the german authorities are on high alert during the whole i are on high alert during the whole euro 202a. are on high alert during the whole euro 2024-— are on high alert during the whole euro 2024. w , ., , , ., euro 2024. exactly. there has been a bi olice euro 2024. exactly. there has been a big police presence _ euro 2024. exactly. there has been a big police presence throughout - euro 2024. exactly. there has been a big police presence throughout and l big police presence throughout and there was the police escort which was i would imagine client and the stadium and the city centre itself.

lets head to the sports centre. we will start with that match, one of the three games to come on sunday with two of the tournament favourites, england and the netherlands both in action. the dutch kick off in around a0 minutes in hamburg against poland who will be without their key striker, robert w k, who has a hamstring injury. —— lewandowski. then the runners—up england get their campaign against serbia. , , serbia. this is football. it can ha en. serbia. this is football. it can happen- to — serbia. this is football. it can happen- to be _ serbia. this is football. it can happen. to be completely - serbia. this is football. it can - happen. to be completely honest with you, i think england is a huge

favourite and i don't want to sound like i can find the right word but i would be happy with minimal defeat because that opens the door for the second of the third part. for serbia passing the group would be a really good achievement. all respect to england, i think the other favourites. earlier this morning it looked as though scotland were heading through to the last eight of cricket's t20 world cup at the expense of england, but it'sjos buttler�*s team who will be heading into the knockout stage. the scots looked like they were on the way to a shock win against australia, who had already qualified, in st lucia, but the aussies eventually won by five wickets with two balls to spare.

they maintained their unbeaten record and sent scotland home. australia is a world—class cricket team. they have been for many, many years. they're always going to put out a good fight. they are neverjust going to walk over and let you win, so i'm glad that it was a close game today. we showed that we can compete at this high level against the best players in the world. and, yet again, we showed it tonight that, you know, we're not far away from from beating the best in the world. earlier, in a rain—interrupted match in antigua, england got the win they needed to keep their hopes alive. harry brook hit a7 not out, helping his side to 122—5 from their ten overs. namibia could only make 8a—3 in their run chase, with england eventually winning by a1 runs. so heartbreak for scotland, who came so close to making it through. with wimbledon just over two weeks away,

britain's jack draper is just one wn away from his first atp title draper is leading former wimbledon finalist matteo berrettini the eventual winner will play either karolina pliskova or diane parry of france. katie boulter and emma raducanu will return to finish their semifinal, with the final then to be played later. it was suspended last night because of the conditions but will be start soon.

american bryson dechambeau, who is seven—under par overall. rory mcilroy is still in the hunt for his first major title in a decade. i'm pleased how i struck it for the most part, got to work on that a bit but feel pretty pleased with the tee shots and tomorrow, the same court i have said all week, boring golf and the middle green never moves so i will try to hit a lot of the greens. a new photograph of the prince of wales and his three children taken by the princess of wales has been released. prince william's children

wish them a happy father's day with the it is the first time they have presented anything themselves. i doubt they posted in a bit young. it was posted a picture of a beach in norfolk with a goal for family holidays and go for peace and to relax and it is honestly a special place for them. the photo was taken by the princess of wales, economic tell which is taken it because she will sign it off at the bottom and there was controversy earlier this year at a photo she had edited, we all remember the controversy that erupted from that with this photo she has put that to date she says has been taken by her. have also had another photo from them of king charles and volume is a very young

boy playing football together in 198a in a royal garden and i think properly the reason that one has been put out today, i know we're talking a lot about football today is that england are laying the first game in euro 202a. and of course prince william is part of the football association and plays a leading role. he loves football. and it is father's day in the uk. that picture is very sweet and they look very relaxed. i think they are really relaxed from they take those photos and it is with a different point the foot of the king and prince william is of a young boy, the king is wearing a suit and wedding shoes even although they were in the garden playing football and not to several photos used to be and not to several photos used to be and i don't think they filter could be as relaxed as they are now. the photo release today of the children and prince william they are all in casual clothes and wearing shorts and william has a baseball cap and a hoodie on and i don't think king charles would have put photos out like that 20 years or 30 years ago

is definitely a relaxed happy family photo to celebrate father's day. stay with the serum bbc news. it is drier and a little warmer for many of us than it was yesterday. the wind not so strong around the site. —— site. the south. still showers around, mostly out towards the east, some heavy and thundery, such as this beautiful cumulonimbus cloud is captured by a weather watcher in suffolk, but lots of sunny spells as well, still a chance of heavy, persistent rain towards the north. that band of rain has been sinking south from north and central scotland into southern scotland and northern england, taking a lot of cloud with it as we head through the afternoon.

brightening up somewhat across northern and central areas of scotland, some showers, remaining rather cloudy across northern ireland. sunshine and showers for the rest of england and wales, most of the showers towards the east, drier towards the south, highs here of 20 celsius. along with the best of the sunshine today comes some high or very high pollen levels. as we head through this evening and overnight, the band of cloud and showery rain continues to weaken, pushing further south. clear skies towards the north, but showers for eastern scotland. cloudy for northern ireland, clear spells towards the south of that band of cloud. with the clearer skies, temperatures are likely to drop back into single figures. locally quite a chilly start to the day tomorrow. on monday, low pressure pulls out into the north sea. still showers for eastern areas of scotland down through north—east england. remaining rainy across northern ireland. in the best of the sunshine, temperatures could get into the low 20s in celsius.

in south—east england, we could start the day on tuesday with outbreaks of rain and more cloud that will gradually clearer away. showers developing, particularly in eastern areas as we head through the afternoon on tuesday. really quite cold across the north of scotland, with quite a brisk northerly wind blowing here. temperatures remaining on the cool side. still the low 20s towards the south. high pressure starts to build in from the south—west, from the azores, as we head through the middle of the week. always the threat of a bit of rain towards the south—east, and perhaps more cloud here. another weather front sinks down from the north—west later. for most, a bit drier and a little warmer. a bit more like summer. bye— bye.

this is bbc news. the headlines: the israeli military is to observe an hours—long pause in military activity along a road in southern gaza — to allow for the delivery of much needed aid. but the military emphasised that there is no ceasefire and combat would continue in rafah. a peace summit on ukraine has closed — with dozens of world leaders acknowledging that dialogue between russia and ukraine would be necessary to agree a lasting peace settlement. russia was not invited to the two—day summmit, which took place in switzerland. a man wielding an axe is shot and severely injured by police in hamburg — near a euro 202a fanzone. the incident took place as the city prepares to host a match between poland and the netherlands. and — princes george and louis and princess charlotte pay tribute to prince william on father's day — posting a picture taken by their mother on social media.

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