welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm arunoday mukharji. the headlines. the israeli army reaches a community attacked by hamas on saturday. they find women — and children — among those killed. the un warns of a humanitarian catastrophe in gaza — as palestinian officials say more than 900 people have been killed since saturday. this area was targeted heavily last night and hundreds of air strikes destroyed many buildings in this area.

it's seven in the morning in singapore, and 2am in israel where we start the programme as the full horror and ferocity of last saturday's attack by hamas gunmen, in southern israel, is becoming clearer. israeli officials say more than 1,000 people have been killed. throughout the day, the israeli military has been recovering the bodies of entire families — including several children, just a mile from the border with gaza. israeli soldiers on the scene, describe it, as a massacre. thousands of troops remain massed on the border with gaza, ready for what could be, a full scale ground invasion. our international editor, jeremy bowen, has been to the village of kfar aza, where the bodies have been recovered on tuesday. a warning you may find this report distressing. the first few days of war at this small israeli community called kfar aza are a microcosm of israel's trauma

and a glimpse of what might come next. israeli troops only seized back full control of the kibbutz this morning. it's one of a series of small israeli villages along the gaza wire. when we arrived they were still firing on houses across on the gaza side. israeli combat soldiers started their fightback here at around six o'clock on saturday evening, around 12 hours after hamas attacked. during that day, hamas carried out a massacre. decomposing hamas gunmen are still lying where they were killed. the murder of israeli civilians here was without doubt a war even for experienced soldiers, fighting their way back in against a determined enemy was hard going.

how difficult was the fighting? you cannot imagine. have you ever had to do anything like this before as a soldier? not like this. what do you do next? what does israel do next? i don't know. i do worry. i hope that we will go inside. into gaza? yeah. that will be tough fighting. yeah. we are ready for it. they stormed in and killed families. they could not recover all the civilian dead until this morning. these are the bodies of israelis. decomposing hamas gunmen are still lying where they were killed. the murder of israeli civilians here was without

doubt a war crime, but what if the palestinian civilians israel is killing in attacks on hamas. are you doing this this level of air strikes going on at the moment in the ground operations? at the moment in the ground operations?— operations? i'm sure that we fiuht for operations? i'm sure that we fight for our _ operations? i'm sure that we fight for our culture - operations? i'm sure that we fight for our culture and - operations? i'm sure that we fight for our culture and our. fight for our culture and our lives — fight for our culture and our lives and _ fight for our culture and our lives and you fight and you keep— lives and you fight and you keep your value in the same time — keep your value in the same time and _ keep your value in the same time and i— keep your value in the same time and i know that we will be very— time and i know that we will be very strong but we keep our value — very strong but we keep our value. we are is really, we are jewish— value. we are is really, we are jewish and _ value. we are is really, we are jewish and it's very difficult out there and there a lot of problems, people go into the battlefield and they suffer a lot but _ battlefield and they suffer a lot but we are here to kill the enemy. — lot but we are here to kill the enemy, not the civilians.

in only a few days, israel has inflicted immense damage in gaza. they have cut off supplies of food, water and power and killed hundreds of civilians. palestinian suffering, israel says, is the responsibility of hamas. israel has already been accused of breaking the laws of war and that will get louder as more palestinian civilians are wounded and killed. at kfar aza, israeli troops are thinking of what is next, perhaps a ground invasion of gaza. it was tough enough for the israelis to come in to recapture this area, these small border communities. it is a different order of military challenge to cross the wire, to get into gaza, potentially to fight house to house at a time when hamas will have made its plans and will be waiting. some of these men are moving north in case war starts with hezbollah, the powerful lebanese militia backed by iran. what happened here is why

israel is shaken to its core, why it insists it must break hamas and it points to the danger and uncertainty ahead. jeremy bowen, bbc news, kfar aza. israeli retribution, so far, has come from the air, with strikes on targets in gaza, reducing already battered and poor neighbourhoods to smoking ruins. this footage, released by the israeli military, shows, building after building reduced to rubble. palestinian health officials say the number of people killed in gaza, has now risen to more than 900 with well over four thousand injured. getting in and out of gaza is not possible as israel controls the border and they have been sealed. the eu foreign policy chief josep borrell says the eu opposes a total siege of gaza. but the bbc has a rare insight into the situation on the ground because our correspondent, rushdi abu alouf is inside. he has infact lived

there his entire life. it's too dangerous for rushdi to report live for us at this point, so he sent us this update. very quickly, we can see the scale of destruction in this neighbourhood. it's called rimal neighbourhood. it's an economic hub for gaza that has been completely targeted yesterday. many buildings were destroyed, behind me an ii—storey building was knocked down two days ago but the destruction in this area has been targeted last night. israel has said they carried out 200 air strikes targeting hamas infrastructure. they hit many buildings, government buildings belonging to the hamas—run authority. but look at the scale of destruction in the area and how civilian homes were completely affected and some of them were completely destroyed. translation: i lost everything. my house, my shop has been

destroyed completely. where do we go? we have become homeless. this gentleman just told us we have to leave the area because it seems the israelis are warning residents of the area they should leave, they are going to target another building in the area. but look at the scale of destruction. this is happening, with israelis targeting houses, shops, ministries and mosques, everything. the whole neighbourhood was levelled to zero. this is one of the most important economic hubs for gaza. as you can see, most of the shops were damaged, houses were damaged, the infrastructure, the street. this is the street that leads to the southern part of the city and it is completely blocked. rushdi abualouf

with that update. 0ur man on the ground in gaza, one of very few journalists still operating there at the moment. our international editor, jeremy bowen is in the city of ashkelon in southern israel — he says indications are pointing towards a ground offensive — and explained why first of all, the maximum goal the prime minister has said. what he said is not only must israel make hamas pay a terrible press would happen, he also said that he wants to change the equation in gaza and send a lesson to israel that will last for more than one generation. you do not do that simply to air strikes. and having been with the israeli army for much of the day today, i would say they are still trying to secure the area. there was shooting in my piece earlier as we arrived and in

southern israel where these killings have been discovered and in the city tonight, there's been a security alert because there's been some gunmen on the list i believe one was killed and there was a lot of concern and warnings for people to stay inside. i think they want to secure the rear before they decide they may want to push into gaza. 0utside want to push into gaza. outside the moment that the indications are still pointing towards the ground offensive in the big one too. president biden has been speaking to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to offer support from the us. at least ia americans have been killed in the attack. he said that the people of israel have lived through moments of pure unadulterated evil this weekend. in this moment, we must be crystal clear we stand with israel. we stand with israel.

and will make sure we have provided the means for them to defend themselves and respond to this attack. there is no justification for terrorism. there is no excuse. hamas does not stand for the palestinian peoples right to dignity and self—determination. the state of purpose is the annihilation. i have been speaking to our north america correspondent shingai nyoka in washington on the latest from us president biden. it was a very impassioned speech— it was a very impassioned speech in the way he outlined the horrors of the new details emerging about that weekend attack— emerging about that weekend attack and describe some of those — attack and describe some of those details and stomach turning _ those details and stomach turning and described hamas as a pure _ turning and described hamas as a pure unadulterated evil and described it as babies being

butchered and women being raped and assaulted and paraded as trophies — and assaulted and paraded as trophies and really reiterated the us— trophies and really reiterated the us position that not only does — the us position that not only does the _ the us position that not only does the us stand with israel but israel also has the right to both _ but israel also has the right to both defend itself and fight back_ to both defend itself and fight back and in addition to that, they— back and in addition to that, they spoke about the fact that this tragedy isn'tjust they spoke about the fact that this tragedy isn't just on foreign _ this tragedy isn't just on foreign soil, it's affecting the — foreign soil, it's affecting the us— foreign soil, it's affecting the us at least 14 us citizens are how— the us at least 14 us citizens are now confirmed to have died and that— are now confirmed to have died and that number could well increase _ and that number could well increase. we understand that about — increase. we understand that about 20 _ increase. we understand that about 20 us citizens are also missing _ about 20 us citizens are also missing and unaccounted for and some _ missing and unaccounted for and some of— missing and unaccounted for and some of them might be among the hostages _ some of them might be among the hostages and this is his address, notjust of hostages and this is his address, not just of the world, not address, not just of the world, hotiust— address, not just of the world, notjust israel but address, not just of the world, not just israel but also to americans and assuring them that— americans and assuring them that the — americans and assuring them that the us intelligence is working with their israeli counterparts to try and recover some _ counterparts to try and recover some of _ counterparts to try and recover some of those hostages. we also

heard from _ some of those hostages. we also heard from the _ some of those hostages. we also heard from the secretary - some of those hostages. we also heard from the secretary who - heard from the secretary who announced that he will be travelling to israel and what kind of support are they committed to on the ground and of strong statements of the scene from the what does that translate to and when they reached israel. fix, translate to and when they reached israel. a statement by president biden _ reached israel. a statement by president biden that _ reached israel. a statement by president biden that the - reached israel. a statement by president biden that the us . president biden that the us response was swift, decisive and overwhelming and we understand they're doing just understand they�* re doing just that. understand they're doing 'ust that. �* ., . ~ , understand they're doing 'ust that. , , ., , that. backing up the promise that. backing up the promise that they've _ that. backing up the promise that they've made _ that. backing up the promise that they've made to - that. backing up the promise that they've made to stand i that. backing up the promise i that they've made to stand with israei— that they've made to stand with israet and — that they've made to stand with israel and we understand that the us— israel and we understand that the us strike carrier group, gerald _ the us strike carrier group, gerald ford is making their way to the _ gerald ford is making their way to the eastern mediterranean and actually arrived there. this— and actually arrived there. this is— and actually arrived there. this is the largest and most advanced of the us warships and president — advanced of the us warships and president biden also gave us more — president biden also gave us more details about the munition that is— more details about the munition that is been supplied or will be supplied to israel, including the equipment to troister— including the equipment to

bolster the air defence and what — bolster the air defence and what we're expecting the next couple — what we're expecting the next couple of days is for that aid to start _ couple of days is for that aid to start arriving as a problem that— to start arriving as a problem that they— to start arriving as a problem that they alluded to in fact that— that they alluded to in fact that congress does not have the house _ that congress does not have the house of— that congress does not have the house of representatives does not have — house of representatives does not have a speaker and he appealed to the congress and said he — appealed to the congress and said he would be asking them to make _ said he would be asking them to make some swift and urgent decisions in terms of funding for this— decisions in terms of funding for this response and for the additional aid that has been promised to israel. it is we know. _ promised to israel. it is we know. the _ promised to israel. it is we know, the house of representatives is in disarray. and representatives is in disarray. ami a — representatives is in disarray. ami a lot _ representatives is in disarray. and a lot of commitment that be further— and a lot of commitment that be further from the us president. the un says it along with its humanitarian partners, is struggling to gain access into gaza. delivering aid is becoming increasingly difficult with constant air raids. it estimates 200—thousand people are displaced, and for the few homes still standing, there is limited electricity and clean water. we go live now to

author nathan thrall who lives injerusalem butjoins us today from london. nathan has previously worked for international crisis groups before he deciding to write about the every—day lives of people living along the israel—palestine divide. nathan, you once worked for the crisis group trying to resolve conflicts like this one, why in the decades of trying to bring peace in gaza do you think talks have failed? well, the problem here is we only pay attention when there is heightened bloodshed. and when my great frustrations while i was working at the international crisis group was that the media, the international community and diplomats all wanted to do something as soon there was violence, but what they wanted

to do was to return to the situation before the violence has occurred. they wanted to return to home. but bad situation that they want to return to, to restoring cone is a system of great, great injustice. in that system is driving the violence. people want to be free, palestinians and i'm living in freedom, living siege and what i decided to do after years of banging my head against the wall, working for the international crisis group was to write a book, a day in the life of the ordinary lives of palestinians and israelis to show what it is to live in this place prior to these escalations and to know what it is, to bejewish or palestinian living in this place in the living in a system

or palestinians are living behind wall with ghettos and on saturday, we saw horrific acts that are the result of horrible, horrible, the manifestation of horrible demonisation, dehumanisation, brutalisation and these societies and what we see is the children of gaza who have been living in this place, under siege for the last 17 years, they have had their civilian homes bombed, they are picking up body parts of children and we awful horrors committed on the other side of the border since saturday and today, again, we seeing collective punishment. nathan, what really _ collective punishment. nathan, what really needs _ collective punishment. nathan, what really needs to _ collective punishment. nathan, what really needs to be - collective punishment. nathan, what really needs to be done i collective punishment. nathan, what really needs to be done in that sense, considering you have written about it, what really is the strategy here?

what needs to be done is to address the root causes of these periodic bouts of violence, the issue is not the periodic violence, but the systems of ethnic subjugation that palestinians are subjected to. and the un, public school put out a report about 1100 palestinians forcibly transferred from their communities, the evacuation of entire communities as the slow—motion ethnic cleansing in the west bank and it's been napping since 2022, since the beginning of 2022. no one has done anything to stop that. hora done anything to stop that. how done anything to stop that. how do ou done anything to stop that. how do you see _ done anything to stop that. how do you see the _ done anything to stop that. how do you see the kind _ done anything to stop that. how do you see the kind of large—scale coordinated attacks the scene on the part of hamas and israel territory? it is the scene on the part of hamas and israel territory?— and israel territory? it is a war crime _ and israel territory? it is a war crime and _ and israel territory? it is a war crime and a _ and israel territory? it is a

war crime and a horrible i and israel territory? it is a i war crime and a horrible set and israel territory? it is a - war crime and a horrible set of atrocities that they committed and now, israel is committing war crimes in return. it is collectively punishing 2.1 million people, cutting off food, electricity, water, bombing civilian homes and these 2.1 million people in gaza had nothing to do with the horrible war crimes that hamas committed on saturday.- committed on saturday. thank ou ve committed on saturday. thank you very much _ committed on saturday. thank you very much for _ committed on saturday. thank you very much for your- committed on saturday. thank you very much for your time. | around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. all flights at london luton airport have been suspended after a fire broke out in one of its car parks. footage posted on social media showed flames and smoke tearing through cars parked at the airport terminal on tuesday evening. the airport said we ask that people do not travel to the airport at this time. holly willoughby has

told itv she will not return to this morning, adding it had been an "honour to just be part of its story", but that she had to make this decision for her and herfamily. a 36—year—old man was last week charged over an alleged plot to kidnap and murder willoughby. she had presented the programme for 14 years. the labour leader sir keir starmer has condemned hamas, saying he is shocked and appalled by events in israel. he was speaking at the labour party conference in liverpool, where he was ambushed by a protester covering him in glitter. he went on to use his speech to call for "a decade of national renewal" for the uk. you're live with bbc news. it is a hallmark of all the violence of recent days, that youngsters and children have been victims. the bbc knows of many young people who were kidnapped by hamas, a group designated as a terror organisation

by many western governments, including the uk, and committed to israel's destruction. the images of boys and girls, and babies in their mothers arms being led away, are some of the most harrowing of this war so far. caroline hawley has that story. imagine that you know and love these children, all now hostages in gaza, and the wait, the absence of news, is torture. this is 30—year—old israeli mother shiri, on saturday morning in the hands of her captors. still in her arms, her nine—month—old baby, kfir, and her four—year—old, ariel. they were kidnapped from their kibbutz near the border with gaza. theirfather, her husband, yarden, was also taken. i really hope that she is ok, i really hope that they didn't separate the kids from her. the babies were torn out from their bed at 6am on saturday morning, on holiday, in israel. they were asleep in their beds. my feeling is that my family is over there, i don't know how

they treat them and i know there is a nine—month baby that is without his food and diapers. these are pictures of more children held hostage, shared with danish television by their mother, maayan. they are her eight—year—old and 15—year—old girls, and she had this message for them. translation: i will do anything. we will do anything to get you back. do what your hostage—takers tell you. be strong. you are heroes. the whole country is with you and everyone else who is being held hostage. everybody loves you. we don't know all of the children taken hostage but along with ariel and kfir we know of 12—year—old erez and his sister sahar, and sisters raz and aviv, who are five and three. as israeli air strikes flatten buildings in gaza nobody knows what's happening to them. and now the lives of palestinian children are also being taken and torn apart. caroline hawley, bbc news.

and this is a war that is very close to home for many communities in britain. 0ur religion editor aleem maqbool looks at how families here have been affected. ahmed najar is an economist in london. he tells of bad news he received from the place he grew up, gaza. one of my cousins, we just found out that he was killed on saturday, in the evening. ahmed says he's worried for the rest of his extended family, with so many air strikes. as you can imagine, the situation there is not easy to really find out how people were killed, or whether they are under the rubble, or whether they are still alive. well, for so many people in this country, these horrors

feel like they're being played out much closer than ina distant land. and even if they don't have direct ties to the victims, in many cases, it's still having an impact on daily life. with fears of a rise in anti—semitism, there's been an increase in security around a lot ofjewish schools. there's police when the peak—time was. and there's more staff generally around, all the senior leadership team were around as well. so you come into school and everyone is sort of in the same boat, everyone isjust very worried and everyone is just sort of together, trying to hope for the best. singing. many britishjews have talked of a profound sense of connection tojews in pain, wherever they are. 0thers really are living a nightmare. there is nothing left. nothing is left there. sharone lifshitz has heard nothing from her ill mother and peace activist father since this israeli

community was attacked and burnt to the ground. she's worried about reprisals if she even shows their pictures. there is a lot of forces that try to make us feel that the others are not human. and i think we have to go back to remembering that these are humans. this is my mum, but she could be your mum, you know, and she could be anyone's mum. and i don't wish that on anyone. sharone is still clinging to the hope her parents will be returned to safety. aleem maqbool, bbc news. let us take you to gaza and the glimpse at what it is looking like and we have been seeing a few instances of explosions and splashes of oranges, evidence that the bombing continues

there for days after hamas began their assault in the death has reached 1000 and more than 900 people have been killed in gaza. hello there. so far this october, we've been building in some pretty big contrasts in terms of rainfall. parts of the south haven't even had a single drop of rain yet, whereas across northern scotland, aboyne in aberdeenshire, we've already had 113 millimetres of rain. that's already more than an average 0ctober. and of course, we're only a third of the way through the month. then we had these temperature contrasts on tuesday — 26 degrees in writtle near chelmsford in essex, just 13 in lerwick, behind a cold front across the far north of scotland. and over the next few days, as that cold front pushes its way gradually southwards, we are going to see those temperatures drop away. and certainly by the time we get to the weekend, we'll all be feeling as if autumn has firmly arrived. mind you, for some of us,

the temperatures will be dropping as we look at the weather into wednesday. here's our cold front, bringing some rain southwards, clearing away from scotland and northern ireland, so the flood warnings continuing to fall here. but we've got the rain heading in across parts of england and wales. a mild start to the day on wednesday here. a much colder start, though, in scotland, with temperatures down into low single figures in the countryside. now, we've got this band of rain, this cold front, with us through the day on wednesday, some particularly heavy rain across the hills of mid wales. could bring one or two impacts here. some wet weather as well for the midlands and parts of east anglia for much of the day. to the south of our front, it's another warm day, with temperatures again reaching the 20s. otherwise, for scotland, northern ireland, northern england, those temperatures will be dropping away. and it will be blustery for the far north of scotland too, gusts reaching 60 miles an hour, driving in plenty of showers here. now, heading through wednesday night and into thursday, our weather front sinks across into southern parts of england. it's very weak by this stage, just a few patches of rain. temperatures for most of us much closer to

the october average. we still have some heat hanging on across the very far south of england. and for a time on friday, we actually get a zone of warmer air pushing back northwards. but with that heavy rain for england and wales, scotland and northern ireland, a day of sunshine and blustery showers. so the cool weather continues across these northern areas. across the south, more of us will see temperatures climbing back into the high teens to low 20s. but that won't last. into the weekend, it will cool down properly, with temperatures around about 10 to 14 degrees. and for the mountains of northern scotland, on saturday, it'll be cold enough for a little bit of snow over the very mountain tops. that's the latest.

as fighting intensifies in the middle east, the international monetary fund's chief economist tells us whether geopolitical tensions could weigh on economic growth. and china's largest property developer faces a key test next week. we look at the implications for the world's second—largest economy. hello and welcome to asia business report with me, arunoday mukharji. let's start with the world bank and the international monetary fund, which are holding their annual meeting currently in morocco. the imf�*s chief economist says the global economy is limping along and not sprinting. he's also concerned economic

about the economic uncertainty that will come from the conflict between