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. hundreds of air strikes destroyed many buildings in this area. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday.

welcome to the programme. as we continue our coverage of the israel gaza war, the scale of atrocities inflicted on civilians is becoming clearer. throughout the day of the israeli military has been recovering the bodies of entire families, including several children and babies. just a mile from the border with gaza. israeli soldiers on the scene described as a massacre. 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 only started their fight back here at around six o'clock on saturday evening, around 12 hours after hamas attacked. these men are experienced soldiers, combat reservists. they said fighting their way back in against a determined enemy was hard going. how difficult is the fighting? you cannot imagine. have you ever had to do anything like this before as a soldier? no, not like this. what happens next, what do you do next, what does israel do next? i don't know. i do what they tell me to do. i will do. i hope that we will go inside. into gaza? yeah.

that's going to be tough fighting. yeah, we'll be ready for it. kfar aza was taken by surprise, like everywhere else hamas attacked. the kibbutz guard, armed civilian volunteers, died fighting back. hamas stormed in, burning homes and killing families, according to the soldiers. as it took so long to secure the kibbutz, the army couldn't recover all the civilian dead until this morning. these were 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 about the palestinian civilians israel is killing in attacks on hamas? as you know, all armies have obligations under the laws of war to protect civilian life, even in war zones. are you doing this, with this level of air strikes

that are going on at the moment and any ground operation that might happen? i'm sure that we fight for our value and our culture all our life. you fight with value and you keep your value in the same time. and i know that we will be very aggressive and very strong, but we keep our moral and our value. we are israeli, we arejewish, and you know, war, it's a very difficult theatre with a lot of problems, people are staying on the battlefield who will suffer a lot, you can see what is happening here, but we come to kill the enemy, not the civilians. but 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's 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's 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. 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 4,000 injured. israel has ordered a complete siege of gaza, saying no water, electricity, food or fuel will be allowed into the strip. the eu foreign policy chief josep borrell says the eu opposes a total siege of gaza. the bbc has a rare insight into the situation on the ground, because our correspondent, rushdi abu alouf, is inside. he has, in fact, 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, if 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 quite recently, 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 areas that they should leave, they are going to target another building in the area. but look at the scale of destruction. this is happening overnight, with israelis targeting houses, shops, ministries, mosques, everything. the whole neighbourhood was levelled to zero. this is one of the most important economic hubs for gaza. where, 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. it's completely blocked. our international editorjeremy 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 maximal goals that prime minister netanyahu has set. what he has said is

that not only must israel make hamas pay a terrible price for what happened, he also said that he wants to change the power equation in gaza, to send a lesson to israel's enemies that will last for more than one generation. you don't do that simply through air strikes. however, having been with the israeli army for much of the day today, i would say that they are still trying to secure the area. they were shooting, as you saw in my piece, perhaps, earlier on, as we arrived at the qubits in southern israel —— the kibbutz, and in the city tonight, ashkelon, there has been a security alert because there were some gunmen on the loose, i think one of them was killed, there was a lot of concern and warnings to be able to stay inside, so i think they want to secure their rear before they

decide they might want to push into gaza. but certainly i would say at the moment all the indications are still pointing towards a ground offensive, and a big one, too. global attention is fixed on the region, as the developments there unfold. we have heard from the us presidentjoe biden who has also been speaking to the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to offer support from the us. at least 14 americans have been killed in the attack. he said that the people of israel have lived through moments of pure unadulterated evil this weekend. so in this moment, we must be crystal clear. we stand with israel. we stand with israel. we will make sure israel has what it needs to take care of its citizens, defend itself and respond to this attack. there is no justification for terrorism. there is no excuse. hamas does not stand for the

palestinian�*s people's right to dignity and self—determination. the stated purpose is the annihilation of the state of israel and the murder ofjewish people. us secretary of state antony blinken plans to visit israel on thursday, in his own words, to engage directly about the situation on the ground. my colleague in washington sumi somaskanda has been speaking to john washington, the spokesman for the national security council, speaking to him about the position on the israel gaza war. , ., ., ., war. first and foremost we want to make sure — war. first and foremost we want to make sure that _ war. first and foremost we want to make sure that support - war. first and foremost we want to make sure that support will. to make sure that support will better help them defend themselves and to go after these hamas terrorists where they are, and to affect their ability to continue to conduct terrorist attacks. so that is the main purposes. 0bviously giving israel the capabilities they need to better defend their citizens.— they need to better defend their citizens. can you tell us more about _ their citizens. can you tell us more about what _ their citizens. can you tell us more about what the - their citizens. can you tell us more about what the israeli l more about what the israeli prime minister has asked the us

president for? i prime minister has asked the us president for?— president for? i don't want to net into president for? i don't want to get into the _ president for? i don't want to get into the specifics - president for? i don't want to get into the specifics of - president for? i don't want to get into the specifics of the i get into the specifics of the conversation that president biden and prime minister netanyahu had too specifically. i think it should be obvious, based on the president's remarks, that we made it clear to prime minister netanyahu that we would continue to provide them the necessary military support as they prosecute this fight against hamas, and already one tranche, the first tranche of military aid is on its way to israel, it will be there soon. i fully expect there will be more. it was important for president biden to make it clear to prime minister netanyahu that we stand with them and that extra support will be forthcoming. president biden also confirmed that us citizens are among those being held hostage. what is the us doing right now to work to secure their release? the first thing we've done is offer support to israel, with

respect to the expertise that we have in the law enforcement community, in the military community, in the military community here in the united states, even in the intelligence community. we've got hostage recovery experts in, we have offered their expertise to israeli officials, as they think through how they might want to go about recovering hostages. we now know, and it is a recent development, literallyjust within the last hour or so now, we have been able to confirm that at least some number of those hostages are americans. so obviously we want to do whatever we can to help israel in these efforts. we whatever we can to help israel in these efforts.— in these efforts. we have also had reports — in these efforts. we have also had reports of _ in these efforts. we have also had reports of explosions - in these efforts. we have also had reports of explosions in i had reports of explosions in southern israel, some ongoing fire traded between israelis and hezbollah in the north of israel. what is the us monitoring in terms of ongoing fighting and what israeli forces are trying to do? again, i don't want — forces are trying to do? again, i don't want to _ forces are trying to do? again, i don't want to speak - forces are trying to do? again, i don't want to speak for - i don't want to speak for israeli military operations, but we are certainly in close touch with them. we understand

that they are responding in kind to continue —— to continued attacks, they are taking action to go after various sites and infrastructure that they know hamas is using for command and control or intelligence collection and that kind of thing. i want to be careful, though, that i don't violate israeli operational security here. they are doing what they believe they need to do to make it much more difficult for hamas to continue to prosecute this war against the israeli people. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. more news making headlines around the uk. 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 ask that people do not travel to the airport at this time. 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. the international monetary fund says the uk faces another... to stem rising prices. the organisation expects the uk to have the highest inflation and slowest growth next year of any g7 economy including the us, france, germany, canada, italy as well as japan. you're live with bbc news. staying with the conflict in israel and gaza. 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. that is in their own words. 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 are 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.

let's now cross live to manila and speak to a man whose sister lives in israel who is missing, alone be hamas attacks and so to is her husband as well as to back of her three children. thank you for your time here on tuesday. i appreciate it is a difficult time so thank you for sparing some of your time to talk about what you have been going through. so what really have you heard from authorities?- have you heard from authorities? ., ., ., authorities? the information that we have _ authorities? the information that we have is _ authorities? the information that we have is not - authorities? the information that we have is not really - authorities? the information l that we have is not really from authorities but from eyewitnesses. that is from the kibbutz. both my father, my little sister and younger sister living in the kibbutz which was maybe the epicentre of all this problem or atrocities that happened in south of israel on october seven, and what we had — so i was communicating with what had

happened until about 9am in the morning and then i lost communication. and then what transpired after, when i spoke to in the evening to some members of the kibbutz where they were successfully evacuated is a bird the house, they were hidden in the safety room in the house and they were forced out through the terrace putting the house on fire and they were taken alive out of they were taken alive out of the house. so hope is a very good storyteller, so the story that we tell ourselves is because they were taken alive, they were alive, we assume that they were alive, we assume that they were alive, we assume that they were taken to gaza because on other occasions people who terrace encountered theyjust terrace encountered they just keep terrace encountered theyjust keep them —— kelderman side and this was not the case. she is

still considered missing as well as her husband, a 15—year old boy and 13—year—old girl. and if i may ask in you're comfortable in sharing, what was the last conversation you had with your sister before you lost touch?— lost touch? yes, shortstop mickey basically _ lost touch? yes, shortstop mickey basically i - lost touch? yes, shortstop mickey basically i called i lost touch? yes, shortstop| mickey basically i called my dad, my little sister and her and shejust said, you know there are shootings around and i cannot really talk because she was afraid to be heard. and she was afraid to be heard. and she hung up on me and i have not heard anything since. i did not heard anything since. i did not try to call immediately because i know ringing can attract attention but maybe one—hour later she was already not responding. you one-hour later she was already not responding.— not responding. you said that everything — not responding. you said that everything you _ not responding. you said that everything you have - not responding. you said that everything you have heard - not responding. you said that everything you have heard so| everything you have heard so far has been from eyewitnesses. am i correct to understand you have not heard anything from authorities?— authorities? yes. but i don't ex - ect authorities? yes. but i don't exoect to — authorities? yes. but i don't expect to hear _ authorities? yes. but i don't expect to hear from - expect to hear from authorities. i am expect to hear from

authorities. iam her expect to hear from authorities. i am her brother. the one they would probably contact are the parents of person, the parents of her husband and my dad. i have not heard from authorities but i was not also expecting to hear from authorities but there is also a lot of chaos with the amount of casualties and amount of terrorist that were around. as you said, somebody is they only managed to get today or yesterday. there is the chaos that will be resolved and i'm sure everybody will be accounted for and really why i am here isjust to accounted for and really why i am here is just to try to find out what is the fate of the family. out what is the fate of the famil . . ., , family. right, we certainly hoe family. right, we certainly hope you _ family. right, we certainly hope you receive - family. right, we certainly hope you receive some - family. right, we certainly l hope you receive some good family. right, we certainly - hope you receive some good new. thank you very much for your time. appreciate you coming in speaking to us on us on bbc news.

clive myrie has been looking at what of the most densely populated areas in the world. the gaza strip or simply gaza is palestinian territory with israel on its northern border and egypt to the south it is a tardy slather of land when you consider the number of people living there. to .3 million in an area just 25 kilometres long and 10km wide. the largest settlement is gaza city. the ruling authority is the militant group hamas, in control since 2000 seven. it is committed to israel's destruction, hoping to create an islamic state. the uk has demonstrated hamas as a terror organisation. but it is israel that controls gaza's airspace, shoreline and border crossings, as well as water and the electricity supplies. the un says 80% of gaza's population survives on international aid.

human rights watch has called gaza and open air prison. ismaily rockets can cause mass casualties in the densely populated territory and the warren of pact streets will make any ismaily defence force ground operation extremely difficult. it is believed hamas has built a vast network of tunnels like these into which government can hide and be resupplied with weapons. if israel decides to cross the border, the fighting will be bloodied and intense. and this is a war that is really close to home for many communities in britain as our editor report. 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 in a 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 is just very worried and everyone isjust 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.

find more updates on the bbc website. that's all for now. thanks for watching. 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 1a 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. we are going to begin the programme with the world bank and the international monetary fund, which are holding their annual meetings in morocco. the imf's annual meetings in morocco. the imf�*s chief economist says the global economy is limping along

but not sprinting.