this is bbc news. the headlines... the israeli prime minister and opposition leader agree to form an emergency government to manage the war with hamas. israel pounds gaza for a fifth day — as gaza's only power station runs out of fuel. palestinian officals say over a thousand people have been killed — 60 per cent of the injured are women and children. israel says 1200 people are now known to have died in the attacks by hamas — as shocking details continue to emerge of a massacre in the kfar aza kibbuttz.

let me bring you two new lines coming in in the last few moments. reuters news agency reporting that alerts are being sounded in more towns in northern israel. warnings of incoming aircraft, i say aircraft, the thought is we are talking about drones. that is happening in the north, alerts in more towns in northern israel with warnings of incoming aircraft. we are keeping an eye on that, we have been talking to our correspondent on the borders with lebanon so we'll get the latest on that line. and diplomatically the afp news agency reports that china has urged, quote, an immediate ceasefire in a call with palestinian officials. that is coming from the foreign ministry in the last few seconds. if there are more details we will obviously return to those. time for a look at the business news

now with ben thompson. thank you, matthew. we will look through some of those top business stories right now. economies around the world are assessing the potential fall out of the conflict between israel and gaza. first up, the us treasury secretary janet yellen. she says she continues to expect the us economy to have a soft landing, even though the fighting poses significant additional risks. speaking this morning, ahead of the imf/world bank meeting in marrakesh, ms yellen said washington was monitoring the potential economic impact of the escalating conflict. we stand firmly behind israel and are there to support israel in any way necessary. while we are monitoring potential economic impacts from the crisis, i'm not really thinking of that as a major likely driver of the global economic outlook.

so we will see what impact it has. thus far, i don't think we've seen anything suggesting it would be very significant. lots of things remain uncertain. a little earlier, i spoke to gregory peters, co—chief investment officer at pgim fixed income. he outlined some of the wider risks facing the us economy. it is clear there is lots of moving parts. it is too early to tell. but i think that secretary yellen is right that the trajectory has not changed, the us economy looks like it is heading to a soft landing but the risk of recession is still quite high, that is the challenge for market participants and economists at this point. the market participants and economists at this point-— at this point. the world economy,

midway through — at this point. the world economy, midway through what _ at this point. the world economy, midway through what is _ at this point. the world economy, midway through what is probably | midway through what is probably described as a fragile recovery after the effects of covid and a slowdown in countries like china, notably. how fragile is that recovery and is a shock like there is enough to derail a recovery? it is enough to derail a recovery? it is thought quite fragile, for sure. at this point in time i don't think it has an impact. we have yet to see it has an impact. we have yet to see it fully unfolds and if it has a meaningful impact on energy prices, but puts more pressure on inflation makes the growth picture even more fragile. we are in a way to and see mode and it is very hard to be clear weather this will have an impact or not as we have to see how it plays out. in new york, the trial of the ftx crypto exchange founder sam bankman—fried is underway. he has pleaded not guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges related to the collapse of ftx, the now—bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange he ran.

on the witness stand today is a key member of his inner circle, caroline ellison, who is continuing her testimony from yesterday. out north america business correspondent erin delmore was at the courthouse and told me about the significance of caroline ellison's evidence. caroline ellison is the star witness for the prosecution. this was reflected yesterday in the level of excitement at the court in an absolutely packed court. she is the former ceo of a crypto hedge fund founded by sam bankman—fried and was personally close with the defendant. they dated off and on for a number of years and even lived together in a $30 million penthouse in the bahamas with executives from both companies. she told the jury yesterday that she and sam bankman—fried committed financial crimes together. she said they took billions of dollars from ftx customer funds and used to pay for investment and to pay

back lenders, she said they took billions of dollars. she has pleaded guilty and is working with the prosecution, sam bankman—fried has pleaded not guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges. it is an astonishing case, not only looking into what went wrong and where the money went but it could determine how crypto is regulated going forward. you were in court yesterday, did anything stand out to you as particularly remarkable? so much about this case centres on the relationship between the research company and ftx. the heads of each of those companies, sam bankman—fried and ellison, were personally close. she said she felt deferential towards him and awkward around him, that it was difficult for her to be dating her boss. she said she looked to him for all major decisions, ran them all by him, and the most stunning moment in the courtroom is when she was asked to identify the defendant in the courtroom, she took about ten seconds, maybe more, to do so,

standing up, turning her body, craning her head before saying i see him there in a suit, which was stunning for two people who lived and worked together and dated, but they have not seen each other since the collapse of ftx. the latest on that trial from new york, we will keep you up to date with that, it could have far ranging implications for how crypto is regulated in future. british airways says it's suspended operations to and from tel aviv over safety concerns. today, the airline diverted a flight from london to tel aviv, not long before it had been due to reach the israeli city. ba says it's monitoring the situation in the region closely. all flights have been suspended until wednesday afternoon at one of england's busiest airports after a fire caused the partial collapse of a multi—storey car park. an eyewitness at luton airport, north of london, reported hearing loud explosions from cars going up in flames and said the fire took hold at "incredible" speed.

some developing news from the united states related to the p in the middle east, the transportation secretary in the country, now working with us airlines to try to continue services to and from israel. many countries around the world have been monitoring the safety situation very closely and updating us on that continuing it safe to so. ea suspending flights to and from tel aviv. in the united states the transportation secretary is trying to find ways the airlines can continue flights safely to and from israel. big questions about that, but work going on behind the scenes. continued coverage of events in the middle east is coming up for you on bbc news. around the world and across the uk, you are watching bbc news.

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about closures in the hospitality industry, so this is a refreshing change. for more stories across the uk, head to the bbc news website. israel has said up to 150 people were taken captive when hamas launched its surprise attacks, hamas says it has hidden and unsafe places and tunnels within gaza. these are the law —— live pictures in gaza, another large explosion, a plume of smoke on the horizon. in terms of the hostages, hamas has threatened to kill them if civilian homes are bombed by israel without warning. the bbc has a team ofjournalists looking at what the situation is like and where the hostages could be. thank you mccamley has the analysis.

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footage like this, disturbing footage like this, disturbing footage of people being taken, we don't know what has happened to them or what condition they are in or where they are. the complexity of that has been highlighted in the case of this german tourist. she was reported to have died following on from this footage that was released but appear to show her body in the back of this track, but since this footage and batch reporting, her mother has spoken to german media to say she believes is alive. if you want to follow the story online we have correspondences from across the world updating the live page, head to bbc news for more. the latest from the red cross, five of their members have been killed in gaza as a result of what is happening, no exact timeframe in terms of weather this was today also on saturday but

confirmation that five of their members have been killed in gaza. i was only saying about 20 minutes ago that the un beside nine staffers working for the un palestinian refugee agency have been killed in their air strikes refugee agency have been killed in theirairstrikes in refugee agency have been killed in their air strikes in gaza since saturday. the latest in terms of the impact it is having on the eight workers on the ground, and if we can get more, we will return to the edge. earlier, i spoke to the bbc�*s diplomatic correspondent, paul adams — who was in gaza in 2014, the last time israel ventured into the territory. so i arrived atjust at the end of the air strikes and just as the ground operation got under way. that was a pretty terrifying experience and all the signs so far this time around are that this is being done on an infinitely bigger scale. the destruction already wrought on parts of gaza is, as we've seen, pretty awesome.

the last time i checked on the rising death toll, if around 1,000 palestinians have already been killed since saturday, that's almost half as many as died in six weeks of the 2014 operation, so that gives you some idea of what we're talking about. the other thing, and this is thinking back to what bel trew was just talking about, what you experience is vast numbers of people on the move. i met families in 2014 who had moved not once, not twice but three times — each time trying to escape the fighting, because every time they moved, it came closer to them and it becomes more and more untenable. if this is going to be conducted on the kind of scale that we are anticipating, notjust to break up hamas, to render its military infastructure irreparable, but to uproot the political oraginsation altogether, then it is likely that we are going to see much, much worse destruction.

mark regev, he was on newsnight, we played the clip earlier, he gave a little glimpse of that in that interview, in terms ofjust how much change they think they want to see before this actually ends. yeah, they want to create a whole new paradigm, they want a gaza without hamas. and after what happened on saturday, clearly the popular pressure and the international support for such an objective is overwhelming, and that gives benjamin netanyahu a very substantial following wind. but how practical is it, though? i suppose that is the only obvious question. it will be insanely difficult. this is an organisation that has built up over 30 years, it is deeply embedded in the gaza strip, both militarily, right there, embedded within the civilian population, but also politically. some of its key leaders are abroad, not in gaza. clearly the israelis will try to kill as many of those as they can. what's left once you have destroyed it, you have a captive

population, 2 million people who are ungoverned because hamas is the governing structure also in gaza at the moment. so talk of re—occupying gaza, at least temporarily, seems like a very real possibility. as for the destruction, i have read israeli military commanders saying if palestinians have to live in tents for the foreseeable future, then so be it. in terms of what we have heard from western capitals, you touched upon it but all of them talking about the barbarity of the attacks, talking about israel's right to defend itself and that gives space for benjamin netanyahu, but, ultimately, over the coming days, if not already, your assessment on the pressure he is under with all those hostages, as well, the whole of the situation, the attack on saturday? i think he's clearly under enormous pressure to act, and to act quickly.

one of the criticisms in 2014 was when the ground operation began, it was not quick enough and took a long time. i think it's quite possible we may have to wait a few more days before it begins, but when it does happen, i think it is likely to be perhaps more decisive, quicker than we saw in 2014. you mentioned the hostages, that is a huge problem because some of those hostages are westerners. the us secretary of state antony blinken is going to be in the region. the british foreign secretaryjames cleverly is there right now. will there be questions asked about whether or not there's room for some kind of diplomatic indirect effort to try and get at the very least non—israeli hostages out? could that delay israel's military objectives somwhat? it is a very complicated factor. i spoke to a former israeli official earlier who said that ultimately, the prospects for those hostages getting out alive

are very, very bleak. paul adams. israel has attacked an observation post inside neighbouring lebanon belonging to the militant group hezbollah. israel says it's in response to a fresh rocket attack from across the border. i've been speaking to our correspondent anna foster who's in northern israel on the lebanon border. you can perhaps see on the hill line, it looks like a faint grey stripe. it is actually a high wall that marks the border between israel and lebanon. this is a village that was divided in half, half of it stayed in israel, half of it is now in lebanon. i also want to show you over here, there is a hill you can seejust behind me over there. you can see a hezbollah observation point sticking out at the top of the trees. locals here were showing me video of what happened here yesterday, because they had hezbollah infiltration over the borderjust here and on the video you could hear the sounds of gunfire.

you could see men on the hillside there. it is worth saying, that was a serious moment because three israel defence force soldiers were killed, one of them very senior, a deputy battalion commander. it is small incidents like this here on this border that are causing really serious anxiety right now. even this morning, hezbollah fired an anti—tank missile into israel. again, the israel defence forces responded, thereby to get targeted hezbollah positions inside there. a lot of the focus at the moment is on gaza and the perimeter of gaza and what is likely to happen there but there is really worldwide concern that if there were something here that were to suddenly escalate, you are then getting into a huge, potentially regional war. you will remember back in 2006 when israel and lebanon fought a devastating war over a month or so and i think particularly if you look to the us, they have moved ships into this region, moved an aircraft carrier into the mediterranean. a lot of that is to do with what is happening in gaza but a lot of it is to do

with the fear that a new front could open up here. there were also overnight missiles fired from syrian territory and these are a lot of the things that may be are not the first thing we are talking about at the moment but they are really serious underlying issues. the emergency government will be sworn in at 1800 local time tomorrow. and in the last helper will be have heard thatjoe biden has spoken with israel's prime minister later today. more on those stories later on bbc news. wandsworth prison in south—west london has been described as "unsafe and inhumane", according to the prison's independent monitoring board. they said they'd seen "no real progress" in the past year which reflects "the failures

of the prison system as a whole". the report was written before the alleged escape by daniel khalife last month. bhavanni vhadi has more. built during the victorian era and now not fit to function effectively, a damning new report found wandsworth prison in south—west london to be inhumane and unsafe. it covers the period before the alleged escape of daniel khalife from that prison in september. if you have a host of inexperienced, not terribly well trained staff, a lot of young staff, and they are all overstressed because there are not an awful a lot of them. so they are all under pressure. and because the men, most of them don't get out of their cells for more than a couple of hours each day, that adds to the pressure. the issues are all contributory. they do not help towards the event that happened in september. severe staff shortages and overcrowding were highlighted as problems and in two wings there were only 11 showers for 265 man.

chris aitken is a film—maker who spent nine months in wandsworth prison for tax fraud. my reaction to the report is extremely depressed and upset that it seems to have actually got worse since my time there back in 2016, 2017. the prison is an inhumane, dysfunctional mess that is not fit for purpose and actually makes people's rehabilitation worse not better. it is the kind of environment that if you put animals in, you would be rightly prosecuted by the rspca. the report also found that levels of violence were of great concern. assaults had risen by 25% over 1,000 in that year, on average there were ten assaults on staff per week, the use of force has increased by 49% to just over 2,200 incidents. a prison service spokesperson said that they had taken decisive action to address the serious issues raised. by increasing front line staffing by almost a quarter in the past six years, and that the government was spending more than £8 million

on new cctv for the prison. but the report found unless the years of underinvestment is reversed, then conditions for staff and inmates at wandsworth are unlikely to improve. nasa scientists are preparing to reveal the first details about what they found inside the sealed canister return to work last month carrying the largest soil sample ever taken from the surface of an asteroid. it is hoped thatjust will reveal some of the story about the solar system. reveal some of the story about the solarsystem. here reveal some of the story about the solar system. here is our science editor rebecca morrell. inside this capsule, discoveries nasa says could be out of this world. precious fragments of an asteroid called bennu. the osiris—rex mission team is about to unveil what was found

and it could tell the story of the solar system. and it could tell the story of the solar system-— and it could tell the story of the solars stem. r ., , " �* , solar system. asteroids like benyu are time capsules, _ solar system. asteroids like benyu are time capsules, leftover- solar system. asteroids like benyu are time capsules, leftover debris | are time capsules, leftover debris from the early solar system so we can learn so much about the history of the solar system, of planet formation and potentially how water and organic molecules were delivered to earth and all of those things that could have seeded life here on earth. ., that could have seeded life here on earth. . ., , ., , ., earth. nasa travelled billions of miles to grab — earth. nasa travelled billions of miles to grab a _ earth. nasa travelled billions of miles to grab a sample - earth. nasa travelled billions of miles to grab a sample bennu, | miles to grab a sample bennu, packing it into a capsule to bring back home. it landed in the utah desert where it was checked out by the mission team and then quickly secured. we already have bits of asteroids here on earth, space rocks like these lancia all the time and we can learn a lot from them. the problem is they get contaminated as soon as they come down with the air, the dust, the bugs on the ground. so if you want to make pristine you need to study asteroid material that has come directly from space. the

asteroid sample will be divided between scientists around the world, including at the natural history museum in london where the team are preparing for the arrival. ashley cain has already had a sneak peek, he was one of the very first people to see what was being collected at nasser�*s labs. to see what was being collected at nasser's labs-— to see what was being collected at nasser's labs. when they took the lead off the _ nasser's labs. when they took the lead off the canister, _ nasser's labs. when they took the lead off the canister, it _ nasser's labs. when they took the lead off the canister, it revealed i nasser's labs. when they took the lead off the canister, it revealed a| lead off the canister, it revealed a black powder everywhere, incredible. everybody in the room with —— was certainly pointing and we wanted to see what we had got. this certainly pointing and we wanted to see what we had got.— certainly pointing and we wanted to see what we had got. as the capsule has been opened _ see what we had got. as the capsule has been opened so _ see what we had got. as the capsule has been opened so far— see what we had got. as the capsule has been opened so far we _ see what we had got. as the capsule has been opened so far we have - see what we had got. as the capsule has been opened so far we have just| has been opened so far we have just had a glimpse of the black asteroid dust, but nasser is ready to reveal more and the health of such a treasure trove lies inside. when we are back we will have all the latest, we expect in the last few minutes to hear from the un secretary—general and we will get all of the latest developments on its well�*s new emergency government that will be sworn in tomorrow, we will talk live to a doctor in gaza

and we have the uk foreign secretary in israel, all of those latest developments on the programme in a moment or two after the weather with ben rich. for some of us over the last few days, it has felt as if summer has been trying to cling on deep into october. but autumn is going to be arriving over the next few days. in fact, already feeling quite autumnal in the northern half of the uk. here some sunshine, but some rather cool air working its way in from the north—west. conversely, south—westerly winds bringing warm and muggy air down towards the south, and the dividing line between those air masses is this weather front bringing some outbreaks of rain across parts of wales, the midlands, into east anglia and lincolnshire. particularly heavy rain i think across parts of west wales with the risk of some flooding and some disruption. to the south of that, often quite murky but warm and humid. further north, something cooler and fresher. 12 degrees, for example, in aberdeen and glasgow, some sunshine, scattering of showers, the wind slowly easing a little bit in the north of scotland. now, overnight, ourweatherfront

moves a little bit further southwards and then tends to stall across southern counties of england, parts of wales and the midlands, very mild here, 16 degrees in plymouth overnight. compare that with two or three degrees for many spots further north. but here we will see some sunshine to take us into tomorrow morning. a scattering of showers, particularly in the north—west of scotland. this band of cloud never really clearing the south of england or south wales. we could see some pockets of rain and drizzle at times. some warmth trying to cling on here, but for most a cooler feel. 17 degrees there for london, 13 for belfast, 12 degrees in glasgow. but instead of clearing through, that weather front actually tries to push northwards again during thursday night into friday, looking very wet for parts of england and wales. at the same time, this cold front pushes its way into scotland and northern ireland. so quite a complex look to the weather chart on friday, but we will see some outbreaks of rain, particularly across england and wales. but across scotland and northern ireland we see sunny spells and some showers.

some of those showers could start to turn wintry over the very highest ground as some colder air starts to dig its way in. and that's the story for the weekend. we finally lose all of these weather fronts, all of us get into this cold north—westerly wind. if anything, temperatures by day will be a touch below the average for the time of year. and at night we've got the chance for quite a widespread grass frost. bye for now.

live from london. this is bbc news. israel pounds gaza for the fifth day is because i pause my only power station runs out of fuel. palestinian officials say over 1100 people have been killed. 60% are women and children. israel says 1200 people are now known to have died in the attacks by hamas. to manage the war with hamas.

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