today at one: over a million residents of gaza are told by israel to leave their homes immediately ahead of an expected ground offensive. thousands of palestinians are already on the move as the united nations warns of a humanitarian disaster. the israeli military have dropped leaflets on gaza telling people there to move south in the next 2a hours. what the statement is saying, that people living in gaza, for their own safety, should move south of this river. but hamas says the warning is just propaganda. also on the programme this lunchtime: the chancellorjeremy hunt has told the bbc that the crisis in the middle east and the continuing war in ukraine could lead to higher energy bills.

and microsoft gets the green light to buy up the makers of candy crush, one of the biggest deals of its kind in history. and coming up on bbc news: england pick owen farrell ahead of george ford, with marcus smith preferred at full—back for their world cup quarterfinal clash with fiji. good afternoon from sderot in southern israel. we are less than a mile from the gaza border. there has been intense rocket fire this morning, fired from gaza. on the horizon, you can see the outline of gaza city, dark smoke rising in the air. israel has told more than a million people living in northern gaza

to leave their homes and move to the south within the next 2a hours. israel is massing troops on the gaza border ahead of an expected ground offensive. the un has called on israel to withdraw the evacuation order, saying it's "impossible" for palestinians to fully comply it has also warned of a humanitarian disaster. israel says so far 1300 israelis were killed by hamas. in gaza, more than 11100 people have been killed in days of aerial bombardment. israel says people should now move to the area south of wadi gaza. hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government, says the people of gaza should ignore what it

called fake propaganda. our middle east correspondent, tom bateman, reports from jerusalem. some civilians are heading south from gaza city, already suffering a humanitarian disaster. they are on the move after the israeli army gave 1.1 million people 2a hours to flee their homes. everything is threatened, says this man. how long will this go on? there are no more houses. the whole area is destroyed, she said. with gaza under a siege, the military message is all that is getting in, drop by leaflet, telling civilians to move for their protection after it says how —— hamas... such a mass evacuation in 24 hamas... such a mass evacuation in 2a hours is impossible. it would cause chaos, and aid groups say it

could have devastating consequences. the forcible relocation of civilians like this, with a 24—hour notice, it is crystal clear violations of international law. we have reports from our people on the ground that the panic, the chaos in an already traumatised population that is under bombardment like no other is limitless. , ., limitless. the israeli bombardment continued into _ limitless. the israeli bombardment continued into the _ limitless. the israeli bombardment continued into the morning. - limitless. the israeli bombardment| continued into the morning. people won't flee for their own lives when there are still the lives of others to save. with many more dead and power to life—saving facilities for the survivors running out. the wounded are still being brought into already packed hospitals which are dangerously low on generator fuel and medicines. israel has said it won't lift its block on supplies.

unless hostages are freed by hamas. daylight came with more rockets from gaza into israel. the relatives of israel �*s dead and missing are still seeking information. this woman's grandfather was killed, her grandmother taken hostage. like others, she fears for their fate amid the intensifying fighting. the us the defence secretary lloyd austin arrived vowing his full backing for israel, and he met the israeli defence ministers. fiur israeli defence ministers. our neighbours — israeli defence ministers. our neighbours is _ israeli defence ministers. oi" neighbours is hamas, the isis of gaza, an organisation enjoying the iranians payroll. i cannot let the world forget the brutal attacks hamas terrorists conduct against israeli children, israeli women, israeli children, israeli women, israeli elderly and entire families. washington wants to stop this war from spreading, from engulfing the

wider region, but israel's attempts to push one —— to push1 million palestinians south in gaza are also risks greater instability because it puts them closer to the border with neighbouring egypt, and the egyptians have made it clear they won't accept refugees. there are many ways this crisis can now slip much further out of control, and the israeli tanks are still lining up on gaza's perimeter. tom bateman, bbc news, jerusalem. nearly a week on, grisly details are emerging of atrocities carried out by hamas gun men as they rampaged through southern israel on saturday. one of the most shocking massacres took place in the kibbutz of kfar aza. our correspondent has met one of the survivors. we should warn you that some of the details in his report

may sound distressing. we hear them shooting people, shooting kids, and the people telling them, please, please, no. please, no. they are the survivors. 22—year—old neta and her boyfriend, santiago, escaped from hamas's massacre in their village. she was shot six times in the legs. we start to hear gunshots for all the, they start... one apartment, one apartment, start to break the windows, break the doors, and start to shoot. you hear sounds, people screaming. the killers filmed themselves on the loose, murdering dozens in thejewish community of kfar aza. trapped in her home, with no israeli

army to be seen, neta realised the only person who could save her was her dad, who she hadn't spoken to in six years. hiding, staying silent, she managed to message him. they are close, she wrote. lock the doors, her dad replies. please, answer, please. but the gunmen found them. they started to shoot like... like we are nothing. i fall down on the ground and santiago scream at me, neta, please, stand up, start to run. if you don't stand up, we're going to die, we are going to die. hiding under a pile of rubbish, she texted her dad again. dad, they shot me. help. i'm coming, he replies. when she texted me that they shot her and she didn't answer to me, my heart stops, and my brain stopped to work.

you know, i was mad. when shimon, a plainclothes policeman, arrived at the village, he came under attack. i took my gun, and they start to shoot at me. i shot at them. i don't know if i hit them or not. and four people get from their houses over there and, with ak—47s, start to shoot me. eventually, shimon found neta near their burnt—out home and took them to safety, leaving behind many bodies. neta says israel must now respond in the strongest possible way. i don't want the hamas any more in my life. they need destroy them, one by one. they come to kill us. have you been thinking about what may happen to civilians in gaza if there is a big ground operation by the israeli military there?

i speaking, all what i said is for the jihad and the hamas. i don't... my country didn't want to hurt the civilians. i want they be safe. i don't think they need to die, like i don't need to die. they like me. but civilians are being killed in this war, in ever—increasing numbers. nick beake, bbc news, tel aviv. distressing reports emerging from what happened last saturday here in southern israel, and unprecedented shock and anger. across the gaza border, inside gaza, as we have been reporting, more than 11100 palestinians have been killed in israel's retaliatory air strikes. israel's retaliatory air strikes. israel has also imposed a complete closure of the area, which means

that food, fuel and water are now running out. more than 2 million palestinians who live in that coastal strip, a piece of land about the size of the isle of wight, cannot legally leave. in a moment, we will speak to another of our correspondence, anna foster, who is at another front in this war, one israel's northern border with lebanon, but first let's speak to jon donnison, who has lived and worked in gaza and knows the area well. just describe for us how impossible, to use the united nations word, it would be for the people of gaza to leave their homes in the north and move south within 24—hour is. we are hearing that people are beginning to move south in their thousands. our correspondent in gaza said he had seen long queues of cars heading south, but it's not going to be one point —— 1.1 million people in 2a hours. you can't shift 211,000

people in our. i know the area well and there are two road heading south. they are not great, there is a lot of rubble and destruction. it's not going to happen. there was also the question of where they are going to go once they get to this supposedly safe area. people haven't got anywhere to go, most people. and you know, the thing is, the question is going to be what happens when the 24 is going to be what happens when the 2a hours is up. what is a rail going to do? people what dosh —— what is israel going to do? you can't take people who are injured and disabled. when israel has issued warnings that it is going to target an area it has followed through with that with heavy bombardment. the question is, what will it do this time? jan what will it do this time? jon donnison- — what will it do this time? jon donnison. let's _ what will it do this time? jon donnison. let's go further north, to the lebanon border. today is the day that hamas described as a day of protest. there have been tensions

along the border. anna, what is the situation today? just along the border. anna, what is the situation today?— situation today? just in the last few minutes. — situation today? just in the last few minutes, there _ situation today? just in the last few minutes, there have - situation today? just in the last few minutes, there have been l situation today? just in the last - few minutes, there have been rocket alerts, even for this far north part of israel, and there is real tension on this northern border. we have seen signs of it tracking along the border this morning. there are many troops, many of those reserve troops who have been called up, 300,000 of them have been sent to this part of them have been sent to this part of the country, and you see them and their armoured vehicles. they tell me they are on high alert and ready for any escalation in this area. there are signs that things could be changing or could be being discussed, certainly in terms of iran. their foreign minister was in lebanon yesterday meeting the leader of hezbollah, and they said that at a point that seemed appropriate, there was nothing to rule out hezbollah actually joining there was nothing to rule out hezbollah actuallyjoining in this war. that would take things to a whole new level, a whole new size and scale. the question will be how much hezbollah feels it needs to

step in and stand shoulder to shoulder with hamas. they are both recognised as proscribed terrorist organisations by the uk, the us and others. there was pressure from palestinian militants to get hezbollah to stand alongside them and open up a northern front in this conflict. this is one that the west and the middle east are concerned about because it would notjust reverberate around here but around the wider world as well. lemma the wider world as well. anna foster, thank _ the wider world as well. anna foster, thank you _ the wider world as well. anna foster, thank you for - the wider world as well. anna foster, thank you forjoiningl the wider world as well. anna i foster, thank you forjoining us from the lebanon— israel border. and thank you tojon donnison for joining us. it is nearly one week on and every aspect of this war is intensifying. on this day, there have been arab protests in many middle eastern capital. there has also been diplomacy intensifying, the us secretary of state anthony blinken going tojordan and visiting states where some of hamas's political leaders are based. all the

while, intensifying military activity, far more rockets fired here into israel. as you can see behind me, the black smoke never goes away, and that is intensifying the fear among the people of gaza, of southern israel, about what could happen next. back to you in london. the chancellor of the exchequer, jeremy hunt, has told the bbc the current turmoil in the middle east and the continuing war in ukraine could mean higher energy prices. he said this week's events in the middle east are the latest in a series of global crises weighing on the world economy. he's been talking to the bbc�*s economics editor faisal islam at the meeting of the international monetary fund in morocco. at the very moment the finance ministers and bankers who run the world economy meeting here in morocco had dared

to talk of a turn around after three years of crisis, what is happening in the middle east has cast a new shadow, and now ministers here privately acknowledge the uncertainty from the russia—ukraine crisis shows no signs of lifting. it's not just what's happening in israel, it's the war in ukraine that is proving much more protracted than people hoped. we need to prepare for volatility, for shocks in the global economy. should people at home, though, expect that there might be an impact — we are seeing a little bit in the gas market already — from these events? i think people at home recognise that gas prices are four times what they were before ukraine, oil prices are nearly 40% higher, and the single biggest cause of instability is putin's aggression in ukraine. but that's the long—term solution. but we do have to be honest with people, that this is going to take some time. but there could be a situation

where the uk government could seize some of these frozen russian assets and use the proceeds or the profits, to help fund ukraine, its reconstruction, even its defence? the g7 have asked central banks to ask what might be possible, because we are absolutely clear, this is an illegal war, this war is against international law, and we need to do everything we can to make sure that russia cannot continue to afford to fund it. just when this inflation shock seemed to be settling down, global gas markets have found another rationale in the middle east crisis to keep on rising, and the extraordinary idea of seizing profits from the frozen russian assets is g7 finance ministers trying to target the original source of this wave of instability, russia, and it is an admission that the sanctions efforts are not working as planned. the world economy, and so the british economy too, still in the shadow of uncertainty from prolonged wars a long way away. faisal islam, bbc news in marrakech.

and in response to the unfolding crisis in the middle east, the uk is sending two royal navy ships and surveillance aircraft to the eastern mediterranean. downing street says it's to �*bolster security'. the prime minister, rishi sunak, spoke yesterday to his israeli counterpart, benjamin netanyahu, to offer what he called the �*uk's steadfast support for israel'. let's cross to our political correspondent helen catt. helen, what more can you tell us about the british response? well, the uk government has been absolutely clear that it is standing side by side with israel and israel has a right to defend itself. but we have also been hearing perhaps over the last 2a hours more concerns being expressed about the humanitarian impact and the need to protect civilians, the us secretary of state antony blinken said yesterday that it was important to take every possible precaution to

avoid harming civilians, irish irish said that that was something he had also raised on a phone call with the israeli prime minister. we are monitoring the situation very closely. we have formally updated our travel advice, and of course, humanitarian concerns and protection of civilians are very important, and this is something i spoke to prime minister netanyahu about, late last night. grant shapps israel was doing the right thing by giving warning as he put it of taking military aggression in asking people to leave the northern part of gaza, you have heard all the questions ability how feasible that is for a lot of people, in terms of providing practical humanitarian support, the uk has now sent two ships to the region, i understand they were previously providing humanitarian assistance in the wake of the

earthquake in libya, they have sent a company of marines and three merlin hecks are going to the region. —— helicopter. they are a as contingency to provide humanitarian support but they have another role in providing assurance, to try to address some of the concerns you have heard about about violence spreading or instability in the region spreading, so that deployment will, we are told, provide assurance, also for that reason some planes being sent to carry out surveillance missions which we understand start today and they will be looking forward to track any threat to regional stability we are told by downing street and to check monitor for the transfer of weapons to terrorist groups. ok a former warehouse worker accused of planning a mass shooting targeting his former primary school and a police headquarters has been

found guilty by a jury at bristol crown court. 32—year—old reed wischhusen was convicted of a string of charges of possession of weapons, ammunition and explosives charges. more from our correspondent danjohnson. so what will you do with all this stuff? november last year and officers have come to question reed wischhusen... i never harmed anyone, i never threatened anyone. ..before going to the police station. watch how he puts on his workjacket and asks to use the toilet. can i go to the toilet first? the officers had no idea what was coming next. waiting outside the door, there's first the sound of a pistol being cocked. then this. withdraw, withdraw. "withdraw" the officer shouts to his colleagues, as wischhusen comes down the stairs, aiming his gun at the police. don't do something silly! and this is the stock

of weapons and ammunition he built up over years. detectives also found explosives, and this is wischhusen in the full police uniform he got hold of, including body armour and holding a pistol. when officers searched his computer, they found a document entitled "revenge", which listed ten people from his old school and from the police firearms licensing department that he wanted to kill. when he was questioned, he said "this was all just a fantasy." but is this something that you think you were going to do at some point? no, it's just fantasy. fa ntasy? yes. and this — i'm recording this — is it therapeutic, does it help you? yes, it's very... but the jury was told he planned to carry out a massacre at his old school, before blowing up avon and somerset police headquarters. he'd written about other mass murders, like the columbine school shooting in america, and dunblane killer thomas hamilton, who shot dead 16

children and a teacher. this was someone who had a lot of anger in his mind. this is someone who was carrying a firearm within him routinely. carried it forfive months, it was loaded, it was in his jacket pocket and he was walking round with it. watch again, how he tried to subtly check the pistol was in his jacket pocket. in the bathroom he shot himself in the head, but somehow survived. he was given first aid after being shot by the police, but he recovered after four months in hospital. wischhusen later said this had been a suicide attempt, that he'd tried to kill himself and then wanted the police officers to end his life. he said he wasn't a danger to anyone else, but the jury disagreed. danjohnson, bbc news, bristol. a school teacher in france has been attacked by a man with a knife, and killed. witnesses at the secondary school in arras in northern france say

the attacker shouted "allahu akbar," god is great, in arabic. he also gravely injured another teacher and a security guard before being apprehended by police. officers say he's of chechen origin, and was known to the security services. french media reports he's a former pupil at the school. uk regulators have approved a deal by microsoft to take over the makers of call of duty, one of the bigest selling video game series of all time. the competition and markets authority originally blocked the £59 billion deal to buy the company activision blizzard, but have now given it the green light. it paves the way for the biggest buyout in video game history. our technology correspondent, mark chislack, reports. blockbuster games don't come any bigger than call of duty, candy crush and world of warcraft. all produced by games company activision blizzard, which could soon be purchased

by tech giant microsoft, which makes the xbox console. the uk's competition and markets authority has greenlit the biggest acquisition in the history of the video games industry after blocking it earlier this year. it's a deal worth a staggering £56 billion. executives at rival playstation have been vocal about their opposition to it. originally the uk regulator ruled that if this acquisition went ahead, microsoft's leading position in cloud gaming might stifle competition. so, what we see now is a major concession by microsoft. they've fundamentally restructured the deal and, importantly, activision is now selling the cloud streaming rights in relation to all its games content that exists now and is created over the next 15 years and putting that in the hands of an independent competitor, ubisoft. now, that's a game changer. microsoft has made assurances that games such as call of duty will be

available on rival platforms like playstation for another decade. when the cma originally blocked this deal, microsoft's president, brad smith, said it was the darkest day in its four decades of operating in the uk. what did you make of that statement? so, our responsibility is to protect uk consumers and uk businesses and make sure that mergers don't go ahead if they're going to harm competition. that's what we did. in a new statement, microsoft says: we are grateful for the cma's thorough review and decision today. we've now crossed the final regulatory hurdle to close this acquisition, which we believe will benefit players and the gaming industry worldwide. this will definitely strengthen microsoft's position in gaming around it xbox console. it will give them access to some of the biggest games in the world, with an improved experience or exclusivity. a victory, then, for the uk regulator, standing up to big tech? perhaps. but ultimately, if this deal goes

ahead, the big tech company still walks away with its prize. now behind sir eltonjohn�*s many hit records, there are the brilliant lyrics written by his songwriting collaborator, bernie taupin. it's been an extraordinary partnership lasting decades. well, now bernie has revealed some of the secrets of his success in a new autobiography, and our arts correspondent david sillito has been to meet him. and now eltonjohn, with two songs from his latest album, madman across the water. this one's called tiny dancer. it all begins with an advert doesn't it? it all begins with an advert in 1967, in the new musical express, and kismet. the glue that has always kept us together is music. # la lady... we've also got your lyricist bernie taupin here tonight. let's start with an early one, your song. # it's a little bit funny, this feeling inside...# i

it was written on one day, wasn't it? yeah, i mean it was written at breakfast one morning. you knew there was something in what you had written there. yeah. # hold me closer tiny dancer... tiny dancer, i have often wondered about that title. i mean, it's an interesting two words, i mean... yeah, i don't know where that comes from. i mean, it'sjust part of a song. # i miss the earth so much, i miss my wife... _ rocketman is based on a short story. by ray bradbury, yes, from the illustrated man. the entire first verse of that came to me in one fell swoop, as i was visiting my parents, and it came to me, just, like that. # i hope you don't mind, i hope you don't mind... i there aren't many people who keep friendships going for 50 years, especially when work and business and money are involved, but you have.

yes, well, we're lucky we're not in a band. we're very, very — two very different individuals. it's the longest running marriage, i think, of that kind of nature, that's existed in the music business. does it feel like that, a marriage? oh, yeah, absolutely. after all these years, you must have some fallings out every now and again? no, no, we've never had a major argument. you need to give people some advice, you know, you could be a relationship adviser. believe me, if i knew the recipe i'd make a fortune. # how wonderful life - is while you're in the world...

time for a look at the weather. here's elizabeth rizzini. i think there will be some sunshine that, was my line. big changes afoot this weekend particularly in england and wales, where today we are still seeing rain and we still have that milder air lingering on, seeing rain and we still have that milderair lingering on, but seeing rain and we still have that milder air lingering on, but further north and west, there is a lot of sunshine around, so much colder conditions but we are all coming into that colder feeling air as we head through the course of the weekend. there be a dramatic drop in temperature, so feeling very different. it will be windy but a lot of crisp autumn sunshine round to enjoy as well. and the reason for thatis to enjoy as well. and the reason for that is our weather front from today will push south around and eastwards, and sweeping away that milder feeling air, eastwards, and sweeping away that milderfeeling air, so we eastwards, and sweeping away that milder feeling air, so we are starting to see the cold air on a chilly north—westerly wind. a shock to the system for many. but for the

rest of the afternoon we still have