and also it is in war to protect, to save its own humanity, and its own democratic values, and we need to win both of these wars, notjust one. we should distinguish clearly between the terrorists of hamas, who perpetrated the atrocities and try to destroy any chance for peace, and the palestinian people, who are human beings like us, and deserve to live dignified lives in their homeland, and how to make this distinction, and you know, it is very concrete, hamas is fighting, using palestinian civilians in many cases, as human shields, placing its bases, weapons inside civilian population, and this is — israel should not go down to the level of hamas, and should strive to make this distinction.

how muchjeopardy do you think there is right now, for benjamin netanyahu? you mean personally? his position, as the leader of the country, and the fact that it was on his watch that the intelligence services completely failed to protect the people in southern israel. the failure is much, much bigger than the immediate intelligence failure. you know, israel is paying a price for being led by a populist strong man, for the last 14 years. his entire career was built on dividing the nation against itself, on attacking the state institutions, on describing the serving elite of the state as deep state traitors and globalist infiltrators and things like that,

and we are now paying the price for that. and he... but how are those things directly linked with hamas�*s massacre of israelis? because on the day of the massacre it wasn'tjust, you know, the intelligence that failed, we are seeing our problems in so many of the state institution, and we are seeing a very inspiring upsurge of civil society and of israeli civilians, trying to do the job, to fill the gaps, that was left by neta nyahu's government. and i hope that israel will emerge from this catastrophe more united, stronger, with a very, very different leadership, and a very different world view on itself and on the region. thank you very much for talking to newsnight. thank you. that's all from us tonight. i'm back tomorrow. goodnight

breaking news from around the world 2a hours a day, this is bbc news. and it is important to set this point as of the population of gaza is overwhelmingly a billion and so it is so important that they get the medical relief, the managerial and relief that they so badly need —— overwhelmingly civilian. communications, internet has been cut off. it is a major issue. we

have partners we have not been able to contact, we do not know if their buildings and offices, which we are very familiar with, that we go and visit them in an gaza city, we do not know if they're still standing and don't know if this partners themselves are completely out of contact because of the internet issues, electricity issues or if they have been hit in an air strike themselves. so we are facing some major issues. like you say, we have a massive appeal out for the wider middle east crisis. this is notjust in gaza, but it is the most acute in gaza. and we are working with our partners... some of our partners have done the most amazing things, open up their community centres to internally displaced people. of course they are still not safe, having moved from the north to the south, but they are released altogether into media centres there, where our partners are able to provide nonfood and food items,

medical relief, but of course getting around gaza is incredibly difficult and perilous for their staff. ~ , ., difficult and perilous for their staff. ~ ,, , , ., ~ ., difficult and perilous for their staff. ,, ._, ., , staff. when you speak to authorities on the ground. _ staff. when you speak to authorities on the ground, what _ staff. when you speak to authorities on the ground, what kind _ staff. when you speak to authorities on the ground, what kind of - staff. when you speak to authorities | on the ground, what kind of response are you receiving when you make those appeals for some sort of a humanitarian channel? how are those requests received? we humanitarian channel? how are those requests received?— requests received? we don't speak directly with _ requests received? we don't speak directly with authorities _ requests received? we don't speak directly with authorities on - requests received? we don't speak directly with authorities on the - directly with authorities on the ground ourselves. but we certainly hear from our partners that they are being met with bare years, there is absolutely no movement in humanitarian access issue. it goes right up to the un secretary—general i ,we arejoining , we arejoining because of , we are joining because of the , we arejoining because of the un secretary—general for access to gaza, but this is an issue far beyond christian aid can deal with. this is at the top, to the un, and falling very much on deaf ears at the moment. we falling very much on deaf ears at the moment-— falling very much on deaf ears at the moment. ~ ., ., ., the moment. we will have to leave it there.

the moment. we will have to leave it there- julie — the moment. we will have to leave it there. julie mehigan, _ the moment. we will have to leave it there. julie mehigan, thank- the moment. we will have to leave it there. julie mehigan, thank you - there. julie mehigan, thank you very much for your time here on newsday and your inputs. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some stories making news. figures obtained by the bbc show a&e waiting times at welsh hospitals have been seriously under—reported for the past decade. according to the royal college of emergency medicine, thousands of patients were excluded from the official statistics recorded every month. the health minister previously claimed that wales outperformed england. former one direction star liam payne has been banned from driving for six months, after he admitted to speeding. he was spotted in february travelling at 43mph in a 30mph zone in west london. as well as the ban, the 30—year—old was fined £293 and told to pay a surcharge of £117 and £90 in costs. a new veterinary hospital at battersea dogs and cats home will be named after the late

paul o'grady. the tv and radio presenter, who died in march aged 67, became an ambassador for the charity in south london over a decade ago. the charity set up a "tribute fund" in his honour which has raised almost half a million pounds so far. you're live with bbc news. let's bring you a moving story in brussels, where a shooting has left at least two people dead. belgian media is reporting a gunman, who used an automatic rifle fled the scene and is still at large. it's understood the victims were swedish. the attack reportedly happened at 7pm local time near the boulevard d'ypres in central brussels. that is what we know at the moment. but be can get some more information. live now to sofia bettiza at the scene in brussels. thanks for coming on for us. what more do we know at the moment? what more do we know at the moment? what we know so far — more do we know at the moment? what we know so far is _ more do we know at the moment? what we know so far is that _ more do we know at the moment? wiegt we know so far is that the gunman

opened fire here in central brussels at around 7pm in the evening. he had an assault rifle as you said and he shot dead two people in that street, which has now been cordoned off by the police, as you can see. a short while ago, we were sent a video, and in that video, a man is filming himself on a scooter, and he claims that he is the gunman, that he carried out the attack, and speaking in arabic, is he said that he killed three people in the name of god. the motive of the attack is unclear, but what some local media here in belgium are saying is that the two victims were wearing sweet and football shirts and so they could have been football fans. —— sweden football. there is a match here tonight in brussels, sweden versus belgium. that has now been suspended and all fans are asked to stay in the stadium as a precaution. the federal prosecutor here in belgium

is treating this as a terror attack, and we should say that the gunman is still at large. the police are still looking for him, and because of that, the alert level has been raised to four brussels, which is the highest level, and it means that a threat could be imminent.- a threat could be imminent. we will leave it there, _ a threat could be imminent. we will leave it there, but _ a threat could be imminent. we will leave it there, but thank you - a threat could be imminent. we will leave it there, but thank you very i leave it there, but thank you very much, sofia, for getting us the latest on that developing story. we will come back to you for more updates on that. let's ta ke let's take a look at more stories in the headlines. the uk parliament's behaviour watchdog has recommended that a member of parliament for the ruling conservative party, peter bone, be suspended for six weeks for bullying and sexual misconduct. a former member of staff had complained about mr bone's behaviour, saying the alleged incident happened more than ten years ago. the suspension will have to be voted on by the house of commons to be approved.

more foreign prisoners in the uk are to be deported to their home countries under plans to tackle overcrowding injails. figures show thatjails are approaching full capacity in the uk — with the number of inmates at an all—time high. under current rules, foreign offenders can be sent home up to a year before the end of their sentence. new plans would see more caseworkers deployed to speed up removals, allowing criminals to be removed up to six—months earlier. further school strikes are due to take place in scotland after a union rejected the latest pay offer for support staff. unison, the union that represents administrators, catering assistants and janitors, said a rolling programme of strikes in schools and nurseries will take place in the coming weeks, with dates announced within days. what could be a big story that we are looking ahead to... on tuesday, india's supreme court is set to give a ruling

on petitions seeking to legalise same—sex marriage. the government and religious leaders have strongly opposed same—sex unions, saying they are against indian culture. now, the ruling could potentially give india's tens of millions of lgbtq+ people the right to marry. the petitioners argue not being able to marry violates their constitutional rights. live now to our south asia editor, anbarasan ethirajan. keeping a close eye on that. good to have young the programme. just give us more about the arguments that have been made so far, in an outside court, based on these positions. around 21 petitioners, mostly from the lgbtq community, they filed this petition in the supreme court, asking to give legality, marriage equality, because they are facing this termination and stigma. the

vast majority of indian society —— this termination. the court was don mack it listens to this argument. and then they reserved the verdict. the millions of people here in india, especially from the lgbt community, are usually awaiting for this verdict. what they are arguing is according to the constitution, they are being discriminated against, they should be given the right to live together so that they can marry each other. that will open up avenues for them, for example, to open a bank account or buy a house or inheritance, there are so many legal issues. that is why they want to legalise same—sex marriage. however, the government vertically argued against it, saying the first of all the supreme court should not be hearing this case —— particularly

argued. they say it is the job of parliament. they argue it is against indian culture. it is going to be an important verdict for millions of people. it can change the way the society looks at the lgbtq people. and in terms of how this entire journey really has played out, there have been some significant milestones as well, where certain sections of indian law had been reversed when it came to laws on homosexuality in india, isn't it? that was a colonial era law that was abolished in 2018, that allowed amount legalised, gay sex. until that time, there was taboo. people would laugh at them, criticise them, and then the court's historic judgment, saying it is not illegal

to have gay sex. moving from that, how they can make the situation permanent, that is why they were trying to get one of the acts within the indian constitution called the special marriages act, where the marriages can become legal but that was the argument of this petition. but the government was strongly arguing that a marriage should only take place between a man and a woman, a heterosexual, but now the petitioners say if they get this legal status, that would settle so many issues, but the government argues there are more complicated and because marriages in india are governed by personal laws, which means they're cases like and adoption, how do we change those laws? they have to change a number of laws —— inheritance and adoption. there are complications here but people are hoping the supreme court will give them some kind of verse but i ,so , so they can have some respect in

society —— some kind of respite. anbarasan, we have to leave it there. thank you for giving us that input. it is a story we are watching out for on tuesday. it's been officially confirmed that cricket will be an olympic sport in the 2028 games in los angeles. th announcement was made in india, where cricket is hosting the cricket world cup. it is hoped it will help countries pick up the sport. more coming up on newsday. thanks for watching. hello there. it's been a fine start to the week, thanks to a ridge of high pressure. we've had some sunshine, chilly nights, mind you, with some frost and fairly cool days. tuesday, the last of this settled, chilly weather, because by wednesday onwards,

we start to see low pressure taking over, bringing gales, heavy rain, but also milder air too. now this area of low pressure has been named storm babette by the met office. that's going to continue to push northwards, affects our shores wednesday, thursday, merges with a larger area of low pressure — and that area of low pressure itself will affect us for the end of the week and into the weekend. so rainfall totals really mounting up across the board, but particularly so across more northern and eastern parts of the country. and we do have some concerns for eastern scotland, which could see heavy and persistent rain throughout this week, which could lead to localised flooding. of course, the ground is pretty saturated here as well. however, for tuesday, it's a fine day. chilly start there, there'll be some early mist and fog, plenty of sunshine around. the breeze picking up across southern britain, and we'll start to see this weather front bring some patchy rain to south—west england, south—west wales, then push up towards northern ireland later in the day. and temperatures will be a little bit higher than monday, 12 to 16 degrees. but the winds will continue to pick up through tuesday night. rain will splash its way northwards, into northern ireland and scotland.

elsewhere, largely dry, variable cloud, some clear spells. there will be some further rain pushing into the south—west by the end of the night, but nowhere will see frost. it's going to be a much milder night, 9 to 12 degrees. wednesday, then, we see storm babette start to push up in towards southern britain, bringing gales and heavy rain. initially, we'll start off with that early rain across scotland. that will tend to clear away. much of central and northern britain will have a fine day on wednesday. quite windy, though, those winds picking up through the day from the south—east, and it turns much wetter across south wales, southern england later in the day. some heavy, thundery rain here as storm babette pushes northwards. widespread gales developing as well. but on the mild side, 13 to 17 or 18 degrees in the south. on thursday, storm babette will be affecting the north of the uk, rain piling into eastern scotland, strong and gusty winds here. further south on thursday, something a little bit quieter, but it's going to stay quite windy, with sunny spells, showers or longer spells of rain, and temperatures up to 18 or 19 degrees here, mid—teens further north. but we see further very wet and windy weather on friday,

certainly across the south and the east of the country. that lasts as we head into the weekend as well. see you later.

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straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. despair and dread stalk the streets of gaza. israel's bombardment of the territory has reportedly killed more than 2,700 palestinians. that toll is bound to rise if — when — an israeli ground invasion begins. all this because israel was attacked from gaza by gaza's rulers, the jihadists of hamas, whose murderous assault saw more than 1,400 men, women and children killed. my guest is husam zomlot, the chief palestinian diplomat in london. hamas, it seems, wanted a devastating war. but what about palestinians not with hamas? what are their options?