this is bbc news. it's newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. israel's prime minister says his country is preparing for a ground invasion of gaza to take out hamas. speaking in a televised address, benjamin netanyahu said it was "only the beginning". the prime minister also said that after the war, everyone — including himself — would have to give answers as to why hamas was able to carry out the october 7th attacks. in his address, he spoke about his intentions in the next phase of this war. translation: we are in the midst of a campaign | for our existence. we have set two goals for the war — to eliminate hamas by destroying its military

and governmental capabilities and do everything possible to bring our hostages home. meanwhile, the us president says israel has a right to defend itself against terrorists, but must protect innocent civilians. speaking at a joint press conference with australian prime minister anthony albanese, joe biden said there's no going back to the status quo the israelis and palestinians had before the hamas attack. the president also cast doubt on some of hamas�*s claims. what they say to me as they have no notion that the palestinians are telling the truth about how many people were killed. i'm sure innocents have been killed, and it's the price of waging a war. i think we should be incredibly careful. i think now israel should be incredibly careful to be sure that they're focusing on going after the focus that are propagating this war against israel, and it's against their interest when that doesn't happen. but i have no confidence

in the number that the palestinians are using. the comments by the american president come as the united nations says hospitals and other services in gaza are running out of fuel, and that its aid agency there may have to stop working if it doesn't get fresh supplies. israel has allowed limited supplies of food, water and medicine in, but charities say vast amounts more are needed. our first report is from our special correspondent fergal keane, who is in jerusalem, and has been working with teams on the ground in gaza. and a warning, his report contains some distressing images. each climbing cloud a marker of destruction. relentless airstrikes. thousands of bombs dropped. hamas started this war. israel responds with devastating force. it is a story

of stunned aftermath and desperate searching. the man was away from his home when the bomb fell. he speaks to his lost loved ones. "i wish we'd stayed with you." and then a child who survived. "they're all gone", he tells her. bbc cameras in gaza captured medics collecting the wounded. the man shouts, "nasser! "his head is open", speaking of the child in his arms. mahmoud badawi daily faces the killing inflicted from the skies. but there isn't time to stop, much less show his feelings. from one scene of

carnage to another. there are the survivors to care for. translation: there are many hard situations. . as an ambulance driver, you get accustomed to what's happening, whether it's hands, heads or bodies that are cut. in many families now, there's the need to familiarise their children with the morbid practicalities of life in a warzone. translation: i have seen bodies blown apart. - you can't identify anyone. so, in case anything happened and they were blown up, i would know them from this bracelet and i can collect their bodies. it is not knowledge any parent wants to impart. in gaza's hospitals, there are acute shortages, struggling to keep services going as fuel supplies dwindle.

12—year—old ahmed barahem suffers from kidney failure and he's exhausted. sometimes in the heart of it all, there's good news. "she's ok, but she's scared", they call out. her father is being freed from the rubble. first the names, then the medics' reassurance. "they're all out, i swear." the emergency workers like mahmoud are overstretched, exhausted, knowing that, however much they do, in gaza now, it cannot be enough. fergal keane,

bbc news, jerusalem. the hamas—run health ministry in gaza now says almost 6,500 people have been killed since the start of the conflict. the bbc�*s gaza correspondent rushdi abu alouf has remained working there, despite the difficult conditions. he is in khan younis in southern gaza and getting us a glimpse of what the situation is there. yeah, tonight, there was really bombardment around this hospital. this is nasser hospital in khan younis. it's the hospital that is the only medical centre that serving half of the population now, and it's at the edge of catastrophe, as the director of the hospitaljust told me that they have shut most of the operations and only the operations room and the life—saving place and facilities are working. —— heavy bombardment. they are struggling to cope with the situation with the shortage of fuel, no fuel coming to this hospital for about 20 days. just about half an hour ago, air strike this direction,

about 200 metres from the hospital, destroyed a three—storey building. about 50 people in one go they rushed to this hospital. imagine, doctors have to deal with 50 casualties in one go and some of them were dead, some of them were severely injured, so i went to this operation room and i saw how they are struggling to cope with the situation and no guarantee for how long they can keep doing this result without supplies and fuel. in israel, families continue to mourn. the funerals of two british teenagers and their mother has taken place injerusalem. noiya and yahel sharabi, and their mother lianne, died in the hamas attack earlier this month, in which more than 1,400 people were killed. lucy manning reports. opposite the pomegranate trees, in a quiet corner so at odds with the manner of their deaths, three fresh graves have been dug.

for a mother and her two daughters — lianne, noiya and yahel sharabi — the contrast between this time of celebration and this day of mourning could not be starker. the sound of teenagers sobbing filled the small cemetery. lianne, the mum, came to israel from bristol aged just 19 to work on a kibbutz. she built her life, herfamily, here, until hamas decided to take it away. you gave value to my life, li, my friend. i'll always cherish your memory. the land of israel envelops you and your girls today. but so does the heart of your beloved england. rest in peace, lovey. her bristol family sent tributes they had recorded. we will miss our girl to the end of our days and keep

her in our hearts forever. noiya loved to sing and dance. she worked hard at school and always got good grades. a beacon of light extinguished too soon. all we know is that there is a yahel—shaped hole in our lives that can never be filled for her british family. the family gave us permission to film here, to show that of the 1,400 people killed in israel, one was lianne, one was noiya, and one was yahel. a nation's grief. hundreds came to this triple funeral, including other british israelis who didn't know the sharabis but wanted to pay their respects. too many are dead from kibbutz be'eri. children can't mourn parents. parents can't grieve their children. hamas tried to obliterate this family, and the sharabis can't even rest in peace. the girls�* dad, eli, is still missing.

their uncle yosi kidnapped. dead, missing, kidnapped. the horror of that day for this country in one family. british roots now covered in israeli soil. lucy manning, bbc news, kfar harif. one of the most scrutinised incidents in the war has been the explosion at the al—ahli hospital in gaza in which hundreds are feared to have been killed. hamas immediately accused the israelis — but israel, along with the us and uk, subsequently blamed a rocket fired from within gaza. our correspondent nick beake has been working with bbc verify to establish exactly what we've learned one week on. the carnage at the al—ahli hospital has been one of the most scrutinised incidents since israel launched its bombing of gaza in response to the hamas attacks. so, one week on, what can we say with absolute certainty?

well, not a huge amount, but there is significant potential evidence that we've been considering here at bbc verify. now, this is a 3d model of the hospital complex that the team has put together. you can see it's a modern building with solar panels on top. the anglican church, which owns and runs the hospital, says it's provided some of the most advanced medical care in the region. hundreds of gazans were said to have been staying out in the open in these areas here, fearful of missile strikes. they were there when the site was hit. the point of impact, you can see it there in the courtyard near parked cars and those displaced families. and this crater remains the most important piece of evidence that we have. you can see it's small. based on the limited evidence available, none of the four experts we spoke to believed it to be from a missile that the israelis used. that would've made a much bigger hole, they say. now, have a look at this photograph. this was taken on the night

of the blast, and it appears to show explosive experts from gaza police inspecting the crater. hamas later said it had been investigating, but we've not been able to find any statements about an update since then, nor any images of weapon fragments they might have recovered. all the experts we've spoken to say it's unheard of for there to be no debris from a rocket or a missile strike. so, what about video? well, this video here was captured by the aljazeera network, and there's been a lot of focus on it. if we just play it through, it shows an object moving through the sky. and then shortly afterwards, there is an explosion. at this point, the camera readjusts, it pulls out. and then if we look towards the ground, we can see a big explosion, and we have verified that as being the site of the hospital. now, a spokesman for the israeli defence forces held

up this video as evidence during an interview with the bbc and others and said it was evidence of a misfired rocket coming from gaza, veering off course and plummeting towards the hospital. but now the new york times and some other open—source investigative teams have concluded that this object in the video was, in fact, fired from within israel and exploded two miles away from the hospital, and so was not connected to the disaster. here at bbc verify, we've looked at the various calculations, and we don't think we can be completely certain in working out or triangulating where this object came from. other analysts believe it could've been impossible for whatever exploded in the air to have travelled to the hospital in the specific time frame, in eight seconds. now, one final thing. three days before the explosion, according to the hospital's facebook page, a ward was hit by artillery. those in charge of the place said that they had received warnings from the israelis telling them to evacuate. and here — we'vejust stopped it — they say

this is the remnants of an artillery shell. three days later, on the evening that so many people were killed, israel says it was not firing in the area around the hospital. so, one week on, and many, many details are still unclear. the us, the uk and israel insist it was a rocket from gaza that was to blame, but many in arab countries simply don't believe it. new compelling evidence may well come to light, but in the middle of such a bitter conflict, lots of people on all sides will have made up their minds long ago. you can find more details on the bbc news website. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news in the uk. a police officer who blackmailed and threatened more than 200 young girls into sending him explicit images of themselves over

snapchat has been jailed for life, with a minimum term of 12 years. lewis edwards groomed girls aged between 10—16. two metropolitan police officers have been sacked after being found guilty of gross misconduct, following the stop and search of two black athletes in 2020. the team gb sprinter bianca williams, and her partner ricardo dos santos, who's also a sprinter, said they were racially profiled when officers pulled over their car in west london, handcuffed them, and searched them on suspicion of having drugs and weapons — none were found. mps have voted to suspend the former conservative minister peter bone from parliament for six weeks. an investigation found he'd bullied and was sexually inappropriate around a member of his staff. he denies the charges. you're live with bbc news.

let's turn our attention to some other stories. republican lawmakers have chosen congressman mikejohnson as their new speaker of the house. mrjohnson from louisiana won the speakership with 220 votes. he'll fill the speaker's chair that's been vacant since october 3rd, when kevin mccarthy was ousted. johnson is a close ally of former president donald trump. he led an unsuccessful attempt by 126 house republicans to overturn the 2020 presidential election infavourof mrtrump. this is what he said earlier. we're going to dispense with all the usual ceremonies and celebrations that traditionally follow a new speakership because we have no time for either one. the american people's business is too urgent in this moment. the hour is late, the crisis is great, and america, we hear you. let's get you the latest. ukraine has started the forced evacuation of around 1,000 children and their families from two regions in the south and east of the country, as fighting there intensifies.

the order covers parts of kherson and donetsk. similar instructions are already in place in other areas of ukraine. our correspondent, jenny hill, reports from kyiv. the authorities here in ukraine say the situation in some towns and villages close to the front line in the south and east of the country has now become so dangerous that they've ordered and have started the forced evacuation of children from those areas. these forced evacuation orders do come from time to time, particularly when fighting intensifies in certain areas. officials are now going door to door in the 31 settlements in the kherson and donetsk regions, trying to persuade parents to flee with her children. they're they�* re accompanied by they're accompanied by police officers who actually can force them to go.

no child is left alone, no child can go without parents or legal guardian. we spoke to one of the officials involved who told us that they're showing parents video footage of the aftermath of missile strikes to try to hammer home to these people — some of whom don't want to leave their homes — just how dangerous the situation is. it's notjust the risks and the dangers, it's also about the infrastructure of some of these towns and villages. when there are strikes, sometimes energy infrastructure is knocked out. it's an extremely uncomfortable place for people to be. that's something else officials are trying to use to persuade them to leave. talking about, it's getting cold here. winter is coming, and of course, the big fear in ukraine is that once again, moscow will target critical infrastructure. overnight, two buildings near a nuclear power plant in the west of the country were damaged in a drone strike. now, the plant itself wasn't damaged, but still, around 2,000 people had their electricity cut. president zelensky very much aware of the turnings

of the seasons, has said that this year, ukraine will not only defend itself, but will respond, too. switching focus to more new niles —— news now. a year on from the deadly crowd crush in south korea, its survivors have told the bbc they are still traumatised and a lack of answers is making it difficult for them to heal. nearly 160 young people were killed when they got trapped in an overcrowded alleyway in seoul as they celebrated halloween. despite well—documented failings by the authorities, no—one has been held responsible. our seoul correspondent jean mackenzie reports. do you remember where you were? yeah, it was just here. this woman has returned to the narrow alleyway where she was almost crushed to death. there were people on top of you, trapping your legs. yeah. it was so painful, yeah. i couldn't move at all, even my fingers. i realised at that time,

"oh, i'm going to die." people out to celebrate halloween funnelled into this alleyway from three directions until it became so tightly packed they couldn't move. some couldn't breathe. the pressure was so great, it ruptured the muscles injyoo—kun�* legs, paralysing them for months. are you fully recovered now? actually, no. i have pain on my knees and my foot. it's now well established how the authorities failed to keep people safe that night and save lives. but no—one has been held responsible. trials and investigations are ongoing, leaving thousands still nursing their physical and emotional scars. this is where the dead are remembered —

a makeshift memorial set up by theirfamilies. they take it in turns to stand guard in case the authorities follow through on their threat to remove it. this man's teenage son survived the crash, but his best friend and his girlfriend were killed. unable to cope with the trauma, he then took his own life. this one, yeah. how has it affected you that still, nobody has really taken, responsibility for this? translation: the government and the local authority - ultimately failed in their duty to protect lives. we need to know what happened and who was responsible in order to heal. we have asked the national government, the local government and the police to talk to us, to tell us

what lessons they've learnt and how they're going to keep people safe this halloween, but they've all declined. they've told us that this isn't the right time for them to talk. some new safety measures are being brought in, though this halloween�*s celebrations are expected to be far quieter. the alleyway is still dormant. a shrine to the dead. reading these messages makes you sad? do you remember where you were? butjoyoo—kun plans to keep returning here. she says she must keep her memories alive untiljustice is served. jean mackenzie, bbc news, seoul. he said "i'll be back" — and now he is, as a life coach. arnold schwarzenegger — hollywood megastar, one—time politician and seen as the most muscular man in the universe — has written a book with advice on how to be successful. he's been sharing some of his life experiences with our entertainment correspondent colin paterson. announcer: ladies and gentlemen, - arnold schwarzenegger!

he was the body—building champion that became a movie star and then the governor of california. let's get to work. but at the age of 76, there is one goal he can't achieve...yet. ifeel like i would make a great president. the problem — he lived in austria until the age of 19, and any us president has to be a natural—born citizen. everything that i've accomplished was because of america, so the only thing that i can't do, which is run for president, i'm not going to complain about that. if the constitution was changed, then schwarzenegger would want to run, but in the meantime, he's been keeping very busy writing be useful, a motivational guide. so many times, people read about my successes, but, i mean, on the way to get there, there were tremendous defeats and there were tremendous losses.

and even on personal losses, you know — like my marriage, the mistakes that i've made — you have to recognise those mistakes, you have to be responsible for those mistakes. you cannot go and blame someone else for it. take responsibility, take ownership of those mistakes that you've made, and learn from that and then come back and be a better person. because of the actors�* strike, we can't talk about your movies. does this mean i have to do your catchphrases today? what's the rules there? you can go and say, "get to the chopper!" you can say, "i'll be back." i'll be back. and he was the showman right to the end of the interview. ow, ow, ow, ow! laughter. colin paterson, the strongman of bbc news. wow. and i'll be back as well in just a few minutes. that's all

for the moment. you can catch much more on the bbc news website. hello there. let's take a look at the latest weather for the week ahead. on wednesday, we did have some sunshine around, but it was a very wet start to the day across southern counties of england, particularly through hampshire and the isle of wight. you can see flooded roads there in east cowes on the island, not far from the ferry terminal. and whilst we did have a met office amber warning out for that heavy rain, it was significant. some parts of the island, in knighton, for example, seeing three weeks' worth of october rainfall injust over 12 hours. looking to the next few days, we hold on to this static pattern, really, of low pressure systems after low pressure systems bringing outbreaks of rain and their associated weather fronts with the jet stream running to the south of us, directing them towards our shores.

here is thursday. we've got outbreaks of rain from the overnight period working their way northwards towards the north—east of england and across parts of scotland as well. elsewhere through the midlands, in towards wales and the south, some sunshine but also a number of showers. same, too, across parts of northern ireland. temperatures in the south in the mid—teens, cooler further north. and then looking into thursday evening, you can see that rain still with us, tracking north in towards parts of the north—east of scotland and certainly across parts of the east and north—east, we could well see the rain totals mounting up as we head through the next few days. elsewhere, it's a little bit drier, but there will be some cloud and some outbreaks of rain. temperatures around 9—10 celsius as the overnight low. to friday, once again, low pressure situated towards the west, sending weather fronts our way. a brisk wind around the south—west through the channel there and across parts of the north—east coast of england and in towards eastern scotland as well, where that rain is set to continue. elsewhere, though, through much

of england and wales, some sunshine, also a number of showers, similar across parts of northern ireland. temperatures once again, 10—12 celsius across scotland, a little bit milderfurther south, in towards the mid—teens. so, saturday, it's a similar picture. we do have low pressure situated towards the west and outbreaks of rain and weather fronts working in from the south across parts of england, in towards wales and northern ireland. for scotland, we've got a wind coming in off the north sea, quite brisk at times, bringing some cloud and further outbreaks of rain. elsewhere on saturday, we've got some sunshine through parts of the east midlands, in towards east anglia as well, where we'll see temperatures in the mid—teens, perhaps 16 in the london area. on sunday, there's the jet stream once again just running to the south of us and directing areas of low pressure and rain our way. but just look where this weather front is here, because that is the dividing line between some colder air moving in from the north across parts of scotland, milder weather further south. exactly where that weather front is likely to sit could well pose a few issues

because along it, the rain could be heavy and persistent. and if that falls in areas where we've already seen some significant flooding, well, further impacts may well occur. further north, some sunshine, but a cool north wind. further south, it's milder temperatures once again, into the teens. and then beyond that into next week, well, the jet stream is still with us, still feeding in this conveyor belt of areas of low pressure. certainly midweek, that deep area of low pressure could well cause a few issues. but you can see on the outlook there, it is an unsettled picture as we round out the end of october and start november. that's the forecast for now.

social media giant meta reports stellar quarterly results, even as it faces a lawsuit from dozens of us states accusing it of harming young consumers. and — india wants to bring back to the world stage millets — an ancient, gluten—free grain. but can it whet the global appetite? hello and welcome to asia business report. i'm arunoday mukharji. let's start this hour with meta — which has reported a better than expected profit of more than 11—billion—dollars for the recent quarter. the results confirm what we saw from google and snap

earnings that online ads are making a comeback. from new york, michelle fleury reports. after a tough stretch last year in revenue dropped for three straight quarters, meta— is roaring back. the social media giant has seen factor growth in its core digital ads business to stop remember, this is a company that's been investing heavily in generative ai products to boost its add business. it continues to make money from its tiktok like product inside instagram, reels. on average 3 billion people used its products in september come up 7% from a year earlier. as for mr zuckerberg's circle year of efficiency, mehta said most of its planned lay—offs had been completed as it continues to cut costs. but it wasn't all clear blue skies. the company faces legal hurdles, including lawsuits from 42 attorney generals who allege its products are addicted to children. in its press release,

mehta or earned headwinds in