refugee camp in northern gaza. unicef says gaza is becoming a graveyard for children, and warns "generational trauma" is being caused by israel's bombardment. h osta g es hostages held by hamas face an agonising wait for you, we speak to one of them. the united states start buying japanese seafood as a way to push back on economic coercion by china. the uk covid inquiry hears from two of borisjohnson�*s closest former advisers. they deliver a scathing assessment of how the crisis was handled. live from our studio

in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. hi there, thank you for being with us. a recap of the latest developments in gaza. israel has confirmed that it hit the jabalia refugee camp in northern gaza. we have been getting more details on the israeli military spokesperson. he said the target was a senior and important hamas battalion commander, and described him as a pivotal in the planning and execution of the october the 7th attacks. he said the idf had strike in between buildings, targeting the tunnel complex underneath. the destruction of the tunnels had caused surrounding buildings to collapse. it's unclear how many died from the strike, but

gaza's hamas run ministry said at least 50 were killed. the palestinian red crescent society puts the civilian death toll at 25. us presidentjoe biden and jordan's king abdullah are set to discuss their shared commitment to increasing aid in gaza, as the world health organization says a public health catastrophe is imminent. unicef warned that gaza has only about 5% of its normal daily water outputs. more now from our international editorjeremy bowen — and a warning, his report contains images some may find distressing. israel says the destruction came from air strikes that killed a senior hamas commander and some of his men. it said hamas was using these civilians as human shields in a cruel and brutal manner, and that the air strikes caused the collapse of underground hamas bunkers. israel ordered civilians to leave this area.

many did. many others did not. the un said some people even returned to their homes because conditions further south were so desperate. an unknown number of people are buried under the rubble. they were pulling out children. he says, "oh, god, my three children are gone. three kids. i hope i can find one of them alive. i didn't bid them farewell." jabalia camp coversjust over half a square mile. 116,000 refugees were registered here with the un before the war. he says, "it's a massacre. 30 to a0 homes blown to pieces, bodies everywhere. everyone�*s looking for their beloved ones." the local hospital was

overwhelmed with casualties. the surgical director sent the bbc this video. he said they'd done 15 to 20 amputations. patients, he said, arrived packed into ambulances with the wounded alongside the dead. dr elron told me around 120 dead from this afternoon's attack are at the hospital. they ran out of space inside the building. hamas released these pictures of their men emerging from part of their extensive tunnel network. it's hard to work out with any precision what's happening in the ground war. both sides claim to have killed their enemies. hamas will try to use hit—and—run guerrilla tactics against a much

more powerful army. israel released these pictures. it seems clear they're pressing forward. some reports say they're closer to gaza city without entering it yet. moving through relatively open villages is much less of a military challenge than advancing into a city. on their side of the gaza border, israel has plenty of force in reserve and, it says, a long fight ahead. we don't have much detail about what the israelis are doing inside gaza. they are working very hard to control the information battlefield, which is a big part of modern war. they are releasing some video and some generalised communiques about success, but they are minimising access. jabalia will fuel the controversy about killing palestinian civilians — unintentional casualties,

israel says, in a just war. america warned israel not to be blinded by rage. and palestinians believe israel is inflicting another catastrophe on them. jeremy bowen, bbc news, southern israel. jeremy konyndyk is president of the humanitarian organisation refugees international. he gave me his reaction to the attack on the jabalia refugee camp. disproportionate and unjustified, and as such, this approach to targeting, even if there were a legitimate military target, as the idf alleges, would be illegal and is illegal under international law because it completely disregards the civilian harm that was created by the attack. and so, it violates the laws of war for that reason and is clearly a war crime. well, israel's president has told the bbc that they are trying to minimise

the civilian casualties. but because of all these bombings, what exactly is the scale of displacement for refugees and also aid workers in gaza? the scale of displacement now is enormous. there was one report, i think, from the economist earlier today or yesterday that estimates about 10% of housing stock in all of gaza has been destroyed. that is not indicative of an operation that is making any serious attempt to minimise civilian casualties and civilian harm. and it really frankly makes a mockery of the repeated entreaties by the us government, including by president biden to the israeli government and to president netanyahu, to minimise civilian harm and to abide by international law. president biden first called for this three weeks ago in his speech on october 10th. there's no indication that the israelis are listening. well, the us and israel have been reportedly discussing about how to get aid into gaza.

they've said that up to 100 trucks are needed, but it's not there yet. what exactly, what supplies are you hearing are most needed in gaza right now? well, everything is needed in gaza right now. they need shelter materials, they need medical supplies, they need food, they need water. more than perhaps anything else, they need fuel to run all the rest of it, because without fuel, you can't distribute the aid. you can't run the bakeries, you can't run the distribution trucks and you can't run the water facilities. but i think what that underscores is that aid is not the most important humanitarian priority right now. the most important humanitarian priority right now is respect for the laws of war. and frankly, in the complete absence of that, that what we're seeing from all sides, there must be a ceasefire, because in a war in which all sides are fighting, using these wantonly illegal tactics, that cannot be allowed to continue. and that's why we and many other humanitarian organisations are now saying that the highest priority must be a cease fire

because there is and can be no meaningful humanitarian operation in gaza without that. as the incursions into new, the families of hostages held by hamas face an agonising wait for news. it is understood 230 hostages were taken in the attack on the 7th of october and only four have been released so far. this couple's relatives believes they are among those captured by hamas, with their phone geo— located in gaza after the attack. we can now speak to aviv�*s cousin from washington dc. your cousins have been missing. can you tell me about them and whether you have any new

information?— whether you have any new information? ., ., �* ., information? no, we don't have an new information? no, we don't have any new information. _ information? no, we don't have any new information. i'm - any new information. i'm guessing that hamas is using them as part of the bargaining for release. we them as part of the bargaining for release.— for release. we are 'ust showingfi for release. we are 'ust showing pictures h for release. we are 'ust showing pictures ofh for release. we are just i showing pictures of them. for release. we are just - showing pictures of them. can you just tell us about your cousins? when was the last time you saw them? i cousins? when was the last time you saw them?— you saw them? i saw them last in august _ you saw them? i saw them last in august when _ you saw them? i saw them last in august when they _ you saw them? i saw them last in august when they were - in august when they were visiting new york, together with their three children. they have three young adult children. they were visiting new york, i met them there. after, they went for a trip to yellowstone. the family is israeli—american, actually. so

they have family in both places. it they have family in both laces. , , ., ., ., , places. it must be an agonising wait. places. it must be an agonising wait- hamas — places. it must be an agonising wait. hamas has _ places. it must be an agonising wait. hamas has told _ places. it must be an agonising| wait. hamas has told mediators that it plans to release some foreign hostages in the coming days. what is your message to their captors? we days. what is your message to their captors?— their captors? we really want them to release _ their captors? we really want them to release everybody. l them to release everybody. because these are all people that are dear to their families and to everybody. majority of them are civilians. for instance, my cousins, they are peace advocates, compassionate people. i want to say to the palestinians, these are not your enemies. these are innocent people, like many people in gaza right now,

caught in the crossfire. so i hope they will release everybody. but we are not naive, but we are calling also for israel, the israeli government, to know that this price is worth it. 230 human beings that are dear to their families and their communities. any price is worth it. in families and their communities. any price is worth it.— any price is worth it. in your view, any price is worth it. in your view. are — any price is worth it. in your view, are the _ any price is worth it. in your view, are the american - any price is worth it. in your view, are the american and| view, are the american and israeli governments doing enough to secure their release? the american government has done a lot of contact with the family. they are embracing the family. they are embracing the family. i think they are helping as much as they could.

there's negotiation going on all the time, i know, but it's all the time, i know, but it's all secret, how the negotiation goes. but one thing i say, not necessarily representative of all the families, but from my perspective, israeland all the families, but from my perspective, israel and other forces should do anything in their power to not risking hostages even more. if it's up to me, stop the bombing and stop the rockets and missiles, from the hamas direction as well. yeah, create conditions that allow for negotiation and

allow for stopping of all this madness, really. it allow for stopping of all this madness, really.— madness, really. it is a very personal— madness, really. it is a very personal question, - madness, really. it is a very personal question, but - madness, really. it is a very personal question, but you | personal question, but you mentioned the bombings, and we keep seeing the pictures of gaza being bombed, where some of the hostages may be held. how are you and your other family members coping? yeah, it's very hard. _ family members coping? yeah, it's very hard, because - family members coping? yeah, it's very hard, because you - it's very hard, because you know that they may be in the gaza strip and they may be under those bombings. i think it's hardest for the children. they lost both their parents at the same time. they don't know if they will see them again. they don't know if they will ever get to hug them again. you know, it's of course extremely hard on the civilian and innocent people on the

palestinian side as well. so, you know... there are two people, two nations in this land. i don't know how long does it need to take for us to recognise that, and to try to seriously go in the direction that improves things, improves the life of people, rather than make it harder and tougher and more hurtfulfor the other side. i more hurtful for the other side. , ., , , more hurtful for the other side. , . , , ., side. i understand this is a very difficult _ side. i understand this is a very difficult time - side. i understand this is a very difficult time for- side. i understand this is a very difficult time for you, | side. i understand this is a i very difficult time for you, so we really appreciate you speaking to us. joining us live from washington, dc, thank you.

japanese police have arrested a gunman who barricaded himself and to hostages in a post office for several hours. two women were taken captive before being released unharmed. the attacker is reportedly in his 80s and is also a suspect after an attack in a hospital in which two people were injured. facebook has been accused by amnesty international as to contributing to violence during the brutal two year contract in the brutal two year contract in the ethiopian region. amnesty said the social media's site's algorithms super spread harmful rhetoric and failed to take adequate steps to curb the spread. met a company previously denied similar allegations. —— meta. police clashed with hundreds of anti—government protesters. the demonstrators launched a three—day strike blocking roads

and railways after their top leaders were charged with murder. the united states has started buying japanese seafood to supply its military there, in what the us ambassador rahm emanuel describes as a way to push back at economic coercion by china. it's been just over two months since japan started to release treated waste water from its damaged fukushima power plant into the pacific ocean — and while the un's nuclear watchdog says the water is safe, a seafood ban from china, which had been the biggest buyer, remains in place. it's not the first spat between china and the high—profile ambassador, a former chief of staff to president obama and mayor of chicago. in recent months, he has infuriated beijing with social media posts that taunted president xi and joked about the unexplained disappearance of chinese ministers. well, both.

more forjapan. when ourfriends need us, we stand shoulder to shoulder and will be right by them. this is the case, as i think you know, not only has china banned all the fish from japan waters, but also, its still fishing in japan's waters. that's economic conversion to me. japan, south korea, australian, lithuania, the philippines have been a target of coercion. this is a classic case of the us armed forces. ten years ago, when fukushima happened with the nuclear plant, we came and helped. this is in the spirit of coming to japan's defence. i met with the fisherman and the co—ops. this is basic economic coercion by china. we're going to make sure our armed forces are here injapan and help those communities. and it's good for the members of the armed forces, theirfamilies, and we'll be

by their side every step of the way. you have been very vocal about china, and publicly, you're a high—profile figure there, popular injapan but also not popular in beijing. china's foreign ministry said in september you were "smearing china and should stop being biased in favour of and condoning japan's irresponsible behaviour." is this your response? let's fast—forwa rd here. i think is important for your viewers. in the japan situation, there are a set of protocols. fully transparent, scientifically based operations to ensure the water is safe and constant monitoring. go back to the start of covid, the chinese protocols — totally blocking international information, no scientifically based information and not at all transparent. you and i know sitting here,

somewhere in the next five years, god forbid there's going to the international situation that exposes the rest the world. do you want the japan protocols — scientific, medical, transparent, internationally observed, or the covid wuhan example by china? i would hope the country in the future will look at japan and say, that is the appropriate way to do it. secondly, china has also been hypocritical in banning all the fish notjust from fukushima, but from all japan, and are still fishing in their waters. and serving it back. that is what economic coercion is. australia, the world came to their aid. japan, when philippines's bananas were rotting on the cports of china, japan responded. every country that has allies is the best response to economic coercion by china. it's to come to their assistance. that's what the united states will do for our ally and ourfriends here injapan.

aside from fish diplomacy, you have been quite vocal about president xi jinping and about some of the missing ministers. there were reports after you posted about ministers that white house officials were trying to rein in your social media talking of china. is there any truth to that and did the white house ask you to halt? now, there's no truth to that. that said, let's go back. china put out the us armed forces are responsible for the mali fires. false. china put out the united states armed forces workers were responsible for covid. false. china put out that lithuania and estonia were not real countries. false. that is just what it is and maybe, the truth sometimes stinks. without being honest about something, i do think it's very important.

the minister of defence, in a country that has 500 nuclear weapons, you owe something to the world about who to call if god forbid something happens? so i did call he had not been seen, happens to be true, recognise just two days ago by china that he is on. everything they said otherwise was false. the official covid inquiry in the uk has heard that former pm boris johnson believed older people should have been allowed to catch the disease, so younger people could "get on" and boost the economy. here's our political editor chris mason. casually dressed, controversial and not exactly shy when it comes to slagging off other people and institutions. how's your eyesight, mr cummings? and you probably remember dominic cummings for driving 260 miles during lockdown and visiting barnard castle in county durham to test his eyesight. i swear by almighty god the evidence i shall give shall be the truth... mr cummings comes across in

public as mild—mannered. he was rather less than that in his private written observations about people he worked alongside. you called ministers useless bleep, morons, bleep, in emails and whatsapps to your— professional colleagues. my appalling languages is, obviously, my own, but myjudgement of a lot of senior people was widespread. and listen to how dominic cummings described a very senior female colleague. we cannot keep dealing with this horrific meltdown in the british state, while dodging stilettos from that bleep. was that aggressive and foul—mouthed and misogynistic approach the correct way to manage fellow professionals? a thousand times worse than my bad language is the underlying issue at stake, that we had a cabinet office system that had completely melted. borisjohnson�*sjudgement

caused anger today. he was obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going, wrote patrick vallance, the government's then scientific advisor. it showed mrjohnson was "sociopathic", some of those representing the bereaved said. the overriding impression of what we are seeing here is one of dysfunction. claims of a shambles at the heart of government atjust the moment government was more important to more people than it had been for decades and decades. the other man taking questions today was lee cain, borisjohnson�*s man in charge of communications. he reckons his former boss dithered and wasn't suited to leadership in a pandemic. what will probably be clear in covid, it was the wrong crisis for this prime minister's skill set. which is different, i think, from not potentially being up to the job of being prime minister.

and what about why it took ten days from agreeing to a first lockdown to actually announcing it? i think it is longer than you would like, but it's importantjust to emphasise the amount of things that had to be done and the amount of people we had to take with us to deliver a nationwide lockdown. borisjohnson has offered no comment on what's been said today. he and rishi sunak are expected to give evidence here before christmas. chris mason, bbc news. that's all for now — stay with bbc news. thanks for watching. hello. after what was a very wet october for many places, the beginning of november promises more rain,

particularly through wednesday night into thursday thanks to storm ciaran — this storm named by the met office. it will bring widespread heavy rain, but in the south of the uk and the channel islands, there is the threat of damaging winds. on our earlier satellite image, you can see that storm just beginning to develop, this hook appearing in the cloud. that's an area of low pressure that is deepening, and will continue to deepen as it pushes in our direction. in the short term, this frontal system pushing its way north—eastwards through wednesday. that's going to bring some outbreaks of pretty heavy rain, some squally, gusty winds across the south—east corner first thing as this band of showers works its way eastwards. a band of heavy rain pushing out of northern ireland and northern england and then up across scotland, briefly some snow over high ground in northern scotland, then turning back to rain, windy in the north and in the west of scotland. sunshine and showers developing for northern ireland, england and wales. temperatures of 7—14 degrees in most places. and then, as we head into the evening and overnight,

this is where storm ciaran starts to make its move. very heavy rain swinging its way across the south of the uk and some really strong winds. see the isobars here on our pressure chart really squeezing together. there are met office amber warnings that have been issued for parts of south—west wales, more especially south—west england, and then along the english channel coast and up into parts of east anglia. inland gusts of around 70mph. coastal parts likely to see gusts of 70—80mph. and not covered by met office weather warnings, but the channel islands could see the worst of the weather — gusts here could well touch 90mph. with those strong winds, some very heavy rain across many parts of england, wales, southern and eastern scotland, perhaps fringing into northern ireland as we go through the day on thursday, and temperature—wise, 10, 11, 12 degrees. so that rain could cause some issues with flooding, those strong winds bring the risk of damage and disruption. and our area of low pressure

will still be with us as we move on into friday, weakening as it goes, so the winds should ease just a little bit. it does remain very unsettled with more rain as we head into the weekend.

all eyes on the us federal reserve, as policymakers meet to decide on whether interest rates should go even higher. plus, a warning from the world bank that an escalation in the conflict in the middle east could send oil prices into "uncharted territory". hello and welcome to asia business report. i'm mariko oi. we begin in the us, where a two—day meeting of federal reserve policymakers is under way. it sets the stage for a wednesday decision on whether they'll hike interest rates, or leave them unchanged. our business correspondent erin delmore reports from new york. what do you get when you add strong consumer spending, a tightjob market and remarkable growth? you get a resilient economy. an economy that defied earlier predictions of a recession, and one that's not buckling under the weight of the fed's interest rate hikes.