and hamas started last month. translation: this - crossing should be open for everything gaza — food, supplies and fuel. we have almost 20,000 people who are severely injured and need to travel abroad for treatment. another large air strike hits jabalia in northern gaza a day after dozens were killed there. the un's humanitarian chief says the war has entered an even more terrifying phase. in other news, pakistan arrests undocumented foreigners — many of them afghans — before the midnight deadline for them to leave the country. and the uk announces a "world—first agreement" on how to manage the riskiest forms of artificial intelligence as it hosts a major ai safety summit. live from our studio in singapore...

..this is bbc news. it's newsday. hi there, thank you for being with us. presidentjoe biden has hailed the diplomatic breakthrough that allowed the first civilians to leave gaza after weeks of being trapped by the conflict. dozens of injured palestinians and hundreds of foreign nationals have been allowed to go. they entered egypt by the rafah crossing on the border, with the injured being treated at field hospitals there. the foreign office says the first british nationals have crossed and more will be taken out in stages over the coming days. people have been trapped in gaza since israel tightened its siege just over three weeks ago after it was attacked by hamas — which is classed as a terrorist organisation by the uk and other governments. and in northern gaza, there's been another air strike onjabalia,

a day after an israeli attack killed dozens of people at the refugee camp there. israel says its forces killed another hamas commander in the latest strike — but un human rights officials say it could be a war crime. in the last hour, hamas's media office in gaza says 195 people were killed in israel's attacks near the jabalia refugee camp on tuesday and wednesday. 0ur international editorjeremy bowen has our first report which contains material you may find upsetting. at last, the gates of the rafah crossing were opened. some foreign citizens were allowed to leave gaza for egypt for the first time since israel imposed its siege. convoys of aid trucks are moving into gaza, though not nearly as many as the un and aid agencies say are necessary. ambulances went in for the seriously wounded.

injabalia, at the opposite end of the gaza strip, more israeli raids. this time, they said the target was a command centre. the un said gaza civilians were being starved, traumatised and bombed to death. 0n the other side of the border wire, israelis are still in shock over the 7th october attacks. this is kibbutz nirim, directly facing gaza. for the first time, adele was back to look and to grab a few things — her old hopes of peace with her neighbours in gaza gone forever. stopping anything like this happening again is powering israel's determination to see this fight through to the end. adele showed me the place where her son—in—law saved her three granddaughters, all under the age of ten. tell me what happened here. there, there is their safe room and there is where he shot the terrorists. as kibbutz nirim was under

attack, hamas radio messages were intercepted, and the israeli army gave us this excerpt. the fence has been fixed, israel's security has not. so there is no doubt there was a lot of complacency about the risks that hamas posed to israel, and after the war, there's going to be an inquiry, but even now, the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, is under a lot of pressure about his responsibility for

the security lapses that led to hamas breaching the border. i took my pistol... that day, noam, a retired israeli general, drove down from tel aviv to rescue his son's family from hamas. as the hamas gunmen surged forward, his mission was successful. he took a rifle from a dead israeli soldier and, with others, fought his way in. i saw one terrorist, i pointed on him, i killed him, i saw another one, i think i wound him or killed him. so who do you hold responsible for what happened? this is the biggest failure in the history of the state of israel. it was a military failure, it was an intelligence failure and it was the failure of the government. but i think that the one that is really in charge and all the blame is on him, is prime minister benjamin netanyahu. this was the funeral

of 20—year—old lavi lifschitz, killed in combat in gaza. israelis are behind their troops, but increasingly they want to know how so much went wrong, and the pressure on the prime minister is going to increase. jeremy bowen, bbc news, in southern israel. 0ur correspondent inside gaza, rushdi abualouf, has spent the day at the rafah crossing. reporting from there is of course extremely difficult. he started by explaining that while hundreds of people had gathered — only a small proportion were actually allowed to cross. yeah, i saw a family with, like, bags, and they were waiting and waiting in this hole. well, out of the 545 people in the list, 316 people left, so 200 were not able to make it tonight. they publish the list again

and they said they will resume the opening of the crossing tomorrow and allow those 200 people. they might issue another shortlist for people because today was the first day. it was chaotic in the morning, but manageable. we haven't seen any sort of fighting between the people. people came and suddenly they realised that it's not open for everybody. it's just open for people who are on the list. and the list was sent by the egyptian. they put it in a wall and everybody should find his name, and people in the crossing will check the passports and make sure that the name matches the the list, and then they will cross. i was spending all day talking to people there. some of them, they were happy because they are crossing, but they are really sad in the same time because left they left families behind here and they don't know what's

going to happen to to them. but overall, it's significant significant that the crossing was open today, not only for the citizens who but overall, it's significant that the crossing was open today, not only for the citizens who have dual nationals, but for hundreds of people, patients who are waiting in this hospital to be treated outside because the hospital is overwhelmed by the number of people with serious injuries, huge pain, people with with very severe injuries. they are waiting for their turn to go and treated in egypt, not only the international citizens. as we've been hearing, many families have been waiting at the rafah crossing desperate to leave gaza. our special correspondent fergal keane, who is based injerusalem, has been working with freelance journalists in gaza filming for the bbc to tell their stories. caught in the borderlands, the small space between war and peace, because whatever is ahead has to be better than what is behind them.

in this place of the list... ..the names of the lucky ones. that's if luck is having to flee your home, to say goodbye to family left behind under bombardment. mona has an australian passport. she told a bbc colleague of her anguish at leaving family behind. i'm not happy at all, that's because i'm leaving my other part, my brothers and sisters, my whole family is still here. iwish, inshallah, they'll all be in safe place. the situation is terrible there. it's very, very bad. many of those who can't get to egypt are crowding into gaza's hospitals, believing they might be safe there. they bring their wounded

and their questions. translation: the patients ask me if they should go - to the south, but the south is being bombed and the hospitals in the south are crowded. or should they stay in gaza? they ask me if they can stay in the hospital here, but it is also crowded, and we have no place for them. we do not know how we can treat them. we feel sorry for them because we can't provide them with any services, although the hospital is open. yazid abu nahleh suffers from seizures made worse by the terrors of the war. this is the third time his sister tala has tried to get him across the border. every time the situation, when i believe it's got. to the worst, it just i keeps getting worse. then, i don't know, it's- like we are trying to survive. like we're not sure we're . going to make it, but we're trying to do anything we can do

to survive because i— simply don't want to die at 24, basically. | they waited all day, but tonight tala sent us a message saying they didn't make it out. they were back in the dark of their gaza apartment. i'm not sure howl to feel any more. we came back to no electricity, no food for today, no _ clean water to drink, i or even washing water. and one more day closerl to my brother running out of medications and we're . still here and it's night, so. night, so... they'll try again tomorrow. fergal keane, bbc news, jerusalem. costanza muuzu, an associate professor of international affairs at the university of ottawa. i asked what her reaction was to the fact that some people were allowed to leave gaza. this has been several days in the making.

it's been the result of very complicated negotiations that have involved israelis, egyptians, hamas, qatar and the united states and others that have tried to find some kind of way to get at least the most vulnerable out of of gaza. as you say, there are many players involved in allowing these people to leave. but there have been speculation and a bit of finger pointing, if you like, as to why it has taken this long to open the crossing, at least for some people to leave. what's your assessment of why it has taken this long? it is very difficult to to say exactly. the government of egypt does not want to fully open the border because it wants to control who is coming in. it doesn't want a huge wave of refugee to enter inside egypt. they already are close to

a large number of of refugees in excess of 300,000, so they have close out there. in excess of 300,000, so they have closed other end. the israelis are also, of course, restricting movement of people. hamas is said to have been itself also restricting people from leaving. so, for example, the americans have been accusing hamas of having prevented the palestinians who hold also an american passport from preventing them from leaving the gaza strip. so holding them hostage inside the gaza strip in a way. so, it's very difficult in this situation. finger pointing, it's always confusing and we cannot know exactly. and this is why, for example, we have seen now notjust foreign nationals, but actually more vulnerable patients, children to have been

unable to leave today, which at least is some kind of some level of good news. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. the met office is warning of travel disruption, damage to buildings, and possible risk to life, as storm ciaran bears down on the uk. damaging winds are forecast in southern england and gusts of up to 95 mph are predicted to batter the channel islands. the severe weather warnings are in place until friday. a metropolitan police commander has lost his job after a disciplinary panel found that he'd refused to provide a sample for a drugs test when he was accused of smoking cannabis. julian bennett, who served in the force from 1976, was cleared of using the drug in 2019, but was found to have committed gross misconduct by failing to provide the sample. an inquest has heard that sir bobby charlton died

after an accidentalfall at a care home. the england and manchester united footballing legend died aged 86 in macclesfield general hospital last month. an inquest heard he was living in the willows in nuts—ford, in the willows in nutsford. you're live with bbc news. a former top uk civil servant has told the covid inquiry that there wasn't one day during the pandemic when the coronavirus rules were properly followed in downing street. helen macnamara, who used to be the second most senior civil servant in the country, also said borisjohnson�*s "breezy confidence" at the time jarred with her and that there had been a toxic macho culture in government. our political editor chris mason reports. closed, empty, little moving but the escalators — those bleak memories of 2020. a virus at first distant,

then quickly frightening, and a government that was vastly unprepared, as this then senior civil servant told downing street at the time — what she said then, read out today by the lawyer questioning her. "i have come through here, to the prime minister's office, "to tell you all i think we're absolutel "i think this country is heading for a disaster. "i think we're going to kill thousands of people." is it right that that's an accurate account? yes. it's very striking. yes. no doubt you can still remember that moment of realisation? yes, it was horrible. helen macnamara was herself fined for notjust turning up at a leaving do in westminster when leaving dos were banned, but turning up with a karaoke machine. she reckons in downing street the covid rules were broken nearly all the time. i would find it hard to pick a one day when the regulations

were followed properly inside that building. and i know that because, as i've said in my statement, there was one meeting where we absolutely adhered to the guidance, to the letter, and that was the cabinet meeting, and everybody moaned about it. at the inquiry yesterday, a whatsapp message from dominic cummings, borisjohnson�*s most senior adviser, about helen macnamara, was read out by a lawyer. today, this reaction from her. it's disappointing to me that the prime minister didn't pick him up on the use of some of that violent and misogynistic language. she added that a toxic macho culture led to blind spots on covid policies related to themes such as childcare and domestic abuse. the fact that there were no women contributing to the policy discussions, problem in itself, because there were some expert women who weren't being listened to.

and also, women were being looked over. helen macnamara added that the then health secretary, matt hancock, among others, had nuclear levels of confidence, and she claimed he regularly told colleagues things which later turned out to be untrue. mr hancock is expected to give his own evidence here in the coming weeks. chris mason, bbc news. pakistan started deporting undocumented foreigners and dismantling their houses on wednesday — even before the midnight deadline passed for them to leave the country. more than 1.7 million are at risk of being forced to leave, according to the government's own figures, many of them afghans. our pakistan correspondent, caroline davies, reports from peshawar. another life, a different world. on the afghan side of the border, new arrivals register and wait for what will happen next. in pakistan yesterday, lorries laden with life and lives queue. abdullah brought 22

of his family on board this truck from punjab. 20, he says, were born in pakistan. translation: i am | very angry and upset. i initially came here when the russian war started. i used to work in a brick kiln as a labourer. there are fewerjob opportunities in afghanistan. abdullah pulls out a bag of his entire family's id cards. these are recognised as official documents. the government is telling us to just leave, and they raided my house, arresting my sons. his family watched the road amongst the firewood and furniture. "we didn't do anything wrong," abdullah�*s wife tells me. "we're poor, we don't have anything." right away, the family is packed out their entire lives. you can see beds, cooling, machine, stove, firewood — everything they have. and that one of the ladies

here said that she hasn't been in afghanistan for over 20 years and they don't know what the life there is going to look like for them. while some afghans have been here for decades, others arrived since 2021, fleeing the taliban government. rahim — not his real name — worked for afghan forces and says he was beaten before he left for pakistan. translation: |f| go back to afghanistan, | our lives are in danger, both myself and my family. there is a certain risk of death. there'll be nothing else, only death. at the moment, the situation is like it was in afghanistan. we live in uncertainty. many, like rahim, say they face delays, getting official documents. the pakistan government says the deportations have started, but that they are looking after the vulnerable. there will be no human crisis. we will handle them politely, the women especially, - and the children

and the elderly. j so there'll be no human crisis. we are just focusing - to strengthen our borders. the queue for the border kept growing as the sun set. on either side, none know how their lives may be about to change. caroline davis, bbc news, peshawar. donald trump junior, the eldest son of the former us president, has started testifying in a civil fraud trial that threatens the family's business empire. donald junior said he had little to do with preparing financial documents at the real—estate company. he's due to return to the stand tomorrow. he and his brother, eric, are accused, along with their father, of fraudulently inflating the value of property owned by the trump organisation by billions of dollars. mr trump and his sons face potential penalties of $250 million if they lose the case. they have denied the accusations. the world's richest man, elon musk, says he believes artificial intelligence

is one of the biggest threats to humanity. he was speaking at the start of a two—day global conference on the fast—developing technology that's being hosted by the british prime minister at bletchley park — home of the world war two codebreakers. the focus is on how to minimise some of the risks posed by ai. here's our technology editor zoe kleinman. historic bletchley park was once home to the world war ii codebreakers. no doubt they'd have been very interested in what happened in their workplace today. delegates from around the world, including a member of the chinese government and, yup, elon musk, had agreed on one thing by lunchtime — keeping ai safe was the urgent priority. and here we are for the first time, really, in human history with something that's going to be far more intelligent than us. so, it's not clear to me we can actually control such a thing, but i think we can aspire to guide it in a direction that's beneficial to humanity. the prime minister wants the uk

to be a global referee in making sure the tech is developed responsibly. is there a sense, though, that these big us tech giants who have their own commercial agenda are already exerting too much influence over these discussions? i think that's why it's important that countries are the ones in the driving seat. not only are we taking the lead, we really are developing the capability that we need to do all that testing of what these companies are doing so we can then make sure that people are kept safe. very simply, artificial intelligence is computers working things out in a similar way to the human brain. these tools aren't conscious like we are, but, like us, they're excellent at spotting patterns. it can be fed huge amounts of information about a particular subject — more books than a human could ever read, more than there are in this entire library. and it doesn't have to be words. it could be x—rays or data about the weather. and then they're able to identify at lightning speed

what should come next when prompted, like the answer to a question. generative ai is the type of the tech that produces content, like text, pictures, music and video, and makes me look like this. some delegates today feared the ai summit had the wrong focus. i think it's important - to also ask who is talking about this existential threat, because people who actually| work with people in communities are not concerned about that. i we're more concerned about whether ai will. deny people pensions. demis hassabis, founder of one of the uk's leading ai businesses, google deepmind, says the sector should remain cautious. i don't think we should move fast and break things, the typical silicon valley mantra, in this case. i think that has been extraordinarily successful to build massive companies and provide us with lots of great services and applications, but al's too important a technology, i would say, too transformative a technology, to do it in that way. this time last year, few people had even heard

of the ai chat bot chatgpt. there'll be more dramatic milestones to come. time will tell if the bletchley crowd got it right. zoe kleinman, bbc news. scientists believe they may have discovered the remnants of another planet, known as theia, which collided with earth about four and a half billion years ago. an international team of scientists used computer simulations to recreate the ancient collision and calculate the effects of the impact. geophysicists suggest that earth may have absorbed about 10% of theia, with vast amounts of rocky debris ejected to form the moon. that is it from the programme. thank you so much for watching newsday. hello there. we've got more heavy rain, more strong winds as we head into thursday, all due, of course, to storm ciaran. that's been tracking its way right the way across the atlantic, heading over the southwest of england.

now, it will move eastwards towards east anglia. it will bring more heavy rain and given how wet it's been in october, that could lead to some flooding. the winds also could potentially be dangerous and hazardous, bringing some disruption. this is where we've got the amber wind warnings from the met office. the winds already picking up in the southwest, those stronger winds will transfer through the english channel to affect coastal areas in the south east of england. the winds are likely to be even strongerfor a while in the channel islands — gusts of over 90 mph, already had gusts of 100 mph along the coast of brittany. so, some really strong winds across the far south of the uk. could be quite windy in other areas, and around the storm, around that low pressure, we've got these showers of longer spells of rain. as the wind picks up in scotland, it will get wetter here. we may miss the worst of the wet weather in northern ireland. temperature—wise, well, of course, nothing to write home about — a cool 10—12 degrees. but at least during the afternoon, the winds in the southwest will start to ease and that's because the storm is going to be tracking away, and at the same

time, it will be weakening. so, as we get into friday, the area of low pressure, what was the storm, is going to be sitting out in the north sea. so, it's not going to be as windy on friday, it's not going to be as wet. there'll be some sunshine, but also some showers blown in, and there'll still be some blustery winds. the windiest weather, perhaps the wettest weather will be across eastern scotland and the northeast of england. and those temperatures may be a degree or so higher, but still only 12—13 degrees at best. now, as we head into the weekend, we see that area of low pressure continuing to fade away in the north sea. another one coming in from the atlantic — not expecting this one to be named because the winds aren't going to be as strong. the strong winds will still be through the english channel, but we've got more rain to come across southern parts of the uk, into wales, in the midlands, followed by some showers. further north, there'll be some sunshine and perhaps a few showers as well, and those temperatures not really changing a great deal. so, after all this very wet and very windy weather, we've got some more rain

on saturday for the southern half of the uk and then we're all in the same boat on sunday — sunshine and showers and not as windy.

america's central bank holds interest rates steady — but leaves the door open

to further hikes to bring down inflation. plus — as covid fades in the rear—view mirror, we take a look at the recovery of tourism — and why some countries do better at attracting travellers. hello and welcome to asia business report. i'm mariko oi. we begin this hour with interest rates — because the us federal reserve has left the cost of borrowing unchanged at a 22—year—high at their latest meeting. it's the second straight meeting that they have held rates steady after 11 consecutive hikes. the central bank's job to tame inflation was complicated by unexpectedly strong growth and consumer spending. while fed chairjerome powell said a painful economic downturn can be avoided, he also said reducing rates is out of the picture for now. our north america business correspondent michelle fleury reports from new york.

after aggressively raising interest rates for the last year and a half, the federal reserve