everyone would welcome the humanitarian pause, because, again, it can advance things that we're all trying to accomplish, including getting hostages back, including getting a lot more assistance into gaza, including getting people out of gaza. israel says its forces have cut gaza in two after its ground offensive against hamas reached the coast of the palestinian territory. they reached the beach at the southern part of the city of gaza and they've encircled gaza and today we have gaza north and gaza south. hello, i'm azadeh moshiri. fighting in gaza is intensifying and communications are down for a third time. our correspondent in gaza rushdi abualouf has told us that tonight's bombardment seems to be the most intense

since the beginning of the war, targeting the northwest of the gaza strip in particular. it comes as the us secretary of state antony blinken has visted iraq, and the west bank, and in the last hour, he has landed in turkey's capital ankara — for a round of talks with leaders in the region. he says all communications must be restored immediately. he has said discussions are ongoing about a "humanitarian pause" in the fighting, to get aid to civilians into gaza. yogita limaye has our first report. the warming over the g has

identified tonight. communication lines have been cut off which means tomorrow will likely begin for many gazans like today did. digging through rubble looking for survivors. this was the crowded refugee camp. it is not one of the areas that israel had asked civilians to leave. hamas says it was an israeli air strike that killed dozens here. israel says it's investigating. "can anyone hear me?" he shouts. "i think there are people trapped here." his daughters and wife were injured, taken to hospital. for weeks mohammad al—aloul was working in another part of gaza,

taking photos and videos. today he lost his family members. israel says it has made advances. but it is doing what they can to minimise civilian casualties. they have dropped 6 million leaflets and make tens of thousands of phone calls warning people to move to safer areas. calls warning people to move to saferareas. but calls warning people to move to safer areas. but it's not clear where is safe. and only a tiny number have been allowed to leave the strip. more people being let out has been one item on us secretary of state gazans�*s agenda. he met

mahmoud abbas today who —— the secretary of state antony blinken�*s agenda. one of the hostages being held is this lady whose family have sought this photo online afore being taken by hamas. 84—year—old elma avraham is one of more than 200 hostages being held in gaza. herson, uri ravitz, showed us the medicines his mother needs to take every day to stay in good health. he's hoping someone can take these to her. right now, we are four weeks after that, four weeks and one day, and they're still not here.

and they should be here yesterday. not today. yesterday. like in some horror movie that i'm stuck. but i still have hope. well while antony blinken was speaking in baghdad, israel's military spokesman daniel hagari, updated the media on their operation in gaza. today, the idf forces reached the beach and encircled gaza and today we have gaza north and gaza south. they breached the shore line and they are hoping its shoreline, we are still allowing to enable the residents of the north of the gaza strip and the residents of the south. it is a one—way corridor going south. we continue to strike forcefully.

we will continue our ground offensive in the north of the gaza strip daniel hagari, the israeli spokesman, also referred to the cross—border violence with hezbollah in lebanon. lebanese state media say three children and their grandmother were killed in an israeli strike on a car in southern lebanon. the report said their car was hit on a road in the bintjbeil district, and that the children were aged ten, 12, and 14. this is what mr hagari had to say in the north of israel there are several incidents today. the the idf attacked terror facilities of hezbollah and there was an anti—tank missile that killed an israeli citizen and there are some israeli strikes by the idf on terrorists and infrastructure, vehicles driving terrorists and there were also aerial means that are intercepted. by a remotely piloted aircraft that hezbollah tried to drive into israel was intercepted in

lebanese territory. let's look closer at that strike. at the maghazi refugee camp now. the site of the attack is in the center of the strip — south of the wadi gaza — in a part of the territory were civilians were told to move to to avoid the fighting in the north. but still they are not out of the firing line. our reporter rushdi abualouf has been able to travel to the camp and sent this report. they are still looking under the rubble of about three or four buildings that were destroyed overnight. this is al—maghazi refugee camp. it's in the safe area where israel advised 1.2 million people in gaza city and the north to flee south. they said it's safer.

but this destruction is in the safe area where about 50 bodies have already been recovered from this air strike, and many, many others are missing. this is the biggest air strike in this very crowded refugee camp in the middle of the gaza strip. the people are fleeing south because the fighting has intensified around gaza city and the north where israel has started its ground operation — five different battles are going on there. overnight, israel issued another warning for the people, asking them to leave gaza city and the north and to come here. since october the 7th, prospects for a ceasefire in gaza, let alone wider peace in the region have been frozen. but there are individuals on both sides of the conflict with a commitment to peace that goes beyond this war — this is the story of two such men. our special correspondent fergal keane is injerusalem and has sent this report. frame by frame, one casualty after

another. the trauma of the war is captured. and it is reverberating outwards. in his london flat, this man warms the —— mourns the 21 family members killed in an air strike. nieces, brother, sister, father, nephews. the summer video of a vanished family. h0 father, nephews. the summer video of a vanished family.— a vanished family. no one in the world will understand _ a vanished family. no one in the world will understand how- a vanished family. no one in the world will understand how i - a vanished family. no one in the | world will understand how i feel. a vanished family. no one in the i world will understand how i feel. if they do not live or experience what i have experienced and i really, really, really hope that no one will ever experience what i'm experiencing. they can see that i am all the time anxious, restless, cannot sleep at night. in all the time anxious, restless, cannot sleep at night.- cannot sleep at night. in this imaae, cannot sleep at night. in this image. all— cannot sleep at night. in this image, all the _ cannot sleep at night. in this image, all the children's - cannot sleep at night. in this| image, all the children's face cannot sleep at night. in this i image, all the children's face as you can see are dead. their uncle

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leaders face in terms of what they can say publically.. you see a huge gap between what they say publicly and what they say privately. privately, they would like israel, i think, to finish the job against hamas quickly. that doesn't cause them more any sort of domestic disquiet. so i think that's a big deal. they must be aware that israel was also, since secretary of state blinken's visit has started now opening up for a couple of hours a day, a situation where northern gazans can go to the south, even though hamas is trying to block them. according to the u.n., i think we've now seen over 700,000 and about 150 un camps in southern gaza. so i think that started with we in the us like that to be the pauses to go longer. i'm sure we would. of course, israel's under pressure from the families of the hostages who said, you know, you give but you don't get meaning no information about the hostages. the international red cross

has had no access. there's no list of the hostages. so israel would like to see, i think, to get some information and certainly the release of possible the hostages while it is acceding to the secretary's request to open up the pauses. right. and president netanyahu has said that at no point would he consider a cease fire without some movement there on the hostages. but in your view at what...? right. that's an important distinction between cease fire and a pause for your listeners, for your viewers, that a pause could be a few hours a day when when arab officials say cease fire, they're talking about something open ended. so that's not what the secretary is asking for. he's asking for a pause like israel has done these twice in the last 48 hours. i'm sure we'd like the pauses to go on longer so the remaining people in the north can go to take safe space in the south.

at what point for the united states iv humanitarian need outweighs israel's right to self defence? which the united states maintains right now. the which the united states maintains riaht now. ,, . ., , .,, which the united states maintains riahtnow. ,, . ._ , right now. the secretary has been very clear- — right now. the secretary has been very clear- he _ right now. the secretary has been very clear. he says _ right now. the secretary has been very clear. he says it _ right now. the secretary has been very clear. he says it is your- right now. the secretary has been very clear. he says it is your right| very clear. he says it is your right and obligation. cannot go back to what it was before the october seven massacres and i don't think that will shift. massacres and i don't think that willshift. ithink it massacres and i don't think that will shift. i think it will be within the objective we agree upon, can there be more pauses so every last person in the north can go to the south? that is how i read it and what we mean by a pause so a clear distinction between a pause and a ceasefire. �* ., ., ., ., ceasefire. before we go, i want to address the _ ceasefire. before we go, i want to address the issue _ ceasefire. before we go, i want to address the issue of _ ceasefire. before we go, i want to address the issue of what - ceasefire. before we go, i want to address the issue of what the - ceasefire. before we go, i want to address the issue of what the us. address the issue of what the us state department calls extremist violence against palestinians in the west bank. the us secretary of state said he spoke about this in his meetings in israel and with arab leaders. in your view is something president benjamin netanyahu would

address immediately or is this one of those later concerns for him? he: should see this as an urgent issue, not a favour to the united states. if there are any... they are a minority but vigilante settlers, there is a rampage or whatever, this could ignite the west bank and israel does not want to see that which means they have a problem with soldiers in the south with gazza and soldiers in the south with gazza and soldiers any north with hezbollah. —— in the south with gaza. the secretary of state was right to raise it. well, it's been four weeks now since hamas fighters crossed into israel killing more than 1a hundred people and taking more than 240 others hostage. in many cases multiple members of the same family were taken. among those taken from

kibbutz nir oz in southern israel were david and sharon cunio and their 3—year—old twins emma and yuli. daniele alony mevneh — sharon's sister was also abducted with her 5—year—old daughter amelia. after hiding in the shelter for hours, hamas burned down their house — and once smoke started to seep through the shelter door, they texted their family what they believed were their last words. according to videos and testimonials released by hamas, they were confirmed to be taken hostage in gaza. i spoke to moran alony who is the brother of sharon and daniele and uncle to the three young girls. first of all, i think that seen her give me something that seeing her give me something that i didn't know a couple of days before, that she is alive. and we don't know anything about anyone there, as you mentioned in the previous discussion that you had. so, it gave me hope. it wasn't easy seeing her, you can see the cuff mark on her hand,

a red mark on her shoulder. you can see that she is very thin. and you can see that she is in distress. but she is alive, and i think the words that came out from her mouth was obviously something that hamas told her to say, but i think that the anger was real. to your point, the bbc is not showing that video because it could have been filmed under duress, and just to be clear, you haven't had contact with any relatives since that video. no, nothing. not before or not after. that's true.

and what is it you want to grow to understand right now about the hostage situation and the experience for the relatives right now? i think that the world has a tendency to apart itself from what is going on in these scenarios, and ijust want people to understand that there are kids and family members, where usually we used to talk every day with one another, and then it is already one month after, and it is not one month that we can talk to them every day or even know what is your status. and if they are alive. i know that my sister daniele is alive, i have five more family members. and so, i think the world needs to understand first of all how they would feel in this kind of scenario. and also try to understand that these are not freedom fighters. these are terrorists. they took kids, babies and women, civilians, all civilians, and they were not fighting an army. they were fighting unarmed civilians.

i don't want to go into what they did there, but let's just stay on the hostages part. why should we have any kind of policy if you're not getting anything in return? and we're not getting anything in return at the moment, and there is humanitarian aid that is coming there, but we still don't know anything, and i don't think the world understands that our life is on pause. we don't have a day, we don't have a night. i break up every morning thinking is still a dream or is it reality? this is for the month. 30 days.

and i think that the world needs to make a clear statement that there is no negotiations, there is no pause unless there is something that can really happen for us, the families. something that will bring us hope. i quickly want to say that some hostage families, though, are calling for a ceasefire or some sort of negotiation, but i understand that's not necessarily what you're feeling right now, especially when so many of your relatives have been taken. briefly, i do want to ask you, because these are so many of your relatives — how are your parents coping? two of their daughters, the grandchildren... how would any parent cope with this kind of scenario? i think that they are trying to be strong. i am trying to make them strong because we all understand that there is also can take time, and we don't know how it is going to end.

and we pray for them to come. when they come back, we have to be strong for them, because we don't know how they are going to come back. scottish national party leader and first minister hamza yousaf�*s in—laws have arrived back in scotland after being trapped in gaza for more than three weeks. the scottish first minister confirmed the news on social media and posted a photo of the reunion. elizabeth el—nakla and her husband maged managed to cross into egypt via the rafah crossing on friday. former uk pm borisjohnson and former australian pm scott morrison are in israel. the two former leaders are making ajoint visit to express solidarity and support for israel after the hamas attacks on october 7. they met british soldiers enlisted with the israeli

army and boris johnson expressed his support for the troops saying he disagreed with those trying to make a moral equivalent between what the soldiers are doing and what hamas is doing. here in the uk, a council leader and nine other councillors have resigned from the labour party over the leadership's position on gaza. burnley council leader afrasiab anwar had previously called for sir keir starmer to resign over his position. instead, he has quit the party tonight along with a number of colleagues. a number of labour mps — including shadow ministers — have called for a ceasefire. but sir keir starmer has rejected the calls. our political correspondent nick eardleyjoins us from the newsroom. thank you forjoining us. what more do we know about their position and this resignation from the statement? it is not completely unexpected because as you say councillor anwar

was one of those who call for sir keir starmer to resign for failing to call for a ceasefire in gaza but clearly councillor anwar and ten of his colleagues have decided they cannot stay in the labour party any more. i want to read you just part what they've said in this letter tonight. they say we've collectively decided to resign with immediate effect feeling that our place of the new party is untenable given its present position and we cannot remain in a party that is not doing enough whilst innocent people are being killed in gaza and israel. there are out growing number of labour mps and politicians who want to see a ceasefire about the leadership so far anyway is not budging on this. the view of sir keir starmer is that a ceasefire would benefit hamas, allow them to regroup and let them carry out attacks like the one we saw on

october seven so i do not think the labour leadership will change its mind but what i do think is over the next few days you will see the pressure increase with labour backbenchers who will push for a vote in parliament on this which would force some senior labour people who are unhappy with the leadership's position but holding the counciljust now to take a position and there are some all the way to shadow cabinet level who are uneasy about the labour party's position at the moment and are going to have to say something within the next few days about how they feel. although developments tonight, the resignation of these burnley councillors will not change the dial, the next few days will see more pressure for sir keir starmer as more have his own family? party call for him to have a rethink. —— more of his own party call for a rethink. ., ,., . , more of his own party call for a

rethink. ., ., , ., rethink. the labour party have said they understand _ rethink. the labour party have said they understand the _ rethink. the labour party have said they understand the calls _ rethink. the labour party have said they understand the calls for- rethink. the labour party have said they understand the calls for a - they understand the calls for a ceasefire but that humanitarian causes are the most practical thing to do which is something that might have said previously. a reminder of our top story this hour — us secretary of state antony blinken has visted iraq, and the west bank, and in the last hour, he has landed in turkey's capital ankara — for a round of talks with leaders in the region on the israel gaza war. he has said discussions are ongoing about a "humanitarian pause" in the fighting, to get aid to civilians into gaza. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. we've seen some strong aurora pictures coming in over recent hours here at the bbc weather centre. this beautiful one was from the aberdeenshire area in northern scotland. but this one is from folkestone. the significance of this is if you can see the northern lights in folkestone here in the uk, you can see it pretty much everywhere.

so the aurora is very strong. it's worth taking a look outside, use a camera or a mobile phone to see the best views, because those bits of equipment are more sensitive than our eyes to low levels of light. but you have a chance over the next few hours. now, weather wise, ok, there will be a few showers coming and going, but we'll also see some fairly lengthy, clear spells. so whilst it's dark, you do have a chance of spotting the aurora. on into monday's forecast, and it's a day of sunshine and showers, really. starting off, most of us will have a fine morning with plenty of sunshine around. most of the showers really get going into the afternoon. and there could be some slightly longer spells of rain coming into west scotland and maybe northern counties of northern ireland. our temperatures continue to be a little bit below average for the time of year. now we've got more of those showers to come on tuesday. again, a lot of sunshine, the showers have been most frequent into the northwest of both england and wales. then we get this ridge of high pressure building

in during tuesday afternoon. now, that should kill the showers off in northern ireland. central and southern wales and south west england having a fine end to the day as well. now that ridge of high pressure is going to be short lived, pushed out of the way by this next weather system coming in off the atlantic for wednesday. it's going to be a wet day then, with around 20 to 30 millimetres of rain expected, could bring one or two more issues. we'll have to be careful, i suppose, in northern ireland, where it has been so wet over recent times. the rain does clear through, followed by showers, with the winds picking up later in the day from the west. now, temperatures will start to come down a little bit across northern areas, 8—10 celsius for scotland and for northern ireland. 11—13 celsius for england and wales. but towards the end of the week, this area of low pressure is going to swing through the uk, and as it does so, we'll start to get a chillier flow of air coming in from the northwest. now, temperatures might not change very much on the face of it, but i think those north—westerly winds will start to make the weather feel a little cooler. and there'll be some showers around in the week with more general

outbreaks of rain heading in, it looks, for some of us, into next weekend.

live from london. this is bbc news us secretary of state antony blinken has visited the west bank, and iraq, for talks with leaders in the region. he has said discussions are ongoing about a "humanitarian pause" in fighting, to get aid to civilians into gaza. he's now arrived in ankara for talks with his turkish counterpart. large explosions have been reported in northern gaza, where the israeli army is engaged

in an intense battle with hamas. our correspondent in gaza says tonight's air strikes have been the most intense since the beginning of the war. israel's military says its forces have "surrounded" gaza city. idf spokesman daniel hagari says troops have reached the coastline, effectively dividing the strip into "gaza north and gaza south". and here in the uk, the conservative party has rejected suggestions it covered up allegations of rape againstan mp. the mp hasn't been named. hello, i'm azadeh moshiri. to the war in ukraine now, and ahead of winter, both russia and ukraine have tried to consolidate their recent military advances. ukrainian counteroffensives in the east saw small territorial gains around such cities

as robot—inuh and bahkmut. but there are growing concerns that the war has now reached a stalemate. renewed russian assaults on the town of avdiivka, with increasing use of heavy artillery along the front line is forcing thousands of ukrainians to leave their homes. and it's notjust in the east. our correspondentjenny hill has travelled to the south of ukraine to speak to refugees from kherson who have been forced out because of heavy russian bombardments. on the shifting tides of a relentless war, fear and loss surge into odesa. this coastal city, a haven for those fleeing the front line. nina survived the second world war. now, at 91,

she's a refugee again in her. "i couldn't sleep in kherson," she tells us. "i couldn't eat. "there were explosions. "i want to die in peace, not war." alone, among strangers, they wait for help. odesa's aid workers struggling under the load of so many ruined lives. almost everyone who arrives here turns up with little more than the clothes on their back. some have described to us fleeing underfire. they're terrified, they're shocked. and it's here that they have to begin the process of starting a new life. this is what they've left behind. once vibrant communities, ghost towns now. those who've not yet fled under near—constant attack. translation: two months ago, we were getting one or two aerial bombs a day — now it's a0. and shelling by artillery tanks

and mortars has doubled. all along the vast front line, bitter and bloody battles — usually for a few kilometres of territorial gain. ukraine's counteroffensive is making slow progress, and russia is also on the attack. a ukrainian unit sent us their footage as they defend the fiercely contested town of avdiivkja in the donbas region. russia's suffered reportedly massive casualties, but ukrainian soldiers are dying too. so imagine this family's fear. daria knows her husband was sent to fight in avdiivka. they lost touch with him two weeks ago. she's haunted by the memory of waving him off to war. translation: he got on the bus,

and i stood there for a long time crying. the feeling never leaves me that i saw him for the last time. painful to tell, hard to hear. those who recounted their stories ask only this — that the world listens. jenny hill, bbc news, odesa. here in the uk, deputy prime minister, oliver dowden, has denied the conservative party covered up rape allegations against an mp. a report in the mail on sunday says a former party chairman, sirjake berry, raised concerns with the police, because he felt the claims hadn't been properly dealt with. mr dowden told the "sunday with laura kuenssberg programme" that all allegations were taken exceptionally seriously. here's our political correspondent leila nathoo for more on this. well, this is a pretty extraordinary set of claims made today in the mail on sunday newspaper, which says it has seen a letter from the former tory party chairman

jake berry and the former tory chief whip wendy morton who had written to police last year, after they had left their positions. remember, they were chief whip and party chair under liz truss when she was prime minister, but they had written a letter, according to the mail, to police, saying that the party had failed to take more than limited action against some serious allegations against an unnamed tory mp. in the letter, according to the mail, they say there may be five victims of this mp who were subjected to a number of offences, including multiple rapes. they say the matter had been going on for two years and the failure to take action had enabled the mp to continue to offend and victimise women, and they also say that they had discovered the conservative party was paying for support for one of the alleged victims, so a very serious raft of claims made.

the conservative party itself has not yet commented on the detail of the claims, but the former tory party chairman, oliver dowden, who is now the deputy prime minister, spoke to laura kuenssberg this morning. is this true, what happened? well, i simply can't say because i don't know who the individual concerned is. but you were the chairman of the party. what i can say is that when i was chairman of the conservative party, every allegation was taken very seriously and was independent of me because we had an independent complaints procedure. i think that is the right way to address these things. but if this story is true, does that mean there needs to be another investigation into what went on? there is a suggestion here that the conservative party somehow covered this up to protect one of its own mps. i don't recognise in any form the idea that we covered up, and i can assure you categorically that it was not the case that when i was chairman of the conservative party, i covered up any allegations. what i'm saying to you, simply, laura, is that without knowing the name of the person,

it is very difficult for me to be able to give you further information in respect of an unnamed individual. oliver dowden there, currently the deputy prime minister, speaking to laura kuenssberg a bit earlier about those claims. he was a former chair of the conservative party during the period in which jake berry, one of his successors, alleged there was not enough action taken to stop this unnamed tory mp. there are very, very serious claims. obviously, oliver dowden saying he categorically denies covering anything up but cannot comment more specifically, given the mp is not named, but this is yet another story relating to the working culture in westminster, and yet another story relating to complaints procedures. and questions will no doubt be raised about whether those mechanisms, those procedures that exist within parliament, within political parties are fit for purpose. thousands of people are being forced

to spend nights outdoors after their houses were damaged by a strong earthquake in nepal on friday. 157 people have died and more than 300 were injured in the quake. shreejana shreshta reports from nalgad area in western nepal. iam in i am in this village in nepal. he can see a tragic scene behind me. 13 people are being cremated together. those 13 people were killed in this 6.4 magnitude earthquake that occurred on friday night. locals told us that all 186 houses have been damaged in the village and the people affected by the earthquake have been eagerly waiting for the relief operation in the area. everything is inside the rubble. we have not been able to recover them. it is cold outside and the

government should look after us urgently. there is a risk that even those who are alive might die from the cold. our houses are destroyed. we are now sleeping in agricultural fields. our children are sick. we don't have clothes and blankets. it is cold outside. we don't have tents. the dew drops are falling over us. it has been two nights we have made our children sleep in the barren fields. locals told us that this is the first time they have ever witnessed such a tragic incident in this area. moving now to another story. prince william has arrived in singapore where he is championing his environmental prize, earthshot. the awards ceremony later this week will give five projects from around the world a million pounds for their solutions to climate challenges. our royal correspondent daniela relph reports. for the arrival of the prince of wales, on came the world's

biggest indoor waterfall at this oasis inside singapore's changi airport. amid a walkabout and endless selfies, prince william comes to asia for his earthshot prize — a search for solutions to the big climate challenges. flying from the uk to singapore is a long journey for an environmental prize. but the prince's team has offset its travel and stress that this is a global project and its impact relies on prince william taking his earthshot vision around the world. is there a chance we could get you an earthshot burger? one of last year's winners has seen the benefit of having prince william on board when promoting their project. coming right up. morning, everyone! the packaging for these burgers was made by the company notpla. thank you very much. so i'm going to apply a little bit of it. based in london, they turn seaweed into packaging, lining boxes with a biodegradable

film that's even edible. they've relished their status as an earthshot winner. the earthshot prize has been a game changerfor us. obviously, the £1 million helps a lot. the moment we won the earthshot prize, people returned our calls, they wanted to be associated with us. and that's something that money can't buy. that has accelerated this far more than just, like, £1 million from another source. to make the packaging, notpla need the seaweed. they've invested in uk—based seaweed farms, including cary—y—mor in pembrokeshire, which has had a royal visit. the potential of seaweed is vast. it's fast growing, it captures carbon, it can replace single—use plastic and even be an alternative to cotton. in a remote corner of tasmania is a nominee for this year's earthshot prize. sea forest is growing seaweed that can be used as a small supplement in animal feed to dramatically

reduce the methane produced by cows. if we got 10% of the world's livestock on this supplement, it would be the equivalent of taking 100 million cars off the road. so it would make a huge difference here. absolutely enormous. of all prince william's public work, the earthshot prize has become an absolute priority for him. he knows there are challenges in scaling up big environmental ideas, but wants a mood of urgent optimism to surround this week's events. daniela relph, bbc news, singapore. thousands of people in the south of the uk have had their water supply cut off due to technical issues at a treatment works. long queues built up for a bottled—water station — after people lost supply on saturday afternoon. thames water has apologised to those who were affected — adding that the treatment works in shalford had been affected following issues "caused by storm ciaran".

the philippine president marcoer has condemned the murder of a radio host who was shot dead during a live broadcast. police say 57—year—old juanjumalon was live— streaming from his home—based station on the southern island of min—danow. officers say an unidentified gunman entered the booth and fatally shot him. his death is the latest in a long list ofjournalists killed in the country. our reporter tom brada has more details on the story. juanjumalon, also known as dj johnny walker, was broadcasting live from his home studio on sunday morning when an unidentified gunman entered the booth, shot mrjumalon at close range and then fled the scene after stealing mrjumalon's necklace. now, juanjumalon was taken to hospital by his wife but was announced dead at the scene. police say that a motive is not yet clear and they are not aware of any previous threats made

against mrjumalon's life. but the president of the philippines, ferdinand marcoer, has already condemned the killing and called for an investigation. in fact, i have a full statement from the president from which i can read you a small part, which he posted on twitter. he said... and i should say that the entire incident was captured on facebook, since that was where it was being livestreamed at the time, and so police are using that as evidence. and, tom, what is the situation like for journalists ——the philippines has a reputation as a particularly dangerous place for journalists to work. just to put this killing into context, it's in fact the fourth killing of a journalist since the president ferdinand marcos jr took office last year. and for broader context, it's actually the 199th killing of a journalist in the philippines since it returned to a democracy back in 1986.

i should point out an organisation called the committee to protectjournalists every year releases something called the global impunity index, which basically ranks countries on the basis of how diligently they prosecute the killings ofjournalists. their latest index which they published ranks the philippines as the eighth worst country in the world for prosecuting killers ofjournalists, which gives a sense ofjust how challenging an environment it is forjournalism. moving now to another story. max verstappen has taken the all—time record for wins in a season to 17 after victory at the sao paulo grand prix. the red bull driver has already won this year's championship and he always looked in control in brazil. he was joined on the podium by britain's lando norris with fernando alonso taking third. tech tycoon elon musk has launched an ai chatbot called grok on his social media site x,

formerly twitter, but so far it is only available to selected users. mr musk has boasted that grok "loves sarcasm" and that it will answer questions with "a little humour". elon musk started x — ai injuly 2023 to focus on generative artificial intelligence. he hired leading researchers from openai, google deepmind, tesla and the university of toronto. generative ai models learn from the patterns and structure of their input training data. tech giants microsoft, google, and meta are all developing generative ai tools to compete with open al's chat—gpt. earleir i spoke to nello cristianini — who's professor of artificial intelligence at the university of bath.

not much has been announced yet, but there is from yesterday where they compared the performance of the model, the model is the engine of the chat box. it seems to be behaving at the same level but not as much as gpt four, which is understandable because it is much smaller. , ., ~ ., smaller. given that we know from elon musk — smaller. given that we know from elon musk this _ smaller. given that we know from elon musk this is _ smaller. given that we know from elon musk this is going _ smaller. given that we know from elon musk this is going to - smaller. given that we know from elon musk this is going to have i elon musk this is going to have access to real—time data and information from twitter, what does this say about the potential for things like prejudices and bias? well, we don't know yet how they plan to use the data. i look carefully for any clue. i don't think it should be used for training because that... training is a very slow process and these machines, so it is possible the machine would be allowed to search for information on

twitter, but training wouldn't be. we don't know, it isn't being announced. he we don't know, it isn't being announced.— we don't know, it isn't being announced. ,._ ., we don't know, it isn't being announced. _ ., , announced. he did say it would be allowed to answer _ announced. he did say it would be allowed to answer spicy _ announced. he did say it would be| allowed to answer spicy questions, those were his words, not mine, that his rivals wouldn't be able or allowed to answer.— his rivals wouldn't be able or allowed to answer. that's true, a . ain we allowed to answer. that's true, again we don't _ allowed to answer. that's true, again we don't know _ allowed to answer. that's true, again we don't know what. - allowed to answer. that's true, i again we don't know what. there allowed to answer. that's true, - again we don't know what. there is always a final stage in the training of these, where the machine so to speak learn manners, and when can tweak the style and some machines can learn that certain topics shouldn't be addressed and that is how chapped gpt works. it looks like at that stage, they need a different choice and make it a little more witty and spicy about it. looking at some of his _ witty and spicy about it. looking at some of his earlier— witty and spicy about it. looking at some of his earlier comments - witty and spicy about it. looking at some of his earlier comments this | some of his earlier comments this week, he had a lot to say about the future of ai and d had some warnings as well. what were some of the big takeaways from his perspective?

well, the one thing that comes to mind is that six months ago, he did sign a petition calling for a prize because we shouldn't be putting markets on very fast. it is hard to miss that today's press release says the machine isn't perfect, but this is what we can do in two months of work. the un office on drugs and crime says poppy cultivation in afghanistan has plummeted around ninety—five percent since the taliban authorities banned the crop last april. poppy plants are used to make opium, which has also seen production plunge. the report estimates that farmers will have lost around one—billion dollars in income as a result, raising further humanitarian concerns in a country where two—thirds of the population are already in dire need of aid. afghanistan was the largest producer

of opium before the ban. a charity worker who was told he had just six months to live is now on the road to recovery, after becoming the first person in the world to receive an experimental liver transplant.0ur reporter ross micklah—chevitch has more. so the adaport, that's the one i have to take for life to make sure that my body communicates with the liver properly. recovering at home, adam and his wife say he is lucky to be here — the first patient in the world to receive a liver which is part of a ground—breaking new clinical trial. just a year ago, diagnosed with liver cirrhosis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, the outlook was very different. basically you are sent home to die. i think the prognosis for me at the time was six months. the liver, you do not kind of know anything is wrong until it just happens.

many who need liver transplants often spend hours and days in hospital. waiting to find out they donated liver is suitable — often they are told it is not. around a third of livers donated cannot be used, usually because it contains too much fat. we are going to theatre and we have a liver on a machine there. we are all exposing our livers, or most of us, to damage like alcohol consumption, unhealthy, fatty food, and, in some of us, that fat is then deposited in every single liver cell as little droplets, and that makes organs less viable, less healthy and less usable as donor organs. in the box over there, is a human liver. it is this machine

that changes that. passing a combination of drugs through the liver to remove those fat cells. the clean—up means more livers will be available to those waiting for transplants. because this is what is known as a double—blind trial, adam does not know if the liver he received was treated with the drugs in the trial, but since his operation, life has substantially improved. when adam came home a year ago, he could barely get to a commode. he is now walking without a stick. my skin is not yellow any more, so there are obvious signs of improvement, but it is one day at a time. it isjust a long process. for those leading the trials, the technology offers exciting new treatments. we could treat cancers in livers - that we put on machine and put them back into the patient themself, so it opens the whole array- of treatment options.

the couple hope this trial gives some hopes to the hundreds of others waiting for a liver. for them it is case of moving on to the next chapter in their life. for her, when the bed goes, that is the benchmark. for me, the day i am allowed or feel i can or actually do bend down to the floor or pick up a box, that would be the benchmark for me. a dramatic rescue has been launched to get a sheep — trapped for more than two years — off the bottom of a cliff in the scottish highlands. fiona the ewe was saved by five farmers coming to her aid. alexandra mackenzie has the yarn.

she became known as britain's loneliest sheep, isolated for two years at the bottom of a cliff by the cromarty firth, sheltering in a cave. previous rescue attempts failed due to the perilous terrain. until yesterday, when a daring mission was carried out by five determined farmers. i'm very glad my mum is going to watch this after she knows i'm home safe, cos she'll be terrified. it included a sheep shearer from asia and a presenter on bbc scotland's landwa rd programme. they admitted it was risky but slowly moved to the heavy sheep back up the steep slope. after two hours, the sheep, now known as fiona, was at the top. her new home is to be a petting zoo in dumfries, but activists from the animal rising group say she should go to a sanctuary instead. three—year—old fiona is in hiding until the fuss subsides, and she has now been shown for the very first time. once britain's loneliest

sheep, fiona, described as tame and relaxed, is now barely recognisable. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news. that is all for me. a reminder that there is much more on all our top stories on our website, including the top story this hour us secretary of state antony blinken has visted iraq, and the west bank, and in the last hour, he has landed in turkey's capital ankara. hello there. we've seen some strong aurora pictures coming in over recent hours here at the bbc weather centre. this beautiful one was from the aberdeenshire area in northern scotland. but this one is from folkestone. the significance of this is if you can see the northern lights in folkestone here in the uk, you can see it pretty

much everywhere. so the aurora is very strong. it's worth taking a look outside, use a camera or a mobile phone to see the best views, because those bits of equipment are more sensitive than our eyes to low levels of light. but you have a chance over the next few hours. now, weather wise, ok, there will be a few showers coming and going, but we'll also see some fairly lengthy, clear spells. so whilst it's dark, you do have a chance of spotting the aurora. on into monday's forecast, and it's a day of sunshine and showers, really. starting off, most of us will have a fine morning with plenty of sunshine around. most of the showers really get going into the afternoon. and there could be some slightly longer spells of rain coming into west scotland and maybe northern counties of northern ireland. our temperatures continue to be a little bit below average for the time of year. now we've got more of those showers to come on tuesday. again, a lot of sunshine, the showers have been most frequent into the northwest of both england and wales. then we get this ridge of high pressure building

in during tuesday afternoon. now, that should kill the showers off in northern ireland. central and southern wales and south west england having a fine end to the day as well. now that ridge of high pressure is going to be short lived, pushed out of the way by this next weather system coming in off the atlantic for wednesday. it's going to be a wet day then, with around 20 to 30 millimetres of rain expected, could bring one or two more issues. we'll have to be careful, i suppose, in northern ireland, where it has been so wet over recent times. the rain does clear through, followed by showers, with the winds picking up later in the day from the west. now, temperatures will start to come down a little bit across northern areas, 8—10 celsius for scotland and for northern ireland. 11—13 celsius for england and wales. but towards the end of the week, this area of low pressure is going to swing through the uk, and as it does so, we'll start to get a chillier flow of air coming in from the northwest. now, temperatures might not change very much on the face of it, but i think those north—westerly winds will start to make the weather feel a little cooler. and there'll be some showers around in the week with more general outbreaks of rain heading in, it looks, for some of us,

into next weekend.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm mariko oi. the headlines: us secretary of state antony blinken visits the west bank and iraq for talks with leaders in the region. he says discussions are ongoing about a "humanitarian pause" in fighting. there's no doubt from my conversations with all of our colleagues who were in oman yesterday that everyone would welcome the humanitarian pause because, again, it can advance things that we're

all trying to accomplish, including getting hostages back, including getting a lot more assistance into gaza, including getting people out of gaza. israel says its forces have cut gaza in two, after its ground offensive against hamas reached the coast of the palestinian territory. they reached the beach at the southern part of the city of gaza and they've encircled gaza. and today, we have gaza north and gaza south. the israeli bombardment of gaza continues. our correspondent in gaza says tonight's air strikes have been the most intense since the beginning of the war. and prince william has arrived in singapore, to announce the winners of his earthshot environmental prize. my my from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news —— live from our