to sack his home secretary — who accused police of bias over pro—palestinian marches. the high court rules prince harry — and other prominent figures — can continue their lawsuit against welcome to bbc news broadcasting live from southern israel about three kilometres away from the gaza strip where the israeli military is continuing to push deeper into gaza city. we are at the largest hospital in —— the largest hospital in gaza, al shifa, is reportedly surrounded by israeli forces. our gaza correspondent is hearing the military is on all four sides of al shifa. other hospitals in the territory are also said to be surrounded.

many thousands of people, perhaps tens of thousands of civilians sheltering at the al shifa hospital along with some localjournalists. the world health organization says 20 hospitals in gaza are now non—operational. people around al shifa hospital report intense fighting. and in the early hours of friday, there was the sound of a large explosion. there was panic and confusion in the hospital courtyard following the explosion. israel's military says it is investigating reports that the areas around the hospitals have been struck. it's previously said its forces were operating close to shifa hospital, which it says is above hamas headquarters. this in other developments, reuters news agency is reporting

agency is reporting that the palestinian authority is ready to assume responsibilities in the gaza strip once the war has ended. territory the pa president, mahmoud abbas, said it would be part of a "comprehensive solution" for the occupied territories and gaza. also, president biden has welcomed israel's decision to formalise brief humanitarian pauses in the fighting in northern gaza — calling it a "step in the right direction". two humanitarian corridors will open in the territory and the israeli defence minister has said that will not interfere with the israeli offensive. the corridors will open

for four hours each day — the salah al deen road, which hundreds of thousands of people have already used to head south, as well as the coastal al rashid road. many of the people heading out of gaza city are having to do so on foot. they have left their homes and are heading to refugee camps in gaza's south. meanwhile, talks continue to free more than 240 hostages still being held in gaza. the palestinian group islamichhad released a video of hostages it claims to be holding. i've been speaking to our gaza correspondent, rushdi abu alouf, who told me about two developments around his position in southern gaza. the tanks are now advancing. they are in the heart of rimal neighbourhood. this is one of the hubs for everything in gaza, including the banks, the telecommunication companies, the plc, the palestinian legislative council and all of the important buildings and important institutions are in this neighbourhood. tanks are now in the middle of this

road, it's called shuhada road. now, they advanced from where the shifa hospital is, east. and they are almost close to gaza city centre. the second development, we heard from a source inside al-quds hospital, which is the south—west of gaza. first communication exclusive to the bbc from inside the hospital. soldiers are not inside the hospital but tanks around the hospital, heavy fighting around the hospital. they managed to get over radio to one of the ambulance drivers here. this is khan younis. a message saying that the situation is very serious, communication is cut. so now the tanks are advancing into gaza city centre, which is quite significant. in this street, the street is in the heart of rimal neighbourhood, it is close to the bbc office. every day in the morning, i used to drive to myjob from that street. it is the hub, the economic

hub for gaza, has most of the important companies, the telecommunication company, the central bank, the bank of palestine, the central bank is in the middle of this neighbourhood and it is now all fallen under israeli control. we have heard from the medical chief at al—shifa hospital saying that they will not evacuate the hospital, they want to continue to the operational layer to care for the patients. what is your sense now, what is your assessment of the extent of israeli military control across gaza? they are entirely in control of the shifa area. still there is routes for people to escape, and many people escape. i've just met a guy who came from shifa hospital. he was in shifa hospital last night, he made thisjourney along salah al—din road. he walked about 5—6 kilometres and he made it here. he told me last night there was a lot of explosions inside the hospital,

around the hospital. and he said he saw tanks very close to the hospital. we have to understand that in the last, like, 20 days or so, many people take the hospital as shelter. so thousands of people are taking the courtyard, the car park, any space inside the hospital was like a shelter for those who are displaced from their homes, and the shut refugee camp very close to the hospital. in addition to that, shifa hospital is the largest medical centre in gaza, so i presume hundreds of people are treated in about five, six buildings in the hospital. so moving the patient is risky for the people, the doctors in the hospital. it is going to be a very complicated situation, but for now we are sure we still have contacts inside the hospital. no tanks, no soldiers inside the hospital. but they are surrounding that place.

i spoke to the former united nations assistant secretary—general for human rights and ceo of the berghof foundation, andrew gilmour, who's in berlin. i asked him about the reports of attacks around al—shifa hospital and other hospitals in gaza and whether they can ever be justified. in the sense of the fact that hamas on 7th october carried out an absolutely abominable war crime and act of mass terror, acts of self—defense are, of course, justified. but however awful somebody�*s initial crime is, it doesn't mean that the rules of law do not apply. quite clearly it seems to almost any objective human rights expert around the world the rules of war are not being observed. there are systematic war crimes being carried out since 7th october.

i know every one of the locations your correspondent has just mentioned, i lived in gaza for a while and also in israel. the israelis are often bomb in gaza, but the scale of this attack, massive ground offensive is something that i've not encountered before and i've been going to gaza for a0 years. this is huge. as i said, there is a very, very distinct pattern of war crimes covering a whole range of issues, whether it's cutting off the fuel, the water to hospitals and to everywhere else. whether it is the forcible relocation of tens of thousands of civilians. that is a war crime too. all of these things, collective punishment and incredibly heavy bombing of what are clearly civilian targets — homes, hospitals and everything else. that is what your correspondents are describing.

just to be clear, you you would agree with the assessment by your colleague volker turk, the current un human rights chief, who accused both sides in this war of committing war crimes. i would absolutely accuse, and i do not think that anyone who is not a propagandist for one side or the other, nobody could deny that both sides have committed war crimes. hamas, first of all and israel ever since. yeah, so i agree with that. can i ask you about moving forward? there is a lot of discussion, of course, about who could run gaza if and when hamas is obliterated and talk even of some kind of un body, some kind of international body to run gaza so that the israelis do not reoccupy it and so the palestinian authority do not have it on their own. do you do you feel that that is a feasible role for the un moving forward? it would be feasible, but israel

will say that the un is against it. this is the pattern always and it will be the criticism against volker turk, as well. he works for the un and he's an austrian citizen, so was hitler. all of these lines will come out. and the un will be accused of being anti—israel. so it will not be given that role, i can be almost certain for that. but mark, if i may, you say once hamas is obliterated, i do need to point out, please, that it is notjust a matter of human rights and morality to say that this huge level of destruction by israel is wrong. i would say it is also wrong in terms of realpolitik. this is not the way to eradicate hamas. hamas was created after israel's very harsh response to the first intifada in 1987, and it came to power after israel's even more harsh response in the second intifada. that is what happens. the same with hezbollah. hezbollah came to power after the israeli invasion of 1982 and it became the most powerful player in lebanon after the israeli

attack on lebanon in 2006. yesterday, the most senior military man in the entire world, the chairman of the usjoint chiefs of staff, said that every civilian in gaza killed by israel will lead to a new hamas recruit. this is not the way to obliterate hamas. the hamas run health ministry and gaza says that at least 13 people have been killed as part of that strike around the hospital. that is coming from the palestinian side. as for the israeli defence forces, they said they are looking into reports where they were operating. let's bring you these live pictures of the skyline in gaza. you can see that

the israeli offensive is very much continuing. the israelis are now announcing short localised stoppages each day in order for civilians to be able to access humanitarian aid, which the white house says is a step in the right direction, but of course much more is needed. i've been speaking to tommaso della longa who is the spokesperson for the international federation of red cross. he explained how a four—hour window to allow aid into gaza each day could help people there. i have to say that we need to assess exactly what does it mean and which are the terms of these policies, so then, of course, whatever effort to bring some more humanitarian aid, to have some more access to the people in gaza is welcome. but again, we need to understand that on the ground, operationally—wise, what does it mean and now how long it will last. and also how these access will be

granted to humanitarian agencies. tommaso, the israeli office for coordination of activities in the palestinian territories, cogat, maintains that, in their words, there is no humanitarian crisis in gaza. what is your response to that? well, i mean, i can use the words and the stories that our colleagues of palestine red crescent are telling us. i mean, few minutes ago, your correspondent from gaza was talking about the very difficult, i would say catastrophic situation of al-quds hospital or the palestine red crescent in gaza city. we lost communications. we don't know exactly what is going on there, but we knew in the last hours that they switched off the main generator. they're using a smaller one to avoid finishing fuel more quickly. and so then at the moment, or at least yesterday, they were using the small generator

to give electricity to infants in incubators and patients in the intensive care unit. this is what we heard in the north. what we are hearing in the south is that people are struggling to find water and food, that bakeries are not anymore there, that electricity is not any more there. and we are also hearing that people are putting sugar in salty water, so then it's more drinkable. so i think that the situation is very complicated. the health system is almost collapsing. and the humanitarian needs of more than two million people in gaza are growing day by day, hour by hour. and the only way to stop this is to have more access, to have more humanitarian aid entering gaza and to make sure that we can reach all the people in need, including in the north. can i ask you specifically about what is happening inside the hospitals, these reports of israeli troops closing in on shifa hospital?

what are your fears about what is happening for medics and in terms of supplies with lack of anesthetic already lack of supplies in the hospitals? what are you hearing from actually inside the remaining operational hospitals? well, what we are hearing from doctors and nurses of palestine red crescent in al-quds. i mean, they are talking about empty shelves. so running out of medicines, running out of medical equipments. but then again, a fuel. well, i think that is a priority at the moment because without fuel, there is no electricity. and without electricity we will have to have this impossible choice of switching of incubators for infants. and already the surgery ward of the palestine crescent hospital in gaza city was switched off. the was closed two days ago because of electricity, because of lack of fuel. so the situation is really catastrophic. and again, i don't think that any doctor or nurse should be put in front of these dilemmas on how

to treat people because medicines are lacking. and i want also to underline the situation of medical personnel. they are palestinians affected themselves, they lost their relatives. they don't have themselves access to food and water, but they are still working 24/7 and i think that they are really the icon of humanity, of a principled humanitarian action, and they should get as much as possible the help of the entire international community. let's bring you these pictures from the children's hospital in northern gaza. they have been provided to news agencies by the hospital, shot on mobile phone. you can see around the hospital. we wait to see where

the hospital. we wait to see where the tanks are from but there are suggestions that they are israeli tanks and the israel defense forces haveissued tanks and the israel defense forces have issued a warning to civilians sheltering outside this hospital to evacuate. there are tens of thousands still sheltering around hospitals in northern gaza. the israel defense forces encouraging all the civilians to flee south. some of the footage we are seeing this morning is extremely graphic, civilian suffering from that explosion earlier in the day. i will now hand you back to london. we will bejoining mark now hand you back to london. we will be joining mark for latest on the conflict in the hours to come. a high courtjudge has ruled that prince harry can continue his legal

action against associated newspapers — that's the media organisation that includes titles such as the daily mail. the prince has accused the company of unlawful information gathering. lawyers for the newspapers had argued he and other high—profile people, including sir eltonjohn and baroness lawrence of clarendon had run out of time to bring the privacy claims.prince harry has been involved in five other legal battles at the high court in recent months, including cases brought against mirror group newspapers, which publishes the mirror, and the murdoch—owned news group newspapers, publisher of the sun and the now—defunct news of the world. let's cross live now to our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds, who isjust outside the royal courts ofjustice in central london. talk us thorugh the ruling and the significance of it. thejudge had to decide the judge had to decide two things, essentially, to decide whether this case goes ahead. firstly, are the

seven claimants, including prince harry, the duke of sussex and six others, are the out—of—town to make this claim? the law says you have six years. what he said was they couldn't have brought a earlier potentially because he says they have a real chance of that associated newspapers concealed what they had been doing in the past, therefore they had no chance of taking this action because of that concealment. they still have to prove that but they will get a chance to do that at a trial next year. he also decided that crucial evidence in this case, receipts for payments from the newspapers to private investigators, that that should remain confidential. he has given the an option here because he said they can go to a minister to minister to try to get that confidentiality removed. both of thatis confidentiality removed. both of that is positive for prince harry and the others. they will not look at their next steps, but that could

potentially be a trial next year. we “ust potentially be a trial next year. we just brought the story in the last hour, that the ruling has come through, but has there been any reaction from prince harry, at all? not from prince harry, not from that side at all at this stage. i understand from his side they are pleased that the judge has come down pretty heavily in their favour on this point of potential concealment by associated newspapers, but nothing on the record and nothing from associated newspapers itself. associated newspapers has always vehemently denied these allegations, saying that they are not true. in the claim that baroness lawrence was my phone was hacked, someone who has campaigned forjustice, the daily mail has strongly backed, associated newspapers has said she has been given false information and almost put up to making this claim against the newspapers. again, nothing on

the newspapers. again, nothing on the record. they've only had this judgment for an hour or so. we will bring you that when we get it. tom. bring you that when we get it. tom, outside the — bring you that when we get it. tom, outside the royal— bring you that when we get it. tom, outside the royal courts _ bring you that when we get it. tom, outside the royal courts of - bring you that when we get it. tom, outside the royal courts ofjustice in london. one of the uk's most senior police officers says policing cannot be influenced by politics. his comments were in response to an article the home secretary wrote for the times newspaper. the prime minister is under pressure to sack suella braverman for the article — which hadn't been cleared by the government. in it, she accused the metropolitan police of "playing favourites" by treating pro—palestinian marches differently to demonstrations by right wing groups. there have been rumours that rishi sunak is considering a reshuffle. something i put to our political correspondent, hannah miller. well, we've been hearing rumors of a cabinet reshuffle for really quite some months now. the timing of it keeps slipping. it is very likely to happen at some point. but frankly, i can't give you any

more clarity on that about when exactly it will be or, indeed, what exactly will happen to suella braverman. but it is, as you say, being pointed to as one option, that she may be reshuffled out of her current role because the article that was published yesterday has provoked enormous anger among conservative mps. it's fair to say, though, that opinion really is split from those who we're hearing from publicly. there's only one that i'm aware of who has publicly called for the prime minister to sack suella braverman. others have disagreed with her on the substance of what she's saying, suggested that she was wrong to criticise the police in the way that she has. i think we can hear now from the chancellor, jeremy hunt. he's been speaking about this in the last few minutes. as many other cabinet ministers have said, the words that she used are not words that i myself would have used, but i have a productive relationship

with her as a colleague and i've always given her the money that she needs to fund the police, bring down crime and to fund the immigration and asylum system. would you get away with doing what she's done? i well, the prime minister said that he has full confidence in herand i have nothing further to add. i think you heard there the kind of tension between those who, likejeremy hunt, don't necessarily agree with exactly what has happened here, but won't necessarily go so far as saying, yes, she should be sacked and that is because this is so controversial between conservative mps. a us man has become the first recipient of a whole human eye transplant. aaron james suffered life—changing injuries at work more than two years ago. in may, doctors from new york university performed pain—staking surgery to attach the donor eye and parts of his face. when performed in mice, the procedure has restored some sight, but this was the first time it had been attempted on a human.

0ur correspondent sean dilley has more. this is a medicalfirst. aaronjames is the first human recipient of a whole transplanted eye. they told me, they said, "honestly, we never expected it to make it to the transplant, you know?" i mean, never expected it to work at all. and they told me that from the get go. but just the fact that it's allowed... i mean, you know, that's... that's the first step. surgeons here in new york spent 21 hours removing part of their donor's face and left eye, including the optic nerve, then skillfully grafting them on to their patient. this is a day that could so easily have never come for aaron james. the 46—year—old electrical worker from arkansas suffered life—changing

injuries injune 2021 after his face contacted a 7,200 volt live wire. the accident cost him his left arm, nose, lips, front teeth and left eye, as well as his chin and part of his cheek. do you have any pain at all? no. it's been six months since the experimental surgery. so far, the transplanted eye sees nothing, but surgeons are positive about what this means for the future. well, i'm pretty impressed with what we're seeing this early on. at this point, the mere fact that the eye is alive and looks healthy is pretty special. for aaronjames, the cosmetic benefits are plain for others to see, even if his new left eye can't. but doctors say the first whole human eye transplant offers real hope that what they've learned here could one day restore sight to those who cannot see. sean dilley, bbc news. stay with us here on bbc news.

hello, there. plenty of dry weather to come as we go through the next couple of days and there will be some sunshine, including today, sunny spells for many, watch out for showers in places. feeling a little chillier. the coldest night of the autumn so far in parts of scotland, freezing fog in the north, but further south, heavy thundery showers this morning from wales across southern england, coastal gales in the south—west, the winds are now lighter. this afternoon, could still be showers lingering in kent, some cloud here. 0therwise sunshine developing. blustery showers, sunny spells for northern ireland, rain moving into the far north of scotland by the end of the day, some could be wintry perhaps on the tops of hills. this evening and overnight, the low pressure moves east, we're between weather systems, the winds will be light, some frost

forming particularly in the east. temperatures here could drop a little below freezing, mist and fog as well that could be slow to clear. for lots, blue sky and sunshine for armistice day, showers running down the north sea coasts. turning cloudier in the south—west, windy here, eventually wet by the end of the day with the next weather front running northwards and eastwards through remembrance sunday. more moisture sunday morning, many could wake up to scenes like this with mist and fog around. once again slow to lift and clear. another frost, particularly in the east. a bit sharper than on saturday. the rain moves across wales into the far north of england, patchy rain perhaps in london for the service at the cenotaph late morning. many places, particularly scotland and north—east england, could stay largely dry until the very end of the day perhaps,

but issues with mist and fog. in summary, mostly dry on saturday, rain for some on sunday, particularly in the south and west, but again low pressure system clears east, could develop a wave, so some heavier rain and stronger gustier winds on monday and tuesday. lots of unsettled weather across our capital cities through the start of the new week. goodbye for now.

no big bonus for dame alison. the ex boss of natwest loses out after the row over nigel farage and rebuilding bridges. us and chinese finance officials try to ease tensions. welcome to world business report. we start here in the uk where the former boss of natwest, dame alison rose, will lose out on £7.6 million after she admitted discussing the closure of nigel farage's bank account. she will receive her fixed pay package — worth over £2 million — but won't get bonuses she had been entitled to.

0ur correspondent theo leggett has the details.