and other prominent figures — can continue their lawsuit against the publisher of the daily mail. there are growing calls for the uk prime minister to sack his home secretary — who accused police of bias over pro—palestinian marches. and surgeons in new york perform the world's first complete gaza's health ministry says more than 4,000 children have been killed since the start of the war, and thousands more injured. israel disputes these figures, but the world health organization believes they are credible. some of those injured face life—long disabilities — they've been left unable to walk or paralysed. working with freelance journalists in gaza filming for the bbc, our correspondent yogita limaye reports from jerusalem.

singing. what must it take for a mother to comfort her child... ..when reality is so devastating? two—year—old fatima was stuck under the rubble of a bombing in gaza three weeks ago. nehal and her husband had tried for 14 years to have a baby. and then fatima was born. translation: what is her fault? what did she do wrong? we have to constantly give her painkillers. as soon as the effect of one wears off, i give her another. her life revolves around painkillers, and every other day she undergoes surgery. trapped in gaza, under the constant threat of being bombed. hospitals fill up with more wounded children. amira, 13.

seven of her brothers were killed — and her mother, too. her father says they'd fled to southern gaza for safety. that's where they were bombed. amira has spinal injuries. "i want peace and security. i want to be treated and go back to normal life — to my home," she says. "i want to feel safe." it's not clear if amira will be able to walk again. yogita limaye, bbc news, jerusalem. there are growing concerns about the conflict spreading — bringing in countries like yemen. our international editor, jeremy bowen, reports from israel. more palestinians left their homes — moving along salah al—din street, the road to southern gaza, after israel said they would not be attacked if they left the battle zone to the north. pauses in israeli combat operations were welcomed by the americans.

all this raises the ghosts of 1948 for palestinians, when more than 700,000 of them fled or were expelled byjewish troops as israel won its independence. israel never allowed them home. two of the gaza hostages were in new videos. hanna katsir blamed benjamin netanyahu, israel's prime minister, for their plight. so did yagil yaakov, who's 13. hostage videos are usually made under duress, so the bbc is not broadcasting them. and across the west bank, the other side of the occupied territories, more palestinians were killed as armed groups fought israeli raids. the gaza war is igniting the west bank. the israeli army's reprisals included the destruction of roads and infrastructure.

existing tension and hatred have been deepened. the danger remains of the war spreading across the middle east. in yemen, the houthi regime, an ally of iran, posted more videos of attacks on israel with missiles and drones. so far, they've all been intercepted by american and israeli air defence systems. there is increasing fury in the arab world over israel's actions in gaza and the west — particularly america's — failure to bring about a ceasefire. in a moment i'll be talking to the assistant secretary general of arab league who is in riyadh ahead of a summit tomorrow. but first let's cross live to our correspondent in cairo, yassmin farag. cani can i ask you what is happening on the ground in terms of the crossing? why are we not seeing more people getting into egypt and more aid getting into egypt and more aid getting in? . getting into egypt and more aid

caettin in? ~ . , ., getting in? . we have seen today that the rafah _ getting in? . we have seen today that the rafah crossing _ getting in? . we have seen today that the rafah crossing is - getting in? . we have seen today that the rafah crossing is not - that the rafah crossing is not opened yet but according to local sources, it will be allowed with 400 foreigners waiting at the gates of the coming few hours. 0n foreigners waiting at the gates of the coming few hours. on thursday 700 foreigners and dual nationals are crossed into egypt and now the process sees egypt's increasing the maximum capacity for the crossing to allow people. in the first few days, only 400 foreigners were allowed to enter but now it is 800 and concerning the humanitarian aid, an hundred and six trucks have been delivered on thursday this past week and the average number of aid trucks has increased rapidly. that and there are two main issues that are a problem between egypt and israel concerning the crossing. 0ne problem between egypt and israel concerning the crossing. one is the number and names of injured palestinians allowed into egypt on

the other is delivery of fuel. that is completely rejected by israel. but concerning the injured, only a few numbers of injured palestinians have managed to enter egypt daily and they are saying israel is targeting a convoy of ambulances is carrying palestinians at the crossing while israel is saying some of the ambulances might carry fighters of hamas. anyway, this lack of coordination has caused great delay of entry for the injured palestinians and there are some attempts to coordinate and the un have sent a technical team to the board and is to help the egyptian red cross deliver more aid, but at the moment we are still seeing limited numbers of injured palestinians into egypt and a significantly bigger numbers in foreigners and aid going into gaza. we are going to talk on the

programme about diplomatic efforts to bring in more aid and bring about a cease fire and we will be joined by the assistant secretary of the arab league but we want to ask about what is happening in cairo because hamas has been talking to egyptian officials and are they still there and how does the process work? ida. and how does the process work? no, the are and how does the process work? no, they are not — and how does the process work? iifr, they are not there any more. it was a brief visit yesterday evening by a delegation of hamas headed by the group's political leader. they have met with the egyptian intelligence chief and talked about the ceasefire and the potential prisoner swap deal. this is the first time a senior official from hamas visited the egyptian capital for talks. senior official from hamas visited the egyptian capitalfor talks. this conflict is usually handled by the egyptian intelligence and although egyptian intelligence and although egypt does not officially consider hamas a terrorist group, officials describe it as resistance and the current egyptian regime is not on

good terms with hamas because they were very close allies to the muslim brotherhood that he overthrew from power in 2013 but now things are changing and egypt's sole concern is the sinai peninsula to not let any mass relocation of palestinians into the peninsular. it's not a secret that egypt is not happy with plans announced by former —— israeli and american officials might be relocating palestinians to sinai. inject is not happy with that and that has brought egypt and hamas closer and as i said, this visit is a first of this senior officials and there's been a focal in the past week between the egyptian intelligence, so egypt, is diplomatic efforts in cairo today we have the qatari emir who met with

the egyptian president to talk about a potential ceasefire and a prisoner swap deal. a potential ceasefire and a prisoner swa deal. . ~ , ., a potential ceasefire and a prisoner swa deal. . ~' ,, a potential ceasefire and a prisoner swa deal. . ~' . ., swap deal. thank you so much for that. and that — swap deal. thank you so much for that. and that nicely _ swap deal. thank you so much for that. and that nicely leads - swap deal. thank you so much for that. and that nicely leads us - swap deal. thank you so much for that. and that nicely leads us into other diplomatic efforts are meetings happening. we can speak now to hossam zaki, assistant secretary general of the arab league, who is in riyadh ahead of an emergency meeting there. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. what do you realistically expect to come out of this meeting tomorrow? ~ ., ., ., tomorrow? well the meeting tomorrow is auoin to tomorrow? well the meeting tomorrow is going to focus _ tomorrow? well the meeting tomorrow is going to focus on _ tomorrow? well the meeting tomorrow is going to focus on the _ tomorrow? well the meeting tomorrow is going to focus on the situation - is going to focus on the situation in its entirety but mainly on the political elements of the situation. of course there will be a clear call of course there will be a clear call for the ceasefire because this is the crux of the matter at this point

main ally to allow for a ceasefire and that is hampering the humanitarian efforts to help the people of gaza face the calamity they are facing.— people of gaza face the calamity they are facing. iran's leader will be at the summit _ they are facing. iran's leader will be at the summit and _ they are facing. iran's leader will be at the summit and what - they are facing. iran's leader will be at the summit and what will. they are facing. iran's leader will. be at the summit and what will be said to him directly? what pressure will be put on him because of his relationship with both hamas and —— both hamas and hezbollah? -- both hamas and hezbollah? that is a different meeting _ -- both hamas and hezbollah? that is a different meeting and _ -- both hamas and hezbollah? that is a different meeting and there - -- both hamas and hezbollah? that is a different meeting and there will- a different meeting and there will be an arab summit first and there will be an islamic summit but i imagine everybody is going to focus on supporting the palestinian side. because they need our support at this time and everyone will be against israel and we should expect that. it's normal after it has been doing for a month now. 10,000

victims in the gaza strip, so that is pretty much the mood of the mood is pretty much the mood of the mood is we need to, once this chapter is over and it will be over sooner or later, we will need to talk about a political solution to save the next generations that we are seeing the hammer —— havoc now. we generations that we are seeing the hammer -- havoc now.— generations that we are seeing the hammer -- havoc now. we heard from mahmoud abbas _ hammer -- havoc now. we heard from mahmoud abbas and _ hammer -- havoc now. we heard from mahmoud abbas and the _ hammer -- havoc now. we heard from mahmoud abbas and the pa _ hammer -- havoc now. we heard from mahmoud abbas and the pa today - mahmoud abbas and the pa today saying they are going to assume responsibility in the gaza strip and they see it as a solution for east jerusalem and gaza but not without the support of neighbouring countries. are you in favour of that and what sort of support what they need and can you offer?

very few people are going to engage in a conversation like this because everybody wants to focus on the ceasefire first but is engaging in such conversation would mean we are not very keen on a ceasefire and we need to keep the situation open ended. . , ., , ended. that is not the case. engaging — ended. that is not the case. engaging in _ ended. that is not the case. engaging in a _ ended. that is not the case. engaging in a conversation l ended. that is not the case. i engaging in a conversation like ended. that is not the case. - engaging in a conversation like this would mean that we want to help the palestinians govern themselves and lead to the political solution that that would entail an independent palestinian state. this is what we wish for and what we are working for. the israelis, on the other hand, i'm afraid, are not in that mood and they do not want to talk about a political solution. they do not want to give the palestinians what they want. they want to

separate gaza and its status. they want a security solution for gaza and this is not at all what we have in mind when we talk about the future of gaza and the palestinian occupied territory. there is a lot of discrepancy between the two sides. ., ~' , ., sides. you keep mentioning the riori in sides. you keep mentioning the priority in the — sides. you keep mentioning the priority in the meeting - sides. you keep mentioning the| priority in the meeting tomorrow sides. you keep mentioning the - priority in the meeting tomorrow to try and bring about a ceasefire. we know that israel and also the us say they do not want a ceasefire because they do not want a ceasefire because they think it will give hamas time to regroup to launch more attacks on israel but i wonder if you feel like the americans, and the fact they've agreed to some humanitarian poses is progress? it is agreed to some humanitarian poses is rouress? , , ., ,, progress? it is progress, undeniably. _ progress? it is progress, undeniably. it _ progress? it is progress, undeniably. it is - progress? it is progress, undeniably. it is slow - progress? it is progress, - undeniably. it is slow progress and is costing the palestinians many,

many lives and a lot of destruction. but it is progress and we would like to see them join the rest of the international community in calling on israel for the ceasefire. it shouldn't be a complicated thing. and. flit shouldn't be a complicated thing. and. . ., , . ., , shouldn't be a complicated thing. and. , , ., ., and. of course. of course. no one would deny _ and. of course. of course. no one would deny that _ and. of course. of course. no one would deny that and _ and. of course. of course. no one would deny that and no _ and. of course. of course. no one would deny that and no one - and. of course. of course. no one would deny that and no one would | would deny that and no one would work against it. you just mentioned the visit of the prince of qatar to egypt and both countries are working on the same objective to get the hostages released to get the ceasefire implemented and this is not what is, that is difficult to achieve because the israelis have certain ideas that are difficult to attain and they were not precise about what is their end goal. it's not a clear—cut military operation,

just a lot of destruction and open—ended roads and nobody really knows where this is going to end so we need to work on a ceasefire and we need to work on a ceasefire and we need to get everybody on board. you will appreciate that israel does not want to deal with hamas having seen 700 of their people killed and they've seen hostages taken and there still being attacked by hamas and they want to rid gaza of hamas once and for all. i and they want to rid gaza of hamas once and for all.— once and for all. i totally understand _ once and for all. i totally understand what - once and for all. i totally understand what you - once and for all. i totally understand what you are j once and for all. i totally - understand what you are saying. several episodes, such a war happening in the past in the last 17 years and we are where we are now and it's not a very pleasant situation. now israel says it wants to get rid of hamas but that's not at all what they were saying throughout the 17 years. but anyway.

we appreciate everybody�*s position but we want to save the palestinian children and civilian population from the havoc that the israeli military is racking up on them. can i ask ou military is racking up on them. can i ask you more _ military is racking up on them. can i ask you more broadly, military is racking up on them. can iask you more broadly, if military is racking up on them. can i ask you more broadly, if you look at the arab press today, which i have done, you will see there is a growing anger towards notjust growing anger towards not just israel growing anger towards notjust israel but to the west on the us as well and a sense of growing fury. what do you believe the consequences of that could more broadly be? you know, this — of that could more broadly be? you know. this is _ of that could more broadly be? you know. this is a _ of that could more broadly be? wm. know, this is a sensitive issue for us. when anger builds up at a certain point, let's go, and that is not a really pretty situation. it is

usually something negative and nobody wants that and we have witnessed time and again that when anger is building up against the west it comes to a situation where we do not want but we are pleased to everybody not to get us to a situation like this. we have people watching everything, watching helpless children and the helpless civilian population and this is a mighty military machine and no matter what the pretext is or the course, they do not really care about what is causing all of this as much as on the other side no one

really wants to care about why hamas did what it did. so the end result is a very negative situation and we are pleading with everyone to let us stop the machine and let us have a ceasefire in order to try to defuse an angry situation, especially reaching public opinion. titer? an angry situation, especially reaching public opinion. very good to net reaching public opinion. very good to get your — reaching public opinion. very good to get your thoughts _ reaching public opinion. very good to get your thoughts and - reaching public opinion. very good to get your thoughts and thanks i reaching public opinion. very good | to get your thoughts and thanks for taking the time to talk to us, and we can see some live pictures we are bringing you from central gaza right now, this evacuation corridor opening up for civilians to move from northern gaza and that is very much where the focus of the israeli attacks on hamas have been and we are seeing tens of thousands of people from gaza are moving to southern israel to what has been called relative safety because if you are in gaza it does not feel

that anywhere is safe but this evacuation corridor is open from nine o'clock in the morning until 1600 local time and you can see people with their belongings and occasionally you will see someone carrying white flags or clots, we can't see it now, but we did see is earlier. there's been no sign of a military pause in gaza but we are seeing this evacuation corridor that has been open for civilians will. they are moving through. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bbc news bringing you different stories from across the uk. they are the tallest land mammal and have blue—black tongues to prevent sunburn. giraffes are pretty unique animals and these worldwide experts would agree. we want to release them back to an environment full of other reinforcers... they've come together

at bristol zoo project to share best practice. so giraffes, for me, are pretty special. 20 years ago when i started in zoos they were the very first animal i ever worked with and ever since then i've had a real passion for them. the idea of this conference is to basically increase all of our knowledge on training, on things like hoof care, on blood draw and all sorts of stuff like that that we do with our animals. i love this. this is my favourite part of myjob. i love having people come - from all over, get together in one big melting pot of ideas. if you go on safari, you pretty much will see a giraffe, but they are experiencing what we call a silent extinction, so no one really realises that they are disappearing. they're very friendly, i aren't they, as animals? yeah. and they always keep us lovely and entertained. i what do you like about giraffes? they're vegetarian. tuvalu might look like an island paradise, but it is sinking. now australia is offering refuge to its citizens, because of the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

tuvalu is a series of low lying atolls in the pacific and home to 11,200. the nation has repeatedly called for greater action to combat the effects of rising seas from global warming. 0ur sydney correspondent phil mercer has more. the australian prime minister, anthony albanese, says that the agreement with tuvalu is the most significant accord australia has ever signed with any pacific island nation. there are three components to the agreement — climate change, migration and security. we understand that, for the first time, the authorities in canberra are offering people facing displacement from climate change the opportunity to be resettled in australia. now, this particular scheme is pretty modest at the moment. 280 people from tuvalu will be allowed to be resettled in australia each year.

this is out of a population of around 11,000 people. australia is also spending millions of dollars helping tuvalu boost it coastal defences, given that there are dire predictions that the entire archipelago could well be uninhabitable within 80 years. there is also a very significant geopolitical element to this. tuvalu is one of a few countries in the pacific region that recognises taiwan. most other island nations have full diplomatic relations with china. australia has become increasingly concerned about beijing's ambitions in the pacific, a region that australia regards as its traditional sphere of influence. last year, china signed an unprecedented security pact with the solomon islands, a strategically located archipelago to the north—east of australia.

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, honestly... we never expected it to make it for the transplant, you know? didn't expected to work at all. when they told me it did work...

just the fact that it's allowed. the blood flowing through it... i mean, you know, that's the first step. surgeons in new york spent 21 hours removing part of the donor's face and left eye, including the optic nerve, and skilfully crafted 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 and left eye, as well as his chin and part of his cheek. do you have any pain at all? no — it has been six months since the experimental surgery. so far the transplanted eye sees nothing, but surgeons are positive about what it means for the future. i'm really content with what we are seeing this early on.

at this point it looks healthy, it's pretty special. for aaronjames, the cosmetic benefits, plain for others to see, even if his left eye can't. doctors say the first whole human eye transplant offers hope that what they have learned here could one day restore sight to those who cannot see. let's show you the live pictures from gaza as israel confirms the military is operating close to the biggest hospital in gaza city. they've not commented on the latest incident in which the gaza health authority says that 13 people have been killed after an explosion at the hospital. more on that coming up. frost and fog feature in the forecast for the week and some of the fog could be quite stubborn and reluctant to clear. saturday should

be a largely dry day with a window of fine weather with some sunshine but there will be rain for some of us on remembrance sunday. some rain out there right now, mostly in the form of showers and some of the show, particularto form of showers and some of the show, particular to the north—east of scotland and the odd wintry shower over the highest ground. these are the temperatures as we enter the afternoon and start the evening. signs that things will be getting quite chilly and it will continue to turn colder through the night. the winds will be easing in the showers mostly will be fading and under clear skies of us will get to freezing in some places will drop below freezing so there will be a touch of frost in places and some fog patches to start saturday morning on this is the window of fine weather between weather systems and closest to this area of low pressure in eastern parts there could be the odd shower first thing but there are dry start to the day with a mist and fog and some of the murkiness could be slow to clear, but for the majority will see plenty

of sunshine to take us into saturday afternoon. temperatures north to south between six and 12 degrees and in the south—west you can see cloud and rain gathering and some of the heavy side as we push on across far south—west of england during saturday evening and further north and east there could be more fog and into sunday we will see frontal system starting to push on from the south—west but ahead of that across parts of scotland and northern england we could have dents and widespread fog on sunday morning so if you're off to any commemorations, expect rather murky and cold conditions and some rain moving in and some rain getting into northern ireland and parts of wales in the midlands and the south and south—west of england so the increasing chance of rain the further south and west you are and the rain making progress farther north and east of the afternoon and there will be parts of scotland that stay murky and cold through the day and signs of something a little bit

milder down towards the south—west and as we head into next week we will see milder conditions at first but it stays unsettled with more rain at times.

today at 1pm: the chancellor refuses to support the home secretary's controversial comments, in which she said the police are biased in the way they treat pro—palestinian demonstrators. are pro—palestinian demonstrators. you resi--nin, ho suella braverman is facing calls to resign after her newspaper article yesterday that was not cleared by downing street. 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 in the last few minutes, the prime minister has urged those attending protests to be mindful of the fear and distress in jewish and muslim communities. also on the programme

this lunchtime... explosions hamas officials claim 13 people have been killed at gaza's biggest hospital after israeli air strikes. ajudge rules that prince harry and other celebrities can go ahead with their privacy case against the publishers of the daily mail. and the first footage of an egg laying mammal named after sir david attenborough, which once lived with the dinosaurs and was feared to be extinct. and coming up on bbc news: coming up on bbc news: it's understood sirjim ratcliffe's deal to become a minority shareholder in manchester united will be agreed later this month. it's expected his ineos group will pay £1.25 billion to buy 25%. good afternoon. the prime minister is urging those who plan to attend protests