welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm monica miller. the headlines... the shock return of former prime minister david cameron as foreign secretary as rishi sunak�*s cabinet reshuffle continues. i want to do everything to strengthen our alliances, to work with our friends, to build is vital partnership to make sure our country is prosperous that work starts now and i'm going to get on with it. the world health organization says gaza's main hospital is no longer functioning. doctors at al—shifa hospital say they fear around 30 newborn babies needing intensive care treatment could die. and iceland braces for a volcanic eruption as more than five hundred earthquakes

hit the country's south coast. than five hundred earthquakes buy from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news, it's news day. now to the uk and a dramatic day of politics. a dramatic political develop meant over the past 2a hours. the former prime minister, david cameron, has astonished westminster by returning to government as britain's new foreign secretary. it's part of a major cabinet reshuffle by the current prime minister rishi sunak. mr cameron, who was pm between 2010—2016, said although he disagreed with some of mr sunak�*s decisions, he believed he was a "strong and capable" leader. the move comes on the same day suella braverman was sacked as home secretary, following days of speculation about her future. mrs braverman had angered many in government after writing

a newspaper article criticising the policing of pro—palestinian marches in london. cor blimey — look at this! the guy who used to be prime minister, back where he used to live and back in government. the accidental instigator of the biggest shift in british foreign policy in a generation, brexit, back as the face and voice of british foreign policy. lord cameron, you were the future once. is this back to the future? from number 10 to the foreign office. david cameron's career, yes, and his walk this morning. lord cameron, foreign secretary. quite a thing. well, i know it's not usual for a prime minister to come back in this way, but i believe in public

service, the prime minister asked me to do this job, and it's a time where we have some daunting challenges as a country. the conflict in the middle east, the war in ukraine, and of course, i hope that six years as prime minister, ii years leading the conservative party, gives me some useful experience, and contacts, and relationships, and knowledge. david, or lord cameron's return, as we'll get used to calling him, is not universally popular among conservative mps, but plenty are making the case it's a good move. i was in david cameron's government, i was his chief whip. he's a fantastic team player. i think the prime minister's brought him into strengthen the team, and at a time when foreign affairs are incredibly important, with what's going on in ukraine and the conflict in the middle east, i think having a really experienced player at the top table is a good move. are you getting sacked for telling the truth, i home secretary? a downturn in the political

weather, for now at least, for suella braverman, sacked at breakfast time. in less than a week, she had suggested the police were biased, some homeless people lived in tents as a lifestyle choice, and had challenged the prime minister's authority over a newspaper article written without his sign—off. here she was at the weekend — yesterday's home secretary standing alongside today's. by this morning, james cleverly was in downing street, wherever you looked. he is suella braverman�*s replacement. should we toughen the rulesl on protest, home secretary? it is only mid—morning, and already, this is one heck of a reshuffle — a new home secretary, a new foreign secretary who used to be prime minister. down the road a few minutes later, the new home secretary rolled up at his new office. i'm absolutely committed to stopping the boats, as we promised, but also making sure that everybody in the uk feels safe and secure. and do you want to distance yourself from the rhetoric of the previous home secretary?

well, i intend to do thisjob in the way that i feel best protects the british people and our interests. meanwhile, the prime minister had been in parliament to fire people, the promoted walked the downing street catwalk, the sacked might be humiliated, but aren't usually humiliated publicly. mind you, the environment secretary, therese coffey, still turned up in downing street. she wasn't to be environment secretary much longer. the former health secretary steve barclay has taken herjob. and here is the new politician overseeing england's health service, victoria atkins. richard holden is the new conservative party chairman, and laura trott becomes the chancellorjeremy hunt's deputy as chief secretary to the treasury. the prime minister promised change, and one thing this reshuffle isn't is change. it won't change the fundamental problems of the country. it won't do anything to fix the cost of living or nhs waiting lists.

and just when the moves looked done for the day, there was another former cabinet minister, esther mcvey, back in government, charged with keeping a sceptical eye on what some label as political correctness or wokery. we've got rather used to shake—ups around here in the last few years. here is another one, prompting just two questions that really matter. what difference will it make to government? and what difference, if any, will it make to its popularity — or lack of it? chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. president biden has said that gaza's main hospital, must be protected, and appealed for less intrusive military action by the israeli defense forces. his comments follow a warning from the world health organization which said that al—shifa hospital is �*nearly a cemetery�* with bodies piled up inside and outside.

with a lack of power due to fuel shortages, doctors there say many patients — including dozens of prematurely born babies can't be cared for properly. al—shifa hospital is in northern gaza. meanwhile, israel says it's found evidence of hamas activity, within the grounds of another hospital in gaza. orla guerin, has the very latest, from jerusalem. and a warning — her report contains some distressing images. war is closing in, and they are running out of time. these premature babies at al—shifa hospital, fighting for life without incubators. since these pictures were taken at the weekend, several babies have died at the hospital, according to health ministry officials. the hospital grounds already look like a war zone. palestinians say this is the aftermath of a recent

israeli air strike. israel denies targeting the hospital. but the us president joe biden has intervened, saying al—shifa must be protected and he hopes there will be less intrusive action. crammed inside, along with 600 patients, about 2,000 people who have sought refuge. israel says it has opened a safe evacuation corridor. a source in the hospital told the bbc that's totally untrue. translation: there are bullets everywhere, - especially near the windows. so nobody inside the hospital can move. some people left through the corridor they are talking about. but the men were taken. only the women escaped. one man was shot. when we tried to reach him, they fired at us. he was shot again in

the chest and he died. israel claims that hamas hides beneath al—shifa and operates a command centre below ground. hamas denies this and so do doctors at the hospital. this is rantisi hospital in the basement in the building i've shown you... tonight, the israeli army issued a video which it claims is concrete proof that hamas is in gaza, in this case the al—rantitsi children's hospital. these are explosives, this is a vest with explosives. it is a body vest. a woman's clothes and a rope. the idf spokesperson said there were indications that israeli hostages were held here. i was thinking, when i was there, about babies, hostages babies, israeli

hostages babies, women, children. this is hamas, barbaric terror organisation. this is hamas using hospitals as a human shield. as terror machines. there has been no independent access to the basement, the bbc cannot verify any of the army's claims. this was the picture at another gaza hospital today, in khan younis in the south. children who witnesses say were bombed in their own homes. there is growing concern internationally about how israel is fighting this war. about who is being killed. now the us president, israel's staunchest ally, is now signalling that hospitals are off—limits. orla guerin, bbc news, jerusalem. the brother of a

british—israeli man killed by hamas on october 7th says he's never felt more fearful as ajewish person living in the uk, with a rise in anti—semitic incidents, such as those by some protesters in london last weekend. bernard cowan, originally from glasgow, was murdered in his home on a kibbutz in southern israel. now his brother colin has spoken to the bbc about him, and about the fears within the british jewish community. lucy manning reports. amongst the mango and banana trees on kibbutz sufa, hamas gunmen came to kill — first shooting an ambulance, and then those who lived there, murdering bernard cowan from glasgow, who came to the kibbutz nearly a0 years ago, raising his family. a grandchild bornjust a few months ago. bernard loved to live. he loved to travel. he loved to go diving. he was a free spirit.

if you were to look at bernard as a soul who wanted to do nothing but good for the world and for his country, and to love his family, that would be the perfect epitaph. as the gunmen hunted them down, bernard hid with his wife in their safe room. bernard was claustrophobic. he went out into his kitchen, and two terrorists walked by, saw him there, shot him dead. our world fell apart. it's been a tough time. i'm so sorry. and this one was last year in tel aviv... but in glasgow, colin doesn't just mourn his brother. the grief is mixed with deep anxiety.

ifeelfearfulfor myself, for ourfamily, forjews who are in the uk. am i at risk? i have never thought that, living in the uk. and it fills me with dread. from the river to the sea... palestine will be free! the pro—palestinian protests in england and scotland, even though many have marched for humanitarian reasons, have left manyjews feeling scared. people have a right to protest. the problem with the protests is, there is an element which is about hamas and supporting that organisation, and that's where the fear comes in. do you remember feeling this fearful in the uk as a jew? never. never in my whole life. this woman shouts, "death to all the jews!" death to all the jews! pictures of hostages held by hamas are ripped down. paint attacks on jewish schools add to more than a thousand anti—semitic incidents reported in the last month.

my nephew said to me, would i come and live in israel because of the rise of anti—semitism in the uk? there is not ajewish person who i've spoken to who is not fearful of the situation we're in at the moment. it's a fearjews have known for centuries. lucy manning, bbc news. and there are reports that an israeli hostage has been killed. the chief spokesman of the israeli defense force said, the hearts of the israeli military go out to the family of a 19 year old woman, noa marciano, who was kidnapped by hamas on october 7th. the military arm of hamas has claimed that ms marciano was killed in an israeli airstrike. live now to historian steven zipperstein. he's a distinguished senior fellow at the ucla centre for middle east development and joins me now live from santa barbara,

in california. there have been legal cases filed against israel by human rights groups at the international criminal court and fired at the un at the international court ofjustice. as a pro—israel legal historian, how do you assess the merits of these claims, and how can and should israel respond? israel certainly should defend itself in these situations. as a matter of international law israel has very strong defences. israel is doing a law, taking very robust steps to avoid civilian casualties. israel did not start this war. this war was brought onto israel by hamas when they rampaged through southern israel on october the 7th, killing, rating women, children, elderly, taking hostages back to gaza. this will all be sorted out later. certainly if you look at international law, the party here that should be really in the dock in court is hamas not

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will not share the fuel that it is hoarding in the tunnels below the hospital to power the incubators empower the generators to provide electricity? if you just look at both sides, israel taking robust steps to avoid civilian casualties, hamas in its own words to lebanese tv proudly proclaiming it wants to sacrifice its people. it's not responsible for their well—being. in scones ring itself... i well-being. in scones ring itself- - -— well-being. in scones ring itself... ., ., , .,~ itself... i have to break them because hamas _ itself... i have to break them because hamas has - itself... i have to break them because hamas has said - itself... i have to break themj because hamas has said they itself... i have to break them - because hamas has said they are delivering this necessary fuel to the hospital. even president biden has asked israel for less intrusive military action as we have seen. i understand, you are sympathetic to the poor babies in women who have been killed in these incidents but when does this tip for these types of actions, when does it finally stopped? the types of actions, when does it finally stopped?— finally stopped? the quickest wa to finally stopped? the quickest way to step _ finally stopped? the quickest way to step it _ finally stopped? the quickest way to stop it would - finally stopped? the quickest way to stop it would be - finally stopped? the quickest way to stop it would be of. way to stop it would be of course for hamas to

unconditionally release all 240 mac hostages there holding. that would certainly change the dynamic of the pressure for a cease—fire once the hostages were released. i wish the protesters in london, in europe, on the campuses here in the universities of us would call for the release of the hostages. that would be the quickest way to stop the killing. quickest way to stop the killin: . ~ quickest way to stop the killinu. ~ . , killing. we have seen protesters _ killing. we have seen protesters asked - killing. we have seen protesters asked for. killing. we have seen - protesters asked for that. if you do ask hamas officials and people who are pro—palestinian they will say that hundreds of prisoners have been held by the israeli military in government over the course of years. one option is a two state solution, which president biden has said he supports. prime minister netanyahu is against the idea of. do you think there may be something to this in order for there to be peace? i’m something to this in order for there to be peace?— something to this in order for there to be peace? i'm a strong preponent _ there to be peace? i'm a strong preponent of — there to be peace? i'm a strong proponent of the _ there to be peace? i'm a strong proponent of the two _ there to be peace? i'm a strong proponent of the two state - proponent of the two state solution. although it is

clearly not going to happen right away, the war has to end, there has to be some arrangement for gaza, guaranteeing israel's security. we hope down the road the aspirations of the palestinian people for self—determination and for statehood will be realised. we have to make sure that when that happens it's donein that when that happens it's done in a way that secures the safety and peace of the state of israel. ,, , , , , of israel. stephen zipperstein, thank you _ of israel. stephen zipperstein, thank you for— of israel. stephen zipperstein, thank you forjoining _ of israel. stephen zipperstein, thank you forjoining us - of israel. stephen zipperstein, thank you forjoining us on - of israel. stephen zipperstein, thank you forjoining us on the j thank you forjoining us on the programme. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. thousands of mourners have lined the streets of manchester for the funeral of one of english football's greatest ever players, sir bobby charlton. the world cup winner's funeral procession passed many places associated with his long career with manchester united. guests included the the prince of wales.

sir bobby died last month. he was 86 years old. royal mail has been fined £5.6 million by the uk communications regulator, ofcom, afterwhat what it calls a "significant" failure to meet its postal delivery targets in the past financial year. the watchdog found that the company had fallen short in the delivery of both first and second class mail. a uk regulator is warning that there are "worrying signs" that a growing number of doctors are planning to leave the health service due to burnout and dissatisfaction. you're live with bbc news. to iceland now where more than 500 earthquakes have been recorded in the last two days — shaking houses, damaging roads, and prompting hundreds of evacuations. the tremors are concentrated around the fagrahdalshiak volcano, indicating a volcanic eruption

may happen in the next few days. grindavik — a town considered to be most at risk has been evacuated. authorities fear a possible repeat of the disruption caused in 2010, when the eruption of another volcano canceled more than 50 thousand flights. our correspondentjessica parker is in vogar. we're in the south—west of iceland and the road behind me, which is blocked off, as you can see, leads to the famous blue lagoon geothermal spa, which has been closed, and the town as well of grindovic, which has been evacuated. of course, iceland is no stranger to volcanic activity, but there are a couple of reasons as to why what's been happening is causing particular concern. number one, the amount of magma that has been detected underground. and number two, the proximity of this activity to the town of grindawik. its 4,000 inhabitants have been evacuated. they won't be allowed to return tonight. cracks have appeared in local

roads and officials tell me that they are monitoring the situation minute by minute. seismic activity has actually decreased a little bit in the last 12 hours or so, but there are still real fears that there could be destructive lava flows. in truth, nobody knows exactly what's going to happen. but it's certainly true to say that iceland is bracing itself. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. hundreds of protesters gathered near spain's socialists party headquarters on monday in oppostion to the controversial law it that negotiated with catalan nationalists. the legislation grants an amnesty to those involved in catalonia's failed independence bid. it was a key condition for catalan separatists' support for a new leftist government. the brazilian president lula da silva, has enacted legislation that reserves half of all public university places for students, of african or indigenous descent.

it also includes people with disabilities and lower income families. president lula said the new rules would help address inequality and racism. us president biden has held talks with the indonesian presidentjoko widodo at the white house. mr widodo urged joe biden to do more to end "atrocities" in gaza and help bring about a ceasefire. during the meeting at the white house, mr widodo said he had come to deliver a "very strong message" from the joint summit of arab and muslim leaders earlier this week. over to the us, donald trumer has returned to the witness stand for a second time in a civilfraud trial in new york. former us president donald trump and his two eldest sons are accused of fraudulently over—stating the value of their real estate empire, to obtain favourable loans. the defence has argued that banks made money from mr trump, and they didn't rely

on his financial statements. they also say prosecutors have failed to prove that banks wouldn't have loaned him the money even if they had known about inflated assets. our north america correspondent nada tawfik has been in court and gave me the latest update. donald trumer took the stand for a second time and again he was casually answering questions, joking with thejudge, but under defence questioning, he was given far more leeway to be able to speak at length about the trump organization's properties and the way the company operated. in fact, the prosecution tried to stop this lengthy testimony at one point, but the judge said that he should be allowed to speak about how great the trump organisation was and that it had relevance for the judge to understand the company's history. now, donald trump, jr and defense lawyers have argued that donald trump's net worth and the value of his properties were actually far more than what was listed

on his statement of financial condition. so he was going through meticulously a powerpoint presentation that was put together by his marketing team, boasting the properties from trump tower to 40 wall street to mar a lago. there he put up pictures of its beaches, its ballrooms, and said it was an american castle. donald trumer has also argued that he was somebody who dealt with the big projects in the company and relied on the accountants for numbers and valuations. he reiterated that today on the stand after testifying to that with prosecutors two weeks ago. kenya is attempting to plant one hundred million trees as part of the country's new national effort to combat climate change. monday was declared a national holiday in kenya to kickstart an ambitious plan to plant more than 15 billion trees within the next decade. that's all we have for you on this addition of newsday. thank you for watching.

hello. storm debi swept eastwards on monday, bringing some of us some very strong winds. you can see this hook of cloud and rain. it was on the southern edge of this hook where we saw a swathe of very strong winds across parts of northern ireland, north wales and north—west england. in fact, it looks like blackpool may have seen its strongest wind gust in nearly ten years. there was quite a lot of rain around as well. storm debi now clearing eastwards, but further frontal systems following from the west. it does stay quite unsettled. and one band of heavy, perhaps thundery rain and squally winds clipping close to the south of england and the channel islands as we go through the morning. it could be some quite intense downpours in places with some very gusty winds. that wet and blustery weather then tending to clear eastwards through the morning. further north, a band of cloud and rain across parts of northern england, up into scotland. that making some northward progress through the day.

although the far north of mainland scotland and especially orkney and shetland holding on to some sunshine. and then through the afternoon much of northern ireland, england and wales will see a mix of sunny spells and hefty showers. still quite blustery for some of us — highs of eights to 14 degrees. during tuesday night we'll see further showers or longer spells of rain. i think the wettest of the weather will be found across some central parts of scotland. temperature—wise, generally between five and eight degrees. so we'll start wednesday morning with cloud and some outbreaks of rain across parts of northern ireland, north wales, northern england, southern and central parts of scotland. and some of that rain will continue through the day. but elsewhere, actually quite a lot of dry weather and some spells of sunshine, not too many showers. the winds easing just a touch and temperatures again between eight and 13, maybe 14 degrees. now, thursday's weather chart is quite a complex one, one weather system trying to approach from the south—west, another one a little bit further north. there's some uncertainty

about which of these will win out and end up on top of the uk for thursday. but either way, we're expecting some outbreaks of rain to push eastwards. it may be that we have some quite strong and blustery winds. temperatures again generally between eight and 13 degrees. and an early look at the weekend weather, it does look quite unsettled. there'll be showers or longer spells of rain. low pressure firmly in charge, it could be quite windy as well.

the battle for global economic dominance we travel to indonesia for a front row seat to the intensifying rivalry between china and the united states. plus... a great day for boeing at the opening of the dubai airshow. we'll have the latest deals from one of aviation�*s most exciting events. hello and welcome to asia business report. i'm monica miller. we begin with a meeting between the us presidentjoe biden and his indonesian counterpart, joko widodo. the two leaders are preparing for an asia pacific economic cooperation summit in san francisco. with the us and china locked

in a battle for global economic dominance, plenty of countries are paying close attention