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the military raided it. the israeli military releases video of what it says is a tunnel entrance — found during the search of the hospital site. and the un warns a lack of fuel means that from today, it can't bring aid in to gaza from egypt. i'm frankie mccamley in london. the other headlines... after a night of angry protests in madrid, spain's pedro sanchez will be sworn in for another term as prime minister. and the uk chancellor says there's no guarantee that flights deporting asylum seekers to rwanda will take off next year. hello welcome to bbc news. i'm mark lowen.
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we are coming to you live from gaza. the israeli prime minister says hamas leaders left gaza's largest hospital shortly before the army raided it. speaking to cbs news, benjamin netanyahu said there was no gunfight at al—shifa because hamas had already fled. israel insists there's a hamas command centre at the site, but hasn't yet provided conclusive evidence. mr netanyahu also said hostages could have been moved from the hospital. yolande knell reports from jerusalem. the first evidence of the tunnel at al—shifa hospital, israel's army says, but not the vast underground hamas command centre which it had said was hidden under the building. hamas and medics deny that here. an israeli soldier also shows the haul of weapons said to have been found in the compound. we cannot independently verify this footage. hundreds of palestinians, including newborn babies, remain trapped at the hospital without power. meanwhile, the body of yehudi weiss
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was found in a house nearby, israel's military says. she was one of about 240 hostages snatched by hamas on the 7th of october. they had believed more were here. we had strong indications that they were held in the al—shifa hospital, which is one of the reasons we entered the hospital. if they were, they were taken out. we have intelligence about the hostages. meanwhile, in southern gaza, where most of the strips population was told by israel to take refuge, conditions are increasingly dire and israel has told tens of thousands more people to move from their homes and shelters as it looks to expand its offensive here. translation: you want me to introduce myself? - i have nothing to say. i am a citizen like other citizens who fled south. they asked us, the citizens of gaza, to go to the south. we went to the south. now they are asking us to leave. where do we go? we want to understand where exactly we should go. for the first time in the war,
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this week, israel allowed a small amount of fuel into gaza for un vehicles, but not for telecoms firms, hospitals or water and sewage pumping. un officials warned they cannot work. if the fuel does not come in, people will start to die because of the lack of fuel. exactly as from when, i don't know, but it will be rather soon than later. and the un says that from today, no humanitarian aid will be able to enter gaza from the rafah crossing because of the lack of fuel. six weeks into this brutal war, there is no end in sight and the humanitarian catastrophe is deepening. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. that's the latest from gaza. the israeli army says its troops killed five gunmen during a raid in the west bank city ofjenin. news agency video shows people running as stun grenades and shots ring out.
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as well as an israeli tank on the city's streets. reuters, quoting the palestinian health ministry, says three people were killed in a drone strike there. several palestinian news sources say israeli soldiers entered the city's ibn sina hospital, halting ambulances and forcing medical workers to leave. israel's army says it's recovered the remains of a soldier taken hostage by hamas, whose death the military had announced earlier in the week. an army statement said the body of noa marciano has been "extracted" by fellow troops "from a structure adjacent to al—shifa hospital". hamas�*s military wing says corporal marciano was killed in an israeli air strike on the 9th of november, though this has not been independently verified. live now to our middle east correspondent yolande knell who's injerusalem.
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tell us first of all, what else is the israeli military been sane about its raids. ~ �* ., ., . its raids. we've not had too much fresh information _ its raids. we've not had too much fresh information about _ its raids. we've not had too much fresh information about the - its raids. we've not had too much i fresh information about the ongoing braid in the past few hours but certainly, there was this video put out earlier in which a tunnel shaft appears to be shown, the entrance to it, and that showing it in front of the hospital building. there was also a soldier who showed us that the site what was said to be a booby—trapped car. of course, these are all claims and footage that we are all claims and footage that we are not able to independently verify but prior to that we had been told
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by the israeli military who'd taken computers, technology from the building that has been analysed and that had shown evidence of information about the israeli hostages being held in the gaza strip. hostages being held in the gaza stri -. ~ . hostages being held in the gaza stri_. ., ., hostages being held in the gaza stri, . ., ., ., . strip. what about the violence escalating _ strip. what about the violence escalating in _ strip. what about the violence escalating in the _ strip. what about the violence escalating in the west - strip. what about the violence escalating in the west bank. l strip. what about the violence escalating in the west bank. i | strip. what about the violence - escalating in the west bank. i was reading that the palestinian authorities say that 119 palestinians have been killed there. what we know about the drones and strikes overnight?— what we know about the drones and strikes overnight? sometimes we've missed out i — strikes overnight? sometimes we've missed out i think _ strikes overnight? sometimes we've missed out i think in _ strikes overnight? sometimes we've missed out i think in our _ strikes overnight? sometimes we've missed out i think in our coverage i missed out i think in our coverage how tensions are simmering away on the west bank and this dramatic number of people who have been killed by israeli security forces and settlers since this war began. the latest raid on a refugee camp, it's been a flashpoint repeatedly for the past year and a half. it's
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come up in a lot of israeli arrest raids. the israeli military has previously described it as a hotbed of terrorism and we know there are some palestinian factions operating out of the camp, a local brigade who has planned attacks, the israeli military said and has carried them out in different parts of the west bank. this latest raid seems to have involved a large number of israeli forces going in there but were not been given too much more information. it's really only a few days ago that there was another raid of the refugee camp and some key structures like the dimes, the arches, at the camp were destroyed by israeli bulldozers. there is a lot of tension building up in the west bank as the war in gaza goes on and that causes a lot of concern all round because things could escalate there, as well. [30
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round because things could escalate there, as well.— there, as well. do we think the raid on the west — there, as well. do we think the raid on the west bank— there, as well. do we think the raid on the west bank was _ there, as well. do we think the raid on the west bank was linked - there, as well. do we think the raid on the west bank was linked to - there, as well. do we think the raid on the west bank was linked to the i on the west bank was linked to the attack on the command post in jerusalem yesterday?— attack on the command post in jerusalem yesterday? that's not been made clear but _ jerusalem yesterday? that's not been made clear but we _ jerusalem yesterday? that's not been made clear but we know _ jerusalem yesterday? that's not been made clear but we know there - jerusalem yesterday? that's not been made clear but we know there were i made clear but we know there were raids taking place at the checkpoints so it seems more likely that that was connected to trying to find those responsible and people who may have helped them because there was what the israeli police say, a bigger attack that was foiled, when a car was stopped trying to go through this main checkpoint between the west bank and jerusalem and these three palestinian gunmen, they say, started to open fire and they found a lot more weapons in their path. there are fears of this conflict spreading into a very combustible region. thank you for your information from there.
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joining me now is juliette touma from the the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees. thank you for talking to us, once again. your world food programme said yesterday that food and water was practically nonexistent now. we understand that no trucks came in across the rafah crossing yesterday, due to lack of fuel. do you expect anything to come in today? figs due to lack of fuel. do you expect anything to come in today? $5 of anything to come in today? as of this morning. — anything to come in today? as of this morning, no, _ anything to come in today? as of this morning, no, it— anything to come in today? as of this morning, no, it has- anything to come in today? as of this morning, no, it has come . anything to come in today? as of this morning, no, it has come in| this morning, no, it has come in this morning, no, it has come in this morning, no, it has come in this morning and this is due to the lack of fuel. if we get a shipment and be able to go to pick up those much needed supplies but we need fuel for that. 50 much needed supplies but we need fuel for that-— fuel for that. so you had some feel that came in _ fuel for that. so you had some feel that came in yesterday _ fuel for that. so you had some feel that came in yesterday the - fuel for that. so you had some feel that came in yesterday the day - that came in yesterday the day before but that lasted you for a
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matter of a few hours and i understand now that with the lack of communication is down to energy running out in the energy network, that also means that you cannot distribute aid.— that also means that you cannot distribute aid. that is right. there is a communications _ distribute aid. that is right. there | is a communications blackout as of last night, in gaza, and there's a lack of fuel so the combination makes it impossible to pick up those trucks and then when we pick up those trucks, we have to distribute them to people, so there's this combination of challenges making it impossible. so two things, and urgent shipment of feel and a resumption of the telecommunications network across the gaza strip. hesse network across the gaza strip. have ou been network across the gaza strip. have you been given _ network across the gaza strip. have you been given any _ network across the gaza strip. have you been given any indication from the israeli side following that field, albeit, insufficient, shipment, according to staff.
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there's exerted efforts that high, high levels in regards to bringing in an urgent shipment of feel and this should happen and we should never have got to where we are right now, where we are almost begging for fuel. absolutely unacceptable, and in fact, unbelievable, so there should be an urgent shipment of feel and a resumption of the telecommunications network. your commissioner— telecommunications network. your commissioner general _ telecommunications network. your commissioner general talked about what he says in his words, a deliberate attempt to strangle the un's humanitarian work in gaza. can you expand on that? do you believe this is something that is planned and deliberate from the israeli side. what does he mean by that? he: was giving an over overview for the challenges we have been facing the
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last few weeks. we have never been in this position where we face so many challenges, whether it's the fuel, the restrictions on the use of fuel, the restrictions on the use of fuel, whether it's the tight siege, the very, very small number of age trucks. it's a combination. whether it's the heavy bombardment, the challenges we are facing within the northern part of the gaza strip. so it's a number of serious challenges to the humanitarian operation which is one of the largest in the gaza strip, when you have 1.4 million people. out of their homes and you only meet resistance... people. out of their homes and you only meet resistance. . ._ only meet resistance... thank you for our only meet resistance... thank you for your time _ only meet resistance... thank you for your time in _ only meet resistance... thank you for your time in the _ only meet resistance... thank you for your time in the world - only meet resistance... thank you for your time in the world food i for your time in the world food programme saying that food and water is now practically nonexistent and warning of the immediate possibility of starvation. all this comes as the
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israeli military dropped leaflets in the south of gaza, prompting fears that they could be more bombardments coming to that area. for now, i'll hand you back to our studio in london. we will be rejoining mark in the next hour about the conflict. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. official figures show people bought less fuel and food in october. retailers blame the cost of living and poor weather. the volume of products sold last month fell by 0.3 percent. to the lowest level since february 2021 — when large parts of the country were in covid lockdowns. two 12—year—old boys are due to appear before birmingham magistrates' court today — charged with the murder of a 19—year—old man in wolverhampton. shawn seesahai was stabbed to death on monday evening.
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the boys have also been charged with possession of a bladed article. they cannot be publicly named because of their age. the uk government says an £8 billion fund will be made available to councils in england over the next decade to help tackle potholes. the transport secretary, mark harper, said motorists would immediately see improvements in road conditions. councils, on the other hand, say the cost of repairing local roads was closer to £14 billlion. you're live with bbc news. here in the uk, the former home secretary, suella braverman, says the government's attempt to revive its policy of sending asylum seekers to rwanda is a just a "tweaked version" of its previous plan. that plan was this week ruled unlawful by the supreme court. downing street says it will introduce emergency legislation to parliament in an effort to revive the policy.
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our politcal correspondent iain watson joins us now from westminster. lots of differing comments coming from different mps, and of course that criticism from former home secretary suella braverman. the supreme court said that the current scheme is unlawful so the government now needs to conclude a treaty with rwanda confirming that it's a safe country. one of the criticisms was from the supreme court saying that rwanda is not a safe country and there is another obstacle which is the house of lords and even some conservative members are about rushing this stuff through so that's a difficulty. secondly, as you are mentioning, the conservative
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party clearly isn't entirely united on this because we've had the prime minister and the transport secretary saying flights could perhaps take off in the spring. the chancellor saying that there is no guarantee of that at all. and then the ex home secretary saying that she has got a plan for possibly making it work and thatis plan for possibly making it work and that is threefold. firstly, sending uk officials to rewind to make sure the government doesn't remove people to unsafe countries once they are there, secondly, to introduce legislation which basically ignores britain's international obligations for the refugee convention on human rights, and thirdly to make sure this gets of the statute books and gives it the chance before the next election, she is effectively saying christmas in westminster should be cancelled. mps should go in during
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recess and they should be sitting there passing this legislation and if they don't get those new laws in place then her conclusion is that the prime minister should be honest with the country and sign the international law is preventing his pledge to stop the boats. so that's her advice, pledge to stop the boats. so that's heradvice, not pledge to stop the boats. so that's her advice, not necessarily helpful advice. ~ �* ., , ., advice. we've heard reports from miurant advice. we've heard reports from migrant saying — advice. we've heard reports from migrant saying that _ advice. we've heard reports from migrant saying that this - advice. we've heard reports from migrant saying that this plan - advice. we've heard reports from migrant saying that this plan is l advice. we've heard reports from i migrant saying that this plan is not going to stop them crossing the channel. we are still seeing people crossing the channel. what is the response in westminster to that. james cleverley, the new foreign secretary saying just by talking about rewind the policy is having a deterrent effect and the government saying the crossings are down by thirds. they think they are having some success at the moment but they know they've got to go further. how they go further is a different matter. another suggestion from a former cabinet minister, simon
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clark, that if the lords were to block the new legislation to try to make sure it doesn't happen he's advising richey scene act to call a general election and campaign on the issue of immigration above all else. good to get your thoughts on that. meantime, our correspondent sofia bettiza has travelled to dunkirk — from where thousands of people leave for britain in small boats. she sent us this report. in calais and dunkirk, volunteers prepare a hot meal, and bring it here — the largest camp for migrants in northern france. for many of them, this will be their only meal of the day. the hours drag here. every day they wait, hoping for good weather so they can cross the english channel. and how will you get to the uk?
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by boat. nothing anything else. we don't have any other way. we all know about the danger — risk. we know about everything but we must go there. everyone here told us there's no way that the threat of being sent to rwanda is going to stop them. the living conditions in camps like these are so grim that they just want to get away as fast as they can. and it's taken them months of travelling to get here. they are so close to reaching the uk, they'rejust not going to give up. lamin from gambia is a manchester united fan. it took him four years to get to france. if the uk were to send people back to rwanda, would that stop you trying to get to the uk? for me, never. for me, since i was young, i always dreamed to be in the uk, you know. this is a lucrative business. local ngos told us these camps are entirely run by people smugglers.
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people pay 1,000, people pay 2,000, 3,000 — it's very, very expensive. some people, even if they say 5,000, they will pay because they want to reach the uk. the french authorities are cracking down on people smugglers. they've arrested 272 people this year, but small boats continue to set off all—year round. what would it take to stop illegal crossings on small boats — safe routes? safe routes? we know that it can happen because if i'm not wrong, it happened when there was the war between ukraine and russia. so many humanitarian visas were created for ukrainian refugees. so we know that there are solutions. but solutions require political will, and that's not the focus of the british government right now. the objective is to deter more people from making the journey.
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sofia bettiza, bbc news, dunkirk. let's ta ke let's take due to india now where officials fear falling temperatures could endanger the lives of 40 people trapped in a collapsed tunnel. the construction workers have been stuck underground for six days. rescue teams say they're making good progress, as powerful machines airlifted from delhi drill through the rubble. thousands of children across australia have missed school to take part in climate rallies. they were given a symbolic absentee note written by two prominent scientists. education officials warned the note wasn't a legitimate medical certificate which wouldn't be accepted by teachers. and the leonids —— one of the most prolific annual meteor showers —— will streak across uk skies this weekend. characterised by fast, bright meteors, the best time to see it at its peak will be between midnight and dawn. the leonids are so—called because they appear to originate
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from the constellation leo. nearly 20,000 men have fled ukraine since the beginning of the war to avoid being drafted. a further 21,000 have tried to leave but were caught by the ukrainian authorities — that's according to a bbc eye investigation. since russia's invasion, ukraine has banned men of fighting age from leaving the country, unless they have a valid exemption. zhanna bezpiatchuk has more on how some men are managing to escape with the help of corrupt officials. stopped by border police, the men are ordered onto their knees. for ukrainians without a military exemption, crossing the border illegally is the most popular way of escaping the draft. some get caught, but for much of this war, dozens of men have managed to flee this
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way every day. using freedom of information requests, bbc eye has established that the most common route out is over ukraine's border with moldova. in a refugee centre in moldova, we meet erik, a musician who is hoping to go to the us to be reunited with his family. he's arrived from ukraine on foot. translation: ijust looked at the map. i i heard rumours about where to go, took risk and it worked out. erik says he has a serious health condition but wasn't granted a medical exemption, commonly known as a white ticket. translation: i tried to process the documents for six months, l but no—one allowed me to do it. my patience ran out and i decided to leave this way. we heard that some men are paying substantial bribes
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to obtain a white ticket. to find out more, we ask the localjournalists to pretend to be a man who wants to leave ukraine. a quick search reveals at least six groups offering help on the messaging app telegram. our undercoverjournalist contacts one of them and is soon offered a white ticket. officials at these centres work closely with military doctors to decide who can get a medical exemption. they sent me an example of this white ticket. for me, this document looks real. probably they know somebody at that office. so this is corruption. the bbc showed its findings to a senior politician from the ruling party. translation: we're doing our best to reduce the number - of corruption cases. those who try to avoid mobilisation are about 1—5%.
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they are definitely not critical to the defense of ukraine. ukraine doesn't release official figures on the size of its army, but says it has over 800,000 troops. as this conflict turns into a war of attrition, ukraine will need all the soldiers it can get. you can watch the full bbc eye documentary — �*ukraine's draft dodgers' —on �*our world' — this saturday — or on bbc iplayer and bbc world service youtube now. your headlines are coming up. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. it looks like being a pretty good day for most of us today. the
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weather time change for the weekend. for the rest of the day, a lot of dry weather to come, shells and the west, continuing to fade away and there'll be some spells of sunshine as well. if we look at the satellite picture, you can this cloud here in the atlantic, spilling its way to the atlantic, spilling its way to the uk and it will bring very different whether i have a lie and into saturday. the cloud already pushing into the south—west of england and wales, later to northern ireland but ahead of that through the afternoon plenty of sunshine around. it should be dry. temperatures making double figures in england and wales. early frost in scotland, because the cloud is coming in from the south—west, bringing rain, stronger winds and pushing the temperatures up as well. quite heavy rain for the moors in the south—west, the south of wales. a very mild start to the weekend. things will look very different from today because we've got this weather
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front bringing the rain, wrapped around this area of low pressure, bringing in strong winds, bringing in airall bringing in strong winds, bringing in air all the bringing in strong winds, bringing in airall the way bringing in strong winds, bringing in air all the way from the tropics and that's what's going to be so mild when we start the weekend. a cloudy start with some rain around. heavy bursts, see it pushing through to the south—east and the east of scotland and we should get some sunshine after the rain. showers coming into northern ireland and particularly to the west of scotland. pretty windy out there. we are likely to have gales through the irish sea and around the western coasts but very mild so temperatures could reach 15—16 c along the south coast of england. with that weather front, that band of rain out for the way and over the weekend that area of low pressure close by. around it, thicker clouds, longer spells of rain, mainlyforthe thicker clouds, longer spells of rain, mainly for the northern half of the uk where it isn't so windy. further south, the winds will be
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strong but they will be some sunshine out of those showers and whilst not quite as mild, 13 celsius. the wind direction changes to the north north westerly next week, bringing a lot of clout and dropping the temperature is for a while.
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this is bbc news, the headlines:
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israel's prime minister says hamas commanders were inside gaza's largest hospital — but fled just before the military raided. after a night of angry protests in madrid — spain's pedro sanchez will soon be sworn in for another term as prime minister. the uk chancellor says there's no guarantee that flights deporting asylum seekers to rwanda will take off next year. and iceland's imminent volcano threat — defences are erected around one town to protect it from possible lava. you arejoining the frankie mccamley. more now on the israel—hamas war. we can go live to southern israel to our correspondent mark lowen for all the latest. mark. hello again, thanks very much indeed. the israeli defence forces are continuing their building to building search inside al—shifa hospital. meanwhile israel's prime
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minister says hamas leaders fled

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