but managed to regroup and stay clear of 7—1 shot notlongtillmay. in little over 12 hours, india and australia will go head to head in the final of the cricket world cup in ahemedabad in gujarat. india, unbeaten so far, are of course the favourites on home soil but australia — the most successful country in the competition's history — seem to have hit their stride atjust the right time. our cricket correspodent jonathan agnew will be watching. well it's taken about six weeks to get to this stage, but the two best teams have made it through to the final. lost first two matches, when everything since. whereas india has just won everything and demolished everybody in their path. unquestionably they do start

tomorrow as favourites, and that's certainly what this enormous crowd here, about 90,000 people were back in here, that's what they'll expect. it does run quite strong here, it's always the australian cricket team that are per trade as the betty's. as well as england's team and the ball wood movies. in sport, sometimes the weight of expectation can count against you. i sometimes the weight of expectation can count against you.— can count against you. i look forward of — can count against you. i look forward of that _ can count against you. i look forward of that one - can count against you. i look i forward of that one tomorrow. croatia are approaching the closing stages against latvia in riga, with the score 2—0. it was lovro majer who got croatia off to the perfect start by opening the scoring early on. that one goal lead was soon two, this time andrej kramaric finding the bottom corner to put his side in total control. once again that one is almost over as they enter stoppage time. and that result does even more damage to wales' hopes of playing at euro 2024 next summer — after they drew one all in armenia earlier. if they're to qualify automatically

they now need to beat turkey in cardiff on tuesday and hope that armenia can beat croatia. that's all from sportsday. let's get more now on the israel—gaza war. my colleague christian fraser has been speaking to israeli political analyst, dahlia scheindlin, and former nato ambassador, lord peter ricketts. they began by discussing the israeli government's handling of the hostage situation in gaza. they don't think they're getting enough information. and if they did think they were getting enough information, there wouldn't have been such an incredible protest, mass numbers of people. and of course, it's all the supporters who are joining this march as well. they've been having this complaint since the very beginning.

the person who is in charge, that the prime minister has put in charge of this task, this this committee to deal with them from the government's perspective, is considered somebody who is not communicative enough and doesn't really know the job. and so there's a lot of discontent. it's also feeding the discontent in general of israeli society, which, as we're seeing from survey after survey, and there have been about 15 different surveys published since october 7th, we're seeing record low levels of trust in the government, as low as 18%. mr netanyahu's party has lost about half of its parliamentary support in surveys. now, we don't know what that means for the future of politics, but we do know that it reflects very, very deep discontent within israeli society right now. and i think a lot of that is driven by the sense that the government is not coping as people feel it should, specifically on the crisis of the hostages. last point is that, of course, there is a very deep concern, i think, among this public that's

marching now and the families that israel's operation... and these are not necessarily left wingers calling for a cease fire. but there is very grave concern that the ongoing hostilities right now could be endangering the lives of their hostages. hamas has already claimed that as many as 50 of them have been killed or even more. and so that is all part of the discontent and distrust that we're seeing in broader israeli society, notjust among the hostage families. lord ricketts, if public sympathy with the government has drifted away in in recent weeks, it's certainly in question outside israel at the moment, given the gravity of the situation and the number of civilian casualties. we have senator chris coons on the bbc this week who of course, is very close to president biden, and he communicated to prime minister netanyahu that they needed to think very carefully about the humanitarian pauses. at the moment, it seems to be falling on deaf ears. how much of a concern do you think

that will be in washington? well, i think it's a concern in washington, in london and all around the world, including countries which are instinctively supportive of israel after the terrible events of the 7th of october. you can feel in public opinion in all our countries a growing demand for this terrible fighting, the terrible civilian casualties to end. antony blinken has been saying that in public for weeks. rishi sunak, british prime minister, said it the other day. of course, i think people are aware that a ceasefire requires both sides to be prepared to undertake it. and there's no sign at the moment that either side is but some sort of pause to allow few full food, fuel, water into the gaza strip, of pause to allow food, fuel, water into the gaza strip, humanitarian supplies. i think the demand for that around the world is becoming almost unstoppable. i mean, on that issue, if the window is shrinking and there are some diplomats saying, look, there's 2 to 3 weeks

of this left, the reality is that they are not going to entirely dismantle hamas. and there is an enormous psychological wound that has now been imparted on the palestinian people. so we're bound to ask what comes next and who controls gaza if a cease fire comes to pass? well, there are many kinds of cease fires. i mean, if there's a negotiation, as we've been seeing over the last couple of weeks, when the sides have theoretically been close to a deal a few times, which has not yet come to pass. we're talking about anywhere between three and ten days in return for some level of hostage release and various other conditions. and the two sides haven't even been able to agree on those things. so let's just first of all, remember that a cease fire doesn't mean the kind of cease fire that goes on indefinitely. and then we have to start thinking about the day after. it may very well simply be a pause before fighting is resumed. having said that, i, and i think many other analysts

are very much hoping that one day there will be a long term cease fire and that it seems this can't go on forever, of course. and the question is, what does happen after that? certainly, hamas will not be allowed to govern gaza again. of course, israel is placed as its very first aim dismantling hamas's political and military. well, military first of all, military capacities and capacity to govern. there is, as far as we know, no coherent israeli plan for what comes after. every person, including analysts and citizens, are left guessing. but i think the israeli government has given indications. the prime minister has certainly said more than once that he plans to have indefinite security control over gaza, which is essentially... ..reminds me of two things. it's what we see in the west bank, definitely an area c, which is 60% of the west bank, but effectively all of the west bank. and it reminds me also of the beginning of the lebanon war in 1982, which began with a a full out war and then was reduced to a military occupation in certain in the southern part,

for the next 18 years. all of those are possible scenarios. they are bad scenarios because they are inherently unstable. the idea that this can be reduced to simply a security problem is the same kind of thinking that israel has implemented over the last 16 years with effective closure policy. i think that if i had to look at what should happen, there needs to be some sort of massive reconstruction of gazan society and a massive rehabilitation of palestinian politics and self we governance, which begins with the reintegration of gaza into the west bank. but even that, i think, will be very hard to do without some form of international intervention. ideally, i think with two prongs something to help back security and help re—establish institutions and rebuild institutions. but looking at them holistically, you cannot continue in a with a political horizon by trying to isolate gaza. that's another one of the major mistakes of the last several decades. yeah. lord ricketts, if you if you look back in history, there are some fairly salient lessons. dalia talks about 82 and the israeli operations in lebanon to clear out the plo.

and what came out of that was hezbollah. and then if you look at the more recent history, the thing that stands in the way principally of a two—state solution is the settler problem in the west bank, which has been especially acute in the last 18 months. do you think after everything that's happened in the last few weeks, that we are in a completely different position internationally as to what we expect? as to what we expect...out of the back of this. i mean, there's no returning. is that to the status quo? well, everything has changed and yet nothing has changed, i think, as a result of recent weeks. of course, we're now left with deeply traumatised societies both in israel and perhaps even more so in the gaza strip. we've also found from the 7th of october that security only of october that security—only solutions to the palestinian problem do not work. benjamin netanyahu's approach over many years of trying to airbrush out will the palestinian issue. while israel coped with improving relations with arab countries, that has failed.

i agree with dalia. i think the end game is going to be messy. it won't be a day after. there will be a gradual reduction in the intensity of fighting, i suppose, then in humanitarian effort. but beyond that, there are all kinds of possibilities. one from the israeli right is a terrifying idea that somehow there will be the expulsion of palestinians into northern egypt, a kind of exodus of biblical proportions that would be disastrous. i think a long term israeli military occupation would be disastrous. makes me think of the us uk occupation of iraq, the kind of halfway house we've had with israeli overall security, but palestinian local self—government as in the west bank, will i mean, that has failed as well. so that what drives me back to what the international community has favoured for many, many decades, which is a two—state solution. all kinds of problems. the cupboards of foreign ministries in western capitals are full of possible solutions,

but it is the only solution that addresses that underlying palestinian need to have their rights respected if there is to be long term israeli security. we have to get back to that, i think. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. today we've had air from the tropics, which is why temperatures have reached 16 degrees in some southern parts of england. will but because of the long sea track the air is taken, it contains a lot of cloud. and we've seen today some further rain as well. a lot of the cloud of rain has been pushing in along that weather front there, which is wrapped around that particular area of low pressure. now, some of that cloud will be moving away from england and wales for a time overnight with some clearer skies. but we will see more showers pushing down from the northwest and it stays wet at times across northern ireland and scotland and breezy as it has been today. so a mild night, typically nine degrees, minimum temperatures and not as cold as it has been of late in northeast scotland.

no frost on the way here. that same area of low pressure is going to be close by on sunday, bringing some more rain. a few more isobars on the chart to the south of the low, so for southern areas it may well be a windier day than today. gales possible around some western and southern coast and the winds will blow rain from time to time across england and wales and northern ireland. far north—eastern parts of england, particularly eastern scotland may be drier and seeing the best of any sunshine. there won't be a lot of that, mind you. temperatures typically 13 or 14 degrees. still, it may be a milder day than today in north eastern parts of scotland. that low pressure is around to start the week. it's going to drift southwards, bring these messy weather fronts with it as well. so on the whole, it looks like it's going to be pretty cloudy, i think, on monday. and we still have the chance for some showers, maybe longer spells of rain, no great amounts of rain once again. and temperatures typically are going to be around 12 degrees, but there will be a stronger, colder wind picking up in northern ireland and down these western coasts. and that, in actual fact,

is not going to be this warmer south—westerly wind. it'll be a chillier northerly wind. and that will bring some slightly cooler air for tuesday around an area of high pressure. and that area of high pressure is then going to start to build towards the uk. some stronger atlantic winds come around the top of it and bringing in a milder air once again and bringing in a lot of cloud through the week ahead. but most of the rain is going to be in far north west of the uk, but this week the sunshine will be rather limited.

live from london, this is bbc news. blasts are reported in the jabaliya refugee camp. the hamas—run health authority says two schools were hit, killing at least 80 people.

israeli forces say they're investigating. i can't confirm this incident is idf but we are seeing the images, like you've seen the images, on social media and we are looking into it. i can't confirm at this stage that this is idf but we are looking into it. people continue leaving al shifa hospital on foot as tanks mobilise around them. israel denies ordering the evacuation of the hospital. a huge march calling for the israeli government to do more to secure the release of hostages taken by hamas arrives outside the home of prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. and as you can see, the superheavy booster_ and as you can see, the superheavy booster has — and as you can see, the superheavy booster has just _ and as you can see, the superheavy booster has just experienced - and as you can see, the superheavy booster has just experienced a - and as you can see, the superheavyj booster has just experienced a rapid unscheduled — booster has just experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly. - and lift—off. . . kind of. space x's starship rocket makes it into space —

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