live from washington, this is bbc news. furtherstrikes live from washington, this is bbc news. further strikes in beirut after israeli forces issue new evacuation orders for parts of southern lebanon. it's as if zouma continues its offensives in lebanon and gaza. —— israel continues its offensives, almost one year on from the attacks by hamas. and in the uk keir starmer�*s chief of staff resigns from the post, sue gray says she risked becoming a distraction. good to have you with us. we begin in the middle east where there are developments on several fronts. more israeli strikes have been reported in beirut after israel issued further evacuation orders in parts of southern lebanon. this footage of

a huge explosion is from just the last couple of hours and these are live pictures from the lebanese capital. last night the city experienced one of its most intense bombardment so far in this conflict. authorities say at least 25 people were killed. either the israeli military said it had killed a senior has bell though the group has not yet commented —— hezbollah commander. this was the scene in the last hour. in israel. science have been sounding in the city of haifa in anticipation of further rocket attacks from lebanon, on sunday as roy said it intercepted 30 rockets. meanwhile in gaza are the attacks are continually the hamas run health ministry said 26 people were killed in a mosque and a school housing displaced ulster 9's. the idf says it believed hamas was regrouping in the area. and in southern israel a

19—year—old female surgeon with the border police was killed in a shooting and others were injured in what police have been called in a suspected terror attack —— a 19—year—old female sergeant. this is as is or to mark the first anniversary of the october seven attacks in which 250 people were taken hostage, 97 of whom are still being held hostage. this report is from our international editorjeremy bowen, who has travelled near to israel's border with gaza. the survivors of the attack on kibbutz kfar aza have not come back to live here. the ruins have not been touched. kfar aza, right on the border, was one of the first targets of hamas. they killed 62 people here and took 19 into gaza as hostages. that buzz is from an israeli drone heading for gaza. later we heard air strikes. bereaved families and a grieving nation were promised total victory over hamas by their prime minister.

a year on, hamas are still fighting. the ground around one house has been excavated. it was the home of a man man and his fiancee, both killed by hamas. his father spent weeks looking for his son's head. he didn't find it. a neighbour said there was a nightmare on every corner. we are still inside the trauma. we are not in post—trauma, like people said. we're still here. we're still... we're still in the war. my victory, i will be here with my son and daughter, with my grandchild and living peacefully. for israelis, kfar aza and all the other places that hamas attacked on the 7th of october have become repositories of very deep and still raw national trauma.

and the horror that happened here has, for the vast majority of israelis, absolutelyjustified everything that israel has done since then. a year ago, israeli troops were still fighting hamas when they let us into kfar aza three days after the attack. the year of war since then ripped away any illusion that the middle east could be peaceful without resolving deep seated conflicts. hamas fighters lying where they were killed were seen by israelis as enemies funded by iran to destroy their state. and the sight of dead israelis being carried out of the ruins brought back the nazi holocaust that killed six millionjews. these soldiers were being deployed north to the border with lebanon. a year later, israel and iran are in direct conflict, plummeting towards all—out war.

israel's prime minister, netanyahu, promised a mighty vengeance. his defence minister said they were fighting human animals in gaza and would act accordingly. this was gaza city before last october. hamas told the bbc they attacked israel to put palestinians back on the world's agenda. israel has damaged or destroyed nearly 60% of all gaza's buildings, according to satellite analysis. as the war in lebanon deepens, in beirut there are fears they might face something like this. almost 42,000 palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed. 10,000 are missing, thought to be under the rubble. the estimate is that 40% of casualties are children. israel insists it follows the laws

of war, spares civilians, and it rejects and condemns the accusation of genocide made by south africa at the international court ofjustice. more than two million gazans, the un says, are trapped in a humanitarian catastrophe, without food, water and medical care. as families are displaced repeatedly on israel's orders, bbc verify has tracked how quickly improvised camps spring up. the israelis say they're protecting civilians. the un says nowhere is safe. israel does not allow journalists into gaza, so trusted palestinian colleagues filmed this woman and her family in al mawasi, a supposedly safe area hit by at least 18 israeli air strikes. she and her family have had to move 15 times.

translation: we were walking on salahadin street when a car | was hit and we saw it burning. 0n the left, there were people killed. 0n the right, there were people killed. even the donkeys were thrown around in the bombing, and we said, "that's it, we're done. "the next rocket will be for us." 0n the west bank, the other side of the palestinian territories, violence and killing have increased sharply. this isjenin, where many israeli raids have not deterred or destroyed local armed palestinian militias. the cemetery is filling up with their dead. the war in gaza has radicalised both sides. the west bank is already part of the pile—up of serious conflict in the middle east. there could be a bigger explosion here if israel and iran continue to accelerate into all—out war. the nightmare of the war that started in gaza spreading and igniting the middle east is happening. a ceasefire deal in gaza mightjust

cool the crisis and create a space for diplomacy. perhaps the war can end in gaza, too. or perhaps it's too late for that. jeremy bowen, bbc news, jerusalem. and it fears the conflict could turn into wider regional war, reuters is also reporting the commander of iran's phoresy travel to lebanon following the killer of hezbollah�*s leader last month has not been heard from since israel strikes hit beirut last week. this is the scene as the strikes continue in lebanon, this is our correspondence kyouko the chicka.

——hugo bechega. 0vernight, and the most intense israeli air strikes in this war. explosions. in the morning, more air strikes. this video appears to capture secondary explosions, a possible sign that weapons were being stored there. this place was hit about 12 hours ago, and there's still smoke coming out of the rubble. there is a heavy smell in the air and there is destruction all around, including some buildings farfrom here. i can count at least three underground floors. it's all destroyed. israel accuses hezbollah of hiding weapons among civilians, an accusation hezbollah denies. this building, residents told us, included a sweet shop. we found a bag with the name of the shop on the right, next to the tail fin of a mortar unlikely to have been used by the israeli military. we couldn't stay long. you can go from here right now, please. a group of men arrived, ordering us to leave. in gaza, israel's war

against hamas continues. israel bombed another school housing displaced residents, saying hamas had set up a control centre in the building. a nearby mosque was also attacked. israel said hamas was operating there. the two strikes killed at least 26 people, according to gaza's health ministry. this woman lost her daughter and grandchildren. translation: please, | god, defeat netanyahu. please god, defeat israel. i hope god defeats you, america. you have made us cry over our children, grandchildren and loved ones. my heart is breaking. back in lebanon, the missiles back in lebanon, the missiles come, not only at night. come, not only at night. israel is not backing down israel is not backing down in its war against hezbollah. in its war against hezbollah. and in beirut, there's no respite. and in beirut, there's no respite.

hugo bachega, bbc news, beirut. hugo bachega, bbc news, beirut. let's discuss what this means for the region with a senior fellow on our politics. good to have you with us. we were talking about continued strikes in berwick today following that explosion last night, the idf saying it had issued evacuation orders but ijust wonder, speaking to your contacts there on the ground, however lebanese civilians feeling at the moment? feeling at the sorry ground, however lebanese civilians feeling at the sorry is yellow speaking —— sorry? speaking to

targets, not lebanese targets in the sense they haven't hit highways and the airport and civilian infrastructure —— against has bell hezbollah target�*s, the scale is very different, this time it seems hezbollah targets are not only in areas like suburbs, they are all over the place, the missiles are also stored in different areas, we have seen strikes in areas... people feel that the uncertainty is here. but the thing that, in addition to what's happening today, this comes immediately after years of financial and economic crisis, where there is no state, no money in the states, lebanon is isolated from the international community because of all the corruption and refusal to

reform. so parallel to the severe economic crisis, this comes as, you know, the military operation, which means that the people in the streets, the more than one million refugees in the street, have nowhere, no humanitarian aid from the government orfrom nowhere, no humanitarian aid from the government or from hezbollah itself because they are hiding, no one is telling them that a state will be here to protect you, and no one from hezbollah is reassuring them that what will happen is not bad. so i think people are afraid, especially the people in the street, the shia community is the main victim in this war but the problems they are abandoned by hezbollah, by their state, and by the international community. so the fear is there. the uncertainty, and the fear also that after all this is done, there might be actually, some street fighting and violence and sectarian violence. that street fighting and violence and sectarian violence.— street fighting and violence and sectarian violence. that is what i wanted to _

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one. howeverthat solution we have today is a 70 no one. however that is not enough at this point. after what happened to the lebanese people today, 1701 would bring us back to 2006, to the post—2006, were it would allow hezbollah to rearm, reorganise and eventually come back to the border. i believe that 1701 can only be applied if it's parallel and connected to 5056, and 1556 is to force all militias to surrender all their arms to the lebanese army. and this is the only way, the only way to implement this, to prevent both resolutions, is to actually now elect a president to form a sovereign reformist government to set the ground actually for the ceasefire, because you cannot expect a ceasefire and then think, who is going to implement it? you need to set the ground now, for a structure of a sovereign state that could implement both 1701 and 1559,

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alongside bio—science and tech firms, are now going to investigate why. bbc radio presenter, johnnie walker, says he is stepping back from the microphone because of ill health. the 79—year—old, who has pul—monary fibrosis, will present his final sounds of the 70s and the rock show the 79—year—old, who has pulmonary fibrosis, will present his final sounds of the 70s and the rock show on radio 2 at the end of this month. he's been in the industry for 58 years, starting at pirate station, swinging radio england in 1966. you're live with bbc news. sir keir starmer�*s chief of staff has resigned from the post, saying she risked becoming a distraction. sue gray's resignation follows rows about her salary, and controversy surrounding donations to the uk prime minister and members of the cabinet. downing street says she will take up a new role as the pm's envoy for nations and regions. the conservatives said her resignation showed the government is in chaos. here's our political editor, chris mason. by the prime minister's side —

until today, at least. sue gray was at the top table. here she was at the white house last month. now she's gone as sir keir starmer�*s chief of staff, after weeks of her colleagues saying she was too powerful and not up to the job, and willing to leak confidential information about her. she earns £170,000 a year but that figure matters less than how i found out about it, and that is down to a rows in government about her role. some within government thought the leaks deeply unfair but the anger was real, an issue i put to the prime minister the week before last. are you going to get rid of them, those grumblers, or get rid of her? i'm not going to discuss individual members of staff — whoever they are. what about resolving the issues that have brought about the row? do you acknowledge that there are people that are unhappy and i guess you as the boss have the responsibility to try and sort it out? well, i acknowledge that briefings to you are not helpful to the government. my focus is on what we need to do as a government to change

the country for the better... including sorting out the cause of that? and it's myjob to deal with briefings, etc, and i take responsibility for that. in a statement today, sue gray said... before moving to work for labour last year, sue gray had spent a career as a civil servant, including writing the report into parties during the pandemic when borisjohnson was prime minister. it's really hard to drive party politics from the centre of a government if you've not come up through party politics. i've worked with sue, i rate sue but i think you see now the need for the political professionals to be the driving force in the comm, in the policy and in everything that's done. this is the man who'll replace her, morgan mcsweeney, widely credited as the mastermind behind labour's landslide election win. sir keir starmer will hope this rejig and sue gray being sidelined will bring the backbiting and infighting at the heart of government to an end.

0ur political editor, chris mason, reporting. it's just ten days since storm helene tore through the south—eastern united states. now another storm looks likely to strike again this week. hurricane milton is currently off the coast of mexico — but the us national weather service says it's expecting the storm to strengthen rapidly as it approaches florida over the next few days. a state of emergency has been declared in parts of florida, where helene left at least 1a dead, governor ron desantis issued the emergency warning for 35 counties and said preparations were under way to restore power and clear roads ahead of milton's arrival. let's return now to the middle east, where there have been further israeli strikes on southern beirut. the fighting that continues there, and in gaza, comes as israel prepares to mark one year since the october 7th hamas attacks in israel, which killed around 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage.

i've been speaking to tommaso della longa, spokesperson for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies — the world's largest humanitarian network. thank you for coming on the programme, always good to talk to you. we are approaching a grim milestone, one year of suffering. can you tell us what your team are seen on the ground? thank you for having me, what we are seeing after 12 months of conflict is really one year of suffering. and suffering just increasing day after day, i would say, hour after hour. we are seeing humanitarian aid not entering enough in the gaza strip. people inside gaza having issues

getting food, water, health. we are seeing hostages that are not able to go back to their families. and sadly what i would say is that in the last 12 months our holes are just unheard. so we never really change the doses of —— our call are unheard. humanitarian aid is needed now. ., , ., ., ., ., now. you 'ust said humanitarian aid is not now. you just said humanitarian aid is not getting _ now. you just said humanitarian aid is not getting in. — now. you just said humanitarian aid is not getting in, what _ now. you just said humanitarian aid is not getting in, what are - now. you just said humanitarian aid is not getting in, what are the - is not getting in, what are the barriers to that making its way into the areas that need it most? in the last months. _ the areas that need it most? in the last months, since _ the areas that need it most? in the last months, since the _ the areas that need it most? in the last months, since the rafah - the areas that need it most? in the| last months, since the rafah border was closed, of course the situation has become worse. and then we can say that the kerem shalom gate is still sometimes open but this is not enough. and i would say that the main issue here is the conflict. when the conflict is going on it's

very difficult for aides to get in. and even if and when a gate is open, which of course i don't want to underestimate the importance, you need to clear the condition to distribute aid inside the gaza strip and this condition is simply not there. ., ., ., ,~' and this condition is simply not there. ., ., ., , ., there. one thing i wanted to ask you about is specifically _ there. one thing i wanted to ask you about is specifically with the - there. one thing i wanted to ask you about is specifically with the red - about is specifically with the red cross and also the red crescent, it's an organisation that so often relies on volunteers and of course, many of these volunteers are civilians caught up in this conflict. they are trying to navigate their lives in a war zone. what does that mean for aid efforts, one year on?— one year on? thanks a lot for this question. — one year on? thanks a lot for this question. it's _ one year on? thanks a lot for this question, it's very _ one year on? thanks a lot for this question, it's very important - one year on? thanks a lot for this question, it's very important to i one year on? thanks a lot for this | question, it's very important to us. i would sayjust the worst nightmare you can think about. we are talking about women and men who decided to simply support the others, support their own communities. and these women and men are also themselves impacted by the conflict, just to give you an idea, i mean, colleagues

of the palestinian red crescent are living in tents themselves, without food or water, one colleague told me every morning i need to wake up early and walk a few kilometres to get my vest washed and then i will be able to go on an ambulance. and of course this is deeply complicated, without mention colleagues who lost their wives, kids, sisters, friends and still are serving humanity. and i think if there is any positive side, it's this icon of hope that our volunteers have.- this icon of hope that our volunteers have. �* ., ., volunteers have. and now we are of course witnessing _ volunteers have. and now we are of course witnessing a _ volunteers have. and now we are of course witnessing a crisis _ volunteers have. and now we are of course witnessing a crisis that - volunteers have. and now we are of course witnessing a crisis that is - course witnessing a crisis that is expanding, expanding in lebanon. i wonderwhat expanding, expanding in lebanon. i wonder what you think that means for humanitarian efforts across the region, are they stretched? absolutely, they are. but i think what it means, and your question again is very well posed, it means there are no humanitarian solutions

if there are no political solutions. humanitarians cannot substitute the international community, the diplomatic efforts in the dialogue amongst parties. what we are seeing now in lebanon is absolutely concerning and worrying. we are talking about almost 1 concerning and worrying. we are talking about almost1 million people displaced and then of course the lebanese red cross, the red crescent at the border with syria are doing their utmost but the problem here is the violence, is the escalation. bombs must stop for aid and then we need to find a way to scale up humanitarian aid. but again, it's not up to the humanitarians, it's up to the international community to finally find dialogue and a decision to get aid to people. it's we can just take a look at the live pictures now, this is israel looking into lebanon there at the border, we know there have been further israeli strikes today in lebanon, in beirut, and of course for the latest you can go to our website. i will see you soon.

the next couple of days are going to bring some big shower clouds, dampers and thunder and lightning possible, but also decent sunny spells because of this low pressure which will hang around for awhile and give us changeable weather. here is a snapshot of the morning on monday, temperatures hovering between eight and 11, for some of us it will start off dry, others will have rain, particularly across northern and eastern scotland. and it is really difficult to sum up the day because it will be changing. some areas will have heavy showers, for others it will be generally dry with prolonged spells of sunshine. where the sun comes up for any lengthy period, temperatures could get up to 18 or 19 but don't get caught out by heavy showers, take a brolly in case. more of the same on tuesday, this slow—moving area of low pressure, so the weather isn't really changing an awful lot but the distribution of showers is going to be different between one day and the

next. temperatures again about the high teens in the south of the country, further north, around 12, so a bit colder. mid week we are watching hurricane kirk in the atlantic, this is the picture, as the story moves it will get caught in thejet the story moves it will get caught in the jet stream and be propelled to the western part of europe. we are increasingly confident that the worst of the storable track to the south of us but as it reaches western europe it will sharply curve left, northwards, and mayjust clip south—eastern part of the uk. but it is a small chance. looking at wednesday, showers and cool weather across many northern and eastern areas, some out towards the west, and here you can see the edge of the rain associated with kirk, that x hurricane, with very gusty winds across northern france. nine in scotland, 17 in the south—east of england. then through the course of wednesday into thursday, look how close the low pressure is to

south—eastern parts of the country. and gale force winds are possible around east anglia, the south—east of england, for a time, particularly coastal areas, as the low pressure pulls way towards germany. so here is the outlook for the week. really showery first half of the week, then we are watching, possibly kirk brushing us mid week then towards the end of the brighter bit colder. goodbye.

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