the un secretary general attends the brics summit and calls for peace in gaza, lebanon, ukraine and sudan. this is the scene live from the summit in kazan from where we expect to hear from russian president putin in the next few minutes. we will bring that to you live. a hospital in central gaza says at least 17 palestinians have been killed in an israeli strike at a refugee camp. this is the scene live right now in khan younis in southern gaza. lucy letby loses her appeal against conviction. a row over reparations — the bbc understands several countries will raise the subject at the commonwealth summit in samoa.

hello, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. president putin is due to address the leaders of brics nations at a summit he's hosting in the city of kazan. earlier he warned against what he called "illusory attempts" to defeat russia on the battlefield. he's expected to meet with the un secretary general antonio guterres, a strong opponent of russia's invasion of ukraine, who called for peace there and the middle east. mr putin is also holding talks with chinese president xijinping. china's president's told the summit that brics nations should be a stabilising force for peace. anna matveeva is a senior research fellow at kings college london and former bbc russian commentator. as putin is selling this summit as a diplomatic triumph, anna told us what this represents at the moment in terms of russia's influence and power. i think it is a very important summit because it is a sign of a shifting global order.

we are seeing that the relative power which the us and, um, the us western—led order has been kind of dominant in the world in the last 30 years at least now it's becoming a bit less certain. there are also other global power centres coming up, and they are significant. we are seeing that there are 2a leaders. we see antonio guterres there. we are seeing that, for example, very important dialogue between, bilateral dialogue, like india and china is happening within brics. we see also president erdogan, native country um, is present there also saying we

would like to join. there are 30 countries queuing tojoin brics in one form or another. so yes, we are we are seeing signs that global order is changing and brics is an important part of that change. and yes, anna, we're looking at live pictures coming to us from kazan at the moment from the summit. it really is impressive the gathering and you've mentioned some of the leaders who are there, but you have had narendra modi, the leader of india. cyril ramaphosa, the leader of south africa, saying there needs to be an end to the war in ukraine. so they're obviously not unified in terms of all of their messaging. is that significant that we're not getting a unified message out of brics? not very significant, because if you look at from the perspective of brics countries, ukraine is just yet another crisis in the series of global crisis for them. for example, the crisis in middle east is a much more important matter because some of them are directly affected. iran is a member of brics and saudi arabia is a member of brics. so this is something which are

really close to their kind of diplomatic, political and security concerns. the war in ukraine is largely static. their people have been reacting to it with a shock. but adaptation to the war has happened. it is not really going one way or the other. for brics the important thing is the effect of the war in ukraine on global geoeconomics. added together the economies are worth $29 trillion, a huge amount of power at the table in kazan and we are looking ahead to president putin speaking we think about an hour or 25 minutes. a hospital in central gaza says at least 17 palestinians have been killed, some of them children, in an israeli strike on a school in the nuseirat

refugee camp. let's ta ke let's take you live to jerusalem. let's go live tojerusalem, where we're joined by our correspondent wyre davies. what are we hearing from nuseirat and the refugee camp? the images coming in from central gaza are very distressing, showing a lot of dead people, many of them children. they are clearly either very badly wounded or killed, having been dragged out of the nuseirat refugee camp. that is a very densely populated area right in the north middle of the gaza strip. what is significant about the attack on this particular site todayisit attack on this particular site today is it is not in the area where israel has been undertaking a massive military offensive around northern gaza in the last few weeks. this is much more in the southwest and people may have been expected to be relatively safe. i use the word relatively because all of gaza is dangerous. the

israelis have put out a statement today saying they attacked the nuseirat refugee camp because they said hamas were using it as a command and control centre and they were targeting terrorists from hamas and islamichhad there. but from these pictures as we have seen a lot of civilians were killed as well. the number of people killed in gaza now since the start of the war is almost 43,000, the start of the war is almost 15,000, according to the hamas run palestinian health authority. many of those will be civilians and non—competence and many of those were killed today. the humanitarian crisis across gaza is desperate, significantly in the north, but clearly across the entire gaza strip. that has been a focus very much of antony blinken, the american secretary of state who has been in the region over the last few days. he is focusing on that again today. we are looking at live pictures of khan younis in the south of the gaza strip where things are

looking relatively, and i use that word as well, relatively calm at the moment. you mentioned antony blinken being in the region. we had been following a press conference he gave in the past hour or so in qatar in doha, talking to the qataris who are essential to the mediation process. since you and i have been talking a line has come through from those mediators, saying they have restarted meetings with hamas, following the killing of yahya sinwar last week. can you give us the big picture in terms of what talks are happening and whether any progress is being made? figs happening and whether any progress is being made? as far as we are _ progress is being made? as far as we are aware _ progress is being made? as far as we are aware there - progress is being made? as far as we are aware there are - progress is being made? as far as we are aware there are no i as we are aware there are no substantive talks at the minute. any ceasefire would lead to the release of the 101 israeli hostages still being held in gaza and about two thirds of those are thought to be alive. the israeli leader

benjamin netanyahu at the minute is not really interested in talking about a ceasefire. his main priority seems to be to end the war against hamas in gaza before thinking about a ceasefire. but clearly there is massive international pressure for an end to the war in gaza that might release the hostages as well. the problem with hamas is hamas and with yahya sinwar being killed over a week ago, hamas has not got an obvious leader at the moment although an exiled leader is based in qatar and the qataris have been the main interlocutor between hamas. but any hopes for a meaningful resumption of peace talks seems to be some way off at the minute because both sides, both hamas and israel, seem to be very far apart. thank you very much for that.

antony blinken is in qatar at the moment. one of the news lines that came out was increase in assistance and humanitarian aid to the palestinians, $i35 humanitarian aid to the palestinians, $135 million. let's bring you a short portion of that press conference. secretary blinken emphasised that israel's activities on its northern border were being closely watched by the united states. as israel conducts to remove the threat from the border, we have been clear this could not, should not lead to a retracted campaign. and israel must take the necessary steps to avoid civilian casualties and not endanger peacekeepers or the lebanese armed forces. right now we are working intensely to reach a diplomatic resolution, sees the full implementation of the un security council resolution 1701 and as a result

allow civilians on both sides of the border to return to their homes. another update on the lebanese capital in beirut. we are hearing there were 17 strikes in the lebanese capital overnight and that is why you are seeing the smoke in the air in the southern suburbs. remember, thousands of air strikes have been carried out across lebanon in the past month. israel is saying it is targeting the armed group his brother and they are targeting their operatives, infrastructure and weapons as well. but it is a densely populated residential area in the south of beirut and this is the south of beirut and this is the scene there live at the moment after those air strikes. the serial killer lucy letby has been denied permission to appeal against her most recent conviction for the attempted murder of a new—born baby. she received her 15th life order in july after the jury in her original trial last year couldn't reach a verdict. letby�*s lawyers had argued

the retrial shouldn't have gone ahead because of "overwhelming prejudice" caused by media coverage of the original trial. today's you're at the court of appeal slowly came down to the question of lucy letby�*s15th and final conviction for attempted murder of a baby known only as child k. that conviction came injuly this year. it was a retrial because the jury in the original prosecution could not decide what had happened. the case against her was that child k had been attacked about 90 minutes after she had been born in the countess of chester hospital in february 2016. it was said that lucy letby has dislodged herfeeding was said that lucy letby has dislodged her feeding tube and stood over the court doing nothing as the baby struggles. the baby was only brought back into a form of stability because the consultant by chance walked in and saw what was going on. that conviction

came after three and a half hours when thejury came after three and a half hours when the jury accepted the prosecution prosper evidence that lucy letby�*s lawyers today said that that case had effectively been prejudiced, it had been influenced by the previous reporting of her main convictions from august 2023. they said effectively the weight of all the reporting and the vitriolic comments around it had been particularly damaging to lucy letby�*s right to a fair trial and that amounted to, what is known in legaljargon, as the occlusive process and the trialjudge should have intervened and said lucy letby cannot have a fair trial, i need to stop this case. in particular they said that comments from the police had been deeply problematic because they revealed that she was facing a review of 4000 contacts with children and in that context the police should have thought twice about the prejudice that would have had

on the forthcoming case. the judges today rejected that saying there was no prejudice because our very experienced child —— trialjudge has followed the process and therefore the appeal should not be granted. throughout all of this lucy letby sat on a video link from hmp bruntsfield, the largest women's prison, and she sat impassively and watched what was going on. she looked very drawn and tired and said very drawn and tired and said very little only to confirm she understood what was going on and that is possibly the last week will ever see of her unless she gets her case in a miscarriage ofjustice. the lower house of the russian parliament has ratified a strategic partnership treaty between russia and north korea. a key provision is that if either country is attacked and enters a state of war, the other will provide military assistance. the news comes as the united states confirmed for the first time that north korea has sent thousands of troops to russia in a move that could mark a major escalation in the war with ukraine. national security spokesman john kirby says 3,000

north korean troops travelled by ship to vladivostok, russia s largest pacific port, in early to mid—october to receive training at various sites. but he said it still isn't clear whether they will be deployed to the front line. one of russia's allies, the belarussian leader, alexander lukashenko, said reports of north korean troops were "rubbish". in an exclusive interview, he told our russia editor, steve rosenberg, that involving north koreans on the front lines would be a step towards escalating the conflict. he is the one world leader who knows vladimir putin inside out. to the west alexander lukashenko is a pariah. to russia the closest ally. so what does he make of reports that russia's relationship with north korea is growing ever closer and that pyongyang is supplying soldiers to fight against ukraine?

supplying soldiers to fight auainst ukraine? �* ,, �* against ukraine? translation: that is rubbish. _ against ukraine? translation: that is rubbish. that _ against ukraine? translation: that is rubbish. that would - that is rubbish. that would mean an escalation of the conflict. knowing his character, putin would never try to persuade a country to involve its army in the ukraine conflict, especially on the front line.— conflict, especially on the front line. �* ., ., , front line. but what of these re orts front line. but what of these reports are _ front line. but what of these reports are confirmed, - front line. but what of these reports are confirmed, i - front line. but what of these - reports are confirmed, i asked? it would be a step towards an escalation in the conflict. it was shortly after these joint drills in belarus in 2022 that russian troops invaded ukraine from belarus in territory. nothing to do with him, claims mr lukashenko. translation: there were _ mr lukashenko. translation: there were exercises _ mr lukashenko. translation: there were exercises going - mr lukashenko. translation: there were exercises going on | there were exercises going on involving several thousand russian soldiers. putin began withdrawing his troops from southern belarus along a road past the border with ukraine. then at one point he redirected some of them to kyiv. 1542 00:15:50,051