and israel to end the violence. it reminds us that peace is possible. spain's prime minister announces 2.3 billion euros in extra aid to reconstruct the valencia area, after some of the deadliest floods in spain's history. opposition supporters in pakistan temporarily call off protests, following clashes between government forces and protestors. and good news for shoppers. the uk's competition watcdog finds that supermarket loyalty cards offer genuine savings. a ceasefire between israel and the lebanese militant group hezbollah has come into force, bringing a potential end to more than a year of fighting and aerial assaults that

have left thousands dead and many more displaced. this is the live shot of the skyline over beirut, which has seen intense bombardment as israel tried to dismantle hezbollah. explosion. in the hours leading up to the deadline, there was no let—up from the israeli military as it continued to hit parts of beirut�*s southern suburbs shortly after issuing an evacuation order. so what is in the ceasefire deal? hezbollah will withdraw its forces from southern lebanon, moving around 30 kilometres back from the israeli border, north of the litani river. in turn there will be a �*phrased withdrawal�* of israeli troops from southern lebanon, which they invaded two month ago, in response to almost a year of hezbollah rocket attacks. they will be replaced by the regular lebanese army, alongside the existing un force that is already there, known as unifil, to monitor the agreement.

the deal echoes the one agreed to end the war in 2006, under un resolution 1701. any potential violations of the ceasefire will be directed to the united states, who helped broker the deal. these are live pictures from the lebanese prime minister. these are live pictures from the lebanese prime minister. we are getting a sense of what he is saying. he said this ceasefire was a fundamental step towards restoring stability in the region. he has been thanking france and us for their involvement in trying to get a ceasefire deal. also reinforcing his government's commitment to strengthen dlp albion lebanon. calling this

ceasefire deal a fundamental step towards restoring stability in the region. thanking france and the us for their involvement. speaking to the israeli people in a national address, prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his government would approve the deal, and outlined his reasons for doing so. so why go into a ceasefire now? there are three main reasons. the first, focusing on the iranian threat. and i don't want to expand on that. the second. to allow our forces to refresh and to also allow our resources to be replenished. it is no secret that there have been some delays in the supply of ammunition and arms, and this delay is going to be removed. we are going to have advanced weapons and that will save the lives of our soldiers, and it will give us great force

to complete our missions. the third reason for the ceasefire is to disconnect the two arenas and isolate hamas. since the second day of the war, hamas relied on hezbollah to fight alongside it. but with hezbollah out of the picture, hamas will be left on its own. the ceasefire deal was brokered by the united states and its allies. after confirming its details in a speech outside the white house, us presidentjoe biden said it shows peace is possible, in what he called the "deadliest conflict in decades." let me be clear. if hezbollah or anyone else breaks the deal and poses a direct threat to israel, then israel retains the right to self—defence, consistent with international law. just like any country when facing a terrorist group pledged to that country's destruction. at the same time, this deal supports lebanon's sovereignty, and so it heralds a new start for lebanon.

and so i applaud the crazy decision made by the leaders of lebanon and israel to end the violence. it reminds us that peace is possible. say that again. peace is possible. our correspondent in jerusalem, yolande knell, says israelis are split about the ceasefire. quite mixed. one poll was carried out by channel 12 tv and 37% of israelis were in favour and 32% against. among those who have been against me you have a leader on the far right national security minister who voted against this and israel's security cabinet. you also have importantly many residents of the north of israel. israel had set as one of its war goalss the aim that it would be able to get

these some 160,000 people return safely to their homes. they were displaced by more than a year of fighting which has gone on between hezbollah and israel. it began firing rockets the day after the deadly 7th of october attacks. really what has been coming through from people in the north of the country is they do not feel safe to go back to their homes. they were asking for a depopulated buffer zone to be created by the israeli military on the lebanese side of the border. that is not something that has happened. just remind us, what has israel committed to do under the terms of this deal? so the israeli military are supposed to withdraw from southern lebanon over the next 60 days in stages. and then as a result of that, you will have thousands more regular lebanese soldiers going into the south of lebanon alongside un peacekeepers.

you have this mechanism that has been set up where the us and france willjoin the un peacekeeping force in basically sort of determining whether there had been any potential violations. there will be much more supervision than in the past of these arrangements that have now been set up. the israelis have been really stressing that they have maintained a right to freedom of action and have a guarantee of this, they say. when it comes to any violations of hezbollah when it comes to rearming and potentially kind are preparing themselves for attacks against israelis, we will strike decisively the israeli prime minister said when he was speaking. already we have had at least one skirmish we are hearing about along the israel lebanon border, where the israeli military says that it shot

at some suspects as they called them, who were approaching the lebanese village close to the israeli border and said the suspects then fled. the israeli military will act against anyone who tries to violate the ceasefire agreement. the israeli military said also just after the ceasefire came into effect really it was warning people with more than a million lebanese having been displaced by the fighting and most of them and the last few weeks when israel has been carrying out this ground offensive in the south of lebanon. it warned people not to rush back to their homes in the south, saying there still was this israeli military presence there. one of the mayors of a northern town warned as a result of what happened when he said he has seen 12 hezbollah operatives and there should not have been their need for these warning shots to be fired.

—— operatives and there should not have been the need for these warning shots to be fired. he said for him it was evidence of the agreement israel had reached was a disgraceful one. thank you for that. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega is in sidon. this is the main highway between beirut and the south of the country, and this ceasefire has been in place for hours now. and almost immediately after this ceasefire came into effect, thousands of people have started the journey down south and this has been the case for hours here. there is a massive trafficjam here with, you know, families, uh, you know, trying to go back to towns and villages in the south of the country, despite warnings from the israeli military and also by the lebanese authorities telling people not to try to go back now because this is obviously a gradual process, a gradual withdrawal of israeli forces. there's still a presence of israeli troops in the south of the country. so the lebanese authorities say that they are now

working to deploy thousands of additional lebanese soldiers, as hezbollah is also removing its fighters and weapons from the south as part of the deal. now, we've been talking to people here. they say that they haven't been defeated. obviously, hezbollah has been, uh, degraded as a result of weeks of airstrikes. also, israeli attacks that essentially killed, uh, you know, the entire leadership of the group. they say this is a victory. you know, the sign, uh, the scenes of people returning to their homes, they are, you know, celebrating this moment and saying that this is a victory. so we've seen hezbollah flags, people celebrating also people carrying, you know, posters with the face of the late hezbollah leader, hassan nasrallah. so this is the scene now as people are starting to go back to the south of the country as a result of this ceasefire. the hope is that this 60—day ceasefire will bring

an end to this conflict between israel and hezbollah. so there will be this withdrawal of israeli troops from the south. hezbollah will remove its fighters and weapons from the south of the country, and the lebanese military will deploy 5000 additional soldiers to their part of the country. i think there is obviously a... the focus here on implementation, so the lebanese military will boost its deployments in the south. uh, there's also, you know... there will be a boost of un peacekeeping forces in the south of the country. and there will be this international monitoring mechanism led by the united states. and what we heard last night from the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, is that israel would retain the right to attack lebanon if there is any violation of the deal. and this has been a guarantee that was given by the americans, he said. now, obviously, this is extremely controversial in this country. uh, something that, you know, some...

an israeli demand that was rejected by the lebanese authorities because this is seen as a violation of the country's sovereignty. tracy chamoun is the former lebanese ambassador tojordan. she says she is optimistic the ceasefire will hold. it is in the interests of everybody that hit des. —— that it is. has bella needs to move —— i am because i think it's in the interest of everybody interest of everybody that it is. at this point, i think hezbollah has been weakened and needs to regroup, and also needs to shift its attention to the political implications of the damage that they've received in lebanon. and secondly, i think in israel, it's also to the israelis advantage, because hezbollah was causing

a lot of casualties with the incursion on the ground and was preventing israel from really achieving its goals militarily. i also think it's convenient for the israeli government at this time to have a cease fire in order to limit the request for new recruits and reservists with the controversial law that they have concerning the conscription of the haredim. so i think it's to everybody�*s advantage that this truce hold for the time being, and i'm calling it a truce rather than a cease fire, because it's very precarious. the problem is that the negotiations have been done at a very high level, but have not been communicated in detail to the populations. and so the lebanese people, for instance, don't know which are the areas necessarily that they cannot go back to. and i think over the next few days this will become more clear. and do you think there's anything to take from either the process here, or the fact that there is a result over into any negotiations between israel and the conflict in gaza? i think that this is going to precipitate a resolution for gaza, and hamas has already come out and said, you know, they are willing to talk about a truce as well. so, in effect, you know, ceasing the hostilities with hezbollah might indirectly trigger also some sort of resolution for gaza, as this

now will become the focal point of all the negotiations and also the question of the release of the remaining hostages. just going back to hezbollah, you mentioned the high level of negotiations here. what was the role of iran here, do you think? i think very important. and, um, you know, they have said that they are for a ceasefire. and so i think that without their pressure on hezbollah to stop fighting, it would have been much more difficult. i think the iranians are also influenced by the upcoming presidency of donald trump and are looking to pacify their, you know, immediate environment. just a quick bit of related breaking news from the reuters

news agency. breaking news from the reuters news agency-— news agency. this is from hamas. — news agency. this is from hamas, saying _ news agency. this is from hamas, saying they - news agency. this is from hamas, saying they are l hamas, saying they are committed to cooperating any efforts to secure a ceasefire. theyissued efforts to secure a ceasefire. they issued that statement after israel and hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire. any ceasefire must put an end to the will and lead to the withdrawal of israeli forces. back from reuters. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

reports from egypt say five people have been found alive, two days after a tourist yacht capsized off the red sea coast. a total of 33 people have been rescued so far, but seven remain missing — including two britons. the boat departed port ghalib on sunday with a total of 31 tourists and 13 egyptian crew members on board. egypt's red sea coast is a well known diving

spot, with clear waters and rich marine life. the boat had been due to sail on a five—day trip on the red sea, finishing further north, in harghada. at 5:30 on monday morning, the boat sent a distress signal after reportedly being hit by a large wave. officials say it capsized and sank within seven minutes, in this area just off the coast. 28 survivors were found initially. our correspondent sally nabilfrom bbc arabic is following developments: we just spoke to a diver, a freelance diver, who took part in the rescue operations last night that managed to find five people alive and bring back four dead bodies. he shared really interesting information, saying that they found the people, the five people alive inside the cabins, inside the boat. he said the big bulk of the boat body was submerged underwater, and there was only 50m

of, or one metre above water, and there was a hole that managed to bring in air to the five survivors. and he said that the rescue operation was quite complicated and risky because the rescuers were surrounded by sharks all, —— all the time, and there was the risk of being attacked by these sharks in addition to the very strong tide underwater. this is why it wasn't an easy mission at all to open the cabins inside the boat and bring back whether those people alive or the dead bodies. so he said that he still has hope that they will find more people alive, maybe today or in the next coming hours. but he said that the rescue operation was a huge challenge to the teams involved. we understand that the search is still going on. seven people are missing. the egyptian navy is taking the lead here. they have dispatched helicopters and ships and various crews to try and find the location of those who are unaccounted for.

but from what we've heard from the divers, it's not an easy job at all. and he told me that the weather on the day the ship or the boat has sailed was very turbulent and bad. and the winds, the wind was really strong and the waves were pretty high. and this has partly played a part in the sinking of the ship. yes, ali, just remind us about what we know about what went wrong here initially. according to the stories told by some of the survivors, who are largely in good condition, by the way, they said that the boat was hit by a very big wave during the night and it caused it to to capsize. —— and it caused it to capsize. and that what has been said also by the governor of the red sea, he said that there was no technical error in the boat at all. but investigations have already started to try and find out more. but from the stories i've been

hearing from the locals here, the bad weather might have been a strong factor that caused this tragic end of this boat. spain's prime minister pedro sanchez has announced 2.3 billion euros in extra aid to rebuild the valencia area after the deadliest flash floods in spain's modern history. pedro sanchez has just appeared before parliament to discuss the government's handling of the floods, that hit the country at the end of october. more than 220 people died and five people are still missing. the spanish government has come under criticism for its response to the floods. our madrid correspondent guy hedgecoe gave me this update on what to expect from spain's prime minister. we are expecting a very fierce debate in congress today. that is what we have had is that the opposition conservatives have been very critical of the socialist prime minister and his handling of the tragedy, saying that he really was not

that worried about it. on the day, he responded slowly and said he should have declared a national emergency to give emergency powers for him to step in and take control of matters on that day. he responded by saying his government did everything possible. he said all of the institutional machinery was in place. he said the problem were certain individuals were not up to their task. he was pointing directly at the regional president of the lancia. —— of valencia. the conservative is the president there. we know he was absent from his office for several hours on the afternoon the flood struck. there has been a very fierce debate in congress and one which is expected to last quite some time. talk us through the different areas of concern. there are ones with the warnings and then the response we touched on. talk us through what are

some of the criticisms. there was a red weather alert issued by the national meteorological office very early in the morning of october the 29th when the floods were going to hit. that warning was issued, and a criticism of the local government is it waited around 12 hours before it issued its own warning directly to the phones of the people of valencia, by which time the flood waters were rising and already causing enormous damage. the opposition conservatives are saying the central government by then could have taken control of the situation. they have criticised the meteorological agency which the government controls. they have criticised the hydrological agency which the government controls as well, the central government controls. the opposition are saying central government was not in control of certain agencies and institutions, which should have been doing theirjob better. they have been pointing

directly at the regional government, saying the man in charge of the regional government was not doing his job on the day. opposition supporters in pakistan have called a temporary halt to days of violent protests demanding the release of the jailed former prime minister, imran khan. more than a dozen people were killed, most of them civilians. in a social media message, mr khan had urged more people to join the protest and fight to the end. journalist azaz syed. it was like a turmoil for the last three days, which ended in the wee hours today, um, in the morning, uh, you know, the pakistani police and rangers, they have launched an operation in, uh, islamabad and, uh, they have arrested almost, uh, 800 people in two days. today, in the morning, they have arrested hundreds of people, uh, during this operation, bushra bibi, the wife of the wife of mr. imran khan and the chief minister of khyber pakhtunkhwa,

the province which pakistan tehreek e insaaf, uh, founded by imran khan is controlling. so they fled — they left the, uh, protesting point and they left. when they left, all the protesters, they dispersed. and uh, meanwhile, police also made hundreds of arrests over here. but, uh, there is no confirmation yet that in today's operation, when police was arresting people, uh, somebody died. as yet, there is no confirmation. nobody has died yet because islamabad and rawalpindi hospitals report no casualties, no casualty. they say they have received no dead bodies yet the protest is over. but the controversy and the problem is yet not over. uh, i... if you see the previous track of imran khan and his party, they continue to, uh, give

calls of such kind of protests. uh, previously they have given almost more than one dozen calls, uh, within one year. uh, if you talk about their style of politics in pakistan. so it seems that bushra bibi, the wife of, uh, imran khan, she is back. and she couldn't succeed. although they had called that. this is a final call for the protest, but it seems that it will remain like this. this is bbc news. hello. some torrential rain across the south of the country this morning. all courtesy of a developing storm. it is

continuing to pull away. gusty winds on its back edge. high pressure builds in behind it after a cold start it will be a fine day with a bad bet of sunshine around and a few showers peppering the east coast. we could see stubborn areas of fog. the rain moving away from the south east. gusty winds moving along behind into the south—east of the country. it's a chilly day. generally, temperatures 4—9 celsius, 1a in the channel islands. now, through this evening and overnight, storm connell continues to move away. high pressure very much in charge of our weather. low pressure with weather fronts out towards the west, but with high pressure in charge overnight, things are going to be fairly quiet and also settled. and it's going to be a cold night with a widespread frost. we could see —5 or —6 celsius in scotland with all the moisture and just light winds. that's a recipe for some mist and fog patches to form, so we'll have some mist and fog to start the day tomorrow. what you'll find is some of it will be quite dense

in the southeast. most of it should lift, leaving a lot of dry weather, but out towards the west one of our weather fronts starts to make a bit of progress. so it's introducing some cloud, the odd shower and also strengthening winds before the rain comes in a bit later on. so then heading on from thursday into friday, the high pressure continues to drift away onto the near continent. that's allowing the weather fronts to make a bit more progress into the north and the west. the wind will pick up here as well, the cloud building with the rain coming in mist and fog to start. the day should lift quite readily. and then for many southern, central and eastern parts of the country, we are looking at some sunny spells. temperatures ranging from 9 to about 13 celsius, north to south. moving in through the weekend. we have high pressure in the continent, low pressure out towards the atlantic. and we've also got this southerly wind or south—westerly component to it dragging in milder conditions. so as we go through the weekend, all of us will see temperatures rise —

most of us in double figures. there will still be some rain in the north and the west and it'll be windy at times.

this is bbc news, the headlines. lebanon's prime minister najib mikati says he hopes for a "new page" as a ceasefire between israel and hezbollah begins — and calls on israel to abide by the truce. spain's prime minister

announces 2.3 billion euros in extra aid to reconstruct the valencia area. recent flash floods were among the deadliest in spain's history, after a year's worth of rain fell in just a few hours. the owner of vauxhall has announced plans to close its van—making factory in luton, putting about 1,100 jobs at risk. the firm said rules imposed to speed up the transition to electric vehicles in the uk partly drove the decision. a uk ticket—holder has won the euromillions jackpot, scooping £177 million. it's the third—biggest prize ever seen here in the uk. hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones. you're watching bbc news. there have been calls for the immediate regulation of so—called "calming rooms" in special schools in the uk, after a bbc investigation revealed cctv showing autistic children being shoved

into padded rooms, restrained by the neck — or left alone, sitting in vomit.