in a million and a half gazans — calling the strip "a demolition site" where "something needs to happen". i would like egypt and jordan to take people, you are talking about probably 1.5 million people and we just clean up that whole thing. lebanon says the israeli army has killed 11 people and wounded 83 in the country's south, as a deadline for the idf to leave expires. chancellor rachel reeves announces proposed changes to england's planning system — aimed at boosting economic growth. belarus is voting in a presidential election — with alexander lukashenko all but certain to secure a seventh term.

hello and welcome. we start in the middle east and comments by president trump on gaza. he's said he'd like to see a—million—and—a—half of its residents taken in by other arab nations — including jordan and egypt. he told journalists the strip was "literally a demolition site" and suggested it be "cleaned out". israeli bombardments have reduced much of gaza to rubble. mr trump's comments will be seen as unacceptable by palestinians who see gaza as their homeland, and by arab countries which reject the forced displacement of people. hamas says it will oppose plans to relocate palestinians, while islamichhad says the plans will encourage israel to commit war crimes. but mr trump's comments are already being welcomed by far—right israeli politicians, some of whom want to restore jewish settlements there. let's take a listen to what president trump told reporters on air force one.

i'm looking at the whole gaza strip right now- and it's a mess. you would like jordan to house people? i'd like egypt to take people. i'm meeting with... i'm talking to the general- tomorrow sometime, i believe. and i'd like egypt to take people. l and i'd like jordan to take j people, because, i mean, you're talking about probably a million and a half— people, and we just clean out that whole thing. - over the centuries, it's. many, many conflicts on that site. and i don't know, it's, - something has to happen, but it's literally a demolition site right now, almost- everything is demolished . and people are dying there. so i'd rather get involved with some of the arab i nations and build housing. at a different location where they can maybe live .

in peace for a change. it could be temporarily. it could be long term. president trump's comments come as thousands of displaced palestinians are being prevented from returning to their homes in the north of the gaza strip. after israel accused hamas of breaching the terms of their ceasefire deal. these are the live pictures from gaza, where people are waiting to return to their homes. live pictures. there were some chaotic scenes on saturday evening as palestinians who had expected to be able to walk north following the completion of the hostage release found the road was still blocked by israeli tanks. israel has so far prevented them crossing into the north until plans are in place for the release of israeli civilian arbel yehud — who is being held by the islamichhad. the dispute came after hamas freed four israeli women soldiers on saturday. they had been taken hostage from a military base on the gaza border in the 7th of october 2023 attack.

and 200 palestinian inmates were released from israeli jails , the second exchange to take place as part of the gaza ceasefire deal our correspondent nick beake is injerusalem and has more on president trump's comments and reaction to them. from the israeli perspective, the right wing here has already said that this is fantastic news. you've got prominent right wing politicians saying that this is exactly what they want to be hearing from america. we know that there are far—right extremists here who say that gaza should be their homeland, and they'd like to seejewish settlers move there. in terms of the reaction from palestinians. if you put yourself in the position of those families, we saw pictures just a moment ago of people waiting to move from the south, where they've been displaced back to the north to try and find out what remains of their homes. i think there's a few ways of looking at this. clearly, their immediate

priority is getting back home. but when they hear that sort of language from president trump saying that gaza is a wasteland, it's in ruins, it's over. clear the whole place out. that would be concerning. and also, we've seen in the choice of the next american ambassador to israel, this is someone, mike huckabee, who previously has rejected the idea of a palestinian state, among other things. on the other hand, president trump says he wants peace in the middle east. he wants to strike bargains around the world, do deals. and included in that would be, you'd imagine, a deal between israel and saudi arabia, saudi arabia and arab countries around here. there's no way they would countenance the expulsion, the moving out of palestinians. so two ways of looking at these comments that president trump has made today — off the fly, it would seem, he didn't really give a huge amount of policy detail. and when he was asked whether this was a temporary solution or a long term thing, he said either could work.

an official from hamas promised to oppose it. the idea of relocation. talking tojordan and egypt, the president said, how are they likely to react to what he has suggested on those comments on air force one? i think like everyone they will be trying to assess them, put them in the context of decades of american foreign policy which has said ultimately there should be a palestinian state, the biden administration were clear about that and you had president biden and antony blinken his secretary of state and others talking about reconstructing gaza for gazans but the arab states were looking towards that despite a huge operation. we will have to see what reaction comes in from the likes ofjordan and egypt during the day but clearly this is opposed to the direction they want to head on in terms of beginning this task

of rebuilding gaza. weeks and months off, just a week into the very fragile ceasefire. on that, thousands of palestinians as we have said are trying to get back into northern gaza, prime minister netanyahu's office saying that the deal has been breached by hamas, why? this boils down to the fate of one particular civilian hostage, 29 years old, arbel yehoud, it was expected in the israeli media she would be released yesterday but she was not on the list. israel says hamas has undermined the deal which says in essence that civilians should be released before soldiers. what has happened is isreal says as a result they are stopping all

the palestinian families in the south of gaza are moving to the north. they were looking to make the move north. actually, she will be released next weekend, hamas are saying, arbel yehoud. apparently the proof of life has been provided. we are waiting for the israelis to say whether or not this satisfies and they will give the green light to the huge number of people being able to move from the south of gaza further to the north. nick beake, let's speak to gershon baskin injerusalem. he is a hostage negotiator and the middle east director for the international communities organisation, a uk—based ngo i. you reaction to president trump

to post my comments.— to post my comments. these comments — to post my comments. these comments are _ to post my comments. these comments are not _ to post my comments. these comments are not thought i to post my comments. these - comments are not thought about very deeply, talking about the region, on the one side palestinians have a right to choose where they want to live but in the real world countries have limitations on who they open their doors to and how many people they are willing to take on, we see donald trump instituting a policy in america to deport millions of people living in the united states who chose to live in the united states without the permission of the united states, if this were to happen in gaza with egypt and jordan we are risking the stability of the regimes of both countries, both have peace with the rear. this is a dangerous statement for donald trump to make and even altering the statement itself can shake the statement itself can shake the regimes. at the root of this is the palestinian issue, most of the world and certainly the entire arab world, it says

the entire arab world, it says the occupation of israel of palestinian land should be ended and a state created of the palestinians' own. it amounts to ethnic cleansing of the gaza strip. we amounts to ethnic cleansing of the gaza strip.— the gaza strip. we don't know what president _ the gaza strip. we don't know what president donald - the gaza strip. we don't know what president donald trump| what president donald trump meant by the words, we can only play the words themselves, on the wider issue you have been involved in the hostage negotiations in the first phase of this party will come hostage we still, israel has accused hamas of not releasing a certain civilian and failing to provide the agreed list of the status of the remaining hostages. how difficult is it at this time where there are still negotiations going on, and how did he actually work, you having been part of them?

it is a dangerous period right now because the ceasefire is very fragile, the list of names, the condition of the remaining hostages, 26 hostages that are supposed to be released in the first 42 days according to the agreement that was reached with the help of qatar and the united states. there are a total of 90 hostages left in gaza, the remaining supposed to be released in phase two, negotiation supposed to begin no later than the 16th day of the current ceasefire period, it is unlikely they will begin or end of the scheduled date. here we have the difficult situation of a clash of interests between prime minister netanyahu protecting minister neta nyahu protecting his minister netanyahu protecting his relationship with president trump and prime minister netanyahu keeping his coalition government intact because another party has threatened the coalition if the deal goes through, netanyahu would lose his majority and we would likely see if you are heading

for another round of elections. if he does not agree to move forward, he will potentially jeopardise the relationship between the state of visual and president trump.— between the state of visual and president trump. thank you very much, gershon _ president trump. thank you very much, gershon baskin. - the un's palestinian refugee agency says it has been ordered by israel to evacuate its premices and cease operations in occupied eastjerusalem by next thursday. the area — which has been occupied by israel since 1967 — is widely considered internationally, to be palestinian territory. the order comes months after the israeli parliament voted to ban unrwa from operating in both israel and eastjerusalem. unrwa — which supplies aid, education and health care to palestinians — have said the move is contradictory to israel's international obligations as a member state. staying in the middle east. the lebanese health ministry has accused the israeli army

of firing at residents trying to return to their homes in southern lebanon, killing at least 11 people and injuring dozens more. israel's military has missed a deadline to leave the area, as a 60—day ceasefire deal expired — it has not said how long its forces will stay in lebanon. both israeli troops and his brotherfighters were supposed to have completed their respective withdrawals. israel says lebanese troops have not deployed fast enough, while the lebanese military blames israeli procrastination. lebanon's new president, generaljoseph aoun, called for restraint. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega is in beruit and outlined what the deal was. this deal stipulated the withdrawal of israeli troops from the south of the country, and also the removal of hezbollah fighters and weapons from the south, and at the same time, thousands of lebanese soldiers would be deployed to that part of the country.

now, what the israelis are saying is that this deal hasn't been fully implemented, that the lebanese military hasn't really fully deployed to the south. and in response, the lebanese are saying that there have been delays in this deployment because of what they described as israel's procrastination in pulling out from the country. but i think at the heart of what is happening here is what the israelis have been saying, and that is that they need more time to destroy, to dismantle hezbollah infrastructure in the south of the country. they're still concerned about the lebanese military�*s ability or even willingness to really act against hezbollah in the south. this is a part of lebanon where for decades it has been the dominant force. now, we don't know how many israeli troops remain here in lebanon. we don't know how long

they might stay in the country, and we don't know how hezbollah is going to respond. i don't think anyone is expecting the conflict to resume, but i think any kind of violent reaction from hezbollah is likely to face opposition, not only from its critics here in lebanon, but also from some of its own supporters in the country. what we know the incidents today, two people killed, the health ministry say?- today, two people killed, the health ministry say? what we heard yesterday _ health ministry say? what we heard yesterday was - health ministry say? what we heard yesterday was a - health ministry say? what we - heard yesterday was a statement from the military urging residents not to return to those border villages where the israelis remain present, the israelis remain present, the israeli military also this morning issued a statement telling residents that it was not safe to return to a number of towns and villages along the border but we are seeing images of hundreds if not thousands of people trying to return to their homes and these are places, villages inhabited by neish mac damaged, destroyed

during the conflict between his brother mike an issue, two people killed by shellfire, the health ministry says, more than 30 others injured and read a statement from the lebanese president saying that they are following what is happening in the south closely, they are trying to change the situation, joseph aoun, and forcing the israelis to fulfil their negotiations on the still and withdraw troops from the country but we have seen today with the expiration of this deadline residents are trying to return to their homes in places where the israelis continue to have a military presence in the south. hugo we all remember _ presence in the south. hugo we all remember seeing _ presence in the south. hugo we all remember seeing the - all remember seeing the pictures of beirut being bombed, you live in the city,

what is it like now, our residents returning to any sort of semblance of normality? i think life here in beirut has returned to normal, there is a resumption of economic activity, i think there is a special here in beirut and the place where the presences in the southern suburbs for his brother. reconstruction is happening in the south, but of damage, this country before the war was struggling to recover from years of economic crisis of this is a population, a country really exhausted from years of economic crisis and now by the suffering and destruction caused by the work. right up until it was announced i went to southern lebanon, i was in the largest city in the

south of the country, there was widespread damage caused by weeks of intense israeli air strikes. 1.2 million people had been displaced because of the conflict, more than 4000 people were killed so really what this country is hoping for is the end of hostilities between israel and hezbollah— and the full withdrawal of israeli troops from the country. the chancellor, rachel reeves, has set out details of proposed changes to the planning system in england, aimed at boosting economic growth. the reforms include streamlining environmental impact assessments for new homes and infrastructure, to help developers save time and money. the chancellor also hinted the government would support a third runway at heathrow airport. the conservatives have accused ms reeves of driving down growth and business confidence. our political correspondent damian grammaticas explained what rachel reeves has been suggesting.

she's been outlining what is essentially part of the core sort of part of the government's approach mission, it says, to create growth. now, what she's talking about today is ways to free up the planning system so more big projects can be built. that means streamlining the environmental impact assessment process, reducing the number, or potentially looking at reducing the number, of organisations that would have to be consulted about big projects. so things like environmental inspectorates, historic inspectorates, people who would have a view on planning and all of that, she says, is designed to try to speed up the process. one big issue that she was asked about is the potential for a new runway at heathrow airport. she didn't quite go as far as saying that she would be complaining. she said a decision on that is coming soon. this is what she said. a lot has changed in aviation and sustainable aviation and economic growth go hand in hand. we're an open trading economy.

we need to bring investment in. but i believe that clean energy, that reducing our carbon emissions are good for economic growth. we can do the two together. now on that decision, we'll have to wait and see. but the conservatives, of course, have been saying that the government, with its talk about their economic inheritance, it had have been sort of talking the country down. the other issue that rachel reeves was asked about was the sentencing this past week of the killer in the southport killings, axel rudakubana, who killed three young girls. now, the issue there that she confronted, she said, was the problem about online content. we know that he had accessed online content and watched violent videos and the like. now the government has written this weekend to the some of the major social media companies demanding that they take down some of that content. they say it's illegal

and that needs to be tackled. there's a law coming in that will make them, force them to do that in a few months' time, but the government wants them to do it right now. it's totally u na cce pta ble. the fact that the killer before he went on to commit those horrific crimes was able to access really easily on some of the online platforms such hateful material. and those companies have got a moral responsibility to take that content down and make it harder for people to access it. already in some countries around the world, including australia, companies have taken it down so they can do that. we are asking them to do that. now the conservative leader, kemi badenoch, she was on the same talk show shortly after rachel reeves, and she said that she believes, a line she said before, that the whole question about integration needs to be looked at.

she was asked about what the evidence she had in this case that the killer, axel rudakubana, that that was an issue. he was born in this country. she said that the evidence she had was her own background, her own african christian upbringing, the effort we make to make people feel part of the whole. but, she said asking for evidence is the sort of thing that we start to lose our way. we need to discuss these things. and that was her clearly expressed view. damian grammaticas. atleast 18 people have been killed in a few tanker explosion in nigeria. authorities say ten others have sustained burn injuries. the national road safety agency said the truck suffered a brake failure, which caused the driver to lose control and crashed into vehicles on an expressway. it's the latest in a series

of tanker blast that have killed hundreds of people in across the country. prosecutors in south korea have formally charged the suspended president — yoon suk yeol — with insurrection, over his brief implementation of martial law in december last year. on saturday — a court in seoul rejected a request to extend misty yoon�*s detention — forcing prosecutors to indict him or let him free, ahead of the end of his custody period on monday. if convicted, he could face years in prison. to belarus now people are voting in the country's presidential election with alexander lu kashenko is all but certain to secure a seventh term in power. with his fiercest critics and most serious rivals either in prison orforced into exile, the electoral process has been described by the opposition and eu officials as a "farce . mr lukashenko has been in powerfor more than three decades — and is a close ally of russia's president putin. after the last elections in 2020, which he claimed to have won with 80% of the vote, he crushed street protests prompted by allegations of vote—rigging. in recent months, he has released some political prisoners, but more than 1200

remain behind bars. exiled belarus opposition leader, sviatla na tsikhanouskaya told us earlier she believes there is still much resistance to the president. this is to keep them in power, it is all fake and every body knows this, desperately trying to restore legitimacy. no real candidates, independent observers. the voters rejected alexander lukashenko in 2020 and they never accept him again. thousands are still standing, repressions... the standing, repressions. .. the internet standing, repressions... the internet is being blocked, cities are full of soldiers and

police. alexander lukashenko police. alexander lu kashenko feels police. alexander lukashenko feels that people hate him. since 2020, belarusian people are going through such brutal oppression. it is like stalin bosz time. i don't want people to sacrifice themselves for no reason. —— stalin double time. this election is for alexander lukashenko, not for our country, what we demand is free and fair elections under the observation of an independent. these early live pictures of a news conference that alexander lukashenko has been holding out for about three hours, russia editor steve rosenberg is on the news conference and will report later after it finishes. stay with us for the latest here on bbc news, much more on the bbc news website or app.

whilst it's been a cold and frosty start in the north, with a little bit of ice and a few wintry showers, it's already turning wet and windy across the south and west of the uk with the next storm upon us, and it's likely to be a sustained period of disruptive winds and heavy rain. so there are numerous warnings in force tied in with storm herminia, and it is likely to last throughout the rest of sunday and into monday as well. look at the tightly packed isobars. it's a large storm. spells of rain will run through around that low pressure system, and it means that for some parts, particularly the south and west, there will be bigger impacts. we could see up to 80mm of rain before the end of the day today and overnight, with more to come in the next few days. so there are warnings out, as i say, that rain is going to move its way into northern ireland through the afternoon, across all

of england and wales. so the sunshine fades and southern scotland, a little bit of snow on the hills, but those winds have been gusting to close to 80mph across the south—west approaches inland. 40—50 miles an hour is enough to cause disruption. certainly 60 to 70mph gusts of wind, which is gale or severe gale—force winds, right the way across southern and western coasts, up into dumfries and galloway and into northern ireland as well here. so we'll see that rain continuing north overnight tonight, through this evening. with snow over the hills and another spell of rain rushes through across england and wales. and that's what i was talking about. it's those rainfall amounts adding up on the already saturated ground that we have. so the likelihood of flooding will continue to increase through today, tonight and into tomorrow. lots of heavy showers rushing in behind these weather fronts with hail, with thunder. lots of lightning as well. squally winds, as well as the fact that we've got those gales or severe gale—force winds continuing around our coastlines in the west and the south. so temperatures fairly academic, although there will be, of course, some sunshine between those showers, which thenjust continue through monday night and into tuesday. the low pressure by then starting to just track its way eastwards,

the winds falling off a notch, but still lots of heavy showers around, again falling onto saturated grounds. temperatures fairly academic, but they're around about average, perhaps a little bit above for the time of year. but it's an unsettled looking picture, and obviously this stormy weather is giving us cause for concern that it may cause some further disruption, flooding and those disruptive winds. as ever, you can check out all the warning details online.

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president trump has said he'll speak to sir keir starmer