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thought i would highlight the key bits that jumped out. then i realized i pretty much highlighted the entire thing. it is dripping with derision about the prime minister. >> i watering the excoriating. i have never seen a resignation like it. >> the letter was the latest installment in the tory drama playing out over the last 13 years halting the rest of the country to ransom while they fight among themselves. ♪ >> it is a zinger of a letter from her first day on the back benches, accusing the prime minister of betraying the nation. the home secretary who was sacked monday says she -- says sumac felt to deliver key

policies, as he agreed to do so when taking the job. and tonight, the dead bodies are piling up in gaza possibly biggest hospital and cannot be taken away due to the fighting. doctors began taking a mass grave on the grounds of the hospital to prevent disease spreading. we will hear from a palestinian doctor who worked at the hospital and is appealing for cease fire. and we will get the source from the clement editor on the future of weather forecasting which could help save lives. good evening. inside cabinet, there is collective responsibility. outside cabinet, no loyalty is owed, particularly to a prime minister who just sacked you. this letter from suella b

raverman questions the prime minister's menik to be in the job, his confidence, and his integrity. a lot of the letter goes into the legal arguments surrounding his attempt to stop the migrant bones crossing the channel and tomorrow's decision at the supreme court on policy on processing assignment -- asylum applications from rwanda. here are some of the pertinent sections relating to an agreement she said she struck with the prime minister when she took the job. you have manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of those key policy issues, she said. either your distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so or, as i must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises. in relation to the decision expected tomorrow at supreme court, she says this, you ignore these arguments and opted instead for wishful thinking as a comfort blanket to avoid having to make hard choices.

the irresponsibility has wasted time and left the country in an impossible position. in closing, she adds this, i regret to say that the response has been uncertain, weak, and lacking in the qualities of leadership this country needs. number 10 has responded. the prime minister believes and actions, not words, and he is proud that he is brought forward the toughest legislation to tackle illegal immigration this country has seen and has reduced the number of boat crossings by one third this year. whatever the outcome, they add, the supreme court decision tomorrow, he will continue that work. the prime minister thanks the former home secretary for his service. a former cabinet minister, there's the mp, and he gave reaction to the letter. >> it is i watering the

excoriating. i have never seen a resignation like it. i cannot recall one in history. i think of a resignation speech of a deputy prime minister leaving. i think suella is pointing out there were a number promises made to her and those were not delivered on. we have had resets, reset with the party conference and with king speech. but really what needs to be done is delivering onhe policies and reform which is why people voted for us. christian: john is the independent chief political commentator. let me get your first reaction to what you have read this evening. john: i agree with everything everyone has said. chris mason and morgan, the most extraordinary document, this resignation. i think it does compare with

jeffrey how's resignation speech, except that was effective and brought down a prime minister who was already unpopular with her party. rishi sunak is not in the same position, at all. suella braverman's support among tory mp's is a minority, and this letter will make it even more so. it is over the top. she is like someone in a pub. it is extraordinary. christian: 70% of the people agreed with the prime minister's position to sac her, 17% said it was the wrong position. she said all those she cannot always get the rhetoric right, she is the one representing the mandate, with the voters in 2019 chose when they elected the conservative party. is she right in that? john: no.

obviously, people always think that they represent the majority , and she feels very strongly of that. she does represent the majority opinion. but things like saying rough sleeping is a lifestyle choice, i do not think there are many people in this country who agree with that. maybe that falls under her -- she does admit she may not have use the right words every time. but she does repeat the phrase "hate marches" in the letter very defiantly, and i think most people in the country would -- i mean, we know what she means by that, but they were not hate marches. a lot of people in that march are good intentioned people who just want to see peace in the middle east. christian: she is obviously preempting the decision at the supreme court tomorrow. but she says in this letter that the changes the prime minister

made to the legal advice she had given him, whatever the court decision is tomorrow, whatever that decision is, would make it difficult for the government to deliver its policy. what does she mean by that? john: exactly, she is not clear what she means. she is probably right in the sense that, even if the supreme court rules in the government's favor, it is going to be very difficult to get significant numbers of people sent to rwanda, and the deterrent effect on channel crossings is likely to be small. what was over this -- that was always the case. i do not think the prime minister could have done anything, but it would have been better to have implemented the policy immediately. i do not think there is anything he could have done apart from repudiating the european convention on human rights, but that is huge. i know there is some support but i do not think there is majority support for that, certainly not

in the house of lords and probably not the general public either. christian: that has been the political -- let's go to the political editor of the express, david. i want to know, whether from the back benches and with this letter, is suella braverman able to rally those on the right of the party, and in doing so, pose a political danger to the prime minister? what do you think the reaction has been today, and what is the reaction to the letter? >> i think the prime minister is in a precarious position. it may take a number of weeks for this to play out. but certainly the mp's i was talking to said to me they believe it is unlikely that he will be lding them into the next election. that is the level of anger. i would like to disagree

slightly with john. he answered the question a different way from what it was asked. suella does represent the mandate of the 2019 election like no other member of the cabinet did or does. since her departure -- it was to get brexit done, get ctrol of and she was trying to deliver that. the letter she has written, i believe, is significant indeed. it really accuses the prime minister of being duplicitous on this issue. that is what she is doing. it is a rallying of the troops, invitation to kick off another leadership vote. christian: danny kruger and marion cates, cochairs of the new conservatives, accused richie should not of abandoning redwall voters, saying he is sacrificing seats to shore up

support in the south. they say that because he got rid of one of the hard right voices in his party he was particularly strong on immigration and crime and brought in someone like david cameron as foreign secretary who was against brexit and was a remainer. do you think there will be someone on that side of the party who will agree? >> yes, i think virtually the whole of that side of the party. there are two key groups, the common sense group founded by suella braverman's mentor sir john hayes, which is significant. in the new conservatives with danny and miriam. i think the control probably up to 70 mp's in themselves. and you look at the european research group. and yesterday you brought in a remainer as foreign secured a who never apologized for trying to have the eu referendum in

favor of remain. you have brought in a new home secretary who was a brexiteer and very well-liked, fiercely against leaving the european convention of human rights, which a good number of the mp's believe should happen because it is the only way to bring back control of britain's borders again. essentially, we have a strassburg court which is being politicized beyond belief, which many european countries actually ignore. and it is vetoing our loss, and that has to end. christian: to finish, in the run-up to another election, we are obviously expecting it to come in the fall next year, in the autumn next year. if there was more in-fighting and another split in the conservative ■party, certainly that would make waves.

>> i think it is. most have given appeared you mentioned the redwall thing, they have all written off their own seats. they say rishi sunak is danger. they have nothing to lose. you only need 53 for a leadership vote. you may win that vote, but that is very damaging. no one has survived it, essentially. 21 points behind in the polls, they are not going to win the next question. the only question is how bad it will be. i am afraid a lot of them are coming to the conclusion that it cannot be any worse than rishi sunak, so they may as well try someone else. christian: john, david, thanks for your reaction. we will get plenty more reaction through the course of the program. around the world and across the u.k., you're watching bbc news.

a quick look at some of the other stories nicking news in the u.k. today. sri lanka's supreme court ruled the former president and his brother, the former prime minister, were partially responsible for the economic crisis that hit the country last year. their actions, missions, and conduct contributed to the collapse o the economy or they did not order punishment. u.s. consumer prices were unchanged last month with the annualized inflation rate falling to the lowest level in two and a half years, dropped more than expected to be .2%, a court -- to 3.2%, down from 3.7% in september, driven by lower petrol costs and falling car prices. amnesty international accuse the cambodian government of -- a temple complex, rights groups as officials are using threats and intimidation to force people to move, and government says people

are being voluntarily relocated in order to protect the site. you are watching bbc news the head of gaza biggest hospitals as medical staff have dug a mass grave for nearly 180 people after it ran out of fuel to keep lifesaving equipment running. gaza's hospitals have been caught in the crossfire of the fighting. the focal point is one of the hospitals, and there is growing international concerns. president biden says he wants less intrusive action around hospitals. he said they must be protected. but they say without fuel, patients are dying. the lives of 39 premature babies are hanging in the balance. this picture was taken sunday after babiewere taken out of incubators and laid in a bed. four were born to dead mothers. their current condition is not known. a hospital spokesperson says three of the babies have since died.

the wife of a national security spokesperson told reporters today that the u.s. has its own intelligence confirming tha hamas has a command center'neath a hospital. israel has given that as a reason it has come under attack. israelis say they are sending these battery operating incubators to the hospital to try to save the premature babies. no indications yet that that medical equipment has been delivered. it's get the story. >> the sounds of battle ring out in gaza city. hard to imagine these were want -- once hustling streets. israel is pushing forward despite international concern about the cost. his forces closing in on key targets. posing for photographs inside the hamas parliament in the gaza

city, its troops are now at the gates of al-shifa hospital. israel claims there is a hamas headquarters underneath. president biden says the hospital must be protected. inside, thousands of civilians are sheltering alongside hundreds of patients, according to the hospital director. these pictures taken last month show a functioning neonatal intensive care unit. but now these premature babies are packed together for warmth due to power shortages. and in the ground, so many decomposing bodies that a mass grave has been dug. doctors say the hospital itself is now a health risk. >> the bodies had been dead in the hospital for more than five days now.

we are sure all kinds of infections will come from that. >> just across the gaza border, inside israel, we joined ultra-orthodox volunteers today confronting the darkest horrors. they're still searching for fragments of human remains. here inside bomb shelters where israelis hit in terror last month from mass gunman. the search has begun hair, and they have already found human remains -- the search has begun here. the difficult work is going on every day. dna tests are continuing. funerals are still being held. it is an ongoing national trauma. what you find here could bring an answer to some families. >> yes, sure, this is why we do

this job. we want to bring those families the announcement about their loving ones. >> of course, it is the last thing they want to hear that they are gone. >> yes, definitely, the last thing they want to hear, but they want to hear something. >> the volunteers themselves get counseling to cope with what they have seen. bbc news on the israel-gaza border. christian: let's speak to someone that knows the al-shifa well, a pediatric neurologist, cofounder of casa medical voices -- gaza medic voices. welcome to the program. the national security spokesperson says they have thr own intelligence that there are hamas command center beneath the hospital. were you ever aware of that when you visited? >> thank you for having me on your program. as i have mentioned a number of

times, we have been going to gaza for the last 10 years. my last trip there was 2019, 2020. and at no point have i or my colleagues, have they come across anything that amounts to hamas military activity. i have been through every operating theater, ward, clinic of every hospital, pretty much every hospital you have heard about on the news, including al-shifa, european hospital, indonesian hospital. this has never been an issue. what i can only say is what i have seen and what my colleagues have seen, nothing that amounts to that, nothing with that evidence. i cannot tell you for sure whether or not there are tunnels underneath. what i can tell you for sure is that al-shifa, up until friday evening, was housing 60,000 people in its grounds. that is a hospital that is the

largest center that would normally have a bed capacity of 300 or 400 beds. they had 60,000 people sheltering for safety. that hospital has now been evacuated and bombs to the point where it is a ghost of a hospital, a war zone. there are bodies -- this is from medical doctors on the ground, telling us there decomposing bodies in the grounds of the hospital. as a result, this is a huge threat in terms of infection and other disease. not only that, but your images which you have shown which are absolutely horrific of premature babies that had to come out of the incubators, and other bbc and news organizations have yet to show a video that has been circulated around al jazeera and other networks showing 39 of these premature babies, many very premature, who are lying in

two cots literally screaming their heads off, absolutely horrific. i have never seen anything so terrible. not because of the palestinian doctors but because the electricity has been cut from the dock -- from the hospitals. these babies should be incubators, keeping them warm, providing them with nutrition. instead, they have had to be put in these cots like mice, like rats, frankly. this is part of the dehumanization of palestinians that has been ongoing for 17 years in gaza, 75 years of occupation. this, as a pediatrician who looks after children and has worked in the largest units in london, its absolutely abhorrent. the fact we have had to get to a stage where we are medieval style medicine and patients are being wrapped in aluminum foil? what more does our government need to see to say enough is

enough? this is, frankly, medieval style medicine. is being practiced in 2023. christian: a couple things. i take your point and will refer to that in a second. on the pictures the bbc had or did not have, our correspondent has done quite a full report on the babies that were in the incubators, whether we have certain pictures or not, if they were available, we would obviously use them, but they may not be available to the bbc. i want to talk about children. i spotted this graph today from the "washington post," and it puts the center focus. 50% of gazan people or children in the conflict has had them the worse. going on the health minister in gaza's own figures, so we cannot know,ut over 4000 in a little over a month. that would mean that children in the gaza are being killed in far

greater numbers and pace than those other wars in syria, yemen, iraq, and afghanistan. that is the scale of the human tragedy in gaza. perhaps it does explain the change in tone we have been getting from western governments in recent days. >> absolutely. you have hit the nail on the head. in my lifetime and my colleagues upon lifetime, we have gone to gaza and never seen a conflict that has resulted in this disproportionate killing of women and children, especially children. 50% of the population is under the age of 18. one child dies every 15 units. these premature babies, three have definitely perished. i suspect most will die within the next two days if not kept in incubators. the effect is direct death but also injuries. many of these children have had traumatic amputations, losing limbs, and they have lost whole

generations of families. we've seen pictures and images and heard stories of children coming in with their whole families wiped out, and there shaking. there are videos of them literally shaking from trauma and unable to process or talk. this psychological terrorism, frankly, this is a form of psychological terrorism. these children, prewar, were often bedwetting, having anxiety levels of depression from a young age as a result of israeli aircraft rendezvous's above gaza. this is well documented. and you see this now and these children have undergone a period of bombing like they have never seen. i think the only other conflict i can think of that resulted in such disproportionate civilian deaths was probably the siege of aleppo, and i know you cover that in length. apart from that, no other

conflict, including ukraine, kosovo, and many others, i do not remember this extent of children being disproportionately affected. these children have lost generations. christian: i am sorry to interrupt. it is an important point you make, and i'm sure people are listening. doctor, thank you for coming on the program. narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪

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