And more than 2,800 people have been killed by israeli air strikes. Meanwhile, hamas which is designated as a Terrorist Organisation by governments, including the uk and us says it fired a barrage of rockets atjerusalem and tel aviv overnight with sirens sending lawmakers to bomb shelters. And we can bring you some live pictures of gaza where it is just after 7am. But first, more on the news that President Joe Biden will visit israel on wednesday. Us Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken said President Biden will focus on securing the release of hostages taken by hamas while underscoring the need to minimise civilian casualties in gaza. The United States and israel agreed to develop a plan that will show multilateral organisations to reach civilians in gaza, and then alone, including the possibility of creating areas to help keep civilians out of arms way, it is critical that id begin flowing into gaza as soon as possible. We share israels and that hamas may seize or destroy interim gaza prevented reaching people who need it. If hamas in any way blocked humanitarian assistance from reaching civilians including by seizing the aid itself, we will be the first to condemn it and we will work to prevent it from happening again. We welcome the government and israels commitment to work on this plant and the president looks forward to discussing it further when he is here on wednesday. Lets get more on this with our correspondent david willis, whos in los angeles. David, so, this trip is extremely important, happening tomorrow. Tell us more. Tomorrow. Tell us more. Antony bfinken tomorrow. Tell us more. Antony blinken said tomorrow. Tell us more. Antony blinken said that tomorrow. Tell us more. Antony blinken said that this tomorrow. Tell us more. Antony blinken said that this was tomorrow. Tell us more. Antony blinken said that this was all. Blinken said that this was all about confirming the United States solidarity with israel, and as he put it, the ironclad commitment to israels security, and President Biden, as part of this visit, will be receiving what is called a classified and comprehensive reef on israels war aims and strategy. The key element of that strategy is thought to be some sort of Ground Invasion and it has become clear that given the full throated support for israels right to defend itself earlier on, the United States has grown increasingly concerned about the possibility of some sort of humanitarian crisis given the fact that water and Food Supplies already said to be running low in parts of the conclave and so on. A part of this meeting today with Benjamin Netanyahu on the part of the us Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken was thought to bring some sort of managerial reassurance on behalf of the United States, and some of its arab allies. Regarding the possible terms of that Ground Invasion, if you like, the creation of safe areas for palestinians civilians who obviously do not want to get involved in what is going to be happening there, and also, some sort of means of getting humanitarian foreign aid into those who are not involved with hamas. � ,. , those who are not involved with hamas. ~ ,. , , hamas. Also, the president is ex ected hamas. Also, the president is exnected to hamas. Also, the president is expected to meet hamas. Also, the president is expected to meet with hamas. Also, the president is expected to meet with other i expected to meet with other leaders in the region, isnt he . , ,. ,. , he . He is, yes, he will go on to jordan he . He is, yes, he will go on to jordan where he . He is, yes, he will go on to jordan where he he . He is, yes, he will go on to jordan where he will he . He is, yes, he will go on to jordan where he will meet j tojordan where he will meet with King Abdullah and also president cc of egypt and the palestinian mum at a bus. The president , like the United States, want to prevent this conflict from spreading in from other actors, conflict from spreading in from otheractors, hezbollah conflict from spreading in from other actors, hezbollah most notably among them from becoming involved in broadening this conflict, so it is very important to keep those sort of allies on board and to be seen to be listening to their concerns and of course primary among those concerns is that sort of humanitarian crisis that could develop so easily in gaza if israel does indeed mount this ground offensive. Sally. 0k. David willis for now, thank you very much indeed. The announcement about President Biden� s visit comes as hundreds of thousands of palestinians are trying to escape gaza amid a near total israeli blockade. People hoping to flee across the rafah Border Crossing in the south of gaza are still unable to escape because egypt wont open the border despite diplomatic pressure for the evacuation of foreign nationals. 0ur International Editor jeremy bowen, who is in southern israel, sent this report. Another war of words has started over who is responsible for the suffering of Palestinian Civilians in gaza. Israel is dropping the bombs. It says blame hamas for killing and kidnapping and, says israel, hiding behind civilians. Gazans crowded into un schools after israel told them to move south towards the egyptian border. They are supposed to be protected by the laws of war. America has felt it necessary to deliver repeated reminders of that to israel, along with military aid. This grandmother blames israel, then speaks of tragedy, hunger, death, fear, horror and destruction. In rafah, at the closed border with egypt, palestinians with foreign passports are hoping to get out, to escape the pressure israel has imposed on civilians, amid reports of another air strike in the area tonight. You cannot ask people to move out of harms way without assisting them to do it, to go to places of their choice, where they want to be safe and with the humanitarian aid that they need to make that journey safely. And right now, the movement that has happened has not had those provisions. Antony blinken, us Secretary Of State, returned to israel after a rapid tour of americas arab allies. The us is giving israel all the military aid it wants. But it is trying to stop the war spreading. As for Benjamin Netanyahu, in parliament today, he is under great pressure. Speaks Foreign Language some of his Many Political enemies say he was so preoccupied with staying Prime Minister that he neglected israels security. Ehud 0lmert, Prime Minister when israel went to war in lebanon in 2006, was scathing about mr netanyahus performance. And he did it. Therefore, he holds the ultimate responsibility for the weakening of our resolve in dealing with hamas. And it was a military failure, no doubt about it. An Intelligence Failure of the highest order, no question about it. In tel aviv, Tech Companies are working with Intelligence Agencies to try to locate the hostages in gaza. Some whove served in the israeli military� s cyber units dont want to be identified. They have built an algorithm that searches postings from gaza for faces and places. We upload photos of the missing person that we get from mostly the families, but other sources as well. And we will also with collaboration with army units and huge lists of people that we have identified, and we try to understand from day one what happened to them. Are they killed, injured, kidnapped in gaza . Just trying to get answers for the family. We can see here, this is the same people in a different position, 0k . And we try to find more and more data to understand if they are alive or, as i mentioned, death. They believe the hostage in that image is alive. Their information goes to families and to the army. In israel, there is unity about fighting hamas. The argument is about why hamas could break through israels defences, and how to deliver israelis and palestinians from another generation of bloodshed. Jeremy bowen, bbc news, southern israel. With more on this, im joined by my colleague said shehata from bbc arabic. Lets get more on what is happening in gaza. What are you hearing . Happening in gaza. What are you hearin . , happening in gaza. What are you hearin . , happening in gaza. What are you hearinu . , hearing . Hearing from people in gaza and reading hearing . Hearing from people in gaza and reading some hearing . Hearing from people in gaza and reading some posts hearing . Hearing from people in gaza and reading some posts on| gaza and reading some posts on website than some videos, the situation is very grim there. There is a big problem. For example, people were moved from the north to the south according to the israeli announcements, they should move, so now the inhabitants, now there are i Million People. The pressure on the food is too much, no water in some areas so there is fear of spreading some diseases in this area. In addition to that, any pictures over the arabic channels of people queueing to get bread and stuff, there is no food, so there is a real problem there. Even the un Secretary General for humanitarian aid said that humanitarian aid should not be blocked into gaza. He said the hostages should be released without delays. So making a balance when he talks about that. So in egypt, there is a lot of trucks waiting for aid to deliver fori lot of trucks waiting for aid to deliverfori Million People but still israel is refusing that. They need to strike a deal between egypt and israel, with hamas in order to do that, and i think the visit of President Biden i think will facilitate that. Hopefully the outcome of that might be to tackle this issue of the aid because it is problematic and puts pressure on america, even Antony Blinken, all of them, talk about the need for humanitarian corridor for the people suffering in gaza. Because this time yesterday we were getting reports that the crossing at rafa may well open and the expectation was that it would open 2a hours ago, but for some reason, didnt. Would open 2a hours ago, but forsome reason, didnt. It would seem that diplomatic conversation about that didnt result in a solution. Conversation about that didnt result in a solution. Even more than that, result in a solution. Even more than that, it result in a solution. Even more than that, it was result in a solution. Even more than that, it was hit result in a solution. Even more than that, it was hit on result in a solution. Even more than that, it was hit on the than that, it was hit on the gate from the egyptian side, and this makes a problem for the Security Part of it, and the Security Part of it, and the president of egypt has said the president of egypt has said the condition, excepting the foreigners who are awaiting besides the gates have dual nationalities, to go to egypt to allow the aid to go there. So with that, kind of you need to do that in order for that. So it is, the Rafah Crossing is crucial because it is the only way to move the aid to the people in gaza, and there is a lot of hope that it will conclude after Antony Blinken met with the Prime Minister in israel yesterday, so there is a hope that biden will make that happen in his visit. find happen in his visit. And what are arab leaders happen in his visit. And what are arab leaders saying happen in his visit. And what are arab leaders saying about| are arab leaders saying about President Biden puzzling visit, which of course starts tomorrow . Which of course starts tomorrow . ,. , h tomorrow . There is hope. President s tomorrow . There is hope. President s biden tomorrow . There is hope. President s biden tomorrow . There is hope. | president s biden president president s biden President Biden� s visit. President s biden President Bidens visit. Bidens visit. They have a big sa on bidens visit. They have a big say on that bidens visit. They have a big say on that because bidens visit. They have a big| say on that because president abbas said, so to isolate hamas in the side because israel want to destroy hamas, so the rest of the palestinians need to have helped, so you need not to mix between them. I think there is a hope among arab countries that it will happen with a visit, otherwise i think biden, it will not make the visit unless he is almost sure that this breakthrough for his visit. , ~ ,. , this breakthrough for his visit. ~. ,. , this breakthrough for his visit. ,. ,. Visit. Thank you again. We will see ou visit. Thank you again. We will see you again visit. Thank you again. We will see you again soon visit. Thank you again. We will see you again soon from visit. Thank you again. We will see you again soon from bbc. See you again soon from bbc arabic keeping us up to date on what is happening in gaza. Israel now says the number of people they believe are being held hostage in gaza is up to 199. Hamas has released a Video Showing one of the people it took hostage during the assault on israel that triggered the war. The video shows a young woman speaking hebrew who identifies herself as 21 year old mia shem. It includes footage of the same woman receiving treatment foran arm injury. In it, the woman says she is from Central Israel and appeals for her release. A spokesman for the family said they agreed these pictures could be shown. As weve been reporting, at least 1,400 people were killed in last weeks attack by hamas in southern israel, and six were british. Among the missing are two british teenage sisters, as lucy manning reports. Noiya, 16, on the left. Yahel, 13, on the right, now missing after the hamas attack on israel. In between them, their mum lianne, murdered by hamas. All are british. Liannes family said she led a Beautiful Life and enriched the lives of all those lucky enough to have known and loved her. She was a beloved daughter, sister, mother and aunt. The girls dad eli is also missing. This is whats happened to an entire family in israel. They lived on kibbutz beeri, where the murderous gunmen slaughtered so many. Noiya is 16 years old. She was. Happiness and she liked. Her hobby is, she likes to cook. Yahel, she was a fun girl. She was. All the time, she like to hear music and singing for us, dancing. Natanel young, also british, also murdered by hamas. His brother elliot remembers a 20 year old who was a londoner, a music lover, a proud jew. Natanel, you know, he just loved life. He had a lot of respect for my parents. He wanted to keep his people safe and defend his country. Were alljust broken. Were still coming to terms with the news. What will you miss about natanel . The last time i saw him was exactly a week before he was killed by the hamas terrorists, and i think if i look back at that day, its his infectious smile. At the funeral on monday, the mourning interrupted. Air raid sirens pierced the grieving, as mourners were forced on to the Cemetery Ground to shield from incoming hamas missiles. It was terrifying. And, you know, the thing obviously that went through my head is the fact that, you know, even while i am trying to say goodbye to my brother, they are trying to kill me. It was very scary, especially considering what weve been through, and that my parents, who live in london, had just arrived in israel, to bury their son. Natanel, just one of 1,400 murdered by hamas in one day. Lucy manning, bbc news. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. Lets look at some other stories making news. Counter Terror Police say a mans been charged with murder after a 70 year old died in hartlepool. Terrence carney was found with fatal injuries on sunday. Another man needed hospital treatment. Ahmed alid, who is 44 and from hartlepool, is due in court later today. Scotlands First Minister will use his speech to the snp Conference Today to pledge an extra 300 Million Pounds for the nhs over the next three years. Humza yousaf hopes it will reduce Hospital Waiting Lists by 100,000. Hell also tell Party Members in aberdeen that they need to concentrate not on the how but the why of scottish independence. Scotlands biggest Offshore Wind Farm has started operating at full capacity. Seagreen, off the angus coast, can generate enough electricity to power two thirds of scottish households. The £3 billion project, which is comprised of 114 giant turbines, has been more than a decade in the making. Youre live with bbc news. A russian drafted Resolution Calling for a ceasefire in the war between israel and hamas has failed to secure the votes needed to be adopted by the un security council. The uk, the us and france all voted against. Russia has complained that the council is being held hostage by western countries. The result of the voting is as follows five votes in favour, four votes against, six abstentions. The draft resolution has not been adopted having failed to obtain the required number of votes. Some other news now two swedish nationals have been shot dead and a third Person Injured in brussels in an attack which prosecutors are treating as terrorism. A Football Match in the city between sweden and belgium was called off at half time before supporters were temporarily held in the stadium. The attacker remains at large. 0ur europe correspondent Sophia Bettiza has more. What we know so far is a gunman opened fire here in central brussels at around 7pm in the evening. He had an Assault Rifle and he shot dead two people in that street, which has been cordoned off by the police, as you can see. A short while ago, we were sent a video, and in that video, a man is filming himself on a scooter, and he claims to have carried out the attack. And speaking in arabic and he says that he killed three people in the name of god. Now the motive of the attack at the moment is unclear. But what a few people are pointing to is that the two victims were wearing sweden football shirts, so they could have been football fans. There is a match tonight in brussels, sweden versus belgium, and that has been suspended and fans were asked to stay in the stadium for security reasons. The authorities are treating this as a Terror Attack and the alert level in brussels has been raised to four which is the highest level and it means that a threat could be imminent. Indias Supreme Court is set to give a ruling on petitions seeking to legalise same sex marriage. The government and religious leaders have strongly opposed same sex unions, saying they are against indian culture. Now, the ruling could potentially give indias Tens Of Millions of lgbtq people the right to marry. The petitioners argue not being able to marry violates their Constitutional Rights. Live now to our south asia correspondent, samira hussain. Tell us more about this, what are we expecting the court to decide . ,. ,. , , decide . Right, nobody really is very clear decide . Right, nobody really is very clear on decide . Right, nobody really is very clear on which decide . Right, nobody really is very clear on which way decide . Right, nobody really is very clear on which way the very clear on which way the decision is going to go. You know, sometimes you can sort of see in other countries you can sort of see in which direction this decision may go. This one is still really quite unclear. 0n the part of the 21 petitioners that submitted to the Supreme Court, you know, among them were activists and same sex couples, some of which who were raising children together. As you rightly pointed out they did argue that, in fact, pointed out they did argue that, infact, not pointed out they did argue that, in fact, not being able to marry is a violation of their Constitutional Rights because the Indian Constitution allows everyone the opportunity to marry whom they choose, and separately the constitution also says that you cannot discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. So that was kind of one of the arguments thatis kind of one of the arguments that is being used. But on the other hand, the government said that it really sort of questioned whether or not the Supreme Court has the jurisdiction to even make this kind of ruling saying that any changes to rules should really happen within the legislature. Its obviously all about timing to a great degree as well. You got an election next year in india for the Prime Minister, narendra modi. What is he saying about this . You have mentioned the governments line. Has he actually said any personal comments about this at all . , ,. , all . No, this is really certainly all . No, this is really certainly the all . No, this is really certainly the party i all . No, this is really. Certainly the party line all . No, this is really certainly the party line and the government line is that theyre not in favour of any kind of same sex marriage marriage should only happen between a man and a woman. Remember that india only in 2018 decriminalised gay sex and for advocates, they believe like this is the next next logical step in terms of creating an environment in which many gay and lesbian couples can live free from discrimination. Couples can live free from discrimination. And whats the teneral discrimination. And whats the General Public discrimination. And whats the General Public saying discrimination. And whats the General Public saying about i General Public saying about this . Whats the feeling across india about this . I this . Whats the feeling across india about this . India about this . I think it really depends. India about this . I think it| really depends. Nationally india about this . I think it i really depends. Nationally in big cities, this seems like a natural extension of previous rulings by the Supreme Court. But when you get into smaller communities, or more religious communities, or more religious communities, of course, there are those that say that this is really not something that the country should be doing, that this is what they call western ideas, orwestern this is what they call western ideas, or western values, that shouldnt be applied here in india. But for the Tens Of Millions of gay and lesbian couples who want who want to be able to marry their partners, this would mean a huge, major change to their way of life. Huge, maor change to their way of life. , ~ , ~ huge, maor change to their way of life. , ~. ,. , of life. Thank you. We shall watch with of life. Thank you. We shall watch with great of life. Thank you. We shall watch with great interest i of life. Thank you. We shallj watch with great interest as of life. Thank you. We shall i watch with great interest as to what they decide at the Supreme Court. Thank you very much, Samira Hussein in delhi for us. So lets show you gaza this morning as another day dawns in gaza where the humanitarian crisis there is deepening according to the united nations. Power cuts, critical shortages of the basics, food, medicines, running water, has brought gaza to its knees. 0f brought gaza to its knees. Of course, theres expectation for the arrival of us President Biden who is headed to israel on wednesday. Well have all the top Business Stories here next on bbc news. Stay with us. Hello there. Its been a fine start to the week thanks to a ridge of high pressure. Weve had some sunshine, chilly nights, mind you, with some frost and fairly cool days. Tuesday, the last of this settled, chilly weather, because by wednesday onwards, we start to see low pressure taking over, bringing gales, heavy rain, but also milder air too. Now, this area of low pressure has been named storm babet by the met office. Thats going to continue to push northwards, affects our shores wednesday, thursday, merges with a larger area of low pressure, and that area of low pressure itself will affect us for the end of the week and into the weekend. So Rainfall Totals really mounting up across the board, but particularly so across more northern and eastern parts of the country. And we do have some concerns for eastern scotland, which could see heavy and persistent rain throughout this week, which could lead to localised flooding. Of course, the ground is pretty saturated here as well. However, for tuesday, its a fine day. Chilly start there, therell be some early mist and fog, plenty of sunshine around. The breeze picking up across southern britain, and well start to see this Weather Front bring some patchy rain to southwest england, southwest wales, then push up towards Northern Ireland later in the day. And temperatures will be a little bit higher than monday, 12 to 16 degrees. But the winds will continue to pick up through tuesday night. Rain will splash its way northwards, into Northern Ireland and scotland. Elsewhere, largely dry, variable cloud, some clear spells. There will be some further rain pushing into the southwest by the end of the night, but nowhere will see frost. Its going to be a much milder night, 9 to 12 degrees. Wednesday then, we see storm babet start to push up in towards southern britain, bringing gales and heavy rain. Initially, well start off with that early rain across scotland. That will tend to clear away. Much of central and Northern Britain will have a fine day on wednesday. Quite windy, though, those winds picking up through the day from the southeast, and it turns much wetter across south wales, Southern England later in the day. Some heavy, thundery rain here as storm babet pushes northwards. Widespread gales developing as well. But on the mild side, 13 to 17 or 18 degrees in the south. On thursday, Storm Babette will be affecting the north of the uk, rain piling into eastern scotland, strong and gusty winds here. Further south on thursday, something a little bit quieter, but its going to stay quite windy, with sunny spells, showers or longer spells of rain, and temperatures up to 18 or 19 degrees here, mid teens further north. But we see further very wet and windy weather on friday, certainly across the south and the east of the country. That lasts as we head into the weekend as well. See you later. Live from london, this is bbc news. Almost 500 Million People will be living in extreme poverty by 2030 thats the warning from the un as it marks its International Day for the eradication of poverty. Australia has plans to end the exploitation of migrant workers. But the problem could be bigger than it seems. And losing altitude demand for travel via private jet takes a dip. We find out why. Hello and welcome. You are with the bbc. Im Sally Bundock with the top Business Stories. And we start with the startling statistic that 500 Million People will still be living in extreme poverty in 2030 in less than seven years time. This is defined as those trying to live on less than 1. 25 a day. Then you add to that another 700 million who willjust be above that level of poverty according to the un