there was no immediate comment from israel. earlier, its defence forces admitted striking an ambulance in gaza city but said the vehicle was being used by hamas to transport fighters. our international editor jeremy bowen has this report on the aftermath of the attack by israel on an ambulance convoy. it contains images you may find upsetting from the start. around four this afternoon, an ambulance outside shifa, the main hospital in gaza, was destroyed by an israeli aircraft. in a crowded area, 13 people, including bystanders, were killed and 26 injured, according to the health ministry in gaza. israel said the ambulance was carrying a hamas terrorist cell. hamas said the attack was zionist nazi terror. thousands of palestinian civilians are sheltering at shifa hospital. israel's army says it's a battle zone and they should evacuate south. more dead civilians on al rasheed street, one of only two roads south where israel says civilians must go to be safe. the bbc has located the video to a stretch of roads seven kilometres southwest of gaza city. the man is saying, "oh god, a little girl, woman, a girl". this doctor said he was shot at by israelis in the same place yesterday. he says over a stretch of 1.5 kilometres, snipers were shooting at the cars. "they hit a donkey cart. "the donkey was cut to pieces along with the cart and everyone on it". this is ibrahim assalia, a british doctor stranded without power with his family in northern gaza. dr assalia, from north london, was told by the foreign office only to risk the coast road in un or aid agency cars. it is catastrophic here. you know, isee science—fiction movies. i never imagine that science—fiction can be real. here, like in movie, like in a dream. what's going on? it's beyond imagination. antony blinken, the us secretary of state, returned, hoping to ease the pressure on gaza's civilians. good afternoon, everyone. we are absolutely focused on getting hostages back and getting them back to their families in safety. and we believe that, among other things, a humanitarian pause could help that effort. but after their meeting, prime minister netanyahu said there would be no ceasefires until hamas released its hostages. in beirut, lebanon's capital, supporters of the iranian backed militia, hezbollah, rallied to hear their leader, hassan nasrallah, repeat threats that the war might spread. "the concern," he said, "is that this front might tumble into a wider war". "it's a real possibility, and the enemy should make every allowance". back in gaza, this is what's left of maghazi refugee camp. it's in the south where israel is telling palestinian civilians to go to escape danger. but there are only bad options at the moment for gaza's endangered people and diplomats who want to stop this war escalating. jeremy bowen, bbc news, jerusalem. well, the situation for civilians in gaza remains dire. our special correspondent fergal keane who is based injerusalem has for days now been working with journalists filming for the bbc in the territory to report the impact of the war on people there. a warning — his piece contains distressing images from the start. sometimes, a face can tell all there is to know... ..0f war, in the lives of the young. the brothers came to al—aqsa hospital in central gaza after a bomb hit their home. crying. further north, in beit lahiya... ..another hospital. more of war�*s wounded. a crowded floor. who can be saved, who is beyond help? the process of checks that's become all too familiar. this woman's life, fading fast. and then gone. there are stories of miraculous escape, told to our bbc cameraman. of five—year—old, tuleen abu alros, at al—nusrat hospital, pulled from the rubble of her bombed out home. she's physically recovering, but she's unlikely to forget. translation: the children who are injured, the psychological trauma stays with them for years. and the children who witness or watch what's going on also have ptsd for months. there are now more than 1.5 million displaced in gaza. creating, says the un, a vast humanitarian crisis. here, at gaza beach, they collect salt water for washing. the children, as children do, find comfort in each other. because, when they leave here, there is only the war. fergal keane, bbc news, jerusalem. live now to perth where we can speak to professor samina yasmeen. she's director of the centre for muslim states and societies at the university of western australia. thank you so much forjoining us today. when we see reports like that, when we see the unfolding humanitarian crisis in gaza, what kind of pressure is israel going to come under now to try and ease the suffering of the people they are? ., , , , are? one level of pressure which is — are? one level of pressure which is already _ are? one level of pressure which is already apparent i are? one level of pressure l which is already apparent is from the international community, the united nations, its human rights commission, those operating in gaza and palestine, they have been talking about the need to stop, have a ceasefire. the un general secretary has already supported, with 120 countries voting in favour of the ceasefire. despite this pressure that is mounting, which is also including now the pressure in those demonstrations outside the region, as far as countries such as australia, i don't think israel is going to take that into account, despite all the pressure, it's novel pressure, we are going to see a change in the way israel proceeds with this, with its so—called strategy. we proceeds with this, with its so-called strategy. we have seen the — so-called strategy. we have seen the us _ so-called strategy. we have seen the us secretary - so-called strategy. we have seen the us secretary of. so-called strategy. we have i seen the us secretary of state visiting israel, he is now going tojordan in the us is calling for humanitarian pauses but israel is not listening to the united states, is closest ally in this conflict, so what can the us do? the us government is also under pressure from arab countries and countries around the world to get israel to allow more aid into the territory. to to get israel to allow more aid into the territory.— into the territory. to start with, into the territory. to start with. one _ into the territory. to start with, one thing _ into the territory. to start with, one thing the - into the territory. to start with, one thing the us - into the territory. to start i with, one thing the us could into the territory. to start - with, one thing the us could do is not veto resolutions when they come before the security council or side with people that really need to be protected. it is very clear that the us interest in retaining its right, or even the principle of international humanitarian law, i think america has to get serious about stomping the war, it can very clearly get a message to australia that there are limits to conflict, and what we have seen as these are very feeble messaging, one level talking about the need for support to be and another level, and i think that really encourages the israeli government, and killing civilians at a level thatis killing civilians at a level that is unprecedented. thank ou that is unprecedented. thank you professor. _ that is unprecedented. thank you professor. thank - that is unprecedented. thank you professor. thank you - that is unprecedented. thank you professor. thank you sol you professor. thank you so much forjoining us. as we have been hearing the leader of hezbollah has made his first public comments since the conflict began. he said that the only way to prevent a regional war is for israel to stop attacking gaza. he did not announce any escalation of fighting — but said that hezbollah was already doing enough with its cross border attacks on israel. 0ur senior international correspondent 0rla guerin is in the lebanese capital, beirut. people he wanted to know what he was going to say but it was not only his supporters here at a rally in beirut that were hanging onto his every word, it was officials in tel aviv and the white house because the big concern is will the bloodletting of the past month produce a wider conflict? we get a lot of fiery rhetoric from the hezbollah leader, a lot of denunciations of israel and america but not any explicit all—out declaration of war. he said all options were on the table, he said the risk of a wider regional conflict remained, but he sounded almost offensive when he was describing what has so far. it has been carrying out cross—border attacks, tying up israeli forces on the border, using artillery, using drones, he said some might say that is not significant but others say actually that is really important. we know that hamas has been asking for more. the message to hamas was more or less you are on your own for now. the leader of has below was keen to say that the attacks on the 11th of october was a 100% palestinian operation, carried out in great secrecy and that other palestinian factions did not even know, let alone allow eyes like hezbollah, so the message was this was the doing of hamas in gaza. ~ ., ., , in gaza. with me for more is mohammed _ in gaza. with me for more is mohammed from _ in gaza. with me for more is mohammed from bbc- in gaza. with me for more is| mohammed from bbc arabic. in gaza. with me for more is - mohammed from bbc arabic. i'm sure you are looking for the latest updates on your phone for this story, we are hearing overnight of an attack on a school in gaza. want to know about this. school in gaza. want to know about thie— school in gaza. want to know about thia— about this. good morning to ou, about this. good morning to you. yes _ about this. good morning to you, yes indeed. _ about this. good morning to you, yes indeed. this - about this. good morning to you, yes indeed. this attack apparently happened on the school, according to the health authorities in gaza, saying the attack happened on a school in northern gaza leaving more than 20 people killed. this war is reaching its peak on the ground, on the humanitarian level and on the politics and the hostage level and on the stranded level. on the ground as he said there was an attack on the school on gaza, there was an attack on shifa hospital, and 38 people of its officials killed in that conflict as we can see, these pictures are from the area around the hospital, and there is no place that became safe in gaza, the office says that they were attacked by some selling, the israeli said we didn't attack that offers, the death toll of journalists attack that offers, the death toll ofjournalists in this conflict, and international and arab body ofjournalists saying that the international court of justice has gone to complain against that.— against that. today, we are auoin against that. today, we are going to — against that. today, we are going to see _ against that. today, we are going to see the _ against that. today, we are going to see the us - against that. today, we are l going to see the us secretary of state going tojordan, meeting regional leaders, what can we expect from him, briefly? we understand blinken is seeking to free the american hostages within the hands of hamas. this is the political effort hostages within the hands of hamas. this is the political effort to hostages within the hands of hamas. this is the political effort to release hostages within the hands of hamas. this is the political effort to release the hostages within the hands of hamas. this is the political effort to release the hostages, at the same time there is that military effort to release the hostages which is being done by the israeli army. they are saying they are besieging gaza, they are striking these targets everywhere to be able to know where are the hostages and trying to target the strong places to be able to free the hostages. they are using artificial intelligence systems, i did a report about that earlier, called fire factory to try and understand where are the hostages and where are the hostages and where are the places that they want to attack, so the blinken effort is the political effort, thatis effort is the political effort, that is going along with the military effort to be able to free more than 240 hostages that are in the hands of hamas at the moment. there is also the situation on the rafah crossing, which is blinken trying to ease it, dual nationals are trying to get out of the crossing, but there are problems like one of the strange problems that the egyptians themselves, who has egyptians themselves, who has egyptian passports, was trying to cross the border towards egypt, are not allowed to cross the border, this is a very tense situation. we understand scotland's first minister humza yousef�*s relatives have been able to get out, and we have been able to get in contact with —— we have been trying to get in contact with journalists in gaza, we were not successful in gaza, we were not successful in doing that. thank you forjoining us. the son of former us president donald trump, eric trump, has finished giving testimony in the new york civil fraud case against him, his family and their business. prosecutors grilled eric trump about his involvement in his father's financial statements, and what steps he took to verify those numbers before signing bank documents. eric trump said he "believed everything in the statements was accurate" and denied any wrongdoing. outside the court, he spoke to reporters. what this state is trying to do to my father is absolutely insane. we have one of the greatest companies anywhere in the world. we employ thousands of new yorkers. these people, they make their living relying on us. they feed their families relying on us. we've never missed a note, we've never missed a payment, we've never defaulted on a loan. we've got some of the greatest properties in the world, and because you have an attorney general that plays politics with everything, you've seen that time and time again — she effectively went after the last governor and threw him out of office because she wanted to run, and then she got 2% in the polls, all of you saw that — she's come after my father ruthlessly. every single day a trump is in this court, guess what? she shows up. why? because it's her press moment. that's what she does. this is the type of person that's running new york state. 0ur north america correspondent nada tawfik has been following the case in new york and says former president trump is expected to testify next week. donald trump himself is expected to testify on monday. the attorney general has come out and said that she fully expects donald trump to try to hide his wrongdoing with name—calling and taunts, but she says she will not be bullied out of uncovering the truth. donald trump himself, even though he hasn't been here in person this week, has continued to rail against this case has a witch—hunt, telling the attorney general and the judge to leave his children alone. everyone will be watching to see how he defends himself on the stand, and if at any point he invokes his fifth amendment against answering questions. several legal experts have said he would be wise to do that because of all of his pending legal investigations, but this is a civil case so a judge can look negatively on a defendant invoking their fifth amendment when deciding the case. it is certainly a minefield for donald trump when he is planning to take the stand, and thenjust a note, if planning to take the stand, and then just a note, if duncan trump has lost her appeals to avoid testifying in this case. ——ivanka trump has lost her appeals to avoid testifying, so expect to have her on the stand next week on wednesday. more than 100 people are reported to have been killed in an earthquake in western nepal. the shallow quake of magnitude 5.6 hit the remote hill district ofjajarkot, 500 kilometres west of kathmandu. strong tremors were felt in the capital and in indian cities including delhi. hospital officials injajarkot said they were treating more than 40 injured people rescued from the rubble of their homes. live now to our south asia correspondent samira hussain who's in delhi for us. . some —— i understand you have felt some of the tremors they in new delhi. what do we know about what is happening in nepal right now?— about what is happening in nepal right now? about what is happening in ne-ualrihtnow? , , nepal right now? many people in new delhi felt _ nepal right now? many people in new delhi felt the _ nepal right now? many people in new delhi felt the tremors, - new delhi felt the tremors, many were woken up to it and it happened in my home as well. and i think that gives you a sense of the strength of this shallow quake. this region of western uppal in the foothills of the himalayas, it is quite common to see seismic activity —— western nepal. it is quite common to see seismic activity in this area. but we are hearing more than 500 people have been killed. now the nepalese army and nepalese police —— more than 100 people have been killed. now the nepalese army and nepalese police have been dispatched to help with the rescue efforts. and our viewers can now see pictures of the area. these are quite remote areas, you mentioned officials able to get there but in terms of recovery efforts, medical assistance, how much help will they be able to get? how much help will they be able to net? , ., to get? given the region, given the cold and — to get? given the region, given the cold and that _ to get? given the region, given the cold and that this _ to get? given the region, given the cold and that this all - the cold and that this all happened at night, it's very dark, rescue efforts overnight were in fact difficult, but every effort is being made to go there, in fact the prime minister of nepal is also on his way to the affected region. again, this is an area that has seen this kind of activity before. residents of course spent the night sleeping outdoors because after the earth make there were three after—shocks in quite quick succession. and that as a result is why people were sleeping outdoors for fear of any potential increased damage. remember, this area in nepal, there was a deadly earthquake backin there was a deadly earthquake back in 2015 which killed more than 9000 people, that was one of the deadliest quakes the country had ever seen. thank ou country had ever seen. thank you very _ country had ever seen. thank you very much. _ country had ever seen. thank you very much, some - country had ever seen. thank| you very much, some hussein with that update and we will bring you more news from nepal throughout the day on bbc news. —— samira. the british actor and comedian russell brand has been accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in the us state of new york. the accuser is a woman using the alias jane doe, who claims mr brand assaulted her when she was an extra during filming of the romantic comedy arthur in new york 13 years ago. a number of women have recently accused russell brand in the british media of sexual assault or inappropriate behaviour, but this is the first accusation filed in court. he has denied taking part in any non—consensual sexual activity. let's get some of the day's other news now. the family of the late former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi are reported to have stopped the payments he'd set up for each of 20 young women who took part in his notorious "bunga bunga" parties. mr berlusconi is said to have arranged the payments as compensation. each woman received nearly $2700 a month for more than a decade. a new image of a very young star captured by nasa's james webb space telescope is enabling scientists to see for the first time what our own sun looked like in its infancy. the star is thought to be no more than 50,000 years old, whereas the sun is some 4.5 billion years old. in colombia, the search continues for the father of liverpool footballer luis diaz, who the government says has been kidnapped by leftwing rebels. the colombian forward's mother was released a short while after being seized by gunmen in the town of barrancas on saturday — but his father remains missing. officials say they expect him to be freed soon, but it's still a difficult time forfamily and friends. let's end with some breaking news now and the pakistan army says it has foiled a militant attack on a pakistani air force base in punjab province. an army spokesman said three militants were killed, and during the attack three air force jets were during the attack three air forcejets were damaged. during the attack three air force jets were damaged. it is the second biggest attack on the second biggest attack on the army since yesterday. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. after what has been a very wet week for many, and a very stormy week for some, things do look a little calmer for the weekend. no, it isn't going to be completely dry or completely settled. there'll still be some rain at times, rather windy in the south, but not as windy as it has been. and amidst all of that, some sunshine. 0n the earlier satellite picture, you can see this stripe of cloud pushing in from the southwest, bringing outbreaks of rain in association with this area of low pressure. the centre of the low tracking eastwards, the strongest winds on the southern flank, which means the very windiest weather will be across parts of france, spain and portugal. for us, yes, it will be blustery in the south, but nothing particularly stormy. this band of rain pushing northwards during saturday morning, becoming slow moving in north wales, the north midlands, parts of northern england. to the south of that, sunny spells and heavy thundery showers with some rather blustery winds, particularly around southern coasts. but the far north of england, and certainly northern ireland and scotland, will see lighter winds. spells of sunshine once any early fog has cleared. just the odd shower temperatures of 9—13 degrees. during saturday night, we'll still have this band of cloud and showery rain across central parts of the uk. could see some really heavy showers actually developing across the southeast corner. remember, any rain that we do see could bring the risk of further flooding. if you're off to fireworks events on saturday night, there will be some showers around, perhaps by sunday night, bonfire night itself, there will be fewer showers. they won't be gone completely, but there won't be as many because this area of low pressure during sunday will be pulling away eastwards. we will start sunday morning, though, with some pretty strong winds. in fact, we could see the winds touching gale force across the channel islands for a time. further north for winds that bit lighter. and through sunday, once we've cleared this early cloud and rain away from eastern england, actually, there should be a decent amount of sunshine around. however, further showers will race in from the west. some of these could be on the heavy side. temperatures around 9—13 degrees at best. now, into the start of the new week, we will briefly see this ridge of high pressure toppling through. so things will turn a little drier. but there midweek we will bring this frontal system in from the west. outbreaks of rain with that, and behind it where things could just turn a little bit chillier by the end of the week. so not as stormy or as turbulent as it has been, but still unsettled. can we expect from him, briefly? this is bbc news, the headlines: the biden administration says a wider regional war in the middle east has been deterred, and the conflict is being contained to israel and hamas. the pentagon spokesman was commenting after a speech by the the leader of the proscribed terror group hezbollah, refrained from announcing any escalation. authorities in nepal say more than 100 people have been killed after a shallow earthquake struck remote western areas. the security forces have been deployed to help rescue efforts in the rugged districts of jajarkot and rukum, 500 kilometres west of the capital. a federal appeals court in the us has temporarily lifted a partial gag order against donald trump. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson.