the united states�* top diplomat antony blinken that there must be an immediate ceasefire in gaza. thejordanian foreign minister ayman safadi said the killing of civilians by israel could not be justified by its claim of self—defence. he said the entire region was sinking into a "sea of hatred" that could define generations to come. the egyptian foreign minister, sameh shoukry, said his country was exerting all its efforts to deliver aid and treat wounded gazans and joined the call for an immediate ceasefire. for his part, mr blinken reaffirmed us support for humanitarian pauses in fighting. but he rejected the call for an "immediate ceasefire". 0ur correspondent anna foster followed that press conference and gave this analysis on the israeli stance. israel has been very clear, since those attacks on the 7th of october, that one of their key objectives, along with releasing those hostages, is to entirely eliminate hamas and its leadership and its infrastructure from inside the gaza strip. it was just interesting, infrastructure from inside the gaza strip. it wasjust interesting, i think, to listen to those three men talking there, the product of many conversations that the us secretary of state has been having injordan today, illustrating many of the points, in particular, the one you heard at the end of the press conference there. they were talking about some of the images you see coming out of gaza, those images of civilian killings, particularly of children. i think you could see the unity between the three. they were all agreeing that these are not the kind of image as the world wants to see, and infact kind of image as the world wants to see, and in fact they are often, and we have been showing them some times on bbc news, these images that are very graphic and difficult to see, as antony blinken was pointing out, as antony blinken was pointing out, as were those similar images that we saw on october the 7th after those barbaric attacks by hamas on israeli civilians and women and children in the south of israel. antony blinken will now be considering the conversations he will also have in turkey tomorrow. he has added an extra stop to his trip. it really shows you, i think, the depth of feeling here across the middle east, but also the diversity of feeling as well, and the fact that there is no clear answer, well, and the fact that there is no clearanswer, notjust well, and the fact that there is no clear answer, not just about well, and the fact that there is no clear answer, notjust about how well, and the fact that there is no clear answer, not just about how to deal with the current conflict, but also you heard them reflecting their on what will happen next. the idea of how gaza will, or could, or should look, once hamas has been removed from power, they are entirely removed from gaza, and that highlight something which has been raised diplomatically by many countries, as an issue going forward. nobody knows quite yet how gaza would run, what it would mean for those more than 2 million civilians, who are living there in gaza, more thani million of civilians, who are living there in gaza, more than i million of them displaced from the north into the south of the strip. that was our correspondent, anna foster. we are still asking for an immediate ceasefire and that the hindering of humanitarian aid is stopped. we are also demand — humanitarian aid is stopped. we are also demand an _ humanitarian aid is stopped. we are also demand an international - also demand an international investigation for international law investigation for international law in this war. we are witnessing of an escalation and human tragedy and suffering of civilians as a result of not addressing the deep root of the problem to address the rights of the problem to address the rights of the palestinian rights. i reject any attempts to liquidate the palestinian cause and i ask that we need to work as soon as possible. mr blank and reaffirmed us support for humanitarian pauses in fighting. he did reject the call for an immediate ceasefire. it did reject the call for an immediate ceasefire. , ., ., ., ceasefire. it is our view that a ceasefire _ ceasefire. it is our view that a ceasefire now _ ceasefire. it is our view that a ceasefire now would - ceasefire. it is our view that a ceasefire now would simply i ceasefire now would simply leave hamas _ ceasefire now would simply leave hamas in — ceasefire now would simply leave hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat— hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did in october the 7th. repeat what it did in october the 7th you — repeat what it did in october the 7th. you don't have to take my word for it _ 7th. you don't have to take my word for it. just _ 7th. you don't have to take my word for it. just a — 7th. you don't have to take my word for it. just a few days ago a senior hamas_ for it. just a few days ago a senior hamas official said it was their intent — hamas official said it was their intent to— hamas official said it was their intent to do october the 7th again and again— intent to do october the 7th again and again and again. no nation, none of us, _ and again and again. no nation, none of us, can— and again and again. no nation, none of us, can accept that. no one would find that _ of us, can accept that. no one would find that it — of us, can accept that. no one would find that it is — of us, can accept that. no one would find that. it is important to reaffirm _ find that. it is important to reaffirm israel's right to defend itself, — reaffirm israel's right to defend itself, indeed its obligation to do so, and — itself, indeed its obligation to do so, and to— itself, indeed its obligation to do so, and to take necessary steps so that october seven happen again. it is also _ that october seven happen again. it is also very— that october seven happen again. it is also very important the way israel— is also very important the way israel does that. that is what we have _ israel does that. that is what we have talked to the israeli government about, with taking every possible _ government about, with taking every possible measure to protect human life, possible measure to protect human life. to _ possible measure to protect human life, to prevent civilian casualties, as well as to ensure that those _ casualties, as well as to ensure that those who are in need have the assistance _ that those who are in need have the assistance they need. it had reopened one of the strips allowing — it had reopened one of the strips allowing people to drive south, that has now _ allowing people to drive south, that has now shut again with some 300... inside gaza israel's military has urged civilians to leave the north. it had re—opened one of the strip's main highways, allowing people to drive south. but that's now shut again, with some 350,000—400,000 people remaining in northern gaza, according to a us envoy. the rafah crossing to egypt is also closed. we are hearing that gaza border authorities will not permit foreign passport holders to cross into egypt until the injured people in gaza's hospitals are allowed to travel to rafah. hundreds of foreign citizens have escaped gaza through the crossing in the past few days. meanwhile — an officialfrom the un agency for palestinian refugees has warned there is little the organisation can do to protect gazans. let me show you some video we've received from the medical air for palestinians. dr marsan abusada works at the al shifa hospital in gaza and has taken these mobile phone clips of wards packed with injured people. a warning — you may find some of these images distressing. today is 3rd of november, the 20th day of aggression on gaza. i am now doing a photo. this is the sixth operating theatre in the main search called subspecialty building. this is allocated for the cardiac surgery room. but unfortunately, today we are replacing a children who already had surgery. these are children who had surgery. we don't have any empty place in the in—patient department. so we turn this room to be as a recovery area and inpatient department to our icu. unfortunately, this boy has no family at all. no member of his family can see him or come to see and to visit this boy. i am now in the operating theatre in shifa. it is well overwhelmed with the huge number of injured people, as you see here. 0k. this is considered as a recovery area. it is full of patients. no vacant place to admit to inpatient department, as you see, still always. it is the same scene. no vacancy in the inpatient department to admit any patients. most of the patients, they had surgery, but they are waiting to be transferred to inpatient department and we are providing them here. it is a horrible situation. we are providing care. this operating theatre, as you see here... and this is again what we have before me, the surgery again. meanwhile the united nations palestinian refugee agency says a school it runs for displaced people in gaza was hit today. a spokeswoman, juliette touma, told the bbc that thousands of people were sheltering at the al fakhoura school injabalia , in the north of the territory. hamas says israel carried out the attack. a spokesman for the israeli military said it was investigating but said there had been an exchange of fire. another school sheltering dispaced palestinians was hit by an explosion on friday night. the health ministry says at least 12 people were killed. hamas says the school was bombed by israel. there has been no comment yet from israel. these images show the aftermath of an israeli attack on an ambulance, also on friday. the un and the world health organization condemned the attack. the israel defense forces admitted striking the ambulance, but said the vehicle was being used by hamas to transport fighters. the gaza health ministry says 9,488 people have now been killed including about 3,900 children. about 1,400 israelis were killed in the hamas attacks. 0ur correspondent rushdi abualouf has this update from inside gaza. today, israel asked about half a million people who still live in gaza city and the north, to leave south here to khan younis. the city is already overwhelmed by about a million people who were displaced from their houses. the reason — the fighting was intensified around the gaza city and it seems that the israeli operation is expanding and pushing the people who are still in gaza to leave. they want the area to be evacuated, especially around the tel al—hawa area where al-quds hospital is. this morning there was an air strike right in the front of the hospital and they destroyed a building, causing big damage and big panic to about 14,000 people who are taking the hospital as shelter. israel insisted they should leave. the director of the hospital say we can't leave because most of the roads around the hospital were destroyed and about 100 patients are being treated inside. eight of them were connected to the life—saving machine. the biggest israeli incursion so far is in the north west of gaza, and they are pushing hard towards gaza city. it seems that the israelis want to tighten the siege around gaza city itself, and they are pushing hard for the residents who still remain there to leave their homes here to khan younis. let's return to our story that ministers have been meeting with antony blinken. the arab foreign ministers have been calling for an immediate ceasefire. antony blinken did not go as far as to say that. 0ur correspondent anna foster followed that press conference and gave this analysis on the israeli stance. you might think lincoln is trying to rebuild trust with those arab allies and that has been badly damaged over the last few weeks. there has a long process had to rebuild the trust, notjust process had to rebuild the trust, not just with the process had to rebuild the trust, notjust with the government, but that the arab population widely. that is why if he is shuttling around the region. alongside that you could hear the frustration in his voice, and in their voices, obviously the anger in their voices, that the of pressure during antony blinken's visit, hasn't actually had the result that he wanted. he wanted. he hasn't got the humanitarian pauses, he hasn't got as much humanitarian aid and as he was hoping. he has been told pretty clearly by benjamin netanyahu, and the israeli military, that they need to continue what they call, a very chilling freights, mowing the lawn, re—establishing long—term deterrence against hamas and hezbollah. i think one positive that he will take from this is the speech yesterday from the leader of hezbollah, didn't dial up, didn't escalate, and i think you'll feel that the risk of that regional escalation has been dialled down a little bit. that is one small positive in the midst of many negatives. let's talk a bit more about that speech yesterday. the pentagon were confident enough yesterday to put out a statement saying that they believed that a wider regional conflict, or certainly an escalation on the northern border of israel with lebanon, was not an issue for now. people have been waiting for that speech, with the potential that full—scale hezbollah entry would happen. why do you think that didn't happen. why do you think that didn't happen because yellow i think hezbollah are a cautious actor in this respect. they know the lebanese people are very opposed to that escalation, that there is a real opposition to a conflict across the israel lebanon border. the opposition to a conflict across the israel lebanon border.— opposition to a conflict across the israel lebanon border. the no there is serious deterrent _ israel lebanon border. the no there is serious deterrent in _ israel lebanon border. the no there is serious deterrent in the _ israel lebanon border. the no there is serious deterrent in the weapons| is serious deterrent in the weapons that israel has, the whistling nurse of israel to use them, as we have been seeing in gaza, but also in those deployments in the region two. i think the iranians have also concluded that now is not the time for a regional escalation. they would quite clearly have signalled that the rhetoric should be dialled up, but not dial up the real threats are not actually increase the risk of tension across that border. that was tom fletcher _ of tension across that border. that was tom fletcher speaking to my correspondence anna foster. tens of thousands of people have been protesting in london in the latest of a series of large—scale demonstrations in the capital, demanding an end to the bombardment of gaza. there were several thousand people in trafalgar square, chanting slogans, carrying placards and waving flags. for more on that, our correspondent in central london, aruna iyengar. i have talked to dozens of people this morning to say they want to protest peacefully. they say they wa nt to protest peacefully. they say they want to see a ceasefire in palestine. i asked them also about the problem of possible extremists infiltrating these protests. they said that wasn't true, they hadn't seen any signs of that. one man i spoke to earlier said that many jewish people had joined these protests to call for a ceasefire. as you know that is not the line of the government's policy at the moment. the current policy of the british government is to call for pauses in israel's attacks on the gaza strip. people here are generally in good heart. they are shouting, making a lot of noise, waving flags. but so far it does seem to be extremely peaceful here, albeit very noisy. yesterday we heard from the chief rabbi of britain, who said that he was very concerned about hate crimes at these protests. he said that it was difficult for the jewish community to see so many people marching in pro—palestine demonstrations, and that some of the comments he had heard, some of the gestures that had been made, some of the flag—waving and some of the chance, had been extremely hurtful to british dues, and he felt that the police should step in on that. so mark rowley, the metropolitan police commissioner, has said that he will police to the line of the law. he said today that they would be looking at social media and face recognition to make sure nobody steps over that line. rishi sunak has also said that the laws for the police account of these protests are sufficient. there have also been protests in other parts of the uk. this was the scene in leeds where demonstrators marched through the city centre, calling for a ceasefire in gaza. hundreds of people, too, in glasgow — also calling for a ceasefire. and in the german capital berlin, thousands of people turned out for the biggest pro—palestinian gathering since the start of the latest conflict. at least 157 people are believed 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 in jajarkot said they were treating more than a0 injured people rescued from the rubble of their homes. live now to our bbc nepali correspondent ashok dahal who's in kathmandu. talk us through the latest. it is turning dark in nepal. many people who were affected by the earthquake have started spending the night outside their homes, homes either collapsed or by the earthquake. local authorities are struggling to distribute relief. it is turning night and electricity facilities in many affected areas is cut off. more than 300 injured, were airlifted to hospital facilities cut off. more than 300 injured, were airlifted to hospitalfacilities in the urban areas and a few of them were brought to kathmandu, as far as 500 kilometres from the epicentre, after witnessing the damage in the hit areas this morning, the prime minister has said that he will take a decision about distribution of further relief packages to the victims, and also whether to assert foreign aides to the victims or not. many countries, including nepal's neighbour india, india and china have offered humanitarian aid to the earthquake victims of nepal. many people were sleeping as the earthquake hit at midnight, and most of the victims were crushed by the mud houses. the majority of the victims were women and some were children. nepalsits victims were women and some were children. nepal sits in an active seismic belt. 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed more than 9000 people in 2015 and its aftershocks were monitored until last month. thank you for that update in kathmandu. we will be following that story closely as we get more updates on the situation. this the actor and comedian, russell brand, has been accused of sexual assault. the claim is made in a lawsuit filed in new york. a woman says he assaulted her when they were making the film arthur 13 years ago. she said she was an extra in the movie. mr brand is yet to respond to the lawsuit, and has previously denied allegations of sexual assault between 2006 and 2013, made by four women. david willis reports. and i tried to get away from him... an investigation by the times, the sunday times and channel 4 reported claims of sexual assault on the part of russell brand involving four women, one of whom alleged he raped her at his home in los angeles. he denies the allegations. these and this latest allegation all relate to a period when russell brand, seen here at the premiere of his film get me to the greek, was at the height of his hollywood stardom. now, an affidavit filed in new york alleges that russell brand exposed himself to an extra on the set of the film arthur. "the sexual assault happened later that same day "when i was in the bathroom", the affidavit continues. "mr brand entered after me and assaulted me, as a member "of the production crew, guarded the door from outside." it's the first such allegation to be levelled against russell brand in a lawsuit. he has yet to respond. what i seriously refute are these very, very serious criminal allegations... shortly before the initial allegations came to light, he took to his youtube channel to maintain that all his relationships had been consensual. his latest accuser, who has maintained a career as an actor, is reported to be seeking unspecified damages in return for psychological injuries suffered as a result of the assault. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. croatia's foreign minister has been criticised for trying to kiss his german counterpart, annalena baerbock, at a ministerial summit in berlin. they shook hands before a group photo, but then gordan grlic radman appeared to move to kiss ms baerbock. she turned her head, so that they bumped cheeks. in croatia, mr radman's faced accusations of acting inappropriately. but he says colleagues always greet each other warmly, while acknowledging that, as he put it, �*maybe it came out awkwardly�*. if you could go back in time 4.6 billion years and take a picture of our sunjust as it was being born, it might very well have looked like this. this is a very young star, in the constellation of orion. it�*s a new image from nasa�*s james webb space telescope. you can see pink and red jets shooting out from a dense disc of gas and dust. the star is thought to be no more than 50,000 years old — but would have looked much the same as our sun at a similar age. more than 2,000 athletes from around the world are competing in the international lgbtq sporting event, the gay games, which kicked off in hong kong, despite opposition from conservative politicians. it�*s the first time the event is being partly held in asia. the mexican city of guadalajara is the co—host. the opening ceremony, which saw delegations waving national flags and rainbow banners, was held in hong kong�*s queen elizabeth stadium. but the largest pro—beijing political party in hong kong described the games as an attack on "traditional family values," you are watching bbc news. tomorrow should be a drier day for more of the country with some sunshine around. today still very unsettled, again we are dominated by low pressure, this one bringing some strong winds through pesky into the west coast of france and northern parts of spain. we do, around the base of that low, see stronger winds running through the english channel and again, unfortunately affecting the channel islands. the winds gusting close to 50 miles an hour. much lighter winds further north, especially in scotland and northern ireland, where it is turning a bit drier, but quite cool air if you are stuck under this rain. there are some heavy showers running on the south coast of england heading towards the dover straits as well. if you are going to be seeing some fireworks this evening it is a bit drier in scotland and northern ireland. a few breaks in the cloud. not such good weather across much of northern england and north wales. still some rain here. the showers that are coming on the way from hampshire to kent could be heavy, possibly thundery, and there will be some gusty winds and that as well, some gusty winds and that as well, so not ideal. those wins tend to ease overnight as the low pressure which has been bringing the wet weather tends to move away. by the time we get first thing tomorrow these are the temperatures. it can be quite a chilly start in scotland and northern ireland, a few patches of mist and fog to clear away in the morning. quite a cloudy start for eastern scotland, bit of rain in the air in eastern england. that should move away is the low moves away and we get more sunshine coming through. showers getting blown into western most parts of scotland, not to many in northern ireland, if few coming over the piracy into western parts of england and wales. the strongest of england and wales. the strongest of the winds are going to be in the south, the southernmost parts of england and the english channel and costs close to 40 miles an hour. lighter winds further north and those temperatures, 11 to 13, probably a little bit warmer than today, across parts of northern england and north wales, with the promise of some sunshine. 0ne fine night tomorrow evening, clear skies across the east, shells continue out towards the west. the week ahead is not looking particularly stormy or windy, nor indeed that wet. we are going to find a weather front coming in from the atlantic by the middle part of next week, bringing some rain and may be some strong winds. ahead of that, the start of the week we will see some sunshine and showers and most of the showers are going to be in the west. this is bbc news, the headlines: egypt and jordan call for an immediate ceasefire in gaza — but the us secretary of state antony blinken is urging only humanitarian pauses. a ceasefire now would simply leave hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did on october 7th. the un�*s palestinian refugee agency says there was an explosion at a school it runs. hamas says 15 people were killed. israel says it�*s investigating. the us says up to 400,000 people remain in northern gaza, as israel�*s ground offensive continues. the un says no part of gaza is safe. an earthquake in western nepal kills at least 157 people. houses are destroyed and people are digging through rubble to rescue others. now on bbc news, newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello. it�*s adam in the studio. and shortly i�*ll be joined by chris mason, who will be speaking to us virtually, appropriately, from the artificial intelligence summit at bletchley park.