something hamas denies. for more on all this, i spoke with our diplomatic correspondent paul adams, who is injerusalem. thanks forjoining us. these reports coming out of gaza paint a grim picture of the humanitarian situation there. what more can you tell us about how hospitals in gaza are coping? well, with great difficulty. they are all pretty much surrounded in gaza city, because the israelis argue these are places where hamas fighters have based themselves, and consequently there have been intense battles going on around us hospitals. the israelis say they are not targeting hospitals per se, and they are trying to get the civilian populations that are clustered around them to try to leave, and also starting to think about evacuating the hospitals themselves, so that israel can concentrate on dealing with hamas. there is a small development on that front this evening. the israelis said tomorrow they are going to evacuate babies from the shifa hospital to a safer location. we do not know the details, we have not had confirmation from the palestinian side, it is very difficult to get through to any of these hospitals at the moment. that does suggest that the israelis recognise as they are camped out on the perimeter of some of these hospitals, the situation is becoming untenable inside and they need to address the very real humanitarian needs of the patients inside those hospitals before there is any prospect of dealing with hamas and any infrastructure they may or may not have inside. what about the progress of israel's military operations themselves? what is the latest you are hearing? it sounds like everything is being centred on northern gaza? it absolutely is, that is the absolute focus of israel's military effort. there are still airstrikes elsewhere, in the southern part of the gaza strip. the israelis say any time we see a hamas target, we will go after them. what they want to do is deal with gaza city and the surrounding area first. that is a major undertaking. it is a very sizeable urban area, quite apart from the issue of hospitals and schools, where civilians are still camped out, fewer now than before, but there are still many civilians there. there is also the business of then taking on hamas in their own backyard, in their own backstreets, an organisation that according to the israelis has a network of tunnels and bunkers right under the city they can operate from. i think there is every expectation that the battle for gaza city could take quite some time yet. we are about five weeks in now to this conflict, international calls for a ceasefire seems to be growing. we have seen those mass protests on the streets of london, meetings with arab leaders as well, the president of france calling for a ceasefire as well. are these calls resonating where you are at all in israel? not yet, no. the israeli government argues it has a very serious undertaking that it is pursuing. the destruction of hamas, both as a military and political force. the eradication of hamas from the gaza strip. that is something the israeli government has never tried before and clearly still has some way to go. i think everybody knows that at some point the key players in this, and by that i mean washington, will think, look, enough is enough. this dreadful mounting death toll, in excess of 11,000 people who have been killed now, at some point washington is going to say to israel, you have done enough, you have destroyed enough of hamas, the cost in lives and the sheer destruction of the infrastructure of the gaza strip is too great now. we need to stop this. but i think we're quite way from that stop i think the israelis believe, and i think they still have american backing for a desire to continue to degrade and destroy hamas for some time to come. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams reporting from jerusalem. thank you so much. according to doctors without borders, many hospital patients in gaza cannot walk and are unable to evacuate. a surgeon at al—shifa said "those who are staying in the hospital already decided they are dead." lucy williamson sent us this report from jerusalem, and a warning, there are some scenes you may find upsetting. gaza's main hospital is now the eye of this military storm. staff here say they've been under constant fire for the past 2a hours. the dead trapped here, along with the living. we would like to bury their bodies. we tried yesterday to make a big grave in shifa hospital, mass grave, but the israelis attacked all the caterpillar who arrived to shifa hospital. we don't want to have any outbreaks due to these dead bodies who are outside the main refrigerator. 0ne doctor there said patients were so frightened, some left with serious injuries untreated. the hospital lost power yesterday. doctors without borders has accused the israeli military of signing the death warrant of civilians trapped in al—shifa. elsewhere, doctors report carrying out surgery by the light of mobile phones. they say the lack of electricity is threatening the lives of newborn babies and those in intensive care. some, they say, have already died. israel says its ground offensive has so far captured ii hamas bases. isreal says its enemy hides behind hospitals like al—shifa, but that it's not targeting the complex or civilians. tonight, israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said the operation was achieving its objectives. translation: idf forces have completed the encirclement of gaza city. they are operating in the heart of the city, they are on the outskirts of shifa hospital. they eliminated thousands of terrorists, including senior commanders and many murderers who were among those who lead this terrible massacre on the accursed saturday, october 7th. a few miles from gaza, soldiers reconnect with parents who themselves fought here in similar wars. some of the soldiers gathering for a weekend break here lost friends and comrades in the hamas attack. they are now under growing pressure from israel's public and politicians to finish their mission. israel's leaders are facing questions over the plan for gaza once the military operation ends. this family has sent three generations to fight in israel's army. the shabbat family picnic snatched on the roadside has become a tradition of its own. the father, yaron, said israelis didn't want to fight but that they and their neighbours were like fire and water. the talk here in israel is often a call for peace backlit by the sounds of war. lucy williamson, bbc news, southern israel. we wa nt we want to take a deeper look at one key issue in the conflict. un agencies and exports —— experts warned that women and girls are facing devastating and at times disproportionate consequences. in gaza, 67% of all civilians killed our women and children. 0n the seventh of october women and children were among those taken hostage by hamas, a designated terror group by the uk and us. while war does not discriminate based on gender, it does impact those caught in its crosshairs in different ways. here is our chief international correspondent elise doucet speaking to our colleagues. elise doucet speaking to our colleagues-_ elise doucet speaking to our colleague— colleagues. they used to be this phrase _ colleagues. they used to be this phrase and _ colleagues. they used to be this phrase and was - colleagues. they used to be this phrase and was gone i colleagues. they used to be| this phrase and was gone by, women and children first, first on the boat, first on the train, first on the bus, protect the women and children. as elise doucet was explaining, according to the united nations, women come out of a population of more than 2 million people in gaza, more than 700,000 have been displaced from their homes. meanwhile, 50,000 are pregnant, with more than 5000 expected to give birth in the next month. and with over 7000 women and girls killed since the conflict began, the un has warned that women and children are dying at a faster rate than any other. for those women and their families who do manage to flee, this is what they face amidst the rubble, cramped conditions in cities and camps across gaza, according to international parenthood, access to clean and safe toilets, sanitary products and contraception has become dire. the mothers, scarcity of clean drinking water has hampered their ability to breastfeed their ability to breastfeed their babies and hospitals have reportedly run out of formula. my reportedly run out of formula. my colleague helen humphrey also spoke to astor rivanchi, a staff writer at time magazine, who has written about what pregnant women face in gaza. your story in time magazine told the story of a number of women. 0ne story really struck me, a woman who was two weeks away from giving birth when she had to evacuate, i think you wrote, for the fourth time. tell us a bit about what she has been facing?— tell us a bit about what she has been facing? thanks for havin: has been facing? thanks for having me- _ has been facing? thanks for having me. she _ has been facing? thanks for having me. she is _ has been facing? thanks for having me. she is the - has been facing? thanks for. having me. she is the mother has been facing? thanks for- having me. she is the mother of a three—year—old, she was two weeks — a three—year—old, she was two weeks away from giving birth when — weeks away from giving birth when she was evacuated for the fourth _ when she was evacuated for the fourth time. she moved from gaza city— fourth time. she moved from gaza city to the south of the border, _ gaza city to the south of the border, towards rafah, and while — border, towards rafah, and while there she was taking shelter_ while there she was taking shelter with three other families, that is about 20 other_ families, that is about 20 other people. while taking shelter_ other people. while taking shelter she began to experience contractions, she went to the nearest — contractions, she went to the nearest hospital to try to give birth, — nearest hospital to try to give birth, she _ nearest hospital to try to give birth, she wasn't even sure if it was— birth, she wasn't even sure if it was labour, but she was eventually at the maternity hospital in rafah city, where she finally gave birth, but her story— she finally gave birth, but her story was_ she finally gave birth, but her story was really heartbreaking because — story was really heartbreaking because the way she described the experience, it was harrowing and notjust because of the — harrowing and notjust because of the stress that she was under, _ of the stress that she was under, but her environment and her surroundings, it was very clear— her surroundings, it was very clear that _ her surroundings, it was very clear that there were a lot of women — clear that there were a lot of womenjust like her who were really— womenjust like her who were really struggling to give birth _ really struggling to give birth. it was a story i heard countless _ birth. it was a story i heard countless times while reporting on this — countless times while reporting on this. we countless times while reporting on this. ~ ., . ., on this. we will touch on those aaain in on this. we will touch on those again in a _ on this. we will touch on those again in a moment, _ on this. we will touch on those again in a moment, but - on this. we will touch on those again in a moment, but from l again in a moment, but from what i understand, reading your article, those conditions, i mean at one stage she was on the brink of giving birth, she was taking refuge in a house, i think she was with about 20 other people, house without water, electricity, just tell us about those conditions? yes, she described, _ us about those conditions? yes, she described, i _ us about those conditions? yes, she described, i guess, - us about those conditions? yes she described, i guess, being in a house which, as you said, didn't really have any water or electricity. i think at one point the family was really relying on that goes for maybe 20 minutes a day, and she was in a house filled with children at the time. i think there were at the time. i think there were a lot of factors to take into consideration, as to how to look after herself. while she was in those conditions. she also said when she first began to experience contractions, because she had already experienced so much stress evacuating from one house to another, she wasn't even sure if she was about to give birth, and even getting to a hospital became a struggle, because it is not really advised that you go out on the streets after a certain time and day, the airstrikes have been continuous. it has been a real difficult challenge to even seek help in these situations. tell us more about what they face when they do get to the hospital. we have read reports of c—sections having to be performed without anaesthetic, for newborns as well, any of those babies potentially born early because of what is going on, if they need special treatment, intubated and treatment, intu bated and ventilated treatment, intubated and ventilated and all of those things, they cannot be guaranteed either, can they? not at all. i mentioned in the article, the neonatal rate is already quite high in a place like gaza, but now, under this crisis, there is about 130 babies who are relying on incubators, and most of these incubators, and most of these incubators need electricity to be operating. those 130 babies are now at risk, severe risk, as un agencies have said. even for the women themselves, as you said, there have been multiple reports from medical personnel about women having to perform birds without anaesthesia, through the c—section surgery, and a lot of times, you know, it really depends on how approximate you are to a hospital, but even if you are close to a hospital they are now so overcrowded with patients, notjust women who are trying to give birth but people who are wounded by airstrikes, at many times, those women are not actually given priority, because there is a life to be saved.- is a life to be saved. just three days _ is a life to be saved. just three days before _ is a life to be saved. just three days before hamas i is a life to be saved. just - three days before hamas carried out its attack on seven 0ctober, hundreds of israeli palestinian women rallied together in the west bank calling for political leaders to resolve the conflict. the women you see here are part of a movement start by organisations like the israel based women wage peace and the palestinian founded women of the son and the women in black founded both by israeli and palestinian women. the group say they aim to amplify women's voices in conflicts that have long impacted their everyday lives. you will likely remember this is rarely grandmother held by hamas for 17 days before being released. she is also a peace activist. and vivian silver is a peace campaigner still being held — he/she is last year speaking at a women wage peace event two hour international editorjeremy bowen met with her son and filed this report a week after she was taken. his mother disappeared on the gaza border. his family believed that if peace diplomacy work the americans last tried ten years ago, israeli and palestinians might have been spared this acrimony. he is here to give a dna sample. but he is hoping his mother is alive as a hostage. vivian silver, his mother, is one of israel's best known campaigners for peace with the palestinian. she was holding meetings only a few days before the hamas attack. what do you think your mother would be saying about everything that is happening right now? gill that this is the outcome, this is the outcome of war, of not striving for peace. we have been — israelis have that saying, living on our soul, and this is what happens. it is, you know it is very overwhelming but it is not completely surprising. couldn't we — it is not sustainable to live in a state of war for... for so long. it burst. but vivian was making light of it at first last saturday until she could not.— at first last saturday until she could not. , , , she could not. maybe witnessing a massacre- _ she could not. maybe witnessing a massacre. enough _ she could not. maybe witnessing a massacre. enough sense - she could not. maybe witnessing a massacre. enough sense of. a massacre. enough sense of humour, i'mjust a massacre. enough sense of humour, i'm just telling everybody, telling you i love you. and i write back, "i love you, mum." she writes, but we are in the house now." i said i have no words i am with you. she writes, ifeel you. and that was it. that is the last message. that was it. that is the last message-— that was it. that is the last messaue. , message. jeremy bowen reporting back in october. _ message. jeremy bowen reporting back in october. that _ message. jeremy bowen reporting back in october. that ski - back in october. that ski analysis now of a professor of clark university. helena humphrey spoke to her earlier about the importance of women in peace dealing. , it is not about biology, it is about roles in society and knowledge about society that make women particularly less invested in military solutions. it is not like all men are pro— military solutions. they are not. a lot of men have taken part in peace movements all around the world. but it is true that women have much less of a stake in seeing any conflict, any profound difference in militarised terms. that is true and that is why so many women feel — not feel they believe that they are being excluded from senior decision—making posts in these difficult times. it is making it much harder to come to realistic, sustainable peace. i want to ask about some of the impacts on this walk, possess, specifically on women on seven 0ctober specifically on women on seven october when hamas carried out its attack, we saw people taken hostage including women, subsequently after we saw images of not only women injured but also, in some cases, and dressed. ijust wonder, in your assessment, cases, and dressed. ijust wonder, in yourassessment, is that also a tactic of to wonder, in your assessment, is that also a tactic of to strike fear into the female population.- fear into the female population. fear into the female --oulation. ~ ~ ., ., population. we know from bosnian feminists, - population. we know from bosnian feminists, we - population. we know from i bosnian feminists, we know population. we know from - bosnian feminists, we know from ethiopian feminists, we know from feminists in many different, horrific war zones, that the sexualisation of violence is part and parcel — not a very bored — you should not a very bored — you should not lump them all together — but in so many wars and you are right, it is part of fear mongering. it is part of humiliation, which is oftentimes a weapon by both sides in any conflict. irate oftentimes a weapon by both sides in any conflict. we have seen a departure _ sides in any conflict. we have seen a departure of— sides in any conflict. we have seen a departure of some - sides in any conflict. we have - seen a departure of some women leaders on the world stage in recent years, i'm thinking of germany's angular merkel, new zealand's jacinta ardern, and finland's sanna marin, do you think female leadership on the world stage is also important to shaping the foreign policy response? it absolutely is and the departures of those very important women is being felt, but we really have to watch the whole as they refer to it in electoral strategy terms, the whole pipeline. there are many women coming up through governorships, through members of parliament ship, senior civil servants, and in fact they have the kind of knowledge, especially, especially, if they have kept up especially, if they have kept up their connections with women civil society organisations. those women are the ones who are much more likely to be able to achieve diplomatic rather than military solutions. turning now to some of the other stories making headlines and right here in washington the deadline to avoid a government shutdown is less than a week away. speaker mike johnson unveiled a two step fan that would see funding for some federal agencies expire at different times but avoid suspending cuts that some republicans have been pushing for. but the plan is taking criticism from inaudible with a slim republican majority, even a small rebellion from the caucus could sink mrjohnson's proposal. let's take a quick look at some of the key dates for government funding. the house passed the latest stopgap spending bill in september, that is a short—term deal that kept the government operational. the us is less than one—week away from a shutdown which than one—week away from a shutdown which will than one—week away from a shutdown which will be triggered on the 17th. that you two step plan from how speaker mikejohnson funds the mike johnson funds the departments mikejohnson funds the departments of agriculture, veterans affairs and housing untiljanuary and pushes off some of the biggest spending headaches, including funding for fbi until fabry second. the houseis for fbi until fabry second. the house is expected to vote on a new proposal as early as tuesday. ukrainian officials say russia has launched a missile strikes on ukraine's t if and the surrounding regions for the first time in more than seven weeks. this is the damage here in kherson, with the strikes reportedly damaging several buildings and came on the first anniversary of the city being retaken from forces. lodge by russian forces overnight. ukrainian authorities warned of renewed attacks from russia on cities and its power grid is the country enters winter. in other news, police in spain say they have arrested 121 people in nationwide operation targeting child sexual abuse. they say despond of the most important of such operations carried out. 0ffices sees 500 tb of images of minors being sexually abused. many of them extreme and violent in nature. pope francis has dismissed tech as bishopjoseph strickland, when of his visa critics in the us. the vatican announced the rare move in a statement that follows an investigation earlier this year into the administration of the taylor texas daisy. also looked at the handling of the dioceses handling of financial affairs. strickland has become a leading voice of conservative us catholics that opposes many of the popes reform. iceland has declared a state of emergency untold thousands of people they need to leave their homes after a series of earthquakes face these volcanic eruption. large amounts of magma or molten rock is spreading underground. the increase seismic activity has prompted the closure of the blue lagoon, ags bow geo geothermal spa m1 of iceland's major tourist regions and thousands of residence have to evacuate from a nearby town. iceland has seen a nearby town. iceland has seen a number of volcanic eruptions in recent years but this money is being treated much more seriously than other events. we leave you now... almost 530 in the morning there. conditions in hospitals are becoming increasingly desperate, with electricity, food and fuel all in short supply. war raging around the world. hello there. we're starting our sunday morning off on a cold and frosty note across much of the north and east of the uk, with some lingering dense mist and fog patches around. but a big change taking place across more southern and western areas. we've got a weather front spreading northwards, that's going to bring outbreaks of rain and we'll see the rain and cloud spill northwards through the course of the day. i think it's much of northern scotland which will tend to stay dry with some sunshine all day. now some of the rain will be fairly heavy in places, particularly in towards northern ireland. the breeze picking up as well, but cold, frosty and foggy with some sunshine across northern and eastern areas. there could be just a few showers peppering northeastern coasts of scotland in towards the northern hours, but most places will see the sunshine, areas that don't have mist and fog, mind you. but northern ireland into wales, the midlands, southern and western parts of england will start cloudy and wet and it looks pretty damp here for the remembrance sunday services. now that area of cloud and rain will continue to move its way northwards. we'll see a little bit of brightness pushing into the southwest and south wales later on, but even here we'll have a few hefty showers. temperature—wise turning milder in the southwest but cold across northern and eastern areas. and like i mentioned, its northern and eastern scotland which will hold on to the sunshine. through sunday night, that weather front eventually pushes northwards. so with cloudier skies across scotland, northern england, it will be less cold, but it turns much wetter and windier across england, wales and northern ireland towards the end of the night. and very mild here, 12 to 1a degrees, but less cold across the north and i don't think we should see any frost problems. this renewed area of low pressure could cause some issues. we've already got a yellow rain warning in force for northern ireland. the rain will be heavy and persistent and we could see gales, even severe gales, around the irish sea coast as we move through the course of monday. that rain pushes its way northwards into scotland through the afternoon. it brightens up for northern ireland and certainly for england and wales later on, could see one or two showers around, but it will be the temperatures you'll notice on monday, much milder, 12 to 15 degrees, even 8 to 11 degrees across scotland. it does remain fairly unsettled, though, as we move through the new week with areas of low pressure bringing more unwelcome rainfall, but the signs of it perhaps turning a little bit drier and brighter for many areas by the end of the week. voiceover: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. disney is celebrating its 100th birthday and i'm talking to one of the most powerful women in hollywood. # let it go, let it go...# jennifer lee changed cinema forever when she co—wrote and co—directed frozen. the film won her an academy award, and she became the first woman to co—direct a feature film that grossed more than $1 billion. she's now chief creative officer at walt disney animation studios, but continues to direct and write, including disney's latest release, the computer—animated musical wish. a disney obsessive who used to watch cinderella to cope with school bullies, she's risen to the top of one of the world's greatest entertainment companies. welcome to the media show. welcome to the media show, jennifer. thank you for having me. i'm really happy to be here. it's great to have you. and of course, happy birthday. what does disney mean to you? oh, i mean, i would say disney fights hopelessness with hope. and it's a place ofjoy, imagination. it's where you can just truly escape and dream about what's possible. and i've been committed to that idea since i was a small child, and i guess it never left me. and we are, of course, going to talk much more about disney. but i'd like to just get a sense first of who you are and how you got here. i think you were born on rhode island, in rhode island, and grew up in a single—parent family. your mother worked two jobs to support you and your sister. and as i said at the beginning, you've talked about being bullied. what was it about watching cinderella that helped you cope? oh, i think definitely the part about cinderella that i'm most connected with is...