engaged in some of the heaviest fighting since the start of its invasion of gaza. people there are being told to move further south as israeli forces step up their operation against hamas, designated a terror organisation by many western governments. the united nations is warning of an "even more hellish scenario" in the region with no safe places for people to go. this map shows the main districts of gaza — a huge flow of people were told to leave their homes more than a month ago and move to southern gaza. the un says nearly 1.9m people have been forced from their homes in this way since october the 7th. that's more than 85 % of the population in gaza. this is the latest damage assessment map of the territory, as shown here in red. the worst hit areas you can see in the north of the strip. unconfirmed reports claim israeli troops may try to destroy the vast network of hamas tunnels underneath the gaza strip by flooding them with sea water. our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, sent this report from jerusalem. as israeli forces move south, another hospital in the eye of the storm. this was al nasr in khan younis this morning. four days after the cease—fire ended, a desperate constant procession of death, injury and grief. nearby, a miraculous escape. two sisters, maria and lana, pulled alive from the rubble three days after being buried, along with dozens of members of their family. i saw a body on the ground, her head was covered with rocks. at first, i thought it was my sister, katya, but then i looked again, and i thought it is jenna, my cousin. death and displacement, two things israel's american allies have asked it to minimise. but people are fleeing — many of them not for the first time. the war�*s destruction driving them on. explosions. washington wanted this phase of the war to be different. but for those caught up in it, like this panic—stricken ambulance crew, it looks and feels very much the same. gunfire. street battles are raging in khan younis — these pictures from islamichhad, one of the two main palestinian armed factions. israel will win this fight, but at what cost? paul adams, bbc news, jerusalem. and paul gave me his assessment of today's fighting the israelis are clearly focusing more and more on the city of khan younis, even though there is still fighting going on in and around gaza city. the chief of staff, israel's chief of staff has suggested that the israeli military is in the process of encircling khan younis and clearly this is causing panic. the scenes outside the hospital there are relentless. there is a steady stream of wounded people arriving there. and people are on the move. you know, the two things that the americans asked the israelis to make sure they did in this latest phase of the war were not to cause too much civilian hardship and not to because too many people to have to leave. ——and not to cause too many people to have to leave. this is early days still, it's only a few days since the fighting resumed, but for palestinians in that part of the gaza strip, it all looks awfully familiar. paul, can i ask you about the reports, they are unconfirmed reports, about the tunnels and this idea of flooding the tunnels under gaza, what do we know or not know about that? well, this is a story that is written by the wall street journal newspaper. we've been putting to israeli military officials all day and the response is always the same. "we have all sorts of tools at our disposal and we are not "going to describe them to you." so it does appear to be one option. there was one official who said that it was, you know, not a bad option, but no one has confirmed that that is the plan. clearly the israelis face a problem when it comes to the tunnels, because by destroying them, underneath, sometimes, civilian areas, they run the risk of causing a great deal of civilian harm. so flooding the might seem to be, in one sense, a more humane option. i mean, there are environmental issues involved there, but it might be that the israelis believe that that might be a way of tackling that particular problem of hundreds of miles, hundreds of kilometres of tunnels with hamas fighters in then, that flooding the might be an option, but no confirmation at the moment. earlier i spoke with jason lee from save the children who gave me an update on the humanitarian situation in gaza. the situation is harrowing. i'm now in gaza _ the situation is harrowing. i'm now in gaza and — the situation is harrowing. i'm now in gaza and there are hundreds of thousands— in gaza and there are hundreds of thousands of people that have been told to _ thousands of people that have been told to move again. a lot of them have _ told to move again. a lot of them have moved from the north, thinking that they— have moved from the north, thinking that they were safe, and given the evacuation — that they were safe, and given the evacuation orders again to move south _ evacuation orders again to move south. rafah cannot accommodate that many people. it is a city that is built— many people. it is a city that is built for— many people. it is a city that is built for 280,000 people, and we anticipate — built for 280,000 people, and we anticipate an extra 500,000 civilians _ anticipate an extra 500,000 civilians that have no access to shelter. — civilians that have no access to shelter, not enough food, not enough watei’, _ shelter, not enough food, not enough water, not _ shelter, not enough food, not enough water, not enough health care. it is catastrophic. but water, not enough health care. it is catastmphic-_ catastrophic. but the alternative, israel has been _ catastrophic. but the alternative, israel has been asked _ catastrophic. but the alternative, israel has been asked to - catastrophic. but the alternative, | israel has been asked to minimise the damage done to civilians, and so is asking them to move while it targets,. as dire as the situation is by your description, they will have to move somewhere to avoid the strikes from israel.— strikes from israel. there is nowhere — strikes from israel. there is nowhere safe _ strikes from israel. there is nowhere safe to _ strikes from israel. there is nowhere safe to move - strikes from israel. there is nowhere safe to move to. i strikes from israel. there is - nowhere safe to move to. again, the areas that the civilian population areas that the civilian population are being asked to move to, cannot accommodate them. there's not enough infrastructure to keep people alive. there's air strikes and fighting, the civilian casualties and death toll is increasing and will continue toll is increasing and will continue to increase, especially if you are forcing civilians into an area of land that cannot accommodate them, has no ability to sustain life. again, we are asking civilians to choose one way to die or another, to be killed when they stay in khan younis or to starve to death, to dehydrate or to die of communicable diseases. even thejourney dehydrate or to die of communicable diseases. even the journey south is perilous. jason lee with his stark assessment of the situation on the ground. the bbc has heard evidence that women were sexually assaulted, raped and mutilated during hamas's attacks on southern israel in october. israeli investigators say they are trawling through sixty—thousand hours of footage, and have compiled more than a thousand testimonies from witnesses and those who handled the bodies of victims after the attack. this report from our middle east correspondent, lucy williamson, contains graphic details from the start and testimony you may find very distressing: out of the chaos and mass trauma of the hamas attacks, new stories are starting to emerge — of rape and sexual assault. including graphic testimony from an eye witness interviewed by police. i realised they were raping her one by one. then she was passed to another man in uniform. she was still alive when she was being raped. the scale of sexual violence here is not clear — bodies were mutilated and survivors few. police admit they are facing a lack of forensic evidence from the site. you can still hear the israeli bombardment of gaza and see vast clouds of black smoke hanging over the gaza strip. but in the days following the attacks, this site was an active combat zone. it was a big enough challenge to collect the bodies, let alone early forensic evidence of sexual crimes. videos shot by hamas during the attacks, an early warning, a large bloodstain on the trousers of one woman captive, female bodies piled on trucks, naked or semi—clothed. you see the way that it's burnt... body collectors describe piles of women's bodies, naked from the waist down, some with their legs splayed. those who witnessed sexual attacks have struggled with what they saw. and those who witness sexual attacks have struggled with what they saw. i spoke with girls that are now, at least three girls, that are now hospitalised for very hard psychiatric situation because of the rapes they watched. they pretended to be dead and they watched it and they heard everything from the side. some of them want to kill themselves. some can't deal with that. crucial evidence has come from the makeshift identification unit at this army base. teams here describe clear signs of assault, including briken pelvis's. but the scale of sexual abuse during these attacks may never be fully known. it's definitely multiple. it's hard to tell. i have also dealt with more than a few burnt bodies, and those, i have no idea what they went through before hand. bodies that are missing the bottom half, i also don't know if they were raped. staff told me there were patterns in the violence visited on women's bodies according to location. investigators say these attacks were systematic and premeditated, but piecing together even one single story is slow and difficult work. the wider story of sexual violence in these attacks is onlyjust beginning. lucy williamson, bbc news, jerusalem. i spoke to israeli women's rights campaigner and lawyer professor ruth halperin—kaddari earlier about the allegations. she told that, based on the evidence she's seen, she believes hamas had a premeditated plan to use sexual violence on october seventh. so i saw a number of different pieces of evidence that when connecting them both together, the picture is very, very clear that sexual violence was indeed used by hamas on october seven as part of the range of atrocities that the massacre contained. we have eyewitness testimony of a survivor who hid in the bushes and describes in horrific detail that gang rape that took place very close to her, including mutilation, which i will not describe now, because it is really too difficult to hear. but she does describe it in graphic details. add to that video clip of one of the hostages that was taken and was filmed in real time with her pants...blood on the crotch of her pants, add to that all of the first responders testimonies, including photographs and footage that i have also seen of bodies that, one of the police officers use the terminology, the bodies speak. the bodies, the condition of the bodies, naked from the bottom it down with positions of legs in such a way which leaves no doubt as to what had taken place prior to being shot or even after being shot, and all of these have taken place in different locations, but at the same time, which means that it could not have been, unless there was a premeditated and preconceived plan. and what i've also seen is the filming of the testimonies, statements, given by hamas terrorists in the interrogations describing the orders and the instructions that they were given before the attack to anterior and to capture and to mutilate and to rape and to murder, and when asked if that is not against the teachings of islam, they explain that there was a religious dispensation, a fatwa to allow them, permit them to do these atrocities. those details are incredibly distressing. what have you meet at the international community's response to them? regrettably, it has taken much too long, and even until now, many of these entities, agencies, organisations that we have turned to have not responded. i myself contacted a range of un bodies immediately after october seven on the monday and tuesday following that. i wrote a letter to the committee of the elimination of discrimination against women, which i was a part of for 12 years, and i sent a letter to the special rapporteur on violence against women, to un women, and to a number of other un entities, and it took un women almost eight weeks to be willing to actually acknowledge, say the words, sexual violence that hamas committed on october seven and called for a rigorous investigation. but that is really too late, much too late. the silence and the disregard of the international human rights community is a failure of the system. hamas have previously denied those allegations. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. south wales police say a 28—year—old man, arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder a woman in the town of aberfan, was known to her. the woman — who's 29 — is being treated in hospital for stab wounds, but her injuries are not thought to be life threatening. new guidance in scotland states that trans women who have hurt or threatened women or girls will not be held in female prisons unless there are exceptional circumstances. the scottish prison service policy follows a public outcry after a rapist was sent to a women's prison. isla bryson raped two women while known as a man called adam graham. draft guidance from ofcom suggests pawn users could have their faces scanned to prove their age, with extra checks for young—looking adults. the watchdog has set out a number of ways explicit sites could prevent ——draft guidance from ofcom suggests porn users could have their faces children from viewing pornography. one survery says the average age children first view pornography is 13. the website pornhub says regulations requiring �*highly sensitive you're live with bbc news. the uk government has signed a new deal with rwanda, the latest phase of its plans to send some migrants there. the supreme court ruled that the last version of the policy was against the law, as migrants sent to rwanda would then be at risk of being sent onwards to dangerous countries. today the home secretary james cleverly insisted the new deal addressed those issues. our political editor chris mason travelled with him to rwanda. this was james cleverly�*s first foreign trip as home secretary, but hang on a minute, a spot of east african deja vu. priti patel came here as home secretary in april of last year and suella braverman was here in march. three home secretaries making it to rwanda before a single migrant. last month, the supreme court said the rwanda plan was unlawful. this is what the government's hoped for solution looks like. a treaty between the uk and rwanda. the uk and rwanda are working on this because it is important, not because it is necessarily easy or that it buys you a cheap or quick popularity. rwanda and the uk understand there is a critical need to find innovative ways to address the suffering of migrants not because it is necessarily easy or that it buys you a cheap or quick popularity. rwanda and the uk understand there is a critical need to find innovative ways to address the suffering of migrants making desperate journeys and the exploitation of criminal human smugglers. can you guarantee that migrants will be on their way here as soon as the spring, or are you crossing your fingers and hoping for the best? of course, we want to see this part of our wider migration plan up and running as quickly as possible. we feel very strongly that this treaty addresses all the issues raised by their lordships in the supreme court. key to the supreme court's concern was the fear rwanda would send people to countries where they would be unsafe. british judges will now sit in rwandan courts to hear appeals where in some instances migrants could return to the uk. this whole idea has always been novel, unconventional. ministers say it has to be because illegal migration is a massive challenge, and so they have to think of big, new ideas. but they can't be certain it will work. critics say it could end up being an expensive experiment doomed to failure. we have seen more home secretaries that we have asylum seekers sent to rwanda and we still don't have a full answer on how much this is costing. we know they have already sent cheques to rwanda for 140 million for a scheme that is clearly failing. he's gone with another chequebook to try and continue as the home secretary prepared to leave, the big question remained. can you guarantee migrants will arrive in rwanda from the uk before the general election? the only thing i can guarantee is the effort we put in an i have guaranteed that we will address the issues that the supreme court has put forward and we have. i guarantee that we'll work collaboratively with the rwandan government and we have. it might not be enough. i guarantee that we will put this relationship on a firm international footing and we have. another trip complete, the same issue hangs in the air. will it be migrants not ministers heading here soon? chris mason, bbc news, rwanda. let's help our political correspondent is fighting for it. good to see you. what are the reactions on this latest attempt to get this plan through? latest attempt to get this plan throu~h? �* ., , , ., through? i'm not suffering from the same cold as _ through? i'm not suffering from the same cold as chris, _ through? i'm not suffering from the same cold as chris, the _ through? i'm not suffering from the same cold as chris, the reaction - through? i'm not suffering from the same cold as chris, the reaction at| same cold as chris, the reaction at the minute, so, you have the government obviously saying that it believes that this addresses the concerns from the supreme court. the supreme court has ruled that the rwanda policy is unlawful, and that ruling doesn't change. it stands, even though this treaty has been signed, so that's the first thing to say. obviously the government says that it believes that it can address those concerns and it wants to get on with things, but there is no sign it will be able to do that immediately. now, the opposition labour party interestingly, their point of view has always been that they do not support the rwanda deal, they do not support the rwanda deal, they think that it is expensive, and no refugees or asylum—seekers sent to rwanda yet. their view at the minute is that they would replace this with something else. that something else is much more effort and the money going into this what should be spent instead on policing and international coordinated efforts to tackle those who are facilitating people smuggling, moving people across from france to the uk. amongst conservative mps, broadly, they believe the government should be pursuing this strategy, some on the right of the conservative party are holding their fire for the minute. they say they are looking at this treaty and will deliver their verdict on it. they want a tough line, if anything, a tougher line on the more centrist side of the conservative party. others are concerned that legislation that will accompany this will come to parliament, they do not want to see that undermining in any way the uk's obligations under international law, under european law to human rights fundamental basic human rights protections, so they are concerned as well stop by just looking forward briefly, what is the rough kind of timeline here given, of course, the general election? i given, of course, the general election?— given, of course, the general election? �* ., , election? i think you can't really sa that election? i think you can't really say that there _ election? i think you can't really say that there is _ election? i think you can't really say that there is a _ election? i think you can't really say that there is a timeline, - election? i think you can't really say that there is a timeline, to i election? i think you can't really i say that there is a timeline, to be honest. there is a political timeline, which is the government saying we want to do this and we went to get flights off in the new year, and that would, in effect, put it before an election which may well be in the spring or late summer of next year, but the real problem i think they face is the legal one. so evenif think they face is the legal one. so even if they get to the point of trying to do this, it's almost certain there will be legal challenges and the other reaction, legal reaction to this, people looking at it saying, well, the issueis looking at it saying, well, the issue is that the supreme court here has ruled rwanda is not a safe country and you don't change that by simply signing a piece of paper with rwanda. what rwanda would have to do is show a track record of dealing with asylum claims and not putting them at risk by potentially shipping them at risk by potentially shipping them off to other countries. it might sign this treaty saying it wouldn't do that, but where is the evidence? and the evidence at the minute that was presented to the supreme court was that rwanda, even while this deal was sort of already under way in its early form, had already deported people, including a syrian national back to turkey and syrian national back to turkey and syria where he faced danger. so the legal view is that this doesn't change, but potentially the billing from the supreme court, it needs to be more than that. so from that point of view, it is hard to see how those flights could be happening anytime soon stop it thank you so much for that. taking into israel to a press conference happening live in tel aviv. , , ,, aviv. government ministers speaking there. we aviv. government ministers speaking there- we have _ aviv. government ministers speaking there. we have just _ aviv. government ministers speaking there. we have just heard _ aviv. government ministers speaking there. we have just heard from - there. we have just heard from benjamin yahoo, the prime minister. but i want to bring you one line from the us, it says "israel is not doing enough to allow more fuel and aid into gaza and should step up efforts." —— benjamin netanyahu. that's from the state department spokesperson saying, "there is not enough being done right now. the level of assistance that is getting in is not sufficient. it needs to go up in is not sufficient. it needs to go up and we have made that clear to the government of israel. the level of fuel that is going in is not sufficient. it needs to go up. we both get more reaction to that a little bit later on. denny laine, lead singer of the moody blues, and a guitarist with paul mccartney's band wings, has died at the age of 79. you can see him here, being interviewed with paul and linda mccartney, on the left of this picture. denny, whose real name was brian hines, died after a long battle with lung disease, according to his wife elizabeth. she was by his side — holding his hand, as he died. among his many other achievements, laine sang on the moody blues' stay with us here on bbc news. plenty more coming up. hello. skies are going to be clearing across much of the country through the evening and overnight, and that's going to lead to a widespread frost. also fog forming, particularly across more southern parts of the uk. now, let me show you the satellite picture from earlier on. it really was quite a cloudy day across the bulk of england and wales — drizzly, too. but in the north—west, we had clearer skies and it's been quite a cold day. and this is where the temperatures will be lowest overnight. now the winds will fall light as well right across the uk, and that's going to help the fog to form. and we're thinking around parts of the midlands into wales, central, southern england and into the south—east as well — and really quite dense in places. now, the temperatures will be widely below freezing, even in bigger towns and cities, perhaps as low as —7 or —10 in the sheltered glens, but already somewhat milder in the far west of the uk. and that's in advance of this weather front. you can see the southerly winds. but the fog ahead of it and the windless weather will mean, well, that fog will stick around into the afternoon in one or two locations. and where it does, it really will be quite a raw day. so in some spots, temperatures on wednesday during the afternoon could be barely above freezing. but i think that's not going to be the case for most of us. for many of us, it will be a bright, if not sunny day, but a really chilly one. so, four degrees in edinburgh, newcastle, around six in norwich. but out towards the west, that's where the front is advancing southerly winds, so a milder direction. wind and rain will spread across the uk during the course of wednesday night and into thursday. ahead of it, temporarily, there could be some wintry weather across the pennines and the scottish hills and mountains. and then on thursday, it's a wet day. at least a spell of rain on the way for many of us before it turns a little bit clearer later in the day out towards the west. and you can see those temperatures rising — 13 in plymouth, about six or seven across the east and the north—east. and that pattern continues into friday and the weekend. we have a whole succession of low pressures and weather fronts coming our way. so basically it's what we call a westerly regime — so, fronts coming out of the west, bringing much milder conditions. and here's the outlook. from thursday onwards and even into next week, you can see double figures. it's been below average for quite some time. now it's going to be somewhat above average. bye— bye. this is bbc news. the headlines: israel says it's entered the southern gaza city of khan younis, as the world health organization warns the situation is getting "worse by the hour". the uk home secretary signs a treaty with rwanda as they try again to send asylum—seekers to the country. rwanda is helping the uk in our fight against illegal migration and people smuggling. time to act on watch thefts — tens of millions of pounds worth of luxury watches are snatched from victims every year. and the latest billion—dollar grand theft auto game is revealed in a dramatic trailer, the first new game in the series for a decade. welcome back. i am lewis vaughan jones. to dubai, where environmental campaigners say a record number of delegates from fossil fuel industries are attending the cop28 climate summit. today's focus was energy and industry, a just transition and indigenous peoples. a report by a coalition of green groups called kick big polluters out says almost two and a half thousand people from companies linked to coal, gas and oil are attending — that's four times the number at last year's conference in egypt.