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Mourn with them. I want to Express Deep Appreciation to our forces, Express Deep Appreciation to ourforces, to Express Deep Appreciation to our forces, to the Express Deep Appreciation to ourforces, to the brave soLdiers of the ibf, and the fighters who risk their Lives to bring back our sons and daughters. I say to the terrorists, promoted hostages, and i say to their Leaders, your bLood is on your heads. We wiLL not rest and we wiLL not be siLent. We wiLL pursue you, we wiLL find you and we wiLL settLe L'>The SchooL with you. And in the west bank, three israeLis were kiLLed when their vehicLe was fired on near the city of hebron. The Li-miLitary'>IsraeLi MiLitary has been carrying out operations there for severaL days. Correspondent, jon donnison, i started off by asking him about the divisions in Benjamin Netanyahus Cabinet it refLects the divisions within the government but aLso with an israeLi society. In his short Statement Benjamin Netanyahu this morning said those who kiLL hostages dont want a deaL, referring to the aLLegation from the Li-miLitary'>IsraeLi MiLitary that these hostages were brutaLLy murdered in their words by hamas shortLy before the bodies were found. But you have to remember back in november Last year we had a ceasefire, a temporary ceasefire, where hostages were being exchanged for paLestinian prisoners every day. That went on for about a week with roughLy ten hostages per day coming out and a Lot of questions being asked about why did israeL not continue with that process for a Longer period and then some of those we now know have died might have been freed . CertainLy that hostage Lies-forum'>FamiLies Forum seen today that the peopLe whose bodies have been fine today wouLd have been aLive today if a L'>Hostage DeaL couLd have been done. A short whiLe ago i spoke with the director of forward thinking, which is an organisation addressing issues reLated to the Le-east'>MiddLe East Peace Process and reLigious and secuLar diaLogue. First of aLL, the tragedy of those deaths, i think couLd have been avoided and negotiations being given priority. But, it iLLustrates the risk if you pursue a doubLe strategy on the one hand you are saying i want negotiate for the reLease of the hostages but on the other hand you are pursuing a Litary-strategy'>MiLitary Strategy aimed at the totaL demise of those hoLding the hostages. I think the risk we see today, it is high, very high risk of peopLe being kiLLed in the process. PeopLe being kiLLed in the rocess. ,. , peopLe being kiLLed in the process peopLe being kiLLed in the rocess. ,. , y. , ~ peopLe being kiLLed in the rocess. ,. , 4 , process. How do you think this affects organisationmacs and awfuL reaLity is that these hostages are Bargaining Chips for them . , hostages are Bargaining Chips for them . Hostages are bargaining Chips Forthem . , ~. , for them . ExactLy, you know in expLaining for them . ExactLy, you know in expLaining the for them . ExactLy, you know in expLaining the scifi for them . ExactLy, you know in expLaining the scifi from for them . ExactLy, you know in expLaining the scifi from in expLaining the Sci Fi from In Dorset that it doesnt make sense to me that her wouLd kiLL hostages because theyve kept, we forget that had two young israeLis, one of ethiopian origin, another In Gaza for aLmost ten years. They were there as Bargaining Chips to get reLeased Long term as israeLi prisons. So, it reaLLy doesnt fit the narrative, the picture, the experience that suddenLy i think the End Game has to be negotiations. I i think the End Game has to be negotiations. Negotiations. I cannot see that happening negotiations. I cannot see that happening as negotiations. I cannot see that happening as Long negotiations. I cannot see that happening as Long as negotiations. I cannot see that i happening as Long as netanyahu is pursuing his Litary-goaL'>MiLitary GoaL because Lets face it, if he signs a ceasefire which is essentiaL, if were going to have the exchange of hostages, he is effectiveLy signing his own resignation. Because, the day he signed a ceasefire wiLL be the day of accountabiLity of october seven happened, why there was a breach in israeLi security, and aLso he returns to court because weve got to remember that when this sad episode began he was appearing in court each morning. So, i think it is not in his best interests to cease the miLitary objective and as we see, the resuLt of that, is extremeLy high risk. Un officiaLs and LocaL Lth-workers'>HeaLth Workers are roLLing out a Mass Vaccination Programme for poLio In Gaza, which wiLL reLy on a series of Limited pauses in fighting between israeLi forces and hamas. The Ld-heaLth-organisation'>WorLd HeaLth Organisation says it wiLL need to vaccinate at Least ninety percent of chiLdren aged under ten for the campaign to succeed. Its campaign was organised after a Io Month oLd baby was partLy paraLysed by the first case of the virus In Gaza a quarter of a century. On saturday, medics vaccinated chiLdren at one hospitaL in a symboLic move ahead of the officiaL campaign. From jerusaLem our Le-east'>MiddLe East correspondent, Lande-kneLL'>YoLande KneLL reports. Just two drops. As the un Lio-in-gaza'>Begins Vaccinating Against PoLio In Gaza a dose is easy to give, but carrying out a Mass Immunisation campaign in a Combat Zone is a huge chaLLenge. Parents of the first vaccinated chiLdren are reLieved. TransLation i was worried and afraid because this is scary. The poLio disease. This disease makes the chiLdren unabLe to move. Baby abduLrahman was crawLing earLy, but now his mum LL'>Worries HeLL never be abLe to waLk. He was the first chiLd found to have poLio In Gaza in 25 years, and it paraLysed his Leg. Because of the war he wasnt vaccinated and now medicaL care is Limited. TransLation he wants to Live and be treated. He wants to Live and waLk Like other chiLdren. I feeL a Lot of guiLt that he didnt get the vaccination, but i couLdnt give it to him because of our circumstances. DispLaced five times, the Ly'>Babys FamiLy now Lives in a crowded Tent Camp in L-baLah'>Deir AL BaLah in centraL gaza. Raw sewage fLows through streets nearby. Conditions are ideaL for diseases to spread, especiaLLy poLio, which is highLy infectious. Since discovering the virus, un agencies have been racing to set up an emergency Mass Vaccination Programme, and with war raging, theyve negotiated three LocaLised three day pauses in fighting with israeL and hamas. Un officiaLs say the pLan is not ideaL, but its workabLe. With No End In Sight to the war, the hope is that at Least one new source of suffering can be eLiminated. YoLande kneLL, Bbc News, jerusaLem. Where there are some chiLdren expected to turn up as part of the LL'>Vaccination RoLL out. One of the many pLaces where chiLdren and babies are being vaccinated against poLio, there are Live scenes from the hospitaL In Gaza. You can see more of the story on our Live page on the Bbc News website. Commemorative events are taking pLace in the russian town of besLan to mark the twentieth anniversary of the besLan schooL siege. More than Three Hundred peopLe were kiLLed, incLuding at Least One Hundred And Eighty chiLdren, when Chechen Separatists burst into L'>The SchooL on its first day of term. They took more than A Thousand Le-hostage'>PeopLe Hostage to demand independence for chechnya. ChiLdren, parents and teachers were heLd at the L-gymnasium'>SchooL Gymnasium for three days. The siege ended suddenLy when russian Security Forces stormed L'>The SchooL. Witnesses described the operation as chaotic, saying the russian speciaL troops used excessive force and heavy weapons. Airports in the European Union and other Schengen Area countries which had scrapped 100 LLiLitre-Liquid'>MiLLiLitre Liquid Limits for Luggage'>Hand Luggage are reinstating them from today. The European Commission said its a temporary measure to address a technicaL issue with new equipment but its not said how Long it wiLL remain in pLace. Heres our transport correspondent, katy austin. For a whiLe, it Looked Like the era of the tiny toiLetry was nearLy over aLL major airports in the uk were toLd to put in new state of the art scanners, aLLowing the 100mL Limit on Liquid containers going through Security And Cabin bags to be Lifted. There have been deLays getting the kit in pLace at the biggest hubs, but some regionaL ones had fuLLy instaLLed it beforejune this year and dropped the oLd ruLes. Then injune, the government suddenLy announced that 100mL restriction was back, and has given no date for scrapping it again. Now any eu airports which had moved over to the new scanners are aLso having to revert to the oLd Limit. With the equipment needs sorting. The big Issue Weve got now is there is reaL Lack of cLarity to the consumers so we are seeing in the busy periods when peopLe are traveLLing reaL confusion that entaiLs and peopLe are not sure what the processes are now when theyre traveLLing with Liquids, and we have reaL disparity, not onLy across uk airports, but aLso across the eu as weLL. Rome and amsterdam are among the Locations which had brought in the high Tech Scanning machines. Some others had started to roLL them out and it is a very mixed picture but what is for sure that anyone who had the scanners in pLace and eased their ruLes are now having to revert to the oLd ruLes of 100mL. As with the eu, the uk has given no indication as to when those restrictions wiLL end. Katy austin, Bbc News. The poLLs have opened in two eastern states of germany, in eLections in which the far right is expected to perform strongLy. Thousands of demonstrators took part in raLLies in Saxony And Thuringia on saturday. The anti immigrant aLternative for germany Party Or Afd is expected to do weLL in the eLection. In the city of erfurt, protesters denounced the afd, as fascists. PoLice say about 2,000 peopLe attended anti far right raLLies in dresden. At an afd raLLy, one of The Party Leaders toLd supporters that germany needed controLLed borders and the expuLsion of iLLegaL migrants. Its thought The Party couLd emerge as the Largest in thuringia the vote. These are Live pictures at a LLing-station'>PoLLing Station in thuringia where peopLe are casting their vote, i dont know what that person is doing. A strange gesture being made but one of the many peopLe voting there. AL Europe Correspondent has more. These are regionaL, not nationaL eLections. The far right aLternative for deutschLand has been Leading the poLLs and running a cLose second in neighbouring saxony. However, because many view The Party as extremist, something they reject, they may struggLe to find Lition-partners'>CoaLition Partners in order to actuaLLy take power. The man who heads up the afd here in thuringia is a highLy controversiaL figure caLLed bjorn hocke. Hes a taLisman of The Partys hard right, and has twice been fined this year for knowingLy using a nazi sLogan, something he denied. This vote may aLso deLiver this vote may aLso deLiver a major repudiation a major repudiation of the government in berLin of the government in berLin under LLor-oLaf-schoLz'>ChanceLLor OLaf SchoLz under LLor-oLaf-schoLz'>ChanceLLor OLaf SchoLz and his traffic and his traffic Light coaLition. Light coaLition. Its a Litmus-test'>Litmus Test here its a Litmus-test'>Litmus Test here in the countrys east, a year in the countrys east, a year ahead of the federaL eLections. Ahead of the federaL eLections. Now its time for a Look at todays sport. Now its time for a Look at todays sport. HeLLo, jane. Were going to heLLo, jane. Were going to start with some sadness because start with some sadness because the former Ivory Coast Defender the former Ivory Coast Defender has died at the Age Ofjust 39. Has died at the Age Ofjust 39. He pLayed 46 times in his he pLayed 46 times in his country, beginning his career country, beginning his career with paris and went on to with paris and went on to represent Lish-cLubs'>EngLish CLubs Leeds, represent Lish-cLubs'>EngLish CLubs Leeds, Leicester, cardiff and Leicester, cardiff and middLesbrough. As weLL as middLesbrough. As weLL as scottish teams. He overcame scottish teams. He overcame Lymphoma'>Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2021. There are two huge games in the uk on sunday, injust over an hours time because rangers in the first goLd of the new season and the scottish premiership. If the defending middLesbrough. As weLL as scottish teams. I pLaying ame middLesbrough. As weLL as scottish teams. I pLaying Long beLong together, Laying-Long-together-beLong'>PLaying Long Together BeLong together, Laying-Long-together-and-beLong'>PLaying Long Together And BeLong together, pLaying Long together and are beLong together, pLaying Long together and are very together and are very experienced. Together and are very experienced. We together and are veryL experienced. We have together and are very experienced. We have much together and are very experienced. We have much more of the experienced. We have much more of the next. Experienced. We have much more of the next. We experienced. We have much more of the next, we need to buiLd of the next, we need to buiLd on that of the next, we need to buiLd on that L of the next, we need to buiLd on that. , on that. I fitted to the us where there on that. I fitted to the us where there was on that. L fitted to the us where there was disappointment for britains Dan Evans in the Us Open. He was to the austraLian opponent for sex. He fought back to LeveL the match at one set aLL that was hardLy surprising considering he pLayed the Longest-match'>Longest Match in Us Open history. I Longest-match'>Longest Match in Us Open histo. ,. Longest match in Us Open histo. , history. I was a bit sick as weLL, before history. I was a bit sick as weLL, before the history. I was a bit sick as weLL, before the match i history. I was a bit sick as. WeLL, before the match and obviousLy my head was just not a Lot obviousLy my head was just not a Lot went obviousLy my head was just not a Lot went right. That grand sLam a Lot went right. That grand sLam tennis, isnt it . You have to Recover sLam tennis, isnt it . You have to Recover but he was a better pLayer, to Recover but he was a better pLayer. Its to Recover but he was a better pLayer, its not aLways about tennis. PLayer, its not aLways about tennis, you have to be prepared and kudos tennis, you have to be prepared and kudos to him. He pLayed a great and kudos to him. He pLayed a great match. And kudos to him. He pLayed a great match and kudos to him. He pLayed a treat match. ~. ,. ,. , great match. MeanwhiLe, another is throu. H great match. MeanwhiLe, another is through to great match. MeanwhiLe, another is through to the great match. MeanwhiLe, another is through to the fourth great match. MeanwhiLe, another is through to the fourth round is through to the fourth round in muddy conditions. The british Number One was cooL and cLinicaL against his opponent to beat his other in the Last round. He came through and stiLL hasnt dropped a set of. Next up, heLL pLay The End thatis next up, heLL pLay The End that is for a pLace in the quarterfinaLs. The formuLa 1 and Lando norris. The itaLian Grand Prix from composition aLongside his Laren-team-mate'>McLaren Team Mate with Le-rivaL-max'>TitLe RivaL Max and stefans back in seven. This is the second poLe in a row and combined with his difficuLt session, this was what norris needed. He Looks to cLose the 70 Point Gap to the dutchman in the championship. He feLL from 30 Mercedes Head of and his Lewis hamiLton. The paraLympics in paris, the swimming Legs of the Lon'>Para TriathLon events have had to be postponed by a day because of a drop in water quaLity. We did see the same thing during the oLympics and it is due to recent rainfaLL which has Led to a spike in bacteria LeveLs in the river. It means that the 11 Lon'>Para TriathLon medaL events have been deLayed untiL tomorrow, with another Contingency Date avaiLabLe on tuesday. Dont forget you can keep up to date with aLL of Sundays Action on the Bbc Sport Website and app. FinaLLy, engLands cricketers are unweighted and are taking an unassaiLabLe two no serious Lead in the second test against sri Lanka. The tourists are chasing an unLikeLy 192 to win, a few months ago they were 642, it is a few months ago they were 64 2, it is stiLL earLy though. You never know. More detaiLs on the Bbc Sport Website and aLL the Bbc Sport Website and aLL the other stories of the features but that aLL the sport now. Here in the uk, mps wiLL return to parLiament on monday. The government is promising to deLiver the most � packed LegisLative agenda for a change of administration in decades. But the union � unite is aLready warning that the uk needs change, not cuts. Sir Keir Starmer this week gave a speech in which he said things wiLL get worse before they get better. Our poLiticaL correspondent Damian Grammaticas expLained why the Governments Message has been so bLeak. You had basicaLLy from the government over the summer a pretty gLoomy message. Keir starmer, racheL reeves the chanceLLor, aLL taLking about the inheritance that they say they have received from the Last government, from the conservatives, saying they Looked into the books and there is this huge deficit overspend, Unbudgeted Items and they need to take action. So warnings about what may come in the budget that is coming at The End of october, and the LikeLihood of tax rises. And of course aLso saying that difficuLt decisions have aLready been taken, Like cutting the L-aLLowance'>Winter FueL ALLowance for miLLions of pensioners making those Limited to those on pension credit. What we have had today interestingLy is the Leader of the commons, Lucy-poweLL'>Lucy PoweLL, who has been asked exactLy about this, and about whether the government is being too gLoomy, Lets Listen to what she said. What we have inherited was much worse not just what we thought it was going to be, but what the office for budget responsibiLity, the institute for fiscaL studies, much worse in terms of the in Year Situation for the countrys finances. So we have had to take some reaLLy difficuLt decisions that we wouLd not have wanted to have taken around things Like targeting and the L'>Winter FueL payments. The reason we do that is because the deficit was much higher than anyone thought, and the spending was higher than anyone thought, if we hadnt taken that action we wouLd have seen a run on the pound, the Economy Crashing and the peopLe who pay the price for that of the poorest and pensioners and those on fixed incomes. That was mp Lucy-poweLL'>Lucy PoweLL a LittLe bit earLier. But is there a positive that the government is trying to highLight . There are certainLy Labour mps who want to see that, they want more of a positive message because they worry there is too much gLoom. Part of the job of Lucy-poweLL'>Lucy PoweLL is timetabLing the agenda of parLiament and what she was to say is that there is this packed agenda of LegisLation that the government is going to bring in, the biggest one day same of any government in decades and theres going to be aLL sorts of measures on raiL franchising, measures to do with tougher action on water bosses, the energy markets, so setting up gb energy. They want to say there wiLL be measures to Lower energy biLLs in the Long term, but aLso in the short term they want to have a campaign to encourage pensioners, if they are eLigibLe, many peopLe who are eLigibLe are not yet getting pension credit, and that wouLd be a way to then access heLp with energy biLLs. So theres that sort of thing that they are taLking about. What Lucy-poweLL'>Lucy PoweLL was saying there is it is aLL about fixing the foundations of the economy. What the government wiLL find when they come back is that the opposition parties, the conservatives and others, are going to start questioning them about their choices, saying are they making Trade Offs here, that we have seen that aLready. Giving pay rises to pubLic sector workers, Junior Doctors and the Like, at the expense of pensioners. That wiLL be one Trade Off Being pointed out. One thing the government may find is that the opposition parties, particuLarLy the conservatives. Are a bit wrapped up with their internaL arguments, Leadership-campaign'>Leadership Campaign is being Launched this week. There wiLL be that process starting to whittLe down their contenders and that is aLL going to consume quite a Lot of their time. Thank you. Its not unusuaL to see popstars surrounded by bodyguards but a historicaL site with Links to harry styLes has become so popuLar, it now requires its own security arrangements. Fans traveL from aLL over the worLd to scratch messages onto an 183 year oLd viaduct in the musicians home county of cheshire. Our reporter Lindsey-prosser'>Lindsey Prosser has been finding out how the structure is being protected. He isa he is a gLobaL Pop Star from he is a gLobaL Pop Starfrom a viLLage in cheshire. Under a viaduct near his home, fans from around the worLd incLuding denver, coLorado, come to write messages of Love to harry styLes. I messages of Love to harry s Les. ~ �. , styLes. I feeL Like if youre a Fan Ou styLes. I feeL Like if youre a fan you know styLes. I feeL Like if youre a fan you know about styLes. I feeL Like if youre a fan you know about it and L-fan'>L Fan you know about it and so its become this reaLLy big thing that everybody wants to come and see. It means not everybody because everything written on right is very nice, Like i Love you, we Love you, everything is so happy. Weve been Fans Everything is so happy. 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Its a new month and that means meteroLogicaLLy speaking a new season. We have gone into autumn. WhiLst it may have Looked a LittLe Light at first thing this morning in herefordshire missed that we have Summer Storms in the forecast. We have seen this pLume of cLoud moving north out of france across the Lish-channeL'>EngLish ChanneL bringing us some very warm and humid air and some thundery downpours. Those storms wiLL continue to move north across southern engLand into the midLands and parts of northern engLand again downpours and frequent Lightning-and-haiL'>Lightning And HaiL and gusty wind and may be the risk of LocaLised fLooding and heavy showers and thunderstorms in eastern areas. Further north northmore Drive Temperature is 15 to 21 degrees but very warm in the south east, the temperatures here reaching 29 ceLsius. Through tonight those storms wiLL continue for the time and drift northward and you may see further downpours deveLop to some parts of waLes and south Land'>West EngLand and the midLands and the odd rumbLe of thunder couLd roLL out. Another warm and humid night across southern areas with temperatures around 17 or 18 degrees and even across scotLand a LittLe more miLd compared to the Last coupLe of nights. Into monday, Low pressure across the uk and the fact you can see a coupLe of Weather Fronts bringing some very unsettLed weather so there wiLL be showers and Longer speLLs of rain and storms again moving north and eastward so a Lot of rainfaLL through the course of the day which couLd Lead to LocaLised fLooding particuLarLy through northern engLand in centraL eastern scotLand. Some sunny speLLs in the South Eeast with a few showers here and temperatured stiLL up in the Mid 20s across the South Rast but in the north highs on monday 17 degrees to 19 degrees. For the rest of the week we have High Pressure in the atLantic and High Pressure into scandinavia. In between the stop at Low pressure across europe which wiLL give us unsettLed weather particuLarLy towards southern areas of the uk. Further north High Pressure tends to hoLd on a LittLe bit though it wiLL be LargeLy fine across scotLand through the week and for the south a bit more than with rain at times and temperatures 17 degrees to 22 degrees. This is Bbc News, the headLines prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu L'>Vows IsraeL � wiLL not rest� untiL it catched those responsibLe for the kiLLing of six peopLe who had been heLd hostage by hamas. Their bodies have been Recovered from a tunneL under rafah, In Gaza. A mass poLio immunisation programme is under way across gaza , parents are queuing at three heaLth centres as Aid Agencies aim to vaccinate more than 600,000 chiLdren. IsraeL and hamas agreed to a series of 11 hour pauses in fighting, to aLLow the programme to proceed. Voters in two former east german states are heading to the poLLs in their regionaL eLections. Theyre expected to deLiver big gains for the far right � aLternative for germany� party in what is being viewed as a barometer for next years federaL eLection. Now on Bbc News ukrainecast. HeLLo and weLcome. Im Lyse doucet. Im one of the Co Hosts of the bbc podcast ukrainecast, and with my coLLeague vitaLy shevchenko, weve just recorded a conversation with the prominent british Writer And Broadcaster Stephen Fry. Hes aLso a campaigner for mentaL heaLth awareness, and hes been to ukraine to co host a conference on this very issue, aLong with the first Lady of ukraine, oLena zeLenska. So vitaLy and i have been speaking with Stephen Fry about the mentaL scars of confLict. Ukrainecast from Bbc News. Its a great pLeasure to be in your presence, stephen. PeopLe in ukraine know who you are, they foLLow you, and they appreciate what you do