Turkey has described her death as �*a murder carried out by the netanyahu government'. President erdogan said he condemns what he called a barbaric attack by israel. Elsewhere in the occupied west bank, the israeli army has withdrawn from jenin after an operation lasting nearly ten days. The palestinian health ministry says 36 people were killed in one of israel's largest operations in the west bank in years. Residents were displaced as israeli forces damaged buildings and other infrastructure in the northern west bank. People are now returning home, though water and electricity remain mostly cut off injenin, from where lucy williamson sent this update. Israel's troops and bulldozers have leftjenin camp now but the impact they had is written all across the streets here. This camp was the heart of israel's sweep across the northern west bank. They were here for 9. 5 days and this morning is the first time that residents have been able to leave their homes, see the destruction around them or, in some cases, come back to homes that they fled days ago. Israel says this was a counterterrorist operation and it is clear that its target was the armed palestinian groups that are based here. But the methods it is using are what are raising alarm. That does notjust mean the civilians killed and injured but the level of destruction that are wrecking people's lives. Lucy williamson, bbc news, jenin camp. I spoke with hussein ibish, senior resident scholar at the arab gulf states institute in washington. How do you describe what we have been witnessing in the west bank? extreme provocation is the only term for it. I think israel, for whatever reason, has decided to throw the gloves off in the west bank and go after the armed youth groups especially injenin. I think there may be another operation like this elsewhere at some point, add another harm —— hotbed of armed young men unaffiliated with any of the larger groups. And i think there is a sense of heightened angen there is a sense of heightened anger, animosity and also paranoia that started to creep into the israeli behaviour in the west bank. It is notjust a matter of expanding settlements in provocative ways also of orchestrating a tax of the government, orchestrating attacks by israeli settlers that are like kooks clan style migrating things where villages are suddenly descended upon and innocent people are killed and stuff is destroyed and they disappear in the night. And now we have the shooting. If disappear in the night. And now we have the shooting. Ii i we have the shooting. If i could ask _ we have the shooting. If i could ask you, _ we have the shooting. If i could ask you, you are saying that these are settlers carrying out raid, you said that there are armed groups in the west bank. To what extent do they pose a threat to the communities there and to the idf? , a,. , a idf? they have not posed much of a threat _ idf? they have not posed much of a threat to _ idf? they have not posed much of a threat to the _ idf? they have not posed much of a threat to the idf, _ idf? they have not posed much of a threat to the idf, they of a threat to the idf, they have not learned —— launched an insurgency that like the one that developed in gaza where hamas continues to prop up all over gaza and israelis have not destroyed everything above ground above value and they don't know what to do. And are being sucked into a quagmire of resurgence en counterinsurgency there. There is nothing like that in the west bank. It is a theoretical threat and, of course, they do engage occasionally and armed confrontation or sometimes criminal activity but it is the settlers, really, who have been on a rampage, not the armed palestinian gangs in the inner cities. �*. , , palestinian gangs in the inner cities. �*. , ,, cities. And we have seen the us im osed cities. And we have seen the us imposed sanctions _ cities. And we have seen the us imposed sanctions on _ cities. And we have seen the us imposed sanctions on some imposed sanctions on some extremist settlers and fighting does continuing gaza and the dispute over the gaza egypt border seems to be a roadblock to a ceasefire. Where do you assess where things stand right now? i assess where things stand right now? ~ ,. . ,. , now? i think it is clear that prime minister _ now? i think it is clear that prime minister netanyahu| now? i think it is clear that prime minister netanyahu does not want anything to do with this potential ceasefire, probably because he fears, realistically, that if there were six weeks of relative calm that also produce prisoner exchanges in the release of hostages and things like that, that would be pleasing on both sides of the equation and it looked like, you know, both parties were getting more from talking and making deals and continuing fighting then he might get dragged into a permanent ceasefire that would allow hamas to re—emerge in gazais allow hamas to re—emerge in gaza is either a governing force or a potential military force. He wants nothing to do with that. He wants the war to continue and this insurgency counterinsurgency to go on for years. Counterinsurgency to go on for ears. . , ,. , , years. That is precisely when ike's question, _ years. That is precisely when ike's question, the _ years. That is precisely when | ike's question, the accusation from the israelis is the fact that hamas killed six hostages before they were found as proof that hamas is not interested either. I that hamas is not interested either. . ,. ,. , either. I would tend to agree with that — either. I would tend to agree with that. |_ either. I would tend to agree with that. I think _ either. I would tend to agree with that. I think that either. I would tend to agree with that. I think that is with that. I think that is evidence and proof but evidence of that, certainly is plenty more. I think you can generally see that the hamas leadership in gaza believes that this has all been very beneficial and would like it to go on. But they would like a pass to regroup their forces now that the war is turning into a prolonged insurgency. That would be useful. They would love to get some prisoners back and get credit for that because they have been under political pressure in gaza because people, some people are starting to realise it was all their fault to begin with. And then there is the sense in which they want to use an insurgency against vater to claim leadership of the palestinian national movement and that was a goal to begin with. I don't think hamas wants a ceasefire either but they would take a pause if they could sell it as a ceasefire. They need that proviso that allows the ceasefire to continue after six weeks. In gaza, un agencies and partner organizations have begun the second stage of a major polio vaccination campaign. The rollout comes a month after authorities confirmed the first case of polio seen in gaza in 25 years — which left a io—month—old partially paralysed. The vaccine rollout began on september first and since then the world health organization says 411,301 children have been vaccinated in gaza. The ultimate goal is to vaccinate 640,000 children in gaza against polio. The biden administration has announced an additional 250 million us dollars in security assistance for ukraine. The us secetary of defense, lloyd austin, made the announcement at the ramstein us air base in germany. But he declined to lift restrictions that bar kyiv from firing american—made long—range missiles into russia, which ukraine's president zelensky says is the only way to end the war. 0ur europe correspondent nick beake has the latest from kyiv. President zelensky wanted to attend in person this meeting of more than 50 allies at the huge us airbase in western germany because he wanted to take his message to them directly and that message was that they need to ignore any perceived redlines that president putin may have. Mr zelensky said that his allies absolutely immediately had to give him permission to use long—range missiles so that they could hit further into russia, target airfields and other places from where devastating attacks on ukraine are launched. Mr zelensky also had all short—term warning, saying that a lot of the air force —— air defence support that allies pledged to the country have not yet arrived. Lloyd austin, the us secretary of defence said he heard what mr zelensky was saying and announced a new package of aid. He did not focus on the issue of long—range missiles, talking about us being in a critical stage of this war. He spoke about the incursion by ukrainian troopsjust about the incursion by ukrainian troops just over one month ago into russia itself, into the kursk region. He said that this prove the russian army which had been engaged in acts of aggression was now fighting a defensive battle on their own turf. This has come at a cost, however. President putin vowed to bring retribution, revenge for this ukrainian operation and we have seen aidan increasing the of russian strikes over the past week or so, notably on tuesday this week the city of polk harbourin this week the city of polk harbour in the centre of ukraine was hit, the most devastating single attack on any ukrainian town or city this year, at least 55 people were killed. —— the city of bullets. —— poltava. Let's go live now to former us ambassador to ukrainejohn herbst, joining us from north carolina. The new announced aid, what impact do you think that will have? it impact do you think that will have? ,. , impact do you think that will have? ,. ,. , , impact do you think that will have? ,. , , impact do you think that will have? _, , ,. , have? it is a positive step and can mean _ have? it is a positive step and can mean we _ have? it is a positive step and can mean we provide have? it is a positive step and i can mean we provide ukrainians. What do you think of what lloyd austin said, the us secretary of defence. He said at this point he is hearing ukraine and it's cold to allow ukrainians to strike deeper into russian territory with western weapons but there was no decision made on that. ~ ,. , i. ~' but there was no decision made on that. ~ ,. , ,, ~. , on that. Why do you think that is? the biden _ on that. Why do you think that is? the biden administration l is? the biden administration has been regularly intimidated by putin's threats of nuclear escalation, despite the fact that several criminal redlines have been passed without anything happening. It is an unusual situation where america is self deterring because of kremlin threats. — kremlin threats. Highly unlikely _ kremlin threats. Highly unlikely to _ kremlin threats. Highly unlikely to be kremlin threats. Highly unlikely to be realised l unlikely to be realised threats. What about other allies? european allies like germany? do you think they may turn the tide on that decision? i think that there is an axis of timidity with all the scholz and joe biden. They reinforce each other�*s not very sound instincts, that somehow russia is going to go nuclear when, in fact, there is very little chance of that. This is dangerous, more dangerous for russia than it is for us to escalate. I russia than it is for us to escalate— russia than it is for us to escalate. . ,. ,. , i. Escalate. I want to ask you about the _ escalate. I want to ask you about the political escalate. I want to ask you | about the political situation in kyiv as well because we saw ukraine's parliament approved this significant cabinet reshuffle that president zelensky has announced we saw some critics say that president zelensky is just trying to centralise power because his ministers were previously his advisers, are you concerned about this development? i think this is pretty — about this development? i think this is pretty much _ about this development? i think this is pretty much business about this development? i think this is pretty much business as. This is pretty much business as usual, as we have seen in ukraine, notjust since the russian invasion, not since the lenski became president in 2019 but also the previous president from 2014— but also the previous president from 2014 2019. But also the previous president from 2014— 2019. They like to demonstrate their power, they like to respond to domestic unhappiness by changing cabinets. I don't think it means anything more than that. His supporters said that it is wartime in all the more need to centralise power around the president but critics remain and president zelensky says he wants his government to focus more on getting aid from western allies but if you look at some of the ministers who were in his government until now, they have been very vocal on the international stage. What do you think zelensky means by this specifically? again i think it isjust exercising his prerogative as president. And i suspect we will see them still heavily involved in ukraine's efforts to win this war. But it is really not much more than it gamble. Zelensky said let's try someone else and i don't think it is going to hurt the war effort, i don't think it will improve it either. But there are many talented people in ukraine. Regarding the concept that zelensky tried to centralise power, i go to care for the time and i was the last week and i will be there next week and i will be there next week and i believe it is true. I also believe that while they are fighting a war, most ukrainians will cut him some slack as you already suggested. But when the war is over any such tendencies will not work for the benefit of the incumbent and the presidency of the ukraine. Incumbent and the presidency of the ukraine— incumbent and the presidency of the ukraine. Ambassador, as you were justine _ the ukraine. Ambassador, as you were justine keay _ the ukraine. Ambassador, as you were justine keay of, _ the ukraine. Ambassador, as you were justine keay of, how the ukraine. Ambassador, as you were justine keay of, how do werejustine keay of, how do you sense the morale amongst ukrainians right now? —— you werejust in kyiv. We ukrainians right now? —— you were just in kyiv. We are heading into a difficult winter as the temperature starts to turn. Morale was skyhigh because of ukrainian success in kursk. Before the operation was launched, one month ago today, everyone was talking about a coldweather cease fire wood in place and suddenly ukraine controls a significant portion of russian territory. So controls a significant portion of russian territory. Controls a significant portion of russian territory. So if the ceasefire _ of russian territory. So if the ceasefire is _ of russian territory. So if the ceasefire is in _ of russian territory. So if the ceasefire is in place of russian territory. So if the ceasefire is in place would i ceasefire is in place would always work against ukrainian interests, it is not something putin is unlikely to see. Putin is domestically embarrassed, even as he tries to downplay the fact that ukrainian troops occupy russian territory and are digging into holder territory for a substantial period of time. And despite the bombing, i was there right after the huge forming of monday last week, despite that or alongside of that ukrainians are deep because of the success of their offensive in russia. Ambassador, great to have your perspective as always. Thank you so much. A fire at a boarding school in central kenya killed at least 17 students. 70 children are unaccounted for after the blaze at the primary school's dormitory on thursday evening. Hundreds of people tried to help rescue the children, many of whom were sheltering under their beds. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. President william ruto said it was horrific and devastating. 0ur africa correspondent barbara plett usher has the latest from kenya. It's too much to bear, the sudden and violent death of children. Parents return from the damaged dormitory after being told their boys are among the dead. The fire broke out overnight while they were sleeping, many too burned to recognise. I want to go where my child is, this woman cries. The bodies i have seen are of big children. My child has died. The school is in a remote area. Firefighters were delayed by bad roads, but neighbours rushed to try and rescue the boys. In the chaos, some went missing. Anxious relatives waited to hear whether their son or nephew might still be alive. Emergency services brought in to give psychological care, the scramble to determine who lived and who died has drawn national attention. We still have 17 kids that are unaccounted. That does not mean that they have perished or they are injured, the word is that they are unaccounted for. We are praying and hoping for the best. Dna tests will identify the bodies. It may be harder to find what triggered this terrible tragedy. There have been a lot of fires in kenyan boarding schools over the years, many of them said to be because of arson. Now, we don't know what caused this fire, but officials are promising a thorough investigation. But right now, what we're seeing isjust raw grief and anger. Sobbing there is fear that the death toll could rise and hope that it doesn't. Barbara plett usher, bbc news, central kenya. The us secretary of state on friday visited the dominican republic for private talks on the last leg of a tour largely focused on the crisis in neighbouring haiti. Mr blinken joined a press conference with dominican president luis abinader who promised that his country will restore political ties with haiti once the security situaton there improves. The dominican republic is building a wall along its border with haiti amid widespread gang violence there. A day earlier during a visit to haiti, mr blinken urged the interim government there to set up an electoral council to organise presidential elections by the end of next year. On friday he said efforts must continue to ensure that a un—backed security mission led by kenya in haiti be given more time. The mandate of the mission needs to be renewed. This is something we are taking up in new york because it will expire in october and we will all be together at the united nations general assembly and i will bring together ministers from many concerned countries to sustain and build on our support. The president and i strongly agree that the foundation for progress in haiti has to be security. Donald trump welcomed a new yorkjudge's sentencing delay in his manhattan criminal case on friday — after he and his legal team had fought to postpone or dismiss the case altogether. Justicejuan merchan ordered the republican presidential nominee's sentencing for november 26th, after the us election. Trump was convicted by a jury on 3a felony counts of falsifying business records back in may, but has maintained his innocence in the case. Earlier the former president characterised the case as election interference at an address to the fraternal order of police in the battleground state of north carolina. The manhattan da witch hunt against me has been postponed because everyone realises there was no case because i did nothing wrong. It is a witch hunt, an attack by my political opponents in washington, dc. Mr trump was also in court on friday for a separate legal case, as his lawyers attempted to overturn a ruling that he defamed and sexually assaulted writer ejean carroll. 0urjohn sudworth has the details. Donald trump spent part of today in a somewhat unusual press conference at trump tower behind me, re—litigating the civil sexual assault ruling against him that he is currently appealing in a new york court. He attacked the integrity of the person who won that case, ejean carroll, a former writer. He suggested he had never met her before. The sorts of claims of course that in part led to the very substantial defamation damages against him and the spectacle of him going through in painstaking detail not only those allegations but also the assault allegations against him, all to deny them, of course, might to some observers seem like a somewhat odd election campaign strategy with just nine weeks to go until the election. Nonetheless, shortly afterwards he was handed what will be seen by many as something of a victory in another case that he faces, his new york criminal trial for the payment of hush money to the former porn star stormy daniels in order to try to influence the 2016 election, to keep the allegations of a sexual encounter with her from the american public. The judge in that case today has ruled that he will delay sentencing, just as mr trump's lawyers had asked him to because he said he wanted to avoid the impression, however unwarranted, that the case was designed to somehow influence the election. Of course, what it means is that american voters will be denied the opportunity of knowing what sentence mr trump will be given for those bookkeeping offences. Will he simply be given a fine or will he, however unlikely many people believe it is, but still a possibility, will he be given a custodial sentence? that knowledge now will have to wait until after november 5. The bbc has seen, first—hand, the desperate conditions civilians are enduring in sudan after 17 months of civil war. Aid agencies there are warning a hunger crisis is of historic proportions. 0ur correspondent nawal al—maghafi, has gained rare access to the city of port sudan and a key border area in neighbouring chad — where refugees are still flowing out — as aid agencies desperately try to get aid in. The faces of a forgotten war. These are some of the families caught at the centre of what is being called one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Here in sudan. _ worst humanitarian crises. Here in sudan. 26 _ worst humanitarian crises. Here in sudan, 26 million _ worst humanitarian crises. Here in sudan, 26 million people worst humanitarian crises. Here in sudan, 26 million people are facing acute hunger. We only get one meal a day this woman says. On this displacement camp in the city of port sudan they have a say from the front lines of the conflict life is hard. In another camp nearby, people queue for water. A most basic right. And here it is a luxury. This woman tells me she fled with her children from one city to another, trying to escape the war before arriving here in this displacement camp in port sudan. Translation: the fi. Htin. Sudan. Translation: the fighting there _ sudan. Translation: the fighting there as _ sudan. Translation: iia: fighting there as was so intense. Within the first two days to members of my family were killed. Then i watched as two of my neighbours were cut in it on. . . In it on. The children are mourning _ in it on. The children are mourning the _ in it on. The children are mourning the life in it on. The children are mourning the life they. In it on. The children are i mourning the life they once had. But also their father. Left behind, they have not heard from him since january. Translation: we heard from him since january. Tuna/mom— heard from him since january. Translation: we don't know where he is — translation: we don't know where he is what _ translation: we don't know where he is what happened i translation: we don't know where he is what happened to | where he is what happened to him that is it. Ourfuture is over. There is nothing left to. My over. There is nothing left to. My children are devastated. The scale of suffering here in sudan is unimaginable. 16 months of war have had a devastating impact on people's lives here. Over 10 million people have had to flee their home. And if they have escaped the bombs and the bullets there is another killer, hunger. Hunger is ravaging sudan. In neighbouring chad these eight trucks are lined up and ready to cross into sudan. But it is territory held by a group called the rapid support forces who are fighting the sudanese armed forces. Four months, the saf have blocked supplies from getting through this key crossing point. They say aid is being stolen by the rs f and weapons are being smuggled in as well. Both sides in the conflict have denied impeding the delivery of humanitarian relief. As aid proposed to going through the border, families are crossing it to escape the war. These refugees arrived five days ago. It was hunger that drove them to make the treacherous journey to translation: it the treacherous “ourney to translation:i the treacherous “ourney to translation: it is very hard, so dangerous _ translation: it is very hard, so dangerous to _ translation: it is very hard, so dangerous to come translation: it is very hard, so dangerous to come here i translation: it is very hard, | so dangerous to come here but all the shops are closed. There was no food anymore, nothing to drink, nothing to feed my children. There is nothing to eat. It is all wall there is nowhere to hide. Eat. It is all wall there is nowhere to hide. She told me there was _ nowhere to hide. She told me there was no _ nowhere to hide. She told me there was no help. _ nowhere to hide. She told me there was no help. No nowhere to hide. She told me there was no help. No food i there was no help. No food supplies were reaching her or her six children. Aid agencies are relieved to see these truckloads making their way in today but they say a constant flow of aid is needed to deal with the horrific said dish that make situation in sudan. One local district has already been declared in famine and 13 others are at risk. Un warns of the flow of food and supplies is not increased, the consequences could be dire. These are not statistics, these are mothers, daughters, kids. People are going to die. Children. They already are. Women. More gender—based violence and some of that they will not recover from. This violence and some of that they will not recover from. Will not recover from. This is ultimate _ will not recover from. This is ultimate suffering. Will not recover from. This is ultimate suffering. By i ultimate suffering. By repeatedly spurning peace talks and impeding aid, the two warring sides are effectively putting millions of people at risk of starvation. Many of those we spoke to were hoping the world will take notice and action before it is too late. You can find more reporting on the crisis in sudan on our website. That is our programme at this hour, thank you so much for watching. Join us again at the top of the next hour. Hello there. Before we get to the weekend, friday brought some very big differences across the uk. We had sunny skies in western scotland, and in northern ireland, temperatures reached 27, the hottest it's been all year. It was quite a bit cooler here at the oval for the test match, where we struggled with bad light. Doesn't look quite so gloomy for saturday. Very misty, murky conditions, though, in bristol, where we've seen rain pushing in earlier on in the night and into south wales as well, with some thunderstorms, too. That's going to be clearing away later, and it's going to be quite a warm start to saturday, muggy as well. And because of that we've got extensive low clouds, some mist and some fog around for england and wales, so things may improve a little. It may cheer up a bit, but there may not be too much sunshine around, more cloud producing a few showers here and there. Looks dry for scotland, northern ireland, sunny for the most part, but that low cloud retreating back to the east coast of scotland keeping it cooler here. But in the sunshine in scotland, and northern ireland temperatures again into the mid—20s, and it may warm up where we get a bit of sunshine in east anglia, although not as warm as it was on friday. We've got this area of low pressure is going to bring some wetter weather overnight on saturday night, heavy rain and some thunderstorms, perhaps already arriving during the evening across these southern areas, and that rain will push its way northwards into england and wales. Drier for scotland and northern ireland, some clear spells, but also some mist and low cloud, again, filtering through the central belt of scotla nd and lingering along the east coast of scotland. But another quite warm start to sunday. But it comes with a lot of cloud, and we've got these showers, along with spells of rain affecting england and wales. Again, it could be heavy and thundery. A few showers popping up towards the southeast of scotland. Otherwise scotland, northern ireland, generally dry but more cloud around, so it's going to be quite a bit cooler, particularly so for northern ireland. If we get a bit of sunshine in the midlands across to lincolnshire, that could pop off a few thundery showers here. Now that area of low pressure is going to move away on monday, so it starts to turn drier, but then we change the wind direction. We're going to pick up more of a northwesterly wind over the week ahead, and that will make it feel quite a bit cooler as well. Now, most of the wet weather next week will be more towards the northwest of the uk this time, the drier weather in the southeast, but those temperatures are going to be lower, perhaps peaking at only 13 or m in belfast and edinburgh. Voiceover: this is bbc news. We'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. Rugby is facing a day of reckoning. Former players are lining up to say head injuries have destroyed their lives. I didn't sign up to get diagnosed with early onset dementia at 38 years old. Not knowing what's happening to you. . . . . Yeah, it was really tough. We're bringing allegations to light that some of those running the game didn't do enough to protect the players. The true scale of the damage will play out like a car crash in slow motion. I thought, i cannot have my name associated with this. And that was when i resigned. World—renowned academics claim their studies were dismissed. I had been invited so that they could give the appearance of having listened, and then decided it was rubbish. And we ask if enough has been done to make the game safe for children. I will spend the rest of my life missing my son. It's a bunny hop, not a steeplechase. Come on. That's it. Brilliant. For steve sugar, a rugby field is where he feels most co mforta ble. You just love this game, don't you? yeah, i do love it. I love the game. Ifeel at home here. According to world rugby, the sport's governing body, there are more than eight million players worldwide and more than half of them are younger than 13. In 2023, the men's rugby world cup was broadcast to more