The Gaza Ministry of health says 413 palestinians have been killed by israeli air strikes in gaza, including 78 children and 41 women. Israel says it is still trying to regain full control of eight areas where hamas militants infiltrated following saturdays attack. The number of israeli civilians and soldiers taken hostage has been put at 100 by the Israeli Embassy to the us, though some have been freed. In northern israel, hezbollah rockets targeted three military positions, with israel responding with barrages of artillery into southern lebanon. 0ur Correspondents have been Tracking Developments from across the region. Heres our international editor, jeremy bowen in jordan. Israel right now is going through this most extraordinary, awful national trauma. And as youve been hearing, the Military Response has already started, and its going to be considerable. Now in the past, when there have been flare ups, there sometimes has been pressure on israeli leaders, including benjamin netanya
their patients. the families in taliban controlled afghanistan now having to make shocking decisions so they can feed their children. the uk s biggest ever anti fraud operation 70,000 possible bank scam call victims are being contacted by the police. 15 months after the taliban took control of afghanistan, the united nations has described the humanitarian situation there as a catastrophe. the country s economy has collapsed, the healthcare system is crumbling, and six million people are on the brink of starvation. the bbc has found evidence that some families are being forced to take extreme steps including selling their daughters into early marriage to pay forfood and medicine. 0ur afghanistan correspondent yogita limaye reports from the city of herat. just outside herat live tens of thousands displaced by years of war and natural disasters. a second winter since
would also mean much lower immigration to the uk really outraged by what has been going on, but as we have said, we need to be careful because a lot of this is driven by these other visas which are these bespoke schemes set up by the government. people can argue whether it s right or wrong to allow ukrainians and hong kong nationals and afghans or syrians previously to come, but that is the government s decision. we have a points based immigration system that has made it more difficult for sectors which need lower skilled or less well paid people to fill gaps and that is why we have this odd situation where you see more workers coming in at the same time employers say they haven t got enough people because it s a different type of person. police will be sending texts to about 70,000 people over the next 48 hours to warn them they ve been victims of fraudsters trying
english rugby union governing bodies give evidence to mps following the collapse of two clubs. later and i were on the bbc news channel we will round up the latest action, were key interviews and discuss the day s biggest talking points from here at the bbc sport centre. later in the hour 0n points from here at the bbc sport centre. later in the hour on the bbc news channel. 15 months after the taliban took control of afghanistan, the united nations has described the humanitarian situation there as a catastrophe. the country s economy has collapsed, the health care system is crumbling, and six million people are on the brink of starvation. the bbc has found evidence that some families are being forced to take extreme steps, including selling their daughters into early marriage to pay forfood and medicine. 0ur afghanistan correspondent yogita limaye reports from the city of herat. just outside herat live tens
crippling delays as reports that they have been waiting for half an hour or more for hospitals to accept their patients. the families in taliban controlled afghanistan now having to make shocking decisions so they can feed their children.// the uk s biggest ever anti fraud operation 70,000 possible bank scam call victims are being contacted by the police. good afternoon and welcome to bbc lunchtime. tens of thousands of workers are on strike in a series of walk outs across the uk, affecting schools, universities and royal mail sorting offices. scotland is facing its first national strike by teachers for nearly a0 years after a revised pay offer was rejected by unions as insulting .