Starting with the big developments out of a hospital in gaza where thousands were seeking help and refuge. An explosion at the Al Ahli Hospital right in the heart of gaza city is said to have killed hundreds according to Health Officials there. People sheltering in the hospital had fled 10 days of bombing by israel. The World Health Organization has condemned the blast, and called for the immediate protection of civilians. Israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu denied israel was responsible, and blamed what he called barbaric terrorists. Israel says its bombing campaign, is targeting members of hamas, responsible for killing around Moo Israelis Last week, and a group designated as a Terror Organisation by the uk government and other countries. Hamas has in turn blamed israel for the blast, and called it a war crime. Heres our International Editor jeremy bowen with the latest. Loud blast the missile hit the hospital not long after dark. Man shouts you can hear the impact. The explo
Bringing heavy rain and winds to the north and east of uk and this shows the storm moving northwards on wednesday, parking itself across the north of the uk on friday but low pressure is close by and brings further heavy rain even further south so it will be a very unsettled week for the rest of the week and into the weekend and rainfall totals mounting up, you can see on the scale, the brighter echoes in Eastern Scotland and North East England is where we have concerns for the risk of localised flooding but because of the heavy rain which we have seen in scotland in the past week or so, the ground is saturated so the met office have an Amber Warning in force but this could be extended further south but that caters for the persistent heavy rain and the risk of localised flooding. Heading through tonight, many places will be dry, central, northern and eastern areas have a strong outhwaite south easterly wind. Temperatures, no problems with frost, 9 12 point we start the day on a fine no
RAMALLAH: Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, has commended the joint China-Arab statement issued at the 10t.