that the united states won t veto. the us says it wants to make sure israel still has control over goods moving into gaza, to ensure it doesn t fall into the wrong hands. 0ur united nations correspondent, nada tawfik, has the latest from new york. what i heard from one diplomat is that they ve made more progress today than they have all week and that they are narrowing the gaps. what we have received is the latest draft resolution and it is different in key aspects from the last proposal. instead of calling for a suspension of hostilities, the draft now calls for urgent steps to immediate allowance of safe and unhindered humanitarian access with creating conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities, so the wording there toned down from the original draft. the resolution on the table now also appoints a senior humanitarian and reconstruction co ordinator that will then appoint a un mechanism to try to speed up aid into gaza. so it is all quite a mouthful but these are
and the diplomatic effort to bring a pause to the fighting with negotiations continuing for a fourth day to attempt to secure a unanimous un security council vote on the suspension of hostilities in gaza. meanwhile separate talks are understood to be continuing to arrange another exchange of hostages held by hamas, for palestinian prisoners detained in israel. egypt and qatar are thought to be trying to broker a deal and the leader of hamas which is considered to be a terrorist organisation by the us and many other countries ismail haniyeh, has travelled to egypt, to meet the country s intelligence chief. he s already held talks in iran, which is one of the closest supporters of hamas. israel has released footage of what it claims to be tunnels dug by hamas under gaza city, in the north of the territory. it says the structures, which cover a large area, were used as a base by hamas leaders. the fighting continues inside gaza, where the un says israel has issued evacua
Oakley getting into that very, very shortly. That is in the clash. As always, you will get a first look at tomorrows newspaper front pages, hot off the press. And angela levin. Yes, she will discuss the chilling prospect of a new royal memoir by none other than Meghan Markle. Yeah, what would that really mean . A blockbuster. Two hours of top telly coming your way. My big hours of top telly coming your way. My big opinion is hours of top telly coming your way. My big opinion is next way. My big opinion is next right after the news with polly middlehurst. Patrick. Middlehurst. Patrick. Thank you and good evening to you. Well, our main story from the newsroom tonight is that the bbc boss, tim davie, has faced an unprecedented grilling from mps over the broadcasters failure to label hamas as a terrorist organisation. Conservative mps are understood to have become increasingly concerned over the bbcs coverage of the israel Hamas Conflict. Todays meeting was requested by the 1922 committee,
More now from the middle east, where a United Nations official has warned that nowhere in gaza is safe for civilians. Israels bombardment has continued. This, the scene in khan younis earlier, following an israeli strike. The Hamas Run Health Ministry says more than 7,000 people have been killed in gaza since the start of the war. Its released a document it says lists the names and id numbers of all those killed after President Biden cast doubt on its casualty figures. Un aid workers in gaza say theyve begun to scale down their operations because fuel is running out there. 0vernight, the Israel Defense forces carried out a targeted raid in Northern Gaza using tanks which, they say, resulted in no israeli casualties. The israeli and Palestinian Ambassadors to the United Nations have made passionate speeches at an Emergency Session of the un General Assembly, vividly describing what their people have gone through in almost three weeks of war. First to speak was Riyad Mansour the Palestin