it s 6am and this fighter base on the coast of taiwan is already a hive of activity. on the apron, mirage 2000 fighter jets from taiwan s rapid reaction squadrons, theirjob to meet any incoming threats to taiwan s airspace. these taiwanese fighter jets being scrambled behind me here are heading out into the taiwan strait to confront chinese aircraft that are coming across the strait and probing taiwan s airspace. this is now happening multiple times every day. these pictures are from chinese television, showing their fighterjets, and that down below is the coast of taiwan. just over the horizon, there is another game of cat and mouse. this man puts up a long antenna to eavesdrop radio chatter that s the chinese navy talking to the taiwanese navy, saying, your territorial waters, that you claim, do not exist, that the people s republic of china is the only legitimate government of china and taiwan is an inseparable part of china. they tell us the taiwan strait is peaceful,
and hostages exchanges. shaimaa khalil has the latest, from jerusalem and her report contains some distressing images from the beginning. once again, a child tells their story of the war. this child s home in khan younis was bombed overnight. we were upstairs, she says, then we were hit, and i started running. she tries to comfort her sister, but she has no idea that her mother and brother were killed in the strike. herfather, abdullah, sits next to the body bags. he s still in shock. this is my son, he says. this morning, he asked me for biscuits. i went to buy them. when i came back, ifound him and my wife dead. the ground offensive continues to deepen in the southern city of khan younis, where hundreds of thousands have fled from the fighting in northern gaza. israel says it s trying to protect civilians during its operation against hamas fighters. but it said it regretted what it called extensive collateral damage in a strike last weekend. the hamas run health m
down under, a women s world cup. england and australia couldn t be separated in the ashes, whilst cricket, rugby union and netball all had world cups of their own. golf came togetherfor the solheim and ryder cups. but the start of this sporting year was, for some, less a beginning and more a resumption. football had onlyjust returned after its unprecedented winter world cup break. also resuming, returning, the australian open once more welcomed novak djokovic, a year on from his deportation over his covid vaccination status. still no vax for novak but here he was, back and unbeatable. his was a 22nd grand slam title. for irina sabalenka, a first. saudi arabia s bid to become a major player in global sport was laid bare. cristiano ronaldo becoming a figurehead for the fledgling football league. before the end of the year, they had all but been awarded a world cup. there was shock, too, injanuary, after buffalo bills damar hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest during an nfl game. t
correspondent in the next hour. the united nations estimates 1.9 million of gaza s 2.4 million population have been displaced that s nearly all of the population. hesham al sayyad works for penny appeal, a charity that provides medical aid and emergency food in the middle east and africa. he told us about the hundreds of thousands of palestinians displaced as a result of the israeli offensive. anyone displaced is not right, but we go back to now the amount of people displaced in gaza, especially now in the rafah governorate because of the bombings that have been happening in the south. you have a place now in the rafah governorate which is basically desert, that people have been displaced. there is 1.2 million people living in a place which can probably house at most 200,000 people in an area the size of heathrow airport. if you can imagine 1.2 million people living in an area the size of heathrow airport living on top of one another, with no irrigation, no water supplies,