thousands of years. hello and welcome. in a few days time, the uk will have a new prime minister and penny mourdant, leader of the house of commons has become the first conservative mp to say she is running to replace liz truss. no other mp has declared yet but both borisjohnson and former chancellor rishi sunak have nominations from other mps. former health secretary sajid javid says he will back mr sunak. mrjohnson left office just over six weeks ago, forced out after a series of crises, including infringing the law. whoever wins becomes conservative leader and the next prime minister but opposition parties are calling for a general election. our deputy political editor vicki young has this report. i will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen. thank you. once again, there is a vacancy at the top of government. liz truss resignation means the conservatives have to choose their fifth prime minister injust over six years. but can anyone unify a par
in singapore. ..this is bbc news. it s newsday. hi there, thank you for being with us. israel has confirmed that it hit the jabalia refugee camp in northern gaza. the hamas run gazan health ministry says at least 50 people were killed and hundreds injured. the palestinian red crescent told the bbc at least 25 civilians were killed. the israeli army says the strike killed a senior hamas commander. a hamas spokesman has denied the presence of one of its leaders in the camp. before the war, the camp was home to more than 100,000 people. many of them have been there for generations since the formation of the state of israel in 1948. bbc verify have located the exact position of the blast, which you can see here and you can see how built up it is. more now from our international editorjeremy bowen and a warning, his report contains images some may find distressing. israel says the destruction came from air strikes that killed a senior hamas commander and some of his men. it sa
foreign minister abdallah bou habib in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr foreign minister, ijust wonder whether right now it feels to you like this conflict is spiralling out of control. you are watching it from beirut as the war rages in gaza between israel and hamas. but do you fear it is going to spread much wider? well, we are afraid that it may spread. but i can say that i am now less pessimistic than i was at the beginning. i think here there is a conviction, at least in lebanon, that we don t want war. we have a lot of problems economic, political and social problems, and everyone in lebanon does not want war. but it all depends on israel. israel also threatened us many times, to have a pre emptive strike on lebanon, and what s happening in gaza. i mean, you cannot.you know, the people here are interrelated. we have half a million palestinians in lebanon. and, you know, there are a lot of people that are resistance minded. they re not only in lebanon. in syria
population, as more than 120 prison guards are still being held hostage by inmates across the country. nationwide unrest began a few days earlier on sunday when a notorious gang boss escaped from a maximum security facility. it s unclear whether the attack on the tv studio was related to the disappearance of adolfo macias villamar, or fito, as he is better known. after the escape, but before the tv studio attack, a 60 day state of emergency was issued in ecuador on monday. earlier, i spoke to todd chapman, former us ambasador to ecuador and now a non resident fellow at the centre for strategic and international studies. ambassador, i want to ask you first of all what we saw ecuador s president noboa say, in talking about the crisis this country is going through. he said his government is fighting against terrorist groups, and said they want me to call them groups of organised crime, because it is easier. when they are terrorists and where we live in