Since the start of the war, more than 30,000 palestinians have been killed in gaza. Now, several experts weve spoken to have said that the number of dead could actually be much higher than this. And thats because many hospitals in gaza where deaths are recorded are no longer operating. Now, lets take a bit of a closer look at this. Look at this graph its a breakdown of who exactly has been killed. And as you can see from this, the majority of those killed have been women and children. And how does this compare with previous conflicts in gaza . Well, this chart shows deaths in 2008, and you can see that more men were killed than women and children. And its a similar picture in the second war in 2014. Now, have a look at this chart which shows the current war. Now, the bars here for women and children show the deaths in red and purple and theyre significantly higher than the one for men. Keep in mind, this war has been going on for months, whereas the others lasted for weeks. So the deat
These eastern areas, brighter conditions further north and west but with really heavy showers, so we had some sunshine earlier on today in Northern Ireland, not been a bad morning here, but showers will work their way in right across Northern Ireland, Notjust Staying in western counties and across into Western Scotland too. Today, showers with hail and thunder mixed in, in orkney and shetland windy with gusts reaching 50 60 miles an hour, temperatures on the mild side, 8 12 degrees. Overnight tonight an area of low pressure and swinging a band of low pressure and swinging a band of rain and from the west. Ahead of the rain we are looking at cold and frosty conditions setting and particularly across scotland and Northern Counties of england, then into tomorrow, this area of low pressure could bring one or two issues because weve got this occluded front stretched across parts of North West England and Northern Ireland and its along that that we could see a spell of hill snow. The amount
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it s thursday, the 6th of october. our main story. hundreds of thousands of nurses across the uk are being asked if they re willing to walk out over pay. the royal college of nursing is balloting its members for strike action for the first time in the union s 106 year history. the rcn wants a payrise of 5% above inflation, but no uk nation has offered close to that. our correspondent, caroline davies, has more. through the darkest days of the pandemic, the uk s nurses were some of the nation s heroes. now, they re being balloted to strike over pay. my love for it was to make a difference in people s lives. and that s why i am here. but then, sometimes when i look at it, it s like, is it really worth it? victoria is a mental health nurse in an nhs trust. after she came back from maternity leave, she went part time and receives universal credit because she says her pay wouldn t cover the cost of childcare if she worked full time. even now, she struggles. sometimes you end up ha
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