Between israeli troops and fighters from palestinian groups. Sunday marked six months since hamas attacked israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 250 others hostages. Israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, vowed to Crush And Destroy Hamas so that it no longer posed any threat, launching a mission to bring all hostages home. In the war that has followed, gazas Hamas Run Health Ministry says at least 33,000 people have been killed. On sunday, Tens Of Thousands of protesters in israel took to the streets, calling for the Israeli Government to strike a deal to bring home hostages and for mr netanyahu to resign. 0ur International Editor jeremy bowen has been reflecting on six months of the war, and sent us this special report. 0ver six months, gaza has been ravaged by war, disease, death and now imminent famine caused by israels siege. The un calls it a betrayal of humanity. Kibbutz nir oz, right on israels border with gaza, feels like a time capsule stuck in the horro
The going is so tough . Look, weve been in government for 17 years. Over 17 years, you have challenges, of course, as a government. But in the last year. I often get asked that question about challenges. I prefer to look at the opportunity. And in the last year, weve had modelling that shows well lift 100,000 children out of poverty, weve had statistics just last month showing that weve had Record Numbers ofJunior Doctors joining the nhs, weve had statistics that show that school leavers, Record Levels are going to positive destinations. And just in february, at the turn of this year, weve seen that private Sector Employment growth is outstripping any other nation or region of the uk here in scotland. So challenges plenty. 0pportunities plenty as well. And thats why, probably, because of that success, the last two polls that have come out, of course, have shown the snp in lead position come a general election, whenever that may be. What about, if i may, the shadow and the uncertainty t
So what now for everton . Exactly. If you read the written reasons, the independent commission had published. It seems that the Premier League wanted this to be a five point deduction. We know that already everton had been docked stick six points this season. That was down from ten after a successful appeal but, yes, The Grand Scheme of things, perhaps two points doesnt seem that significant. However, the fact that everton have lost eight points overall this season because of breaching the premier League Sustainability was, their survival is now in jeopardy. Sustainability was, their survival is now injeopardy. There is a drop them from 15th to 16th. They now two points in the relegation zone. It just goes to show that three points that they got on the weekend against burnley, theirfirst that they got on the weekend against burnley, their first win that they got on the weekend against burnley, theirfirst win in 1a Premier League games, looks incredibly important. But, yes, i mean, we h
The United Nations as possible genocide. A quarter of those remaining are confined to idp squalid camps since 12 years ago and they cant move. We spoke to seven people in five different camps. The Military Government has denied the conscription going on and are getting rohingyas prepared to defend their own camps. We have heard the military are going around and telling Camp Organisers they must provide less of young men between 15 and 25 from each camp each time they came and these men were selected until they had no choice and the families would be threatened by the military if they did not comply and were sent for training and taught how to fire guns and thrown into battle under the state where they are there as i huge amount of conflict between an Insurgent Army and the military which has been pushed back and defeated as a has beenin pushed back and defeated as a has been in many parts of myanmar and it is struggling to fill its ranks through the session and injuries and they are si
An eclipse happens when the moon moves between the earth and the sun, perfectly blocking the suns rays from reaching the earth. For Astronomy Enthusiasts in this country, the best view, if the weather behaves, will be just before 8pm this evening in the west of ireland and north west scotland. But it is in North America that the excitement is mounting. Nomia iqbaljoins us from texas. Good morning, reeta. When we got here it was pitch black so i felt like we had a slight preview of what was to come. It is early in the morning here in texas, just after 7am, but we are in the Path Of Totality, so later on today, about one point for 0 pmi time, seven point for 0 in the evening your time, this part of texas will be plunged into darkness, so everyone is pretty excited. Slight curve ball, though, i keep looking at the skies, yesterday was very clear and sunny, but there is predicted to be some cloud coverage, which could affect things. But no one is allowing that to put them off, everyone is