good afternoon. israel says its troops in gaza are engaged in face to face combat with fighters from hamas, designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government. israel says its troops have now completely encircled gaza city, here in the north of the territory. meanwhile, 92 british nationals are on a list which means they could escape the fighting and leave gaza today through the rafah crossing into egypt. jon donnison reports from jerusalem. israel says it s at the height of its battle with hamas. its ground offensive in northern gaza is pushing forward, with the military claiming gaza city is now completely encircled. translation: we discovered encircled. translation: - discovered today a recording call with a health official in gaza who spoke with our forces and described how hamas controls fuel supplies and a hospital. while supplies are running out, they are stealing from sick patients for terror aims. we will continue to expose to the world the act of hamas and h
state, antony blinken, is back in tel aviv as washington increases the pressure for a humanitarian pause. antony blinken talked about israel s right to defend itself, but also the need for concrete steps to minimize harm to civilians in gaza. meanwhile, the leader of hezbollah like hamas a proscribed terrorist organisation has spoken in lebanon. hassan nasrallah praised the hamas attacks and said, the possibility of total war is realistic . one other important line to update you on more foreign nationals have been getting out of gaza at the rafah crossing point into egypt. 124 british nationals are on the list of people, who are being allowed to leave. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says, more than 9,000 people have been killed in the strip since october the 7th after hamas killed 14 hundred people, in the attacks in southern isreal. the us seretary of state antony blinken held talks with the israeli war cabinet a closed door gathering. he also met the
of artificial intelligence. for the first time, really, in human history with something that s going to be far more intelligent than us. and on newsnight at 10.30, we ll go deeper behind the headlines and on newsnight at 10.30, we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories plus a first look at tomorrow s front pages. good evening from jerusalem. for the first time since the war between israel and hamas began, people have been allowed to leave the besieged territory of gaza. they included dozens of injured palestinians and hundreds of foreign nationals. they ve left by the rafah crossing on the border with egypt and the injured were treated at field hospitals there. the foreign office says the first british nationals have crossed and that more will be taken out in stages over the coming days. people who ve been trapped in gaza for weeks began crossing the borderfrom late morning, after the territory was closed off by israel when
wind affecting parts of southern england reaching up to 80 miles an hour which is strong enough to bring down some trees. but in north west france they could have winds of up to over 100 miles an hour, that could rip roofs off buildings leading to structural damage. but not so far away the wind will be more typical for not so far away the wind will be more typicalfor some of not so far away the wind will be more typical for some of you, the kind of when we get quite often in the autumn and winter season. so the storm bringing a big variation in wind speed. today sunshine and showers, some rain for northern ireland again which could cause further issues and some rain for the north of scotland. 0vernight tonight storm ciaran arrives, a swathe of incredibly damaging wind working across north west france and the channel islands behind this cold front. we could get gusts of up to 100 miles an hour ripping some roofs of buildings and widespread trees being blown down so expect some
next week which is why we have seen panic buying on the islands of people stocking up with goods because they feel there could be an interruption here in the islands cut off for a few days and it will not be possible to get goods replenished but the island authorities say there is a serious risk people need to stay away from the coast and off the road and at home if possible because there is a threat to life but they say the are ensuring goods can get through so even if there is disruption to flights and boat services things will not run out on the islands. but people are concerned and the sort of wind and tide forecast would be the highest people seen for 30 or 35 years in the 1987 storm had a really bad effect here injersey. the 1987 storm had a really bad effect here in jersey. the 1987 storm had a really bad effect here in jersey. there have been warnings effect here in jersey. there have been warnings about effect here in jersey. there have been warnings about damag