within the terms of the agreement, the leader of hamas in gaza, yayha sinwar, has demanded that the air space above gaza is free of israeli and american drones for at least six hours a day. that was initially resisted by the israeli cabinet. we will see whether it forms part of the agreement. hamas is also demanding fuel, crucial to the disperal of aid, but also to their military operations. it helps with the ventilation of the tunnels underground. the un s director of operations isjorge moreira da silva. we see that infrastructure is collapsing. it s collapsing on health, on water, on sanitation, on education. and we know that one key element to recover is the access to fuel. for several years, since 2018, unops has been the agency that has brought the fuel from israel to gaza. so every day we were bringing, procuring and delivering 500,000 litres of fuel. that was fundamental to increase the access to electricity from five hours a day to 12 hours a day. if you check the fig
arriving in north east scotland later. details throughout the programme. good morning. it s monday, the 20th of november. our main story. it s the start of a big week for the covid inquiry, which will hear evidence from the high profile doctors and scientists who helped to shape and explain the government s response to the pandemic. the former chief scientific adviser, sir patrick vallance, whose diaries from that time accused boris johnson of chaotic leadership, will appear today, followed by professor sir chris whitty, jonathan van tam and damejenny harries over the coming days. our health reporter jim reed reports. patrick, over to you. thank you very much. numbers are increasing and they re increasing across europe and in the uk. sir patrick vallance was up there at the downing street podium in some of the darkest days of the pandemic. we re also recommending increased social distancing. that s the phrase that you hear. already the inquiry has heard extracts from his priv
after the massacres by hamas. translation: from october 7th until now we ve had no life. - there has been a continuous curfew. it is a bad situation. we are living in a prison. a soldier forces a resident back into his home. i m telling you one last time, get inside, he says. the israeli army says the closures are due to increased security concerns amid deadly palestinian gun attacks on israelis in the west bank. but many more palestinians have been killed. hafez takes me to the spot where his friend was shot and critically wounded by an armed settler. the current war revives an old goal by the extremists, he says, to drive them off the land. tom bateman, bbc news, al tuwani in the occupied west bank. you may be surprised to learn that more than 170,000 russians are still living in ukraine, almost two years after their country launched its full scale invasion. the figures come from the state migration service. some are even fighting in ukraine s army. but their situation is
the goldilocks question. is it too big, too small or just the right size? i ll talk to two of the world s most foremost economists, larry summers and paul krugman. then what is the quad? president biden met with the leaders of japan, india and australia, a new bloc focused on deterring china. will it work? i ll talk to an expert. and the biotech revolution brought us covid-19 vaccines more swift than anyone thought possible. it s given us the ability to edit genes to cure diseases and the innovations on the horizon are even more extraordinary. i will ask walter isackson to describe what s next. but first, here s my take. within hours of being inaugurated, president biden began to roll back donald trump s most egregious migration policies, which biden called a stain on our natural conscience. he outlined an ambitious proposal for comprehensive reform, including a battle for citizenship living and working in america. literally hundreds of other rules, regulations and fees
Is deepening this hour. It all began when a minister in president erdogans government was blocked from addressing a rally in rotterdam. That prompted mr erdogan to describe the dutch government, led by mark rutte, as nazi remna nts. A second Turkish Minister has now been stopped from entering the netherlands, and in ankara, the dutch ambassador has been told he isnt welcome. Mark lowen reports. They love his nationalism, his bluntness, his standing up to the west, and today Recep Tayyip Erdogan doled it out. After his Foreign Minister was blocked from landing in the netherlands, president erdogan hit back at the dutch, his diplomacy typically undiplomatic. Translation they dont know anything about politics or international diplomacy. They are very nervous and cowards. They are nazi remnants, they are fascists. The Foreign Minister had wanted to rally turkish voters in the netherlands before a referendum on boosting mr erdogans powers. But with the dutch election next week, the governme