reached the centre of rafah of rafah for the first time and the hamas run health authority says at least 21 people were killed in west rafa after an explosion in an attended zone deemed safe for palestinians which comes two days after israeli bombs swept through a refugee camp in rafah leaving 45 dead including women and children. lucy williamson has more. rafah was once gaza s refuge, the safest place in a dangerous war. today, the city s west and centre was emptying, those still sheltering here fleeing again amid air strikes and artillery fire. taking whatever they need to survive, whatever they can t leave behind. there s been no evacuation order from israel s army and for many, no sense of where to go. translation: i m just walking in the street, l i don t know where to go, there is nowhere safe. where should we go? this is not a life, this is not a life. they were packing up, too, in the displacement camp at tal al sultan to the west of the city, still scarred by fires t
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moment asjoe biden and donald trump face in atlanta. good evening and welcome to newsnight, live on weeknights and packed full of political vitamins, interviews and tonight insights about the rematch betweenjoe biden and donald trump that kicks off in three and a half hours. donald trump s are playing, it has just arrived in atlanta. and we are waiting for him to disembark from that. it has landed for at least three minutes but no sign of him. last time 73 million americans watched the debate. polls suggest this time it could be even higher with 115 million voters likely to tune in. lets go straight over to to cnn hq in atlanta, who are hosting the debate, to the spin room, to speak to catriona perry, the bbc s chief dc presenter. any sense of mood? absolutely, the excitement is any sense of mood? absolutely, the excitement is building any sense of mood? absolutely, the excitement is building already - any sense of mood? absolutely, the excitement is building alread
you re watching bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the middle east and the us secretary of state has said that american and other mediators will work over the coming days to see if they can reach an agreement for a ceasefire in gaza. the us has come up with a plan, but there s a blame game about why it hasn t been accepted. speaking in qatar on his latest trip to the region antony blinken said that israel had agreed to the deal, but hamas had proposed a number of changes, some of which he described as unworkable. but a senior hamas official has denied this, saying they did not put forward new demands, and are still committed to the proposal. hamas claims israel has rejected the deal and argues america is covering up for its ally. israel has not commented. let s take a look at the plan, which involves three phases. the first would see an initial six week ceasefire, when hamas would release some of the hostages including women, t
zircon missiles. they conducted drills earlier in the atlantic. but cuba s foreign ministry says none of those ships are carrying nuclear arms, and that russia s five day visit does not pose a threat to region. this all comes as cuba s foreign minister bruno rodriguez and his russian counterpart sergei lavrov, met in moscow. earlier i spoke with our cuba and america correspondent for more. you have heard there that they are at pains to stress that there is no threat to the region by these naval exercises. that this is simply and they have been underlining this a friendship between the communist run island and russia. that it underscores that friendship, that between of coorporation between long standing allies, notjust as russia, but previously of course with the soviet union. they want to remove any senses of echoes of the cold war at such a time of heightened tensions, and focus, if you like, on the fact that there is a bilateral relationship here between russia and cub