hello, i m ben thompson. the israeli military says it has agreed to evacuate premature babies from gaza s main hospital al shifa to a safer place on sunday. an idf spokeswoman was unable to say how the evacuation would be carried out and the head of surgery at al shifa says no other hospital in gaza could accommodate the 37 infants at risk. this photo was sent to the bbc last night showing more than 20 babies being kept in a surgical theatre appearing to be need of oxygen treatment. alyona synenko says the situation in hospitals across gaza including the south is increasingly dire. hospitals overflowing with patience and thousands of displaced people who come there because they think they will be safer and hospitals running out of essentials. i speak without surgeons who are working in other european hospitals, they are running out of anaesthetic material and the blasts take place in the proximity of the hospital and when it happens the entire building shakes so it is
of conflict abroad, so our main question this morning are politicians making divisions worse at home? as dignitaries gather at the cenotaph, the defence secretary grant shapps joins us. but as a new war rages in the middle east, we ll hear from israel s president, isaac herzog. with the home secretary s job in the balance, the woman who wants herjob for labour, yvette cooper, joins us too. and what are you watching on tv, what are you seeing on your phone? we ll hear for the first time from lord grade, the boss of ofcom, who sets the rules. and we ll pay a special visit to the cenotaph on this poignant day before the clocks ring out at 11. i m at the cenotaph on remembrance sunday, almost 10,000 people are getting ready to take part in the march passed later here this morning and i ll be talking to some of them. morning, morning, on this special day. with me at the desk, former cabinet minister nadine dorries, whose book about the ousting of borisjohnson was published this
so with the conservatives, it s all about labour. it s all about not what a conservative term in office would mean, but what a labour term in office, especially with a supermajority that phrase that has become part of the political lexicon in the last few weeks would mean. that s what rishi sunak s been talking about today. that s what rishi sunak is going to be talking about until midnight wednesday slash thursday labour. it s also about what labour would mean, but they have a much more direct way of talking about it. they use one word change, but the slight shift between the start of the campaign when they were using that one word, change, and now is that they say if you want it, you ve got to vote for it. and they keep repeating that and expect to hear that again and again and again until wednesday night, thursday morning. and the reason they do that is because there s just this slight twinge of concern in the labour campaign that the polling landscape means that s
the institute for fiscal studies, who you may or may not have heard of, it s theirjob, and they re very public about this, aren t they, to test whether or not political parties sums add up. and when you look at it, so i ve got the labour manifesto here and they ve done their costings at the back of the actual book. the conservatives put out a separate book with their costings. there s lots of kind of suspiciously round numbers here because obviously they ve got to do. it s, it s, it s educated guesswork. yeah. a, how much stuff is going to cost? secondly, what the state of the economy is going to be, so, how much growth is there going to be? what does that mean for tax revenues? so there s quite a lot of guesswork. and then, yes, every party, i was at a news conference today that was all about this. every party will then try and trash their opponents and suggest that their numbers are dodgy. so i was at a conservative event today that was trying to do that about labour s mani