In israel, sirens sounded as Hezbollah Launched Rockets and families mourned their lost loved ones, and those still in captivity. Israeli Air Strikes shook the People of beirut. In gaza, millions are spending another night in tents among rubble and disease, as israeli strikes continued there, too. 0ur correspondent, anna foster, is on the scene. I spoke to herjust before coming on air. And i, as we speak, how tense is the situation there . Its air. And i, as we speak, how tense is the situation there . Is the situation there . Its always particularly is the situation there . Its always particularly tense is the situation there . Its always particularly tense during is the situation there . Its always particularly tense during this is the situation there . Its always l particularly tense during this time. We always see the strikes on the Southern Suburbs of beirut. When it gets around midnight local time, we start to see these warnings that are without by the israeli military, telling P
Mcconnell harshly criticised biden as bending under the heat of domestic political pressure from his partys anti israel base. Republican senator Lindsay Graham has called the decision to halt arms absurd. This is all about President Biden and trying to take over the war from israel. Ive got one message for israel. Ive got one message for israel. Dont let them do it. Many democratic lawmakers have come out in support of biden s decision to halt certain munitions to israel. Heres what democratic senator and biden ally chris coons told the bbc. Of course, israel has the right but the obligation to go after hamas and Finish Thejob and the obligation to go after hamas and finish the job and restore a sense of security to the israeli people after the horrific attack of october seven. But since there are a million refugees in gaza who have moved to the north, to the centre and the south and are trapped up against the hard border with egypt and egypt is not allowing any of them in, before goi
The the entrance to rafah or two goals, the return of her hostages and the elimination of hamas. As the war cabinet unanimously decided, there very farfrom the cabinet unanimously decided, there very far from the necessary requirements, israel will not allow hamas to restore its evil rule in the gaza strip or its military capabilities to continue striving for destruction. For our destruction. For more on the latest developments, paul adams reports from jerusalem. A deal may now be tantalisingly close, but in rafah, israels military pressure is relentless. Today, severing gazas last link with the outside world, the crossing point into egypt. And raising the flag, sending an unmistakable message to hamas. The noose is tightening. The sounds of approaching war echo among the displaced, Hundreds Of Thousands of palestinians living in the sand against the egyptian border or next to the sea. I dont know where to stay, heart medicines, i dont know where to stay, this man says, people are flee
really upsetting. it is upsetting and insulting. it really is disgusting. to be honest. the morning after the games, drinks and nibbles in downing street, the prime minister was to ask even more of people. having repeatedly said he wouldn t change the rules at christmas, mrjohnson made this announcement. it is with a very heavy heart that we cannot continue with christmas as planned. millions of christmas gatherings were cancelled. less than 24 hours after downing street had had a gathering of its own. and while the prime minister maintains this didn t break the rules he s offered no evidence to explain why. further coverage of that story and lots of others that we bring you one outside source through the bbc news website. is bbc dot com slash news website. is bbc dot com slash news we can download the app onto your smartphone and very easily search for it on bbc news. and on our second part of outside source, we ll look at the issue of abortion in
dot com slash news. hello. tuesday started with some torrential rain. for northern england in eastern scotland there still more rain to come in the next few hours. tomorrow, though it s a very different looking day the eastern side of the uk as this low will finally shift off into the north sea. but to get us on into the evening still some wet weather for eastern scotland, northern england and some pushing back down into east anglia with wins here as well. under the cloud with the wind and rain and mild enough night across the eastern side of the uk. towards the west from light winds and clear skies. skies clearing out as a little ridge of high pressure toppling in from