to help free up officers to deal with crime. good evening from jerusalem. for the first time since the war between israel and hamas began, dozens of injured palestinians and more hundreds of foreign nationals have been allowed to leave gaza. they ve entered egypt by the rafah crossing on the border, with the injured being treated at field hospitals there. the foreign office says that british nationals will start to 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 besieged by israel, after hamas attacked it over three weeks ago. hamas is classed as a terrorist organisation by the uk government. and in northern gaza, there s been another air strike on the jabalia refugee camp, a day after an israeli attack caused heavy casualties at the refugee camp there. our international editor jeremy bowen has our first report which contains material that you may find upsetting. at l
spells of rain. we may miss the worst of that across northern ireland. temperatures are largely irrelevant, ten or 12 degrees, the focus is on the wind in the south which will be easing in the south west during tomorrow afternoon. that s because the storm is going to move away and it will start to weaken. so the wind will drop, the storm heads out into the north sea for friday. the weather is not going to be quite so bad. it is not going to be quite so bad. it is not going to be quite so bad. it is not going to be as windy, it is not going to be as wet. there will be some sunshine and showers coming on as well. perhaps longer spells of rain continuing across eastern scotland under north east of england. again, temperatures probably going to be sitting around 1113 celsius. good evening. hello and welcome to sportsday this wednesday night, coming up on the programmee. england in dissaray david willey says he ll walk away from international cricket after the world cup after
in the future. also, there is research into certain types of storms, and in particular the kind that can give us our very strongest winds of all, and it looks like these as well may become more frequent in the long term. more explosive cyclogenesis now, and this time with a snowstorm that slammed into the north east usa injanuary, giving boston its joint snowiest day on record. parts of northern japan had their snowiest january, the city of sapporo saw more than 60 centimetres in 2a hours, the snowiest day in records going back more than 20 years. not the normal view of a greek island but this is naxos injanuary. even in a warming world, there will be bouts of severe winter weather. europe overall had a warmer than average winter. the same storm that hit greece swept across the middle east. this is aley on mount lebanon,
still to come on weather world, what makes a flash a mega flash? the changes in technology taking our understanding of lightning to new extremes. this time on weather world, we are on the isle of wight where, in february, a gust of wind of 122 miles per hour was recorded and that is a new record for england. it happened during storm eunice. an area of low pressure that underwent explosive cyclogenesis. bbc weather s climate check presenter ben rich takes a closer look at the science behind these rapidly strengthening storms. a bomb cyclone is a scary name for what is essentiallyjust an area of low pressure that has deepened and strengthened quickly and dramatically, something meteorologists call explosive cyclogenesis. now, imagine a column of air from the ground up to the level
in records going back to 1919. the blue sky followed another warmer than average winter. half of the uk s top ten mildest winters have occurred since 2010. still to come on weather world, what makes a flash a mega flash? the changes in technology taking our understanding of lightning to new extremes. this time on weather world, we are on the isle of wight where, in february, a gust of wind of 122 miles per hour was recorded and that is a new record for england. it happened during storm eunice. an area of low pressure that underwent explosive cyclogenesis. bbc weather s climate check presenter ben rich takes a closer look at the science behind these rapidly strengthening storms. a bomb cyclone is a scary name for what is essentiallyjust an area of low pressure that has deepened and strengthened quickly and dramatically, something meteorologists call explosive cyclogenesis.