Inside. Also tonight, storm babet is battering ne scotland, with over 8 inches of rain expected in 2a hours. There is a red Weather Warning in place, we will get the latest from our teams on the ground. Good evening, the United Nations says it is hearing reports that palestinians are going back to areas in northern gaza, that israel had told them to evacuate. Without aid, and without proper shelter, the un says some are returning home from areas in the south that were supposed to be safer. Today there was an air strike in khan younis half way down the strip where many had taken refuge, with children and un workers among the wounded. The uns agency for Palestinian Refugees, who we will speak to tonight, says aid that is promised, 20 trucks currently waiting at the rafah crossing, will barely scatch the surface. Gaza they said is on the brink. Injerusalem, the british Prime Minister told Benjamin Netenyahu the uk will stand full square behind israel and its right to defend istelf against
Hello, im ben thompson. Israels military says its forces are deployed across the country and are ready for the next stage of the war, which is expected to have significant ground operations. A spokesman said the coming phase could include, what he called, Combined And Co Ordinated strikes from the air, sea and land. The goal, he said, was to completely destroy the governing and military capabilities of hamas. Its a week since hamas, classed as a Terrorist Organisation by many western governments, including the uk, killed more than 1,300 people in israel and took dozens hostage. Israel has warned the 1. 1 million civilians in gazas north to move south beyond the wadi gaza here. The Military Spokesperson said they should not return until israel said they could do so. The authorities in gaza say more than 2,200 people have already died in retaliatory israeli bombing. On saturday, israels Prime Minister visited some of his troops and asked them if they are ready for the next stage. 0ur Cor
hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who s shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. now, you might think that the job of the equality and human rights commission was simply to police and implement the law, to ensure equality. but in this era of so called culture wars, debate about equality is, it seems, dividing even the commission itself. my guest this week is the chair of the equality and human rights commission, baroness kishwer falkner. she faced allegations that she had bullied her staff. allies of her insisted that she was the victim of a witch hunt from people who thought she thought the wrong things about the toxic debate about trans women and their place in society. an investigation into that bullying has recently been dropped. baroness falkner was appointed by the conservatives, but she is a former liberal democrat peer. she s also talked of herself being a first generation migran
hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who s shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. now, you might think that the job of the equality and human rights commission was simply to police and implement the law, to ensure equality. but in this era of so called culture wars, debate about equality is, it seems, dividing even the commission itself. my guest this week is the chair of the equality and human rights commission, baroness kishwer falkner. she faced allegations that she had bullied her staff. allies of her insisted that she was the victim of a witch hunt from people who thought she thought the wrong things about the toxic debate about trans women and their place in society. an investigation into that bullying has recently been dropped. baroness falkner was appointed by the conservatives, but she is a former liberal democrat peer. she s also talked of herself being a first generation migran