by the death of our late sovereign of happy memory, become our only lawful and rightful liege lord, charles iii. new details on the queen s state funeral it will be held in westminster abbey on monday 19 september king charles approved the day as a public holiday. a surprise show of unity as the prince and princess of wales arejoined by prince harry and meghan at windsor castle. attending a church service. and in other news ukraine says it has retaken several key towns and cities in the north and east as its offensive against russian forces gathers pace. it has been confirmed that queen elizabeth s funeral will take place on september the nineteenth. her body will lie in state in westminster hall for four days before the service to allow the public to pay their respects. earlier, king charles was formally proclaimed as the new monarch at a ceremony in london. he said he would strive to follow the inspiring example of his late mother. he told the accession council at
press. if you want peace, destroy hamas. if you want security, destroy hamas. we want to minimize civilian casualties and we want to minimize casualties on our side while maximizing the casualties on the, of the hamas terrorists. and netanyahu also offering some hope for the release of 239 hostages including americans. is there a potential deal? there could be but i think the less i say about it, the more i ll increase the chances it materials. if a deal is available, well, we ll talk about it when it s there. we ll announce it if it s achieved. plus, speaker johnson s two step plan to fund the government. a second shutdown show down in the new year. and a live report from manhattan where former president trump s attorneys are beginning their defense today in the trump organization civil fraud trial with don jr. back on the stand. good day. the world health organization says gaza s main hospital is no longer functional while others have closed completely. as newb
and orders evacuations, with the chance of a volcanic eruption rising. live from our studio in singapore. it s bbc news. it s newsday. this is bbc news. welcome to the programme. there s growing concern about the dire state of hospitals in gaza. the biggest, al shifa, is not functioning at all that description coming in the past few hours from the world health organization. this map shows all of gaza s hospitals, marked by the red dots the un says 20 out of 36 are no longer working. at al shifa, premature babies have had to be moved out of their incubators, and there are reports that gaza s second biggest hospital has run out of fuel. the bbc has managed to reach a surgeon inside the al shifa hospital in gaza. here s some of what marwan abu sada had to say about conditions there. at al shifa, out here we cannot see, everything is in total darkness, really. without electricity, without fuel, without water, even without food. and still, we are having more than 600 inju
it s one of a number of rallies across france. hello there, i m rich preston, welcome to the programme. israeli air strikes have continued across southern gaza today. our correspondent on the ground says there ve been eight air strikes in and around khan younis today, with 23 people killed and around 200 injured. rushdi abualouf witnessed one of the air strikes while he was buying supplies for his children in the village of bani suhaila. four bombs fell around him in quick succession. he took these pictures, and says a block of about ten houses had been destroyed. rushdie told us he saw four dead bodies, and more than 100 injured people in that particular incident. it comes as the us national security adviserjake sullivan said washington does not want to see firefights in hospitals in gaza. conditions in the two biggest are said to be desperate with patients, staff and the displaced all trapped. the world health organisation says it has lost contact with gaza s main hospital,
tensions in london. the assistance forces commissioner praised officers who put themselves in harm s way. and the uk pays tribute to the armed forces on remembrance sunday. the latest headlines at the top of the hour. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. this week saw the first king s speech in 70 years. the first, and who knows, maybe the last, under prime minister rishi sunak, after 13 years of conservative rule. at the centre of power in those 13 years, both in pushing original policies and allegedly sinister plotting behind the scenes, is today s guest on political thinking. a conversation, with rather than a newsy interrogation of, someone who shapes our thinking about what shaped theirs. he, if you ve not guessed yet, is michael gove. he s found some pretty surprising allies during his ministerial career. he is praised now as housing secretary by housing campaigners. whereas tory supporting developers complain