on the 7th of october. all major un agencies are calling for a humanitarian ceasefire, in israel s armed response. jeremy bowen sent this report from southern israel, near the border with gaza. israel promised mighty vengeance. it thundered across beach camp in gaza city. israel s justification is defending the living as well as avenging its dead. palestinians call this genocide. this girl from jabalia camp is asked what happened to her. she says, a missile came down on us. bricks fell on us. i asked, where s my dad and where s my mum? she is asked, where were you? i was here, in the house. we were at home on the roof came down on us. we looked in on the war this afternoon from sderot, the closest israeli border town. israel has refused an american request to pause military operations to allow time for humanitarian convoys, or talks to free the hostages. israel might be able to break hamas as a military force, but what happens then? history shows israel s army cannot su
killed by israeli strikes since the start of the war. all major un agencies are now calling for a humanitarian ceasefire. jeremy bowen sent this report from southern israel near the border with gaza. israel promised mighty vengeance. it thundered across beach camp in gaza city. israel s justification is defending the living, as well as avenging its dead. palestinians call this genocide. this girl from jabalia camp is asked what happened to her. she says, a missile came down on us. bricks fell on us. i asked, where s my dad and where s my mum? she is asked, where were you? i was here, in the house. we were at home, and the roof came down on us. we looked in on the war this afternoon from sderot, the closest israeli border town. israel has refused an american request to pause military operations to allow time for humanitarian convoys, or talks to free the hostages. israel might be able to break hamas as a military force, but what happens then? history shows israel s ar
welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in italy, where president biden and ukraine s leader volodymyr zelensky have signed a ten year security agreement following the g7 s approval of a plan to use profits from seized russia assets to fund kyiv s war effort. joe biden said it would include intelligence sharing, troop training, adhering to nato standards and investment in ukraine s industrial base to make more weapons. mr zelensky described it as a bridge towards nato membership. the g7 deal sees a loan of $50 billion sent to ukraine. the group leaders agreed it showed moscow that ukraine s allies weren t backing down and president putin couldn t simply sit the war out. back in 2022, two days after russia s invasion, members of the g7 european union worked together to freeze $280 billion in russian central bank funds outside of russia. i m very pleased to share that this week, this week, the g7 signed a plan to finalise, unlock,
Lesbos. And well take an in depth look at the continuing row between australia and china with journalists expelled from beijing and now chinese academics having their visas withdrawn in australia. The European Union is threatening to take legal action against the uk over its controversial new brexit bill. The uk government wants to ignore parts of last yea rs Withdrawal Agreement, specifically on issues concerning Northern Ireland. The eu says that would be unacceptable. This is the European Commissions Vice President Maro Sefcovic in london today. He flew in for emergency talks with the senior uk cabinet minister michael gove. They dont appear to have resolved anything. When those talks concluded the European Commission issued a very sternly worded statement, saying. The Commission Says the proposed legislation. Well explain why the eu believes that to be the case in a moment, but first, heres chris morris on that statement. The message from the eu is very clear. And i spent several y
Between australia and china with chinese academics having their visas withdrawn in australia and australian journalists expelled from beijing. The European Union is threatening to take legal action against the uk over its controversial new brexit bill. The uk government wants to ignore parts of last yea rs Withdrawal Agreement, specifically on issues concerning Northern Ireland. The eu says that would be unacceptable. This is the European Commissions Vice President Maro Sefcovic in london today. He flew in for emergency talks with the senior uk cabinet minister michael gove. They dont appear to have resolved anything. When those talks concluded the European Commission issued a very sternly worded statement, saying. Well explain why the eu believes that to be the case in a moment, but first, heres chris morris on that statement. The message from the eu is very clear, and i spent several years covering the eu in brussels wading through statements of incredibly dense and dull prose. This