are met. with more, here s our middle east correspondent, lucy williamson. explosions. in gaza, this is the new normal. drone strikes in the border town of rafah, emptying the local market. 17 year old joe, filming on his phone, still clutching his bag of shopping and calling on god for protection. america has blocked un calls for a ceasefire. israel says it needs to keep fighting to keep up the pressure on hamas. if you want a ceasefire, that, from israel s perspective, can only happen with the release of hostages. as you know, hamas continues to hold over 100 hostages. there s a chance, because they want that ceasefire, they need that ceasefire, they will agree to the hostages but to be frank, had we agreed to the un secretary general s proposal over a month ago for this unilateral ceasefire, we would never have got the 110 hostages out that we did in november. israel s army said this week it had killed tens of hamas fighters in an ambush near gaza city. and that it s prepa
colleagues across the nations and regions and the news where you are but from the ten o clock team, good night. one of the last big electoral tests before a general election is over. will the results determine keir starmer s chances of entering downing street? dirty polls closed polls closed 30 minutes ago. nick and election guru john curtice are here to game the outcome. and a cabinet minister, a shadow cabinet minister and the deputy leader of the lib dems will all be spinning their narratives. also tonight, an exclusive newsnight investigation into misogny and a boys culture in police scotland. four female former employees, three of them longstanding officers, banding together as whistle blowers, speak out. it was like a russian roulette. i either put the grievance in, lose my career, or i don t put the grievance in and i lose my career because i m getting accused of throwing weapons, which didn t happen. ultimately it didn t just take my career. it took my mental healt
wales. this weather front, further south. across england and wales. this weatherfront, the isobars pushing into the north and west of scotland as we move through wednesday. it will be turning right and when you re through the day. further south for england and wales, a cold start, some mist and fog but mainly dry throat with some sunshine. temperatures range from 7-10. sunshine. temperatures range from 7 10. starting to turn very windy later through wednesday, gusts up to 75 mph across the north and west of scotland. the met office to have a minor yellow warning in force. the wet windy weather moves away from the north of scotland. further south it stays fine and settled, closer to that area of high pressure. the orange colour start to move on towards the end of the week. we lose the wet and windy weather across thursday and friday, most places will be dry because of high pressure. it turned milder towards the end of the week. have a lovely evening. thanks, stav. and that s b
points ahead of the conservatives. i don t want to put words in john s don t want to put words injohn s mouth, but i think we will hear that they need to be ten points ahead. their view is that that does not take account of their remarkable progress they think they are making in scotland, which means that they don t need to do quite so well in the rest of great britain. for the conservatives, they are saying this is a tough night for the conservatives, having been in power for 13 years. they are talking about 1000 seat losses, and what they are trying to say is to put it on to labour and say, you need to sort of result that you had in the local elections in 1995. there were 2000 tory losses there. labour got a8% of the vote, and the reason why they say that is that if keir starmer gets the swing that tony blair got in 1997, he onlyjust squeaked in to downing street. then interestingly, the conservatives think that labour is going after some marquee winds that will look good but is not