off patients at a&e. save the nhs! rishi sunak invites unions to a meeting with government early next week to discuss a string of disputes that have led to strikes. we want to have an honest, grown up conversation about what is affordable, what s responsible for the country. those invitations have gone out and i m hopeful that those meetings can happen on monday. the uk and the german pharmaceutical company biontech join forces to speed up research into potential cancer vaccines. and the former chelsea striker and manager, gianluca vialli, has died at the age 58. and coming up on the bbc news channel. under pressure frank lampard says he understands the fans frustrations at everton. he s hoping for an improvement in form away to manchester united in the fa cup tonight. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. prince harry has said he wants reconciliation with the royal family, despite leaked extracts from his memoir containing a series of sensational accusations aga
meanwile the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has insisted that his country will press on with its fight against hamas. translation: i want to be clear, the war is ongoing, l it is continuing. we will continue it until we achieve all our objectives. we will eliminate hamas and we ensure that the day after hamas, there will be no factor who will continue educating their children to hate and to eradicate israel, so we will continue eliminating in hamas, in the north, by the way, and in the south, we will continue that effort. our senior international correspondent orla guerin has the latest on the deal and the ongoing conflict. just a warning, some of the images in this report are distressing. a reminder of how all this began on october 7th, hamas gunmen storming across the borderfrom gaza, hunting israelis to kill or capture. around 240 were taken hostage. among them, shiri bibas, trying to shield her two little boys from the horror all around them ten month old kfir
income is tight, but we have these wonderful fund raising activities that people can get involved in. and those extra income streams are more important to us now than they ever have been. back at noah s ark, for the cubs benny and toichi, seeing christmas trees for the first time offers all sorts of opportunities to learn and for mischief. where s the angel gone? oh, well, there s always next year. john maguire, bbc news, north somerset. time for a look at the weather. here s helen willetts. reeta, thank you very much. it s mild, it s wet, it s windy, we ve had large waves around the coast this morning. large waves are certainly a feature of the forecast this weekend. why? low pressure. one still withers across the north, and another is barrelling its way in from the atlantic between just a brief weather window, but not for