Our Middle East correspondent, lucy williamson, has just sent this update from jenin. There are israeli jeeps, israeli armoured vehicles moving around the entrance tojenin s Government Hospital behind me. You can see an ambulance coming through now as well. The Hospital Entrance Isjust behind this Army Vehicle here. Staff inside the hospital say that since last night, the army has surrounded the building. And is searching anyone who wants to leave. This street, deserted now, one of the main roads through the town, has seen this kind of activity so many times since the hamas attacks last october. But this operation, looks a bit different, it is a part of a wider, coordinated operation across the northern West Bank. These kinds of operations going on in several cities. What is not entirely clear at the moment is why this operation is taking place now. The kind of extensive operation that People here havent seen in decades. Israels Foreign Minister says it is a Counterterrorism Operation
Related. With more heavy Snow Forecast across Northern Scotland this weekend well talk to one family who decided to make the most of it. Dont, dont shes kicked him out and coming up this hour. Certainly not on mute how one Parish Council has gone viral after a zoom meeting got a little out of hand. Good morning. Welcome to bbc news. Energy prices will rise for millions of people across the uk in april, after the regulator ofgem said the cap for default Domestic Energy deals would be raised to cover suppliers extra costs. Ofgem defended the decision, saying that its in the interest of customers to start allowing Energy Companies to recover some of the costs to avoid larger price hikes in the future. The price cap was introduced in 2019 and designed to protect customers from being overcharged. But this is the first rise in the cap so how will the decision affect customers . The price cap affects 11 million households who have never switched suppliers, or whose discounted deals have expir
Stretches and fog developing as well. Saturday rain showers for parts of northern and eastern england, South East Scotland seeing a bit of rain, but this snow will fall to lower levels and there will be some snow over the Higher Ground of Northern England later in the day. The driest of the weather to be found further south and west during saturday afternoon. Saturday night and into sunday those temperatures are going to be dropping like a stone. Code mac Easterly Winds pushing a close and heavy persistent snowfall across east anglia, the South East Of England and snow flurries further north. An Amber Warning in force for that potentially disruptive snow. There could be more than ten centimetres in places. Thats all from the Bbc News At Six so its goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are. Hello and welcome to sportsday with me, katherine downes. Coming with me, katherine downes. Up this friday evening a century on his century joe root passes 100 on h
And also for Northern Ireland as we head into friday morning. Some mist and fog patches across southern parts of england and wales, they could be slow to clear tomorrow. We have still got that mix of rain around the coast and at low levels but heavy snow across central parts of scotland, so some disruption is likely. Heavy rain showers for parts of north east england and for Northern Ireland. But into the weekend thats when things will turn colder for all of us and there is further snow in places as well. So heading through the course of friday night into saturday, low pressure starts to drift away towards the south. We still got more snow across the Higher Ground of scotland, some of that snow on saturday falling to lower levels and it will start to snow across parts of Northern England as well. To the south of that mainly rain showers with the driest weather for parts of Northern Ireland and into wales on saturday but those temperature starting to come down, around 2 8 degrees but it
Post brexit trade arrangements. If youd like to get in touch this morning, you can tweet me vicderbyshire or email victoria bbc. Co. Uk. A team from the World Health Organization visits the high security chinese lab at the centre of claims over the source of the covid 19 pandemic. And the queen and british Prime Minister have led tributes to captain sir tom moore, whos died at 100 years old, after Testing Positive for Coronavirus Last week. The uk government says it will ensure hes officially remembered. I think we should find a way to make sure that we mark the memory of captain tom and thank him for the contribution that he made for the nhs. So i will ensure that we mark his contribution properly and appropriately at the right moment. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, has described as absolutely superb the findings of a study which suggests for the first time that the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine significantly reduces