close, could bring some of the hostages home very soon, but i don t want to get into details or things because nothing is done until it s done. and we have more to say, we will. but things are looking good at the moment. sandra: at this hour, awaiting updates from both the state department and the pentagon on the war in the middle east of a the president there says a hostage deal with hamas is very close and he is optimistic. and also an update is expected from the pentagon a short time from now after the u.s. military carried out an airstrike last night, killing several militants from iranian proxy group. a lot to learn in the coming minutes and hours. hello, welcome, john, great to be with you. john: good to be with you as well, sandra. john roberts in washington. america reports . an agreement could be announced at any moment but what we know at this hour about the hostages. the deal on the table would free about 50 israeli women and children in exchange for 150 pales
charity medecins sans frontieres says attacks intensified overnight, adding it has lost contact with its medics working there. israel s defense forces have been closing in on northern gaza. these purple areas show the approximate align has come in that operations at al shafi hospital have stopped because of a lack of fuel. meanwhile, in an interview with the bbc, the french president emmanuel macron has called for israel to stop killing babies and women in gaza. france, like the uk, has proscribed hamas as a terrorist organisation. our correspondent nick beake is injerusalem with the latest. this was israel s aerial attack on gaza overnight. an unrelenting barrage, like most nights over the past five weeks. israeli forces have now surrounded gaza city s major hospitals, where they say hamas have built headquarters underground. but thousands of patients and those just trying to seek shelter are stranded on what is now a front line of the fighting. the red cross says hospitals
reveille. applause. cheering. and there we end the two minute silence to mark the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, armistice day, the agreement that brought an end to the fighting in the first world war. it is an event of course based in the history, time to remember and reflect but also a timely reminder of the current conflicts being thought right now around the world. this moment remembering those who have given their lives in service to our country since 1914. it is about the importance of keeping stories of service and sacrifice alive. you are watching bbc news. with me is our correspondent helena wilkinson. it really is such a poignant, emotional moment, isn t it? seen that been replicated right across the country. such a reminder of those who gave their lives in service for this country. yes, and you look at the pictures from the cenotaph in central london and london is very busy on a saturday and the stillness was so moving, wasn t it? ~ ,., ., ., wasn t
situation with no fuel in the ventilators have stopped working in the main building. we feel it every few seconds hear from the al shifa hospital. the people who try this morning with a ventilator from the hospital had been shot in the streets and some of them have been killed and some injured. no one can arrive to the hospital. we cannot get outside of the building because thatis get outside of the building because that is shooting everywhere. we don t have electricity, we don t have water or even food and we are afraid that is in the middle of the night we lost electricity to the main i see you and the prenatal i see you and one of the team was hurt in the neck and was paralysed. we don t want to have any breaks due to dead bodies outside the main generator which is not working because we don t have fuel to run this generator. this is the situation now. at gaza s largest hospital, al shifa , the international charity msf says attacks intensified overnight, adding it has los
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