was a hoax. in the uk, the two candidates trying to become the next prime minister set out their plans to deal with forecasts of an economic downturn. chinese fighter jets fly close to taiwan s coastline, as bejing halts co operation with the us on key issues including climate change in the aftermath of nancy pelosi s visit to taipei. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. israel says it has arrested 19 members of the palestinian group, islamichhad, in raids across the west bank, after carrying out air strikes against targets in gaza yesterday. the raids killed ten palestinians, including a commander of islamichhad and a child. in retaliation, islamichhad militants fired dozens of rockets into israel from gaza. azadeh moshiri reports. gaza s sky lights up as israel s military launches successive air strikes. this is the footage they released of the attack. it lasted hours and claimed several lives including that of a top military commander of pa
Welcome to the programme, im lewis vaughanjones. You join us as Significant Development have been taking place, in the last hour or so, we heard from the idf, a spokesperson, saying backGround Forces are expanding their operations tonight. And we have seen an intensification of airstrikes on gaza. First thing we are going to do is show you the live pictures we have, these are the feeds coming in, this is gaza which over the last few has reported increasing bombardment and an intensification of airstrikes. The other thing to tell you about gaza tonight is that communications have been cut, the internet seems to be down, telecommunications down, potentially as a result there was airstrikes but we do not know for certain why. But we do not know for certain why. But we have now got numerous reports that the communications within gaza are down. We also have another live feed from gaza to show you as well. We are keeping across these two live feeds for you as the airstrikes from israel into
People have been asked to move to from north gaza and thats the hospital and we are keeping an eye on what is happening there in these next pictures were going to so you are from southern israel. We have been seeing an intensification of air strikes been seeing an intensification of airstrikes in been seeing an intensification of air strikes in gaza and out of gaza to southern israel. We have heard the last couple of hours in the idf, the last couple of hours in the idf, the israeli spokesperson announcing and an expansion of their operations and an expansion of their operations and intensification of the Air Bombardment into gaza. Our correspondence have seen and heard the intensification of that bombing. Communications are down. And this will be keeping across the speed and this is the United Nations were expecting votes on resolutions and we will see whether they pass or not it will be back in new york a little later. These pictures and this is from earlier and these are the skyline
in this latest outbreak of violence. yolande knell our middle east correpondent joins me from jerusalem. what has been happening this morning? would it mean starting that again, we cannot quite yet, if you wouldn t mind starting again and bring us up to date. i m afraid we cannot re establish the sound there, but obviously it will try and do that and go back to their lives tojerusalem to get the very latest on what has been happening in that escalation of violence but we will come back to that little bit later. to ukriane where another convoy