Its virtually all over for england at the Cricket World Cup. Jos buttler s side suffer yet another humiliating defeat to all but end their defence of the trophy. And we have some dense fog around this morning, particularly towards the east this morning, particularly towards the east. That should clear away by mid morning. Still unsettled the heavy mid morning. Still unsettled the heavy downpours and blustery winds. That continue the next few days. More that continue the next few days. More details for you coming up shortlx its friday, the 27th Of October. Our main story. Eu leaders have called for a pause in fighting between israel and hamas to allow aid into gaza, ahead of a vote on an immediate ceasefire at the United Nations today. Overnight, the us military has carried out airstrikes in Eastern Syria against two facilities it says were being used by iran to target american forces. Our middle east correspondent Yolande Knell reports. Keeping hope alive. The families of the 200 plus
Of litres of fuel in the hands of hamas. The bbc has not been able to verify this. Hamas is designated a Terrorist Organisation by the uk and other western governments. There are growing International Calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting, to allow aid to Reach Gaza Which continues to come under intense bombardment. The Health Ministry in the hamas controlled territory says more than 6,500 people have now been killed there 2,704 of them children. Israel says more than 1,400 people were killed in the hamas attacks on the 7th of october. Another focus of the past 2a hours has been israels furious reaction to comments made by the un Secretary General at the Security Council. Antonio guterres said the hamas attacks in southern israel had not happened in a vacuum. He also said there was no justification for the hamas attacks. Israel is now withholding visas from United Nations officials in response to the remarks. Mr guterres has spoken again in the past hour. Shocked by the misrep
Justifying the events of october the 7th. It is a measure of the profound sense of shock and horror and disgust and anger that still reverberate up and down this country that when they heard him making those remarks, they hurt someone who they believed still did not understand exactly what had happened on October Seven, that somehow he was marshalling the history of the conflict to not just was marshalling the history of the conflict to notjust explain but to justify the behaviour of the hamas gunmen who attacked so many innocent civilians on that day. He clearly wants us to know that is not the case, that he doesntjustify any of this, but he remains convinced that it is pointless to try and consider any of this without taking a wider view, because simply things are inexplicable and cannot be addressed. I think that is the point he is making. Of course it has had real world impact and consequences, because Martin Griffiths, having his visa denied, and israel clear why they did that. Ho
Among some of the girls. Thejudge described him as cruel and sadistic, and she had an option to sentence him to a fixed term prison or a Life Sentence, and she chose the Life Sentence route. So, essentially, he will belong to the state for life. When calculating the minimum term, she said that if he had not pleaded guilty, and she had gone for a fixed term, she would have sentenced him to 27 years in prison, but taking into account the guilty plea and that he would have only served two thirds of a fixed prison sentence, she decided the minimum time he will spend in prison will be 12 years, so it will be 12 years before he is considered for parole. There are many, many offences for which he has been sentenced, but all the sentences will run concurrently. But to give you an idea, many of the other offences for which he was sentenced, he would have gone to jail for nine years and four months. So he has got an absolute stack of concurrent sentences, but ultimately, it is a Life Imprisonmen