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
Bowen joins us from jerusalem. Your assessment, jeremy, after the last few hours of what we might expect in the coming hours and days . Well, hamas say that they are fighting against israeli troops and tanks in the northern part of the gaza strip, that there are some big battles going on there. One big question, is this the invasion people have been talking about for the last three weeks . I think what the last three weeks . I think what the israelis seem to be doing is to cut off one northern part, one slice, one tranche, if you like, and then perhaps, i dont know, move on from that. A lot of reaction coming in. The Palestinian Authority, which is the rival Palestinian Group to hamas, is absolutely condemned what israel is doing as unhinged aggression, which is significant, because there are some people who hope that if israel removes hamas from power, then the Palestinian Authority might be tempted to take Overin Authority might be tempted to take over in gaza. At the way they are ta
Mitch mcconnel, during his time as Senate Majority leader. Also tonight a red Weather Warning in ne scotland, the met office says storm babbet could dump 8 inches of rain in less than 2a hours. Ten inches. Good evening. The trucks are still the wrong side of the Gaza Border But State Television In Egypt says the rafah border will open tomorrow to allow a convoy of 20 lorries carrying aid to go in. The us Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, was in cairo today working with the egyptians. But they know what is scheduled to leave tomorrow is nowhere near enough. Before the war the un was sending 100 trucks of aid every day. And this convoy will not be carrying fuel that is needed for Water Sanitation or for the generators at the hospitals. Heres mark regev Senior Advisor to the israeli Prime Minister. Fuel is a problem and we saw that earlier this week when there were tankers that came in with petrol, fuel and we know for a fact that a large part of that was stolen by hamas. There is a pr
Welcome to verified live. Rishi sunak has told his israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu that the uk Will Stand By israel in what both men described as its darkest hours. During talks injerusalem, rishi sunak affirmed israels ray to defend itself after attacks by hamas killed about 1400 people. There are also continuing concerns about the plight of people in gaza who rishi sunak said were also victims of hamas. He welcomed plans to get it into the territory via egypt. Aid agencies are warning that gaza is in need of far more aid than the initial 20 lorries announced by President Biden during his visit to israel yesterday. The un humanitarian chief says about 100 lorries will be required every day. More than 60 International Charities including christian aid, 0xfam and Save The Children have called for a ceasefire. Latest reports say that several people including children have been killed or wounded in a strike on a house in a southern town. These are some of the pictures from a hospit
To our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet who is in southern israel. You join us as we are getting a new footage from inside the gaza strip, from the south are not part, where Hundreds Of Thousands of palestinians have been sheltering or trying to shelter but these images show why are palestinian Officials Say was a air strike on a home near a hospital in khan yunis. These are distressing images were about to show come out about showing children and United Nations aid workers are being taken to hospital after an air strike. You can see on the left smoke billowing and after the blast, Hospital Workers and palestinian residents are trying to bring children to the hospital. As ambulances rushed to the scene. Are clearly marked un car is also seen to be bringing people wearing un uniforms into the medical facility. This situation, this developing situation in khan yunis now in the gaza strip. More distressing scenes of suffering and casualties, the results, a local Officials Say