reporter: tonight the israeli military publishing video of what it says is an operational tunnel inside the al shifa hospital complex. the idf has been operating around the complex for days, closing in on what they long asserted was a hub of hamas activity. ak-47s. we see handcuffs. reporter: doctors and health officials in the hamas-run enclave have denied those accusations. but this, the israeli military says and this is where they choose to hide everything. reporter: is part of the evidence they had promised as the idf continues its operation in the hospital complex that began early wednesday morning. it s not just the credibility of the idf and israel that s at stake. president joe biden says he feels absolutely confident hamas is there as the u.s. throws its weight behind israel. the first war crimes being committed by hamas by having their headquarters, their military hidden under a hospital. reporter: on thursday gaza again found itself under a total
Dedicated to ideas that never took off. The museum of failure. Good morning. Its june 8th. Iam i am annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Polling stations are open across the country as millions of people go to cast their votes in the general election. Theyll close at 10pm this evening, with the first results due before midnight. Police say therell be increased security at some Polling Stations with Armed Officers in some areas. Joining me now from westminster is our Political Correspondent alicia mccarthy. And intensive seven Week Campaign and now people get to go and cast their votes, tech as to what has been happening. 50 days since mps voted to hold the selection and finally, today is the day. Polling stations will be open for another 11 hours. We have seen theresa may, tim farron, nicola sturgeon, jeremy corbyn, they have all been out to vote so far. We are electing 650 mps. We have got 3301 candidates standing in the selection. 986 of those women. The polls dont close unt
plane headed into this thing. they are calling it a tropical disturbance for now just to see if it s serious enough to name it a tropical storm possibly in the next couple of hours. keep in mind we re also learning major oil companies are not taking any chances with this disturbance. evacuations have begun just in case and the mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu, he ll be holding a news conference as they are all watching this disturbance as well heading precariously closely to their government line. we ll keep an eye on all of it and let s move on to some other news. moammar gadhafi, a la saddam hussein, is threatening to plunge his country into a drawn out civil war, but did you know it is 42 years to the day since a much younger gadhafi seized control of libya in a military coup. now presumably on the run but apparently still alive, gadhafi is extorting supporters exhorting excuse me, exhorting supporters to fight to the death. here s his message. this was aired today
boehner s plan has now checked harry reed s. today those same bean counters are saying, yep, reed s numbers are wrong as well. but they also say that when it s all said and done, reed s deficit cutting trumps boehner s by, listen to this, more a trillion dollars. reed s plan, ten years, $2.2 trillion in net debt reduction. meantime boehner s plan $850 billion. again, six days until default. so what about the white house here? no debt meetings, not today, at least not publicly on the president s schedule. so let s go to washington, to jane small she s a congressional correspondent of time magaz e magazine, friend of the show. glad to have you back on. help me understand this, we ll call it odd, this very odd moment between some house republicans that happened yesterday. some are vastly underwhelmed of the debt cutting plan of speaker john boehner. to get them together to rally around this, house leaders showed this clip from a gangster movie, jay newton-small, it s called t