the new government plan amounts to tinkering and suggest the law will need to change big time to get migrants on flights to rwanda before the election. and we fly over the volcano in iceland that s threatening to erupt, as thousands of people are forced out of their homes. and on newsnight at 10.30, we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories. plus, a first look at tomorrow s front pages. good evening. israel says its soldiers have found a tunnel shaft and a vehicle containing a large number of weapons in the grounds of al shifa hospital in gaza city, as the military operation there intensifies. israel is under pressure to back up its allegation that al shifa, gaza s biggest hospital, was used for military purposes by hamas. you can see from this satellite image just how big the hospital complex is. bbc better on a red verify at work to geo locate the video here by the burns unit in the hospital bbc verify. hamas, which is des
tom hanks tells us why a new exhibition is his passion project. when you get up just a little bit closer, it s quite stunning, that magnificent desolation, and in that, there is just such magnificence. and coming up on sporstday later in the hour on bbc news. australia make a brilliant start against south africa. we will have the latest. hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. we begin this lunchtime with a report from inside al shifa, the largest hospital in gaza, which has been at the cente of israeli operations over recent days. doctors there say the building has been without power and water. israel says the site was a key command centre for hamas and have mounted what it called a targeted operation against the group there. hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the uk, described the raid as a war crime. last night, the bbc, along with one us media network, was taken by the israeli army into a small part of the hospital to see weapons and other materia
hello, i m samantha simmonds, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. the director of gaza s biggest hospital says it has now run out of water leaving people there screaming from thirst . he accused israel of blowing up al shifa s main water line. israeli forces are continuing to search the gaza city hospital, which the military says has been a key command centre for hamas. the army took the bbc into a small part of the hospital, and was shown rifles, ammunition and body armour which israel says hamas had hidden there. the idf also said it had found laptops containing photos and videos of hostages held by hamas considered a terror organisation by the uk and many other western governments. israeli military restrictions meant that our correspondent lucy williamson wasn t allowed to speak to doctors or patients but her words aren t censored, and she described what she saw. we are in an israeli military vehicle insi
i really hoped would get through the rest of the speech without doing that, old habits die hard. we want to listen and ensure you know you will have an year at the heart of government. it does not mean that we will always agree and can always respond to the precise requests you have of us, but i want to know what you and your officers and your communities feel. for me, that is absolutely key. there is no such thing, i hate the phrase a minor crime. if you are on the receiving end of crime none of it feels minor. we see the terrible situation of the retail crime at the moment and i think chris spoke about that. anti social behaviour, for the people who feel that, it hurts and quite understandably they want us to do something about it so there is no such thing as a minor crime. everybody deserves the right to feel safe in their daily lives. but the sad truth of the matter is we do have very serious criminal here that you also have to deal with and much of that, as challenging a
here s elizabeth rizzini. time for a look at the weather. hello, thank you. just the right amount of retreating command centre for hamas? tonight, the idf has shown the footage you just saw, which they say is part of a tunnel underneath the hospital. mark s here. it plays an important role in israel s case for its gaza operation, so how close are they in succeeding to their wider objectives? scotland s health secretary says his sons racked up his 11 grand bill on his parliamentary ipad. why is scotland s conservative leader calling for his resignation? we ll ask him. also tonight. why are so many maternity units in england deemed unsafe by the regulator? we ll hear from one couple whose baby daughter was stillborn, after failures by their hopsital. i thought, these are my colleagues, they ll do a good job, i ll get safe care. so i didn t think there was anything wrong, until we were told she was dead. and after a week of rows in this country over migrant policy, we re in ame