hello welcome to bbc news, i m mark lowen. we are coming to you live from southern israel. israel has promised to provide proof to back up its claim that hamas was using gaza s largest hospital as a command centre. hamas has repeatedly denied the allegations. president biden says the us has asked israel to be incredibly careful, as its military operation at al shifa hospital, which began yesterday, continues. the one thing that has been established is that hamas does have headquarters, weapons, material below this hospital and i suspect others. our correspondent lucy williamson has been with the idf at al shifa hospital where israel has promised to show proof of a hamas command centre at gaza s largest hospital. she spoke to us from jerusalem. israel is really coming under pressure to prove why it carried out the operation it is carrying out in gaza and driving into gaza last night it was clear the scale of the military operation there. parts of city looked as if it had been
how tom hanks is hoping to take people on a virtualjourney to the moon with his latest project. good morning from a chilly blackpool. we have got blackpool power laid up behind us. on this weekend to strictly. he forecast todayis weekend to strictly. he forecast today is wet and windy in the south. that will clear east. most of us will have a dry day until more rain sweeps in from the west later. details throughout the programme. good morning. it s thursday, the 16th of november. the immigration minister, robertjenrick, says the government is in the final stages of negotiating a new treaty with rwanda, as it tries to revive its plan for the country to take asylum seekers sent from the uk. rishi sunak has also pledged to introduce emergency legislation into parliament, after the supreme court unanimously ruled yesterday that downing street s existing proposals were unlawful. graham satchell has this report. how do you stop the boats? the government s plan was to send asylum se
have made it through to the cricket world cup final following a three wicket victory over south africa. they face india in sunday s final. south africa won the toss and chose to bat first, however they were reduced to 2a a following superb spells with the new poll byjosh hazlewood and mitchell starc. hazlewood and mitchell sta rc. davidmillarhelpedwith ioi,but theywere alloutfor212. pat cummins s side made afantastic start. australia edged closerto thetalk about losttheir seventh wicket with 20 runs still needed. they kept their cool to complete a hard fought victory with 16 balls to spare. novak djokovic has boosted his chances of making the atp finals after he recovered from a second skynet second set slump. he took the first set against his polish opponent on a tie break. despite losing the second set 6 a, the defending champion came back in the third to take that uncomfortably 6-1. there is an evening of international football under way with nine european qualifiers th
is needed to mitigate the extremely precarious- - - precarious. this is volker turk in geneva, precarious. this is volker turk in geneva. laying precarious. this is volker turk in geneva, laying out precarious. this is volker turk in geneva, laying out his precarious. this is volker turk in geneva, laying out his latest - geneva, laying out his latest findings, saying the large number of civilian deaths cannot be dismissed as collateral damage. there are warnings by his office, and this is where we paused to say goodbye to our viewers around the world. volker turk, the un human rights chief, laying out his findings in geneva after a visit to this region. warning of the large liberal civilian deaths cannot be dismissed, in his words, as collateral damage. warning that the warnings by his office have long been ignored, in his words, by israel and its allies, calling for a collective punishment to end, and for the hostages to be released, and calling for the adherence to
beijing does not want to unseat the united states as the world s superpower, but xi jinping tells president biden china s absorption of taiwan is inevitable. we will take you this hour to san francisco where the asia pacific countries are sitting down for a working lunch. in the uk rishi sunak s government will present new legislation to set aside the supreme court s ban on sending asylum seekers to rwanda. but backbench mps want assurances from number ten the bill will be tight enough to prevent future legal challenges. and what about labour. a party of government or a party of protest. the shadow front bench staged a mass rebellion last night, over keir starmer s stance on a ceasefire in gaza. we will get the thoughts on all of that from our panel tonight. with us labour sjohn mctiernan, formerly tony blair director of political operations. also here tara setmeyer, former communications director for the republican party, and now a resident scholar at the university of vir