Sandra all right, your Fox Weather Alert the top of a brandnew hour. Hurricane milton im barreling down on florida with Lifethreatening Storm surges and Flash Flooding in area saturated with water from Hurricane Helene. It is headed that way and we are watching it Tampa Bay in the bullseye for where the storm could make Landfall Bed effects felt across the entire state. Florida meteorologist breaking down while discussing this sheer intensity of the storm. It is an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane. It has dropped it has dropped 50 millibars in ten hours. I apologize, this is just horrific. Speed to emotional response there to what we are all seeing, John This is a big line and anticipated the worst to hit florida over 100 years and welcome back to america reports. And Sandra Smith in new york. s been winwin in Meteorologist File it can be a bad one. Washington being called the storm of the century and other storms have gotten that moniker at this one will be huge. Millions
this is bbc news. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre. it is leicester city s turn to take centre stage. as the race to avoid relegation continues in the premier league this evening. they face champions league chasing liverpool at the king power. leicester were resoundly beaten by fulham last monday and go into this one inside the relegation zone. victory though moves them out of the bottom three but they take on a liverpool side who ve just won six in a row, and their manager knows what challenge awaits them. what we have to expect as a team, who wants to stay in the league and will fight with all we have, that is what we have to expect. i said, this is now the realfight what we have to expect. i said, this is now the real fight and we have to make sure we are ready for that so thatis make sure we are ready for that so that is not an easy game against newcastle and they need all the points they can get. i newcastle and
welcome. a ceasefire between israel and palestinians in the gaza strip appears to be holding, despite some reports of fighting. the agreement was brokered by egypt. it follows five days of violent exchanges which have killed at least 33 palestinians in gaza and two people in israel. the truce which, as you see here, prompted celebration in the streets, includes a commitment by israel to stop so called targeted assassinations. in return, israel reportedly demanded a complete halt to rocket fire by palestinian militants at its civilians. however, just hours after islamichhad militants confirmed a ceasefire was in effect, a rocket was fired from the gaza strip, prompting rocket warnings across a region of southern israel. it s not yet clear who fired the rocket, but its worth noting that several smaller militant palestinian groups are opposed to the truce brokered earlier in the day. a reminder though that for now the ceasefire does appear to be holding. the white house also wel
hasjust begun. these are live pictures from gaza. this is the seen live. it is of course night time. the agreement brokered by egypt follows five days of violent exchanges which have killed at least 35 people all but one of them palestinians. there has been no comment from israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, or other officials since reports of the truce came out. we hope to be live in gaza later in the programme. but so far it is a quite night across gaza city. the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, is only one day visit to italy. he s been meeting italy s prime minister, giorgia meloni who affirmed that italy would remain a solid ally, and provide kyiv with all the assistance it needed. prime minister meloni also stressed that the conflict would only end when russia stopped its aggression and withdrew from all ukrainian territory, adding that any other outcome would jeopardise peace in all of europe. mr zelensky then had a private audience with pope fra
of a large number of explosions. air raid sirens have sounded across the country. video footage on circulating on social media which have not been verified by the bbc show air defence systems shooting down missiles. government messages have warned people to keep away from windows as debris from intercepted missiles is falling from the sky. the mayor of kyiv, vitali klitschko, says some of the debris has fallen on the city s zoo. that comes as on monday, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky made made a surprise visit to the united kingdom to secure fresh promises of military aid to fight russia s invasion. uk prime minister rishi sunak welcomed the ukrainian leader at chequers, the prime minister s country house. they held bilateral talks lasting around two hours. president zelensky said they discussed western nations providing kyiv with fighter jets, with the aim of creating what he called a jets coalition . prime minister sunak promised to send hundreds of air defence mis