yes, she absolutely did. over the last three weeks, that is how long the uk covert inquiry has been sitting here in belfast. we have heard a lot of talk about political dysfunction and how much that affected the decision made in northern ireland dealing with a pandemic. just remind you why that was the case, the executive, here in northern ireland, the devolved government, it hadn t been sitting for three years in the build up to the pandemic. it had collapsed and was only up and going again for a matter of weeks. whenever the covert case was detected. politicians and political parties were not in a good place, to say the least. there has been a lot of questioning during the inquiry about leadership, but he was making the decisions on who was plotting northern irelandpath. as we have heard from arlene foster, she has said that as first minister that she took responsibility for how the executive handled things. but, she did say that she thought northern ireland should have loc
at the the rugby world cup. first up this afternoon it s wales against argentina in marseille, and then in paris, ireland will be trying to reach the semifinals for the first time. and after the recent warm spell to start off this autumn, things are set to change this weekend. noticeably colder for many of us, although there will be some sunshine. i ll have all the details throughout the programme. it s saturday 14 october. our main story: tens of thousands of people have fled northern gaza, but many still remain, after the israeli military gave them 2a hours to leave the area before it launches a major ground offensive. they were ordered to move south of the wadi gaza as israeli troops prepare to hunt down and destroy hamas, which is regarded as a terror organisation by many western governments including the uk. around 1,900 people have died so far in israeli air strikes on gaza according to palestinian health officials. limited ground raids in gaza have already taken place,
a dead man walking. we will get them, every single one of them. hello, i m matthew amroliwala. the bbc has confirmed that young children were among those killed in an air strike on a convoy of vehicles leaving northern gaza of friday along a route designated by israel. our team at bbc verify analysed two videos of the strike on the vehicles heading towards southern gaza. both videos have been verified, these first images show a lorry carrying at least 30 civilians, on the move, moments before it was hit. and these are still images taken from a subsequent video from the aftermath of the strike. the full video is too graphic to show in detail. the video shows men running to a lorry, part of the same convoy, trying to help those who ve been hit. there are at least 12 visible dead bodies in the video. we will be talking to our bbc verify team on that in the next few minutes. israel s prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has visited troops near the border with gaza. speaking to t
this is cnn breaking news christiane: hello everyone. thanks for joining us, i m christiane amanpour in london. we re following imagine breaking news. israel declares it s at war with hamas, follows an unprecedented attack into israel today, where at least 70 are dead. 985 wounded. the attack caught israel by surprise at sunrise, the palestinian group hamas launched their offensive by air, sea and land. hamas fighters infiltrating israeli towns and launching more than 3,000 rockets into israel. scenes of urban war fair as gun fights unfolded between israel and hamas. short time ago, cnn spoke with an israeli military spokesman. target someone on their side, we go for a military target. these terrorists didn t go only for military targets went into communities, abducted grandmas, families, children. a very, very severe morning and we ll respond. christiane: indeed, earlier, israel s president said today we saw the true face of hamas. a terrorist army who s only goal is t