Broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. We start in the us and the white house has confirmed that President Biden has spoken to israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the situation in gaza. In a statement, the white house said that the president reaffirmed his ironclad commitment to israels security. It referenced what it said was a successful defence house against irans unprecedented missile and drone attack earlier this month. The two leaders reviewed ongoing talks to secure the release of hostages together with an immediate ceasefire in gaza. And they also discussed increases in the delivery of humanitarian assistance into gaza through preparations to open new northern crossings, starting this week. The statement concludes that the leaders discussed rafah and the president reiterated his clear position although it didnt give details of what that is. In the last few hours its also been announced that us Secretary Of State, Antony Blinken will visit jordan a
Of calais on tuesday morning. Authorities have also been carrying out several search and rescue operations at sea, linked to other attempts to cross the english channel. Within just a few hours of the bill going through, the bbc witnessed migrants on multiples beaches trying to get onto boats to cross the english channel. These are some of the pictures from one attemptjust after dawn. The Uk Border Force has brought around 70 migrants to shore and a dover lifeboat has been launched after reports of another migrant boat in the channel. Our correspondent Andrew Harding was on the beach where a boat ran aground and left five people including a child dead. Lets ta ke lets take a look at what he witnessed as that elevated crossing began. Ill fated crossing began. That does give you a sense of what it must have been like in the early hours of this morning when those migrants were going towards that boat. A short while ago i spoke to andrew about what he witnessed on the beach. This andrew ab
After an israeli air strike on the Southern City of rafah, where more than a million displaced palestinians are sheltering. The Hamas Run Health Ministry in gaza says more than 3a,000 people have died since the start of the war in october. Emergency workers in khan younis say theyve uncovered nearly 200 bodies buried in the courtyard of a hospital. Al nasser had been at the centre of an Israeli Military operation until two weeks ago. The World Health Organization has previously said bodies were being buried within hospitals under israeli siege, but palestinians have accused Israeli Forces of killing some of the victims. Israel accuses hamas of using medical facilities in gaza as command centres. Heres our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, with more. Major general Aharon Haliva is the most senior israeli official we have had so far to step down from his role in connection with the failings that led to the october seven attacks by hamas that really shocked israel and shocked the
is deteriorating by the hour as israeli bombing intensifies in the south of the territory. and the united nations has warned that an even more hellish scenario could be about to unfold for civilians there. israel is trying to destroy hamas, designated a terror organisation by the uk government. unconfirmed reports claim israeli troops may try to destroy the vast network of hamas tunnels underneath the gaza strip by flooding them with sea water. our middle east correspondent yolande knell reports from jerusalem. more casualties pouring into this hospital in khan younis this morning, even brought in by donkey cart. medics struggling to find space for the dozens of wounded. palestinians say more than 30 were killed in an israeli strike and shelling close to a un school which was crowded with displaced people. they launched mortars at us at night. we were scared and didn t sleep, cries this boy. all night we were reading the koran. on the move once again. israel has issued