as we come on air, more developments in the middle east, with reports of the us and uk beginning morejoint airstrikes against houthi targets in yemen. we ll have the latest. it come as israeli hostage families have come to britain to plead with the prime minister to try to help them resolve the regional crisis. we speak to the brother of twins who are held by hamas. mounting anger inside israel, where the families of hostages stormed the knesset, about netanyahu s response to the crisis. i ll bejoined by liran, whose brothers are still being held hostage in gaza. we also hearfrom unicef on the ground in south gaza about the horrors children are facing there. every child in gaza has been traumatised. they have to be. almost every child has been displaced. has witnessed the absolute horrors of war that no child should have to witness. also tonight, millions of parents in england are being contacted by the nhs and urged to have their children vaccinated against measles. from the
power, but some residents in remote areas may be cut off for 48 hours. aruna iyengar has the latest. storm gerrit swept across much of scotland, bringing heavy snow, flooding homes, causing power cuts and travel misery for many. the major a9 route has reopened after it closed in the highlands for several hours. meanwhile, thousands of homes across scotland have suffered power cuts. scottish and southern electricity networks said they d restored power to more than 25,000 homes but at least 16,000 are still cut off. for some customers especially those in rural areas it could be up until friday before power supplies are reconnected. but it is far too early for us to say at the moment, with scottish and southern electricity continuing to cause damage to the power network. 0n the railways, lner which runs services up the east coast from london to scotland is warning of major disruption this morning, with some services arriving several hours late. this tree fell on the li
philip schofield made on his instagram earlier today. he said, it s the same handful of people with a grudge against me or the show who seem to have the loudest voice. this morning is the best show to work on, with the best people. in all the years i worked there there was no toxicity. it is a family of wonderful, talented, kind, hard working people. this is how the top of the show started this morning. we all know we happen to be in the news at the moment, and of course we appreciate that, butjust from both of us and the whole team here, the crew, the guys downstairs, we love making this show for all of you. yeah, we really do, and that s exactly what what we re going to do, we re going to continue to do that. so let s go on with our first news story. gyles? we are very happy to be here, can i say that as well? - of course you can. this is a happy place to work. i enjoy coming in here and have done since i began coming here all those years ago. thank you, gyles. this is
it certainly feels like spring, but midweek, it gets chilly. we are bathed in the atlantic west or south west lease, high pressure keeping things dry to the south, but this weather front is bathing things dry to the south, but this weatherfront is bathing many things dry to the south, but this weather front is bathing many areas and cloud. we have rain across central scotland. to the north, brighter with sunshine and showers. and to the south across the midlands and east anglia and that sunshine is punctuating the cloud elsewhere. but the rain is with us in the north, drizzly with hill fog in some western areas around the coast. but where we have the sunshine, already 14 where we have the sunshine, already 1a and 15, so we could see 16 in a few spots throughout the afternoon. overnight come up with all that cloud around and the breeze, it is blowing a gale across the shetland isles. it will ease, but more cloud as the weather front pushes north and another approaches. all in