hello and welcome to bbc news. google has announced it s taking steps to remove data from its servers that could be used to prosecute people for visits to abortion clinics in the united states. it comes after the us supreme court s decision to remove a woman s constitutional right to an abortion. several states have already acted to outlaw the procedure, or severely restrict access to it. geoffrey fowler is a tech columnist with the washington post, and says tech companies need to do more to protect the sensitive data of their users. google today made basically the first statement it s made since we learned about the supreme court ruling about what kind of change it was actually going to make to its products. it said when its naps service or location data collection that it does notices that a user is near a personal location, a highly sensitive personal location, be it a hospital, clinic or shelter, it would now automatically delete that data point coming up over the next
brigade that the idf claims were hiding in a tunnel located near the indonesian hospital. that s one of the largest healthcare facilities in northern gaza that was hit by airstrikes in october. the bbc has not independently verified the latest claims by the idf. the idf warned people living in northern gaza to move further south as it steps up what it says is the third phase of its ground operations against hamas. the un says nearly i.9m people have been forced from their homes since israel s retaliatory strikes began, after hamas attacks on october the 7th. this as testimony is coming to light about the horrors of the october 7th attacks nearly two months later. the bbc has been hearing evidence that women were sexually assaulted, raped and mutilated during hamas s attacks on southern israel. israeli investigators say they are trawling through 60,000 hours of footage and have compiled more than a thousand testimonies from witnesses and those who handled the bodies of victi
good morning. a frosty and foggy start to the day to day. some freezing fog will linger for much of the day. the sunnier skies will be the day. the sunnier skies will be the further east you travel. a return to wet and windy conditions in the west. all the details later on in the programme. it s wednesday, the 6th of december. our main story. the former prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to the covid inquiry today and face two days of questions about his time leading the uk during the pandemic. he s expected to apologise to people who lost loved ones but claim that he and his government got the big decisions right. our correspondent ellie price reports. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. in the end, it was his call. he was responsible for the biggest decisions made during the pandemic. that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home. but how he came to make those decisions will be at the
the bbc has not independently verified the latest claims by the idf. israel is now warning people living in northern gaza to move further south as it steps up what it says is the third phase of its ground operations against hamas. the un says nearly i.9m people have been forced from their homes since israel s retaliatory strikes began, after hamas attacks on october the seventh. this as testimony is coming to light about the horrors of the october 7th attacks nearly two months later. the bbc has been hearing evidence that women were sexually assaulted, raped and mutilated during hamas s attacks on southern israel. israeli investigators say they are trawling through 60,000 hours of footage, and have compiled more than a thousand testimonies from witnesses and those who handled the bodies of victims after the attack. this report from our middle east correspondent, lucy williamson, contains graphic details and testimony you may find very disturbing. out of the chaos and mass
on khan younis and rafah in the south have continued as have those in the jabaliya refugee camp in the north. israel insists it s making maximum effort to avoid killing civilians. hospitals inside gaza are struggling to take in the casualties, with un officials describing a degree of panic in medicalfacilities that hasn t been seen before. the un says palestinians who are being told to leave areas which were previously seen as safe, are being pushed into a narrow corner of gaza. our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, reports. ominous warnings the israeli flares that hang in the night sky over gaza are followed by the thuds of explosions. rumbling explosion. and on the ground, israel s military says its offensive has now expanded to every part of the palestinian territory. it said its operations here will be of no less strength than those that have devastated the north. explosions, shouting. israel s already ordered more evacuations in the south of gaza, crowded