an adviser to prime minister benjamin netanyahu told the bbc that israel was making the maximum effort to avoid killing civilians. israel has been dropping leaflets with maps, showing gazans the areas it plans to strike. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams explains why that often isn t protecting civilians. this has been a problem throughout the past two months. israel believes and says it is giving as much notice as it possibly can to the civilian population to leave certain areas where the fighting is most concentrated. they believe these new maps, with this detailed grid, numbered grid, should help that process because they are saying to people in certain numbered areas, these are the areas you have to leave. the trouble is people don t know where they should leave to. israel is also hitting targets outside of those demarcated areas. anything that the israelis regard as a high value target where hamas might have some of its infrastructure or where acre hamas commande
had been killed. she described the scale of suffering as devastating. the us defense secretary, lloyd austin, in his strongest comments yet on israel s need to protect civilians, said that driving the civilian population into the arms of the enemy would replace israel s tactical victory with a strategic defeat. you see in this kind of a fight, the centre of gravity is the civilian population. and if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat. so, i have repeatedly made clear to israel s leaders that protecting palestinian civilians in gaza is both a moral responsibility and a strategic imperative. for his part, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said the war would continue for as long as hamas was active. translation: we will continue the war until we achieve - all its goals, and it s impossible to achieve those goals without the ground operation. the ground operation was necessary to bring the results until
a hero s welcome for kevin sinfield as he finishes day two of seven ultra marathons in seven days to raise awareness for mnd. we know that the rugby community care about people that need them in this event, this community really needs you. what we have seen today is some unbelievable support. it s sunday december 3. good morning. our main story today: a major incident has been declared by police in cumbria after heavy snowfall caused huge disruption and challenging conditions on the roads. people are being urged to stay away from the county and only travel unless it is necessary. meanwhile, a yellow weather warning has been issued across the midlands, northern england and wales. with the latest, here s louisa pilbeam. north west of england has seen up to 15 centimetres of snow in the 2a hours. kendall, cars came to a standstill. on the motorway, drivers were stuck for hours. in grasmere, more people were stranded in their vehicles. and in ambleside, these scenes when drivers
to reach the tournament. they re one of those playing for the final three qualifying spots after missing out on an automatic one this week. if they beat finland in cardiff, they ll take on either poland or estonia. what s important to us, as you ll be aware of, is the home draw on the second leg is in the final. so that s important for us. we ve got to get the job done first and foremost, of course we have, but we are probably wanting to avoid ukraine, as well. so i think it s gone to plan for us. the form we are in at the minute, and with the red wall at home, we ll take anybody on at cardiff. elsewhere, 2004 champions greece will need to beat kazakhstan and then either georgia or luxembourg, while bosnia will play ukraine and israel will face iceland. the forward has her presented his country for 15 years, he was part of the world cup winning squad, and his goal in the final was one of the 29 he scored for argentina in 136 appearances so far. he 35 now, currently in his sec
good evening. there are violent scenes in dublin tonight, following a knife attack near a school earlier in the day. three children and a woman were stabbed in an incident that police said was not terrorism related. crowds later gathered in the area with flares and fireworks thrown, and vehicles were set on fire. the police commissioner described tonight s disorder as caused by a faction driven by far right ideology . sara girvin is in dublin tonight. there is still a massive policing operation going on here, as you can see behind me. lots of police presence further on down that road as well. after this afternoon s stabbing, a multiple stabbing that involved three children, crowds filled this area and police say the resulting violence, the resulting riots, are a result of far right ideology engaging in serious violence and misinformation on social media. tonight, dublin has been witness to violent classes between rioters and police. vehicles have been set alight. smoke seen