hello, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. britain and rwanda have signed a new treaty aimed at getting the uk government s flagship asylum policy operational following a series of legal challenges. the planned policy first announced back enable 2022 would see some asylum seekers sent to rwanda to claim asylum they are. the plan has hit legal setbacks and was blocked in its previous form by the supreme court. after signing the agreement during a visit, the home secretary james cleverley said he believed the new treaty addressed all the concerns raised by the sabine court. the treaty that will sign today builds on thatjoint work. it takes the positive professional attitude that you and your government display, and allies it with the work that the uk is doing to ensure that we break the business model of those evil people smuggling gangs. live now to our west africa correspondent mayeni jones who s in kigali. a united front between
areas around khan younis, a city israel told civilians to flee to for safety earlier in the conflict. hospitals say they are overwhelmed with new arrivals. the world health organization says it has been told by israel to move medical supplies out of two warehouses in southern gaza within 2a hours, although israel has denied this. these pictures show explosions in gaza on monday evening. a spokesman for the un children s charity, unicef, says there s nowhere safe for people to go. it comes as the us state department says it s too early to say for sure whether israel is heeding us advice to protect civilians in gaza. but it did say israel was making more targeted requests for civilian evacuations in southern gaza. our gaza correspondent rushdi abualouf who is now in istanbul sent this update. very intense israeli air strikes around khan younis tonight, with reports of israeli tanks are moving from the eastern part and the northern part of khan younis. i have seen some footage f
britain and rwanda have signed a new treaty aimed at getting the uk government s flagship asylum policy operational, following a series of legal challenges. the policy first announced in april 2022 would see some asylum seekers sent to rwanda to claim asylum there. but it hit legal setbacks and was blocked in its previous form by the uk supreme court. after signing the agreement during a visit to kigali, the home secretary james cleverly said he believed the new treaty addressed all the concerns raised by the supreme court. he said he can t see any credible reason to question rwanda s human rights record, and hopes the first migrant flights will go there in spring 202a. £140 million has already been paid by the uk to rwanda for the implementation of the policy. fundamentally the supreme court raised two issues. one was about the capacity of the rwandan judicial system. we have been working on that for over a year. we started to address that at the time of the appeal co
engaged in some of the heaviest fighting since the start of its invasion of gaza. people there are being told to move further south as israeli forces step up their operation against hamas, designated a terror organisation by many western governments. the united nations is warning of an even more hellish scenario in the region with no safe places for people to go. this map shows the main districts of gaza a huge flow of people were told to leave their homes more than a month ago and move to southern gaza. the un says nearly 1.9m people have been forced from their homes in this way since october the 7th. that s more than 85 % of the population in gaza. this is the latest damage assessment map of the territory, as shown here in red. the worst hit areas you can see in the north of the strip. 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 diplomatic correspondent, paul