charity medecins sans frontieres says attacks intensified overnight, adding it has lost contact with its medics working there. israel s defense forces have been closing in on northern gaza. these purple areas show the approximate align has come in that operations at al shafi hospital have stopped because of a lack of fuel. meanwhile, in an interview with the bbc, the french president emmanuel macron has called for israel to stop killing babies and women in gaza. france, like the uk, has proscribed hamas as a terrorist organisation. our correspondent nick beake is injerusalem with the latest. this was israel s aerial attack on gaza overnight. an unrelenting barrage, like most nights over the past five weeks. israeli forces have now surrounded gaza city s major hospitals, where they say hamas have built headquarters underground. but thousands of patients and those just trying to seek shelter are stranded on what is now a front line of the fighting. the red cross says hospitals
hours, and its forces have cut the gaza strip in two, with gaza city now encircled. but strikes were not confined to the north of the gaza strip. this is deir al balah, in central gaza. many casualties arrived at hospitals on carts pulled by donkeys, after a communications blackout meant people could not call for ambulances. the israel defence forces are trying to destroy hamas, which it says killed more than 1,400 people in southern israel on october 7th, and is classified a terrorist organisation by western governments, including the us and the uk. our first report is from our international editorjeremy bowen. israel promised mighty vengeance. it thundered across gaza city. israel s justification is defending the living, as well as avenging instead. palestinians call this genocide. this girl, from jabalya camp, is asked what happened to her. she says, a missile came down on us, bricks fell on us. i asked, where is my dad and where is my mum?” she is asked, where wer
and reducing bureaucracy in the single market. it s all part of an eu push to strengthen the bloc s economy and help it catch the us and china. rainer riess, is the director general of the federation of european securities exchanges. how much closer are we getting to cmu? and what would that mean? i think not too close, i think we made some progress, but it is a project that is dating back from 2015, lord hill, the last british commissioner, actually, had the vision to bring european capital markets closer together and to catch up with the us to diversify funding sources for business,er specially for small and medium enterprises and the idea behind it is to foster growth innovation and resilience in the eu economy and obviously this would bring a lot of benefits, lowering barriers within the european union, for cross border investments, making funding more available for smes, strengthening the role of the markets to fund the green position. defence is now a big topic. a lot o
Great britain will be represented in the ladies wimbledon quarterfinals. Johanna konta says shes just focusing on winning the match. She is delighted she has got this far. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. Cash jobs like Window Cleaning and decorating are said to be worth up to £6 billion a year, so we want to hear from you this morning if you get paid in cash of if youve paid forjobs in cash around you home. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. And if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Ending cash in hand jobs and changing the rules on the gig economy, where workers get paid per task, are two of the recommendations in a major report into the way we work. The Matthew Taylor review also says there are too many people who are being treated like Cogs In A Machine, rather than human beings. Our economics correspondent, andy verity, reports. In the last ten years,
Of the new york times, and the british somali journalist and writer at prospect magazine, ismail einashe. Welcome to you all. We will begin with the migrant crisis. We talked about it not that long ago, but it is an issue that is absolutely not going away. We have a great opportunity to discuss first hand the issue, and some of the problems facing europe as it struggles to cope with wave after wave of migrants. Ismail, youve just returned from italy, which is bearing the brunt of this tide of humanity escaping war, famine, and people smugglers. What did you find . Well, over the last several years, italy has become europess migrant bottleneck. Since 2014, 500,000 have arrived on italian shores. This year alone 94,000 have arrived. In five days a couple of weeks ago, 11,000 arrived. Ive been talking to many of those who make the dangerous journey, often from countries such as gambia, nigeria, and from Eastern Parts of africa. These are young men who often head out into the unknown acros