This is the scene live now in gaza. Well have the very latest on the situation from our correspondent there and in israel. And the other news here this lunchtime. A major fire at Luton Airport there are no flights in or out, and part of the car park where the blaze began has collapsed. The children still being taught online, as schools try to deal with unsafe concrete. And, the first team gb athletes are announced for next years olympic games, in paris with ten sailors selected. Coming up on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. Wayne rooney is back in english football. The former england and Manchester United striker is the New Birmingham city manager on a three and a half year contract. Good afternoon from the israeli border. We are here in southern as welljust a few miles from the gaza strip were tensions continue to rise. Wejust heard the sirens going and you can test explosions in the air. The iron dome has been in action for hours this morning and is artillery has continued to fire at targets inside the gaza strip. A few moments ago we were asked to move away from my position closer to the border. And on the first day of this or the death toll continues to climb on both sides of the conflict. Last night as well carried out more attacks against gazza heading to other targets for an official said that the death toll is now 1055 there and here in israel so far 1200 are known to have been killed in the attacks by hamas. A group that has been designated as a Terrorist Organisation by many western governments including the united kingdom. 0n the latest death toll at least 19 of the people are british known to be either dead or missing. We have been seeing this morning along this area in Southern Israel close to the gaza strip how israel is massing troops and armour in preparation for a possible land invasion. We have this report and all the latest developments from our correspondent nick beake. The missiles rained down on gaza for another night. Israel said itsjets hit 200 targets in one specific part of the city which it claimed was home to those behind hamas� s attack at the weekend. Many civilians were on the receiving end. Taken to hospitals which were already said to be full. Palestinian officials said half of the dead in gaza are women and children. Killed as shops and homes were levelled. Children are now playing here, where they should be sleeping. What is this . This is not a life. We are living here, surrounded by rubble. Gaza is destroyed. Everything is destroyed. Israels intensified attack came after the discovery of a massacre, in the Southern City of kfar aza. Israeli soldiers recapturing areas from hamas, said mothers and children were among those who had been murdered in their homes. They have Justjihad Machine to kill everybody. Without weapons, without nothing. Just normal citizens, that want to take their breakfast and thats all. And its a dreadful thing to see. It is very difficult to see it but we must remember who is the enemy and what is our mission. Our mission is the justice, were in the right side and all the world needs to be behind us. An official uk source has told the bbc there are now 17 british nationals who are either dead or missing, following hamas� s attack in israel. Children are among them. Many of these victims have not yet been named. Israeli troops are gathering on the edge of gaza, in ever greater numbers. Preparing for a much bigger battle. A Ground Operation into the heart of hamas controlled territory. Here at israels Ministry Of Defence they say theyre preparing to carry out their mission to make sure that hamas will not be able to kill israeli civilians in the future. But any advancing forces are likely to encounter fierce resistance from the hamas fighters. Its feared the bloodshed of the past few days will only intensify. Nick beake, bbc news, tel aviv. Well the people of gaza have lived through the fourth night of intense aerial bombardment. 0ur correspondent that has said that these the most frightening nights that he has lived through. A quarter of a million palestinians are said to be on the run now trying to find a safe place to hide and saying that nowhere is safe. The Health System is poor at The Best Of Times and now is poor at The Best Of Times and now is on the point of collapse. Ghassan abu sittah is a british doctor based in london who has gone to help. Hes been speaking to the bbc about what hes seen working in gazas biggest hospital. I got here on monday and was initially pinned down for the first day, was not able to get to the hospital because of the continuous bombing. Managed to get here yesterday morning and since then, it is completely overwhelmed. The compound of al shifa hospital, which is gazas largest hospital, has become a refugee camp. Thousands of families are seeking refuge inside the compound of the hospital to try to escape the bombing and try to find a safe place. And the hospital itself, which is gazas largest trauma hospital, is at capacity. The beds are full with patients who have been injured and the continuous stream of injuries has not stopped. The area around the hospital is being continuously bombed and we can hear the shelling all the time. And this morning when i was in the Operating Room, the building shook from what looks like a nearby area that had been targeted by the israelis. In this early hours of this morning, i had to take this six or seven year old child, a young, beautiful young girl to the Operating Room with horrific facial injuries. And her mother, whos also a doctor at al shifa hospital, had been killed. And i have a 14 Year Old Girl with 70 burns. We have a lot of children with burn injuries, shrapnel injuries. Usually in all of gazas wars, 30 to 40 of the wounded are children. And this war is no different. When you target a place with children, youre going to get injured children. And these kids are all being injured inside their homes. And the Health System was on its knees to begin with. With over a500 wounded, the system is already depleted. Were already short of consumables. Were already short of medication, of equipment. And unless theres a humanitarian corridor and unless aid is brought in, the diesel that operates the generators that the hospital depends on is going to run out, and the consumables and the things that you need for the day to day management of these kinds of complex and devastating wounds are going to run out. But growing Health Crisis inside the gaza strip and the Health System thatjust gaza strip and the Health System that just does gaza strip and the Health System thatjust does not have the resources to cope. Gazas only Power Station will run out of fuel today, according to the Palestinian Energy authority. And as weve been hearing, more than 200 targets were hit overnight. In a moment, well speak to nick beake, who is at the ministery of defence in tel aviv, about the israeli troops massing at the border here, but first our correspondent Rushdie Abualouf is in gaza city. Here at the border with gaza strip we could hear the constant sound of artillery bombardment, we see the smoke. What is it like outside . We filmed. Of writing there in very dangerous we filmed. Of writing there in very dangerous and we filmed. Of writing there in very dangerous and difficult very dangerous and difficult circumstances. During his very best to keep reporting back for us and to the world what has been happening. We may be able to get him back if it is safe enough but now we can go to nick beake in tel aviv. And you have been hearing from the Ministry Of Defence, what is the latest in times of the military preparations that you are able to share . I4541431111 of the military preparations that you are able to share . You are able to share . Well we assed a you are able to share . Well we passed a grim you are able to share . Well we passed a grim milestone you are able to share . Well we | passed a grim milestone today, you are able to share . Well we passed a grim milestone today, the Ministry Of Defence here saying more than 1200 israelis have been killed and at the same time and Gaza Health Officials saying more than 1000 palestinians have lost their lives. Joe biden the us president described the actions of hamas is a sheer evil and dispatched the top diplomat Antony Blinken to israel and in the past 30 minutes or so weve heard that the British Foreign secretary James Cleverly has arrived in as well. We have a short statement from the British Government saying that he has come to demonstrate the unwavering solidarity of the uk with the israeli people following the Terrorist Attack by hamas. He goes on to sayjames Terrorist Attack by hamas. He goes on to say James Cleverly will meet survivors of the attack and also Senior Leaders in israel to outline uk support for its right to defend itself. As we know as well so the attack on gaza that is continuing as attack on gaza that is continuing as a direct consequence of the actions of hamas and at the same time as well has been accused of breaking international law, people pointing to the siege of gaza and the fact that fuel, food and water is not able to get in at the moment. Nonetheless israel says it is continuing to build up troops near gaza and says hundreds of thousands of troops are now being readied and we now await the consequences of any action that they may take in the coming hours or days. Any action that they may take in the coming hours or days. Any sense that the are coming hours or days. Any sense that they are concerned coming hours or days. Any sense that they are concerned about coming hours or days. Any sense that they are concerned about what coming hours or days. Any sense that they are concerned about what is they are concerned about what is happening to mike will speak at the moment to anna foster but be military must be also concerned about that crunch . Military must be also concerned about that crunch . Ever since the weekend and about that crunch . Ever since the weekend and the about that crunch . Ever since the weekend and the awful about that crunch . Ever since the weekend and the awful scenes i about that crunch . Ever since the l weekend and the awful scenes that about that crunch . Ever since the weekend and the awful scenes that we saw that there was concern of escalation and the concern for the Ministry Of Defence in israel is escalation, and that is a concern for everyone in the middle east and much further afield because we had exchanges of fire on the northern border of israel, hezbollah forces from southern lebanon, an exchange of fire there and also confirmed that troops have been flying into syria from israel. Not only did clear who has been firing from syrian territory but that is another front where skirmishers have taken place so there is that sense of concern on Different Levels here in israel and elsewhere today. We believe that there and we will hear more later in the day. Lets go live now to our correspondent anna foster whos in Northern Israel On The Border with lebanon. What is the latest . Let me show you a bit more of what nick was describing, if you look over my shoulder here you might see a grey stripe in the distance and that is the border wall dividing Northern Israel and lebanon and that is how close we are here and there have been escalations, small escalations just in this last week or so. Even this morning the Lebanese Militant Group hezbollah fired an anti tank missile towards the Israel Defence forces and they said it responded with a warplane which targeted hezbollah infrastructure on the other side of this border. I also want to show you this hill over here and on top of that is a white and red Observation Point for hezbollah and locals showed me videos of an infiltration that happened yesterday. You can hear the sounds of firing and you can see on the Hillside Hezbollah militants youll come across the border and people in villages like this have their own rapid little groups of people back to try to defend them and that was significant yesterday, three Israel Defence force members were killed including a battalion commander. There is concern on this northern border that the war could spread further across the region. Clearly rising tension here in Southern Israel On The Border with gaza. And as we have been saying in this news rising number, death tolls on both sides of this thank you so now the there have been no flights in and out of Luton Airport all day, and they are unlikely to resume until at least mid afternoon, after a huge fire in one of the airports car parks. Part of the multi storey building collapsed and a Major Incident was declared. Hundreds of passengers were stranded at the airport overnight, asjo black now reports. At its height, around 100 firefighters were tackling this blaze. The fire started in this multistorey around nine oclock last night, and took hours to get under control before the car park partially collapsed. A member of Airport Staff and four firefighters were taken to hospital after inhaling smoke. Suddenly there was an explosion and there was this massive gout of flame shot across the car park like a flame thrower, and then cars were just exploding. My cars in the car park, and we literally are just stranded here on this roundabout. What will you do . I have no idea at the minute. Thousands of passengers flying in and out of the airport have been displaced and are still facing huge disruption. 1,500 cars were in this car park when the flames took hold. At the moment the fire service believe it started accidentally after a diesel car caught fire. Weve got, you know, the Fire Investigation to make sure that we are clear as to what the cause of the incident was, but no further intelligence suggests anything other than an accidental, in terms of structural integrity, that is one of the reasons its still an unsafe structure. Dozens of flights were cancelled and are expected to resume at some point this afternoon. The scene inside the terminal wasjust terrible. Hundreds of people. They had been on board aircraft, ready to go last night, but then they were told, youre not going anywhere because of the fire. They all had to get off the planes. They were told, go and find a hotel. Of course there werent any, and i talked to lots of people who just slept on the floor all night and now are desperate to be able to get away, but im afraid theyre at the back of the queue when flights resume. The flight was cancelled last night. We were in the flight last night and then they asked us to come back to the airport and then, you know, they cancelled the flight. We were supposed to be flying this afternoon to rhodes, but we werent sure if the flight was going to go, so weve actually booked a flight now from gatwick, so were going to travel over there just to guarantee our flight rather than waiting at the airport and maybe not even getting on a flight today. Now the Recovery Operation begins. A huge logistical challenge. But given how close this car park is to the airports taxiway and the drop off points, many believe this could have been so much worse. Jo black, bbc news. And jo is live for us now at Luton Airport. What is the very latest this lunchtime well, jane, the Major Incident has been stood down, you might be able to see here, there has been this constant stream of passengers walking towards the terminal building, trundling their suitcases in the hope their flight also take off this afternoon. We understand that the flights were cancelled until 3pm, whether that is still the case we are yet to see, maybe there be an update but there is chaos and delays as we were saying there, this is the multistorey in question, it looks fine from this side, its a mangled mess from the other side. At the moment there are workers making a temporary ramp and road to get the unaffected cars out, because the normal exit routes have been damaged. Jo thank you. Jo our top story this afternoon. The death toll rises in the israel gaza war 1,200 dead in israel and now more than 1,000 People Killed in air strikes just a few miles away, in gaza. And what does this probe contain . Nasa scientists prepare to reveal some of the secrets contained in dust collected from an asteroid. Coming up on sportday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news. We will hear from some of the ten sailors heading to paris next year the first team gb athletes to be confirm for the olympics. Confirmed for the olympics. Its been nearly six weeks since some schools in england were forced to delay opening for the autumn term, after it was revealed they were affected by the faulty concrete raac. While some schools were able to find temporary solutions, many pupils are still learning from home as our Education Correspondent Hazel Shearing reports. Drop off time at St Leonards Catholic School in durham. But while the parents are here, many of their children are at home. The government says its safer for them to be there, because this school has a dangerous type of concrete known as raac. Were not privy to a lot of the time scale issues, which is why were here, but its not good enough for our children. Their socialisation alone, never mind their education on top of that, and there are opportunities that could be predicted from that are being disadvantaged. For pupils who have been coming in, lessons have been far from normal in recent weeks. So were using the sports hall, theres a theres this block, this 1880 block, which is a bit ironic, isnt it . The oldest block, thats fine. You know, theres no raac in there whatsoever. Im hopeful that, over the next few weeks, well gradually see an increase in face to face, and by after half term, well have all the children back in some sort of face to face learning. Thats the hope for elliot, who has just started at st leonards. Hed been excited to join the football team, but now its keepy uppies between lessons at home some of the time anyway. When its break time, i normallyjust sit down and watch youtube in bed. More than 150 children are in this online lesson, all with their cameras off. Only the teacher speaks. I feel quite isolated, because im always staring at a screen for six hours a day. Ifeel a lack of human interaction. What youre going to be learning each of the days . St leonards is one of 174 schools in england confirmed to have raac last month, and one of 2a where the government said some pupils had been learning remotely. He was really looking forward to going in and building on those relationships, and obviously not being able to do that or not being able to do that in a normal setting, in the normal way, has really had an impact on him forming those bonds, as hes moving into secondary school. Raac isnt the only issue. Most of Aylesford School in warwick is closed because of asbestos found during fire safety work in the summer. So if we walk down here a bit of light and this is the furthest extent we can go now, no further. So beyond this, you canjust see the remaining science labs run through there. So if i show you out here, these are the tennis courts, and thats where were going to put around 18 temporary classrooms. This school cant get a raac survey until the asbestos is cleared. Its on the department for educations complex case list. The dfe says its giving caseworkers and funding to schools in england. The resources are beyond us. Were educators. Were not project managers, were not builders, were not specialists. So we have to have that help and we need it quickly. So maybe go with not because that might. Down the road. Down the road, year 11 Pupil Scarlett is just back from school. Shes in one of the year groups allowed back in. But her younger brotherjacob has been learning in the kitchen, with some of his friends, whose parents are out at work. Its a juggling act for mum jules, who runs a Spray Tan Business from home. Problem is now this is affecting such a small minority of children that they are the forgotten kids. Theyve had the two years of covid, theyve had the teacher strike days, and now we arent thought about because nobody else is going through this. Unless youre living in this right now, you do not understand what is going on. With every school day that draws to a close, the reality for some parents is that they are running out of patience. Hazel shearing, bbc news. The labour leader, sir keir starmer, has said hell be tough with his own mps if they block his proposals to reduce red tape around planning rules. Sir keir told labours annual conference yesterday that it would build more than a million new homes in britain if it wins the next general election. 0ur political correspondent, nick eardley, is at the conference in liverpool. So tell us more about what has been said today . So tell us more about what has been said toda . ,. , said today . Yes, a| millionandahalf said today . Yes, a millionandahalf homes said today . Yes, a millionandahalf homes over five million and a half homes over five years is what keir starmer� s pledging but what was most interesting i thought at the interviews he did with the bbc this morning was he said he would be prepared to ignore his own mps if they had objections to local plans, in an effort to make those targets achievable. He also said he was prepared to bulldoze through restrictions on House Building that he thought were unrealistic or unfair. And it is keir starmer trying to show the electorate he is going to do some things that are ambitious and bold. In the run up to the election which in some ways contrasts what we have seen in liverpool over the last few days, because with labour so far ahead in most polls the message here was supposed to be one of stability, and reassurance, and i have to say leaving this conference it has just finishished, there is a real confidence among the labour party, they think that on the cusp of potentially returning to power again nens year, when you chat to senior people they say we know that a lot of things could change over the next year or so, of things could change over the next year orso, but of things could change over the next year or so, but there is no doubt that labour feels it is in a good place, and is very confident and hopeful that it is going to win the general election. Nick, thanks for now. Nasa scientists are preparing to reveal the first details about what they found inside the sealed canister that was returned to earth last month, carrying the largest soil sample ever taken from the surface of an asteroid. Its hoped the dust will reveal some of the story of our solar system. 0ur Science Editor Rebecca Morelle has more. Inside this capsule, are discoveries that nasa says could be out of this world. It contains precious fragments of an asteroid called bennu that arrived on earthjust over two weeks ago. And the 0siris Rex Mission Team is about to unveil what they found. And it could tell the story of our solar system. Were doing this because asteroids like bennu are time capsules or leftover debris from the early solar system. And so we can learn so much about the history of the solar system, of Planet Formation and potentially about how water and organic molecules were delivered to earth, all of those things that could have seeded life here on earth. Nasa travelled billions of miles to grab a sample from bennu, packing it into a capsule to bring it back home. It landed in the utah desert, where it was checked out by the mission team and then quickly secured. We already have bits of asteroids here on earth. Space rocks like these land here all the time, and we can learn a lot from them. But the problem is they get contaminated as soon as they come down, with the air, the dust, the bugs on the ground. So if you want something thats pristine, you need to study Asteroid Material thats come directly from space. The Asteroid Sample will be divided up between scientists around the world, including at londons Natural History museum, where the team are preparing for its arrival. But ashley king has already had a sneak peek. He was one of the very first people to see whats been collected at nasas labs. So when they took the lid off the sample canister, we were sat watching. Itjust revealed this, like, just black powder everywhere. It was, like, incredible. It was so exciting. Everybody in the room was just, like, suddenly stood up, pointing at the screen. You know, we wanted to see what we got. So far, as the capsule is being opened, wevejust had a glimpse of the black asteroid dust. But nasa is now ready to reveal more, and the hope is a Treasure Trove lies inside. Rebecca morelle, bbc news. The first team gb athletes have been announced for next years olympic games, which will open in paris injuly. Ten sailors have been selected, including 0lympic medallists emma wilson, john gimson and anna burnet. 0ur Correspondent Matt Gravelling Reports from the unveiling, in london the first few to fly the flag. Todays stations announcement was the names heading to the games, as the countdown to paris begins. Yeah, its really exciting. Really cool to be the first group of people in the whole of team gb to be selected. Ellies first games will see her compete in a brand new discipline the formula kite class. Despite britains dominance in sailing, this new look team has no returning gold medallists. Its really nice to have some younger people, i guess we are slightly older now, but you know, the team is still really strong, and the younger guys are, you know, just as good. John gimson and anna burnet won silver in tokyo. Partners on and off the waters, they are now hoping to become team gb� s next golden couple. Annas very good at multi task, which suits her role on the boat, and my role is a bit more single focus, which suits me. Paris has held the games twice before, here in 192a, and 1900, when sailing first became an olympic sport. Although marseille will be the venue for next years sailing events. Great britain have topped the sailing individual sailing medal table five out the last six games, three gold medals and five medals in total in tokyo, so they have big boots to fill, havent they. The ten sailors announced today, the first athletes in team gb to be heading to paris next summer. In total it is hoped there will be 370 athletes in 28 different sports, all to be announced in the coming months. The final numbers heading to paris still depends on qualifications before the games begin on 26thjuly. Matt graveling, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. Heres ben rich. Hi ben. Thank you. Good afternoon, over the next few days autumn finally arrives, now that said, it already feels like autumn in northern area, sunny
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