antonio guterres has addressed the security council, giving his assessment on the war in the middle east. he said the situation is deteriorating by the hour. he condemned the hamas attacks. but he said he did not happen in a vacuum. he said the palestinian grievances cannotjustify vacuum. he said the palestinian grievances cannot justify the vacuum. he said the palestinian grievances cannotjustify the hamas attacks and those attacks could not justify what he called collective palestinian punishment. mr guterres said he was deeply concerned about what he described as clear violations of international humanitarian law in gaza. he said, "even war has rules." have a listen. at a crucial moment like this, it is vital to be clear on principles, starting with the fundamental principle of respecting and protecting civilians. i have condemned unequivocally the horrifying and unprecedented 7th of october acts of terror by hamas and israel. nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians, or the launching of rockets against civilian targets. all hostages must be treated humanely and released immediately and without conditions. and i respectfully note the presence among us of members of their families. i am deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in gaza. let me be clear — no party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law. the un secretary general also reiterated his support for a two—state solution. even in this moment of grave and immediate danger, we cannot lose sight of the only realistic foundation for a true peace and stability — a two—state solution. israelis must see the legitimate needs for security materialised. and palestinians must see their legitimate aspirations for an independent state realised, in line with the united nations resolution, international laws and previous agreements. and finally, we must be clear on the principle of upholding human dignity. polarisation and dehumanisation are being fuelled by a tsunami of disinformation. we must stand up to the forces of anti—semitism, anti—muslim bigotry and all forms of hate. live now to nada tawfik, who is at the un for us. nada, your analysis of really clear words from the secretary—general and also take coaster will be heard from the american secretary of state in the american secretary of state in the last little while. —— take us through what we heard. i the last little while. -- take us through what we heard.- the last little while. -- take us through what we heard. i think it is im ort through what we heard. i think it is importjust — through what we heard. i think it is importjust for _ through what we heard. i think it is import just for context _ through what we heard. i think it is import just for context to - through what we heard. i think it is. import just for context to remember that before this debate got away, the security council was unable to get a resolution passed. in fact the united states vetoed a resolution that was put forward by brazil and negotiated amongst members which not only called for humanitarian pauses, but it did condemn hamas's attacked and it called for all parties to respect international law. so far, the council has been silent on this. the secretary—general, what we are hearing there is condemnation of both sides but also really putting this conflict into the wider issue, which has really not come through so often, matthew, the idea that this is not, this attack by hamas did not come in a vacuum, that it was part of the palestinian people having been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation, that they have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements, they have been plagued by violence of their economy stifled, the people displaced, their homes demolished, their hopes for political solution vanishing i think no surprise to anybody who knows that the united states is one of israel's staunchest allies on the council, we saw secretary of state blinken really repeating a very pro—israel message. stating that he had not heard outright condemnations for hamas's attack, which, quite frankly, just is not completely accurate stopped we had the palestinian ambassador along with the entire arab group, along with the entire arab group, along with the entire arab group, along with every other member of the council, willing to condemn, not only condemn hamas's intact but willing to vote on that resolution by brazil that expressly condemned the attack. he then went into... audio loss apologies. as you can see, we lost the audio there on our line to new york, but nada tawfik, taking us through the remarks from the american secretary of state andy, earlier, antonio guterres. one of the two israeli hostages freed by hamas on monday night says she "went through a hell she could never have imagined" as she was abducted into what she described as a "spider's web" of underground tunnels. 85—year—old yoheved lifschitz says she was taken from her home in southern israel, beaten up and transported by motorbike into gaza. her daughter translated her story just hours after her release, at the hospital in tel aviv where she's being treated. my mom is saying that she was taken on the back of a motorbike with her legs on one side and her hands on another side, that she was taken through the ploughed fields with a man in front on one side and a man behind her and that while she was being taken, she was hit by sticks by shabab people. until they reached the tunnels. there, they walked for a few kilometres on the wet ground. there is a huge network of tunnels underneath. it looks like a spider web. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams is injerusalem. paul, so many fascinating details in that press conference a little earlier in the day, and one of them, of course, just the contrast between her description of what it was like when she was taken and the description of what it was like when she was actually being held. it was an extraordinary _ she was actually being held. it was an extraordinary event, _ she was actually being held. it was an extraordinary event, matthew, l she was actually being held. it "was an extraordinary event, matthew, and she was just amazingly composed and detailed and rational, and she talked about, yes, the horror of that initial adduction and then the treatment they received when they were being held. the hostages were being held in the tunnels, where she said there was medication available, that doctors would come by every couple of days to check up on the hostages, fearful apparently that the hostages might fall sick, and she also at the end of her account, did say that the hostages felt that they had been let down by the israeli military, forfailing, in her view, to heed warning signs that hamas were doing something. so it was an account which i think caused a bit of disquiet in israel. there were some on israeli media saying, was she not properly prepared to talk about this? there was even a statement put out, quoting israeli government officials, pushing back and just emphasising the fact that hamas is in their view a terrorist organisation who had abused and mistreated hostages, so it was an interesting insight into precisely how she was treated in the gaza strip, during those two weeks of captivity. and just to emphasise, she did preface all of her remarks by saying that she had been through hell. . , ., a ., ., hell. paul, 'ust a quick word about that visit hell. paul, just a quick word about that visit from _ hell. paul, just a quick word about that visit from emmanuel - hell. paul, just a quick word about that visit from emmanuel macron | hell. paul, just a quick word about i that visit from emmanuel macron to the region. your analysis of what you have heard from him today? i think we were mentioning this earlier on, matthew, this odd moment when emmanuel macron said, and i'm going to quote here, france is ready for the international coalition against ices, for which we are taking part in operations in iraq and syria, to fight against hamas. what on earth did the french president mean by that? was he actually suggesting that western powers mayjoin with israel in its military assault on hamas or was he somehow suggesting that this conflict needed to be internationalised, the international committee needs to somehow get a grip and try and salvage something? not at all clear, what he was really saying, but of course he was standing next to benjamin netanyahu and saying that he absolutely stood with israel, that the fight was just, but that it needed to be fought according to the law. paul adams their _ fought according to the law. paul adams theirjerusalem, thanks very much for that —— there injerusalem. plenty more from the middle east in just a moment. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. derbyshire police has referred itself to the police watchdog over how it responded to the death of an 83—year old woman in chesterfield during last week's storm babet. maureen gilbert was found dead by her son at her home. he said the fire service told him they had tried to get his mother out of her home. the force said the referral was mandatory due to officers being involved. threejust stop oil protesters have been sentenced to i2—month community orders after briefly interrupting play during an ashes test at lord's cricket ground. they must complete 60 hours of unpaid work and pay about 400 british pounds in legal costs. they said their aim was to create headlines for their climate change protest. the cap on bankers' bonuses will be lifted at the end of october — as part of a post—brexit shake—up of financial rules. the plan was announced by former chancellor kwasi kwarteng last year, as a way of making london a more attractive place to do business, one of the few policies to remain from mr kwarteng's mini budget. you're live with bbc news. let's turn to some breaking news from the footballing world, because the english premier league club everton havejust the english premier league club everton have just announced the death of its chairman. he was 78. in a statement, the clubs that he died last night surrounded by his family and loved ones, adding, the club has lost a chairman, a leader, a friend and an inspiration. if i put you towards the bbc website, the full statement is there, and because he was the longest serving chairman for the club, he initially became the chairman chair in 2004 and had 19 season as chairman, so the loss there for everton football club of their chairman bill kenwright. let's turn to the very latest from the middle east. because we have been hearing what is actually happening on the ground. the number of palestinians killed in the past day is more than 700, according to hamas, is the highest 24—hour palestinian death toll of the war. our correspondent rushdi abu alouf is inside gaza. he gave us this stark assessment of the situation. i think this is the largest number of death within 24 hours i have ever seen covering this conflict for the last 25 years. also today, the israeli military has dropped leaflets in northern gaza, seeking information about the hostages being held by hamas. the leaflets are in arabic and they say that the military will provide protection and a financial reward for anyone coming forward. they also guarantee complete confidentiality. and while that's happening, there's been very limited aid getting into gaza. un agencies say they are on their knees asking for more. they also say a third of hospitals in the gaza strip are no longer functioning because of a desperate need for supplies. i spoke to the unrwa spokesperson tamara al—rifai. the secretary—general set the bar, i think, for where we all stand as humanitarians, with a very, very urgent call for a humanitarian ceasefire and for the application of international humanitarian law. that is particularly relevant to my colleagues at unrwa. the fact that unrwa, the largest un agency in gaza, has already lost 35 staff members, women and men, doctors, engineers, nurses, you name it, it is devastating, it is shocking and it is appalling. so, we stand behind the un secretary—general�*s call for respect for all civilians, those who have nothing to do with this conflict, including aid workers, including my own colleagues at unrwa. now, your agency spoke to the bbc only a couple of hours ago, issued a warning today about how much longer you can keep going. what are you saying? be very clear about what that warning is. the warning is if we do not get more fuel into gaza, we as unrwa, the largest aid agency in gaza, will not be able to carry out any humanitarian operations. and that is because we need the fuels for our trucks. that whole conversation about convoys coming in from rafah. we need fuel so that our trucks can pick up that aid. we need fuel for our water desalination plants, so that people can have access to clean water. hospitals need fuel for life—saving machines, without which, people can die. so, fuel is a top urgency. my colleagues in gaza have confirmed that we have enough fuel for about two to three days. after that, we will not be able to work, neither will the bakeries that need fuel for electricity, neither will the water desalination plants or the life—saving machines in hospitals. just be very clear, because one of your colleagues said you had enough fuel to last till tomorrow night. is that what you are saying? and also, just tell me the consequences if you get no more fuel, the consequences if you have to halt operations. if we get no fuel, we cannot work and people can die. people can die because there will no longer be electricity in hospitals for life—saving machines. people will no longer have access to bread. that is almost the only thing people are eating now and that is because unrwa and the world food programme have been distributing wheat flour to bakeries. in those bakeries, in order to make bread, we need electricity and water for the wheat. the water, we get it through our water desalination plant that works through a generator that is powered with the fuel, so if we don't get the fuel, there is no water, there is no bakery, and there is no machines in hospitals, and there will be no trucks to pick up the humanitarian supplies from the borders. that, the un agency working on the ground there in gaza, with their warning about what happens if they don't get more fuel. it's been one week since the explosion at the al—ahli hospital in gaza. it made headlines around the world. hamas blamed israel for last tuesday's blast, but israel denied this, saying it was caused by a misfiring rocket from within gaza. it was reported that hundreds of people died, but the true numbers are not clear. amidst the ongoing fighting, bereaved families are struggling to come to terms with what happened. one gaza resident lost five members of his family — including two of his sons. the grieving father called for peace and an end to the ongoing war. heba bitar reports. for umazen, photos are all that is left of her two sons. mazin, i7, and ahmed, 13, went with their uncle and two cousins to al—ahli hospital on the day of the blast because they thought it was a safe place to be. they were all killed. translation: out of fear. and terror from the rockets, they saw people seeking refuge in el madani. they believed that because of the british flag and the presence of the red cross, an international organisation, it wouldn't be targeted, making it a safer choice than homes and streets. after eight long years of waiting and difficult ivf treatment, abbasi and his wife had their first son, mazen. four years later, they had ahmed. translation: this is where ahmad used to sleep. - and this one was for mazen. this is ahmed's photo when he was around three years old. this was ahmed's bag. may god have mercy on him. he wanted to become a lawyer. the news about losing five members of his family left abu assi in a state of shock. he wasn't even able to bury his sons. translation: i had no tears, no tears, i swear to god. - my legs were shaking, but no tears. after an hour or two, i started crying and my leg and arm were numb. the bereaved couple are now left with their three—year—old son, faraj, and all they ask for is peace. translation: they are kids and have nothing to do with this. - i just want this to stop for those who are still here, so the kids can live, for the son i still have and for my mother. i don't want anything else. i swear, i only want peace for everyone — not only for gaza, for the entire world. heba bitar with that report. i want to spend the next few minutes talking about that extraordinary briefing given to international journalists yesterday, where the israeli military played more than 40 minutes of previously—unseen video of the hamas atrocities on october the 7th. it's worth warning people watching that the descriptions you might hear in the interview coming up are likely to be both graphic and upsetting, so you might want to step away. but it was an unusual tactic from the idf — and one that it's important to look at in detail. one of the journalists at that briefing was david patrirakarkas, foreign correspondent for the news website unherd. you imagine most of the footage comes from the perpetrators themselves, from these gopros they had strapped to their bodies, dash cameras of the cars. these have obviously come from hamas fighters that have been captured or killed. and what you're seeing is hamas fighters running through roads, running into the streets, shooting civilian cars. you're seeing them drag bloodied corpses, male, female, younger people out of cars, throwing them into the streets, sort of weeping and cheering, shouting and screaming as they throw them into the street. you're seeing sort of terrified male and female hostages, handcuffed, dragged out of trucks and then then thrown into cars. presumably, they're being spirited away to gaza. there are one or two very distressing things. you see one scene which comes clearly from the security camera inside a kibbutz, and a father was with his two boys — and they must be 12, i3, and they were in their underpants, they had clearly been woken up. they run through into a cubbyholes and hamas fighters emerge from a truck. they throw a hand grenade into the cubbyhole. the father falls down dead. they drag the two children into another room. and the one boy screaming, "daddy's dead, daddy's dead. "this is not a prank, this is not a prank. "i just want to die." so it's quite distressing. and people in the audience were visibly distressed. yes. i've seen pictures only this morning, actually, of the journalists, with so many of them holding their heads in their hands. and you wrote in the piece that you published, "even with the litany of horror i've witnessed in my career," and we've spoken before on this programme when you were in ukraine, "this was horrifyingly unsettling." it really was. and i actually came straight here from ukraine. it's the nature of it. in ukraine, it is largely soldier and soldier. obviously, civilians are being bombed from the air, but, you know, seeing what i saw, seeing hamas fighters break into an office, seeing a cowering civilian under a table and then just being blown away, seeing people raving in a field and then, a minute later, seeing those same people lying dead — you know, this rave where people are dancing and smiling and laughing, this is the celebration of life alongside the fetishisation of death, in two single images side by side. it is incredibly distressing because it's very personal and something else. we need to understand it. all of this footage comes from the perpetrators. this was notjust a terror event. it was a media event alongside it. you say in your article, even the way that it was filmed was — you use this phrase — the gamification of terror. absolutely. i mean, you're seeing dash cams in which the view you see is of a rifle like this. it's like call of duty. it's like video games. and i also say one of the biggest gasps of revulsion, actually, and i have yet to unpack fully what this means is when a hamas fighter comes across a dog, the dog sort of trots eagerly towards him and he just blows it away. that got another audible gasp of revulsion. this is very, very personal, very intense, extreme, sustained violence of the very worst kind on our screens. you talked at the beginning about the idf, and perhaps we can talk about the reasons for that briefing yesterday, because in part, i've seen some of the things they said, in part, it was to to show the world what they're fighting, in terms of what hamas was capable of, but it's also very much to address the deniers that are out there. you go onto social media and you can see it, just tweet after tweet. yeah, this is, ithink, very dispiriting generally about our age, i think. you know, in a public sphere that is dominated by algorithmically curated platforms, the scope and reach of disinformation, misinformation, straight out lying, is huge. and they were forced to do this because the level of denial was so great. and there was a lot particularly about a lot of denial around the issue of the murdered babies. now, i'm not going to get into details, but we were shown an image of one of them and it was horrific. and so, yes, this is where we are now. they are forced to come out and put these images on screen for internationaljournalists. and i need to point something out — i did a tweet thread about this that spread quite far — there's still lots of people saying it's all lies. you know, there's only so much you can do. there are certain people you are never going to reach. and i think it is deleterious to the public sphere generally. just one of the journalists at that briefing. before we break, let me tell you, there is a new republican nominee for house speaker, tom emmer. his latest tweets after the last few weeks. that is the latest. hello there. well, the week ahead looks fairly unsettled, with low pressure systems bringing outbreaks of unwelcome rain, weather fronts, and that wet weather persistent at times. turning windy by the end of the week as well. earlier today, we've had outbreaks of rain working their way northwards through parts of the midlands, in towards the north of england. we do have a met office yellow warning for heavy rain through parts of the east midlands, in towards yorkshire and the humber. whilst in itself that wet weather not particularly heavy, it's falling on already saturated ground, so the potential for some further issues with flooding as a result. south of that band, drier with some sunshine through wales, in towards the south midlands and the south—east. wet weather pushing in towards the south—west later on. sunshine and showers for northern ireland and parts of scotland. brightest in the west through the highlands and islands. as we head into this evening, the wet weather across parts of the midlands clears and then heavy rain pushing in towards parts of the south of wales, in towards devon and cornwall and tracking east through dorset, hampshire, the isle of wight, in towards sussex and kent. a further met office yellow warning in force because of that. elsewhere, dry with clearest conditions in the west. chilly in glasgow at three degrees. perhaps a bit of mist and fog around as well under clear skies. looking ahead to midweek, this is wednesday, you can see that area of low pressure pulling away, taking the overnight rain with it. then, for many, it's a quieter day on wednesday. it's a dry day for many, certainly through parts of wales, the midlands, in towards western scotland, northern ireland, as well. drying up in the south. cloudier skies across scotland compared with elsewhere, with some light and patchy outbreaks of rain in the east. temperature—wise, around about ten to 14 celsius north to south. then looking ahead towards thursday, that broad area of low pressure i showed you right at the start is still with us. further weather fronts bringing yet more unwelcome rain. that wet weather persistent in nature at times, particularly in areas where we don't want it, so late on thursday, into friday, becoming concentrated across parts of the east of scotland. elsewhere, showery outbreaks of rain almost anywhere, really. temperatures around about nine to 15 celsius north to south. certainly, a very unsettled picture through the course of the week. temperature—wise, well around about ten to 15 celsius north to south, but certainly rain at times. that's the forecast for now. this is bbc news, the headlines: the un security council meets to discuss the israel—gaza war. the secretary general calls for an immediate ceasefire. even war has rules. we must demand that all parties respective obligations under international humanitarian law. as hamas reports more than 700 people have died in the past day, the un tells verified live its gaza operation will end tomorrow if fuel supplies don't arrive. if we do not get more fuel into gaza we as the largest aid agency in gaza will not be able to carry out any humanitarian operation. an israeli woman, abducted by hamas and now set free — describes the "hell" she experienced. while she was being taken, she was hit by sticks by shebab...? shebab. yeah, shebab people. a bbc investigation finds the uk government failed to act on multiple warnings about a website promoting suicide — and linked to at least 50 deaths. and in the past half hour it has been announced former everton football club chairman bill kenwright has died aged 78. more on that sad news and the rest of the sports headline. good evening. hello from the bbc sport centre. we start with some sad news from the last half hour —