for the new year. good evening from jerusalem. more british nationals have made it out of gaza after palestinian authorities listed nearly 100 as being eligible to cross into egypt. israel began bombing gaza after hamas, described as a terrorist organisation by the uk government, killed more than 1,400 people in israel and kidnapped over 200 others. the hamas—run health ministry in gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed in the strip since then. the leader of the lebanese islamist group hezbollah, which is also classed as a terrorist group by the uk government, has today described the hamas attacks on israel as "right, wise and just". in a moment we'll be hearing from 0rla guerin who's in beruit. fergal keane will be reporting on the worsening situation in gaza. and we'll get the lastest from the rafah crossing where those british nationals will cross into egypt. but first, this report by our international editorjeremy bowen begins with the aftermath of what the hamas—run health ministry says is an attack by israel on an ambulance convoy outside the al—shifa hospital. it contains images you may find upsetting. around 4:00 this afternoon, many people were killed very close to shifa, gaza's main hospital. the health ministry, controlled by hamas, said israel attacked a convoy of ambulances. thousands of civilians have been sheltering at shifa, hoping it would be safer. israel says hamas has a command bunker under the hospital. more dead civilians on al—rashid street, one of only two roads south, where israel says civilians must go be safe. the bbc has located the video to a stretch of road seven kilometres south—west of gaza city. the man is saying, "oh, god, a little girl. woman, girl." this doctor says he was shot at by israelis in the same place yesterday. he says over a stretch of 1.5 kilometres, snipers were shooting at the cars. they had a donkey cart. the donkey was cut to pieces, along with the cart and everyone on it. this is ibrahim assalia, a british doctor stranded without power, with his family in northern gaza. dr assalia, from north london, was told by the foreign office only to risk the coast road in un or aid agency cars. antony blinken, the us secretary of state, returned, hoping to ease the pressure on gaza's civilians. goad pressure on gaza's civilians. good afternoon. _ pressure on gaza's civilians. good afternoon, everyone. _ pressure on gaza's civilians. good afternoon, everyone. we are - afternoon, everyone. we are absolutely focused on getting hostages back, and getting them back to theirfamilies in hostages back, and getting them back to their families in safety, and we believe that, among other things, a humanitarian cause could help that effort. but humanitarian cause could help that effort. �* . effort. but after their meeting, prime minister _ effort. but after their meeting, prime minister netanyahu - effort. but after their meeting, prime minister netanyahu said| effort. but after their meeting, - prime minister netanyahu said there would be no ceasefire is until hamas released its hostages. in beirut, lebanon's capital, supporters of the iranian—backed militia, hezbollah, run to hear its leader repeated threats that the war might spread. the concern, he said, is that this front might tumble into a wider war, it is a real possibility and the enemy should make every allowance. backin enemy should make every allowance. back in gaza, this is what is left of the refugee camp in the south, where israel is telling palestinian civilians to go to escape danger. there are only bad options at the moment. for gaza's endanger people, and for diplomats who want to stop the war from escalating. jeremy bowen, bbc news, jerusalem. as we've heard, the leader of the iranian—backed hezbollah movement in lebanon has broken his silence on the war. hassan nasrallah spoke from a secret location. let's get more from our senior international correspondent 0rla guerin, who is in the lebanese capital, beirut what's your assessment of what he had to say? well, it wasn't just thousands of his supporters here in beirut today who were hanging on his every word. that speech was being carefully listened to, carefully analysed, not only here in lebanon, but in tel aviv, across the region, and in the white house, because, of course, the concern is, over the past month of blood—letting, this region has become a tinderbox, and there are real worries about a broader escalation. what we heard from hassan nasrallah today is not now, not yet. he certainly wasn't declaring peace. he said that hezbollah would continue with cross—border attacks that it is carrying out on israeli troops, and that has produced the greatest tension on the border since 2006. critically, he did not indicate that hezbollah was going to get more involved, even though we know that this is something that hamas actually wants. it seems that, for now, hezbollah it is going to leave the war in gaza to hamas, it is going to keep to carrying out attacks here along the border. but, of course, that could change. hezbollah has said before that the trigger for it becoming hezbollah has said before that the triggerfor it becoming more involved is if it feels that hamas is in danger of defeat. it is worth pointing out that if hezbollah is to go to war with israel again, as it did in 2006, it is a much more formidable enemy than hamas. this is an organisation with an estimated 150,000 missiles and rockets. if that war was to come, it could inflict much greater damage than hamas has done. many thanks, 0rla guerin, reporting there. the first minister of scotland, humza yousaf, says his family have made it out of gaza after being trapped in the territory for over three weeks. his parents—in—law are among the british nationals who have now entered neighbouring egypt through the rafah crossing. our correspondent helena wilkinson has the story. i am at cairo airport, leaving to london. i'm going to the gate. safe at last. filmed earlier today in cairo airport as dr abdel hammad is about to board his flight to the uk. a surgeon at the royal liverpool university hospital, he has been visiting gaza for the last ten years, pictured here training doctors, at the al—shifa hospital in gaza city. his latest visit began just one day before hamas carried out its deadly attacks. oh, it was really terrible. we thought that we are going to be killed there. at the time, i didn't say that in the interviews, because i didn't want my family really to be very worried about me, but, yeah, we were very frightened for our safety, for our lives. dr hammad, just tell us what it was like for you, crossing the border into egypt? i mean, people at the border are saying to us, "0h, you are leaving us, you are internationals, you are lucky. we are abandoned by you," and so on, and it is hard, i mean, although we couldn't do anything. 0ther british nationals who have also left gaza include the family of scotland's first minister humza yousaf. his mother—in—law and father—in—law were trapped for nearly a month. hugely relieved, of course, and it was a special moment for me to be able to phone up my 1a—year—old, while she was on her school break, to tell her that granny and grandpa are coming home. that is a moment that was very special. relief for some families then, but for others, still trapped in gaza, the unbearable wait goes on. helena wilkinson, bbc news. well, the situation for those who are inside gaza remains dire. our special correspondent fergal keane. who is based injerusalem. has for days now been working with journalists filming for the bbc on the ground in the territory to report the impact of the war on civilians there. a warning — his piece contains distressing images from the start. sometimes, a face can tell all there is to know. of war, in the lives of the young. the brothers came to alex hospital in central gaza after a bomb hit their home. further north, another hospital. more of war�*s wounded. a crowded floor. who can be saved, who is beyond help? the process of checks that has become all too familiar. this woman's life, fading fast. and then gone. there are stories of miraculous escape, told to our bbc cameraman. 0f miraculous escape, told to our bbc cameraman. of a five—year—old, pulled from the rubble of her bombed out home. she is physically recovering, but she is unlikely to forget. with injured children, the psychological trauma stays with them for years, says this doctor. and the children who witness or watch what is going on have ptsd for months. there are now more than 1.5 million displaced in gaza. creating, says the un, a vast humanitarian crisis. here, at a gaza beach, they collect salt water for washing. the children, as children do, find comfort in each other. because when they leave here, there is only the war. since the hamas attacks of october 7th, when 1,400 civilians and soldiers were killed, israel has been in a state of shock and anguish. as the conflict in gaza intensifies, the prevailing mood here is behind the war — although there is an ongoing protest about the hostages taken by hamas. what is marked is the almost total absence of any demonstration in support of the palestinian civilians in gaza. around the world, millions have marched in solidarity with the people of gaza. there has been controversy about language, but not about the right to demonstrate. but for palestinian citizens of israel, it's a different matter. we are the only group in the world that it is not allowed to express their anger, and to express their position against the war. why? because we are arabs, we are palestinians. express your anger about the attacks of israel on the civilians is supporting the enemy during wartime. those who try to protest say that they are suppressed. yoav haifawi isjewish, and a minority voice. he wants to speak out in support of palestinians, but he has been arrested twice in the last four weeks. police ransacked his house, emptying contents into the yard. he is in ill—health, and while under arrest he ended up in hospital. handcuffed, with my hand to the hospital bed, and then they also bring handcuffs to my legs, so i was two legs handcuffed and one hand handcuffed, and i couldn't do anything, like i have to beg to go to the toilet. he was subsequently cleared by the court. his case mirrors that of numerous palestinians, who were too afraid to speak to us. the israel police say they uphold the right of freedom speech, as here in tel aviv, but when it comes to gaza, their chief has been explicit. anyone who wants to identify with gaza is welcome. i'll put him on the buses heading there now. it means few want to speak publicly. a palestinian student told me she's been disciplined by her university authorities for social media posts opposing the bombardment of civilians in gaza. translation: it seems so unfair that i'm accused because i am an arab. - i don't have any freedom of speech. i did not support and i would never support any act of terrorism, and still i am suspected and accused. "death to arabs," they chant. this on a campus near tel aviv. tensions are running very high and free speech is a casualty. we live now under strong and deep fear of fear. if you ask me about this five years ago, three years ago, i would tell you this is not realistic. today, i can say this is real. in times of war, countries everywhere close in on themselves, but here in israel, the conflict is exposing the cracks which already existed. a look there atjust one aspect of the many pressures people here are living under. now, the bbc world service has started an emergency radio broadcast into gaza in response to the war in the region. the daily transmission will go out at one o'clock in the afternoon on medium wave, and will provide listeners in gaza with the latest information and developments, as well as safety advice on where they might find shelter, water and food. that's all from us injerusalem — we'll have more at ten, but for now it's back to ben in the studio. dozens of flood warnings remain in place after storm ciar—on in place after storm ciaran battered the south coast of england and the channel islands yesterday. the storm knocked out power to thousands of homes, closed schools and damaged property and rail lines. now, the clean up operation is under way, as danjohnson reports from jersey. those who found themselves in the eye of this storm are convinced it was a tornado that whipped off the sea, and ripped the through these homes. raising roofs, smashing windows and terrifying residents. the enormous clear up job is only reallyjust beginning. it come through the window and into the cupboard door. that hit that? yes, straight through. and some are onlyjust realising what they lived through. the water's starting to leak through the bedrooms, so we're prepared for the ceilings to come down in next couple of days. and, yeah, we don't really have a plan at the moment. you are going to need a new house. everyone's going to need a new house. this is a top floor flat, torn up by 100mph winds, carrying huge destructive hailstones. some of the debris is hard to conceive, and difficult to move. kind of passed just outside the front door, and all of a sudden all the windows got ripped open, and it was like a snow globe, leaves and sand. certainly weird. frightening? yes, definitely. whatever it was, it wasn't nice. this really intense damage is along quite a short narrow strip of the island, but across jersey, more than 140 people are now out of their homes. this island community's working hard, but there is still a lot to do here. more bad weather is forecast over the next few days, but it is not expected to do this sort of damage — they hope — never again. dan johnson, bbc news, jersey. in northern ireland, flooding caused by days of heavy rain has caused widespread damage and disruption in parts of counties down, antrim and armagh. dozens of offices, shops and cafes are still under several feet of water in the town of downpatrick. business owners have called on the government for financial support. in italy, large areas of tuscany have also been hit by flooding, leaving six people dead and several others missing. it follows the heaviest rains to hit the region in 50 years, brought by storm ciaran. rivers have broken their banks, inundating homes, fields and an industrial area near florence. more rains have been forecast for the weekend. the bbc has been told that the sixth suspect in the racist murder of stephen lawrence over 30 years ago tried to stab a black security guard, while saying he had "killed before". the victim of the attack, in 2015, said matthew white told him there had been no consequences for, as he put it, "killing stephen". 0ur correspondent daniel de simone reports. it's britain's most notorious racist murder. 30 years ago, stephen lawrence was stabbed to death while waiting for a bus, by a gang of young white men in eltham, south london. five prime suspects became infamous. two were finallyjailed in 2012. a lead attacker with fair hair was never identified. but this year, a bbc investigation named matthew white, who died two years ago, as a sixth suspect and exposed the met�*s repeated failure to properly investigate him. i've now found new evidence which poses serious questions for the force. i told him to stop, then he used - | i don't want to say - the n-word. j bethel ikpeze was racially abused and almost stabbed with a dirty syringe by matthew white. the security officer prevented white from stealing from an eltham supermarket. the next thing i saw was, he sat up with a needle. he wasjust coming. and if he had hit you, what do you think the result would have been? he would kill me. i pull him down. i ask him, "do you want to kill me? " he said, "yes, i will kill you. " he says white then made an alarming admission. - he said, ok, can i remember that they've done it in the bus stop there, to a fellow like me, in the past, but nothing happened. he's still here. isaid, "ok, if you have done it before, "i don't know who you did it to. that was when the word — i can remember now — when the word stephen. when the police turned up here, bethel ikpeze says he told them everything, including that matthew white had said about killing before and mentioned the name stephen. he says he never heard from the met again. white pleaded guilty to using threatening words and having a syringe in public. he wasn't charged with trying to stab his victim or with racial abuse. the crown prosecution service says the police's evidence contained no mention of racial abuse. the met says it apologises if the case wasn't investigated as it should have been. matthew white was jailed for four months. he shared a cell with this man, who says he spoke of his link to the stephen lawrence case. what he said was that if i could see the papers about the whole case, if i ever did, that he's referred to quite a lot in the paperwork, that he was the blond—haired figure that's referred to throughout the paperwork, and that he was involved in the incident. we previously revealed matthew white looked like the unidentified suspect sometimes known as the blond attacker. he said that, yeah, that they completely mishandled it and failed, really, to properly investigate him. the met says it's satisfied all relevant inquiries related to white were considered prior to his death. the other remaining suspects for stephen's murder remain free. his parents want fulljustice but have no confidence in the met. daniel de simone, bbc news, eltham. now a look at some other stories making the news today. a man accused of soliciting to murder and incitement to kidnap the tv presenter holly willoughby has appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to both charges. 36—year—old gavin plumb appeared at chelmsford crown court to hear the charges against him relating to an alleged plot in early october involving the former this morning presenter. a man who killed a trainee solicitor as she walked home from a night out in east london last year has won an appeal to reduce the minimum term of his life sentence. jordan mcsweeney was jailed for at least 38 years for murdering and sexually assaulting zara aleena, but appeal courtjudges have now reduced that to a minimum of 33 years. bob stewart, the conservative mp for beckenham, has been found guilty of racially abusing an activist by telling him to "go back to bahrain." mr stewart also told sayed ahmed alwadaei "you're taking money off my country, go away," during a row in westminster last year. it's been called one of the biggest financialfrauds in us history. sam bankman—fried, a former cryptocurrency billionaire, has been found guilty of fraud and money laundering by a court in new york. prosecutors said he stole at least $8 billion, and he now faces decades in prison. our new york business correspondent, erin delmore, reports. from a $30 million caribbean penthouse to a federal prison. sam bankman—fried's fall has been as swift as his rise. until last year, he was the most prominent mogul of the crypto world. he ran the world's second largest crypto exchange. as cryptocurrencies like bitcoin soared in value, so did his personalfortune, which at one point totalled $26 billion. but as their values slumped and financial markets shifted, his companies collapsed, leading to bankruptcy, arrest and extradition. now a jury in new york has found him guilty of seven counts of fraud and money laundering. prosecutors convinced them the crypto king was, in fact, a crook. the cryptocurrency industry might be new. the players, like sam bankman—fried, might be new. but this kind of fraud, this kind of corruption is as old as time, and we have no patience for it. while bankman—fried was using his great wealth to buy and trade to political and celebrity elites, he was in fact stealing customer funds to shore up his other company, an investment fund. prosecutors used the testimony of his friends and ex—girlfriend to convince this court that bankman—fried directed a huge scheme to defraud customers, investors and lenders. he heads to prison still proclaiming his innocence. we are very disappointed in the result. my client, mr bankman—fried, maintains his innocence, and we are going to continue to vigorously fight the charges against him. but this case took two weeks shorter than expected to try, and jurors reached a verdict in a highly complex case with stunning speed. the man who was once the poster child for the brave lucrative new world of crypto is now one of america's most notorious financial criminals. erin delmore, bbc news, new york. what do the names barrel, lion's mane and moon have in common? well, they're three types ofjellyfish being spotted more regularly in british waters — and, by the way, the barrel jellyfish can be more than a metre wide. 0verall, there's been a 30% rise in jellyfish sightings around the uk over the last year, and tim muffet has been asking why. no brain, no bones, no heart and no eyes. jellyfish are amongst the most mysterious creatures on earth. there's been a big rise in the number ofjellyfish spotted over the past 12 months in uk and irish waters — an increase of almost a third on the previous year. the barreljellyfish, the uk's largest, was the most frequently cited in the marine conservation society's survey. we might be just seeing a 20—year boom cycle for barrel jellyfish in uk waters. but, at the same time, we know that our oceans are changing. we know our seas are getting warmer, and our warmer winters are probably making our oceans much better for barreljellyfish. the lion's mane jellyfish was the second most frequently spotted. like manyjellyfish species, its sting can be painful to humans, as can that of the portuguese man o' war. it's not technically a jellyfish, but is also often spotted around our coastline and washed up on beaches. the increases in the number of portuguese man o' war strandings in the uk could be related to the increased frequency and intensity of these late autumn and winter storms that we're seeing. not everyone will welcome the thought of more jellyfish around our coastline, but these fascinating creatures have become a more common sight. tim muffett, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich. .it . it has been quite a week of weather. it has, things for the week look a bit less tush 11. some of us got to see some brightness today. but it is not plain sailing, there is more rain in the forecast, still have some rain cloud from the remnants of storm ciaran in the north east, this next band of cloud pushing in from the atlantic, that will bring rain tonight in the south, pushing into wale, elsewhere showers tend to fade, a few fog patches in northern ireland, scotland and northern england. quite chilly for some of us as well, where we see clear skies. tomorrow, this band of rain journeys we see clear skies. tomorrow, this band of rainjourneys north we see clear skies. tomorrow, this band of rain journeys north ward, becoming slow—moving in parts of wales, the midlands and northern england. where that happens, where it is cloudy it will stay chilly, to the north of that, light wind for scotland and northern ireland. sunny spells and the odd shower, heavy showers down to the south. it will be windy here as well. temperature—wise, north to south 9-30 but if temperature—wise, north to south 9—30 but if you are stuck with the cloud and rain it will feel disappointing. as we head into the evening, still showers or longer speu evening, still showers or longer spell of rain round f you are heading off to fireworks celebration tomorrow evening, there could be a bit of rain round, arguably fewer showers by the time we get into sunday night, bonfire night itself. that is because this area of low pressure for the second half of the weekend will tend to move north—east wards. there will be cloud early on sunday, that will clear, we should see sunshine in many place on sunday, although still a few showers is out to the west. could be gale force a time in the channel islands early in the day but certainly not as windy as it was earlier on in the week. so, to sum up, not as turbulent as it has been but some rain at times and any rain we get could bring further flooding. rain at times and any rain we get could bring furtherflooding. windy in the south but some spells sunshine. thanks ben. and that's bbc news at six. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the six team, it's goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one , as now it's time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, goodnight.