today i spoke with prime minister netanyahu and other senior officials about concrete steps to do that. president biden has consistently stressed the need for israel to operate in accordance with international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians must take place notjust in gaza but also in the west bank where incitement and extremist violence against palestinians must be stopped. we violence against palestinians must be stopped.— violence against palestinians must be stopped. we asked our diplomatic— must be stopped. we asked our diplomatic corresponded - must be stopped. we asked our diplomatic corresponded aboutl diplomatic corresponded about the status of aid going into gaza following anthony blink and's call for humanitarian pauses. and's call for humanitarian auses. ~ u, and's call for humanitarian auses. ~ a, _ and's call for humanitarian auses. ~ , pauses. the american say they have been _ pauses. the american say they have been putting _ pauses. the american say they have been putting very - pauses. the american say they have been putting very heavily| have been putting very heavily for more trucks to come in, they want to see a figure of around 100 per day, i don't know whether we reach that number today, know whether we reach that numbertoday, possibly know whether we reach that number today, possibly not, know whether we reach that numbertoday, possibly not, but the other thing that anthony blink and, the us secretary of state has been trying to organise is what had been dubbed humanitarian pauses, not ceasefires but breaks in the fighting met some of this aid can get out into the places where it is needed in the gaza strip. no agreement yet with israeli on such pauses and crucially, a disagreement with the israelis on the subject of fuel because the americans are saying they want to see you're getting into hospitals and aid agencies and the israeli government which argues that hamas tends to steal and hoard all the fuel going into the gaza strip are adamant that no fuel will go in. the gaza strip are adamant that no fuel will go in.— fuel will go in. the visit to the region _ fuel will go in. the visit to the region comes - fuel will go in. the visit to the region comes as - fuel will go in. the visit to j the region comes as there fuel will go in. the visit to - the region comes as there were reports of a blast outside a hospital in gaza city on friday, footage verified by bbc verify shows a damaged ambulance a number of injured people laying outside the hospital. the israel defence force is one of its aircraft hit an ambulance and gaza because its soldiers assess that the vehicle was being used by a hamas terrorist—cell and a number of operatives were killed in that strike. the idf also says it intends to release more information on this incident, but did not make clear in this statement if it was talking about the same incident copy hamas says 13 people were killed in that last. international editor jeremy bowen has this report in the aftermath of the attack by israel on that ambulance convoy and it contains images you might find upsetting. around four this afternoon, an ambulance outside shifa, the main hospital in gaza, was destroyed by an israeli aircraft. in a crowded area, 13 people, including bystanders, were killed and 26 injured, according to the health ministry in gaza. israel said the ambulance was carrying a hamas terrorist cell. hamas said the attack was zionist nazi terror. thousands of palestinian civilians are sheltering at shifa hospital. israel's army says it's a battle zone and they should evacuate south. more dead civilians on al rasheed street, one of only two roads south where israel says civilians must go to be safe. the bbc has located the video to a stretch of roads seven kilometres southwest of gaza city. the man is saying, "oh god, a little girl, woman, a girl". this doctor said 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 hit 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. it is catastrophic here. you know, isee science—fiction movies. i never imagine that science—fiction can be real. here, like in movie, like in a dream. what's going on? it's beyond imagination. antony blinken, the us secretary of state, returned, hoping to ease the pressure on gaza's civilians. good afternoon, everyone. we are absolutely focused on getting hostages back and getting them back to their families in safety. and we believe that, among other things, a humanitarian pause could help that effort. but after their meeting, prime minister netanyahu said there would be no ceasefires until hamas released its hostages. in beirut, lebanon's capital, supporters of the iranian backed militia, hezbollah, rallied to hear their leader, hassan nasrallah, repeat threats that the war might spread. "the concern," he said, "is that this front might tumble into a wider war". "it's a real possibility, and the enemy should make every allowance". back in gaza, this is what's left of maghazi refugee camp. it's in the south where israel is telling palestinian civilians to go to escape danger. but there are only bad options at the moment for gaza's endangered people and diplomats who want to stop this war escalating. jeremy bowen, bbc news, jerusalem. meanwhile the us military confirmed for the first time on friday that it is assisting israel in its search for hostages. the pentagon press secretary patrick ryder said the us has been flying on armed surveillance drones over gaza following the october seven attack. the new york times first reported that story and rides the drones have mostly been operating in southern gaza, amid all of this many civilians continue their attempts to leave through the gaza egypt border is israeli aerial strikes of the gaza strip intensifies. some of those strikes are happening in areas further south in the strip, our corresponded sent us this update. strip, our corresponded sent us this update-— this update. this is a recent airstrike. — this update. this is a recent airstrike, this _ this update. this is a recent airstrike, this is _ this update. this is a recent airstrike, this is the - this update. this is a recent airstrike, this is the area i airstrike, this is the area people are telling people to go because it is safe, there were about 15 people killed in a building and many others are missing. the palestinian civil defence are working hard trying to find any survivors under the rubble. the people were searching, digging with their bare hands, five kids were missing under the rubble of this building, this is the latest strike here where about 15 people were killed, 15 people were injured and many others are missing. the airstrike happened in the area that israel asked people to go, this is in south of gaza, where about two—thirds of the population are displaced from their houses and in the north, i was talking to the families here, the people, and they said many of those who were killed or missing in this strike were displaced from their houses in gaza city in the north. in displaced from their houses in gaza city in the north.- gaza city in the north. in his first public— gaza city in the north. in his first public comment - gaza city in the north. in his first public comment since l first public comment since began, the leader of hezbollah praise of the october seven attack by hamas. the leader of the lebanese islamist group said that the only way to prevent a regional war is for israel to stop attacking gaza. he did not announce any escalation of fighting but said that hezbollah was already doing enough with its cross—border attacks on israel. we flew in here this morning, and there was a sense of many people holding their breath, some of the schools closed early and people he wanted to know what the leader of hezbollah was going to say but it was not only his supporters here at a rally in beirut that were hanging on his every word, it was officials in tel aviv, officials in the white house, because the big concern has been what the bloodletting of the past month will produce in a wider conflict. we got a lot of fiery rhetoric from the leader, a lot of denunciations of america and israel. we did not get any kind of explicit all—out declaration of war against israel. he said all options were on the table, he said the risk of a wider regional conflict remained but he sounded almost offensive when he was describing what hezbollah has done so far, it has been carrying out cross—border attacks, tying up israeli forces on the border, using artillery, drones, he said some might say that is not significant but actually it is really important. we do know that hamas has been hoping for more. reading between the lines today i think the message to hamas was more or less you are hamas was more 01’ less you are on hamas was more or less you are on your hamas was more 01’ less you are on your own hamas was more or less you are on your own for hamas was more 01’ less you are on your own for 110w, hamas was more or less you are on your own for now, and the leader of hezbollah was at pains to stress the operation, the attacks carried out on the seventh of october in which 1400 seventh of october in which 11100 israelis were killed, he said that was a 100% palestinian operation carried out in great secrecy and that other palestinian factions did not even know, let alone allies like hezbollah or iran, so the message was this was the doing of hamas in gaza. for its part of hamas in gaza. for its part of the us says that the speech is proof that its strategy has successfully contained hezbollah and other around back forces. he was patrick ryder, the pentagon's press secretary speaking earlier.— speaking earlier. right now we see this conflict _ speaking earlier. right now we see this conflict as _ speaking earlier. right now we see this conflict as contained l see this conflict as contained between israel and hamas. as you highlight it has been a key focus of our government are department of defence to prevent this from becoming a broader regional conflict. this is why we had deployed additional capabilities to include two us aircraft carrier strike groups into the region to provide us with a variety of options and capabilities should we need to respond to a whole range of contingencies, and so, yes, we do see that broadly speaking, a broader regional conflict has been deterred, so we will continue to do that. we do not seek any conflict with iran, we do not seek to have conflict across the region, our focus here is on containing this and getting back to a stable and secure region as quickly as possible. to other news and — quickly as possible. to other news and in _ quickly as possible. to other news and in western - quickly as possible. to other news and in western nepal, | news and in western nepal, dozens of people are reported to have been killed in earthquakes. the us geological survey recorded the quakers magnitude 6.4, hitting the remote hill district 500 kilometres west of kathmandu. strong tremors felt in the capital and in strong tremors felt in the capitaland in indian strong tremors felt in the capital and in indian cities including delhi, hospital officials saying they are treating more than 40 injured people rescued from the rubble of their homes. 0ur south asia editor has more. 0fficials of their homes. 0ur south asia editor has more. officials say that the earthquake hitjust before midnight, nepal local time. the epicentre was in the district about 500 kilometres west of the capital kathmandu, in fact close to the border with india, the northern indian state of uttar pradesh. local media showed many brick houses destroyed and what we understand as people rushed out of their homes in panic and many of them are now sleeping in the open fearing anything else could happen because they also felt three more tremors after this powerful earthquake hit and there are reports that the epicentre, in fact it was about 15 to 18 kilometres deep, so many of these houses in remote regions are not very strong, not earthquake proof, so these brick houses collapsed and one hospital official was saying that they were treating more than 40 people and it is a very remote regions information is still trickling in, people are trying to find out what happens to the loved ones, in fact it happens just before midnight so many people in kathmandu may not be aware but this was felt as far as the indian capital of delhi, and i was getting messages from some of my friends saying the buildings shook in the capital, so people are still waiting for information, and as the day breaks we will hear more about what really happened in the casualty figure is likely to go up. here in the us, president donald trump's son eric wrapped up donald trump's son eric wrapped up his testimony against his family's business on friday. prosecutors grilled eric trump about his involvement and his father's financial state and what steps he took to verify those numbers before signing bank statements. he said he believed everything in the statement was accurate, and next week donald trump and his daughter are expected to testify. in north america corresponded has been following the case. we had the final testimony wrapping up fairly early this morning, but when you look at the two of his sons, they really had the same argument in court, that they never worked on their dad's financial statements but their experiences understand remarkably different, whereas donald jr was laughing and joking with thejudge donald jr was laughing and joking with the judge and prosecutors and his questioning went by relatively quickly, eric trump was actually... confronted with numerous, numerous e—mails and spreadsheets because the work day today in the operations of the company, he was really the business one focused on the business one focused on the business side of the family whereas donjr was business side of the family whereas don jr was focused business side of the family whereas donjr was focused on politics even though he was a trustee of the company. so eric trump seems to contradict himself several times in his testimony and his assertions that he had never heard of his father's financial statements before his father's investigation and had never worked on them or valuing any properties specifically and at different times he got quite frustrated and raised his voice, and at the end of the questioning, prosecutors reiterated that they thought his testimony was extremely helpful to their case, so quite a tense day in court, both today and yesterday for eric trump. and a big week next week. absolutely. their testimony is building up what will be the blockbuster moment of this case went donald trump himself is expected to testify on monday. now, the attorney general has come out and said that she fully expects donald trump to try to hide his wrongdoing with name—calling and taunts, but she says she will not be bullied out of uncovering the truth. donald trump himself, even though he has not been here in person, this week, has continued to rail against the case as a witch hunt, telling the attorney general and the judge to leave his children alone. everybody will be watching to see how he defends himself on the stand and whether if at any point he invokes his fifth amendment against answering questions. several legal aspects has said he would be wise to do that because of all of his pending criminal investigation. but as a civil case a judge can look negatively on a defendant invoking the fifth amendment. it is a minefield for donald trump when he planning to take the stand. a the trump has lost her appeals to avoid giving evidence. we expect to hear from her next wednesday. jae from her next wednesday. joe biden and _ from her next wednesday. joe biden and joe biden have wrapped up their trip to maine. they visited lewiston after the shooting that left 18 dead and 13 more injured. joe biden met with survivors of the shooting, families, community members, and community members. there have been calls for strengthening of gun laws. sam bachmann fred who led one of the world public because cryptocurrency exchanges as been found guilty. ajury cryptocurrency exchanges as been found guilty. a jury took five hours to find him guilty on all counts after a month long trial. he was accused of stealing nearly $10 billion of customer money from his trading company ftx which filed for bankruptcy last november. he faces a maximum sentence of 115 years in prison. a spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comments on whether he planned to appeal. prosecutors said that sam bankman—fried stole money from maker to develop his investment fund and find his lavish lifestyle. 0ur report from erin delmore from new york. from the financial front pages 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 personal fortune 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 crock. 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 entree 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 the 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're going to continue to vigorously fight the charges against him. but the charges against him. but the case took two weeks shorter than expected to try and jurors reached a verdict in a highly convex case with stunning speed. convex case with stunning seed. ., ., ., , convex case with stunning seed. ., ., .,, ., . speed. the man who was once oster speed. the man who was once poster child — speed. the man who was once poster child for _ speed. the man who was once poster child for the _ speed. the man who was once poster child for the brave, - poster child for the brave, lucrative new world of cryptocurrency is now one of the country's most notorious financial criminals. earlier my colleague sumi somaskanda spoke to zig fox, and investment go dead reporter at bloomberg. you have been covering this trial. were you surprised by the verdict? ., ., ., , verdict? know, the fraud he has been clear— verdict? know, the fraud he has been clear for _ verdict? know, the fraud he has been clear for quite _ verdict? know, the fraud he has been clear for quite some - verdict? know, the fraud he has been clear for quite some time. | been clear for quite some time. —— zeke faux. 0nce ftx failed, it was clear the money had gone and the most likely scenario was he stole it. i flew to the bahamas, got there just before bankman—fried had been arrested. we spent a whole day going over is excuses about how this wasn't r