to operate within the law, including the laws around peaceful protest. the home secretary should be working with the police and instead, you get this extraordinary attack on them, and an attack on them for being somehow impartial because they are not the operational wing of the home secretary. under the british constitution, the british tradition of policing, the home secretary and parliament sets the law and then it is the job of the police to actually implement it, to enforce it and to make sure the law is respected. but when you have complicated community issues, really, the home secretary should be working with the police to make it easier for them to do theirjob, not to make it harder in this way. i have never seen anything like this. so important that the home secretary is working with the police and supporting them in the difficult independent operational decisions that they have to make rather than trying to second guess them, trying to undermine the decisions that the police have to make an rather than trying to undermine trust in british police and and trust in the british policing model of operational independence. rishi sunak is allowing sowell braverman to do this. we know what she is doing, she is running a tory leadership campaign from within the office and chasing headlines rather than doing the serious work that she should be doing to keep our community safe. d0 doing to keep our community safe. do you feel that the police are being effective in making sure that all communities, thosejewish and communities, those jewish and muslim, communities, thosejewish and muslim, feel safe? communities, those jewish and muslim, feel safe?— communities, those jewish and muslim, feel safe? police do have a resnonsibility _ muslim, feel safe? police do have a responsibility to _ muslim, feel safe? police do have a responsibility to make _ muslim, feel safe? police do have a responsibility to make sure - muslim, feel safe? police do have a responsibility to make sure that - responsibility to make sure that hate crimes are properly tackled and that they face the full force of the law. and also that extremism is also addressed and tackled too. and they had to do so within the law, within a legal framework as well. but, had to do so within the law, within a legalframework as well. but, my concern is that actually, it is the home secretary who has undermined a lot of the work to tackle anti—semitism and to tackle islamophobia. that was the shadow home secretary _ islamophobia. that was the shadow home secretary yvette _ islamophobia. that was the shadow home secretary yvette cooper - home secretary yvette cooper speaking to my colleague. when the northern leg of hs2 to manchester was scrapped, there was relief for people living along the planned route in cheshire. but they're also angry. they say their lives have been blighted by the plans for years — and even now, they're being left in limbo. here's our transport correspondent, judy hobson. this farmland near middlewich had been earmarked for hs2. the company wanted 400 acres of pasture land normally used for grazing dairy cattle. over the past ten years, the local farmer has had to come to terms with losing it. it's this next field and beyond and a little bit to this other side as well. so it's quite a big area. although construction hadn't started, farmerjohn edge had to make some big decisions early on. you would expect an acre of ground to sustain one cow. so if we were potentially, as we were, going to lose 250 acres permanently, that is a loss of 250 cows that we can keep on the farm. we were also going to lose temporarily another 150 acres while infrastructure was being moved. but some of the issues associated with hs2 haven't gone away. this land remains safeguarded. it meansjohn isn't free to do what he likes with it. the uncertainty and the uncertainty of the past ten years has been extremely difficult to cope with. elsewhere in cheshire, properties lie empty bought by hs2 ltd and some have been left to wrack and ruin like this once grand house. in some cases, whole villages have been affected. well, this is lostock green here, a small village. former parish councillor cathy o'donoghue has dedicated years helping local residents deal with the fallout of living along the proposed route. the pink, which is the most important piece, is the land grab or what they call the safeguarding. so all that is still safeguarded even though to be has been cancelled. so we want that safeguarding lifted. that's what we want. still got blight. you know, people can't move on. they're in limbo again. so the uncertainty for residents here continues as it has for more than a decade. judy hobson, bbc north west today, cheshire. the former home secretary, dame priti patel, has begun giving evidence to the covid inquiry — and says the home office had "no role" in drafting covid regulations. she was in the job throughout the pandemic — and left government in september last year. dame priti said she always sought to follow the scientific advice when it came to closing the borders. all the evidence and the documents that have been supplied to the inquiry show that very clearly and the advice that i received and i think was shared widely across government at the time showed that it would have a minimal impact in terms of preventing the spread of the virus, in terms of community transmission and importantly, i also recall receiving advice to me that it would not actually even assist the nhs in terms of preparation, the time that they would need in terms of coping around the number of people that were coming in to the nhs. and i think there are a couple of important points to make. i read the documentation and the evidence and the advice that was being provided. the advice is one aspect of this, but actually, coming back to the practicalities of trying to put in technical measures to, i think the term was used "heat test" people that were coming through the border, the government did not have that capability, and that became self evident very early on. i was picking up conversations and information from particularly cabinet office in some of the meetings that we were involved in there that they did not have the technical capability. then, of course, they would be a murky area about who would have responsibility for what and would you then bring in public health officials? is it going to work? how much information can you actually operationalise at the border and would that be practical? and then of course i was heavily involved in, this would be of no great surprise, i was heavily involved in the discussions around critical supplies. so even speaking to counterparts in europe for example, our french colleagues, and my colleagues in border force, paul lincoln's team in particular, they would be speaking to their opposite numbers in france primarily because we could see pressures in france at their border and all sorts of restrictions that they were encountering that could actually have a pretty devastating impact upon critical goods and supplies coming to the united kingdom. and, of course, that would have ramifications whether it was in the nhs, food supplies, all sorts of things, so we had a lot of intensive work across government taking place, very specifically in that area. for more on today's hearing. live now to our correspondent damian grammaticas. he is covering the covid inquiry for us. dane priti patel, a key witness for the inquiry and just tell us a bit more about what she had to say this afternoon.— this afternoon. what you were listenin: this afternoon. what you were listening to — this afternoon. what you were listening to there, _ this afternoon. what you were listening to there, she - this afternoon. what you were listening to there, she was - listening to there, she was essentially talking about the idea around whether the borders should have been closed or not and how practical that would have been. i thought the most interesting thing in her evidence actually was that she said under questioning, effectively there were no developed plans for dealing with a viral pandemic like this approaching the uk. there were no sort of developed plans for how to tackle it at the borders, there was not the personnel, there was not the equipment to do things like heat scanning to check people coming in. and not the personnel. so they were having to start from sort of pretty much scratch. so there were some planned for general influenza pandemics, things like that but not anything specific like this. that was one mission that she made. although, as you are hearing there, she said that some of the health advice was that that wouldn't have so much of an impact. the other thing she said i thought that was interesting was she described this as a very fraught period within government at the time giving a little hint about the sort of pressures and stresses inside government. she did then also say, well, actually, drawing up all of the rules and regulations, that was thatjob of the rules and regulations, that was that job of the the rules and regulations, that was thatjob of the department of health, so distancing herself in her department from it. we were hill mailfrom her, she will be back in a few minutes. and i'm sure the council will pick up on more of this and want to explore it further. thank you, damien. andjust and want to explore it further. thank you, damien. and just to let viewers know that dame priti patel has begun her testimony to the inquiry. i'll correspond at their covering the covid inquiry for us. queen camilla has been attending the 95th year of the field of remembrance at westminster abbey this morning. the field is opened every thursday before remembrance sunday and stays open for a further ten days. earlier this morning, camilla was greeted by the dean of westminster abbey, the very reverend david hoyle, who then invited camilla to meet several members of abbey staff. the queen is participating in a longstanding remembrance tradition, which was started by major george howson mc in 1928. he suggested using land outside westminster abbey as a place where anyone could plant a poppy in memory of a loved one. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello. it's turned into a classic sunshine and showers day, although the showers have been quite plentiful. you can see on our earlier satellite image all of these shower clouds pushing in from the atlantic. it's all being driven by an area of low pressure, the center of which shows up very clearly as a curl of clouds to the north west of the uk. as we go through the rest of the day, showers particularly focused in spots exposed to the wind, a strong wind at that across parts of south wales, south west england and the channel islands. gusty conditions around the coast, not as many showers in eastern england or indeed in northern scotland. and then as we head through the evening, we will see further showers, particularly across northern and eastern coast. and then a clutch of heavy showers moves across wales, down towards the south west of england with a strengthening wind. but the further north you are, northern england, northern ireland, particularly scotland, a touch of frost for some maybe some fog patches too tomorrow morning where the winds are light. but to the southwest of our area of low pressure, as the isobars squeeze together, we are going to see a swathe of strong winds, gales perhaps for parts of south west england and the channel islands through the first part of the morning. these heavy downpours moving out of wales and the midlands down into southern counties of england and then tending to swing away south eastwards as we go through the day. it's another sunshine and showers day, but this time the showers will be focused across the north coast of northern ireland, maybe down into north wales, northwest england, eastern coast of england. and then some more persistent rain could well push into the north east of scotland. later, temperatures between seven and 12 degrees. through friday night, our area of low pressure continues to move eastwards and notice the isobars opening out. this is a slice of drier, calmerweather. such a frost for some of us on saturday morning could be some fog patches, too. some of that fog could be slow to clear, particularly across parts of scotland. could just see the odd shower up to the northeast, but most places dry with some spells of sunshine for armistice day. temperatures 6 to 11 degrees and then into remembrance sunday, a bit of uncertainty about the timing of these weather fronts, trying to push in from the atlantic, the further north and east you are. well, it's going to be quite a murky start with some fog in places. some of that could really be quite slow to clear, but a decent chance of some dry weather, whereas further south and west we'll see outbreaks of rain pushing in from the atlantic. but it will start to turn milder in the southwest corner. live from london — this is bbc news. thousands more flee the intense fighting in northern gaza — after israel opens another safe passage — but that escape route is now closed. questions over the future of britain's home secretary — who's accused of stoking a row over pro—palestinian protests in london. israeli forces kill eight palestinians and injure at least 14 — in their latest raid in the west bank. and — lights, cameras, action — a tentative deal is reached that could bring the long—running hollywood actors strike to a close. hello, i'm lucy hockings, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. thousands of palestinians are on the move in gaza after israel opened a route for people to head south for a fifth day. some are waving white flags, others are clutching what little they can carry, as they make the journey to what israel says are safe zones. the six hour window to escape the north has now closed. the un says around 50,000 people used the corridor yesterday to escape the fiercest fighting. for now, the most intense fighting is in gaza city, as israeli troops push further in, backed by armoured vehicles, facing hamas rocket propelled grenades. israel's military says hamas has now lost control of northern gaza. the palestinian health ministry says eight palestinians have been killed in an israeli raid onjenin in the occupied west bank.

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