followed by screams. israel claims that hamas, described as a terror organisation by the uk and us governments, uses hospitals as a base for military operations. people sheltering in the grounds also recorded the moment and its aftermath. dr marwan abu saada, a general surgeon at the al—shifa hospital, told the bbc that the situation was desperate. here in shifa, i'm hearing the shooting and bombardment everywhere around me in shifa hospital. it's a horrible situation now, and some of the displaced people moved, evacuated from shifa because it is not a safe place to stay in it, but our staff is still there, and our patients in the department is still there, and we are taking all the casualties. today they bombarded some of our displaced people who were here in shifa, they moved to one shelter to the school, and the other school, they were under attack, and more than 15 people were killed at that moment. israeli tanks are reported to have surrounded several other hospitals in gaza. this footage is from the al—rantisi paediatric hospital in gaza city. this footage appears to show israeli troops are positioned outside the hospital. witnesses say loud—hailers were being used to order anyone who wasn't medical staff or a patient to leave. and this footage shows explosions outside the indonesian hospital in gaza. the hospital was not directly struck but was hit by shrapnel. gaza's health ministry says more than 11,000 palestinians have been killed, including 4,500 children. the conflict began after hamas killed more that 1,400 in israel on october 7th. let's get this report from yolande knell. explosion panic and bloodshed in gaza's shifa hospital this morning. as families sheltered here, they were caught up in the battles between israeli forces and hamas fighters with deadly results. israel says it is closing in on the underground tunnels of hamas. translation: those terrorists who are staying in the basements underneath shifa tonight can hear the thundering sounds of tank chains, the bulldozers that pound the ground. they can hear it underground. they hear it and tremble with fear. last night, this was an attack near the indonesian hospital further north. and at another hospital in the city, tanks took up positions right outside. fearful, gazans are flooding to the south. israel says that as it is tightening its grip on the strip�*s biggest city, it's giving safe passage along this route. the us says israel has agreed to pauses in fighting and to get more aid into the south. it welcomed the move but wants more to be done. these steps will save lives and will enable more assistance to get to palestinians in need. at the same time, much more needs to be done to protect civilians and to make sure the humanitarian assistance reaches them. far too many palestinians have been killed, far too many have suffered these past weeks. in paris, world leaders have been gathering at a peace forum, with calls to work towards a ceasefire. palestinian officials condemned israeli actions. the israelis don't want any ceasefire, because today the israelis are in the mood of revenge, genocidal revenge, collective killing, killing for the sake of killing, and the goals that they are setting, they will never reach these goals. queueing hungrily with empty pots in southern gaza this lunchtime. a hot meal being prepared. the charity says it tries to help as many as it can but there is never enough to go around. in gaza, this is a key point in the war, and for palestinians living there each day is about survival. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. earlier, i spoke to our diplomatic correspondent paul adams. he told us about how complex the military operation in gaza has become. i think it is a very complex picture today, matthew, and we are piecing together what we can. but look, this is a military operation taking place in a sizeable city, and the information that is coming out is both partisan and fragmentary, so we have to figure out what we know and what we do not know. what we do know is that the israelis now have their military parked pretty much outside at least three of the main hospitals in gaza, al—shifa, al-quds, and the indonesia hospital. all three of those hospitals are ones that the israelis have said in the past are places where hamas have some of their infrastructure based, so it is no surprise that the israelis are focusing on those three hospitals. what we're also hearing is that there are air strikes taking place in a number of places, reports in the last hour or two of bodies being pulled from a school in the northern part of gaza city, as many as 50 bodies there, and the thing to remember there is we are constantly hearing about schools and hospitals — these are the places where civilians are still seeking shelter, because they believe that they are places that will be safe, because they are un facilities because they are hospitals. the israelis want all of those people out of the way, so they are trying to pressure the civilian population to leave the area, keeping open that corridor to the south, but also making their military presence very clearly felt in a number of places. and we have seen again those pictures of people leaving the north of the territory, we are nearly five weeks into this conflict, your assessment of where we are. well, this battle for gaza city, which has been going on now for, what, a week or so, is, i think, if you are looking at this from an israeli perspective, going pretty well. they are advancing deep into parts of the city, they do not appear to be incurring many losses on their own side, they have finally persuaded large numbers of those remaining civilians to leave, that is something that they have been trying to do for a very long time. and so they feel that the city is theirs to take. how long it is going to take, how many hamas fighters are still there, where the hostages are, there are so many unknown questions that, you know, we could be having this conversation a week from now and things will look broadly similar. 0r all of these hospitals may have fallen into israeli hands, and the israelis might be starting to turn their attention to the south. we just don't know. it is a very, very fluid, complex situation in which we are being constantly bombarded by information, a good chunk of which is almost certainly exaggerated, not true, misleading, and you know, we have to try to make sense of it, and right now it is about as hard as it has been for the last several weeks. jens laerke is spokesperson for the un humanitarian office. i asked him to describe the current situation in gaza based on communications with his team. if you are living in northern gaza, you could be excused for saying i am living in hell. if there is a hell on earth, it is in gaza right now. people are living in fear, despair, displacement, increasingly hunger with no water to drink. so on top of that, there is a complete blackout, an electricity blackout for a month now, and no fuel has gone in to run generators. so the situation is hellish. we have seen the continued exodus of people from the north, un agencies are warning again that nowhere is safe, including southern gaza. do you draw any distinction between north and south? the conclusion that we draw from all this is that we need a humanitarian ceasefire that covers the entirety of gaza. that is what is required. no place is truly safe in gaza. at the same time, there is very little or no possibility for people there to leave the place. so they are trapped, and there is no place that is truly safe. in terms of what is happening in the south, the who talks about a desperate concern now, about the spread of infectious diseases for those who have taken refuge there, are you equally concerned about that as well, of course, just people escaping with their lives from the bombardment? it is almost inevitable that we see these secondary consequences in a crisis like this, because there is not adequate humanitarian assistance going in. it is actually not surprising that we see crisis on top of crisis, particularly health, waterborne diseases and such. that is what happens when a humanitarian catastrophe is created and there is inability for us to go in and help. and that is, of course, what fundamentally needs to change. the un and our partners, we are ready, we are impatient frankly to go in, we have a response planned, we have put out an appeal for $1.2 billion to resource the plan, but we need to get access to get in to do our work, otherwise we will see this crisis adding to crisis. at the moment, we have these pauses during the day, are you as aid agencies able to do very much in a pause of that sort of duration? well, a humanitarian pause should of course be done with humanitarian input, it should be done in collaboration with us so that it is meaningful, and it gives the proper aid that people need to have. of course, we are looking at possibilities to save lives and alleviate suffering, whenever such an opening may arise, but again, the bottom line is only a humanitarian ceasefire would truly allow what we need to see happen, so that we can provide, at scale, repeatedly, continuously, the aid that needs to go in. and of course only yesterday we were reporting that president biden had been pushing for a three—day humanitarian pause and perhaps even longer, but that was rebuffed by the israelis. how frustrating is it for you, trying to operate, trying to help all of those people we see who are affected, when any attempt to actually get any sort of extension on the pause, there is instant pushback, it is simply not happening? well, it is deeply frustrating, because it is a pause, is it a ceasefire? how long should it last? where should it be? those who really need our help are being kicked around in this game, and ourfocus is of course on helping those people. we need to the political voices to allow us to do that. it is a question of life and death, and i can understand if people in gaza are frustrated by this. we are too, frankly, because it is not helping today, and it is yesterday that this help should be provided. let me tell you the very latest from the red cross, the afp news agency saying that the gaza health system has now reached a point of no return, so the latest bleak assessment this time from the red cross on the ground. we will keep you across that and bring you more when it happens. you are watching bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. latest official figures show no economic growth in the uk between july and september after a succession of interest rate rises. the performance was slightly better than expected. many analysts had believed it would shrink. last week, the bank of england said the uk economy was likely to see zero growth until 2025, although it is expected to avoid a recession. england's chief medical officer has warned that the uk faces a health crisis because of a rapidly ageing population. in his annual report, professor chris whitty says while more people are living longer, many of their later years are spent in bad health. an inquest has ruled that a british couple died in egypt from carbon monoxide poisoning after the next—door hotel room was sprayed with pesticide to kill bedbugs. john cooper and susan cooper from lancashire fell ill while on a family holiday in hurghada on 21st august 2018. you're live with bbc news. britain's prime minister is urging those who will attend protests in london this weekend to be mindful of the fear and distress in muslim communities. it comes as the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has distanced himself from the home secretary's controversial comments yesterday, when she accused the police of showing favouritism to pro—palestinian demonstrators. 0ur political correspondent charlotte rose reports. did you forget your resignation letter, home secretary? - with less than 2a hours until tomorrow's protest march in central london over conditions in gaza, the row over suella braverman�*s future as home secretary rumbles on. this morning, the chancellor became the latest cabinet member to distance himself from the remarks in her times article. the words that she used are not words that i myself would have used, but i have a productive relationship with her as a colleague and i have always given her the money that she needs to fund the police, bring down crime and to fund the immigration and asylum system. her criticism of the metropolitan police has also drawn different views from the conservative backbenches. i don't think airing these views in public like this helps the matter one iota and therefore i think that the home secretary was unwise to write an uncleared article in the way that she did. numberten has full| confidence in suella. she has not breached . cabinet responsibilities. she's not criticised governmenti policy, she's set out in opinion, publicly, that manyi of the public share. downing street is still investigating whether ms braverman broke the ministerial code by allowing the article to be published without changes that had been requested by mr sunak�*s team. but scrutiny of her words will now shift to scrutiny of actions on the ground, both by protesters and police. tomorrow's march route steers clear of the cenotaph in whitehall, where memorial events for armistice day will take place on sunday, and the met commissioner, sir mark rowley, has been clear it doesn't meet the legal test to be banned. what i'm finding hard to believe, because they've had private meetings, is that she hasn't already seen the available intelligence information and evidence. and if she has, she would know there is not enough to ban a march. so i find that position is odd. it seems the pm is, for now, reserving judgment on ms braverman�*s future, perhaps to see how events this weekend pan out but also mindful of the wider political picture. 0ur political correspondent charlotte rose joins us live from westminster. where are we? it feels a bit like we are in a holding pattern as more and more mps make their views public. we are more mps make their views public. - are in a holding pattern, that's right, and as i was sitting there, rishi sunak will be thinking about the bigger political picture, and part of that is party management. if he were to sack suella braverman, he knows it would anger the right—wing of his party, and he knows that she is a bit of a lightning rod in that she is willing to say things that other cabinet members are not willing to say in public, some of them possibly not willing to say in private. so he has got that to think about, and it seems he may be reserving judgment to see how things go this weekend, to see how it works out. there is also a wider context, because next week the supreme court will issue a judgment on the government's rwanda policy about sending migrants to rwanda to be processed. if the government were to be successful, that would be a strong signal in terms of its commitment towards sunak is described as the priority of stopping the boats, and in that context, it might seem strange for the prime minister to havejust sacked the woman who was one of its strongest advocates.— strongest advocates. charlotte, thanks very _ strongest advocates. charlotte, thanks very much _ strongest advocates. charlotte, thanks very much for _ strongest advocates. charlotte, thanks very much for the - latest from westminster. let's look at a different aspect of these, the policing of what we are likely to see over the weekend, we can head to the newsroom where our correspondent is monitoring, because we broke that line about police numbers for saturday and sunday, tell us more. yes, remembrance weekend is always a huge security operation, isn't it? but this weekend is going to be far greater and more complex than ever before, so the metropolitan police, as we heard, has had to assess risk to the public and made a plan accordingly, and that is what they have been telling us this afternoon, in the last couple of hours we have had this information from the police, saying the plan they made covers both the armistice and remembrance events, as well as the significant march by the palestine solidarity campaign. there will be an exclusion zone around remembrance events in london. it says anyone believed to be associated with pro palestinian demonstrations trying to assemble in that area can be arrested. they also mentioned the 24—hour guard around the cenotaph over the coming days. demonstrators, they say, have to strictly preagreed route well away from those events, and they are not due to gather until and they are not due to gather until an hour after the silence on armistice day in any case. the metropolitan police, as you say, have said 2000 officers will be on duty across london this weekend, and thatis duty across london this weekend, and that is a response to growing concerns from communities, police really wanting to acknowledge those growing concerns. they have said that the cumulative impact that protests tensions and rising hate crimes have had a significant impact on communities, and they say that is reflected in the officer numbers they have put on this weekend. the police say they intend to use an extensive set of powers to quickly identify breakaway groups, or the possibility of breakaway groups, seeking to cause crime or disorder, and they can also compel people to remove masks if they believe that it is being used to conceal identity, and really only under those circumstances. but they have reiterated that they have a very experienced public order team in place for the entirety of the weekend. place for the entirety of the weekend-— place for the entirety of the weekend. . ., ., ~ , weekend. thanks for taking us throu~h weekend. thanks for taking us through some _ weekend. thanks for taking us through some of _ weekend. thanks for taking us through some of the _ weekend. thanks for taking us through some of the latest - through some of the latest information around the policing, thank you. now, let's turn away from all of that, an astonishing story out of the us, because surgeons in new york have performed the world's first complete our transplant. a man added 21 hours surgery to be given a new ally as part of an operation to rebuild his face after a severe electric shock. doctors believe it is an important breakthrough. this is a medicalfirst. aaronjames is the first human recipient of a whole transplanted eye. they told me, they said, "honestly, we never expected it to make it to the transplant, you know?" if i mean, never expected it to work at all. and they told me that from the get—go. but just the fact that it's allowed blood flowing through it, i mean, you know, that's... ..that�*s the first step. surgeons here in new york spent 21 hours removing part of their donor's face and left eye, including the optic nerve, then skillfully grafting them on to their patient. this is a day that could so easily have never come for aaron james. the 46—year—old electrical worker from arkansas suffered life—changing injuries injune 2021 after his face contacted a 7,200 volt live wire. the accident cost him his left arm, nose, lips, front teeth and left eye, as well as his chin and part of his cheek. do you have any pain at all? no. it's been six months since the experimental surgery. so far, the transplanted eye sees nothing, but surgeons are positive about what this means for the future. well, i'm pretty impressed with what we're seeing this early on. at this point, the mere fact that the eye is alive and looks healthy is pretty special. for aaronjames, the cosmetic benefits are plain for others to see, even if his new left eye can't. but doctors say the first whole human eye transplant offers real hope that what they've learned here could one day restore sight to those who cannot see. sean dilley, bbc news. astonishing story, and one more to squeeze in this half hour, because this may look like an island paradise, batu balew is sinking because of the impact of climate change. —— but to value. it is home to 11,200 people. the nation has repeatedly called for greater action to combat the effects of rising sea levels from global warming. we are going to take a short break, and when we are back, all the latest from the middle east, we will talk to our correspondents on the ground as the situation continues to deteriorate. stay with us on bbc news. hello. frost and fog feature in our forecast for the weekend. some of the fog could be quite stubborn, quite reluctant to clear. saturday should be a largely dry day, a window of fine weather with some sunshine, but there will be some rain for some of us on remembrance sunday. some rain out there right now, mostly in the form of showers. some of those showers continuing towards the end of the day, particularly in the north—east of scotland. the odd wintry shower here up over the highest ground. these are the temperatures as we end the afternoon and start the evening. signs that things will be getting quite chilly and it will continue to turn colder through the night. the winds will be easing. the showers mostly will be fading and under clear skies, some of us will get down to freezing, some places will drop below freezing. there will be a touch of frost in places and some fog patches to start saturday morning. this is our window of fine weather between weather systems. where you are closest to this area of low pressure in eastern parts there could just be the odd shower first thing. one or two elsewhere, but most places having a dry start to the day with some patches of mist and fog. some of that murkiness could be slow to clear, but, for the majority, we will see plenty of sunshine to take us into saturday afternoon. temperatures north to south between six and 12 degrees. down to the south—west you can see cloud and rain gathering. some of that on the heavy side, actually, as it pushes in across the far south—west of england and the channel islands during saturday evening. further north and east, rather chilly through the night. there could be some more fog. into sunday, we will see frontal systems starting to push in from the south—west. ahead of that, particularly across parts of scotland and northern england, we could have some quite dense and quite widespread fog on sunday morning, so if you are off to any commemorations at 11 o'clock on remembrance sunday, expect rather murky and rather cold conditions across scotland and parts of northern england. some rain moving in here, certainly some rain getting into northern ireland, parts of wales, the midlands, the south and the south—west of england. so the increasing chance of rain the further south and west you are. that rain making a little progress further northwards and eastwards through the afternoon. i think there will be parts of scotland that stay quite murky and cold through the day. signs, though, of something a little bit milder down towards the south—west. as we head into next week we will see some milder conditions, particularly at first, but it stays unsettled with more rain at times. this is bbc news. the headlines... explosions and shelling have been reported around gaza's largest hospital, which was struck by at least one projectile on friday. the israeli military says that hamas uses the al—shifa hospital for cover and operates from tunnels underneath the hospital complex. the hamas—run health ministry in gaza says more than 11,000 people have now been killed — including more than 11,500 children. london's metropolitan police have pledged to double the number of officers on duty in the capital this weekend. there's intense political pressure to prevent disruption to armistice day events. the uk's prime minister backs his home secretary, in the face of calls to sack her. downing street says rishi sunak still has "full confidence" in suella braverman. let's get more on the conflicts in gaza. the number who were killed has passed 11,000. the casualty figures continue to grow. it's difficult to comprehend what numbers really mean. 0ur correspondent yogita limaye, injerusalem, has been working with freelance journalists in gaza to bring us this report. it contains scenes you may find upsetting. what must it take for a mother to comfort her child... ..when reality is so devastating?

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