In his Acceptance Speech after being voted as the new Welsh Labour Leader, he highlighted the historic nature of his win. Today, we turn a page in the book of our nations history. A history that we write together. Notjust because i have the honour of becoming the first black leader in any european country, but because a generational dial has jumped too. Like ken and jane, devolution is not something that i have had to get used to, or to adapt to, or to apologise for. Devolution, welsh solutions to welsh problems and opportunities, is in my blood. It is what i have always known through my adult political life and that is the same for a growing number of our citizens and i want us to use this moment as a Starting Point for a more confident march into the future. A march into the future on behalf of a generation that, too often, is being asked to Pick Up The Pieces and the bill for those who came before them. In wales, it often takes the worst times to get the best out of us. In adversity, you cant match us. We will be there, Fighting Tooth and nailfor the impossible to happen. For the underdog, for the oppressed. When your back� s against the wall, you want welsh people by your side. Our wales correspondent, Hywel Griffith was watching the announcement and gave me his reaction. Well, hes been congratulated by his rival, jeremy miles, although mr miles didnt want to speak to the cameras as he left the building here in cardiff. He has issued a statement where he congratulates him, talks about the welsh labour family. But he also makes this point we must never forget this is an honour and responsibility underpinned by trust that must be continually earned. Why is he talking about trust . While there were questions about Vaughan Gethings campaign and a donation that he accepted of £200,000 from a business whose owner had been prosecuted for illegally dumping waste in wales. It was probably the only controversial moment of this campaign. Mr gethings Campaign Team saying everything was declared properly and nothing was done wrong. But it does give a little hint of the tensions that lie behind what was a united face and knighted presence by the Welsh Labour Leaders on this stage there. Vaughan gething will also need to speak to the other senedd members as he decides whos in his cabinet. He served as the economy minister, so theyll need a new one of those. He was previously the health minister. We expect there to be a new health minister. He didnt have the majority of those Labour Senedd members behind him going into this. It was the party membership, the general party membership, which won him the vote. So although he is clearly the winner today, there will be an instant test in bringing everyone in behind him. In your report earlier on, we saw some interviews with ordinary people on the street who didnt seem to know who either of the candidates were, frankly. So is there an issue with profile for gething as he starts the job . Absolutely. Arguably, you could have said the same about Mark Drakeford back in 2018 when he took the post. Known within welsh political circles, but not really on the street, let alone beyond wales. But the pandemic shifted that dial completely. Mark drakeford arguably became the most prominent first minister wales has ever had in the quarter of a century of devolution. Now, Vaughan Gething will hope he doesnt face the same circumstances, but he will be responsible for the big decisions. He will be the one coming to the podium to make those announcements. He will hope, although hes held high profilejobs, arguably as health and economy before, this will give him a bigger platform. And i guess the biggest platform will be the uk General Election expected before the end of this year. Hes in charge of the campaign in wales. Hell need to work with keir starmer. You would expect theyll be on to the phone to each other pretty quickly today to start those conversations. But whats the message in wales . Is Vaughan Gething the man to lead that . Maybe do they ask mark drake to be the face of it, given that he was relatively popular in wales and recognisable at least during the pandemic period . So hell know that theres a lot of work to be done in raising the welsh governments profile and its performance. Lets remember there are Big Questions here which might come up in the election, such as labours running of the Health Service in wales, such as labours running of the economy in wales, particularly with a cliff edge coming at the steelworks in port talbot over the next few months and potentially 2,000 jobs being lost. So as i said, while hell be smiling and accepting congratulations today, there are very big challenges ahead for Vaughan Gething. To the middle east and Gazas Health Ministry hasjust updated the number of people who have been killed in the territory since israel launched its Military Action there in october to 31,553. Most of the dead are women and children. Anna foster is in East Jerusalem and joins us now. The toll keeps rising, doesnt it . It does. Thats one of the reason why the us and the un have expressed fresh concerns about an Israeli Ground offensive in rafah. The city, at the south western edge of gaza, has seen the arrival of hundreds of thousands of palestinians, taking refuge from the fighting elsewhere in the strip. The Israeli Military had previously urged civilians to go there. But there are real concerns that could cause a humanitarian catastrophe because so many people are sheltering their without homes. The response has been strong. This is what the un had to say. I think the consequences of a Ground Operation in rafah in the current circumstances would be catastrophic for the people of gaza, for the palestinians. It would be catastrophic for the humanitarian situation. It would be catastrophic all around. The us have also echoed those sentiments. They have made it repeatedly clear that they will not support any Israeli Ground offensive in rafah unless they have seen a plan that will move civilians out of harms way and dont forget that the us is a key, probably the most important diplomatic and military ally of israel. Here is the Us National Security spokes man john kirby. We havent seen it, we certainly would welcome the opportunity to see it. As weve said, we cannot support a major offensive in rafah that doesnt also include a credible, achievable, executable plan to take care for the safety and security of the more than a million gazans that are seeking refuge in rafah. To move in right now in a major way without a proper accounting for all those people would, as weve said, be a disaster. The Aid Situation and the humanitarian situation in gaza remains enormously difficult. We have seen a first aid shipment arrived by sea during this war. This has come from a Spanish Charity open arms, they provided the ship and it towed a bird with around 200 tonnes of food from wild central kitchen along this newly created corridor. They had to build a temporaryjetty to unload it. They have managed to take all of the supplies of and they released this video that shows the pallets being lifted on a crane and loaded into lorries. The difficulty now will be how they distribute that aid for gaza. You have a desperate population of around 300,000 people who stayed north of the straight. They are finding it difficult to find any Aid Deliveries at all. Security and civil order have really broken down altogether so it remains to be seen how they will actually distribute that aid and do it in a secure and fair way to the people who so desperately need it. Richard makepeace from the Medical Aid For Palestinians spoke to us about the issues facing Aid Organisations like his, who deliver aid and medical services in gaza. Well, its obviously extremely difficult given the general insecurity in this conflict. Humanitarian agencies have come under attack, convoys have come under attack. And there needs to be a proper plan of how to get the aid to those who need it most, precisely as youve said. And just talk us through, if you would, the issues with getting aid in, because we talk about trucks coming in by road. We know that the number of trucks that have been coming in has been drastically reduced since the war began on october the seventh. Whose responsibility is it to make sure that palestinians in gaza have the basics for life . Well, its the responsibility of the israeli authorities, because they control the situation at the moment. And under humanitarian law, they are obliged to protect civilians. What is happening, though, is that convoys, even those run by the un, are being blocked on a regular basis. Some convoys have been attacked. There are not proper arrangements being made for convoys set off and then are stopped at checkpoints. People are taken off and detained even though theyve been notified as humanitarian workers. And in the worst circumstances, of course, there have actually been attacks on ngo and other humanitarian facilities. I wanted to talk a little as well about what israel says is a planned Ground Offensive in rafah, which it says is essential if its going to fully remove all of hamas from gaza. But of course, is set to take place at a in an area where more than half of gazas population is now sheltering. Just try and describe for us, if you would, what the situation is like in rafah for people there right now. Well, people are crammed together. There are a million more than would normally be living in that space. Many are having to live in tents or out in the open air. Theres no proper hygiene facilities. Sanitation, food is not as plentiful as one would like it to be, nor are medicalfacilities, given the damage done to hospitals. So people are traumatised and both physically and mentally in a very weak state. And the idea that they can simply be told to move yet again, many of these people have had their homes destroyed and have moved Three Orfour Times in the past to a so called safe zone. Its frankly appalling. Weve seen what safe zones are like. They get bombed just like everywhere else. This, i assume a possibility as well, that as you say, people whove already moved several times, who have very few possessions left, they mightjust decide not to move again, even if theyre told to. They may just want to remain in the place that theyve managed to find a tent and a small piece of ground. Im guessing that moving all these people is not going to be a simple operation at all. Absolutely not. It would be a very dangerous operation. People are weak, children are weak, there are babies. And as you say, i think people might simply be fatalistic and say theyd rather Stay Together as a family and die together rather than dying on the road, trying to get somewhere where theyll probably be attacked again. And of course, in the north, the situation is even worse, with the onset of what really can only be called famine. The latest figures from unicef suggest that a third of children are severely malnourished, and between 5 and 10 , even in the central area in khan younis, are suffering from severe wasting. The pressure remains for some sort of humanitarian ceasefire to be reached so additional aid can get into gaza and also so the release of more than 100 hostages can be negotiated. Hamas put out a proposal, but israel said it contained unrealistic demands that they are sending a delegation to talk to qatari negotiators. There are times when both sides are together around the table so to speak, everything happens through the brokers of qatar and egypt because israel and hamas dont have direct diplomatic. We know that israel will go, they will put forward the israeli position. We have heard before that there are still gaps in language that both sides are using but the fact that this is going to be discussed has drawn some cautious optimism in some of the israeli media and from the us as well. We will keep you up to date with that and everything else. For now, it is back to lauren in london. Thank you very much indeed. In the worlds biggest democratic Exercise India has Just Announced that it will vote in National Elections from the 19th april, with the polls to be held over several weeks. The hindu nationalist and incumbant Prime Minister, narendra modi, is strongly favoured to win a third term. It is the Worlds Largest democracy in which one hundread and 98 Million People are eligible to cast ballots. Heres the Chief Election Commissioner making the announcement. We will do it in seven phases, as was done last time. Seven phases. Phase one will start from 25th march, five days from now. 0ur South Asia correspondent, Samira Hussain is in new delhi, where the announcement was made. I asked her how long it will take before we get the results. This is the worlds most populous country and there are 198 million eligible voters in this 2024 election so, actually, it doesnt happen over one day, it happens over several weeks. For this particular election, they have decided it is going to happen in seven phases and in total it will be about six weeks before we get the result. The last day for polling in a few states, they divide the country into seven different areas and different areas vote all at once and in terms of when we get the results, the big results day for everyone will be the 11th ofjune. So it does take a long time to get the pulse of the people in this country but i wanted to know what are people thinking about when it comes to this election . What are some of the issues that really stand out . Have a listen. Translation im going to vote for modi and the bjp because noone stands out as a possible candidate from the opposition. Translation the Modi Government has not fulfilled any of their promises. He promised to help the farmers, but he hasnt. I will vote for the one who helps the poor. I each and every one, even if its someone small, even if its someone poor, someone who doesnt come from a solid background, each and everyones rights should be heard. And the lower segment of the society, their word should also have a validation. Pollution problem, which comes up every time, its going on every year, and people with bronchitis, elderly people, young people, everybody is suffering. Something needs to be done. We just cannot treat this and not do anything about it. We know that Prime Minister modi is hoping for a third term. Tell us a little bit about the state of the opposition and what kind of chances they have to go up against him . A third term in office is what Prime Minister modi is seeking. He has been in office now for a decade and he has pretty much dominated the north part of the country, what is called the hindi belt. It has been a difficult road for the main opposition party, the congress party. They have really tried to make inroads in different parts of the country but they have really been, they have not been able to gain that much traction. Part of it has to do with the Prime Ministers Political Party which really has a strong hold on the country and in terms of disseminating information. But the other problem, of course, is the disorganisation within this particular opposition party. That said, if you look at the country, although i mentioned that the Prime Minister really pretty much dominates the north part of the country, if you look at the south, there is a lot of Regional Parties that actually are able to sort of keep the bjp at bay. So what we are going to see in these Upcoming Elections is certainly a push by the government to try and make inroads into the southern part of the country. Its really going to be an interesting election to watch. Look, we are talking about the worlds most populous country. Clearly evidenced by the number of people around me now. And i think this is certainly an election that not only people in the country are going to be watching, but certainly one that countries around the world will be keeping an eye on as well. Lets return to the evolving situation happening in pakistan, where its military now says seven Security Force members have been killed by militants who attacked a Military Post in northwestern pakistan on saturday morning. The attack was carried out by six fighters who used a vehicle laden with explosives. The military� s statement does not name the Group Responsible for the attack. We are joined now from islamabad by our reporter sahar baloch with the latest. Currently, a Covert Operation is going on were militants apparently attacked Security Check post. So far, the military has not name the group that so from what we have seen happening in pakistan is that there is a resurgence of militant attacks in