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audacious drop goals. good morning from newcastle, where, in around five hours, around 60,000 people will be lining up your to take part in this year s great north run. good morning. the september heatwave continues and today is likely to be the seventh consecutive day with temperatures above 30 degrees. but with the heat and humidity, is the threat of thunderstorms. they could be torrential and bring flash flooding at times. i will have all the details shortly. good morning. at least 2,000 people have been killed in a devastating earthquake in morocco. a further 2,000 more have been injured, and the authorities have declared three days of national mourning. the quake struck in a remote area in the atlas mountains around 45 miles south of marrakesh, a popular tourist destination. 0ur correspondent, nick beake, has this report. first, the panic as they run for their lives. then the chaos, as debris rains down and dust consumes the streets. this is marrakesh in the moments af ....
an explosion there, with news agencies reporting it was caused by an israeli air strike. meanwhile the palestinian militant group, the islamic jihad organisation, has posted this video, which it says shows fighting against israeli forces in the city. israel has warned people living in the area to move to safety aid agencies say there s a chronic and growing lack of resources to care for them. meanwhile, more details are emerging of the seventh october attack. the bbc has been hearing evidence that women in israel were sexually assaulted, raped and mutilated by hamas. israeli investigators have gathered more than a thousand testimonies from witnesses and those who handled the bodies of victims after the attack. our middle east correspondent, lucy williamson has more from jerusalem. a warning, her report contains some distressing details. out of the chaos and mass trauma of the hamas attacks, new stories are starting to emerge of rape and sexual assault. including gra ....
developments coming out of israel and gaza. the israeli military says its troops are now in the heart of khan younis, which they call a hamas stronghold . it follows an intense overnight bombardment. it follows what they call the most intense day of fighting. the islamichhad organisation posted this video which it says it shows are fighting against israeli forces in the city. the un food programme says the resumption of fighting has intensified the hunger crisis intensified the hunger crisis in gaza and also along without more details emerging of the october seven attack. bbc has been hearing evidence that women in israel was sexually assaulted, raped and mutilated by hamas. israeli investigators that have gathered more than 1000 testimonies from witnesses and those are handled the bodies of the victims after the attack. lucy williamson has more from jerusalem and a warning, this report contains distressing details. out of the chaos and mass trauma of the hamas attacks ....
music or the walk on music, what was it like when 0bama adopted the national, as it were, as his band of choice? when barack 0bama did his first campaign in 2007 08, he was using fake empire as part of a big hope and change commercial that was made. and then later he would sometimes, it would be played before he spoke. you know, i don t believe you can be an artist without being political, so, to be able to support him was really important to us, at the time, and it was a major moment for the band, because we did also, a lot of people discovered us through that, and our stories kind of became intertwined and i think it was kinda funny when donald trump would go to get people to play at an event, by the end of his time they barely could find anyone willing to get up there and do it, which i thought was telling, you know. would you get up there and do it forjoe biden? that s a good question. i think, yes, probably we would, i don t know if we ve ever been asked, but i re ....
communication if you like but not enough was done. the other issue i think we will hear an awful lot about was obviously last week was a science week, we heard from some of the top scientists and again the general theme there seemed to be the scientists frustration with this government mantra of following the science which they said basically meant that scientists were used as scapegoats for controversial decisions that politicians were making. and then of course the general thing which has been bubbling along over the last few weeks has been the chaos and confusion right at the centre of government in downing street. a lot of that is to do with the personalities involved, and so i think we will be hearing more on all of that because michael gove really had a front row seat to all of it. and another big name that we are expecting to hear from this week, matt hancock, the former health secretary, of course, who has come in for a huge amount of criticism from those at th ....