on the israel gaza war. the un s highest court has ruled that israel must immediately halt its military offensive in rafah. south africa had asked the international court ofjustice to issue the order as an emergency measure. it argued israel s actions in rafah amount to a genocidal operation and threatened the survival of the palestinian people. the icj made several rulings today. in addition to calls for israel to halt the military operation in rafah, the court ordered it open the rafah crossing with egypt for the entry of humanitarian aid at scale. it also wants israel to ensure access to gaza for investigators and fact finding missions. thejudges called on hamas to immediately and unconditionally release hostages taken in its october 7th attack on israel. the icj can make legally binding rulings in disputes between countries, but has little way of enforcing its orders. however, it s given israel a month to update on progress. let s hear from judge nawaf salam. the court
craig williams and laura saunders, on the date of the general election. on the campaign trail, labour is setting out changes to the process for someone to legally change their gender. the party is also offering to provide hundreds of thousands more dental appointments on the nhs. the lib dems release their analysis on hospital waiting times. leader sir ed davey claimed the country has ten days to save the nhs. the snp sjohn swinney will give a speech on brexit. while the dup is launching its manifesto in northern ireland. so it is a busy day for all of the parties today. we ll touch on all of the above in this programme, but let s start with the election betting investigation. here s tobias elwood speaking to the bbc radio 4 today. this betting saga has been deeply unhelpful, self inflicted distraction, and in what world they thought this was acceptable is beyond belief. the prime minister has expressed his anger, he said that at the leaders s question time debate. it has bee
we will bring you more from our correspondent outside a hospital in a moment. a leading think tank, the institute for fiscal studies, has accused the main political parties of a conspiracy of silence over the economic reality behind plans set out in their election manifestos. the ifs analysed how the policies could impact the public finances and what that could mean for household incomes, public services and taxation. in its scathing assessment it said the parties were ducking the issues, by relying on faster growth to deliver more tax, which it said was far from guaranteed. it also warned the next government faced having to find new ways to raise taxes, or leave some public services exposed to billions of pounds worth of cuts. this a flavour of what the director of the ifs, pauljohnson, had to say. low growth, high debt, high interest payments mean we need to do something quite rare over the next few years just to stop debt spiralling ever upwards we need to run primar
spells of rain in northern ireland. temperature is about ten to 12 degrees. tomorrow, for northern scotland we have persistent rain, some brisk winds and it will be a cool day, 12 or 13 degrees. away from that, probably a dry start but it won t stay that way. showers in the west moved eastwards. some heavy with hale and thunder and our temperatures continue to be below average for the time of year, average for the time of year, average is 17 to 2ajune. the weekend, more of the same. the same area of low pressure. a few changes, eastern scotland sees heavier rain, the wind is not as strong across northern scotland and sir keir starmer says labour s manifesto is a serious plan for government. is it ambitious enough for you? and it has just finished, the latest seven way election debate on itv where labour s angela rayner attacks on all sides on tax and migration. welcome to newsnight, live with insight and interviews. let me introduce you to our panel this evening. the politica