The forests. Welcome to the programme. Both sides in the ukranian conflict are blaming each other for violating a ceasefire put in place in the east. Prorussian separatists and the government agreed on a truce on friday. Lets get more from paul brennan. Paul, bring us up to date on the ceasefire. What has been happening on the ground . Well, we are 20 hours into the ceasefire. For the most part it is quiet and holding pretty well. We have heard no artillery barrage here in donetsk. Its in contrast to what we have been hearing in the previous days and finding when we go to the residential areas in the north, where buildings have been destroyed, and we saw People Killed a couple of days ago. On the face of it it appears to be working. Both sides are accusing each other of violating the ceasefire in a sporadic way. In kiev, the colonel, the spokesperson for the National Security council gave a News Conference in the last hour and detailed in some detail the violations which he alleged the
East holds. You cranian ukranian authorities dispute this. Im phil lavelle at the Venice Film Festival. We are about to find out who has won the big prize, the golden lion, join us shortly as we go through the contenders. He only took over the presidency in june. Egypts president has been forced to explain himself on television. They suffered a massive blackout on thursday morning in cairo, and protests quickly followed. Here is some of what abdul fatah alsisi had to say. Translation we should be aware that part of the crisis cant be remedied overnight. Let me remind you of my contract. I said we, egyptians have insurmountable obstacles to overcome, and we cant do it without your support. Lets get a point of view from a journalist who suffered. I think you got your power back. Tell us a little about the scale of the problem. The scale of the problem is that food is going bad in restaurants, and people go to eat, and the stuff people are suffering in hospital because of the lack of elec
Explosions taking place. Weve also seen from our Vantage Point light flares being dropped from the skies above, an indication that some type of military operation has been taking place for some time. This followed earlier in the day very chaotic and emotional scenes at gazas shiffa hospital, where according to palestinian medical sources, at least ten palestinians were killed as a result of an israeli air strike on a refugee camp north of where we are. Thats according to palestinian sources who say as a result of that strike, there were at least 40 palestinians injured, 10 killed brought to the hospital. And just at around the same time, at about 5 00 p. M. Local time, we also saw the explosion that happened at the hospital grounds. According to palestinian sources there, they were saying that also was a result of an israeli strike on the ground. There were no fatalities in that specific incident, but nonetheless, the two happened at the same time. Now, the Israeli Military is counteri