Hello, i m lucy hockings, welcome to Bbc News now. Memorial events are taking place in israel and Around The World to mark one year since the attacks of October The 7th, the deadliest day in the nations history. Nearly 1200 people were killed and hundreds more taken hostage when hamas gunmen stormed across the border. In a moment, well go to Southern Israel and our chief international correspondent lyse doucet, who is at kibbutz be eri, where one in ten of the residents were killed by hamas. And to Anna Foster In Beirut, which has seen fresh israeli strikes overnight and into this morning. But first lets turn to todays events. At exactly 6. 29 this morning flags were lowered to Half Mast outside the knesset. That was the time when rockets from gaza started raining down on Southern Israel, followed by the deadly rampage by thousands of hamas led militants on israeli communities, Army Bases and the nova music festival. At the festival site, president Isaac Herzog this morning joined a me
We were there when the russians invaded ukraine. The Front Line each hour is moving. We were in afghanistan after the taliban takeover. Theres no question whos in charge here. Ive reported from lebanon. Protesters are clashing with the garden of Lebanons Parliament from iraq, from across the middle east. Hundreds of palestinians are marching through the streets of Gaza City. Ive seen a lot ive seen war firsthand. But nothing could have prepared me for October 7th. On the morning of October 7th, our team responded as rockets soared through the skies of israel. You can hear the explosions overhead. We would ultimately report amid a Hamas Infiltration of the country, then entering the Gaza Strip with the israeli military following a Ground Invasion. The Israelis Have Cut the Gaza Strip in half. This is the story of how it all began on Black Saturday. My phone rings at 7 03 a. M. And its my producer. Youre not. My parents live not far away from the israeligaza border. And my dad was the fi
We were there when the russians invaded ukraine. The Front Line each hour is moving. We were in afghanistan after the taliban takeover. Theres no question whos in charge here. Ive reported from lebanon. Protesters are clashing with the garden of Lebanons Parliament from iraq, from across the middle east. Hundreds of palestinians are marching through the streets of Gaza City. Ive seen a lot ive seen war firsthand. But nothing could have prepared me for October 7th. On the morning of October 7th, our team responded as rockets soared through the skies of israel. You can hear the explosions overhead. We would ultimately report amid a Hamas Infiltration of the country, then entering the Gaza Strip with the israeli military following a Ground Invasion. The Israelis Have Cut the Gaza Strip in half. This is the story of how it all began on black saturday. My phone rings at 7 03 a. M. And its my producer. Youre not. My parents live not far away from the israeligaza border. And my dad was the fi
Philippe lazzarini, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. You run the unwra relief agency. You have 13,000 staff inside gaza. You currently are not able to visit gaza. What is it like when you hear that, as yesterday, wednesday, six members of your staff have been killed in an israeli bomb attack? this is always absolutely devastating. Yesterday i was boarding the plane coming from cairo to london, when i heard the news. And this happened in a school which was also sheltering at that time 12,000 people. And they are in this school because they still believe that the united nations flag can protect them. Yesterday, six staff working in the shelter, providing assistance, organising, in fact, the lives of these families, have been killed. Now 220 staff since the beginning of the war. The worst, stephen, is to know that maybe tomorrow we will even have more staff being killed. And the question is, when will this end? not only staff is being targeted, but we have also the united nations
Really sunny on the channel coast, East Anglia and into lincolnshire. Most of the North Sea Coast as well. The wind will change direction, by saturday they will come in from the south west. Through sunday, the milder air will have established itself across the uk, so temperatures once start to nudge up to about 20 or so. Some of us will pay for it, in the South Westerly is we often get Weather Fronts so there will be a few showers on sunday, not everywhere, and certainly some sunny spells. 18 in belfast once again, 17 in aberdeen. To the east of the pennines, not far off 20 celsius. High pressure expected to build across the uk on monday, which means Light Winds, prolonged spells of sunshine, which are expected to last for the days ahead. Monday, tuesday, wednesday across the bulk of the uk, bright and fairly warm. Goodbye. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. When israel fires missiles on gaza, it describes them as precision strikes aimed at hamas targets. What results is often cat