with almost 40,000 kilometres of track, germany s rail network is the longest in europe, which makes it the perfect place to explore by train. but from berlin s vast central station, train. but from berlin s vast centralstation, i m train. but from berlin s vast central station, i m taking an even cheaperform of central station, i m taking an even cheaper form of transport for a spot of sightseeing. all right, we re doing it. we are crossing the tramway. fabulous. 0h, crossing the tramway. fabulous. oh, it s beautiful. i can see the tower on my left. and it s so cloudy, the tip of it is just unseen. alexander platts is these days the touristic heart of the capital. until 1989, it was the main public square in communist east berlin. i was born in 1990, which is a year after the berlin wall came down, so for myself and i m sure for a generation younger, there is no recollection of those news events. so being able to be here and just get a sense of what it might have been like i
the atlantic, a really big area of low pressure slowly but surely starting to take control of the weather. notjust yet, most other state with sunshine through the rest of the afternoon, cloud feeding into eastern scotland and north east england on quite a chilly northerly breeze, temperatures just 12 degrees for aberdeen, 18 for plymouth, by the end of the day, things will change. we will see clouds and showers, some thunderstorms breaking out across the south west of england, drifting into wales through the evening. could be torrential downpours and places, frequent lightning and turning windy. some showers getting into northern ireland by the end of the night, most other areas dry but with extensive cloud and the odd spot of drizzle across northern and eastern scotland, north east england, 6 degrees for glasgow, very mild towards the south. this big area of low pressure starts to make a move, you can see various frontal systems rotating, showers and longer spells of rain th
In the middle east from spreading. Earlier, the Prime Minister spoke to his israeli counterpart in jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu, where he stressed that britain would stand by the country as it prepares for a possible Ground Offensive into gaza. For more on that Ground Offensive, dr Ahron Bregman a professor at the Department Of War Studies at Kings College who served with the Israeli Defence force in 1982 as an Artillery Officer in lebanon joins me now. In 1982 as an Artillery Officer thank in 1982 as an Artillery Officer you very much forjoin here thank you very much forjoining us here on bbc news. Letsjust thank you very much forjoining us here on bbc news. Lets just first ask you about your first hand experience, away from being an academic, perhaps, and what people must be thinking, those who are signed up, ready to fight right now, as they wait to hear from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in israel. Minister Benamin Netanyahu in israel. ,. , minister Benamin Netanyahu in israel
Its newsday. Singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsda. ,. , its newsday. Hello and welcome to the programme. We begin in israel, where we begin our programme, as israel continues its mass mobilisation of troops, hundreds of thousands, on the southern border with gaza, the widespread expectation that a Ground Offensive across the frontier maybe coming. But the un is calling for Essential Supplies to be allowed into the territory, where the humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly, as israel enforces a complete siege. This follows the unprecedented attack, five days ago, in israel, by militants from hamas, a group committed to the destruction of israel, and designated a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk. At least 1,200 people in israel are now thought to have been killed in the multiple assaults last saturday. At least a thousand palestinians have been killed in retaliatory israeli air strikes. Well be inside besieged gaza, with our correspondent, ru
Awful lot of confidence that they would get there and they would get their man, and now they have. I suspect at the end of the day, lots of officers will regard this, despite the three or so days, as a test book textbook operation. They got their man before he was able to critically leave the country. There are so many Unanswered Questions they will want to know. They will want to know if it was an inside job, what help to know. They will want to know if it was an insidejob, what help he got. We now know he had a change of clothing, what was that about . Where did that come from . Was that something that was given to him, or did he steal it from somewhere . We dont know. All those questions need to be answered by the police so they know where to go next in terms of understanding. Bbc news breaking news Daniel Khalife, who escaped from Wandsworth Prison on wednesday it has been arrested. There has been a four day manhunt for him. Take us back to those moments when he escaped, and what w