cross border fire into in the west bank yesterday, cross borderfire into lebanon in the past few days and growing fears that yemen could be being pulled into this conflict as our international editorjeremy bowen reports. more palestinians left their homes moving along salah al din street, the road to southern gaza, after israel said they would not be attacked if they left the battle zone to the north. pauses in israeli combat operations were welcomed by the americans. all this raises the ghosts of 1948 for palestinians, when more than 700,000 of them fled or were expelled byjewish troops as israel won its independence. israel never allowed them home. two of the gaza hostages were in new videos. hanna katsir blamed benjamin netanyahu, israel s prime minister, for their plight. so did yagil yaakov, who s 13. hostage videos are usually made under duress, so the bbc is not broadcasting them. and across the west bank, the other side of the occupied territories, more palestinians
israeli military. the gaza with advance warning from the israeli military. israeli military. the israeli defence israeli military. the israeli defence minister - israeli military. the israeli defence minister says - israeli military. the israeli defence minister says the | defence minister says the humanitarian poses of an order for people to access food and water and would not interfere with israel s military objectives. the pauses are in some areas of gaza city, we understand in some areas around the salah al din road, two humanitarian corridors being set up, which hundreds of thousands have already used to head south, as well as on the coastal road. many of the people heading out of gaza city are having to do so on foot. they have left their homes and are heading to refugee camps in the south of gaza. talks continued to free more than 240 hostages still being held in gaza. the palestinian group islamic jihad released a video of hostages it claims to be holding. the hama
australian surfer laura enever paddled into this huge wave, which was over 13 metres high, beating the previous women s record by just a foot. you re all caught up now. see you later. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the us is still the world s most powerful nation, but its ability to shape geopolitics, to suit its own interests, is under severe strain. president biden portrays america s backing for ukraine s war against russian aggression and israel s war on hamas as a twin defence of a values based international order. but much of the world isn t buying it. inside america, too, there is significant pushback. my guest is fiona hill, former us national security council expert on russia. how dangerous is this new world disorder? fiona hill, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much, stephen. as we speak to each other, the world s headlines are being made by the conflict in
claim hamas is controlling panels and fuel storage facilities. the hamas run health ministry in gaza reports there were explosions around al shifa hospital in the early hours of friday morning outside the al shifa hospital. you can see that a great deal of panic and confusion in the hospital courtyard following the explosion. reuters news agency received the pictures from the palestine media group. they have not identified the cause of the explosion but israel military says it is investigating reports of the areas around the hospital have been struck. it has previously said its forces were operating around al shifa hospital where it accuses hamas of concealing some of its command centres. on another line, two humanitarian corridors will open in the territory around on the salah al din road which hundreds of thousands have already used to go south as well as on the coastal al rashid road. many of the people heading out of gaza city are having to do so on foot, leaving their ho