Let me bring you two new lines coming in in the last few moments. Reuters news agency reporting that alerts are being sounded in more towns in northern israel. Warnings of incoming aircraft, i say aircraft, the thought is we are talking about drones. That is happening in the north, alerts in more towns in northern israel with warnings of incoming aircraft. We are keeping an eye on that, we have been talking to our correspondent on the borders with lebanon so well get the latest on that line. And diplomatically the Afp News Agency reports that china has urged, quote, an immediate ceasefire in a call with palestinian officials. That is coming from the Foreign Ministry in the last few seconds. If there are more details we will obviously return to those. Time for a look at the Business News now with ben thompson. Thank you, matthew. We will look through some of those top Business Stories right now. Economies around the world are assessing the potential fall out of the conflict between isra
More than 1,000 palestinians, including many children, have been killed. My guest is former israeli Prime Minister ehud barak. Unimaginable horror has been unleashed. Where will it end . Ehud barak, in tel aviv, welcome to hardtalk. You have fought in many of israels wars. Youve led the country as Prime Minister. Have you ever experienced a mood in the country as you see it and feel it right now . This is the most severe blow that israel suffered since its establishment some 75 years ago. And the death toll of a devastating 1,200 within the first 2a, 30 hours, its something that never happened in our history. And in this case, its not a war. These are notjust soldiers. There are many citizens, many civilians, women, young babies, elderly people, even some holocaust survivors. And we still have 150, so to speak, in their hands. So its very tough. Great, huge failure of our Early Warning system, of our operational system. But we, the israelis, we are a defiant kind of species. We know ho
Let me take you first of all to eat new york and show you the live pictures coming into the bbc. We are expecting the next few minutes to hear from the un expecting the next few minutes to hearfrom the un Secretary General. To new york. Also talking about the plight in gaza. You can see all the plight in gaza. You can see all the journalists assembled there. We are expecting to hear Antonio Guterres in the next couple minutes. That room beginning to fill up as all the details on the ground continued to get weaker and weaker on this day five bleaker. The update from the idf, talking about 1200 people being killed and many, many more being injured. They expect those numbers to also be up as they go through different parts of Southern Israel as they get to those places and actually find what has happened on the ground. Just as soon as Antonio Guterresjust happened on the ground. Just as soon as Antonio Guterres just to speak, we will obviously return there to new york. We will also regula
This is the scene live in gaza as israel continues to mass soldiers and hardware close to the border. Hello, im matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live. We start with Breaking News from ashkelon, in Southern Israel, where a hospital has been hit by rockets fired out of gaza. Let me show you the live pictures. That, the hospital, as you can see, the camera crews and reporters already there and some of the damage. This apparently is a Child Development centre at this hospital in ashkelon. It suffered a direct hit, officials are saying, by a projectile from gaza, as the camera just arcs around. We have been reporting just a barrage of missiles being fired out of gaza in the last little while and we saw the pictures from gaza city a short time ago. You could see just the vapour from the latest rockets being fired from gaza, as we now enter their fifth day of the exchanges from gaza. 0f day of the exchanges from gaza. Of course, we have been seeing israel pounding different positions.
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