Hello, im lewies vaughanjones. Welcome to the programme. Ukraines president zelensky has renewed his appeal for allies to provide his country with more air defences, after another night of russian bombardment caused serious damage to energy infrastructure. In kharkiv ukraines second city officials said a missile narrowly missed a hospital with a thousand people inside, leaving a huge crater in the grounds, blowing out windows and injuring one person. There were also attacks in the dnipro region in central ukraine and in the Western Areas of lviv and ivano frankivsk. Ukrainian Officials Say equipment was damaged and at least one Energy Worker injured. Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukrainian Energy infrastructure over recent months. Mr zelensky called for decisive action, saying the world could shoot down every missile and drone launched by what he called russian terrorists. Meanwhile, there are reports that ukraine has launched Drone Attacks on a Military Airfield in the southern russi
according to several palestinian news agencies. meanwhile, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu say his priorities in gaza are to destroy her mouth and bring hostages home. he insisted israel was doing its best to achieve both. he was speaking after meeting with families of some of the more than 200 hostages, who fear that the escalation of fighting by israel is making matters worse destroy hamas. at the bombardment of gaza intensifies, the prime minister said the war would be long and hard. meanwhile, the international red cross has called for an immediate de escalation of the conflict, saying it was unacceptable that civilians had no safe place to go in gaza. this is the scene live in gaza, where the hamas run health ministry in gaza says that 8,000 people have been killed since air strikes were launched in response to the killing of 1,400 israelis by hamas three weeks ago. we ll start our coverage with this update from our international editor, jeremy bowen. heavy
welcome to the programme. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the war in gaza has entered a second phase, warning it will be long and difficult. speaking at a joint news conference with his defence minister, yoav gallant, and emergency war cabinet member benny gantz, mr netanyahu described the conflict as israel s second war of independence. he declared israel would win the war and make every effort to bring the hostages home. in his first comments since the war began on seven october, hamas s leader in the gaza strip has offered to release all hostages being held in gaza in return for the release of all hamas prisoners in israeli jails. in a statement, yahya sinwar says: we are ready for an immediate exchange deal that includes the release of all prisoners. of all prisoners in the prisons of the zionist enemy in exchange for the release of all prisoners with the resistance. it comes 2a hours after israel stepped up its bombardment of gaza. israel said the