hello from the bbc sport centre. hello i m chetan pathak with your latest sports news we start at afcon the 34th edition of the africa cup of nations has reached the semi final stage with both matches on wednesday. the hosts ivory coast play the democratic republic of congo but before that it s the other heavyweights nigeria. who play south africa. and they ve been given a massive boost with striker victor osimhen declared fit to play who had been a doubt with an abdominal problem. it s a rematch of the 2000 afcon semi final which nigeria won and was the last time south africa reached the last four. this time their coach is hoping they can go one step further: i think for many people it was unexpected. but we did it, and that means that south africa became a good team. it s also more than 20 years ago that south africa played the semifinal, even more that we play the final. that means that we ve got a lot of motivation. meanwhile, ivory coast have never won the competit
and a period of calm to allow a dramatic increase in aid to hamas also said any truce had to guarantee a permanent ceasefire, something israel has senior hamas official says a delegation will head to cairo for peace talks with egypt and qatar. mr netanyahu s remarks are a blow to a sustained push by the us to reach an agreement. something the country s top diplomat, antony blinken, says there is still room for as negotiations continue. while there are some clear non starter is in hamas s response, we do think it creates space for agreement to be reached, and we will work at that relentlessly until we get there. our correspondent barbara plett usher is injerusalem and sent us her analysis on where negotiations stand. the israeli prime ministers seem to slam the door shut on a ceasefire and hostage deal, he dismissed hamas deals as delusional and said surrendering to them would only lead to another massacre and said that total bickering against the group was within reach. it wa
almost 200 palestinians have been killed in the past two days bringing the total to over 21,000. hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government. shaimaa khalil reports. no funeral, no dignified burial, no tombstone. a bulldozer carries their bodies into a mass grave. ..theirfinal resting place. israeli forces are expanding their ground offensive into the densely populated urban refugee camps in central gaza. and this is the scene at the neighbouring al aqsa hospital. 0verwhelmed, they have had to treat the injured on the floor and in hallways. across gaza at the moment, health capacity is at about 20% of what it was 80 or so days ago. so almost all of the hospital beds, almost all of the hospital services, have stopped functioning. 0n foot, donkey carts or crammed onto the back of trucks, those who fled from northern gaza have come here for safety, but the war has chased them out again. heavy bombardment continues in the south and there aren t many places
it comes as israel continues to expand its ground offensive in gaza, with the hamas run health ministry there saying almost 200 palestinians have been killed in the past two days, bringing the total to over 21,000. hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government. shamaa khalil reports. no funeral, no dignified burial, no tombstone. a bulldozer carries their bodies into a mass grave. their final resting place. israeli forces are expanding their ground offensive into the densely populated urban refugee camps in central gaza. and this is the scene at the neighbouring al aqsa hospital. 0verwhelmed, they have had to treat the injured on the floor and in hallways. across gaza at the moment, health capacity is at about 20% of what it was 80 or so days ago. so almost all of the hospital beds, almost all of the hospital services, have stopped functioning. 0n foot, donkey carts or crammed onto the back of trucks, those who fled from northern gaza have come here for sa