To stay inside. Hamas military commander Mohammad Deif announced the start of the operation in a broadcast on hamas media, calling on palestinians everywhere to fight. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding an Emergency Meeting and the military says it is striking targets in gaza in response. There are palestinian reports of Israeli Soldiers being captured. In a statement in the past hour, israels defence minister yoav gallant has said. Also in the past few minutes, an Israeli Military spokesman has said thousands of Army Reservists are to be called up. Our reporter Rushdi Abu Alouf gave me the latest from gaza. This is extremely significant. In all of the years that hamas has been in control of gaza, they have never launched a Surprise Attack on different locations, Israeli Security Officials Saying an hour or so ago there were 21 separate incidents going on. Theres a lot of video circulating, not yet verified, by the bbc showing bodies of Israeli Soldiers, some of whom
Warmer over the next couple of days. Full details with me in the forecast coming up. The forecast coming up. And so much to get through. This morning we will want your views on that. So do get in touch with us. Isabel will tell you hi because i dont know, its gbnews. Com forward slash your say the norse. It is on our website. Were all becoming familiar with it. Yeah. So lots of controversial subjects. We begin with the Energy Secretary clare pochettino , who has led a pochettino, who has led a conservative backlash against the European Court of human rights after they said or they ruled against a landmark swiss ruling. The echr, based in ruling. The echr, based in strasbourg, has ruled that switzerland is violating human rights over their lack of inaction on Climate Change. Well, the row comes after a poll in the telegraph newspaper revealed that nearly 50 of conservative voters approve of leaving the echr. Well, lets get the views this morning in all of this of our Political Correspon
Youre watching bbc newsroom live 7 its11am and these are the main stories this morning in his first interrview since the election the Prime Minister calls for calm in the middle east and for the us to agree to a new nuclear deal with iran. If we are going to get rid of it, lets replace it, and lets replace it with the trump deal. Iranian Authorities Say theyve arrested several people in relation to the shooting down of a ukrainian passenger jet last week. Dozens of children, abused by grooming gangs, were failed by Manchester Police and local authorities, according to a damning report. The government considers cutting air Passenger Duty on all domestic flights, as part of a plan to save Regional Airline, flybe, from collapse. Gambling firms are to be banned from accepting credit cards from customers in an attempt to tackle problem gambling. At least six people have been killed and 16 injured after a sinkhole swallows a bus and pedestrians in central china. And in sport players struggle
Scotland, a more traditional windy look, some snow and ice this morning on higher roads in northern scotland. Still windy in the north west, that area of low pressure is the storm brands and we had yesterday, but the wet and windy weather comes from this weather system weather comes from this weather syste m fro m weather comes from this weather system from the south west, bringing in cloud, strengthening the wind and bringing the rain. More persistent rain in northern england, heading to seven scotland, wintry showers to the north. The rain to the south is rather more patchy, winds will continue to strengthen for england and wales, widespread guilt later this afternoon with the strongest winds in the south west, still gusty in the north west of scotland, nothing unusual for this time of year. Cold in northern scotland, Northern Ireland, the far north of england, much milder further south across england and wales. The winds will ease tonight but the rain keeps going in the south east a
Canadas Prime Minister says further talks are needed over the costs of security for the duke and duchess of sussexs move to canada. Most canadians are very supportive of having royals to be here, but how that looks and what kind of costs is involved, theres still lot of discussions to have. At least six people have been killed and 16 injured after a sinkhole swallows a bus and pedestrians in central china. And in sport, players struggle with poor air quality at qualifying for the Australian Open as bushfires continue to burn in the country. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Prime minister borisjohnson has given his first major tv interview since his decisive victory in the general election last month. In a wide ranging interview, the pm said the International Nuclear agreement with iran could be replaced by a deal negotiated by donald trump, saying a trump deal would be a great way forward. On brexit, mrjohnson said it is enormously likely there will be a trade deal with t