On the Rafah Operation but he agreed that he would send a team to washington to have this discussion and have this engagement. A un backed report is warning famine is imminent as 1. 1m people, or half of gaza experience Catastrophic Food Insecurtiy and the death toll in gaza is approaching 32,000, according to the hamas run Health Ministry. Meanwhile, the Israeli Military says it has taken control of Al Shifa Hospital in gaza city. It reported that troops came under fire and that 80 people were detained and others killed, including a Senior Commander of hamass internal security service. These are images from the raid, you can hear gunshots. Witnesses described heavy exchanges of fire around the site. Thousands of displaced people have been sheltering here and patients are treated. Gazas Health Ministry said israel was committing a war crime. The Israeli Government had this response. This morning, the idf conducted a precise operation to thwart terrorism in the Shifa Hospital area. Foot
The head of russias Electoral Commission said there have been 20 incidents so far of people targeting ballot boxes. Protests are likely to continue on sunday when supporters of the late Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny are calling on people throughout russia to protest against president putin. Meanwhile in the estonian town of narva where many residents are russian people crossed the border to vote in russias president ial election. Narva is one of only a handful of places where the border between the eu and russia is still open. Bbc russian s Oleg Boldyrev sent this report. Here lies the frontier between the western world and russia. Across the river with its formidable fortress lies a town 170 kilometres away from St Petersburg and this is one of a handful of places where the border between the eu and russia is still open. What is even more unusual is in this place and the surrounding region thousands of people are in fact russian citizens. This is the legacy of the soviet union brea
If you have a disability . A Human Rights Watch dog has accused the uk and irish governments of failing to tackle problems like welfare benefits. Good evening. He made it look easy, the Late Night Television interview, and he made it an art. But now sir michael parkinson, a giant of british culture, has died at the age of 88. A big part of his success was the fact that his chat show was never an opportunity for him to show off, but for his guests to always take centre stage, allowing space to reveal a deeper truth about themselves. Its a humility borne of his humble roots, as the son of a yorkshire miner. Michael parkinsons work spanning almost seven decades is a catalogue of memorable moments, including no less than four interviews with muhammad ali. One of the first with George Michael after his arrest in los angeles for lewd behaviour. And his chat with madonna, whom he finally convinced to appear on his show after a 20 year wait. Our media and arts correspondent, david sillito, has
Contains some distressing images. Although death is everywhere now in gaza, they had come thinking they would find aid to keep their families alive. Then shots ripped through the night. People start to move. Then ran to escape. In this section of the crowd, panic. As casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. Translation the situation was unimaginably crazy. If aid is going to come to us in this way, we dont want it. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convoy left from here under Israeli Tank Escort and began to move towards the crowds waiting for food. The army supplied Drone Footage but there is no way of telling the sequence of the images because theres no timestamp. At 4 16, the israelis say crowds began to surge around the trucks. In this sequence, bodies can be seen lying on the ground. Also others can be seen crawling away. Here someone looks as if they are dragging themselves using their upper body. What we do not see is exactly what caused these cas