as thousands of people enter their second week without power following store., communities are rallying to provide hot meals and shelter. storm arwen. # don t stop me, cos i m having a good time # having a good time, yeah!# and it s panto season oh, yes, it is! we find out how performers and theatre goers are feeling about christmas shows against the backdrop of covid. and coming up on the bbc news channel: big changes at yorkshire county cricket as 16 members of staff, including the director of cricket, leave in the wake of the racism scandal. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. british scientists studying seven covid 19 vaccines have found that pfizer and moderna are the most effective to use as boosterjabs. it s the first study of how well boosters work, and the researchers found promising signs that a third jab also protects against illness and death from the new omicron variant. our health correspondent dominic hughes has the details. amid the uncerta
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20 vehicles carrying medicine and food passed through on saturday the first since israel tightened its blockade of the territory. the rafah crossing is on the egyptian border and is the only route not bordering israel, which means it s currently the only potential way to deliver humanitarian aid into gaza. we ll have the latest on the aid trying to get into gaza in the next hour. in other developments in the conflict today, iran s foreign minister has accused israel of committing genocide in gaza, and has warned the situation in the middle east risks spiralling out of control. israel has been continuing to carry out aerial bombing of gaza. these pictures are from the past hour. it s nowjust over two weeks since the hamas attacks inside israel, in which 1,400 people were killed. the palestinian health ministry says about 4,700 gazans, mainly civilians, have been killed in the israeli air strikes. israel s military has warned civilians in gaza to keep moving south for their o
elsewhere, israel has been continuing to carry out out aerial bombing of gaza. it s nowjust over two weeks since the hamas attacks inside israel, in which iii hundred people were killed. the health ministry in gaza says about 4,700 people there, mainly civilians, have been killed in the israeli air strikes. the israel defence forces have confirmed the death of a soldier. idf spokesperson, rear admiral daniel hagari, says an israeli soldier was killed by an anti tank missile on sunday, during a raid in gaza. three other soldiers were injured. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has met soldiers at the israel lebanon border. he reiterated his support for the troops in their fight against the iranian backed hezbollah, which, like hamas, is considered a terrorist organization by the uk, us and others. and had a strong warning for the group. the push to find a diplomatic solution to the israel gaza war continues. in the last hour the white house has confirmed that joe