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the 27 people who died making the crossing from france to britain yesterday comprised 17 men, seven women, two teenage boys and a young girl. the uk and france both say they want to prevent a repeat of what happened yesterday, but the british home secretary admits there is no quick fix . and more will come. in fact, today, in spite of the grim news circulating in the camps in northern france, there were still people willing to pay to get into these flimsy boats for the dangerous journey across the channel. this report from our europe correspondent nick beake. beside an abandoned train track in northern france, families desperate to resume their own journey to the uk, despite the horror of the last 2a hours. for now, more than 500 people call this camp home. among them, new arrivals, this family from iraq. their family has grown in the three years they have been on the road, trudging through more than half a dozen countries to get here. romania, after hungary, after france, a
with incidents in the weeks leading up to her death. and one month since the devastating earthquakes killed more than 50,000 people in turkey and syria conditions are still desperate. we begin with the war in ukraine. the country s president, volodymyr zelensky, says military commanders support digging in further, and continuing to defend the eastern city of bakhmut. it follows reports ukrainian troops may have been preparing to withdraw from the city, which russia has been trying to capture for months. fierce fighting is seeing battles happening from street to street. this is where bakhmut is located. the all out assault here by russia has led to the loss of many thousands of men, that s despite the us pentagon saying victory is of little strategic importance. lets dive deeper, here s a detailed picture of the current situation from the think tank, the institute for the study of war. you can see bakhmut in the large circle in the top right of the screen. the red shaded a
put forward by arab countries calling for a humanitarian truce. hello, i m anna foster. this is bbc news. we re live in southern israel, near the gaza broder, where there s been a significant intensification of israeli airstrikes over gaza, with bright flashes and huge explosions overnight lighting up the night sky above the territory. it comes after the israeli army said that it was expanding its ground operations there. a spokesman for the israeli government would not confirm it has been a significant escalation overnight. through the night, we saw bright flashes and loud explosions lighting up the night sky over the territory and this can be heard all around southern israel and gaza. a spokesman for the israeli government would not confirm that this heralded the start of a much anticipated ground offensive against hamas. the armed wing of hamas which is a proscribed terror organisation by the uk and the usa has said it is involved in violent confrontations with israeli
after most communication networks were cut overnight. we are alive in southern israel. this is bbc news. let me show you some live pictures of what is happening and gaza right now. you could normally see the skyline behind me. the buildings of gaza. but the smoke that is really blotting out the skyline at the moment and the fog are making it very difficult to see what is going on there. but our cameras inside gaza can show you the scene after that night of intensifying air strikes that we have seen and heard. you can hear them going on around us all the time. in fact, we are seeing, where we are now, a position very close to the border with gaza, you can hear the explosions. we are being told, people around us, to make sure we are wearing a protective equipment, wearing helmets and body armour because, as you can hear quite clearly around us, there is this rolling intensification of israeli fire on gaza. you can hear the sound of monitors, you can hear the sound of artillery