it feels really warm, we will continue to do so until the weekend, staying mild, windy with rain at times. now, we have already seen very heavy rain in places today. the radar shows that, it has been driving northwards and eastwards, it is clearing just about all area, lingering in northern scotland. we will see rain in the northern isles, elsewhere spells of sunshine, one or two shower, particularly in northern ireland, we will stay windy out there, the wind only slowly easing through the rest of the day. these temperatures for some a little down on where they were yesterday, but still, well above where they should be, at this time of year. now through this evening and tonight we will see more rain pushing up from the south. the wind will continue to ease a little. largely dry across the northern half of the uk, temperatures generally between eight and i2 temperatures generally between eight and 12 degrees as we start saturday morning. this low pressure has been with us for
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Of litres of fuel in the hands of hamas. The bbc has not been able to verify this. Hamas is designated a Terrorist Organisation by the uk and other western governments. There are growing International Calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting, to allow aid to Reach Gaza Which continues to come under intense bombardment. The Health Ministry in the hamas controlled territory says more than 6,500 people have now been killed there 2,704 of them children. Israel says more than 1,400 people were killed in the hamas attacks on the 7th of october. Another focus of the past 2a hours has been israels furious reaction to comments made by the un Secretary General at the Security Council. Antonio guterres said the hamas attacks in southern israel had not happened in a vacuum. He also said there was no justification for the hamas attacks. Israel is now withholding visas from United Nations officials in response to the remarks. Mr guterres has spoken again in the past hour. Shocked by the misrep
Justifying the events of october the 7th. It is a measure of the profound sense of shock and horror and disgust and anger that still reverberate up and down this country that when they heard him making those remarks, they hurt someone who they believed still did not understand exactly what had happened on October Seven, that somehow he was marshalling the history of the conflict to not just was marshalling the history of the conflict to notjust explain but to justify the behaviour of the hamas gunmen who attacked so many innocent civilians on that day. He clearly wants us to know that is not the case, that he doesntjustify any of this, but he remains convinced that it is pointless to try and consider any of this without taking a wider view, because simply things are inexplicable and cannot be addressed. I think that is the point he is making. Of course it has had real world impact and consequences, because Martin Griffiths, having his visa denied, and israel clear why they did that. Ho