In Troop Numbers was not an indication of a pause infighting. But i will say is that the movements of most soldiers indicates anything special, we are committed to our aims to destroy hamas and bring home watch a 43 hostages and to ensure that gaza does not pose a threat to us any more. Qatars Foreign Ministry has told the bbc its cautiously optimistic about a new proposal in the Gaza Ceasefire talks. Lets now speak to Oliver Mcternan on this. Hes a former Hostage Negotiator whos in touch with people close to the talks on all sides and also the director of forward thinking, an ngo which works to promote an inclusive Peace Process in the middle east. What you make of these conflicting reports tonight and some suggestions that a deal is creeping closer and at the same time, some teachers suggesting that hamas has dismissed it entirely. The suggesting that hamas has dismissed it entirel. ,. ,. ,. , it entirely. The operative word for the spokesman it entirely. The operative word for the s
can do! there are some shower clouds out there now and some showers across the north of scotland and we will see some more of those through this afternoon. you can see them p°ppin9 this afternoon. you can see them p°pping up this afternoon. you can see them popping up in quite a few places but the heaviest now starting to develop across northern and eastern parts of scotland and we could also have some thunder and lightning. and also some localised travel disruption or flooding. not as many showers further south but there will be some but highs of around 20 degrees. through this evening and tonight showers in scotland turning into a longer spell of rain which could cause some localised flooding. some showers for northern ireland, wales and the south west but most places dried by tomorrow morning. nine, 11 degrees. tomorrow against sunshine and showers. rain breaking up into showers, the heaviest likely to be towards the south and south east of england. some more rain may be
was a couple of weeks. it s another busy day at the africa cup of nations, the stand out match saw three time champions nigeria against the most successul nation in the history of the tournament, seven time winners egypt. liverpool s mo salah was kept quiet by nigeria who were the better side throughout and scored the only goal of the game a superb strike from leicester s kelechi iheanacho. nigeria face sudan next while egypt play guinea bissau. they play later. it s been a poor start from the reigning champions algeria, their first group match was against unfancied sierra leone who are making their first appearance in the tournament since 1996. and it finished goalless in douala. the defending champions missed a host of chances particularly in the second half including this from riyad mahrez. lots of football this week, we ll have more matches in the africa cup of nations, and tomorrow it s the second leg of the league cup semifinal between tottenham and chelsea. spurs were really