in other news, afghanistan has been struck by another large earthquake as powerful as the one that hit on saturday. israel has said up to 150 people were taken captive when hamas launched its surprise attack on the 7th of october. hamas has said it has hidden them in safe places and tunnels within gaza, and threatened to kill hostages if civilian homes are bombed by israel without warning. the bbc has a team ofjournalists looking at what the situation is like now and who the hostages could be. frankie mccamley has this analysis. it s thought up to 150 people were taken hostage when hamas launched its attack. now we re trying to verify these numbers by using videos that have been posted online. now, this video is thought to show 30 year old shiri. she s believed to have been taken hostage with her two young children. and in this video, you canjust about see her young nine month old baby in her arms. now it s understood her husband as well, yarden, was taken hostage too, an
diplomacy orforce? in gaza, israeli troops enter rafeh, so where does that leave a ceasefire agreement, the future of palestinians who evacuated to rafah and the fate of the israeli hostages? we ll talk live to this woman in tel aviv, whose relative is still being held by hamas somewhere in gaza. and to unicef, about the situation on the ground in rafah. our diplomatic editor mark urban is here on what the chances are for a ceasefire now. also, tonight, the star witness at donald trump s hush money trial today was adult film actor stormy daniels, who testified in vivid detail about when she had sex with him mr trump denies it. here she is talking to newsnight in 2018. he attacked me first, i was called a liar, that it never happened. and unless he s had a penis transplant then i m pretty sure that s a checkmate. in court, ms daniels gave plenty of detail about her alleged encounter with him. so is trump s legal battle having an impact on the election? mark has travelled ac
growth would you need to achieve to do all of this in a first term? we have made do all of this in a first term? we have made a do all of this in a first term? - have made a very clear commitment and keir starmer reiterated today that the spending commitments we make we will identify the funding for them, so let s take the example you havejust for them, so let s take the example you have just given of the waiting lists, taking the money from, getting rid of the non dom status to provide any more, paying doctors to carry out more operations, more scans over the course of a first term to double the number of scanners available because we have or survival rates for certain cancers because we catch them later. those are practical answers to practical problems that people are experiencing. i will say this about keir. that incident at the beginning, but he did, he stood there, didn t flinch, he took his jacket off, he wrote up his sleeves and he got on with the job. and if peop
it s seven in the morning in singapore, and 2am in israel where we start the programme as the full horror and ferocity of last saturday s attack by hamas gunmen, in southern israel, is becoming clearer. israeli officials say more than 1,000 people have been killed. throughout the day, the israeli military has been recovering the bodies of entire families including several children, just a mile from the border with gaza. israeli soldiers on the scene, describe it, as a massacre. thousands of troops remain massed on the border with gaza, ready for what could be, a full scale ground invasion. our international editor, jeremy bowen, has been to the village of kfar aza, where the bodies have been recovered on tuesday. a warning you may find this report distressing. the first few days of war at this small israeli community called kfar aza are a microcosm of israel s trauma and a glimpse of what might come next. israeli troops only seized back full control of the kibbutz this morn
this area was targeted heavily last night, hundreds of airstrikes destroyed many buildings in this area. tonight, we hearfrom one mother whose children were kidnapped by hamas gunmen. those barbarians took kids out of their houses and out of their beds and just kidnapped them. also on the programme. interrupted by a protestor but the labour leader, sir keir starmer, stays on course at his party s conference and promises a decade of national renewal if labour win the next election. and, after 14 years at the helm, holly willoughby announces she is quitting itv s this morning. on newsnight at 10:30pm, live from jerusalem and london, we ll be speaking to israeli politicians, to a man who fears his family has been taken by hamas to gaza and a senior representative of the palestinian authority. they re still, four days on, collecting the bodies of the dead. good evening. we re live injerusalem, where the full horror and ferocity of last saturday s attack by hamas gunmen in south