hello and a warm welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo live from london. it is tuesday, october 31. 8:00 a.m. here in london and 10:00 a.m. in gaza where people are waking up to a barrage of new explosions. combat forces struck some 300 targets which include hamas military compounds inside underground tunnels. new images show heavy smoke hanging over the gaza horizon. israel defense forces say they have killed numerous terrorists. and the prime minister insists there will be no ceasefire. this is a time for war. a war for our common future. today we draw a line between the forces of civilization and forces of barbarism. it is a time for everyone to decide where they stand. israel will stand against the forces of barbarism until victory. meanwhile an israeli strike has hit gaza s top cancer hospital according to its director and a doctor at another hospital says a separate strike killed at least 13 people overnight in centr
The communist Party National congress. Theres been lots of reaction on social media to the unveiling of the countrys new leadership. More reaction from outside of the chinese mainland than inside it. A lot of it has focused on the make up of the committee. The gender balance is way off. This is Carrie Gracies the bbcs correspondent. Gender wasnt the only thing generating discussion their appearance did too. They are very similar, all in their 60s, wearing similar black suits and a range of coloured ties similar to each other and some jokes followed from that. Some say that the new look should have been something a bit more like this, but i think its unlikely i have been speaking to a member of the bbc monitoring staff who said that this is not a surprise. In the state media in the lead up to the announcement today, the names were more or less predicted. The official news agency, there were names mentioned that have been elected into the chinese congress, so when the announcement came o
British library to guide you through another five extraordinary moments from the recent past. Well meet a man who was caught up in writtens worst ever man who was caught up in writtens woist ever nuclear man who was caught up in writtens worst ever nuclear accident. A woman who was taken hostage along with hundreds of others when chechen rebels seized a theatre in moscow. And a man who helped thousands of hungarian jews escape and a man who helped thousands of hungarianjews escape the nazis. First, on the ninth of october, 1967, marxist revolutionary banesto guevara was killed in bolivia. A cia agent helped the Bolivian Army tracked him down. I put my hand around him before the picture was taken. You can see a man who was so powerful at one point in cuba and to see the way he was at that point, he looked like a beggar, he was in rags, he was filthy and a completely different image from white people perceived of him in the world. In 1967 there was an interest to provide the bolivian gov
It might surprise people that a match involving two countries thousands of miles away should call such excitement. I think this is an important moment because people dont understand how big football is in india. Everybody thinks that this is a country that is obsessed with cricket but as you can see, they love their football as well. The fifa boss said yesterday, cricket move over, football is the future. If you want to catch the match tune into bbc two at half past three this afternoon when we will have coverage. If you are not walking today, lets have a look at the weather. Good afternoon. If you are holding out for central heating, you might need it next few days. Colder air is on the way, cloudy for most of us, blustery over the pennines, gusts of 40 blustery over the pennines, gusts of a0 or 50 miles an hour. The occasional spot of rain and for most of us it is dry, some bright spells as well. Tomorrow we have this plunge of cold air coming our way. Chilly across northern parts of
The far north west of scotland where there will be outbreaks of rain. For those places a dry and cold day. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines hundres of thousands of people have marched through barcelona in support of spanish unity and against catalonias unilateral declaration of independence. The International Trade minister, mark garnier, faces an investigation after he admitted asking his secretary to buy sex toys. Heathrow airport says its investigating how details of its security procedures were found lying in the street. Scotlands first minister is to apologise on behalf of her government to gay men convicted of Sexual Offences which have since been abolished. Parents will no longer be able to use a legal loophole to avoid paying child maintenance, under new laws to be brought in within months. Now on bbc news witness. Hello and welcome to witness. Im here at the British Library to guide you through another five extraordinary moments from the recent past. Well meet a man who