on duty, as people from people from across the uk come to the capital. it comes as downing street says the prime minister has full confidence in home secretary suella braverman after growing calls to sack her over an article accusing the police of bias. 0ur deputy political editor vicki young has more. at 11am tomorrow morning, crowds will gather here to mark the end of the first world war. later, in another part of london, tens of thousands will take to the streets, calling for a ceasefire in an ongoing conflict in the middle east. a political row has erupted about the policing of these two events. scotland yard says a huge security operation is under way, far greater and more complex than previous years�*. we do have intelligence that there will be people coming for a counterprotest, and the police�*s job this weekend is to keep everybody safe, whether exercising their right to protest, whether coming down to counterprotest, but particularly for those veterans and our really vulnerable communities who are scared and who are frightened. and ourjob is to ensure that they are safe and that they feel safe, and that is what our plan is there to do. these weekly demonstrations have prompted the home secretary to accuse the police of favouritism. in the times, she wrote that "pro—palestinian mobs" were largely ignored while right—wing protesters were met with a stern response. are you resigning, home secretary? her article wasn't approved by downing street. there's been no reprimand from the prime minister, but others are deeply concerned. you have to make decisions based on the law, not based _ on popularity or polls. we are in danger of turning - the police into an arm of the state directed by politicians. suella braverman didn't make the changes to her article that rishi sunak wanted, and he hasn't repeated her criticism of the police. but plenty of tory mps are backing her. number 10 has full confidence in suella. she has not breached cabinet responsibilities. she's not criticised government policy. she's set out an opinion publicly that many of the public share. downing street says the government's focused on making sure this weekend's events go ahead without disruption. some think the outspoken remarks by suella braverman have made that more difficult. she's openly defied rishi sunak, and he is under pressure to act. but for now it seems that dealing with the home secretary is on hold. the most pressing issue now is what happens on london's streets this weekend. the mets says it's constantly gathering intelligence and developing its tactics so that anyone trying to cause disorder is quickly dealt with. vicki young, bbc news, westminster. the metropolitan police have allowed tomorrow's march organised by the palestinian solidarity campaign to go ahead under certain conditions. protestors will gather at hyde park at midday, an hour after the armistice day two—minute silence. their march route will avoid the cenotaph and finish at the us embassy in south london. our home editor mark easton joins us now from outside new scotland yard. a difficult weekend ahead for police officers — a lot of pressure on them? yes, and we've just heard, actually, sophie, from a source close to the home secretary that suella braverman met with a mark rowley, the commission of the metropolitan police, this afternoon, and he expressed his thoughts on exactly how their policing operation is going to go, plans to ensure public order and that everyone is kept safe, and interestingly, the home secretary has emphasised her, and i quote, full backing for the police in what will be a complex and challenging situation and expressed confidence that any criminal or will be dealt with robustly. so, you can hearin be dealt with robustly. so, you can hear in that i think a very different tone from the allegations of bias in her article in the times newspaper earlier this week, and this of course follows no 10's statement of expressing confidence in her. the two things may not be entirely unconnected. i think the expectation is that the police who have the capacity and the skill to protect everybody, and the cenotaph, tomorrow, and the hope perhaps that the sight of thousands of people exercising their right to protest will remind people that that is a freedom won for them by the sacrifices made in two world wars. mark easton, thank you. israeli forces are now right outside some of gaza city's major hospitals, including the largest, shifa. israel says these are places where hamas is hiding. the purple areas here show where the idf troops are — they've encircled gaza city now. and have a look at this footage taken from inside the al—rantisi children's hospital in gaza city. you can clearly see the tank in the narrow street right outside the hospital. people there have been told that if they're not medical staff or patients they must leave. that's because israel says hamas are in tunnels beneath the hospital, which hamas denies. there's fighting around three other hospitals close—by. there's been at least one attack near the al—shifa hospital. the palestine red crescent says israeli snipers have fired at al-quds hospital — those inside say it's surrounded. and the indonesian hospital has been damaged as well. with the very latest here's lucy williamson. and there are distressing images in her piece. gaza's hospitals are seen by locals as places of shelter, by israel as hiding places for hamas. at al—shifa hospital, the displaced live side—by—side with the wounded. the line between them sometimes very thin. "why?" she's screaming. israel says this is where hamas has its underground headquarters. it's now surrounded by israeli troops. translation: we were staying on the fifth floor, and then - we found bombs falling on us. my niece was killed. she was already wounded from before, but now she's dead. tanks filmed inside this children's hospital, a sign that the battle between israel and hamas is closing in. the streets around these places of refuge now so dangerous that even those who want to leave sometimes can't. tonight, the director of al—shifa hospital said shooting had started again there. translation: we have over 60 patients in intensive care, - 50 babies in incubators and 500 patients on dialysis. they can't be treated anywhere else in gaza. we are staying here with the injured and the displaced. israeli forces are now deep inside gaza. the bombed—out buildings say as much about the difficulty of reaching their enemy as about israel's military might. translation: the army has started employing new methods _ against those inside the tunnels and to destroy the tunnels. - all our forces are working to find unique solutions, i working and succeeding. israel's overwhelming military force has put tanks in the heart of gaza city, but military control of the territory is just the first step. and the closer israel gets to its dual goals of hamas and the hostages, the more delicate this operation becomes. negotiations over how to get more than 200 hostages out of gaza have faltered before. today, amid new hopes of a deal, talks between qatar and egypt. i hear all the news, and i hear the news about qatar, the egyptians. it's better not we have any opinion on it. and it is very difficult because for us, every small, every small news, it's a light. israel has promised to protect its citizens, those in gaza and those at home. gazans are forced to rely on the promises of hamas and the promises of international law. lucy williamson, bbc news, southern israel. there's more on the israel—gaza war in the podcast the conflict on bbc sounds. the uk economy flatlined between july and september, according to the latest figures from the office for national statistics. interest rates rises have hit all areas of the economy especially new housebuilding and consumer spending. 0ur economics editor faisal islam reports. when construction companies are going bust, house building, like at this new development in sussex, can grind to a halt. and so can the entire economy. five minutes away at the lansing industrial park, the effects of fewer new houses have a knock—on impact at the factory for newly built kitchens. we're currently tracking at around 30% down as a general market around house build new sites, and that in turn of course is impacting our business heavily. so, certainly for us as a business it is a growth problem, not an inflation problem. so, inflation can always be tackled by different measures, and it all comes back to the market decline that we have seen across housebuilding as an industry. at yargo's cafe on—site, stability is better than a falling economy, but the owner, lucy, says pursestrings are being kept very tight. people are being very careful what they buy, they don't have lunch every day necessarily now. so, they've stopped having lunch every day? yeah, sometimes people don't come in for a couple of days whereas you would see the same person every day. i think people are being very careful with their money. next week's figures on inflation should be better news, with the headline rate possibly falling below 5% — still high but less than half what it was a year ago. but today's figures show an economy failing to grow, and at worst, still at risk of a mild recession. morning, team, how are we? hi, faisal, nice to see you, are you well? yes. as he finalises his autumn budget, the chancellor is pinning the subdued economy mainly on interest rate rises. it is of course the case that while you are bearing down on inflation, interest rates are higher, that will have an impact on growth. despite that, the british economy has performed far better than many people predicted but what we now want to see is really healthy, strong growth, and that's what you'll be hearing from me about, lots of things that we can do to unlock that growth going forward. one thing people would talk to directly is the idea that if you cut taxes you can help boost growth? my priority is growth, so, cutting business taxes is the thing that's most important at this stage. when it comes to personal taxes, there are no shortcuts. but the opposition says that no growth is now a new normal. but the opposition says that stagnation is now a new normal. there's got to be a plan for growth in that autumn statement. over the last 13 years, the uk economy has drifted along with barely any growth at all, and as a result of that, working people have got less money. back at the industrial estate, sausage makers have a sense of the entrails of the economy. trying to keep a positive attitude. you can't give up and go home, you just have to find a new way. recession avoided for now, but firm recovery remains elusive. faisal islam, bbc news, in sussex. prince harry has been given permission to take the publisher of the daily mail and the mail on sunday to trial claiming his privacy was breached by private investigators. and he's not alone — he's one of seven celebrities and prominent people including sir eltonjohn and his partner david furnish and the actress liz hurley who say the same happened to them. they've accused associated newspapers of hiring private detectives to bug their homes, cars and phones. here's our home affairs correspondent tom symonds. morning! cameras click. this case began in the spring with relatively dry legal arguments, so it was a surprise when the duke of sussex unexpectedly turned up. so did baroness lawrence, mother of murdered stephen. her allegations are among the most striking from this high—profile group. they allege journalists paid private investigators for bugging cars and phones, hacking voicemail messages, paying police officials and obtaining medical and financial records. the law says they should have claimed within six years, and these allegations go back decades, so associated newspapers wanted the judge to throw them out, but the seven said they'd never realised they had a case. one reason? 12 years ago, at the leveson public inquiry, the daily mail editor paul dacre denied his papers were involved in unlawful activities including phone hacking. i can be as confident as any editor, having made extensive inquiries into his newspapers�* practices and held an inquiry, that phone hacking was not practised by the mail on sunday or the daily mail. thejudge, mrjustice nicklin, said that the seven claimants have a "real prospect" of proving that associated newspapers concealed its activities in the past, preventing them from taking legal action. now, the seven do still have to prove that but they will now get the chance to do so in a trial at court, probably next year. associated newspapers�* response... "as we have already made unequivocally clear, potentially crucial evidence could include mail newspaper records of payments to private investigators. but they were passed confidentially to the leveson inquiry and thejudge ruled they should remain confidential. it�*s really ironic that the daily mail, which is a newspaper which has often called for transparency from organisations and people in all other walks of life, have gone so far to try and restrict the information that�*s accessible to the claimants in this case. it�*s now likely that prince harry will be back in court next year. love you, harry! tom symonds, bbc news. the time is 6.16. our top story this evening. an exclusion zone has been set up around the cenotaph in london amidst concern about protests over remembrance weekend. and coming up, we�*re back with britain�*s loneliest sheep to see how she is settling in to her new home. and on bbc london: billions of tonnes of sewage dumped into the thames — it�*s being called an environmental crime. and pop superstar leona lewis chats to us ahead of her uk—wide christmas tour. a headteacher has warned that children are at risk of dying because they�*re using vapes that have been found to contain illegal drugs. glyn potts says a 12—year—old boy at his school collapsed after using a vape which contained a very strong, laboratory made form of cannabis — called spice. more and more children are using vapes regularly now, despite it being illegalfor them to be sold to the under 18s. here�*s our health editor, hugh pym. we�*ve been investigating the increasing numbers of children now vaping. finding out what effect it�*s having on behaviour and health. we have seen how vapes are readily available and some kids are getting hooked. it�*s not something that you can stop that easily. how some vapes are highly toxic. this device was found to have high levels of lead, nickel and chromium. and we heard how a 12—year—old�*s lung collapsed after vaping. come on boys, thank you, keep going. now, we�*re in ode ham to speak to a head teacher. i pray that we don�*t have a fatality in these kind of instances, but i do fear that is likely to happen if we don�*t address these matters. year 11, come on. one of his own pupils was taken to a&e after inhaling a vape containing spice — a synthetic form of cannabis, but much, much stronger. he took one very large inhalation of this vape pen and by the time he got off the bus on the school grounds, fell very, very unwell, before he actually arrived at the school gates he had collapsed on the floor. cameras and alarms stop kids vaping in school time, but he said he can�*t protect them once they leave. the difficulty in raising this as an issue is the perception would be that this school has an issue with vape pens, that�*s not true. we are comfortable that we can manage and mitigate the risk of vape pens in school. but if they�*re collapsing in the street, if they�*re collapsing in areas where they know they�*re not going to be found necessarily as quickly, that gives me nightmares — that�*s something we have got to address. police sent a number of vapes from the school to this lab. their results prompted a public health alert to police and nhs staff. in september, police again sent vapes to the lab, after two pupils at another school in the area collapsed after using vapes containing thc, the main chemical in cannabis. we obtained these two e—liquid vapes. the pink one contains this very thick viscous, honey—like substance and when we analysed it, it was actually determined to contain 90% thc. that is the significantly higher than say street cannabis, which is concentration of between 20 to 40%. this is a step change of significance. police have started working more closely with schools and the council, sharing intelligence and information on illegal vapes and trying to understand how children are using them. these vapes are being used communally in schools, - so the schools will find them| in lockers, on top of lockers, in drawers, left around the place, changing rooms, where differentl children can use them at different times. - so these illicit and illegal vapes have become the main priorityl of our two schools—based officers. the issues around vapes are a significant concern for us, because of the ease of access and the sheer number of young people who come into contact with these kind of devises. the school has heard that pupils are travelling out of town and putting themselves at risk by buying illegal vapes. we have had one young person who talked to us about how they obtain illicit vapes and that was using the tram system, coming from areas of south manchester, where they have never really been before. we fear that actually that�*s become a network to distribute these illicit vapes and to get them to the hands of young people across the entire region. the head argues that schools, parents and communities are behind the curve and struggling to understand the scale of the problem. i think it was a safeguarding issue day one from us and we are trying to gather the intelligence and information on the impact of vapes, but the reality is we have not caught up with the pace of change and we have got to do more to make sure we are better equipped to manage it. ministers say they�*re working on plans to restrict the supply of vapes, but the message here is if action isn�*t taken very soon, it will become an nhs problem, not an education one. hugh pym, bbc news, 0ldham. a supermarket chain that operates across the north of england has become the first in the uk to return to fully—staffed checkouts. booths is cutting almost all its self—service tills in nearly all of its 28 stores. danny savage joins us from one of them now in clitheroe. yes, it is an interesting idea, doing away with self—service tills in an era of increasing automation. booths admit it may not work for other supers, booths admit it may not work for othersupers, but booths admit it may not work for other supers, but they believe it is the right decision for their business. shopping in booths is much like any other food—buying experience, although it has to be said this is an upmarket supermarket. good afternoon. but when you get to the checkout, there�*s a noticeable difference compared to some of the other big chains — you have to interact with another human. this business has done away with self—service checkouts. in a shop like ours, where we have lots of loose produce, lots of loose bakery items, it slows the whole thing down, it makes it really complicated. and go towards them with a bottle of wine and all of a sudden you need that personal interaction anyway, so from a practical point of view they don�*t really suit our kind of business. i'm sorry to interrupt you... and then a customer interrupts the interview. when they come to the checkout, we love a bit of a natter, you know? we talk to people. we are not computers, we are not robots. booths said it�*s responding to the views of customers — checkouts they say are a place for conversation. we have had customers coming - in and they have complained before when we did have the self—service checkouts that they _ didn't like them. so i think they like the one—to—one bit of it and being able _ to talk to a person. you come in, you have a chat with the people as you come through, that�*s fantastic, but the main thing is the jobs for young people in the future — computers are taking away too many jobs as it is. but, as the old saying goes, you can�*t please all of the people all of the time. i think it's quite nice to have the personal touch, i would say the biggest disadvantage if you just pop in for two or three items, it's very inconvenient. so for most shops in this chain, the words "unexpected item in the bagging area" are a thing of the past. we return now to the story of fiona, britain�*s loneliest sheep. she had been stranded at the bottom of a cliff in the scottish highlands and was finally rescued last weekend. 0ur scotland correspondent alexandra mackenzie has been to visit her in her new home in dumfries. sheep bleats. fiona in her new home, unfazed by the worldwide publicity. we�*re just letting her settle into her surroundings and then after that we�*re going to start socialising with her, get her, hopefully she will start eating out of our hand and she willjust start getting used to people as well. after two years isolated at the bottom of a cliff on the cromarty firth, fiona was rescued at the weekend by five farmers, including cammy wilson. i'm very glad my mum is going to watch this after she knows i'm home safe — she'll be terrified. he admitted it was dangerous, but after two hours they were safely at the top. then it was time for her first ever shearing. a whopping nine kilograms of wool was removed. this sheep is special, there is no other way to describe it. the way she�*s just came into this new environment, totally relaxed, i think she knows what�*s happening now, because whenever there�*s a film crew or someone filming, she starts like this posing for the camera — i think she�*s enjoying it! if she was stressed, . she wouldn't be eating, she'd be standing in a corner, she's not doing any of that. l the reason she is called fiona is there was another sheep in new zealand who also sheltered in a cave a who was called shrek — so we�*ve got shrek and fiona! the other residents of dalscone farm seem rather intrigued by fiona, while she has been playing it cool. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news, dumfries. it was thought to be extinct, but this hedgehog—like creature named after sir david attenborough has been captured on film, for the first time. the species, named attenborough�*s long—beaked echidna, is thought to have first emerged 200 million years ago and lived among the dinosaurs. now it�*s been re—discovered in indonesia. sir david himself is said to be "absolutely delighted". tomorrow marks the start of remembrance weekend — when we pause to remember the service and sacrifice of the nation�*s fallen service people. as part of the bbc�*s we were there project, aimed at capturing the memories of veterans, allan little has been speaking to some of those who served in world war two. he spoke pamela galloway, who served in the women�*s auxiliary air force. alfred "barney" barnett, who was a gunner in the royal air force. and stan mincher who served in the royal navy. and talked to them about their recollections of service. i volunteered in the spring of 1942, just a few days, really, before my 20th birthday. everybody wanted to be pilots, but they had about a two or three—year wait for that. and so i put my name bound to be an air gunner. we just thought it'd be like another exercise. i but we didn't know, of course, what the opposition would be i until the last moment. pamela gallowayjoined the women�*s auxiliary air force. she was part of a secret operation to disrupt german bombing raids by using radio signals to lure the aircraft off course in what became known as the battle of the beams. the wireless operators were able to identify, i suppose you�*d call it, the wavelength or frequency on which the german bombers were navigating. and so the wireless sending stations would send out a different frequency that would either confuse or made the german bombers follow a different course. and the result would be that they would miss their targets. alfred barnett, known as barney, was a gunner in the raf. he flew more than 80 bombing missions over germany. now lancaster use to carry one or two cookies. they were 4000—pounders in the centre base. then outside that, you would have a few pockets of what they called incendiaries. that's for lighting fires. now the idea was to mark the target, give them some trouble, then drop these incendiaries to create fires. now, the biggest fire i ever saw was at hamburg. when you're flying — i know this may sound strange — i used to start shaking here. and then when you got up there, you were very calm. amazing. but you'd go through hell going there and hell coming back from it. stan mincherjoined the royal navy. he was 18 when he crossed the channel on d—day. his task was to deliver tanks to the beaches of normandy. the first thing we saw at about - daylight was the minesweepers coming forwards to sweep a channel to the beach. _ 0n the way in, we hit a landmine. it wasn't a big mine. it blew a hole, but it didn't become a major problem. i i could just see the seawall and the houses beyond it. i the initial forces in our area, juno, were canadian. - they had a disastrous time, and the majority of them i were sunk on the beach with a lot of casualties. j this was going to be the beginning of the end of the war. _ we had high hopes. but i was thinking, gosh, if we got it wrong, that would�*ve been very bad. i'm nobody's hero. but there it is, all over now. i got seven bob a day for that! laughter. time for a look at the weather. here�*s louise lear. frost and fog will play it is part this weekend. we had fog today and when that fog lingers the temperatures struggle. so, yes, a cool temperatures struggle. so, yes, a cool, frosty, foggy weekend. mostly dry on saturday. a question mark about where the rain will be sitting on sunday. more details injust a moment. but let�*s enjoy the window of fine weather we are going to start the weekend with. here it is, this is what is waiting in the wings, pushing in during the early hours of sunday morning. but for here and now we have some clearer skies, direction of the wind driving in some showers through northern scotland and northern ireland and through the cheshire gap. temperatures will fall into low single figures. some frost and fog and that could dense in places, but it will lift and for most of us saturday is looking a promising day. a lot of sunshine. that northerly breeze driving some showers into the north—east and temperatures a little where they should be for this time of year at around eight to 12. so there could be some rain in the south—west by the end of the day on saturday and this is the fronts that are moving in from the south—west. so they will be light and patchy. and on sunday fog will be more of an issue. that will throw up some dense patches during sunday and we will see showers. maybe for the cenotaph it should stay dry. showers in the south—west. that rain will push north—east. dry in scotland. cool for all of us. thanks, louise. goodnight.