The Prime Minister tells mps that all the tools of british diplomacy will be used in the middle east conflict and more humanitarian aid provided to the palestinian people. And on newsnight at 10 30pm, well go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on todays big stories. Plus, a first look at tomorrows front pages. Good evening, were live injerusalem, as a major american diplomatic effort seems to have failed to ease the lives of Hundreds Of Thousands of palestinians, trying to escape gaza. As israel continues its bombardment of the territory, those hoping to flee via a major crossing are still unable to escape because egypt wont open the border. Israel says the air strikes are targeting members of hamas, a group designated as a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk, and responsible for last weeks attack which killed at least 1,400 people in southern israel. Palestinian officials in gaza say around 2,750 people have been killed in israeli
This is bbc news. The headlines. An air strike on the Rafah Crossing from gaza. Thousands of people are there trying to enter egypt. Israel now believes nearly 200 hostages are being held in gaza Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises to bring them home. The us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken holds more talks with israeli officials and reiterates americas support. Mind that developing straightly brought you just a short time ago, we have an update on some of those hostages that were taken in an attack and setting israel last weekend. In a speech to parliament, uk Prime Minister rishi sunak today confirmed that six british citizens have been killed he set a further ten are still missing. The bbc can now confirm the names of two Young British sisters who are among the missing. They are a 16 Year Old Girl and her sister, their mother, leanne, who was born in britain, Born In The Uk was murdered by hamas and the attacks last week. Now come the family has not released any further deta
in half and announcing deep cuts in public spending. one of those stories in a moment or two. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s chetan pa rtak. newcastle will hope they don t go the same way as manchester united. absolutely, we re looking ahead to the final round of european champions group matches. it s the final round of european champions league group matches on wednesday, with newcastle united among the sides hoping to reach the knockout stages. eddie howe s side are up against ac milan. it s 20 years since their last champions league campaign. if it s to continue and they re to reach the knockout stages they have to beat the italian side and hope paris st germain don t win against the already qualified borussia dortmund. i think being under lights here is very special but champions league, we have something to play for and everything to gain. we would have taken this position before the paris game. it could have been very different but we
month and together, public private partnerships with a best thing america has to offer our veterans. thank you so much and thank you all for joining me. jim acosta is up next. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington and we begin this hour with six days in counting. here we go again. it s been exactly six weeks since the house passed a temporary spending bill to avoid a shutdown and in just six days, we could be back in the same place waiting to see if a deal is in place to keep the government from shutting down. you might recall the last deal cost kevin mccarthy his job. now with days to go, the new speaker is laying out his plan to keep the government funded. an annie grayer is here with latest. they had a call. what tdid you find out? still combing through the bill. but what mike johnson did is reveal he wants to fund the government with a two-part approach. the first would fund some of the government to january 19th as you can see here with so
responsibility of this time. everything that lies on our shoulders. we also feel the pain and expectation of all israeli citizens. i, personally, you have met with the families of the hostages and m.i.a.. i will be at their disposal whenever i can, as much as i can. i would like to promise you that we will do everything possible in order to bring back our sons and daughters. we must keep in mind that the organization we are facing is completely inhumane. they are using children, civilians, babies, as human shields to defend and protect themselves. they are conducting psychological warfare. they are lying to the war. they are abusing their families. they are trying to tear it really society apart. they will fail in that attempt. we will make sure. sooner or later they will all pay the price that the murders and of doctors of children must die. i would like to thank our friends from all of the world, especially the united states for their backing in support. it is also importan