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Good morning. It is october the 10th. Israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has warned his country will use enormous force against the Hamas Militant Group as the conflict enters its fourth day. It comes as israels Defence Minister ordered a complete siege of the gaza strip, cutting off food, electricity and water supplies. Almost 690 people have lost their lives on the palestinian side while around 900 people have now died in israel. Hamas insurgants are now threatening to start killing hostages, if israel carries out more strikes without warning. 0ur International Editor jeremy bowen reports. Inside gaza, it looks every bit as if palestinians are feeling the full force of Israeli Military power. Israel says hamas is responsible for the suffering of gazas civilians. And its retaliation for the hamas attacks has onlyjust begun. Hamas has threatened to start killing its israeli hostages. The air strikes rolled on, hour after hour. Palestinian armed groups, undeterred, kept up thei
Reports say a missile has been launched heading east from the north korean capital pyongyang. Japanese media reported that the missile seemed to have been fired over its Northern Island of hokkaido into the sea 2000 kilometres east of cape erimo. The white house says President Trump has been briefed by his chief of staff generaljohn kelly. 0ur correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes is in tokyo. What has been the reaction from the japanese government . Well, we have heard from the chief cabinet secretary who condemned this launch. He called it an extreme altercation. We have not heard yet from the japanese Prime Minister because he is on japanese Prime Minister because he isona japanese Prime Minister because he is on a flight coming back from india. For the japanese government, again, this is similar to what happened last month. It makes japan still vulnerable. Sirens went off across northern japan this morning and people were told to seek shelter in concrete buildings and basements. It
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