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 their own barrage of israel. 0ur bbc team was in ashkelon in Southern Israel, not far from the gaza border, when a salvo came in. Ashkelon is so close to gaza that there is no more than a ten second warning. Israel is moving in more firepower the next stage of the offensive against hamas looks certain to be a Ground Offensive, much bigger than other incursions since hamas took over in gaza in 2007. Lines of cars outside a Military Base on the road to gaza were parked by reservists as they reported for duty. Getting ready. Saying their goodbyes. Parents came to the base for a few minutes with their sons. Were praying and hope for the best. And its tough times now. And were telling him to try and concentrate on his mission. Without thinking too much about other friends that got injured or killed. Israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, broadcast to his nation. He said hamas has made a mistake of historic proportions. We will, he said, exact a price that will be remembered by them and israels other enemies for decades. And now israelis are waiting for their government and army to act. Sderot the israeli town closest to gaza littered with the debris of war, felt like the essence of israels trauma. Almost deserted, except for security forces. Hamas has rocketed sderot for years, but never before stormed in. At the centre of the hamas Killing Ground was the police station. They broke in and used it as a firebase to shoot civilians as well as soldiers. Blood from israels dead and wounded smears the walls. Even here in what is always a Front Line Town for israelis, this was not supposed to happen. They expected their military, backed up by the intelligence services, to protect them. And the fact that that didnt happen means that recriminations about who might be responsible have already started. But at the same time, there is a strong sense of National Unity with the country under attack about What Happens Next. In the places that hamas attacked, Israeli Military as well as the few civilians left arejumpy, still shocked. A Ground Offensive didnt feel imminent. And in gaza, a few miles away, casualties come into the main hospital the first few hundred of many more. It will get worse. Palestinians and israelis once more caught on the anvil of war in a conflict a century old that is as deadly as its ever been. The israeli city of ashkelon has come under heavy fire from hamas over recent days. 0ur correspondent anna foster is there for us this morning. Good morning. Maybe you can bring us up good morning. Maybe you can bring us up to date with what has been happening overnight, please. Goad happening overnight, please. Good morninu. Happening overnight, please. Good morning even happening overnight, please. Good morning. Even as happening overnight, please. Good morning. Even as we happening overnight, please. Good morning. Even as we are happening overnight, please. emf. Morning. Even as we are talking this morning. Even as we are talking this morning there is an israeli helicopter in the sky. This is an area where we saw a lot of armoured vehicles are starting to gather yesterday and move into formation. That does not necessarily tell us what the Israeli Defence forces are planning to do next. It could be about security, or a potential Ground Operation into gaza. Any of that could be possiblejust Ground Operation into gaza. Any of that could be possible just now. Ground operation into gaza. Any of that could be possiblejust now. One of israels big priorities is the security of this area and as we were moving around yesterday, even in the height of ashkelon, when the sirens went off, at ll height of ashkelon, when the sirens went off, at h was actually interviewing a man who had been at the Music Festival that was attacked early on saturday and as we were talking the sirens went off, we and everybody else had to run and try to take cover and that happened several times during the day. Most of the missiles are caught in the air by the Israeli Iron Dome defence system. Yesterday the home next to a kindergarten had been hit, the ceilings had fallen in. One man who lived there tells me how he had scooped up his young baby and run to the shelter. This is something people here have experience for a long time but the scale and intensity of these attacks are something that they really have not seen for some people here in living memory. 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It isjust after 8am, this should be full of traffic, people should be full of traffic, people should be full of traffic, people should be going to work, to school, but look how quiet it is. A lot of people who can move away from these southern communities around the gaza fans have done so to keep themselves safe and the government have managed to evacuate some, as well, but there it really is this sense, and Benjamin Netanyahu has promised a significant response, saying the coming days will be difficult. He says it will resonate with hamas, with the enemies of israel for generations. We are at that stage where people hear the warnings, they are seeing gaza being sealed off more than usual in terms of food, fuel, water, electricity, and there is that sense of nervousness and anticipation about what could come next. �. ,. ,. , anticipation about what could come next. �. ,. ,. , next. Anna foster, live for a breakfast next. Anna foster, live for a breakfast in next. Anna foster, live for a breakfast in ashkelon, next. Anna foster, live for a | breakfast in ashkelon, thank next. Anna foster, live for a breakfast in ashkelon, thank you very much, we will speak to you later. Here in the uk, friends and relatives of those affected by the attacks on israel have gathered for a vigil outside downing street. It followed a visit by the Prime Minister to a London Synagogue, where he reiterated his support for israel and promised the uks Jewish Community that he would stop at nothing to keep them safe. Our Special Correspondent lucy manning reports. Singing. They sang the israeli anthem. 0thers prayed. Some sat in tears. Others in quiet, sad thought. Across the political and religious spectrum, britishjews, israelis and supporters united outside downing street. Ijust discovered someone i know has fallen a soldier. Its unfathomable. We are heartbroken. Absolutely. Absolutely heartbroken. And you worry for your family there . Absolutely. Got family there on the front line, yeah. Almost everyone here has relatives or friends affected. Emotions extremely high at the killings, the kidnappings, with entire families wiped out. The family of glasgow born Bernard Cowan wrote on social media that he was murdered by hamas terrorists. They described him as the kindest, most generous person. Dan darlington, a british photographer, is missing. His sister said on social media he was murdered. Hed been taking photos of israeli sunsets, she said, riding his bike, and laughing. Jake marlowe is also missing a Security Guard at the Outdoor Party where hundreds of young people were murdered. While israelis and jews demonstrated in london, so, too, did palestinian supporters. Outside the Israeli Embassy, they called for a free palestine. TheJewish Community prayed for peace, joined in a London Synagogue by the Prime Minister. I stand with israel. Applause. We stand with israel. The United Kingdom stands with israel against this terrorism today, tomorrow, and always. Scared and anxious, the trauma is a collective one. Lucy manning, bbc news. We will have full coverage of the very latest on bbc breakfast the next three hours of the programme. We can show you a live shot right now of the scene in gaza city this morning. We have seen smoke rising, some flames there, some vent out wreckage of a building, which appears to be the aftermath of another incident. More bombs have dropped overnight, and were shelling in gaza city. We will speak to our correspondents to get a sense of what is going on but at 12 minutes past six, sally has more of the news. Thanks. Sir keir starmer will outline plans for what hell call a decade of National Renewal during his speech at the Labour Party Conference later today. 0ur chief Political CorrespondentHenry Zeffman is at the conference in liverpool for us this morning. Good morning. What are we expecting to hear from good morning. What are we expecting to hearfrom him today, will there be anything new in his speech . Weill. Be anything new in his speech . Well, ust note be anything new in his speech . Well, just note that be anything new in his speech . Well, just note that word be anything new in his speech . Ii just note that word decade. That is two parliamentary term so quite an ambitious statement, an ambitious implication from keir starmer, the leader of a party that just a few short years ago when they were gathering here thought they had no hope of getting into government for years to come, such was the scale of their defeat in 2019. I would expect keir starmer in his speech today to talk about that, about how he feels he has transformed the labour party and talk seriously about what he would do in government. Because, look, that is the media. The mood here is a serious and optimistic about the fact that the labour party may well be headed into government. But the fact that when this conference gathers next year there is a chance that keir starmer could be Prime Minister. I think he will talk notjust about his journey be Prime Minister. I think he will talk not just about his journey as be Prime Minister. I think he will talk notjust about his journey as a politician, as leader of the labour party, but also a bit as a person. There is a long standing view in the labour party, in keir starmer� s team, that the public out there think that he is posher than he is and he will talk about how he grew up and he will talk about how he grew up in a pebble dashed semi and that gave him stability as he then became director of Public Prosecutions and is now leader of the labour party, and he will talk via his own house, his own upbringing, about housing more generally. You will talk about wanting to build new towns in areas of High EconomicDevelopment Near cambridge, on the m1 corridor near milton keynes, and talk about how that might boost Economic Growth. That is the new policy of the speech, housing to come but in general i would expect a high level presentation of sir keir starmer to the public as the man who, this time next year, could be Prime Minister. Henry, thank you very much. Retail sales slowed in september as people focused their spending on housing, heating and rent according to new figures. The British Retail Consortium says the rising Cost Of Living forced shoppers to reduce purchases of high priced items such as electricals and furniture while the warm weather delayed sales of autumnal clothing. The Mental Health system in england is in crisis according to the charity mind. New data shows there were more than 17,000 reports of serious incidents involving inpatients last year. The government says it plans to launch a series of investigations into Mental Health care settings, to identify where improvements are needed. Time to go straight to carol for the weather. Good morning. Good morning. You would not be wrong thinking we have had a blast of summer in some parts of the country over the last few days but, as we head towards the end of the week, 0rton will return. This morning, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency still has two severe Flood Warnings in force across parts of scotland, and currently there are 33 Flood Warnings. You can find out more about those and our bbc weather website. The other thing Happening Todayis website. The other thing happening today is we have some Heavy Rain Coming in across the north west. The met office as a warning out for this, a yellow warning. At lower levels quite widely we could have up to 15 to 25 millimetres of rainfall, twice that on higher ground. We also have some showery rain across Northern Ireland this morning, getting into Northern England before this rain arrives later in the day. In some low cloud, mist and murk that will push back to the coast, where it will linger. Away from this, for much of england and a lot of wales, it will be dry, sunny and warm. A breezy day, windy across the far north, and these are our temperatures. 13 in the north to 23 or 2a, temperatures. 13 in the north to 23 or24, possibly temperatures. 13 in the north to 23 or 2a, possibly even 25 as we sweep down towards the south. As we head on through the evening and overnight, our band of rain pushes itself as a Weakening Feature but perhaps up through the night as it crosses england and wales. Wont get into the far south where we will see mist and fog forming. Just wish i was behind it, strong winds across the far north of scotland. Cold night in parts of scotland, for 26 degrees, further south temperatures 11 to 14 degrees, further south temperatures 11 to 1a or 15 cold in parts of scotland, for 6 degrees. Bright and warm in the south, behind it sunshine and blustery showers. Still windy across the far north of the country but you can see how the fresh conditions push that. I cant speak a bit further south. In the south itself, 19 to 22 degrees. I am off to put my false teeth back in. I knew exactly what you meant bless ou see i knew exactly what you meant bless you see you i knew exactly what you meant bless you see you later. Flowers and plants might be beautiful to look at but many of them have benefits that extend far beyond that. In the most detailed look at the worlds Plant Population ever completed, new research has found that 45 could face extinction. 0ur Environment and Rural Affairs correspondent Claire Marshall has more. This fragile plant is tucked away in the palm house of the Royal Botanic Gardens in kew. Manyjust walk right on by. In the wild, this species could go extinct, even though it saved thousands of lives. Its a kind of unassuming little plant this little thing d