Latest headlines with. Aaron very good morning to you. Its at midday. Im Aaron Armstrong in the gb newsroom. A british teenager whos been missing since last weekends attacks by hamas has been confirmed dead. 13 year old yahel on the right of your picture was killed when gunmen attacked her kibbutz on the 7th of october. Yahel was killed along with her mother, leanne. Her elder sister, noya and their father, eli, are still missing. The Prime Minister has called for the Immediate Release of hostages. Its thought another nine britons are amongst the 200 people being held by hamas. The people being held by hamas. The israeli journalist Yotam Confino says their outlook is bleak. Says their outlook is bleak. They are in a horrendous situation, most likely kept underground in tunnels by hamas. Thats at least what israel estimates. So this hostage situation is a its really just another humanitarian catastrophe that develops at the same time as what, you know, the atrocities. Also, we see in gaza, not deliberately committed by israel. Israel says its not targeting civilians, but we do see these ruins everywhere in gaza. So these two situations are just simply horrific and not solved yet. Solved yet. At least 60 people have now been killed by israeli airstrikes in Southern Gaza. That took place overnight as aid agencies warn of an escalating humanitarian crisis. Palestinian Authorities Say the attacks took place in younis khan and at the rafah crossing , where the rafah crossing, where the Israeli Military has told civilians to take refuge. The civilians to take refuge. The World Health Organisation says at least 2800 people have now been killed in gaza and 11,000 injured. Almost half of those are women and children. Israel are women and children. Israel believes 600,000 residents have left northern gaza ahead of the expected ground offensive. The expected ground offensive. The un believes hospitals in gaza are on the verge of collapse as the rafah Border Crossing to egypt remain closed. Meanwhile, egypt remain closed. Meanwhile, the us president will visit israel tomorrow in a show of solidarity as fears grow the war in gaza could engulf the middle east. His visit was announced by the us secretary of state, Antony Blinken, who himself has been taking part in several days of shuttle diplomacy in the region. Biden is expected to urge the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to minimise civilian casualties and to establish a humanitarian corridor out of gaza. Biden will also meet arab leaders in an effort to stop the conflict from spreading after iran pledged to take pre emptive action against israel in the coming hours. Its also been confirmed that egypt will host a summit to discuss the conflict on saturday, police in brussels have shot dead a gunman suspected of killing two swedish people last night. It swedish people last night. It happenedin swedish people last night. It happened in the city centre before belgiums euro 2024 qualifier against sweden. The suspect fired shots from an Assault Rifle at a taxi. The 45 Assault Rifle at a taxi. The 45 year old man who claimed responsibility in an online video identified himself as a member of Islamic State. Member of Islamic State. Belgiums Prime Minister, alexis de croo, says terrorists cannot be allowed to succeed. Be allowed to succeed. The others, they will. An attackers want to seed fear, distrust and division in our free society. Free society. We terrorists have to understand and that they will never succeed in this mission. They will never subdue our free society with their hate and violence as they show. Above all, theyre powerlessness, terrorism will never beat us. And this breaking news just into us, a 77 year old woman has died after being hit by a bus in Manchester City centre. The vehicle crashed into a shop on monday. The family of al maeena monday. The family of al maeena amica said she was well loved and her presence will be hugely missed. A 64 year old man has been bailed on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. Google will provide a driving. Google will provide a new i Research Centre at the university of cambridge. The university of cambridge. The collaboration is said to help with the development of responsible Artificial Intelligence designed to benefit people. The Technology Giant is people. The Technology Giant is the first funding partner for the first funding partner for the universitys centre for al , the universitys centre for al, Whose Research includes robotics and human machine interaction. And human machine interaction. Rolls royce is planning to cut up to 2500 jobs worldwide. The company says it aims to become a more streamlined and efficient business through the process. Business through the process. Rolls royce currently employs 42,000 people, with about half of those in the uk. And you of those in the uk. And you better brace yourself for some bad weather on the way. Yellow warnings in place from tomorrow with the arrival of storm babette. Its the second named storm of the season. Its likely to last until the weekend. The met office is warning of flooding, power cuts and travel disruption and the warning will cover much of scotland , the cover much of scotland, the eastern part of Northern Ireland, as well as the north and east of england. Were live and east of england. Were live across the uk on tv, Digital Radio. If you want us on your Smart Speaker, just say play gb news a now its over to mark and peppa. Aaron thank you and welcome back to the live desk. Were just going to bring you the latest live picture weve got from gaza because to the left of the picture , weve seen more the picture, weve seen more rocket fire in the last ten, 15 minutes from a building very near to the beach. One of these big high rise buildings which does seem significant, bearing in mind that israeli airstrikes have been trying to target these various rockets being fired , various rockets being fired, either homemade or or brought in from , um, the various tunnel from, um, the various tunnel systems underneath that weve counted on our feed, at least 6 to 7 rockets being fired. No to 7 rockets being fired. No indication yet, of course, as to what the israeli response may be to that, although there have been israeli airstrikes in the south of gaza , in the rafah area south of gaza, in the rafah area , this is all happening as this constant diploma ac continues within the last few hours, the news that President Joe Biden, he is heading to the region for talks to hear about plans for a ground attack in gaza and also, it is hoped to tell israel that they have to be so careful with their plans because as the Un Human Rights Office is warning that israels Evacuation Order could be an illegal forcible transfer of civilians, those civilians heading south, tens of thousands of them down to the khan younis area, where people are sleeping in the streets. Theres hardly any running water. And that crossing that vital access into egypt at that rafah crossing is still shut. People cannot get out and humanitarian aid cannot come in. Well, lets get the views now of former director of labour friends of israel , david mensah, friends of israel, david mensah, who can join us live from tel aviv. And david, we were just updating people with that rocket fire being seen from gaza. I mean, it may surprise people that it appears hamas has still got the capability of launching those rockets , those rockets those rockets, those rockets which youre talking about, are aimed at me. Aimed at me. Theyre aimed at my family. Theyre aimed at my people. Theyre aimed at this country. Theyre aimed theyre targeted at civilian areas, civilian areas designed specifically hinckley to kill as many people as they possibly can. Its only thanks to israels miraculous iron dome Missile Defence system that those rockets are being knocked out of the sky. Myself and my family have beenin myself and my family have been in and out of our bomb shelter many times yesterday evening. It is it is causing tremendous trauma to the young people. But of course, lets not forget that this entire episode , forget that this entire episode, this latest chapter and i will say this last chapter of israels battle against the genocidal, genocidal death cult of hamas, of the isis like group of hamas, of the isis like group of hamas, of the isis like group of hamas, started when 1400 of my people , unarmed, innocent my people, unarmed, innocent people going about their daily lives, just waking up on the shabbat morning, on the sabbath morning on a jewish holiday were merciless, massacred in scenes which are actually worse than the did the, of course, tried hard to hide their crimes. Hamas , on the other, on the hamas, on the other, on the other hand, live streamed their crimes on facebook, on tiktok, on telegram. This is the on telegram. This is the barbarity of the enemy we are facing. We are facing it here in israel. But the people of britain should know as well that this enemy will not stay here in between gaza and israel. It will come to you soon if this barbarity is not stopped. Yeah. Barbarity is not stopped. Yeah. Should we also reflect . Of course, that there have been israeli airstrikes on rafah in the Southern Gaza strip with pictures of palestinians searching for their families whove been injured there. And whove been injured there. And there had been a hope, perhaps with President Biden visiting tomorrow, that diplomacy might start to win the day rather than these airstrikes from both sides. As the address for criticism about civilians being harmed , about civilians being harmed, being harmed in gaza should go directly to hamas, not to israel , directly to hamas. Poverty in the gaza strip should go directly attributable to hamas. Hamas. Gaza should to hamas. Hamas. Gaza should look like monaco with the amount of aid which has been pouring into that strip. The poor people all living in gaza are poor because of hamas. They have because of hamas. They have problems with their water supply because water pipes which were donated by the international community, were dug up to be used as missiles to fire at my people. Now the jewish people, people. Now the jewish people, we recognise evil when we see it. We recognise barbarity. When we see it, weve seen it before aimed at us. And this is exactly whats happening right now. This barbarity needs to be stood up to and believe you me, israel has been shocked by this attack and it most definitely has been extremely unsettled. These are scenes which weve never thought wed ever see again. But believe wed ever see again. But believe you me, this will be the last chapter of hamas. Chapter of hamas. What do you say to. I think its the Un Human Rights Office. David that is claiming this. This is israeli Evacuation Order could be illegal. People forcibly being moved to the forcible transfer of tens of thousands of civilians. Could be an International War crime. What an International War crime. What do you think of that claim . Im do you think of that claim . Im i would say to the United Nations, theyre primarily primary role right now , as well primary role right now, as well as looking after the civilians in gaza have been told to move away, to get out of harms way. Theyre primarily primarily responsibility right now. Should be rescuing the hostages. Be rescuing the hostages. Israels innocence that have been taken. This morning, i been taken. This morning, i attended a press conference of one of the poor young ladies. One of the poor young ladies. That was a 21 Year Old Girl that was kidnapped and is being held against her will to see the look of pain on her mothers face on her brother, on her two brothers, on her familys face, the psychological warfare which is being imposed on the people of israel. That should be the of israel. That should be the primary role of the united naļ¬ons primary role of the United Nations right now. The United Nations right now. The United Nations, unfortunately , in this nations, unfortunately, in this part of the world is not an innocent bystander. We know that innocent bystander. We know that there are obviously agencies that would take issue with what youre saying on that. But can i just get your thoughts, david, on what you just said on this announcement from , that its actually from turkey, that its actually in talks hamas on the in talks with hamas on the release of what it says are foreigners, civilians and children hakan children held hostage by hakan fidan, the foreign minister, speaking to ismail haniyeh, who i based in qatar. Do i think is based in qatar. Do you have any hope that negotiations would work in any way . Way . Of course , negotiation should of course, negotiation should be the first port of call in this shocking situation created by hamas. But people should listen to my voice very, very clearly. Now all hostages taken by jew haters are priority number one. This country will not leave its people behind. And not leave its people behind. And history has shown us that when hostages are taken , when the hostages are taken, when the jewish people, we will do everything in our power and i mean everything in our power to get them back. Witness of course , the famous entebbe rescue in the early 1970s, and even the poor parents of dead soldiers who are asking for their sons bodies back. These are not forgotten. These are high up in the daily headlines here in israel. We will not get the israel. We will not get the hostages here in israel. People of israel will put their arms around these poor families. And we will do everything to bring those hostages back. And how do you see this ending, david . We know there is likely to be this this huge ground incursion, but long term, where do you see peace or when do you see peace happening . Do you see peace happening . I see peace happening when hamas are obliterated, then un peace talks can begin. Peace talks can begin. Do you think thats possible to obliterate hamas, to crush that that ideology. That that ideology. I dont think youre listening to me. I dont think youre listening to me. Israel has listening to me. Israel has suffered the most heinous crime. Suffered the most heinous crime. The people of israel demand aid. All right. Think right thinking people demand that this genocidal bunch of murderers are obliterate from the face of the earth and believe you me, it will happen. Now, israel will always, always put their hand out one hand, hand out a peace thatis out one hand, hand out a peace that is in our nature. We wish to live in peace in this region. We, of course, that one of the reasons why this entire terrible thing has happened is because we were getting closer peace, particularly with saudi arabia. We knew that the genocidal murderers and hamas and in iran, their principal funders didnt want that to happen, which is why they launched this attack. But we will always try our hardest for peace. But in the hardest for peace. But in the words of king david, there is a time for peace and a time for war. And right now , now its war. And right now, now its time to obliterate that hamas, obliterate this evil. I hear you. I hear you. I hear you. I hear you. And im listening to you very clearly. All im questioning you on is when you say a obliterate hamas. Im on is when you say a obliterate hamas. Im just asking how realistic that could be in terms of absolutely crushing them because they could be replaced by somebody or something else. By somebody or something else. Let me ask you a question in return then. What did britain do in response to isis . What did in response to isis . What did the United States do in response to isis . What did the european to isis . What did the European Union do in response to isis and daesh . They obliterated them. Daesh . They obliterated them. They no longer exist. The same they no longer exist. The same thing will happen with our own home grown version of hamas. They will be obliterated. And of they will be obliterated. And of course, peace is always forefront in our mind. Its the very essence of our identity. We wish to live in peace with all of the our neighbours in this region. I myself have taken 70 members of parliament down into gaza to see the reality of life in gaza for that peace. But what ive never seen in all the years when ive been watching gaza. When ive been watching gaza. David, im sorry to interrupt you. Were just seeing pictures of more rocket fire. And weve also seen explosions. We believe, in gaza , the southern believe, in gaza, the Southern Area of the strip across the border from sderot. Let me let border from sderot. Let me let me return to one of the first questions we asked you with seemingly the ariel warfare still going on, is there any chance with biden coming in tomorrow of diplomacy, winning the day. The day. I still dont feel that you understand what hamas is. Hamas is a genocidal death cult. Its is a genocidal death cult. Its not interested in diplomacy. See not interested in diplomacy. See the time for diplomacy with hamas is long gone. The people that go into a Music Festival in the desert and mow down 260 innocent dancers dancing until the dawn. Those are not people the dawn. Those are not people which you carry out diplomacy. Hamas need to be defeated. And mark my words, they will be defeated right