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After the hamas attack on israel. This is the scene live in gaza well have the latest on the escalating conflict. Hello, im lucy hockings, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. Israeli troops are massing near the gaza border in preparation for what could be a Ground Invasion of the territory. Such action would be in reprisal for the attacks by hamas the brutal nature of which have cast the region into turmoil. These are the Key Developments were monitoring for you this hour. Israel says that more than 12000 israelis are now known to have been killed, since hamas launched attacks on saturday. 169 of those killed were soldiers. The bbc understands 17 british nationals are dead or missing. Palestinian sources say that more than 1,055 people have been killed by israels bombardment of gaza, where entire neighbourhoods have been flatt ....
Good evening. it s great to have you with us as we near the end of another week together. we ll get to this ice storm as hitting as we re on the air. j ginger zee standing by on that front. but we ll start with the pandemic. the cdc with strong evidence booster shots do provide strong protection from omicron. two vaccine doses without the booster for 57% effective against hospital devastations, but that the booster shot, a third shot, brings protection back up to 90% against omicron. and people 65 and older who were fully vaccinated and boosted were 90 times less likely to die than unvaccinated people in that age group. this all comes as omicron is still raging across much of the country, and this eye opening number tonight one quarter of all confirmed covid cases since the beginning of this pandemic have been in just the last month. 18 million new cases of covid in ....
In the courtyard area of the school hundreds of workers are moving debris away from the school under adaner that says unity creates strength. then a whistle cuts through the air j everyone stops. notice silence. this gives rescue teams crawling through the structure the chance to listen for survivors. the work inside the building is treacherous. wooding pillars have been brought in to fort fie wlags left of the school. hector says his team arrived on the scene an hour after the school collapsed, and the 70-year-old volunteer believers more people will be pulled out alive. do you think you ll be able to find children alive in there? yes, the children the most time they got more chance than we adult people. reporter: you think so, even ....