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legendary singer and campaigner harry belafonte died at the age of 96. the un secretary—general sent their condolences to his families and friends. welcome back to our programme. we've been learning details of that british evacuation effort with the flights leaving cyprus and that centre being opened in the airfield to the north of the capital. we've heard from the prime minister's also is —— office that many more flights evacuating british nationals from the conflict torn country into tomorrow. we don't know any numbers in terms of people out, but we've seen pictures from the ...

and right now we are striking from the air every single day when we do not know where my cousin is, where we do not know where over 200 hostages are and we don't know if any of our bombs have killed them. here in london, pro—palestinian demonstrators, turn out in force. these are recent pictures. protests are also planned in other capital cities. fresh aid enters gaza and the un tells the bbc they've managed to re—establish some contact with their teams on the ground. welcome to bbc news. israel's defence minister says the country's military has "shifted phases in the war" and th...

said that it was expanding its ground operations there. 0ur middle east correpondent tom bateman, who is in jerusalem, has more. well, there has been intensive aerial bombardment by the israelis over a prolonged period of time, the heaviest that we've seen at night—time during the course of this conflict. and we heard from daniel hagari, the israeli military spokesman, in a live televised address to israelis, that he said that they were widening their ground operations. he talked about this being what he called a very significant attack against underground networks of hamas, he sai...

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Themselves, now that much of that has been cleared, they still haven't been able to reach much of the island. let me go over some of the numbers. the cell phone towers, only about 11% of them have been restored. when it comes to power, only about 5% of the power here has been restored. so, you know, terrific job? i would say the puerto ricans and their community have certainly proven to do so in certain parts of the island in which the first responders have not been able to get to. >> what's been the hardest piece of this for you as a reporter? is it the communications difficulties? >> reporte...