pro—palestinian marches. and surgeons in new york perform the world's first complete human eye transplant. welcome to bbc news. three kilometres from gaza where israeli forces are pushing further into gaza city, the largest hospital in gaza, al—shifa hospital, appears to have been the target of an attack on friday morning with our correspondent on the ground in gaza saying al—shifa hospital is being surrounded on four axes and reporting israeli forces are around 250 metres away from al—shifa hospital where the israeli forces

claim hamas is controlling panels and fuel storage facilities. the hamas run health ministry in gaza reports there were explosions around al—shifa hospital in the early hours of friday morning outside the al—shifa hospital. you can see that a great deal of panic and confusion in the hospital courtyard following the explosion. reuters news agency received the pictures from the palestine media group. they have not identified the cause of the explosion but israel military says it is investigating reports of the areas around the hospital have been struck. it has previously said its forces were operating around al—shifa hospital where it accuses hamas of concealing some of its command centres. on

another line, two humanitarian corridors will open in the territory around on the salah al—din road which hundreds of thousands have already used to go south as well as on the coastal al rashid road. many of the people heading out of gaza city are having to do so on foot, leaving their homes and heading to refugee camps in gaza is south. talks continue to free more than 240 hostages still being held in gaza. the palestinian group islamichhad has released a video of hostages it claims to be holding. a little earlier i spoke to andrew, who is a former assistant secretary general former assistant secretary general for the un looking after human rights and he is the current ceo of a foundation and i started by asking him what he makes of the reports of the attacks on hospitals in gaza.

in the sense that hamas on the 7th of october carried out absolutely abominable war crime and act of mass terror, acts of self defence are of course justified. but however awful somebody�*s initial crime is, it does not mean the rules of law do not apply and quite clearly it seems to almost any objective human rights expert around the world the rules of law are not being observed. there were systematic war crimes being carried out since the 7th of october. i know everyone... i lived in gaza and israel for a while, i know the israelis often bomb in gaza, but the scale of this attack, massive ground offensive, something i have not encountered before and i have been going to gaza for 40 years. it is huge. there is a very distinct pattern

of war crimes covering a whole range of issues, cutting off fuel, water, hospitals and everywhere else, whether it is the forcible relocation of tens of thousands of civilians, that is a war crime too. collective punishment. incredibly heavy bombing of what are clearly civilian targets, homes, hospitals, everything else. what your correspondent is describing... just to be clear, you would agree with the assessment by your colleague, the current un human rights chief, who accused both sides in this war of committing war crimes? i would absolutely accuse and i do not think anyone who is not a propagandist for one side or another, nobody could deny both sides have committed war crimes. hamas first of all in this round and israel ever since, so i agree

with that. can i ask you about moving forward, there is speculation, a lot of discussion of course about who could run gaza if and when hamas is obliterated? talk even of some kind of un body, some kind of international body, to run gaza, so the israelis do not reoccupy it and so the palestinian authority do not have it on their own. do you feel that is a feasible role for the un moving forward? it would be feasible, but israel will say the un is against it. this is the pattern always and it will be the criticism against him as well, austrian citizen, so was hitler, all of the lines will come out, and the un will be accused of being anti—israel. it will not be given that role, i can be almost certain.

if i may, you say once hamas is obliterated, i need to point out, please, it is notjust a matter of human rights and morality to say this huge level of destruction by israel is wrong, i would say it is also wrong in terms of realpolitik. tt is not the way to eradicate hamas. hamas was created after israel's very harsh response to the first intifada in 1987 and it came to power after israel's even more harsh response in the second intifada. the same with hezbollah, they came to power after the israeli invasion of 1982 and became the most powerful player in lebanon after the israeli attack on lebanon in 2006. as yesterday, most senior military man, usjoint chief of staff, he said every civilian in gaza killed by israel will lead to new hamas recruits, it is not the way to obliterate hamas.

andrew gilmour, former un human rights chief, thank you. assistant secretary general for human rights. israel has announced there will be prearranged, pre—warned humanitarian tactical local pauses for humanitarian aid to get to those who need it and two humanitarian corridors running south. in the south of gaza is our correspondent, rushdi abualouf, who gave me the latest of what he is seeing on the ground. the tanks are now advancing, they are in the heart of one of the hubs of everything in gaza including the banks, telecommunication company, the plc, palestinian legislative council, and all of the important buildings and institutions are in this neighbourhood, tanks in the middle of this road, they are advancing from where the al—shifa hospital is east,

and they are almost close to gaza city centre. the second we had from a source inside the al-quds hospital, the first communication to the bbc from inside the hospital, soldiers are not inside the hospital but tanks around the hospital, there is heavy fighting around the hospital. they managed to get over radio to one of the ambulance drivers here in khan younis and he says the situation is very serious, communication is cut, so now the tanks are advancing into the gaza city centre which is quite significant, and this street is close to the bbc office, every day in the morning i used to drive to my job from that street. it is the economic hub for most of the important companies, telecommunication company, the central bank, the bank

of palestine, it is in the middle of this neighbourhood and now it is all fallen under israeli control. we have heard from the medical chief at al—shifa hospital saying that they will not evacuate the hospital. they want to continue to be operational, to care for the patients. what is your sense, your assessment, of the extent of israeli military control across gaza? they are entirely in control of the shifa area. still there is route to escape, there was a guy who was in al—shifa hospital last night. he made thisjourney, along salah al—din road, he walked about 56 kilometres and he made it here to khan younis. he told me last night there was a lot of civilians

inside the hospital, around the hospital and he said that he saw tanks very close to the hospital. what you have to understand is that in the last 20 years or so, many people take the hospital as shelter, so thousands of people were taking the courtyard, the car park, any space in the hospital was like a shelter for those who are displaced from their homes, and in addition to that, the al—shifa hospital is the largest medical centre in gaza, so i presume hundreds of people are treated in the five, six buildings inside the hospital, so moving the patient is risky for the people, for the doctors in the hospital. it is going to be a very complicated situation, but for now, we still have contact inside the hospital, no tanks, no soldiers inside the hospital, but they are surrounding that place. reports that there could be up to 60,000 people sheltering in the courtyard of the hospital.

we have been watching those videos of the strikes this morning which are far too graphic to show, but it looks like an horrific situation. can you tell us about the humanitarian situation where you are? with tens of thousands more people evacuating south, is there enough food in the south, enough water in the south, for the new arrivals coming in every day now from the north? no space even in this hospital. nasser hospital, no space. you can find tents and people sleeping on the grounds, people begging for food and water, the number of people displaced from the north and come to the south is unbelievable, and for this city, which already is overwhelmed by people who came from the eastern side of khan younis near the border since day one of this war, and now this tiny city has to accommodate and feed and this

hospital has to treat over half of the population who are now in this city. and the problem is that more and more people are arriving every day, so i can see people on top of each other, in one house you can find 100 person in a two—bedroom house. i saw images of people, like, you know, 50 people in one tent and the situation is really bad. people here, when we talk to them, they say, we just need food and water. they want egypt to reopen the humanitarian corridor and to allow hundreds of trucks to reach the people here. the situation here is bad, but not as bad as for those who remain in gaza city and the north. we believe about 200,000 people and maybe more are now in the eastern side of the city and they haven't received any sort of aid, any sort of food

or water or medicine, they have allowed from egypt about 500—600 trucks for all for 35 days, so they must have been exhausted, they must have been waiting and waiting in a very long queue to get bread and water. and then they have to make this 5—6 kilometre journey, this walk under the sun on salah al—din road to flee the fighting. very serious situation, very complicated issue in gaza city, and we have to understand that verifying information is always hard for journalists because most communication is down there. rushdi abualouf with the latest in southern gaza. a couple of updates. rushdi abualouf has just told us the israeli defence forces say civilians sheltering at the children's hospital should evacuate. a couple of lines coming to us from the world

health organization that has concerned intense violence around al—shifa hospital, the main hospital we were talking about, 20 hospitals in gaza are now out of action, others only partly functional. we understand there were 35 medical facilities and hospitals in gaza. 20 of the 35 are now out of action according to the who. much more to come through the day but for now back to london. some breaking news from london. a high courtjudge has ruled that prince harry can continue his legal action against associated newspapers — that's the media organisation that includes titles such as the daily mail. the prince has accused the company of unlawful information gathering. lawyers for the newspaper had argued he and other high—profile people, including sir eltonjohn and baroness lawrence of clarendon, had run out of time to bring

the privacy claims. harry has been involved in five other legal battles at the high court in recent months, including cases brought against mirror group newspapers, which publishes the mirror, and rupert murdoch's news group newspapers, publisher of the sun and the now—defunct news of the world. let's cross live now to our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds. took us through the ruling and the significance of it.— significance of it. prince harry and six other people _ significance of it. prince harry and six other people now— significance of it. prince harry and six other people now have - significance of it. prince harry and - six other people now have permission to go to trial against associated newspapers, the publisher of the daily mail. in february associated newspapers try to knock out the case by saying firstly the seven had run out of time to make their claim that privacy had been breached, you have six years under british law, and this was back in many cases a decade

or more. the second thing anl tried to claim was that the claim was based on a bunch of receipts for payments to private investigators who are alleged to have carried out the unlawful information gathering that were disclosed to the levenson inquiry in 2011 into press standards and associated newspapers said it was confidential information only disclosed for a public inquiry and should not be allowed to be used. the judge has decided should not be allowed to be used. thejudge has decided in favour of the seven on the first point, the time limit, and he said this, they have a real prospect of succeeding in proving associated newspapers deliberately concealed what was going on in their newspapers as regards illegal or unlawful information gathering. he has not decided that happened, that they did conceal it, that he is saying if it goes to a trial they have a real prospect of succeeding. he is

allowing the case to go to trial. on the other issue about the receipts, associated newspapers have won that bit, thejudge has said it is right for them to say this information was given confidentially to a public inquiry and cannot be used in this case. but there is a but because the judge has also said the claimants, the seven, prince harry and the duke of sussex and the rest, they can go to the originaljudge of the inquiry and try to get the restriction lifted, so they have a little hope there and that is quite important because the ledgers as they are known to contain quite a lot of information about who the newspapers were paying and for what sorts of activities. ~ ., , ., ., activities. when it goes to trial, if it does go _ activities. when it goes to trial, if it does go to _ activities. when it goes to trial, if it does go to trial, _ activities. when it goes to trial, if it does go to trial, what - activities. when it goes to trial, if it does go to trial, what could j if it does go to trial, what could we expect? could we see prince harry giving evidence? i we expect? could we see prince harry giving evidence?— giving evidence? i think it is very likel . in giving evidence? i think it is very likely. in february— giving evidence? i think it is very likely. in february when - giving evidence? i think it is very likely. in february when i- giving evidence? i think it is very likely. in february when i was . giving evidence? i think it is very l likely. in february when i was here when the initial hearing was held at the high court, we were not

expecting the duke of sussex to turn up, but he did, the first day, right out of a car, he walked in, said hello to the media who were quite surprised and he proceeded to sit through three days, two days at least, of the hearing. he has also given evidence in person in a case against mirror group newspapers. it seems he is quite keen on taking this personally, being in court and making his legal battle in person. it does not like that will happen next year. it does not like that will happen next ear. ., ., , ., , next year. our home affairs correspondent _ next year. our home affairs correspondent outside - next year. our home affairs correspondent outside the i next year. our home affairs - correspondent outside the royal courts ofjustice with that update, tom symons. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. some other stories making the news today. latest official figures showed the uk economy failed to grow between july and september after a succession of interest rate rises. the performance was slightly better than expected as many analysts had

expected it to shrink bank of england said the uk economy was likely to see zero growth until 2025 but is expected to avoid a recession. england's chief medical officer has warned that the uk faces a health crisis because of a rapidly ageing population. in his annual report, professor chris whitty says, while more people are living longer, many of their later years are spent in bad health. there's also concern that large numbers of elderly people will be concentrated in rural or coastal areas with poor nhs provision. and vehicle breakdowns caused by potholes have reached a record high due to the substandard state of local roads. the government says an extra £8 billion has been allocated. you're live with bbc news. a senior police officer says policing cannot be influenced by

politics, his comments in response to an article by the home secretary for the times. the prime minister is under pressure to sack suella braveman for the article which had not been cleared by government. she accused the met police of playing favourites by treating pro—palestinian marches differently to demonstrations by right—wing groups. there have been rumours rishi sunak is considering a reshuffle, something i put to our political correspondent. indie reshuffle, something i put to our political correspondent.- political correspondent. we have been hearing _ political correspondent. we have been hearing rumours— political correspondent. we have been hearing rumours of- political correspondent. we have been hearing rumours of a - political correspondent. we have i been hearing rumours of a cabinet reshuffle for quite some months now. the timing of it keeps slipping. it is very likely to happen at some point but frankly i cannot give you any more clarity on that about when exactly it will be or what exactly will happen to suella braveman. it is being pointed to as one option that she may be reshuffled out of her current role because the article that was published yesterday has provoked enormous anger among

conservative mps. it is fair to say opinion really is split from those who we are hearing from publicly. there is only one i am aware of who has publicly called for the prime minister to sack suella braveman. others have disagreed with her on the substance of what she had same, suggested she was wrong to criticise the police in the way she has. i think we can hear now from the chancellorjeremy hunt who has been speaking about this in the last few minutes. figs speaking about this in the last few minutes. �* , ., , ., ., , minutes. as many other cabinet ministers have _ minutes. as many other cabinet ministers have said, _ minutes. as many other cabinet ministers have said, the - minutes. as many other cabinet ministers have said, the words. minutes. as many other cabinet i ministers have said, the words she used _ ministers have said, the words she used are _ ministers have said, the words she used are not— ministers have said, the words she used are not words i myself would have used~ — used are not words i myself would have used. but i have a productive relationship with her as a colleague and i_ relationship with her as a colleague and i have — relationship with her as a colleague and i have always given her the money— and i have always given her the money she needs to fund the police, bring _ money she needs to fund the police, bring down _ money she needs to fund the police, bring down crime, fund immigration and asylum — bring down crime, fund immigration and asylum system.— and asylum system. would you get awa with and asylum system. would you get away with doing — and asylum system. would you get away with doing what _ and asylum system. would you get away with doing what she - and asylum system. would you get away with doing what she has - and asylum system. would you get. away with doing what she has done? the prime minister has said he has full confidence in her and i have nothing — full confidence in her and i have nothing further to add. and full confidence in her and i have

nothing further to add.- full confidence in her and i have nothing further to add. and i think ou had nothing further to add. and i think you had the _ nothing further to add. and i think you had the tension _ nothing further to add. and i think you had the tension between - nothing further to add. and i think| you had the tension between those like jeremy you had the tension between those likejeremy hunt you had the tension between those like jeremy hunt that you had the tension between those likejeremy hunt that do not necessarily agree with exactly what has happened but will not go so far as saying, yes, she should be sacked. that is because it is so controversial between conservative mps. . . controversial between conservative mps. ., ., ,, ., ., mps. hannah speaking to me earlier on. a us man has become the first recipient of a whole human eye transplant. aaron james suffered life—changing injuries at work more than two years ago. in may, doctors from new york university performed pain—staking surgery to attach the donor eye and parts of his face. when performed in mice, the procedure has restored some sight, but this was the first time it had been attempted on a human. our correspondent sean dilley has more. this is a medicalfirst. aaronjames is the first human recipient of a whole transplanted eye. they told me, they said, "honestly, we never expected it to make it to the transplant, you know?"

i mean, never expected it to work at all. and they told me that from the get go. but just the fact that it's allowed... i mean, you know, that's... that's the first step. surgeons here in new york spent 21 hours removing part of their donor's face and left eye, including the optic nerve, then skillfully grafting them on to their patient. this is a day that could so easily have never come for aaron james. the 46—year—old electrical worker from arkansas suffered life—changing injuries injune 2021 after his face contacted a 7,200 volt live wire. the accident cost him his left arm, nose, lips, front teeth and left eye, as well as his chin and part of his cheek. do you have any pain at all? no. it's been six months since the experimental surgery.

so far, the transplanted eye sees nothing, but surgeons are positive about what this means for the future. well, i'm pretty impressed with what we're seeing this early on. at this point, the mere fact that the eye is alive and looks healthy is pretty special. for aaronjames, the cosmetic benefits are plain for others to see, even if his new left eye can't. but doctors say the first whole human eye transplant offers real hope that what they've learned here could one day restore sight to those who cannot see. sean dilley, bbc news. actor and singerjared leto is going to great lengths, and heights, to promote his hands upcoming world tour. the oscar winner climbed the empire state building in new york city. i hope you are not afraid of heights watching this. he said the building is a testament of all the things that can be done in the world if we put our minds to it.

leto added that such inspiration was a driving force behind the band's latest album. what incredible pictures we are seeing. stay with us on bbc news. hello, there. plenty of dry weather to come as we go through the next couple of days and there will be some sunshine, including today, sunny spells for many, watch out for showers in places. feeling a little chillier. the coldest night of the autumn so far in parts of scotland, freezing fog in the north, but further south, heavy thundery showers this morning from wales across southern england, coastal gales in the south—west, the winds are now lighter. this afternoon, could still be showers lingering in kent, some cloud here. otherwise sunshine developing. blustery showers, sunny spells

for northern ireland, rain moving into the far north of scotland by the end of the day, some could be wintry perhaps on the tops of hills. this evening and overnight, the low pressure moves east, we're between weather systems, the winds will be light, some frost forming particularly in the east. temperatures here could drop a little below freezing, mist and fog as well that could be slow to clear. for most, blue sky and sunshine for armistice day, showers running down the north sea coasts. turning cloudier in the south—west, windy here, eventually wet by the end of the day with the next weather front running northwards and eastwards through remembrance sunday. more moisture in the air sunday morning, many could wake up to scenes like this with mist and fog around. once again slow to lift and clear. another frost, particularly in the east. a bit sharper than on saturday.

the rain moves across wales into the far north of england, patchy rain perhaps in london for the service at the cenotaph late morning. many places, particularly scotland and north—east england, could stay largely dry until the very end of the day perhaps, but issues with mist and fog. in summary, mostly dry on saturday, rain for some on sunday, particularly in the south and west, but again low pressure system clears east, could develop a wave, so some heavier rain and stronger gustier winds on monday and tuesday. lots of unsettled weather across our capital cities through the start of the new week. goodbye for now.

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explosion and shouting an explosion is heard outside gaza's largest hospital — al shifa. there are reports of intense violence around the hospital. there are growing calls for the uk prime minister to sack his home secretary — who accused police of bias over pro—palestinian marches. latest figures showing no economic growth in the uk but the country escapes an official recession. the high court in london has ruled prince harry — and other prominent figures — can continue their lawsuit against the publisher of the daily mail. you arejoining me, frankie mccamley. the latest figures show no economic growth here in the uk between july and september. the office of national statistics data reveal a stagnant economy — but the country avoided a drop

in output, which many had predicted. importantly, that means the uk is likely to avoid an official recession this year. for more on this, here's our business presenter, egon cossou. so what's behind these figures? for 14 successive months the bank of england has put up the cost of borrowing, that is until september. what that does is, if it is more difficult and expensive for you to borrow either as an individual or business, it means activity is slowed down. that is what we have been dealing with. that is what the thinking is, that these figures show that, the attempt at calming inflation, which involves putting up interest rates by the bank of england, that might be having an impact. now, in particular, the service sector saw a pretty

substantial slowdown in activity. on the