were inside gaza's largest hospital — but fled just before the military raided. after a night of angry protests in madrid — spain's pedro sanchez will soon be sworn in for another term as prime minister. the uk chancellor says there's no guarantee that flights deporting asylum seekers to rwanda will take off next year. and iceland's imminent volcano threat — defences are erected around one town to protect it from possible lava. you arejoining the frankie mccamley. more now on the israel—hamas war. we can go live to southern israel to our correspondent mark lowen for all the latest. mark. hello again, thanks very much indeed. the israeli defence forces are continuing their building to building search inside al—shifa hospital. meanwhile israel's prime

minister says hamas leaders fled the hospital before the israeli troops arrived. speaking to the us network cbs benjamin netanyahu says that there was no firefight inside the al—shifa hospital because the hamas fighters had already fled. israel says there is a hamas command centre at the site but hasn't provided conclusive evidence. mr netanyahu said hostages could have been moved from the hospital. the israeli army says its troops killed five gunmen during a raid in the west bank city ofjenin. newsagency video shows people running as stun grenades and shots ring out. several palestinian news sources said israeli forces entered the city's ibn sina hospital. the israeli army says it has recovered the body of a female idf soldier noa marciano whose death was announced last week. the idf says her body was recovered from a structure adjacent to al—shifa

hospital. let's pick up on what is happening on the ground. with me is former british—israeli soldier alex moeller. he has experience in an idf anti—terror unit. alex moeller, thank you for being with us on bbc news this morning. can i ask first of all, the idf is combing through al—shifa. i know you're not directly aware of what is happening on the ground, of course, but give us a sense of the kind of challenges that the israeli troops would be facing as they search through a building in that kind of state and the kind of evidence that they would be trying to find. . ~ evidence that they would be trying to find. ., ~ ,, evidence that they would be trying to find. ., ~ i. ~ evidence that they would be trying to find. . ~' ,, ~' , to find. thank you, mark. the idf are t in: to find. thank you, mark. the idf are trying to _ to find. thank you, mark. the idf are trying to balance _ to find. thank you, mark. the idf are trying to balance the - to find. thank you, mark. the idf are trying to balance the numberl to find. thank you, mark. the idf . are trying to balance the number one directive of getting to the hamas leaders and taking them out as they have set themselves that goal in which is the ultimate idea of the

campaign. but of course they are very sensitive to the building itself being booby—trapped, to the tunnels themselves being packed with explosives ever since the leadership fled, as you just mentioned. plus you have to consider that israel is very sensitive to civilian casualties and are trying to prevent that at every cost. so it is quite obvious challenge or a balance between these agendas in order to ultimately reach their goal. amidst that challenge _ ultimately reach their goal. amidst that challenge the _ ultimately reach their goal. amidst that challenge the pressure - ultimately reach their goal. amidst that challenge the pressure to - ultimately reach their goal. amidst l that challenge the pressure to some extent is on the israelis to provide the kind of video and photograph evidence no evidence of this network of underground tunnels and command centres they have been claiming not just for several weeks but for years, calling it a hamas headquarters, the israeli defence minister calling it the beating heart of hamas. what is your assessment of how the images have

come out so far meet those expectations? i come out so far meet those expectations?— come out so far meet those expectations? come out so far meet those exectations? . ., , ., ., , expectations? i can tell you it has been very well— expectations? i can tell you it has been very well reported _ expectations? i can tell you it has been very well reported in - expectations? i can tell you it has been very well reported in the - been very well reported in the israeli media on various telegram channels, the enormous efforts that the israelis, specifically the israeli idf spokesman is making to show first of all the use of civilians and the use of hospitals by hamas, and that ultimate balance. it is not necessarily being reported around the world sufficiently, i would say. these efforts are paramount to understanding that the israelis are really quite keen to complete this process but minimise civilian casualties, and obviously minimise humanitarian impact. men. minimise humanitarian impact. alex, as we were talking _ minimise humanitarian impact. alex, as we were talking a _ minimise humanitarian impact. alex, as we were talking a very _ minimise humanitarian impact. alex, as we were talking a very loud - as we were talking a very loud israeli air strike, which you may be able to pick out their in the distance, that is the area of beit hanounin distance, that is the area of beit hanoun in northern gaza that continues to see relentless air strikes. you can see the smoke billowing up in the air. let mejust

ask, there was an outpouring of israel in the wake of the october seven attacks almost done and when almost 240 hostages were taken and are still being held, i200 israelis killed by hamas, the deadliest attack in israel's history. sympathy has begun to wane in some circles as the casualty figures continue to rise on the ground. what is your sense of how much longer israel has in terms of the continuation of this military operation before the calls for a ceasefire just become too overwhelming to ignore? i for a ceasefire just become too overwhelming to ignore? i think the s math overwhelming to ignore? i think the sympathy was _ overwhelming to ignore? i think the sympathy was obviously _ overwhelming to ignore? i think the sympathy was obviously their - overwhelming to ignore? i think the l sympathy was obviously their obvious reasons and it waned because that is simply the nature of these things. it is human nature. let's not forget that israel went to war with a very clear objective, to rent the gaza strip of hamas —— to read the gaza strip. a ceasefire would not be

detrimental, it would be disastrous. we would probably lose more soldiers and more palestinian lives if there was a ceasefire now. as a next soldier i can tell you that the request on behalf of hamas for a ceasefire is the tactical request. i would not regard it as sincerely in line with humanitarian cause. it is not 'ust a line with humanitarian cause. it is notjust a request _ line with humanitarian cause. it is not just a request on the part of notjust a request on the part of hamas, it is a request on the part of regional leaders here but also increasingly international leaders. the un security council passing a motion yesterday calling for extended cessations of violence so that humanitarian aid can get in. i appreciate that but if you look at the numbers, first of all they have not been large civilian casualties in the past few days because the air strikes have pretty much stopped to allow the idf to operate. it is unfortunate every single death but it's not on the scale that was and

in the meantime we are gaining ground and achieving our goal. within the next few weeks if we don't get stopped. i want to remind you that in 2014 when hamas asked for humanitarian cause in the fighting, they used that to snatch two israeli soldiers who were then killed within 24 hours. we understand that a pause in the fighting, ora humanitarian understand that a pause in the fighting, or a humanitarian need is one thing but how it is used actually quite cynically by hamas and implemented is something else and implemented is something else and it would be a disasterfor the idf to stop now, literally costing lives for both sides. just idf to stop now, literally costing lives for both sides.— lives for both sides. just briefly, alex, i understand _ lives for both sides. just briefly, alex, i understand you - lives for both sides. just briefly, alex, i understand you have - lives for both sides. just briefly, alex, i understand you have a i lives for both sides. just briefly, | alex, i understand you have a lot lives for both sides. just briefly, - alex, i understand you have a lot of contacts in the west bank as well. what is your sense of once this is all over, whenever that happens, the possibility of a single unified palestinian authority governing from

the west bank to gaza given the opposition that there is in the west bank to hamas. ? ida opposition that there is in the west bank to hamas. ?_ opposition that there is in the west bank to hamas. ? no doubt it will be a challenge- — bank to hamas. ? no doubt it will be a challenge- i — bank to hamas. ? no doubt it will be a challenge. i think— bank to hamas. ? no doubt it will be a challenge. i think the _ bank to hamas. ? no doubt it will be a challenge. i think the ultimate - a challenge. i think the ultimate status quo is based on the commercial ties and the ability for the israelis and palestinians to work together, which they have done. let me remind you that up until the war, mark, you had figures of hundreds of thousands of palestinian workers coming in from the west bank daily, making a living, and leading good lives. and quite a considerable amount from the gaza strip as well. that would one of —— be one of the bases of an ongoing or a new reality for both sides. no one knows exactly what it will look like and who will manage it but i hope if we at least manage it but i hope if we at least manage to empower the right people and the arab world as well we could see a better future,

and the arab world as well we could see a betterfuture, it and the arab world as well we could see a better future, it is inevitable that that should be the case. fix. inevitable that that should be the case. �* , inevitable that that should be the case. ~ , ., , , case. a better future, that seems some way — case. a better future, that seems some way off _ case. a better future, that seems some way off indeed _ case. a better future, that seems some way off indeed at _ case. a better future, that seems some way off indeed at the - case. a better future, that seems . some way off indeed at the moment. alex moeller, former british israeli idf soldier, thank you forjoining us. as the israeli air strikes continue to ring out across gaza we will continue monitoring developments there but for now, back to you in london. thank you, mark. the turkish president, recep tayyip erdogan, will make a state visit to germany today. he's due to meet chancellor olaf scholz in berlin, as well as the german president. some german opposition parties have called for the trip to be cancelled because of mr erdogan�*s stance on the conflict in gaza. our correspondent in berlin damien mcguinness has more details of the visit. president erdogan arrives later this afternoon in berlin. and so far it looks like he'll essentially only spend a few hours here. he'll meet the president. he'll then meet chancellor scholz. he'll speak to the press. it looks like also a very, very short statement, possibly, even without questions.

and then he'll have dinner with chancellor scholz and then leave. usually when president erdogan comes to germany, the last time was three years ago, he has all sorts of mass meetings and speeches in front of large crowds. that's because there are three million people with turkish heritage in germany. it's the largest turkish diaspora in the world, and half of them have a right to vote. so germany and turkey traditionally have very complex and deep relations, whether it's trade or whether it's family ties. so it's quite unusual that for a state visit, it's so low key. the security is not low key. there's 1,500 police officers in berlin alone really sealing off the city centre around the government quarter. but i think what the german government is hoping is that president erdogan doesn't say anything too controversial about the israeli—palestinian conflict. and that's because what we've seen over the last few weeks is some very problematic statements or problematic is how the germans would describe it at the very least, such as describing israel as a terror state and really refusing to condemn the atrocities committed by hamas on october 7th and describing hamas not as a terror group like most western states do, but as liberators.

all of that is unacceptable to the german government, for whom the right of existence for israel is is a key part of german foreign policy because of historical war guilt. so this is why germany and turkey really essentially are finding themselves in two opposite sides of the conflict in the middle east. it'll be a difficult conversation between chancellor scholz and president erdogan, but a necessary one because of all the trade, energy, migrant links, as well, turkey is essential when it comes to influencing migration to germany. so that's why even though it's a difficult visit, it's seen as an essential one for berlin, really. damien mcguinness in berlin. around the world and across the uk this is bbc news. bbc news, bringing you different

stories from across the uk. a dedication to babies whose resting place is unknown. made a reality by 79—year—old gina jacobs. to have this memorial to our babies, it's like at last they're having the dignity and respect that they never had back in the day when they were born sleeping. yvonne and derek's baby boy, daryl, died shortly after his birth in 1975. they were never told where he was buried. i've always had this inside me that i wanted to know where he was. to the extent that as years went on it haunted me. remarkably, the couple came to the cemetery today to find out exactly where their baby boy was. not only were they able to do that, they also found the newly installed memorial stone and remembrance ceremony under way. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website.

you're live with bbc news. to some breaking news, pedro sanchez has been sworn in as spain's prime minister in a ceremony conducted by king felipe at zarzuela palace in madrid. it comes after sanchez, who leads the socialist workers party, clinched a vote in parliament to lead spain for another term. he secured a four—seat majority in the 350—seat chamber, after sealing an amnesty deal for catalans involved in a failed bid to secede from spain. the conservative popular party won elections injuly, but its leader failed to form a majority. mr sanchez told mps that the amnesty deal would help "heal wounds". for more on this we're joined by our news reporter in madrid, guy hedgecoe. we saw protests following the re—election. talk us through the mood just after he has been sworn

in. mood 'ust after he has been sworn in. , ., ., ., mood 'ust after he has been sworn in. , ., ., mood 'ust after he has been sworn in. there is a mood of uncertainty and still a — in. there is a mood of uncertainty and still a lot _ in. there is a mood of uncertainty and still a lot of— in. there is a mood of uncertainty and still a lot of political- and still a lot of political instability in spain, despite the fact that this new government has been formed. that is in great part because of this very controversial amnesty law which the political opposition very staunchly opposes, and believes is unconstitutional. and also, many spanish voters believe that as well, so that's why we saw those scenes the protest on the street last night outside the socialist headquarters. those protests outside socialist headquarters have been going on for a couple of weeks and don't seem to show any sign of stopping so i think we can expect those to continue. there is going to be a big protest here in madrid during the day tomorrow is welcome against the amnesty command against mr sanchez. so there is a feeling that there are still a lot of instability in the air. we don't know how this legislature is going to pan out,

given that there is a very fragile governing majority that mr sanchez has. governing ma'ority that mr sanchez has. , . , , , governing ma'ority that mr sanchez has. , , , ., . has. this amnesty bill at the centre of a lot of the _ has. this amnesty bill at the centre of a lot of the controversy, - has. this amnesty bill at the centre of a lot of the controversy, talk - has. this amnesty bill at the centre of a lot of the controversy, talk as. of a lot of the controversy, talk as to exactly whether it is for people who might not be aware and also the opposition to it. the who might not be aware and also the opposition to it— opposition to it. the amnesty law resented opposition to it. the amnesty law presented to _ opposition to it. the amnesty law presented to congress _ opposition to it. the amnesty law presented to congress will, - opposition to it. the amnesty law presented to congress will, in - presented to congress will, in theory, benefit more than 300 catalan nationals who were in some form or another involved in separatist activity over the last decade. in most cases these were people who were involved in the 2017 failed bid for independence like catalonia. now, that may be local civil servants or the mayors of small towns who were involved in the holding of a referendum that was declared illegal, or it may be school principals who allowed the schools to be used for the referendum. but also others who will

benefit from this amnesty include, for example, colour�*s bridge mont who was president of catalonia in 2017 who then fled to belgium to avoid legal charges in spain. all of those people will benefit from this but it must still go through parliament, this bill, and it could still face some legal appeals by opposition parties. —— carles puigdemont. we do not expect the amnesty to come into effect until next year. opponents of its eight is unconstitutional, it is giving preferential treatment to catalans and undermining the rule of law but that's the basis of the opposition to it. —— opponents of it say it is unconstitutional. to it. -- opponents of it say it is unconstitutional.— to it. -- opponents of it say it is unconstitutional. thank you, guy hedgecoe- _ the asia—pacific economic co—operation summit continues in san francisco with president biden reassuring world leaders that the us is committed to the region's economic growth. he also says his talks with chinese leader, xijinping, would provide stability

for the region and the whole world. the us and china agreed on resuming high—level military communication. however, the leaders are still at odds over taiwan with president xi calling it the �*biggest and most dangerous issue' in bilateral ties. beijing considers it part of its territory while the us maintains unofficial relations with taiwan as a democratically self—governed island. our discussions have always been candid and constructive. i again emphasised to president xi that the united states does not seek conflict. yesterday we announced the resumption of military to military communication channels to reduce the risk of accident or miscalculation. over to iceland where its biggest bulldozer is heading to a small fishing town which is threatened by a major volcanic eruption. the vehicle is being used to build defences to stop lava destroying key buildings — if the volcano erupts

near the town of grindavik. thousands of people have been moved from their homes after hundreds of small earthquakes in recent days. our correspondent, jessica parker, flew over the volcano in a helicopter and sent this report. there are some places you can only fly to. this land of steaming volcanoes is one of them. dormant for 800 years, eruptions began in this area in 2021. this looked like this two years ago. the difference now is the earth—shattering effects on a community. we are now flying over the evacuated town of grindavik and, looking down, the streets are completely empty. ripped apart by earthquakes, there are fears volcanic lava could cause even more destruction.

the coastguard do a quick supply drop to their colleagues out at sea. this is all part of the icelandic authorities constantly monitoring the area around where they think the volcanic eruptions may occur. they don't know when that could happen. it could be days, it could be weeks. it's thought the 15km tunnel of magma runs right under this ridge. the possible eruptions led to defences being built up around a geothermal plant. ultimately, we have to be, as we've been doing for many years now, planning for volcanic activity, planning aggressively to be able to defend areas, to increase monitoring, and this is exactly where we are. we're almost at war with mother nature yet again in iceland. the anxious wait has hit tourism, too. no—one's bathing in the famous blue lagoon spa. closed for now, its waters are empty as iceland readies for another violent recreation from the earth. jessica parker, bbc news,

the reykjanes peninsula. you're watching bbc news. a month on from storm babet, which brought record—breaking rainfall, scottish councils say they urgently need more financial help to cope with the effects of climate change. in argyll and bute, some rural communities are still isolated after roads were blocked by landslides and flooding caused by the storm. our scotland editorjames cook visited one of them. the west of scotland has always been wet, but the rain that caused this landslide was something else. it came during the wettest two days since records began in 1891. a month on, the clear—up continues, and the disruption goes on, too. in living memory there's been no significant movement on this hillside, and we had a number of other issues

with 20—odd other sites and locations where we had bridges damaged, bridges had to be demolished, and another landslide event. so it wasn'tjust in this one location. so quite possibly something connected to climate change. do we need to be doing more to prepare for more of these sorts of events, do you think, as a country? that's a really good question. i think we need to have levels of resilience in place and be able to respond. people adapt. people are incredibly resilient and i think the communities of argyll and bute have been absolutely brilliant. and to avoid a repeat here, they're considering rerouting this road away from the danger of these cliffs. well, the scale of this when you're standing here is quite dramatic. it must have been terrifying as these boulders came rushing down from the hillside. it's a big engineering challenge, but it's also a big challenge for the community here. from a business point of view, obviously, it's been crippling — the amount of reservations that have been cancelled. at the end of the day,

the most important thing to me and everyone else in this community is getting back to some kind of normality and being able to get to the towns and the villages that we rely upon. if people want to shop, ordinarily they go to oban. but hospital, doctors. it's going to be lochgilphead. it now means two and a half hours there, two and a half hours back instead of 25 minutes there and 25 minutes back. so it's notjust an impact financially on a business. there's an impact and day to day life here as well. absolutely. scientists who study the environment say we should prepare for more flooding as the leaves turn and fall, but also drier, hotter summers. we're seeing both extremes in terms of the very intense rainfall and then extremes in terms of the periods of time that we can have without rainfall. and then also the temperatures that we're experiencing in our summers. which are going to be higher. are higher already. yes.

for the children of ardfern all of that means a change in routine. with the road to school still blocked, they're heading off every morning, not by bus, but by boat. what's it like taking a boat to school? it's peculiar. it's fun. thing is, ialready feel like i've been doing this forever. yeah. — how long have you been doing it? i don't know. like, a couple of weeks. i think that we should definitely try to be active in climate change, if it can stop stuff like that happening. they are adapting here, but chartering boats, rebuilding bridges and re—routing roads doesn't come cheap. the local council is calling for more help to cope with the costs of climate change. james cook, bbc news. a powerful group of mps has said they have "no confidence" the government will deliver on its promise to build 40 new hospitals in england. a damning report by the cross—party public accounts committee criticised the programme's lack of progress since the 2019 manifesto pledge.

the department for health and social care says nothing's changed — and it still plans to deliver on the promise by 2030. headlines coming up but it's time for the weather with darren bett. hello there. it looks like being a pretty good day for most of us today. the weather is going to change in time for the weekend, mind you. but for the rest of the day, a lot of dry weather to come. the showers in the west continuing to fade away and there'll be some spells of sunshine as well. but if we look at the satellite picture, you can see all this cloud here in the atlantic that's spilling its way towards the uk. and will bring very different weather overnight and into saturday. the cloud already beginning to push into the south—west of england, wales, later towards northern ireland. but ahead of that through the afternoon, plenty of sunshine around. it should be dry. temperatures making double figures in england and wales. still a bit chilly in the north east of scotland.

and here there could be an early frost, but early because the cloud is coming in from the southwest that's bringing rain. it'll bring some stronger winds and push the temperatures up as well. so quite heavy rain actually for a while over the moors of the southwest, the hills of south wales, and these are the temperatures by the end of the night. so a very mild start to the weekend. but things are going to look very different from today because we've got this weather front bringing the rain. it's wrapped around that area of low pressure. that's also bringing in some stronger winds, but it's actually bringing in air all the way from the tropics. and that's why it's going to be so mild to start the weekend. but a cloudy start with some rain around. still some heavy bursts of rain here and there. you see how it slowly pushes down towards the south—east, up towards northeastern scotland, away from these areas we should get some sunshine after the rain. showers, though, coming into northern ireland and particularly western scotland. those could be quite heavy. and it will be pretty windy out there as well. we're likely to have gales through the irish sea and around some western coasts, but it is very mild air. so temperatures could reach 15, possibly even 16 degrees along the south coast of england.

now, with that weather front and the band of rain out of the way for the second half of the weekend, we've still got that area of low pressure close by and it still could have around it some thicker clouds, some showers or some longer spells of rain, mainly for the northern half of the uk where it's not quite so windy. further south, the winds are certainly going to be strong, but at least there'll be some sunshine outside of those showers. and whilst not quite as mild, temperatures still are going to be 13 degrees. now the wind direction changes early next week. more of a north or north—westerly, bringing in a lot of cloud to start next week, but also dropping the temperatures for a while.

live from southern israel... this is bbc news. israel's prime minister says hamas commanders

were inside gaza's largest hospital — but fled just before the military raided it. the israeli military releases video of what it says is a tunnel entrance, found during the search of the hospital site. and the un warns a lack of fuel means that from today it can't bring aid in to gaza from egypt. i'm frankie mccamley in london. the other headlines... the uk chancellor says there's no guarantee that flights there is anger in spain as pedro sanchezis there is anger in spain as pedro sanchez is sworn in for a second time. team ferrari say a loose manhole on the track is unacceptable.