�* but authorities say it is necessary but critics more freedoms. haiti descend into anarchy with winding gangs controlling large part of the caribbean nation. and the princess of wales is seen for the first time since her surgery out shopping with prince william. hello, i'm lucy grey. welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. benjamin netanyahu benjamin neta nyahu has benjamin netanyahu has said there's no way to defeat hamas over there a ground incursion. talks are continuing. both sides are under fire to stop fighting and secure the release of hostages. antony blinken has urged israel to prioritise allowing a den, saying the entire population of gaza is suffering.

anna foster reports from jerusalem. at gaza's southern tip, the aftermath of another israeli air strike. 1.4 million displaced people are now sheltering in rafah and israel has made it clear it wants to go further. a ground offensive, it ,says would remove hamas from gaza entirely. but there's international pressure to avoid even more deaths. the message from israel's allies to its leaders is getting stronger. our position is that hamas should not be allowed a safe haven in rafah or anywhere else, but a major ground operation there would be a mistake. as rafah�*s displaced fear what might come next, their presence is just as hard. medical supplies, water and food are scarce. "my daughter said that she wants to eat boiled eggs and i say, �*how can i bring you boiled eggs? the situation does not allow us to. �*0ur situation was below zero before the war. �*so what do you expect

after the war? �*worse and worse.”'. in the north of gaza, famine is nowjust weeks away. few aid convoys are reaching that part of the strip. and in a second us intervention overnight, its top diplomat antony blinken said more needs to be done to save lives. if you look at some of the assessments that we're seeing now, they only underscore the urgency of making sure that this assistance is a priority and that it's sustained. again, according to the most respected measure of these things, 100% of the population in gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. that's the first time an entire population has been so classified. talks towards a ceasefire have restarted in qatar. i'm cautiously optimistic that - the negotiations have continued... negotiators cautioned that a deal will still take time.

screaming. explosion. and in gaza's rubble, the prospect of a pause in fighting feels as far away as ever. earlier, i spoke to nour shawaf — oxfam programme coordinator in the region — for more on the situation inside gaza. the situation is indeed catastrophic. and north of gaza, in particular, famine is very likely. and if not, it's days away and the entire strip, there's the very high risk of famine and this will be the fate of this. the strip will go through famine. if not, no action is taken immediately. we need to immediately upscale humanitarian operations, but in order to do that, we need the cease fire to be in place. and we know that we have been warning for months now that starvation is going to happen in gaza as israel is deliberately

using starvation as a weapon of war, with all the imposing of blockers to humanitarian operations and not allowing enough aid in. yeah. israel, of course, does deny that it's using starvation as a weapon of war. are you able to explain exactly how much aid is getting in at the moment for us on the land routes that tom was mentioning? i know there's this other one that he mentioned, this other route where aid is getting in. how much roughly is getting in at the moment? on average, what we have been seeing is that less than 3% of what is needed is actually getting in. what we need is six times more of what was being delivered into gaza in the past five months. so if that does not happen, then we cannot operate. and this is on top of not being able to get our aid into gaza with rejected items not being explained to us as to why they're being rejected.

we have a warehouse in el—arish in egypt that is full of aid items that have been rejected by israel under the umbrella of dual use items. but we do not understand why they have been rejected, especially when it's water testing kits people need to drink and if there is no access to water, if we cannot desalinate water, if we cannot provide water, then how are people going to survive? this is one of the blockers that we have been seeing. and what we also see is that world leaders look, it looks like they're waiting for a famine to be declared. in order to take action, we need immediate action. kensington palace has confirmed that images taken by a member of the public and published by the sun of catherine princess of wales on a shopping trip with prince william in windsor are genuine. the photograph has been published just over a week after she admitted editing an official portrait of her and her children.

the princess has been out of the public eye since christmas after having abdominal surgery. a blurry video of a couple going shopping at the weekend has become an international talking point. the pictures of prince william and catherine, published by the sun, are the first video images of the princess since her abdominal surgery injanuary. the unexpected appearance of a house of windsor in a windsor farm shop shows that she's back on herfeet and looking relaxed and smiling. there has been a whirlwind of social media speculation and conspiracy theories about the princess's health. it follows the release of a photograph on mother's day, which added to a febrile sense of uncertainty, when it was withdrawn by photo agencies after concerns it had been manipulated. people on london bridge this morning gave their views. it's good to see she's back and hopefully she's doing well. i'm sure it will be quite nice for her to pot around, do some shopping with her husband.

if she is well, fantastic, but yeah, i couldn't say| i was really concerned about it. she looks fine, she looks just going about her day, doesn't she? i've no feelings about that at all, i'm afraid. it's neither here or there whether he is out and about not really. kensington palace is not commentating on the video and are still calling for privacy, but there are further questions about a previous picture of the late queen elizabeth ii, taken by catherine. people are now saying it's been digitally enhanced. prince william will hope the focus can switch to his more official engagements, as he visits projects for the homeless in sheffield. earlier, i spoke to royal commentator victoria mather and asked about the pressure that the roayal couple had been under to be seen in public. this is a very good way of doing it and i'm rather amused by the strapline which said, "princess carries own shopping bag." she must be better. i suppose that is a sign

of things, the amount of interest there is in this. do you think this would have been an intentional move on their part to be seen out and about? quite a clever one, it is very low—key, modest, just an ordinary couple going shopping in a lovely and expensive farm shop. yeah, it is great. she is obviously out and about, she has been watching her children play sport at school, although she has not done much of the school run recently. let's hope she is much better and focus moves away from her so she can have peace and quiet. i suppose the issue for the royal family is they might not want to dignify the speculation and rumours with a response, but if you don't address them, these things take on a life of their own, don't they? do you think they may have a learning experience and may

change the way they go about things in the future because of this? you are therefore asking for the internet not to exist, aren't you? it will not go away, there will always be conspiracy theories. back in history there were leaflets that used to go around, scandalous leaflets which was the medieval equivalent of the internets. it is because we are nosy, we like poking into other people's business, and if they are royal, they are seen to be fair game. yes, it is unfair game, but that is the way it is. they are seen as public property, but my question is whether you think going forward they might be more open and explain more about their lives, be more reactive to things than they might have been in the past, or will they shrink away? therefore you are straying into the territory of letting the daylight in on the magic, aren't you? they will probably

have to be more open. but if they had said, as with the king and his cancer, "it is xyz," then can you imagine? i don't think they could face all the analysis in the press about how to treat this condition, what it actually meant, all of the gory details and then alternative therapies, if you have this particular form of cancer or this particular form of abdominal surgery it will be cured if you drink hummingbird tears. i suppose that may have been one of the reasons, because they did not explain what it was, that could be one of the reasons why there was so much speculation. you might have seen this photograph of the late queen, this was taken by catherine too, showing her with her grandchildren and great—grandchildren and this has apparently also been edited in some way.

what do you make of that? is it significant or are we beyond that? i don't think it is remotely significant. have you ever tried to get that number of children to look presentable and not one of them be picking its nose? i feel the queen looks suitably worried. it is a tradition, you go back to the age of holbein, he was perpetually touching up portraits so that people looked better. there is the case of anne of cleves who was made to look absolutely beautiful and when she arrived at the english court, henry viii thought she had a face like a slapped bottom, which was very unfortunate, she was a nice woman. this is the queen with her lovely grandchildren, all of whom are looking happy, pleased to be with her, smiling, and that is the essence of...

it is what the photograph conveys, the truth, or its truth, or as meghan would say, her truth. it might make us all feel better about our own lives if they were seen to be a little bit more real, isuppose, with the odd smile out of place or whatever, but i understand your point. thank you so much. let's keep the fairy tale. hong kong's legislature has passed a tough new security law, which authorities say is necessary for stability, but which critics fear will further erode civil liberties. the tough penalties include life imprisonment for treason and insurrection. translation: safeguarding l national security ordinance can help us effectively prevent, suppress and punish acts and activities endangering national security, including infiltration and sabotaging

activities by external forces. we can effectively guard against colour revolution and also those advocating hong kong independence. we will never be afraid of mutual destruction again. for rioters to have petrol bombs and vandalise properties in hong kong, endangering the lives of hong kong people. from now on, hong kong people will never have to experience the pain that we've experienced before. earlier, i spoke to the bbc�*s martin yip in hong kong and asked him to explain more about this legislation. yeah. so this has tactically been stipulated in hong kong's meaning constitution to hong kong basic law and is in article 23. so it has always been court the article 23 legislation. the whole idea is to write in a whole piece of law locally to protect china's national security and interests.

but hong kong has failed in 2003. and then we saw all those anti—government protests in between in 2014 and 2019 because of various issues. and beijing decided, as you might remember, to impose its own law in 2020, which isjust a partial one. so at this time, the government took this initiative to finish what they insist their constitutional responsibility to cover things like treason, sabotage, sedition, theft of state secrets and espionage. and the hong kong legislature, which is filled byjust pro—beijing legislators, had just dangerously passed this bill. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

to haiti next and there seems little the world can do for the moment, but simply watch the country slide further and further into anarchy. gangs control much of the capital, port—au—prince, where the bodies of at least a dozen people were discovered in a wealthy suburb. the us is hopeful a transitional council, might be able to restore order, along with the deployment of international troops, but for now the violence continues, as will grant, reports from cap—haitien. baby crying. just a day old — baby woodley�*s first cries are the same of those of children born anywhere — for food and for comfort. but as they get older, the children born in cap—haitien�*s maternity wing will find such essentials are far from guaranteed in haiti. markinsonjoseph tells me she would take her newborn boy out of the country altogether if she gets the chance. but she doesn't have the money to flee. the first ward for pathology. as he shows us around dark and empty wards, dr clervil says the gangs�* control

of the roads is making it impossible to find enough fuel to keep the lights on, let alone to bring in the drugs and equipment they need. translation: as you can see, we have beds and staff, - but often the patients just can't reach us because of their economic situation — or, more often than not, their safety. for some, it has had terrible consequences. louisemanie was eight and a half months pregnant when she came into hospital. by then, she had dangerously high blood pressure, and lost the baby. pre—eclampsia is treatable, had she been properly monitored or the baby been delivered early. louisemanie knows her loss was avoidable. the head of unicef has called the situation in haiti horrific, and likened the lawlessness to the post—apocalyptic film mad max. the security situation aside, the humanitarian need here is critical, and the aid response so far has been painfully slow.

the essential things of life are increasingly hard to find. in port—au—prince, farah 0xima and her nine children have been forced from their home by the violence, and she's struggling to provide the food and water they need. "only god can change this place," she says, "because from where i'm sitting, i can't see where any other change is coming from." the gangs have such a grip of haiti, they are, in essence, dictating what happens next in this country — who can govern it, who lives in it, and who dies. will grant, bbc news, haiti. another of controversies in football, including the failure of premier league clubs during greedy new financial package for the rest

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accusations from some his absence was a political snub to china. ticket holders will get a 50% refund on the condition they don't launch legal action. on the condition they don't launch legalaction. it on the condition they don't launch legal action. it was the interview which caused prince andrew to withdraw. now his 2019 bbc newsnight head—to—head with emily maitlis has been turned into a film. scoop tells the behind—the—scenes story, with billie piper as the producer sam mcalister, who landed the interview, and gillian anderson playing emily maitlis — although she originally turned down the part because she believed taking on the role of the former newsnight host was too scary. they've both been speaking to our entertainment correspondent colin paterson. tomorrow night, in an unprecedented interview, we will hear from the duke himself. it's newsnight, the movie, or rather, a netflix dramatisation of how producer sam mcalister, played by billie piper, secured emily maitlis's 2019 interview with prince andrew... the allegations surrounding jeffrey epstein include his friend prince andrew.

..with gillian anderson as emily maitlis. like a walk in the park. why do you need to make a dramatic version of it when the original is still there for everyone to see? well, because this, as much as anything, is about the story behind the acquisition of the interview. why not dramatise up until one of the most important and dramatic interviews in history, really? i think it is, in history, yeah. myjob is booking the people we can'tjust call up. hello, everyone. billie, it's important to say this is very much from the point of view of sam mccalister? she's so high energy and unlike anyone i've ever met, actually, and i don't say that lightly. i've never been smuggled into a palace before. at first, gillian anderson actually turned down the role of emily maitlis. i can't tell you what the questions will be because i don't know myself yet.

but when i do know, i still won't tell you. i mean, it's just too scary to play emily maitlis. why? well, because she's still living, because she's so formidable, because people know her so well and they said, "well, then, you have to do it." do you remember dancing at tramp? no. and to make things more complicated, emily maitlis herself is executive producer on an upcoming rival three part amazon drama about the interview, which made it slightly awkward when gillian anderson bumped into her. i had come to this charity event not having prepared at all and was really dishevelled. and she showed up as emily maitlis, who looks like a movie star and was tanned and short white skirt and tanned legs and everything. and i literally looked like her great aunt in the pictures! no, i thought that went very well. prince andrew famously thought that the interview had been a triumph. gillian anderson and billie piper both agree that there is almost no

chance he will watch this version. this interview, does it matter? colin paterson, bbc news. yeah, it matters. i love she thought it would be scary to play her. i love she thought it would be scary to play her. and scoop lands on netflix on april 5th. there's a good article from colin patterson on the bbc website if you want to check it out. hello again. for most of you, the weather is cheering up quite nicely and the afternoon promises some decent spells of sunshine. so far, some of the best breaks in the cloud have been across wales with these sunny skies spotted earlier in north—west wales. but it's not the only place that's seeing sunshine today. northern ireland, scotland, northern england also seeing increasingly sunny skies. it's across east anglia and south—east england where we'll probably keep a lot of cloud. it's a mild day, 13 degrees for belfast and aberdeen, 15 or 16 in the mildest spots

in england and wales. one or two isolated showers knocking around, yes, but for many of you, it stays dry. that's not the case, though, overnight, because low pressure's set to move in. and with that, we're going to see some fairly persistent outbreaks of rain pushing in, particularly to northern ireland, wales and northern england. a mild night, though, with temperatures 9 or 10 celsius for england and wales. 0n into tomorrow, the wettest weather, starting off the day in northern ireland will swing eastwards. so wales and northern england, probably having rain for most of the day. might well start off dry across south—east england. but i wouldn't rule out a bit of rain arriving here through the afternoon. mild across the south—east, brightening up for scotland and northern ireland. but here it will be a cooler kind of day with temperatures around 8 to 11 celsius. and that cool slice of weather won't last long. heading into thursday, we'll get some milder air pushing in off the atlantic behind this warm front, and so temperatures will be climbing. however, it is going to work out being quite a wet and windy day, particularly in scotland, where across northern areas we'll get

gusts of wind running into the 50s of miles an hour. rain likely to be quite persistent for western scotland for much of the day, sinking southwards to give some wet weather into northern ireland through the afternoon. relatively mild, though. 14 in belfast, highs reaching 16 degrees towards the south—east of england. all change again through friday. a cold front sweeps its way southwards, introducing much cooler air. with that, there'll be a band of rain pushing southwards across england and wales. the skies then brighten up with sunshine, but there'll be lots of showers across the north—west of the uk. some of those are likely to be heavy with some hail and thunder mixed in and temperatures are coming down. we're looking at highs typically between 9 and 12 celsius, so close to average for the time of year. it stays showery into the weekend with some quite chilly winds around and it will be cold enough for a little bit of snow over the tops of the scottish mountains.

a new chapter in britain's economic history — that's the promise of the labour party as it outlines its business strategy later today. but the government says it offers "no plan — just more borrowing and more taxes."

plus — power surge! a £58 billion revamp for the uk's national grid — but it will mean higher bills and more pylons? welcome to world business report. we start with the uk economy, because the woman who wants to be running it after the next election — labour's shadow chancellor, rachel reeves — will be outlining her plans in the next few hours. in a speech to business and finance chiefs in the city of london — ms reeves will promise a "new chapter in britain's economic history". we don't have many of the details yet — but it's thought she'll outline a new industrial strategy for the uk — including a "national wealth fund" to invest in growth industries — that would in turn create half a million newjobs. she's also expected to announce reforms to the treasury —

the government's finance department — to make it support