you're very welcome. the israeli defense forces continued with what they call "targeted strikes" into the southern gaza city of rafah, just hours after hamas leaders announced they had accepted a ceasefire proposalfrom egyptian and qatari mediators. the multi—stage deal could involve the initial exchange of palestinian prisoners for 33 israeli hostages held since the 7 october attacks, though the full details have not yet been made public. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the agreement is farfrom meeting israel's demands but that he would send a delegation to cairo to negotiate further on tuesday. qatar, which is facilitating the negotiations, says it will also send a delegation to the egyptian capital. israel's latest attack on rafah has left at least five people dead. armed factions in gaza responded to the israeli strikes by firing rockets into southern israel. celebrations broke out in gaza

as news of the potential breakthrough reached palestinians. but earlier in the day civilians in eastern rafah began to flee after the israeli military dropped leaflets warning them to evacuate ahead of a limited ground operation against hamas. 100,000 refugees have been told to move to what israel is calling an expanded humanitarian zone near khan younis, but gazans say the area is already overcrowded. jordan's king abdullah ii is in the us on a state visit. in in a meeting at the white house on monday, jordanian officials say the king told presidentjoe biden a ground invasion into rafah would lead to a new massacre and risk spilling over into the wider region. in new york, the un sectetary—general antonio guterres told reporters that israel invading rafah would be intolerable. the bbc�*s special correspondent, fergal keane, has more details. they haven't had reason to dance for a long time.

but they haven't forgotten how. even amid uncertainty about israel's position, hope springs. across gaza, bbcjournalists captured the reaction... ..of those convinced, perhaps prematurely, that a ceasefire will happen. translation: the feeling is indescribable. _ we're so happy we're going back to our home in gaza city. "we're refugees from the north and we fled here," this young man says. "we're so happy there's a ceasefire." israelis are still absorbing the news. it came late on one of this society's most important days, when — across the country — sirens bring the nation to a halt in memory of the dead of the holocaust... ..a day of reflection in a country traumatised by the hamas attack

last october. chanting tonight, on the streets of tel aviv, those who believe healing that trauma can begin with a ceasefire deal and the release of israel's hostages. we expect the israeli government to take this deal, to save all the remaining hostages who are still alive. but after seven months of a war in which israel's army pledged to destroy hamas, a ceasefire deal that fails to accomplish that risks breaking israel's wartime coalition government. israel will send negotiators to talks but won't stop fighting yet. translation: we examine every proposal very seriously _ and we review every possibility on the issue of negotiations and the return of the hostages to their homes as quickly as possible and as a central task. at the same time, we carry on with our operations

in the gaza strip and will continue to do so. this morning, the people of eastern rafah awoke to leaflets telling them to evacuate. many have been displaced before, but still they were told to leave — everyone, no matter how old, how young or how vulnerable. to al—mawasi, israel says, and other desolate places beyond rafah. the so—called humanitarian zones were to be expanded. but they've never been safe from sickness, hunger or war. this is the aftermath of raids on rafah last night.

people hope these may have been some of the last air strikes if the ceasefire can be made to work. news of the hamas announcement was still hours away. nisreen rajah, mother and refugee. for seven months, this has been the daily reality. this orphan, grieved by his relative. "his family was killed during the war," she says. "even he was killed." so many here are grieving and exhausted. late tonight, israel attacked eastern rafah, where they told people to leave. celebration had turned to fear... ..and the hope that tomorrow might bring peace. fergal keane,

bbc news, jerusalem. as you heard there, monday marks holocaust memorial day — or yom ha shoah — which commemorates the six millionjews who were murdered by nazi germany. joe biden is expected to speak tuesday at a ceremony at the united states holocaust memorial museum here in washington. the white house says he will draw parallels between the holocaust and hamas's attacks against israel on 7 october, saying too many people are downplaying both events. live now to david makovsky, ziegler distinguished fellow at the washington institute and director of the koret project on arab—israel relations. thanks so much forjoining us on bbc news. you've spent most of your career involved in israeli—palestinian negotiations. what's your view tonight on where things stand? hamas says it will take the deal, israel says it doesn't its needs but is sending a delegation anyway. there is no clear gap. israel

thought that what hamas would be responding to was the talks going on with phil burns, the cia, the head of egypt's intelligence, the prime minister of qatar and israel. it seems hamas gave a yes answer but another set of proposals so there is a gap. as long as there is an effort to talk, the cairo negotiations are important, but the question is, will they be able to bridge the differences or are people posturing here because they don't want to be blamed for the breakdown in negotiations? israel thinks that hamas is acting in bad faith and hamas says we are saying yes to something, doesn't that count, and we will have to see if these differences can be reached. these differences can be reached-— these differences can be reached. . �* , , ., reached. that's the question, how do you —

reached. that's the question, how do you get _ reached. that's the question, how do you get around - reached. that's the question, | how do you get around hamas wanting a permanent ceasefire and israel not wanting to leave its stated mission unfinished as premised on so often. == as premised on so often. -- prime minister _ as premised on so often. » prime minister netanyahu. that's a question on the way the us was trying to bridge this is no prior commitment for that first batch what they called the 33 humanitarian hostages, the women, the elderly and injured, of course there would be a palestinian prisoner releases well, and until now hamas has being say no, we need a commitment on the front and that this will and the fighting. it will be a multistage process but would mean the commitment has to be on the front and. the us is trying to get this batch done, palestinians will get prisoners out and apparently some hard—core prisoners and may be for the future batch we could have this conversation. it

seems hamas is sticking to it once a commitment upfront about what the ad result will be and that's where the gap is most pronounced. mil that's where the gap is most pronounced.— pronounced. all the while airstrikes _ pronounced. all the while airstrikes are _ pronounced. all the while airstrikes are continuing l pronounced. all the while | airstrikes are continuing in rafah. we see the idf evacuating civilians from there as well. everything winding up it would seem for again the stated mission that parameters are netanyahu has of going into rafah to close now he says are the last for remaining hamas cells. what impact does all of that have happening at the same time as an effort to talk? it’s time as an effort to talk? it's a ureat time as an effort to talk? it's a great question. _ time as an effort to talk? it�*s a great question. right now we don't see a fuller assault. you mentioned the four battalion some of the remaining ones of hamas. we see israel working the ages with the eastern outskirts of rafah but there is been some reports of what they call a philadelphia road, that is the egyptian and gaza

border, israel wants to be careful not to offend egyptian sensibilities and the question was that was an area of smuggling a where hamas was able to bring in weaponry. the question is, can you kind of work rafah at the ages, leaflet everyone, make sure you get out of harms way, but this isn't the all—out assault, my take is that what israel is trying to signal to mark rutte is you'd think we don't have any military pressure points on you because most of the fighting frankly has stopped in february and so israel is trying to signal if you can't come around to this common ground, you will see that israel does have a military option, it's not the fuller assault, military option, it's not the fullerassault, i military option, it's not the fuller assault, i see it as a brinkmanship in trying to use military pressure in order to reach a breakthrough at the negotiating table in cairo. if we stab it out for a moment to look at the wider region, what

are your concerns about a wider stability question? it is are your concerns about a wider stability question?— stability question? it is huge. i think it is — stability question? it is huge. i think it is important - stability question? it is huge. i think it is important that - i think it is important that none of the arab states have broken relations with israel including the abraham accords, countries of 2020. it's clear with the illustration, that biden wants to achieve, it put its legs and a hostage deal because it was hoping to pervert as an off—ramp of this crisis —— market pervert to see if there was a saudi and israeli normalisation of deal which we hear the saudis want badly because they see this part of a wider package for us and saudi defence treaty. that was clearly the administration's big thinking and if the hostage issue talks collapse, that off—ramp for a wider breakthrough becomes less likely. you are right to ask about how does this linkup to a wider thing.

about how does this linkup to a widerthing. forthe wider thing. for the administration, the widerthing. forthe administration, the hostages was that off—ramp. there is a lot, this is a high—stakes negotiation. lot, this is a high-stakes negotiation.— lot, this is a high-stakes neuotiation. . ~ �* ., negotiation. india. we'll wait to see what _ negotiation. india. we'll wait to see what happens - negotiation. india. we'll wait to see what happens in - negotiation. india. we'll wait to see what happens in cairo | to see what happens in cairo tomorrow. david makovsky, ziegler distinguished fellow at the washington institute and director of the koret project on arab—israel relations. thanks forjoining us. always thanks for “oining us. always deli . hted thanks forjoining us. always delighted to _ thanks forjoining us. always delighted to be _ thanks forjoining us. always delighted to be with - thanks forjoining us. always delighted to be with you. - french president emanuel macron welcomed new assurances from president xi jinping that china will not provide russia with weapons to use against ukraine. on his first visit to europe in five years, xi stood with macron to call for a truce in ukraine and other conflicts during the olympic games this summer. macron hopes that china's influence on moscow could push russia to end the war in eastern europe. during their talks about the israel—gaza war the two leaders said they share the same goal of achieving an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages, protecting populations and providing humanitarian aid. our paris correspondent, hugh schofield, has more. at the end of a very long day we've had one of those press conferences which aren't really press conferences

but statements by the two leaders full of honeyed diplomatic words, very difficult to get beyond the verbiage but if you listened to the content and analyse the words, you could see that they were still differences between the two sides when for example president xi talked about the ukrainian war, he talked about not war but the crisis, he said repeated his position that china is not part of the crisis and that we should not be putting all the blame on a third party, so clearly setting out the difference there between him and the europe of macron which wants to use china to rein in president putin and on the issue of trade, the other big issue, we saw from macron language which was slightly coded to signify that europe is sticking to its guns. he said france has the most open economy in the world, the most open market in the world, but it is a sovereign and independent policy that it pursues and it will do more to defend its interests. again, that's restating this

new macron european hardline towards china, talking about a europe which will stand up for its interests more and more against what they see as their aggressive competition coming from beijing. live now to beijing to speak to our china correspondent laura bicker. laura, president xi as will hurd has not been to europe for five years. why now?— five years. why now? first, covid has — five years. why now? first, covid has ended _ five years. why now? first, covid has ended and - covid has ended and restrictions have ended and president macron came here to beijing, was given a warm welcome and president xi will see this as a time to reciprocate that and go there but china is growing increasingly concerned about its image in europe. at this time when its economy is once booming economy is starting to fail, it needs trade. with europe. president xi will see this as an opportunity to try to stem what it sees as

anti—china voices and anti—china voices and anti—china influences and when they are talking about that, they are talking about that, they usually mean the united states. in recent weeks both america and europe have been on the same trade, the same page when it comes to trade. i have talked your programme before about the fear of lots of electric vehicles, these cheap electric vehicles, these cheap electric vehicles, these cheap electric vehicles that are making their way to europe and america. europe believes that suddenly the very person who has been pushing for the investigation is of mr macron, that china is severely subsidising these vehicles which is allowing them to be tapered. they see it unfair —— much cheaper. so china will be there in europe to try to reassure president macron. he also might see an opening there because while mr macron once the investigation and wants to take that hard line on china, he also wants electric vehicles to be built in france. the

other issue is leveraged. suddenly president xi will want those anti—china voices to be silenced and he may see mr macron as a way of doing that. when mr macron came here he said that europe shouldn't blindly follow the united states was market position especially when it comes to taiwan and they will be music to mr rushie's years and see mr macron is perhaps a way of putting paris in his corner what it comes to influencing europe ——mr macron. what it comes to influencing europe --mr macron. trade, taiwan and _ europe --mr macron. trade, taiwan and the _ europe --mr macron. trade, taiwan and the bigger - europe --mr macron. trade, taiwan and the bigger issuel europe --mr macron. trade, | taiwan and the bigger issue is the chinese support for our show which president macron said he wants to address and get china to stop supplying weapons to russia. is that likely? weapons to russia. is that likel ? ~ , ., likely? when it comes to china's supply _ likely? when it comes to china's supply of - likely? when it comes to l china's supply of weapons likely? when it comes to - china's supply of weapons do not supply weapons but components. last week we had on this programme and others across the bbc from the us secretary of state antony blinken who came here to urge

china to dojust blinken who came here to urge china to do just that, stop supplying those components to russia which they believe are helping moscow invasion of ukraine. mr burden is true here in china later this month and one reason why this the push by america and mr macron and europe on this. whether or not china is listening, they may see an opportunity for themselves to play peacemaker here but whether or not they are listening when it comes to the i will see if president putin and president xi meet later this month. we putin and president xi meet later this month.— putin and president xi meet later this month. we will watch closely for _ later this month. we will watch closely for that. _ later this month. we will watch closely for that. laura - later this month. we will watch closely for that. laura bicker i closely for that. laura bicker invasion, thank you. —— invasion. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at another story making the headlines. john swinney has promised a "new chapter" after taking over as the leader of the scottish national party. he ran unopposed in the contest to succeed humza yousaf. mr swinney is also likely to be confirmed as scotland's new first minister this week. james cook explains.

in the end it was the coronation of king john, no other candidates or contest but straight to work as snp leader. my focus will be the economy, jobs, the cost of living. it'll be the national health service, our schools and our public services, addressing the climate crisis. i look at politics today and i think politics is in the worst state i've ever seen it in my lengthy involvement in politics. so i'm here to do something about that. he's taking on the job 20 years after he resigned having led his party through three election setbacks in westminster, holyrood and european parliament polls. mr swinney will become only the seventh first minister of scotland in holyrood's 25—year history. you're live with bbc news. thejudge overseeing donald trump's first criminal trial threatened to throw the former president in jail. judgejuan merchan found mr trump in contempt of court for a 10th time, saying he violated his gag order by commenting on the jury and how it was selected.

thejudge said he recognises that mr trump could very well be the next president, and said that throwing him in jail is the last thing he wants to do. but he said he has a job to do to uphold the judicial system. our north america correspondent, nada tawfik, sent this update. documents don't lie. prosecutors showed evidence they say proves trump cooked the books to conceal election crimes. today in court it turned from tales of conspiracy to cover—up as the former trump organization controller jeffrey mcconney took the stand. he detailed how he was called to a meeting with then cfo allen weisselberg in january 2017. he said he was given a copy of cohen's bank statement showing his $130,000 wire to stormy daniels' lawyer. mcconney�*s handwritten note details the map that

led to michael cohen being reimbursed with $35,000 monthly over the course of the year. he also showed a series of emails, invoices and leisure entries that are key pieces of evidence in the prosecution's case because ultimately it's falsifying business records, not the hush money payment on its own that's at issue here. trump's lawyers claim the payments to cohen were for legitimate legal work but mcconney testified he never saw a legal retainer agreement for cohen. on cross—examination by the defence mcconney said weisselberg never told him what cohen was seeking reimbursement for so is there yet solid proof that donald trump was the architect? jurors will hear from witnesses including michael cohen himself. argentina's presidentjavier milei told the bbc that ordinary argentines are not paying for his radical austerity measures. mr milei, who campaigned with a chainsaw to symbolise his desire to slash public spending, insisted that it was false to suggest the public were bearing the brunt of steep spending cuts and the devaluation of the currency.

our south america correpsondent, ione wells, has more. this was once a wealthy country. some of these people were once middle—class. many say they're ashamed to be at the soup kitchen, just to feed theirfamilies. it is hard to eat with dignity. translation: since - the government changed unfortunately the demand for soup kitchens from homeless people, families as well has increased. not only people who are homeless, entire families that come looking for a plate of food. this place offers some a lifeline. but food supplies and salaries of staff here have recently been cut by the government. it's one of many cuts the new president javier milei has introduced. he has slashed energy and transport subsidies, the value of the currency, government spending on things like pensions. he argues the shock therapy is to fix the economy

after years of high inflation, high debt and public spending. i asked him what he would say to argentines who feel they are paying the price. translation: actually, that is false. _ the largest adjustment is being paid by the political corporation. the mass media will deliberately lie and people will believe those lies they get through the media. you can't make a macroeconomic evaluation based on the situation of individuals. actually a particular situation may be influenced by the sort of information that individuals also have access to. information people have access to is prices in supermarkets. do you know how much a litre of milk costs in buenos aires? do you know how many goods assets exist within an economy? you don't do economics based on the price of an individual asset. the first thing is that in economics miracles don't exist.

what would have been the alternative? to continue to print money like the previous administration, that generates inflation and ends up effecting the most vulnerable? that was not the way to go. his fans want to give him time. some feel they can't afford to. julia sings here because her $190 per month pension isn't enough to live on. translation: it is us - who sufferer, not the political class as the president says. he says the political class is going to pay. it's a lie. we are suffering. the common people. the retirees. people who work every day and pay their travel fares, who by their food. ione wells, bbc news, buenos aires. let's turn to some important news around the world. the first crewed launch of boeing's starliner spaceship was postponed shortly before takeoff after a new safety issue was identified.

the head of nasa said safety was his organisation's top priority and there would be no launch until everything was ready. the mission has been delayed for several years because of setbacks in development. only one private firm, elon musk�*s spacex, has been successful sending crew transport to and from the international space station. the uk's ministry of defence has been the target of a significant data breach. the bbc understands the personal data of serving and veteran armed forces members has been accessed from a payroll system. the defence secretary will update the house of commons on the situation on tuesday. one of the biggest nights in the fashion industry's calendar is under way in new york where celebrities are gathering for the annual met gala. the event, hosted by vogue editor—in—chief anna wintour and held at the metropolitan museum of art, is known for its extravagant red carpet fashion and star—studded guest list.

the so—called oscars of the east coast serves as a fundraiser for the metropolitan museum of art's costume institute. that's it for the moment. i am caitriona perry. from all the team here, thanks for watching. stay with us here on bbc news. take care now, by. hello. well, your bank holiday monday probably came with a rain interruption at some point. it was pretty unsettled. some lengthy spells of rain across the southeast of england, but plenty of showers elsewhere. others, though, managed some sunshine. and in lincolnshire, we had 11 hours of sun, so it wasn't so bad there, whereas others had the downpours. and across parts of northern england, we had a couple of funnel clouds spotted — one over saddleworth moor and another one in the derbyshire area. the weather is going to be improving, though, over the next few days as a ridge of high pressure starts to move its way in and that will tend to settle the weather down. a slow process. we've still got a bit of rain left

over across southeast england, one or two showers elsewhere, but these will tend to fizzle over the coming hours. and temperatures as we start off tuesday morning, generally around 8—10, the coldest spots down to about five degrees. and that's probably where we'll have the best of the early morning sunshine. now, what you do start off the day cloudy, and particularly around some of these north sea coasts, it could be quite grey. some mist and fog patches around, a few spots of drizzle, but it is an improving picture for the majority. cloud will thin and break up, with sunny spells becoming widespread into the afternoon. outside chance of a shower? yeah, it's possible, perhaps across the hills of wales and south west england, one or two elsewhere, but not as many as we've seen over recent days. the vast majority of you will have a dry day and it will feel warmer when the sunshine comes out. the high pressure continues to build in for wednesday, but we do have weather fronts that will try to sneak in from the northwest. so wednesday, again, it should be a fine day for the vast majority of the country. certainly england, wales, most of northern ireland looking dry with spells of warm sunshine, probably quite hazy sunshine. there will be some high cloud in the sky. but across the hebrides,

highlands, orkney and shetland, it will turn cloudy, quite windy with outbreaks of rain moving in. in the sunshine, though, temperatures more widely climbing into the low 20s, so feeling progressively warmer. thursday, you've still got a risk of a few showers, this time for scotland. otherwise, some broken cloud and sunny spells. should be another dry day for most areas of northern ireland, england and wales. and again, those temperatures continue to climb. we're up to 19 in belfast. the warmest weather probably across eastern england, where temperatures will reach around 22, possibly 23 degrees celsius. that is going to feel warm in the sunshine, and there is more of that sunshine as we finish the week and head into the weekend, albeit probably with an increasing risk of seeing some showers moving in. that's your latest weather. bye— bye.

voice-over: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. all of us are heavily influenced by the social, cultural and economic environment in which we are raised. as ideas, trends and technologies change, so too do generational traits. and right now there is intense focus on what is happening to generations of young people closer in age to my kids, than to me. are young adults inclined to be

open—minded or closed? are children's minds being rewired by the ubiquitous smartphone? well, my guest is the renowned social psychologistjonathan haidt. are we losing sight of what freedom and curiosity really mean? jonathan haidt, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much, steve. it is a pleasure to have you here. now, of course, your home base is new york university, across the pond in the united states. right now, that university — along with many others

in the us — is in ferment, with students occupying certain