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Well be live with Anna Foster in Beirut And Nick beake whos in northern israel. Mps will get a vote on assisted dying in england and wales. Campaigners in favour welcome the move others remain cautious. Hello. Welcome to todays verified live. We start with the crisis in the Middle East irans supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has defended his Countrys Missile Attack on israel earlier this week as a minimum punishment in a rare Public Speech as he led Friday Prayers in tehran for the first time i...

Others express caution. Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to todays bbc verify. We start with the crisis in the middle east. Irans Supreme Leader, ayatollah khamenei, has defended his Countrys Missile Attack on israel earlier this week as a minimum punishment in a rare public speech, as He Led Friday Prayers in tehran for the first time in five years. He told a huge crowd of supporters that iran and its allies must prepare for action as He Led commemorations for the Hezbollah Leader, Hassan...

While theres no sign of that happening at this point, a video showing two hostages, including an american was released on saturday by hamas. In other diplomatic moves, the us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is due in saudi arabia for talks with regional leaders. He and other key players are expected to meet on the sidelines of the World Economic forum to discuss the war. And its reported a hamas delegation will visit cairo on monday for Gaza Ceasefire talks. So how likely is it that hamas will...

Than a Million People have fled. Efforts are under way to negotiate a truce between israel and hamas. The us Secretary Of State is meeting arab leaders to discuss the situation. Israels foreign minister says this is possible if hamas agrees to free its hostages. But theres no sign of that happening at this point. A video showing two hostages, including an american, was released on saturday by hamas. In other diplomatic moves, the us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is due in saudi arabia for ta...

Could be suspended if a deal emerges to free the hostages still held by hamas. Israel katz said their freedom was a top priority. Hamas has posted a new video, which shows two of the hostages captured during its october attack. Keith siegel and omri miran, both identify themselves. While the video is not dated, there is a reference to the recent passover holiday. Its the second such video that hamas considered a terror group by the uk and us governments has published in the past few days. Our co...

The hostages still held by hamas. Israel katz said their freedom was a top priority. Hamas has posted a new video, which shows two of the hostages captured during its october attack. Keith siegel, and omri miran, both identify themselves. While the video is not dated, there is a reference to the recent passover holiday. Its the second such video that hamas considered a terror group by the uk and us governments has published in the past few days. Our correspondent, anna foster, sent this update f...

And leaders from most of the main parties have been taking part in a live tv debate on the bbc. Interestingly Prime Minister theresa may wasnt there she ruled out doing head to head tv debates and sent a senior minister, amber rudd, in her place. The main opposition labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had said he also wouldnt go if mrs may wasnt appearing but he had a last minute change of heart, and decided to turn up. Lets hear him clashing with amber rudd over payments to disabled people. We are a pa...

Yesterday, if hes going at ukraine, why wouldnt he involve the ballotbaltics? >> yeah, a big deterrent the nato alliance that would argue -- this is the argument essentially against using nato forces inside of ukraine at this point. because some would argue thats actually what putin wants. he wants to trigger that bigger war. if his goal is to change the geopolitical situation in europe, that would be the way to do it. >> so, one of the things youve been saying to me as we watch the russians get...

Its just different. the stakes are different. the questions are different and, as we saw, the follow-ups are different from people who know what theyre doing. >> those are pretty tough follow-ups from ed-ry there. >> big deterrent to remove scott pruitt is that hes doing exactly what the president wants him to do. theres also a question about well, if someone needed to replace him, could they be confirmed, even in this current senate with a narrow republican majority its uncertain. >> he succeed...

Rachel, i just got here yesterday, so im still on california time. >> absolutely. good. well keep you up for a few hours then. how do you think that russia -- >> all right -- >> -- will react to this indictment today? 13 russian citizens indicted. nobody believes the u.s. will have an easy time getting them into any american courtroom maybe ever. how do you think russia will respond to this? >> well, yeah. its going to be hard to get them to get putin to send them to america. but i think this is...