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Hello, i m lucy hockings, welcome to Bbc News now. Memorial events are taking place in israel and Around The World to mark one year since the attacks of October The 7th, the deadliest day in the nations history. Nearly 1200 people were killed and hundreds more taken hostage when hamas gunmen stormed across the border. In a moment, well go to Southern Israel and our chief international correspondent lyse doucet, who is at kibbutz be eri, where one in ten of the residents were killed by hamas. And...

Were stored there. Meanwhile, President Biden has said he will not support any attack by israel on irans nuclear sites in response to Tuesdays Missile Barrage by tehran. The us president has spoken to other World Leaders in the g7, and called for any retaliation from the israelis to be proportionate. The iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian warned if israel retaliated, iran would respond more severely. Israels military says eight of its soldiers were killed in the first two days of its Ground In...

Hassan nasrallah had been Secretary General of hezbollah for 32 years, overseeing its growth into the worlds most heavily armed non state army. He was born in lebanon in 1960, growing up in beirut s eastern bourj hammoud district. He took over the leadership in 1992 when his predecessor was assassinated by israel. To thousands, maybe millions of Shia Muslims in lebanon and beyond, he was a hero. To israel, he was a wanted terrorist. Armed with up to the minute intelligence, the israeli Air Force...

on dozens of federal charges, including obstruction of justice, conspiracy and violating the espionage act and because of documents or mary lago and his new jersey golf club. which brings me to my overarching point. how about fairness? do i think that president trump is always right? do i think hes always unfairly accused? absolutely not, and doesnt mean a payment for an alleged affair and arguments over classified documents, causing global shockwaves and possibly jail time is actually...

a first—of—its—kind bill to ban tiktok statewide, setting the stage for future court battles that could determine the fate in the us of the popular social media app, which is owned by china. the bill, which will now be sent to the governors desk, specifically names tiktok as a target of the bill and a possibility of a $10,000 a day fine for a violation. earlier, i spoke to montana—based tiktok influencer carly goddard, who described the platform as her livelihood. first of all,...

will be elected by next week after a rebellion by conservative mps forced her to quit. the opposition leader labours sir keir starmer repeats his call for a general election, saying its time for the public to decide. we cant have a revolving door of chaos we can have another experiment on the top of the tory party that is the alternative a stable labour government and the public are entitled to have their say that is why there should be a general election. this makes liz truss the shor...

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that began way back on tuesday. along the way, we were treated to an important at times chaotic civics lesson including near fisticuffs live and on camera. friday the fourth day of voefting we saw 15 holdouts switch their allegiance during the 12th and 13th rounds of balloting, and then after an adjournment mccarthy thought he had the needed votes and at 11:00 came to a 14th vote yet one vote shy of a majority. for the first time all week he couldnt hide being visibly angry. lauren boe...

after the queue was closed temporarily, it has now reopened, but the waiting time is more than 2a hours. among the mourners was the former international football star david beckham, who had queued all night to pay his respects. later this evening, the queens four children will hold vigil around the coffin in westminster hall. also on the programme: ukraine says hundreds of graves have been found outside izyum, a city that was recently recaptured from russian forces. as retail sales in ...

before the low pressure starts to ease away. on saturday, we will see wet weather to the west. it is also going to impact wales and south—west england. elsewhere, dry with sunshine. if you dodge the showers, you will get that once again. but we could see lines of showers through east anglia, stretching up towards newcastle and south—west scotland. we are going to see the winds strengthen, particularly with this pulse of wet weather pushing up from the south—west towards northern ...