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Penalties for corruption. And the town of tadcaster in North Yorkshire will be reunified today when its only road bridge reopens, more than a year after it was destroyed by severe flooding. Good morning. Its friday 3rd february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. First to paris where there has been an attack at the Louvre Museum in the heart of the city. Its been described the french Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve as being of a terrorist nature. Police say a man carrying two mach...

Iran launching attacks on israel or vice versa. and i think the real greyzone hear the uncertainty is if what happens, for example, if iran uses its proxy forces in brock or syria against israel all escalates the conflict along israels northern border with lebanon syria, hezbollah does israel then respond directly against iran as its done today? and that generates a counter response. so i do think to a degree the strikes by iran against israel and israel against iran have changed the dynamics of...

Open to follow-up attacks in yemen. what made this distinct and unique besides oh responses is that they never involved going in to yemen to do them or launching attacks in yemen, that that now is open to you, right? >> its not the first time weve conducted strikes in yemen. of course, if you go back to 2016 -- neil: right. >> but in this particular case, you know, as secretary austin made clear in his e statement last night, you know, we will continue to do what we need to do to protect our for...

From further discrimination? the court has signaled in many different ways that they are essentially, there are people who are concerned that obergefell is on the line, a landmark decision that codified same-sex marriage? >> this is a time where we also recognize that the experience of lgbtq americans, many are feeling under attack, conservative politicians are launching attacks across the country. there have been over 500 legislations filed that really target lgbtq americans in state legislatur...

New types of weaponry. any new types of arms. these are things that they have received in the past. you note there that president zelenskyy did say that he spoke with president biden about those longer range missiles. but they have been asking for for a very long time. so, there is going to be some disappointment on the ukrainian side about what is being offered today. ukrainians have insisted that there are russian targets that are out of their reach, particularly in the southern part of the co...

Connected and as much as it is possible to supply electricity. >> but now ukraine says its missiles hit the occupied di of melitopol, a russian news agency says the same happened in russian held eastern ukraine. while unconfirmed social media reports are describing widespread explosions across the crimea peninsula. our reporters are standing by, barbie nadeau is in rome but first id like to go to sam kiley in kyiv. sam, whats the situation like there on the ground? we understand ukraine has been...

Which party controls the upper chamber this -- john fetterman has agreed to october 25th debate against his opponent, doctor oz, who has been launching attacks on his health to create up doubts about his ability to serve. you know pennsylvania and his voters well. do you think its voters are going to turn out and punish doctor oz for this kind of lowbrow strategy? >> yeah first, of a total homer. i love talking about anything pennsylvania. pennsylvania sports and pennsylvania politics. i do beli...

Jurors decide how much jones has to pay the plaintiffs for saying the shooting was a hoax. clinton watts testified, reviewing jones content and the business model for product sales on several platforms. >> i said theyre launching attacks, getting ready, i can see them working, and they have the majority in the congress and senate. they are going to come after our guns, look for mass shootings and then magically it happens. they are coming, they are coming, they are coming. >> its fear over loss ...

Ukrainians asked for as they ramped up that counteroffensive. a watchdog team has arrived in ukraine with plans to visit the russian-occupied nuclear power plant in zaporizhzhia. heres the latest from kyiv. melissa? >> reporter: john, we had been expecting to hear directly from the iae today. theyre carrying out that much needed and much anticipated inform inspection to find out what damage has been done around the plant. but the very shelling is what seems to have complicated things with ukrain...

Poppy, jim? >> sam kiley, good to have you there. please keep you and your team safe. lets speak to mark hertling, cnn military analyst, former commanding general of the u.s. army. good to have you on. youve been watching the situation around zaporizhzhia closely for weeks. they accused the russian military of launching attacks from it and we have seen video of russian vehicles inside and a lot of live fire around it. in your view, is russia holding the power plant in effect hostage? >> absolute...