Bowen joins us from jerusalem. Your assessment, jeremy, after the last few hours of what we might expect in the coming hours and days . Well, hamas say that they are fighting against israeli troops and tanks in the northern part of the gaza strip, that there are some big battles going on there. One big question, is this the invasion people have been talking about for the last three weeks . I think what the last three weeks . I think what the israelis seem to be doing is to cut off one northern part, one slice, one tranche, if you like, and then perhaps, i dont know, move on from that. A lot of reaction coming in. The Palestinian Authority, which is the rival Palestinian Group to hamas, is absolutely condemned what israel is doing as unhinged aggression, which is significant, because there are some people who hope that if israel removes hamas from power, then the Palestinian Authority might be tempted to take Overin Authority might be tempted to take over in gaza. At the way they are ta
This thick white smoke indicates what ukraine says is a successful strike on the headquarters of russias black sea navy in crimea. Russia illegally annexed the Southern Ukrainian Peninsula of crimea in 2014. This month, ukraine has carried out several attacks on the region, destroying a Russian Air Defence system and damaging a ship and a submarine in a dry dock. Kyiv is also trying to cut off russian supply lines as it continues with its Counter Offensive further north. 0ur Senior International correspondent 0rla guerin is in kyiv. Kyiv could hardly have picked a more high profile target than the headquarters of russias Black Sea Fleet in crimea and a source in the Ukrainian Air force told the bbc that the type of missile used was a storm shadow Cruise Missile and those are supplied by the uk and france. We have seen footage showing a massive impact on the building and tonight they have been claims in the past half an hour on social media that the commander of the Black Sea Fleet was
To the decision to release the serial sex attackerjohn worboys. The former black cab driver was jailed in 2009 for attacking 12 women, but he is suspected of assaulting many more. Thejustice secretary david gauke admitted he shares the concerns of worboys victims, but that it would not be appropriate to seekjudicial review of the parole boards ruling to free him. Two of his victims are mounting their own challenge to try to keep worboys behind bars. Our Home Affairs Correspondent june kelly has more. He is one of the countrys most notorious serial sex offenders. In his black cab, john worboys cruised for victims, not fares. He was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women. One of them, he raped. But its feared he may have attacked more than 100 in total. At the top of government, as elsewhere, there was astonishment at the decision to release him after less than a decade in prison. The week began with thejustice secretary looking to challenge the decision in the courts. Bu
Where staff have in paid the equivalent of one third of the minimum wage. Have been. Good evening, and welcome to bbc news. An appalling tragedy that should never have happened. Thats what the Prime Minister called the contaminated Blood Scandal of the 1970s And 80s as the government announced an inquiry into whats been called one of the biggest disasters in the history of the nhs. At least 2,400 people died and 7,500 patients were infected with viruses, such as hepatitis c and hiv, after being given Blood Products by the nhs. 0ur health editor, hugh pym, reports. These are the medications for hiv. Andy has had a life on medication because he was given contaminated blood. At the age of five, he was infected with hiv and hepatitis c. At 16, he developed aids. Since then, all hes wanted is answers. Im very worried that there was deliberate acts behind these infections, as i say, at the very minimum we were let down. At the worst, i think, there are people to blame for a lot of the infect
Where staff have in paid the equivalent of one third of the minimum wage. Have been. Good evening, and welcome to bbc news. An appalling tragedy that should never have happened. Thats what the Prime Minister called the contaminated Blood Scandal of the 1970s And 80s as the government announced an inquiry into whats been called one of the biggest disasters in the history of the nhs. At least 2,400 people died and 7,500 patients were infected with viruses, such as hepatitis c and hiv, after being given Blood Products by the nhs. 0ur health editor, hugh pym, reports. These are the medications for hiv. Andy has had a life on medication because he was given contaminated blood. At the age of five, he was infected with hiv and hepatitis c. At 16, he developed aids. Since then, all hes wanted is answers. Im very worried that there was deliberate acts behind these infections, as i say, at the very minimum we were let down. At the worst, i think, there are people to blame for a lot of the infect