coming up. is the most important day in the christian calendar, and thousands are gathering to celebrate easter mass begins at the vatican. meanwhile religious events across the middle east marred by ongoing violence, we re live in jerusalem and beirut, and why to tennessee lawmakers expelled from the statehouse could soon be back at one. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with poland, he said. up first for us. it s easter sunday, the holiest day of the christian calendar. celebrating with the bible says was the resurrection of jesus. tens of thousands of the faithful have converged on st peter s square for easter mass. currently underway there. hope francis is presiding over the service. he will then deliver his traditional urbi or or be or at to the city of the world blessing. the 86 year old pontiff has been recovering from bronchitis after being hospitalized last week now later in the show, we will head to the vatican for a live update with our delia gallagher. me
welcome to the programme, i m louis juanjones. first is our. an italian man has died and three british citizens are among the wounded after a car ploughed in to tourists near a beach in tel aviv. the attacker was shot dead by police. it comes after two british israeli sisters were killed and their mother injured in a shooting in the occupied west bank on friday, in what has been a week of heightened tensions in the region. our correspondent lucy williamson reports from tel aviv a warning, her piece contains some distressing images. last night, tel aviv s holiday crowds became targets. gunfire. this, the moment when police surrounded the attacker and then shot him dead. people shout. you can hear the fear of people filming nearby. the driver was a 45 year old man from a nearby town who drove his car into pedestrians, killing an italian man named as alessandro parini, and injuring five others, three of them british. we heard gunfire. we saw shots and then we saw people sprint
welcome to the programme, i m tanya beckett. an italian man has died and three british citizens are among the wounded after a car ploughed in to tourists near a beach in tel aviv. the attacker was shot dead by police. it comes after two british israeli sisters were killed and their mother injured in a shooting in the occupied west bank on friday, in what has been a week of heightened tensions in the region. our correspondent lucy williamson reports from tel aviv a warning, her piece contains some distressing images. last night, tel aviv s holiday crowds became targets. gunfire. this, the moment when police surrounded the attacker and then shot him dead. people shout. you can hear the fear of people filming nearby. the driver was a 45 year old man from a nearby town who drove his car into pedestrians, killing an italian man named as alessandro parini, and injuring seven others, three of them british. we heard gunfire. we saw shots and then we saw people sprinting across the
hello and welcome, i m tanya beckett. an italian man has died and three british citizens are among the wounded after a car ploughed in to tourists near a beach in tel aviv. the attacker was shot dead by police. it comes after two british israeli sisters were killed and their mother injured in a shooting in the occupied west bank on friday, in what has been a week of heightened tensions in the region. our correspondent lucy williamson reports from tel aviv a warning, her piece contains some distressing images. last night, tel aviv s holiday crowds became targets. gunfire. this, the moment when police surrounded the attacker and then shot him dead. people shout. you can hear the fear of people filming nearby. the driver was a 45 year old man from a nearby town who drove his car into pedestrians, killing an italian man named as alessandro parini, and injuring five others, and injuring seven others, three of them british. we heard gunfire. we saw shots and then we saw people sp
welcome. to iran now where local media reports that dozens of schoolgirls have been poisoned in several schools. this phenomenon began last november and since then there have been reports of poisoning incidents from gases or toxic substances. in some cases students have been hospitalised. i was joined earlier by bbc persian service s parham ghobadi who told me how wide spread these incidents are. just before coming to the studio, the number of cities that were targeted rose to six, actually, and as you remember, as mentioned in your intro, for several months, we had the story of iranian school poisonings, but it went quiet for a while and the reason for that was that there was persian new yearfor two weeks, so students were on a break at that time. they went back to school on monday, and again, reports of school poisonings started appearing here and there, but today is the most widespread one. as i already mentioned, six cities across iran were targeted and in some of the cit