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Hello and welcome to bbc news. Im Maryam Moshiri live in malmo outside the arena where the Eurovision Grand Final will be taking place. Some Breaking News now, and the dutch Artistjoost Klein has been disqualified from the Eurovision Song Contest. This all happened after the contestant, joost klein, the dutch contestant, joost klein, the dutch contestant was disqualified from the competition after what the ebu, the organisers describe as an incident just before one of the rehearsals yesterday. Confusion was around this area yesterday when people were told he wouldnt be performing and yet no on...

There are also reports of a number of Israeli Soldiers taken captive by fighters, with hamas saying it has a big number of captives, among them senior officers. Israels military has been striking targets in gaza in response. At least 198 palestinians are confirmed dead there. The 1000 wounded. Over 1000 wounded. Richard galpin has the latest. This was a Surprise Attack on israel by the militant palestinian group, hamas. Its claiming its launched 5,000 rockets injust 20 minutes. Some have hit the city of ashkelon, causing damage. Amongst those on the ground, more hamas fighters heading into the...

To the firing of the balloons. the sense of fear and panic is there. ., ~' ,, , . there. thank you very much indeed. you can follow rusdhie on twitter. he's @rusdhibbc. well, these latest developments in gaza come after hundreds of israeli nationalists took part in a flag march through occupied eastjerusalem. they marched through eastjerusalem, chanting, whistling and risking reigniting tensions with palestinians, weeks after hundreds of people on both sides were killed in cross—border fighting. 0urjerusalem correspondent yolande knell, was at damascus gate, where the marchers gathered but w...

In the sheikh jarrah area, which was one of the reasons for the flare—up of the last violence, so all the reasons are exist, but we have to understand that egypt is doing a lot ofjob. they have contacted hamas this morning, and also tonight we understand from a source familiar with the ceasefire talks that egypt has conteacted hamas tonight to make sure things are not going out of control. well, these latest developments in gaza come after hundreds of israeli nationalists took part in a flag march through occupied eastjerusalem. they marched through eastjerusalem, chanting, whistling and ris...