Stay updated with breaking news from Girl student. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
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 acros ....
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 t ....
ghobadi has the latest. six cities across iran were targeted and in some of the cities, multiple schools were attacked. we started receiving videos from the city of qom, which is the iranian vatican. parents are furious, they re talking to officials, they re shouting at them, there are scenes of chaos and horror. in other cities, we have obtained videos from hospitals where parents are picking up a girl student who has fainted on the floor, other students are crying, gasping for breath on hospital beds, and we have reports in the northwestern town of ardabil and also in the southern kurdish town in western iran, the hospitals are packed with schoolgirls. reports of poisonings are frequent. no girls have died, but dozens have suffered respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness and fatigue. at the beginning of this month, bbc reality check looked into this reporting, more than 1,000 iranian students mostly schoolgirls have fallen ill over the past three months. the f ....
welcome, i m tanya beckett. two british israeli sisters killed in a shooting in the occupied west bank have been named as maya and rina dee. the sisters were killed on friday afternoon near the hamra junction in the north of thejordan valley, as they drove through tiberias. the attacker was shot dead by police. their mother, leah, remains in a critical condition in hospital, local media reported. the family lived in the settlement of efrat and were immigrants from the uk, the mayor said. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu sent a tweet containing the sisters names, and a photo of them, on saturday evening. these details come at a time when the region is seeing an upsurge in violence. our correspondent lucy williamson reports from tel aviv a warning her piece contains some distressing details and 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 ....
attacks on iranian schools. bbc persian s parham ghobadi has the latest. six cities across iran were targeted and in some of the cities, multiple schools were attacked. we started receiving videos from the city of qom, which is the iranian vatican. parents are furious, they re talking to officials, they re shouting at them, there are scenes of chaos and horror. in other cities, we have obtained videos from hospitals where parents are picking up a girl student who has fainted on the floor, other students are crying, gasping for breath on hospital beds, and we have reports in the northwestern town of ardabil and also in the southern kurdish town in western iran, the hospitals are packed with schoolgirls. reports of poisonings are frequent. no girls have died, but dozens have suffered respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness and fatigue. at the beginning of this month, bbc reality check looked into this, reporting more than 1,000 iranian students, mostly schoolgirls have ....