Several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted including scientific research centers. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites, in the city of masyaf, was housing pro iranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Our middle east correspondent, hugo bachega has more on the reports from beirut. There has been a sharp increase in the n
We start this hour with a Special Report from afghanistan, a country where millions of children are malnourished, and where in one hospital, 700 children have died injust the last six months. Its a humanitarian crisis that deepens every day, with much of the Country Living in Extreme Poverty, after years of war causing economic collapse. The un says more than Three Million children under five are malnourished, with the delivery of aid becoming much harder since the taliban took control in 2021. The bbc s yogita limaye, Camera Journalist sanjay ganguly, and producer Imogen Anderson have been in the country for the last two weeks, chronicling the disaster, and a warning their report shows images of children in distress. This is what an average morning looks like at jalalabads main hospital. Hundreds throng every corner, every passage, as Extreme Poverty pushes more children into disease each day. Zara, 13 months old, one of 3 Million malnourished children in the country. A disease thats
Executive of amazon. And the hero who inspired a nation Queen Elizabeth leads the tributes to captain sir tom moore, whos died at 100. We look at his legacy. A very warm welcome to the programme. Scientists from the World Health Organization have visited a Virology Institute in the chinese city of wuhan which some us officials have said may have been the source of the coronavirus global pandemic. Subsequent checks indicated that none of the Gene Sequences of covid 19 match the viruses held by the institute. Live now to wuhan, and our correspondent, Stephen Mcdonnell. Tell us about this visit and what has been going on . 50. What has been going on . So, this visit to what has been going on . So, this visit to the what has been going on . Srr, this visit to the Wuhan Institute of virology is probably the most contentious part of the who to china because the previous us government, the Trump Administration had said that perhaps the coronavirus had escaped from a lab inside this facility.
Count. There were seven swing states in the 2020 president ial election. Arizona, georgia, nevada, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and North Carolinasix of them won byjoe biden six of them won byjoe biden all of them crucial this time around, in the race to 270 Electoral College votes. In the popular Votejoe Biden won the 2020 election by Seven Million votes. But look how narrow it was in some of these swing states in arizona, joe biden won by 10,167 votes. In georgia, which biden also won, the difference was 11,779 votes. And in nevada, biden won the state by 33,596 votes. Three states which could decide this election, the two candidates separated byjust 55,832. But for democrats the polls spell trouble. In all these states right now. Trump is winning. Across all seven states, 48 of voters said they would back trump, 43 would back biden. We saw just the we sawjust the other week we saw just the other week that the issue of israel becomes very important. If that were beat to be repea