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good evening. a suspected israeli strike has destroyed an iranian consulate building in the syrian capital, damascus, killing at least seven people, including the top two commanders, in the powerful iranian revolutionary guards. the attack happened at around 5pm local time in the upmarket mezzeh district of damascas, with the multistorey building flattened, right next to the iranian embassy. iran s foreign minister says tehran s response will be decisive, while israel says it doesn t comment on foreign media reports. there have been hundreds of attacks on iranian linked targets in syria by israel, in the past few years. jeremy bowen, has the very latest from northern israel. a few minutes after the attack, the building in iran s diplomatic compound in a one off central area of damascus seems to be on fire. the israeli strike destroyed the ukrainian consulate. it was a precision attack against a senior commander who will have worked hard to keep his movement secret. desp ....
let s begin with the bbc news from deena campbell, good morning. good morning, rachel is not ministers say they took the decision to implement emergency measures at more than 100 schools in england because of faulty concrete because evidence emerged about the material in the summer. some schools are closed until safety were completed and students forced to have lessons online or in other buildings was that labour has called on the government to publish the full list of expected schools. train drivers are on strike today leaving large parts of england without rail services. members of the aslef union at more than a dozen companies are walking out as part of their long running dispute about pay. the nationwide building society says house prices have seen their biggest annual decline since 2009. the mortgage lender said prices fell by 5.3% last month, compared with the year before. e scooters for public hire are banned today on the streets of paris, just five years after t ....
and thanking them for waiting out in the cold. the prince and princess of wales did not attend, as catherine is receiving cancer treatment. the king has continued some work since his diagnosis, but all engagements so far have taken place in private. so this attendance at the easter morning church service at st george s chapel will be seen as an encouraging sign about his health. let s join my colleague sarah campbell, live at windsor for us. hello. it s been a busy morning here at windsor. it s very busy hair, lots of people turned up. i was talking to people queueing up to get inside to the grounds before 9am this morning because members of the public could get inside the grounds and they thought they were going to see, potentially, the king and the queen into and out of the chapel. as you will see now, some of them actually got to have a conversation, to shake hands with the monarch. so they got a lot more than they expected. here is charlotte gallagher. the king and ....
it urges the need for a multinational security mission of up to 5,000 police officers to help haitian police restore the rule of law. lets get the latest from haiti. lets go live now to our north america correspondent nomia iqbal. it s friday night in haiti, watson lake at the moment? any sense of normal life there at all? what s it like? katrina, we understand that it s relatively calm and violence has subsided somewhat in port au prince. i am more than 80 miles away, this is seen as a much more safe are part of haiti. and it is easter weekend, good friday, people are out on the streets here, celebrating easter, people dressed in white, holding rosary beads, carrying crosses, we spoke to some people and said that theirfaith we spoke to some people and said that their faith is important to them at this time, one woman did say to was that she felt heartbroken by what was happening to our brothers and sisters in haiti. so, while people are trying to get on with a norma ....
temperatures and we could see highs of 2a degrees. temperatures and we could see highs of 24 degrees- there s more analysis of the top stories on newsnight, just getting underway on bbc two. but the news continues here on bbc one as we join our colleagues for the news where you are. tonight, the calls for notting hill carmival to be moved it s not a golden era, but nor is it in a deep freeze, so what exactly is britain s china policy? on the day of the highest level uk ministerial visit to beijing in half a decade, mps decry the secrecy around britain s china policy, and aggravates beijing by asserting that taiwan is an independent country . but number 10 seem pretty keen on a face to face meeting between the pm and president xi as early as next month, so is the government holding back on criticism or is the brutal reality that china is now creating new diplomatic alliances, having amassed such economic superiority, that it doesnt matter what britain s china policy is? we ....