It is mid day injerusalem. This time yesterday israel and countries in the region and far beyond watching and waiting to see what iran would do next. And now in the early hours of the morning, the world found out. Iran launched for the first time a direct attack against israel. This is an unprecedented moment and uncharted territory. Hundreds of drones and missiles were fired from iran into the skies above israel. Israel says it intercepted almost all of the projectiles. Backed by the us, uk, france and jordan. This morning israeli officials are saying the confrontation isnt over and are assessing their options. Irans military chief told state tv that as far as iran was concerned, a line had been drawn under the confrontation after its retaliatory strike. A strike conducted by iran after the date for the first attack on its embassy in the Syrian Capital Damascus which destroyed the consulate and also killed senior members of irans Islamic Revolutionary guard corps. Its warning israel t
Tehran has been threatening to retaliate for a deadly air strike on an iranian diplomatic compound in syria. Daniel hagari the Israeli Military spokesman said dozens of israeli planes were patrolling the sky and israel was prepared very strongly in case of an attack from iran. Translation of the Home Front Command is publishing an update and adjustment in the Defence Policy in these minutes, as of tomorrow morning and during the next few days the educational systems, camps and planned trips will not take place. At six oclock in the morning we will update the directive again, starting tonight and in the coming days no educational activities including overnight stays in parking lots and excursions are allowed. In the last few minutes the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said his country is prepared for a direct attack from iran. In an an address to the nation, he said Defence Systems were deployed and the armed forces were ready to respond in kind. Hes advised israelis to
Against spreading information hacked from the campaign of the centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron. Aides to mr macron say the Hacking Attack was intended to undermine french democracy. James reynolds has sent this report. Emmanuel macron arrived last night for his final interview, assuming that his campaign was basically done. But whilst he was speaking, documents stolen from his team were being circulated online. His campaign had been hacked. Coming in the last hour, his team said this intervention is an attempt to destabilise democracy, as happened in the usa during the last election. Who stole these documents . In the past, Emmanuel Macron said that russian backed hackers were out to get him. One cyber expert said this hack looks different. It is very low level, compared with what they have done in the United States. That was a highly creative and high end Information War mixed with a cyber war. What we are witnessing now is very low end, very amateurish. But many french people brav
on that two year basis. we are seeing some moderation in current prices, but it s not enough for people to really feel that in their pockets yet. so, i think there s a lot still to play out in this space. we are doing our part very much. being thoughtful about where we source and how we source. making sure we ve got a surety of supply. there is lots more on the global cost of food on talking business weekly this weekend here on bbc news and on bbc iplayer. it kicks off at 10:30pm gmt. in other news: american airlines pilots union says its reached an agreement in principle with the company on a new laborcontract that would bring it in line with the gains made for pilots at rival united airlines. north american pilots have been
local time, 8:30pm gmt, the ambulance came to the front door of this cave, and.the rescue team just put the body there of rayan and left. and we didn t know at the time what was happening. but, then, we had the breaking news, the king himself, king mohammed vi, himself called the father and mother of rayan and presented his condolences to them live on television. this is something that never ever happened in the history of morocco, that the king himself expresses his condolences to a family live on television.