we want to start with the latest news from israel. hundreds of palestinians have barricaded themselves inside al aqsa mosque injerusalem. remember, earlier this week, israeli police raided the mosque after palestinians barricaded themselves inside, after the evening ramadan prayer. that led to palestinian militants firing rockets into israel from lebanon and gaza, and israel hitting back with airstrikes. the al aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in islam, is located on a hilltop complex known by muslims as al haram al sharif and byjews as the temple mount. jews revere it as the location of two biblical temples and it is the holiest site injudaism. thousands of muslims and jews are gathering injerusalem with ramadan and passover overlapping this year. it is around this time thatjewish visitors are supposed to be allowed in to the al aqsa mosque so we will be keeping a close eye on events there for you, and we ll bring you any update on that when we get it. meanwhile, this fra
you lowlife ukrainian. mona lisa with cream cake, a man is held after attempting to deface the world famous portrait in the louvre museum in paris. hello and welcome to the programme. by the end of the year, the eu will be blocking 90% of its oil imports from russia. that is the message coming from the eu member states, as they impose further sanctions against vladimir putin s government, over its invasion of ukraine. the bloc agreed to ban more than two thirds of russian oil imports, immediately, at a summit in brussels, where hungary, heavily dependent on russian oil, resisted a full oil embargo. the european commission president, ursula von der leyen said the agreement was very significant, for reasons of climate, as well as dealing with moscow. it isa it is a big step forward, what we did today, because indeed we now have gotten rid of cole and this was already very difficult. now we have basically the political agreement, how to phase out oil in a clear timeframe and we
Acknowledge the attack so in this case iran is trying to get out of this dilemma because it was the israeli strike than it would have been responded, they are a leader of iran and it would be an Immediate Response in seconds and even the Foreign Minister said it was significant, the attack would be responded with massive response to respond to israel. In this case they tried to convert situation, the tension is there but the calm is that because of the pressure from the United States and other regional countries in order to avoid any all out war in this region because it is not an interest if around because they cannot afford a war with United States and israel cannot afford to have a front with and yemen and gaza. Its a way out but still tension is there, all efforts try to avert any attention because it will affect oil prices, the freedom of navigation so it will have many bad consequences on the economy and stability and peace in the region. We economy and stability and peace in the
Requested a tough response. We will have more on what impact those sanctions might have shortly, but first, lucy williamson, reports from jerusalem on what israel is considering as a response. Israels Prime Minister is weighing up the risks of another war before hes finished the existing one. Today, he told new army recruits that operations in gaza were just one part of a wider conflict. Translation its part of a bigger system. You can see it. Iran stands behind hamas, behind hezbollah, behind others. But we are determined to win there and defend ourselves in all arenas. New footage released by the army shows the moment the military focus here changed. The first interceptions of iranian missiles ordered from this control room. Israels ongoing conflicts with iranian backed groups have been pushed into the shadows by a direct attack from tehran. How israel responds could take the world down a much more dangerous path, and International Allies the uk among them have been lining up, urging
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