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 centres. 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. Joining me is frank lowenstein, who served as united states special envoy for middle east peace under president barack ob
The countrys president. The organisation earlier set a deadline of sunday to reinstate deposed president , mohamed bazoum. A delegation from the bloc visited niger thursday but failed to meet coup leaders, or mr bazoum. Video has emerged purporting to show a Sea Drone Driving into the side of a Russian Naval vessel in the black sea. The bbc has not yet verified this video, but the footage appears to show a drone hitting the side of the large ship. The video was released by the Ukrainian Security services. But Russias Defense Ministry says it repelled an attack, not admitting to any damage. Heres our correspondent in kyiv james waterhouse. Unlike these drone attacks weve seen deep inside russia, around moscow, for example, kyiv seems more willing to admit to being behind these strikes using sea drones on the black sea, or sea of azov. And sources at the Security Service have told us that they successfully damaged a major landing ship at the port of novorossiysk, which is on the russian
Been following the story. It would seem to be in crisis. Without a house for the next two editions. Although they insist there is ongoing dialogue with potential hosts. Prepared to meet all the financial demands of staging such a Big Multisport event has become increasingly difficult. Manchester city boss, pep guardiola, says croatian defender Josko Gvardiol is having a medical and should complete his move from rb leipzig in the next hours. Its the Community Shield on sunday treble winners City Play Arsenal in the friendly at wembley. Arsenal finished second to city last season in the premier league, and guardiola is expecting them to push his side close again this season, and says they wont be the only rivals. Everybody knows that if you start every season send the same, that is my feeling. It is not one or two, there are lots of teams that are going to fight for everything and the challenge is massive for us. How we deal with it mentally and how we go as a Team Football wise and sust
And it has just reached a new peak 20. 96 degrees celsius, the highest Global Average sea temperature ever recorded. The worlds warming waters are a dangerous trend, say experts. Peoples perspective is that the ocean is so big, so vast, that it can buffer anything that humanity can throw at it. And the reality is thats not the case. Everything has its niche within the ocean, and its incredibly easy to break that niche and influence it and upset it. Take plankton. These tiny plants and animals are crucial to life on the planet. Theyre the basis of the entire Marine Food Chain and produce half the oxygen in our atmosphere. So, every other breath you take. And they are sensitive to heat. Many species have been migrating north as the worlds oceans warm. Personally, im really concerned. The heatwaves that were experiencing on land and the Marine Heatwaves that were seeing are happening in unusual locations where we havent expected them. But there is hope. Scientists are learning more about
Because the position is compromised. The key in Electronic Warfare is being invisible to your enemy. Abduljalil abdurasulov, bbc news, kyiv. Service personnel based at Raf Lossiemouth have returned home following a four Month Mission to protect nato airspace in the baltic. Pilots from the murray airbase had to intercept a number of russian aircraft during the mission which comes amid heightened tension in the region. Iain macinnes has more. Touching down from their latest mission, one squadron from Raf Lossiemouth. These personnel are amongst more than 60 who returned to the murray airbase this week, after a busy four month stint in estonia. These typhoons took on the role of protecting nato air space in the baltic region, with tensions high following the russian invasion of ukraine. Raf lossiemouth crews used the code word zombie for russian aircraft which werent responding to air traffic control, and those flying these planes saw plenty of them. More than 50 russian aircraft were int