doomed to we come on air with some breaking news, a hamas. was killed. three other people were killed. three other people were killed in the attack, the deputy head of hamas political bureau deeply involved in his military affairs. and the founder of its military wing. this took a stronghold of the hezbollah group. you can see there at these pictures just coming into us at the moment. this is of course a developing story, and it s been confirmed by an official from hamas that they are deputy has been killed. in that attack, and these pictures there just coming into us from beirut, and we are, at the moment, awaiting a response from the israeli government and we will have more on that at the moment, just showing you those pictures that are just coming into us of the aftermath of that attack. a statement said more than 200 people have been killed by israeli strikes, israeli forces have stepped up strikes, israeli forces have stepped up their bombardment of khan younis in south
The rough seas. Divers say they are facing zero visibility on the sea floor which is sure of course to be littered with sharp tangled wreckage of the plane. Search officials are still hopeful that Large Shadowy objects are, indeed, the planes fuselage but one piece has already been dismissed. It turns out to be that of a ship wreck. So electronics could play a bigger role in the search. The uss fort worth becomes the second u. S. Navy ship now to take part. The fort worth is equipped request sidescan sonar and can help map the area. This morning, were learning of a remarkable twist in the investigation. It turns out, the doomed flight should never have taken off. It did not have permission to fly from the surabaya airport to singapore on that fatal day on sunday which, of course ended in tragedy. Lets go to surabaya where the flight originated and where david molko is standing by. David, how significant of a development is this . Ana, lets start with whats going out in the search zone
which is to protect the occupants and allow a fast evacuation, he and of course the fire service focus will absolutely have been on protecting exits, making sure there was a clear path for people to evacuate from the aircraft. the airbus landed at 5:45pm local time, having made a shortjourney from northern japan. one person is believed to have escaped from the coastguard plane, which was on its way to the west of the country to deliver aid to a region that was hit hard by an earthquake yesterday, which claimed the lives of 48 people. the japanese prime minister said he wants officials to act quickly to ascertain the damage and provide information to the public. matt graveling, bbc news. i spoke earlier to former british airways pilot now aviation consultant alistair rosenschein. he shared his reflections on what we ve seen at the airport today. it was a major accident at high speed as the aircraft came
An issue with NATS air traffic controlling system has led to mass delays across the UK on Bank Holiday Monday, with British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair flights among those impacted
Britain's air traffic control service said it had "remedied" the issue and was working with airlines and airports "to manage the flights affected."