Minister Fumio Kishida and a range of other topics in boston, democratic strategist mary anne marsh. And from london, former conservative mpjustine greening. First the latest headlines. Israel has confirmed its killed three adult sons of the hamas leader, ismail haniyeh, with an air strike in gaza. It described them as military operatives on their way to carry out terrorist activities. Mr haniyeh, whos based in qatar, said his Family Gathering for the final day of ramadan. Israel has confirmed its killed three adult sons the European Parliament has approved a contentious reform of its migration and asylum rules. It will speed up requests from irregular migrants, and repatriation if their deemed inadmissible. Poland says it wontjoin the mechanism to share hosting of migrants. The worst flooding in almost a hundred years has hit russia and kaza kstan. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated. In the russian city of 0renburg home to half a Million People the water has reached dangerou
The wikileaks founder has been held in Belmarsh Prison In London for five years. Our washington correspondent Gary Odonoghue had this update following joe biden s comment. Well, this was pretty much an off the cuff comment that he made as he was sort of walking through the colonnade at the white house and a reporter shouted to him, you know, will you consider australias request . Because of course australia, Julian Assange is australian and the Australian Parliament has passed a motion asking him to be returned to australia, saying would you consider ending the prosecution . He didnt seem to hear the question at first, but it was repeated and he said were considering it now. That would be a huge change, given that the us has been pursuing the extradition ofJulian Assange from the uk for years and the thing is still winding its way through the courts. The Home Secretary signed the extradition back in 2022, but theres been Court Challenges to that and the high court is still waiting for
To face his former club. The rearranged Scottish Premiership game between rangers and dundee was called off earlier at dens park, due to a waterlogged pitch with second placed rangers accusing the home side of negligence and unprofessionalism. The surface was deemed 0k earlier, but heavy rainfall later in dundee meant the pitch was unplayable after a second inspection. The games been rearranged again for a week today, with rangersjust a point behind celtic, following sundays thrilling 3 3 derby draw at ibrox. And this is philippe clements sides game in hand over their city rivals. Liverpool Managerjurgen Klopp has urged fans protesting about Ticket Prices to support their team against the italian Side Atalanta in their Europa League quarter final first leg on thursday a Supporters Group has announced that therell be no flags in the kop end at anfield for the game, in protest against the clubs decision to increase the price of tickets. Klopp says he understands why the fans are upset. I
He is committed to bringing us japan ties even closer and that there are lines in the cornerstone of peace and stability in the region. Tokyo sees america as an ally to maintain security. We are committed to the security of japan and all areas under its administrative control and to further strengthening our very crucial alliance. The Us Japan Alliance is the cornerstone of peace and stability in the pacific region. It is important both japan and the United States continue to invest very heavily in the alliance to build up our defence, and our defensive capabilities which, under our mutual leadership, will become stronger and stronger, and, as time goes by, ultimately they will be impenetrable. Unsurprisingly, the first question from the full from journalists was on a different subject, and that was the trump travel ban. The question put to him from the new york post. We are going to keep our country safe, we are going to do whatever is necessary to keep our country safe. We had a deci