hello, i m lauren taylor. some breaking news to bring you. the hamas run government media office says israeli air strikes on rafah have killed at least 30 people. this comes after hamas launched rocket attacks towards tel aviv for the first time in months. a spokesperson with the palestinian red crescent society said the death toll was likely to increase as search and rescue efforts continued in rafah s tal al sultan neighbourhood west of the city centre. there was no immediate comment from the israel defense forces. earlier on sunday, the israeli military said at least eight rockets were launched from the rafah area of southern gaza, most of which it intercepted. some did get through, landing in open fields. police said a home in the tel aviv suburb of herzliya suffered minor damage from falling shrapnel, and two people suffered light injuries, but no serious losses were reported. here in the uk, and on the fourth day of campaigning ahead of the general election on the 4th o
watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i m kim bruhuber with the very latest empty israeli role. it s been ratcheting up its pressure on hamas with expanded explosions in gaza. explosions can be heard reverberating all around gaza, said to be the most intensive strikes since the israeli war started. appear to be down, israeli government official says this conflict won t end like the others. israel has decided we can no lodger live with this jihadi enclave. not going to end with a cease fire, this is a war that hamas declared on us on october 7th. the days ahead are going to be long and difficult, because we are going to go after the terrorism, inside the gaza strip. this war will end with no more hamas in the gaza strip. we re going to go after every tunnel, every rocket launcher, every hamas commander every hamas foot soldier so they can no longer hurt our civilians. led the u.n. general assembly vote for an immediate cease fire on friday
Voting in some seats. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. Tax officials have raided west ham and Newcastle United football clubs as part of an investigation into suspected fraud. Strong criticism for Surrey Police for returning a collection of shotguns to a man who went on to kill his partner and her daughter. A show of unity in south korea as the us Military Holdsjoint exercises with local forces as the us senate prepares for Security Briefing on north korea. And a warning that britains immaculate green lawns could become a thing of the past because of climate change. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that the Prime Minister has refused to guarantee that the so called triple lock on pensions will continue if the conservatives are re elected at the General Election. At the final session of Prime Ministers questions before polling day theresa may said that Pensioner Incomes would continue to rise, but she was accused of abandoning a commitment previously made by the conservatives. La
Joined by nathan holman, one of the architects of the paris accord and the obama administration, you watched that, what did you make of it . Trump made a case about fairness and in that sense i thought it was relative to the facts of what the Paris Agreement actually is. I thought it was borderline delusional and apocalyptic. Those are strong words, back them up. He sketched a vision of what the Paris Accord Is Asa kind vision of what the paris accord is as a kind of International Imposition of the United States put it was negotiated as something the United States could argue we wanted to do on our own terms. The president fundamentally does not agree with those Negotiation Terms . One thing interesting about his vision and he is conflating two important things about paris, one of the structure of the International Agreement and wonders will we propose to country. For him they are one and the same and he is certainly not happy with the targets put forth, those targets are negotiable wi