We begin in The Middle East where reports of hezbollah Launching Dozens of soils into israel. Confirming a0 lodges were identified to some were intercepted. Unclear whether this is linked to the threat that has been reported today that an attack by iran on israel is imminent. The white house described that the right as quote, real and viable. Media reporting in israel that the Prime Minister is meeting top officials for such an attack which would be seen as retaliation or the air strike that killed Senior Iranian commanders nearly two weeks ago on a iranian consulate in damascus. Heres what the white house spokesman said when he briefed reporters earlier on. Were watching this very, very closely. We still deemed the potential threat by iran here to be real, to be viable, certainly credible. And were watching it as closely as we can. Right now, ourfocus is on having conversations with our israeli counterparts and making sure notjust conversations but making sure that they have what they
And responses you mentioned there. But in response to i should say, that is really air strike in damascus that killed multiple top iranian commanders. Now, the us and israeli governments have been on high alert. Theyve also been in close touch and knowing that this could happen and going so far as to say that they see it as quote, inevitable. Now, were not clear on how this attack would unfold nor when it would happen exactly. But officials and dissipate that it would target us or israeli assets in the middle east. And so Senate Majority leader chuck schumer, making clear that the us is preparing for any outcome care, take a listen i know the president and his team are working hard to prevent escalation. And our bare to defend any attack and response with leave if necessary, tensions in the middle east are very high thats why we want to pass the National Security supplemental. Its critical. And we are all urging speaker johnson to put it on the floor of the house now according to offic
will start with that phone call between joe will start with that phone call betweenjoe biden and prime minister benjamin netanyahu after last 90 minutes and also they hung up to each other. and we ll have some sense of what they talked about and something called a readout here which gives some details that conversation and the tone of the us towards israel has raised a few eyebrows. he made clear this isjoe biden, the readout goes, israel needs to announce and implement a series of measurable steps to announce civilian harm, humanitarian suffering and the safety of aid workers. we haven t heard from president biden yet but we have heard from the secretary of state, antony blinken. heard from the secretary of state, antony blinken. despite important ste -s antony blinken. despite important steps israel antony blinken. despite important steps israel is antony blinken. despite important steps israel is allow antony blinken. despite important steps israel is allow assistan
piran ditta khan spent nearly two decades evading justice he was extradited from pakistan last year, the last of the seven men involved to face trial. our correspondent, danny savage, reports. this was a shocking crime back in 2005 and it feels like a shocking crime now. a west yorkshire police officer, unarmed, responding to a call of an alarm being activated at a travel agents in a city centre in bradford, west yorkshire, in november 2005. she and her colleague pull up in their police car opposite that business on a busy friday afternoon, they walk across the street towards the front door of the travel agents, just as they arrive, three gunmen burst out of that building, having carried out a robbery, and a gun is fired. pc sharon beshenivsky is shot dead with fatal injuries, her colleague pc teresa milburn is shot as well, injuries which she does recover from. then launched a huge manhunt to track down those responsible. this was a huge story at the time here in the uk. o
speaking to someone who knows who i am, and i m trying desperately not to come across as rude. the messages continue. the former mp then replies, asking who it is he s talking to. charlie falsely says he used to work in the office of another mp. he later sends a sexually explicit image, and the former mp blocks the number. the questions now are how widespread this is, who is behind it and whether the attackers got hold of any useful information. we ve seen another series of messages sent to a political journalist from the same number and following a similar pattern. according to the website politico, which first reported the claims, at least 12 people with connections to westminster have been targeted. this wasn tjust, as i d thought, someone being stupid and doing something that they d regret the next day. maybe this is something more sinister than that, potentially malicious. we tried to call the number associated with the messages, but nobody picked up. a parliamentary spo