Israel. How dangerous is this moment . Good evening. Welcome to newsnight. Tonight, are we now on the cusp of a full blown regional war in the Middle East . Iran has launched a Missile Attack on israel this evening which is now over. Earliertoday, israeli troops invaded lebanon. Also, in whats being described as a terrorist attack, at least six people have been killed in Tel Aviv by two gunmen. Just before we came on air i spoke to Shadow Security Minster and conservative Leadership Candidate Tom tugendhat. Well, this is an incredibly dangerous moment. This is a moment when the vicious iranian regime is targeting notjust jews, muslims and christians in israel, but is putting ballistic missiles overjordan, over iraq, and threatening many, many people on the route. This is a moment when we need the british government to be absolutely firm and clear, standing with our allies in the region, injordan, in israel and standing alongside democracies. We need to be defending ourfriends and stand
time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. it s turning cooler over the next few days. the cooler air is in the north west, pushing down from the north west, pushing down from the north west behind this band of thick cloud that brought a lot of rain into cumbria. we ve got that rain pushing south eastwards across england and wales. it s becoming a little lighter and more patchy as it moves towards the south east. further north across the uk will have clearer skies so this time it s going to be much colder across northern areas, temperatures in eastern scotland and north east england could be down to 5 6, it will probably start sunning in these places. we ve got the cloudy weather across east anglia and the south east throughout tomorrow and they will be rain at times. the weather should cheer up in the midlands, other parts of england and wales seeing some sunshine, maybe one or two showers but the showers will be scattered across scotland and northern ireland on the
another u turn? the british prime minister insists she won t cut public spending, to pay for her multibillion pound package of tax cuts. and the us leads western countries in promising more weapons for ukraine, including air defence systems. we will do everything we can as fast as we can to help the ukrainian forces get the capability they need to protect the ukrainian people. and scientists in australia teach lab grown brain cells to play an iconic video game. we find out how and why. live from our studio in singapore. hello and welcome to the programme. ajury in the us has ordered the conspiracy theorist alexjones to pay $965 million in damages to the families of victims of the sandy hook massacre. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the mass shooting had been staged by the government to try to introduce tighter gun controls. the school principal was among the 26 people killed in the attack in 2012. a little earlier our correspondent, gary o donoghue told me why alexjone
on defending this madness and go ahead with her kamikaze budget? as liz truss arrived for her weekly audience with the king tonight, the king greeted her with dear oh dear . we ll have the latest on the talks in washington and the questions raised by the prime minister s words today. also tonight. a court is told that a nurse accused of the murder of seven babies sent a sympathy card to the parents of one of her victims. blood supplies in england are at a critically low level the nhs says that staffing shortages are mainly to blame. and in tonight s football, salah scores the fastest hat trick in champions league history as liverpool crush rangers at ibrox. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. one of english rugby s most famous names is suspended from the premiership wasps on the verge of administration. good evening. the prime minister has insisted she will not cut public spending to pay for a multi billion pound package of tax cuts. experts say the impl
alexjones to pay $965 million to the families of the victims of the sandy hook massacre. and in china, where the country s ruling communist party gathers for its annual congress, we ll look at whose likely to become xijinping s second in command. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and 11 in the evening in london, where the government is battling new economic uncertainty. prime minister liz truss has told mps her strategy of cutting tax will not change. but she s also said she won t cut spending either, suggesting the government will have to borrow more. that s raised concern even among her own mps. some want her to rethink tax cuts to reassure the markets. our political editor, chris mason, reports. reporter: have you wrecked the economy, prime minister? - there are plenty of questions for liz truss at the moment, but that one gets to the crux of things. spiralling prices, interest rates climbing, the market