Hello and welcome to bbc news. Democrats in the us house of representatives have stepped up their impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The us secretary of state, mike pompeo, has been ordered to hand over documents to an Oversight Committee in congress. Its trying to determine whether President Trump jeopardized National Security in his dealings with the government of ukraine. The committee has also ordered five members of mr pompeos staff to give evidence. One of those is kurt volker, who in the last few hours has been reported to have resigned from his position as the us special representative to ukraine. Our north america correspondent, jon sopel reports on how President Trump has reacted as the inquiry gathers steam. Man god bless you, mr president. Theres support, theres defiance, but also theres anger. In a twitter fusillade this morning he took aim at the democratic chair of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, the person who will play a key role in impeachment he
yes, mr. netanyahu is undergoing a medical assessment in hospital, but said to be well. a statement from his office says the prime minister suffered slight dizziness earlier in the day and his personal doctor advised him to get that checked out. the initial assessment was that he was dehydrated. according to some earlier local media reports, mr. netanyahu was fully conscious as he entered the hospital and he walked into the emergency room and he has not been incapacitated in any way as prime minister. now, israel is currently in the midst of a heatwave and from the prime minister s office that he spent the day exposed to some of the hot conditions at the sea of galilee. he s 73, israel s longest serving leader and served multiple times stretching over 15 years. his current government took office last december. now, he had some suffered some political troubles on tuesday, yet, more protests about the divisive justice bill. tens of thousands of israelis taking to the streets th
in flash flooding last month. we need to get back to better to where we were and the legislation has been bipartisan leap past and it is a way to do it. a covid outbreak leaves more than 80,000 tourists stranded in the popular chinese resort city of sanya. and in birmingham, eleven days of competition have come to an end, at the closing ceremony of the commonwealth games. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. let s start with some breaking news. in the past hour, former us president donald trump has issued a statement saying that the fbi has carried out a raid on his florida home at mar a lago. he was not in florida at the time. mr trump said that a large number of agents arrived at the compound with a search warrant. he said while there, they accessed his safe. let s speak to our north america correspondent peter bowes. i know that you are still making sense of the scene but can you tell us exactly what we know about the initial reaction from th
It includesamassing thousands upon thousands of troops. Nic robertson is in sderot where troops are training in that area. Give us a sense of what you are talking about training and that entails along the border, nic. Yes, what they want to do is to send in a combined force. They want to send in tanks, infantry and combat engineers, and this is a spearhead advance, and lot of the armies do this, but when you have reservists in the force, and regular troops, you have bring them together to do that, and so they have been training to do that and training as well for fighting in a Combat Environment in these mock palestinian towns, and there are mosques. There are stores. There are traffic circles. There are home. So the troops are going to training for the exact environment absent the people they will face when they go into gaza. Now they have not been given the order, and everything that we see, the tanks parked in the field, and the lastminute repairs to the train tracks, and the dozens
Angeles. Israel Conducting Airstrikes and localized ground raids in gaza at this hour, the Israeli Military says the latest rounds of attacks killed a senior hamas member involved in planning last saturdays horrific attacks in israel. Murad abu murad was killed in a strike targeting a building in the gaza strip. It comes as israel continues to urge palestinian is to leave the northern part of the gaza strip, warning the combat will intensify. Theyve also extended a 24 hour window to leave that was issued early friday local time. And new video also coming in overnight showing damage from the israeli city of ashkelon. Hamas armed wing al qassam saying friday that it launched 150 rockets toward that city. There are now reports whether or no new reports yet whether any israelis were injured in that attack. Its been exactly one week now since hamas staged those shocking, brutal and deadly attacks against israel. Israel has been striking back hard all week. In addition to airstrikes and targ