Not just port also you had thousands of demonstrators that are gathering around other Government Installations you had a group in the past few days to block the entrance the bus the provinces and also the oil refinery you had official to come out in the past few days saying that this type of activity is costing the government billions of dollars so the tension continuing to rise about that we must stress so that we have not been able to get any type of government confirmation yet with regard to these latest reports be it didnt basra the violence there for the violence that you spoke about in baghdad there are these reports now in baghdad that several antigovernment protesters have 24 hours have been shot all of this happening against this backdrop where you had iraqs military spokesman saying on wednesday that Security Forces had been ordered not to use live fire on demonstrators and Major General abizaid couldnt call that had told reporters at a press conference on wednesday as he had
Gaza fired by the. Military wing of Islamic Jihad of many months now they say that. They targeted the building in which he was sleeping the Prime Ministers Office here has confirmed that he has been neutralized the Israeli Military calling him a ticking bomb saying that he was planning for the imminent attacks and that this is not a return to the kind of targeted assassinations that the israeli leadership carried out in the past against senior hamas and Islamic Jihad figures nonetheless it has already had assisted a very strong response there have been numerous Power Outages of rockets coming out of gaza targeting israeli territory weve seen images of at least one rocket in a street in an israeli town schools have been shut both in israel and in gaza for the day government buildings and ministries inside gaza have been closed as well apart from the Health Ministry so far the. Airstrikes from israel were hearing from gaza have largely been targeting tea areas areas that have been evacua
After 18 arduous months, ukraines conscripts and wounded wage a war with no end in sight. In our third film this week from the ukraine war, mark is on The Front Line in the east where the conflict seems to go on without end. Also tonight, amid the rwanda refugee row, could the uk really leave the European Convention on human rights that churchill helped to found . The Home Secretary Suella Braverman this week floated the idea, apparently with the approval of number 10 . Its extremely unlikely that the government is going to withdraw from the echr. If you look at the judgements of the Supreme Court and indded of the Supreme Court and indeed the court in strasbourg, they have said rwanda is legal in principle. The defeats the government has suffered are on technical grounds. We discuss this and the battle for the soul of the Conservative Party ahead of its conference. And sir michael gambon, bafta and Olivier Award winner, with roles from Professor Dumbledore to the singing detective, di
as scrutiny of western powers arms exports to israel intensifies, the world central kitchen charity calls for an independent investigation into the strikes that killed seven members of its team in gaza. lord cameron rules out western boots on the ground in ukraine. he tells the bbc: allies need to step up or risk the war being lost. and a major medical trial begins to learn whether blood tests can spot the early signs of dementia. returning to one of our main stories this hour and a special ceremony has been held to mark the 75th anniversary of the nato alliance. as the war in ukraine continues, the alliance has agreed to start planning for a greater role in co ordinating military aid to the country.foreign ministers led by the alliance s secretary general, jens stoltenberg have met today to discuss how they can best support ukraine in the future. let s speak to xavier bettel, he is luxembourg s deputy prime minister and foreign minister. welcome to you and thank you