hello, and welcome to unspun world. is the war in gaza beginning to slip away from israel? and are we seeing the start of a wider middle east conflict? for all of the words and all of the warnings, here we are, months on, and so many red lights are flashing across the region. after its involvement with the three hs hamas, hezbollah and the houthis is iran getting an inflated sense of its own importance? the iranian authorities felt overconfident in projecting their power in the middle east and they felt that they can get away with doing the same in pakistan. and prime minister modi of india inaugurates the hugely controversial hindu temple in ayodhya. does it represent the start of his election campaign? there was definitely a sense of political colour in that event. it is something the government will deny. they will say this is a religious ceremony, this was something that millions of hindus have wanted. israel s long serving prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, is for t
is the war in gaza beginning to slip away from israel? and are we seeing the start of a wider middle east conflict? for all of the words and all of the warnings, here we are, months on, and so many red lights are flashing across the region. after its involvement with the three hs hamas, hezbollah and the houthis is iran getting an inflated sense of its own importance? the iranian authorities felt overconfident in projecting their power in the middle east and they felt that they can get away with doing the same in pakistan. and prime minister modi of india inaugurates the hugely controversial hindu temple in ayodhya. does it represent the start of his election campaign? there was definitely a sense of political colour in that event. it is something the government will deny. they will say this is a religious ceremony, this was something that millions of hindus have wanted. israel s long serving prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, is for the umpteenth time fighting for his p
the houthi movement to endanger shipping in the red sea. the iran backed houthis have been targeting ships that they say are linked to israel and the west, and which travel through an important red sea trade route. houthi officials have said they will respond to the latest strikes, which targeted eight different locations. these included missile launchers, radarsites and underground weapons stores. qatar has said that escalation in the red sea represents a big danger. this report is from our defence correspondent, jonathan beale. is this to become a recurring mission? rafjets loaded with guided bombs flew from cyprus last night, for the second time within a fortnight. the aim, once again, to prevent the houthis from launching drones and missiles at merchant shipping in the red sea. the prime minister making clear, as before, that, if necessary, they will do it all again. we are not seeking a confrontation. we urge the houthis and those who enable them to stop these illegal an
thanks for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, mr bennett. i want to take your mind back to those dark days of october in israel, after hamas s barbaric attack on southern israel of october 7. a few days later, joe biden visited your country and he said this to israelis. he said, while you feel the rage, do not be consumed by it. after 9/11, he said, we in the us were enraged. while we sought justice, we also made mistakes. do you think israel has paid heed to those words from joe biden? i think the operation that we re conducting is not about rage and it s not about what happened. it s about preventing it from happening again. you see, there s a huge difference between 9/11 and october 7th. afghanistan is far away from the united states. gaza is on our doorstep. and hamas, the terror organisation that executed this horrible attack, tells us point blank, we re going to do it again and again. so we have really no choice but to eradicate it. close to 20
scotland and further south through the night followed by a heavy showers and it will not be a cold or frosty night, so temperatures in double figures in the south would colder towards the northern isles but it will be the winds that will be the focus tomorrow, with gust widely 50 60 and maybe as high as 80 towards the northern isles, enough towards the northern isles, enough to cause significant disruption to travel. blustery wherever you are and we have cloud and a patchy like rain in the south, pushing further south, and then sunny spells and squally showers moving in from the north and even a bit of snow over the highest ground of scotland, blown in on the really strong north westerly winds, and temperatures between five and aberdeen and maybe 12 in london. it is mild but we still have the mild and windy weather with us on friday so patchy rain pushing east, a bit of snow over the highest ground, of scotland on friday, and another blustery day but not quite those strong di