There was a Moment Of SIlence at the UnIted NatIons and If you want to carry on watchIng newsnIght, please turn over to bbc two, or watch on Iplayer. Next Its newsnIght. As Israel Marks one year sInce the Hamas Assault on Its people, Its enemIes stIll want to destroy Israel, and Israel Is stIll tryIng to destroy Its enemIes. So how wIll these Wars End . Good evenIng, welcome to newsnIght. A year on from hamas s kIllIng of 1,200 people In southern Israel and the capture of over 251 hostages, Israel fInds Itself fIghtIng wars on multIple fronts. Rockets have just been fIred towards tel avIv, whIch has been MarkIng one year sInce the Hamas Attacks of October 7th. The bbc s team took cover as Israels Defence systems swung Into actIon. Its belIeved thIs latest attack came from lebanon. MIllIons of people across central Israel would have rushed to shelters. TonIght, the IsraelI Defense Force says Its fIghterjets launched mIssIles at hezbollah s IntellIgence Headquarters In beIrut. The day It
But now prosecuting authorities are looking at evidence submitted by The Brothers last year which claimed they were sexually abused by their father and acted in self defence. The case has attracted renewed attention partly because its a Hit Series on netflix. A documentary on the Case Due to be released next week promises to delve deeper into the case. Lets hear now from the Los Angeles District attorney. What i want to make very clear we have not conceded one way or the other, we are not saying there was anything wrong with the original trial. We have been given evidence, none of this information has been confirmed, we, at this point are not ready to say that we either believe or do not believe that information. This is the reaction from the menendez brothers attorney. I think its time, their family think its time. I believe what you saw today from District Attorney gascon that he has taken, i think a rather bold step in that he has said, he will make the final decision. It may not be
Different countries, dragging them into the dungeons of gaza. Everyone has brought home 134 of those hostages, including 117 returned alive. I want to assure you, we will not rest until the remaining hostages are brought home too. Some of the Family Members are here before us today. I ask you to stand up. Applause with us as early stevie, whose son was abducted from the nova music festival. These murderous monsters took him. A corpse held hostage. It rave arab israeli soldier who was murdered. His body was also taken to gaza. With us as a woman whose brother was murdered. With us too. Thankfully we achieve the release of his mother, but his father are still languishing in an underground Terrorist Hill of hamas. I again promise you, we will return your Loved Ones home. We will not spirit that effort until this holy mission is accomplished. Applause ladies and gentlemen, the curse of October 7 began when hamas invaded israel from gaza. But it didnt end there. Israel was soon forced to de
This is bbc news. Lets go straight back to that breaking news of the last few minutes. We will you knew the live scenes In Beirut. A massive explosion in the last little while from beirut. There you see the seconds after the explosion. We are hearing that there have been multiple explosions. That is coming to us from our correspondents on the ground in terms of the pictures you can see. Hugo bachegais pictures you can see. Hugo bachega is In Beirut for us, telling us this explosion is in one of the strongholds in the south of beirut. The Israeli Military also updating in the last few minutes, saying that they are currently striking Terror Targets, that is how they describe it, currently striking Terror Targets belong to hezbollah in the southern lebanon. This happened about five or seven minutes ago. You can see just the skyline, beirut, and the size of that explosion. Of course that fits entirely with what we have seen in terms of tactics from israel since monday, the sort of strikes.
The bbc has heard harrowing testimony for the first time from a woman who says she was raped by the former Harrods Owner mohamed Al Fayed when she was 16. He has said that it was. He goes on to say. The statement goes on. Lets talk through their statement and its significance with our reporter. Louise, this is a very strongly worded statement from the current boss of Harrods. Statement from the current boss of Harrods of Harrods. Absolutely, ben. This is the of Harrods. Absolutely, ben. This is the current of Harrods. Absolutely, ben. This is the current boss this is the current boss apparent distancing himself as the bus from the former boss mohamed Al Fayed and distancing his company, the business Harrods from the former. There were strongly worded statements within this. Toxic culture, he talks are, of secrecy, fear of repercussion and Sexual Misconduct. He talks of his personal horror, a very strong word, of what happened in terms of these allegations and what i need to make clear