By direct enemy fire and there s an investigation that s now under way. But he, along with another pilot colleague with the call sign deuce, had travelled to washington as part of ukraine s big effort to be given these f 16 jets. But now both of those pilots have been killed in action. It s also a blow for president zelensky. He personally campaigned to get these jets for the past two and a half years. He finally got them, the first of them just a few weeks ago, and now this has happened. There were these warnings that the russians would target them and also, crucially, the airfields from which they take off. And that is why president zelensky has asked once again of his allies that they give him permission to use these foreign made long range missiles so that they can hit further into russia. And president zelensky says if he s given that permission, they can prevent these sort of attacks across the whole of ukraine. That was our correspondent nick beake. Here in the uk, employees cou
Is among those who have been killed in israeli raids in the occupied west bank. Meanwhile palestinian officials say at least 11 people had been killed during what israel describes as counter terror raids. It s israel s largest operation in the west bank in about two decades. Earlier, the un secretary general called on israel to halt its major military operation in the north of the territory immediately. From jenin, our middle east correspondent lucy williamson sent this report. It was a message of force, delivered quietly at first. Israeli soldiers seeking their targets, street by palestinian street. At morning, hundreds of troops backed by armoured bulldozers arrived in the refugee camps of tulkarm, nablus, tubas, jenin. Home to armed palestinian groups and unarmed civilians. At least ten palestinians have been killed. Hamas says six of them were its fighters. Masoud naaja said he was injured when he opened the door of his house to young men asking for water. Translation: we felt li
Hamas says six of them were its fighters. Masoud naaja said he was injured when he opened the door of his house to young men asking for water. Translation: we felt like something came down on us from the sky injenin, army vehicles surrounded the city s two main hospitals. Ambulances stopped and checked by militaryjeeps. Israel s foreign minister has urged his government to use gaza as a model for dealing wth armed groups, here saying that iran almost 600 palestinians have been killed in the west bank by israeli forces since the hamas attacks. But fighters here are still presenting israel there were five people killed in the operation there, including the head of the tulkarem brigades, mohammad jabbar, and he d been on the israeli hit list for a long time. They tried to kill him several times before. He does now seem to have been killed, and also a palestinian authority police officer here injenin was one of two people we understand to have been killed overnight. And if those those deat
The opening ceremony of the paralympic games. More than 4,000 athletes from a record 168 delegations joined a parade along the champs elysees in the french capital, ahead of the first events later today. Our sports correspondent andy swiss was watching. It was a spectacular end to a quite spectacular ceremony. A giant balloon floating in the paris night as the paralympic cauldron was finally lit. It had been a curtain raiser like no other. Welcome to paris! an opening ceremony exploring attitudes towards disability. French star christine and the queens with a modern take on an edith piaf classic. But soon it was time for the athletes parading down the champs elysees, thousands of competitors united by a commonjoy. And here comes great britain. The british team, led by terry bywater and lucy shuker, were welcomed by the prime minister, sir keir starmer. Afterfinishing second in the medals table at the last games, they have high hopes. After a moving rendition of the marseillaise, the he
Instructed several departments to find more than £1 billion in savings that includes the departments for education and health. One government source told the paper: we re being asked to scrape the bone 7 it is properly grim. In another paper, a story not entirely unconnected. The guardian reports on the false accounting at the home office. Figures from the institute for fiscal studies suggest the budget they set for asylum, border control, visa and passport spending was £110 million and what they actually spent was £2. 6 billion a year. The paper says that is down to a bad habit of submitting initial budgets 7 that departments know to be insufficient. Labour is using this to argue things are much worse under the bonnet than we were told. But how much of itjustine can be explained by this constant pressure to find savings? you work in the treasury. When i saw these next to each other today. . . Are departments underestimating what they spend, because that is so much easier than c