The Prime Minister, rishi sunak, said only the conservatives offer security and economic stability, while the Labour Leader, sir keir starmer, promised an end to what he called 14 years of decline and chaos under the tories. Nigel farage said he wont be standing for reform uk but will campaign for them. Lets get more from our Political Correspondent damian grammaticas. Enter the man who has staked everything on this gamble, calling an election now. Quite a few of his mps are not convinced by the timing, and he has a huge poll deficit to overcome. I want to build a britain, a country where you all can have confidence, restored confidence and pride in our communities, in our society and our nation. Earlier he had an admission hed promised deportation flights to rwanda. Now he says they will happen if he is elected. We have already started detaining people, we have hired the escorts, we have an airfield on standby and we have booked the flights. All of that work is already ongoing and the
Saying theyre invading the strip soon with Tens Of Thousands of soldiers. The u. S. Embassy in israel is offering of iq Asian Of Americans and immediate relatives by sea, just cyprus on monday at 8 am local time. It is on a Space Limited basis. The embassy says chartered flights are also being arranged. Meanwhile, the rafah Crossing Point between egypt and gaza remains closed this morning, as egyptian authorities continue their negotiations with israel and the United States over allowing u. S. Citizens safe passage into egypt. Secretary of state Antony Blinken will arrive in egypt today, and speak with that countrys president later this morning. A second u. S. Aircraft carrier is headed to the Eastern Mediterranean to help deter escalation in the region. It joins another Carrier Strike group that arrives earlier this week. And according to the Israel Defense forces, over 1400 people have been killed in israel since the fighting began, with the Gaza Health Ministry reporting more than t
Down hundreds of people. And Antony Blinken visits qatar as part of a series of talks across the middle east, saying the u. S. And qatar are working together to prevent the conflict spreading from gaza and to secure the release of hostages. Im brent goff. To our viewers watching on pbs, in the United States, and to all of you around the world, welcome. Almost one week after that unprecedented hamas terror attack in israel, tonight localized raids are being carried out by israeli troops inside gaza. Israels chief military spokesperson said infantry and tank units entered gaza to look at rocket cruise, destroy weapons and search for evidence of hostages. The announcement did not appear to be the beginning of an expected ground defensive in retaliation for the terror attacks from last saturday. Israel has been amassing troops along the gaza border in preparation for a possible offensive. Our correspondent rebecca is in tel aviv and told us more about what are being called localized raids.
The oldest person who came today and threw themselves in these branches is actually a woman born in 1314, and the youngest was a 19yearold man, i must say that today, we also see the children, now i dont know if it will affect us show me baby here, in fact , they have another passion and taste to come together with the families and like to express the difference, at least if they take that paper vote from their fathers hand and put it in the box, but this year you know that it has become electronic again. They come and witness the presence of their fathers and mothers to actually cast their votes. Thank you, ms. Tanesh, for what you have described from the luxor branch , which is located in shahid mahalati, you face the voters, of course, all the reporters of the memories. They are doing very well. In these events, in front of the people, i will say goodbye to you in order to communicate with our other colleagues, mr. Engineer shamran. I would like to ask a question from the parliament
Hello dear compatriots , welcome to the first page program. In this program, according to the routine of another front page personality, they will be in front of the camera to talk about policies, strategies and of course decisions that can affect peoples personal and social lives. To be effective, but this time in the area of the Islamic Council elections, tomorrow is when the second round of the Islamic Council elections will take place in this round, 45 representatives will be elected, but 90 people made it to the second round, and tehran province has two constituencies that made it to the second round. One of them is in the constituencies of tehran, shemiranat shahr ray and islamshahr, where 32 people made it to the second round, and 16 people will be elected among them. There is an election at the country level, in which the representatives must compete with each other tomorrow to get into the Islamic Council, from among two candidates, one of whom will naturally win. Kurds