That they see there. does this indicate anything about an escalation? so it does, but it s a covert escalation. israel would prefer to carry out a large, regionwide covert escalation against hamas wherever they might be, and in that way it would mirror what they re doing in syria, where it s been a long running war by their air force against the iranians and their militias in that country without escalating to regionwide war. that s what they would prefer. and this is the first sign of them carrying out an operation like that. now, as you noted, hamas isn tjust in lebanon and syria and iran. it s also in pro western countries, including places where they re not tolerated, likejordan, and places they are tolerated, like turkey and in qatar. and what we don t know right now is whether or not israel is going to take the risk of carrying out targeted assassinations in those pro western countries, the way we saw them carry out an attack or an assassination on a hamas commander in dubai back
on the syrian officials not already on the list through a court case in lebanon. likejordan, lebanon has also been on the offensive against the captagon smugglers. in 2021, a trial began in lebanon against a well known businessman. his arrest had followed one of the biggest drug busts in history. in march of that year, a huge shipment of captagon was seat in malaysia, it was destined for saudi arabia, where it would have had a street value of up to $2 billion. the case was heard behind closed doors but thejudge told us some of what was discovered in the trial the to protect him, we are discussing his identity. disguising.
That they can get back into competitive sports. you re live with bbc news. the white house has that it will not be normalising relations with the acid regime and sanctions will remain in full effect. foreign ministers from the 22 nation group voted for syria s return on sunday at a meeting in cairo ahead of their upcoming meeting. president bashar al assad will be free to attend for the first time in ten years. some like the uae had been pressing for to end al assad s isolation. for some likejordan, it was more a pragmatic decision, borne out of the need to find a solution to the refugee crisis and the drug smuggling that comes from syria. live now to our middle east analyst, sebastian usher. interesting comments from the white
Not in traditional academic subjects, but sessions that help build confidence. it s also helped out many parents, likejordan, whose daughter took part. i would say it s been beneficial. as a working parent, i would say it s definitely been more beneficial because instead of thinking about childcare costs, they re staying in school that extra times. after ten weeks of cooking, drumming, dancing and everything else, one lesson has already been learnt that rolling out the extra hour for every school and every pupil in wales would be hugely complicated and expensive. hello, come on in. welcome to the lego club. the school had the freedom to piece together its own plan, with staff offered extra pay if they wanted to help and local companies employed to come in, too. only years 5 and 6 took part. offering it to every child would be tough. it would be a very difficult task to run for every year group, especially for us
Metal so that is one step closer to the four she needs to get for decent epics but on top of that i think thatis epics but on top of that i think that is the most beautiful thing about having this team final because gymnastics is so individualised and the second you have a team and a team it can step up likejordan did today, it is beautiful to know that everybody has your back and that is what this sport is all about, being able to come in and do the best of your ability and being ready at every single second and that is what they showed today. 50 it every single second and that is what they showed today. they showed today. so it did team gb. positive story for team gb though, how impressed were you by those four members of the team? it was so insane, we had the tvs up and be a close eyes on america and russia and then great britain as well. and just knowing that most of those girls are 16 and then we have an 18 and 20 year old in their first