good afternoon. first, police in northern ireland are warning that dissident republican groups may try to cause public disorder to draw police into attacks over the easter weekend. extra officers are being drafted in ahead of a visit by president biden next week as part of events to mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. our ireland correspondent chris page reports from belfast. in northern ireland this weekend, people are holding events to mark a quarter of a century of relative peace. the agreement signed on good friday, 1998, largely ended three decades of conflict. but there is also a reminder that the threat from paramilitaries hasn t completely pa ramilitaries hasn t completely faded. paramilitaries hasn t completely faded. police have taken the unusual step of warning there could be street violence at a march held by dissident republicans. there is very strong community evidence specifically coming forward in respect of monday s events in derry londond
units, fighterjet pilots, and drone operators amid heightened tensions in the region. in the latest escalation of tensions between israel and the palestinians, two israeli women have been killed in an attack in the occupied west bank. the authorities say a third person was also seriously wounded in the incident, which happened near the settlement of hamra. the israeli military says troops are searching for suspects who opened fire at a car, causing it to crash. this latest development comes after the israeli military hit targets belonging to the palestinian militant group hamas. the air strikes hit areas of the gaza strip and lebanon. israel says they re in retaliation for a major rocket attack on israel launched from southern lebanon, which the israelis blamed on hamas. these images from gaza show the aftermath. they re the heaviest air strikes that israel has carried out on gaza since last august. our correspondent yolande knell has the lastest from jerusalem. there are som
we will be live in israel and also in kyiv in the next few minutes. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s ollie foster. hello from the bbc sport centre. we ll start with the masters golf, because there s been a big move at the top of the leaderbaord. the american brook koepka has moved three shots clear on ten under. he was one of the early starters at augusta and birdied the par five second to move to eight under. he had beenjoint leader withjon rahm and victor hovland who dont start their second round for another few hours. koepka has just eagled the eighth. ten under at the moment. he is one of 17 rebel liv series golfers who are taking part at augusta. jason day has made a strong start, two under for his second round, he s up to seven under, tied for second. a lot of golf to be played on friday. scotland s women failed to qualify for this years world cup but they have claimed a morale boosting victory over the co hosts australia. they won i nil,
developments in the last few minutes, the news we have been reporting to the course of the day that two sisters killed and a mother killed in a shooting in the west bank. we see the pictures of the scene. the operation that followed in the immediate aftermath stop the update comes on the mayor. he has said that the three women were residents of the settlement which lies south ofjerusalem. according to the mayor, the family were travelling for holiday when the attack happened and were immigrants from the uk, originally from london. no confirmation of that from the bbc so far it certainly was comments being reported from the mayor of the west bank settlements that these two sisters were originally from london here in the uk. not clear whether would they wear dual nationals because earlier we were reporting they were to is really sisters and more details coming in all the time and since that latest attack we have sin reservists calls up in israel as tensions are ratcheted up aga