The attacks left craters several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted, including scientific research centres. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites in the city of masyaf was housing pro iranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. But israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Frank lowenstein served as united states special envoy for middle east peace under president
what effect will south africa s genocide case have against israel at the international court of justice? the reason why this matters now is because these provisional measures have an immediate and binding effect on israel s ability to conduct its military operations in gaza. and british politics after the coming election, what will be the biggest challenge facing the winner? trying to inspire and to take a divided country with you i i think it s really, really difficult. i two years ago, the russian build up on the borders of ukraine was starting. russian officials were assuring the world there d be no invasion. when the absurdly overconfident russian attack began, it was largely beaten off. a lot of people thought ukraine was bound to win. but the russians got better at fighting, and ukraine s supplies of cash and weaponry from america were cut by the republican party. ukraine s counteroffensive failed. there are disputes at the top level of ukrainian politics, and ukrain
on the bbc s hardtalk program in 2014 when he was 105. love, honesty, decency. ..ethics. that standard of life. i believe in ethics. and if everybody believes in ethics, we d have no problems at all. 26 years earlier, another bbc programme, that s life, thrust him into the spotlight after it was handed a wartime scrapbook. that tv show told the true story of how nicholas winton had saved the lives of 669 mainlyjewish children. so we told her about him. she said. i tried very hard to find out who had rescued us. i even tried the archbishop of canterbury to see if he knew. but i drew a blank. i would very much like to meet nicholas winton to thank him for saving my life. if it hadn t been for this man, i wouldn t be here to tell the tale. vera gissing is with us here tonight. hello, vera. and i should tell you that you are actually sitting next to nicholas winton. hello. applause hello. that story has gone from the small screen to the big in the feature film one life.
i m in alaska s state capital ofjuneau. it s a place dominated by nature, which can have a big impact here as i m about to find out. i ve been reliably informed that, given the terrain around here, these things are basically like taxis. got an eight minute flight. i ve never been in a helicopter! let s go! i m meeting up with university of alaska southeast scientists, eran hood and abby watts. oh, man, i m so excited! they ve invited me to tag along as they conduct their research on the changing environment here. oh, yes, here we go! just look out there. 0h, we re going to be in for such a fun time. so, we re just coming into view now of mendenhall glacier, which is about 13 miles wide incredible. and it s one of the many thousands of glaciers in alaska. this basin that we re coming into all this area that s collapsed this was completely full of water. and it all rushed out underneath the glacier down into juneau. last summer, water amounting to about 30,000 0lympic s