welcome to bbc news. i m nuala mcgovern. our top stories: at least ten people are killed in israeli air strikes on gaza, inluding a top commander of the islamichhad movement. the group s responded by firing hundreds of rockets at israel. conspiracy theorist alex jones is ordered to pay m5 million in punitive damages after falsely labelling the sandy hook school shooting a hoax. chinese fighter jets fly close to the coast of taiwan, as bejing halts cooperation with the us on key issues including climate change. thousands of performers descend on edinburgh as the world s biggest arts festival
welcome to bbc news. i m nuala mcgovern. our top stories: at least ten people are killed in israeli air strikes on gaza, inluding a top commander of the islamichhad movement. the group s responded by firing dozens of rockets at israel. conspiracy theorist alex jones is ordered to pay m5 million in punitive damages after falsely labelling the sandy hook school shooting a hoax. chinese fighter jets fly close to the coast of taiwan, as bejing halts cooperation with the us on key issues including climate change. no respite in sight as europe endures the worst drought on record. thousands of performers descend on edinburgh as the world s biggest arts festival gets under way.
this is bbc news. our top stories: at least ten people are killed in israeli air strikes on gaza, inluding a top commander of the islamichhad movement. the group s responded by firing dozens of rockets at israel. conspiracy theorist alex jones is ordered to pay $45 million in punitive damages after falsely labelling the sandy hook school shooting a hoax. chinese fighter jets fly close to the coast of taiwan, as bejing halts cooperation with the us on key issues including climate change. thousands of performers descend on edinburgh as the world s biggest arts festival gets under way.
the us conspiracy theorist alexjones is ordered to pay nearly $50 million in damages, afterfalsely claiming the sandy hook school shooting was a hoax. in the uk, the two candidates trying to become the next prime minister set out their plans to deal with forecasts of an economic downturn. chinese fighter jets fly close to taiwan s coastline, as bejing halts co operation with the us on key issues including climate change. hello, welcome to the programme, if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we are going to star in the middle east. we are going to star in the middle east. israel says it s arrested 19 members of the palestinian group, islamichhad, in raids across the west bank.
is in a conservative way of lowering the tax burden, not giving out hand outs. so, that appears to rule out, really, any direct financial assistance for people, which some argue is the only real way to help people in the short term with the cost of energy bills which simply aren t going to be met with tax cuts and economic reforms. more of a longer term aim there. so it will be interesting to see how she perhaps expands on that position and what rishi sunak counters it with. he has said he would cut vat on fuel bills, perhaps more help to come too. thanks to jonathan for that. china is halting co operation with the us in several key areas including climate change, military issues and international crime. this is after a trip to taiwan by the senior us democrat nancy pelosi. china views the visit as a challenge to its claims of sovereignty over the island . but taiwan s foreign minister defended pelosi s visit, and says taiwan would continue to invite politicians from around the worl