The attack marks the first time iran had ever launched a direct Military Assault on israel. We will be live injerusalem shortly. But first, lets bring you up to date with the latest. Take a look at this video. Air raid sirens wail what you can hear is the air raid sirens injerusalem. What you can see is israels air defence system, the iron dome, in Operation Flashes in Thejerusalem Sky as drones and missiles are shot down. A coalition of israels allies, including the us and uk, has helped bring down some iranian drones and misiles before they reached israeli territory. This is footage of that happening overjordan. Similarly, this video is from the Skies Over Damascus in syria. You can see objects being hit in the sky. And, again, in the skies over iraq, more drones and missiles being intercepted as they travelled towards israel. So heres what we know so far. Iran has attacked israel with around 300 drones and missiles. There were significant Explosions In The Sky over israel, caused by
Closed their airspace. An official in the region also tells our partners at cbs news that anything that passes overjordanian territory is a problem and will be intercepted. Tehran has said the attack is quote punishment intercepted. Tehran has said the attack is, quote, punishment for israeli crimes. Iran had been threatening to retaliate for a deadly israeli air strike on an iranian diplomatic compound in syria two weeks ago. Earlier, we heard from daniel hagari, spokesperson for the Israel Defence forces. Iran has launched a direct attack from iranian so you looked towards the state of israel. We are closely monitoring iranian killer drones that are en route to israel send by iran. This is a severe and dangerous escalation and are defensive and offensive capabilities are the highest level of readiness at of this large scale attack from iran. Together, with our partners, the Israel Defense forces are operating at full force to defend the state of israel and the people of israel. This
we re very much not a racist family. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we re covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. first. president biden has signed into law his one point nine trillion dollar stimulus bill. the package provides a direct payment to most americans of $1,400, as well as $350 billion for state and local governments. mr biden wasn t taking any questions from the reporters gathered in the oval office but he is due to make a nationally televised address in the us in the next hour we will, of course, bring you that here on bbc news. well, for more on what that address may hold, i m joined by the bbc s laura trevelyan from washington. what can we expect? this is president biden is first prime time 0val president biden is first prime time oval office address to americans. and his aides have said in the last 15 minutes that they expect the president to set a goal of allowing americans to gather in
lots more news with james at the top of the hour. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. it seems myanmar s military is prepared to kill as many pro democracy protesters as it takes to safeguard its grip on power. so, what options do the opponents of the coup have left? well, my guest is dr sasa, representative of the committee which represents the ousted parliament to the united nations. why has myanmar s democratic transition gone so tragically wrong? dr sasa, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me, stephen. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i cannot say where you are because i know you want to keep your location secret, but it is clear that you escaped from myanmar in the hours and days after the february 1st coup. and as i understand it, you were with aung san suu kyi in the hours before the coup. so, can you tell me exactly what happened to you? it was the 1st of february. ..that the military co
this is a conversation with the american people, that his drawing you and and he is using his age and has experience, his five decades in public life to appear like this stage, why is republicans say grandfatherly, too old for the job but you can see that he is using the weight of the office to try to persuade people that this is a moment where we mustn t throw it all away, we have to build on the progress that has been made and if we do, comejuly four we can celebrate with our friends. , ., friends. let s widen our discussion friends. let s widen our discussion and - friends. let s widen our discussion and bring - friends. let s widen our discussion and bring in| friends. let s widen our| discussion and bring in a couple of get. democratic strategist amanda there on the bottom left, the political director for hillary clinton s 2016 campaign. and on the bottom right, an internal medicine physician. let me start with you, from a medical point of view, was this speech what