Jenny kleeman In London and in new york, Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair brian stelter. The israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked for forgiveness from israelis for not being able to bring back alive the six hostages who were found dead in gaza on saturday. It comes as President Biden has warned that Mr Netanyahu Isnt doing enough to reach a Hostage Release Deal with hamas. Earlier, the uk said its suspending some Arms Sales to israel, in cases where they might be used to violate international humanitarian law. The Prime Minister says a new system of Grading Schools in england will not cause confusion after the government announced that single word grading such as outstanding or inadequate had been scrapped. The new system, which will grade individual aspects of a schools performance, will come into affect next year. Sir Keir Starmer said the changes will paint a richer picture of a school, and will strenghten accountability. The United States says its seized a plane
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Vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. With more from jerusalem here s our correspondent, jon donnison. The official polio vaccination campaign doesn t start until sunday morning. It is being coordinated by the united nations but we do understand that the first babies have been vaccinated today in khan younis in the south of gaza. What it s going to involve and get under way as a series of three day, area specific pauses in fighting that both israel and hamas have agreed to. The key words there are area specific, so we re not talking about the formal ceasefire that diplomats have been pushing for weeks and
On the app. So it was kind of a laundry list of issues. More broadly, mike, were you surprised that this happened in france? so, this is. . . One of the fascinating aspects of this case is, you know, it s a big deal in any sort of country at this point, i believe, to really take under arrest the ceo of a major tech company, especially one used by almost a billion people, that telegram is. I think the distinction that s important here is that the arrest was made not under eu sort of broader laws, but specifically under french sort ofjurisdiction. And i also think that other tech ceos are looking at that and what that means for travel across different countries, not. . . I think durov is a different case because of how uncooperative he has been with different countries over the years but it s something to look at. Related to that, my bbc news colleague joe tidy has been reporting in the last few hours that telegram refuses to join international programmes aimed at detecting and removin
Face to face with the man they believe led hamas here. Inside the white car, wissam khazem, shot dead by the army. And with him, two other men who tried to escape. Killed in an airstrike as they ran. Israel says all were involved in shooting and bombing attacks. The eastern areas ofjenin and its refugee camp have both been sealed off for the last three days and there are fresh reports of casualties including an 82 year old man who paramedics said was shot nine times. This morning, the army pulled out of the camp in tulkarem. The destruction there enough to remind residents of a war. Umm yazan said the army laid wires from this woman s home to blow up two houses opposite. Families she has known for decades. Translation: i have tenyearold triplets | and they trapped us in a room and then they started the explosions. Five explosions in total. Imagine the walls shaking and your children clinging to you. It feels like we are in gaza. We met fadwa, stranded by the rubble that used to be he