Sanctions against iran a move off the shooting down a surveillance drone by the iranians and straight at home was last week terence employed to you and saying the atmosphere now is not right for dialogue. Demonstrations across the palestinian territory against Donald Trumps new plan for the middle east. Just as in gaza and the west bank said the plan doesnt address basic issues. And is in no way of relaunching of the peace process. Thirty one upset the opposition candidate winning again but this time by a bigger margin its a rejection the president s policy of the use of domination. Thank you very much for being with us fresh sanctions on to be imposed on iran by the United States. The us President Donald Trump told reporters the sanctions will target irans Supreme Leader the ayatollah ali khamenei. And his office this comes in the wake of the downing of the usfl unstrung over the strait of full moose. And the previous incident were too old tankers came under attack in the same water w
Week. You saw a lot of the market dip down. Ftse 100 was down. 40 by the close of the trading picture. For the week, the ftse 100 was down. 30 . The week to date, the dax losing around. 25 for the week. It was in record territory the previous week. That was managing to find a fifth positive week in a row. The cac 40 was up more than 1 week to date last week. That was its fourth positive week in five. The ftse mib gained 1. 4 . For the week, you managed to see gains for the stoxx 600 and some of the broader markets as well within the trading picture. As i said, for the ftse mib, it was the seventh week in a row finding positivity. The rest of the data was significant. We are moving into a week with earnings from adidas and vw will be looked at as well. All of that in focus this week and we are going into the uk wage data and gdp number which is interesting to see. The bank of england is looking for a firm er stance when it ca begin to cut rates. Cpi and ppi data is important. 4 down in
two weeks before the coronation, a new bbc poll suggesting less than a third of young adults want the monarchy to continue. hello and welcome. we start in sudan, where more than two dozen countries have been evacuating their citizens from the capital khartoum as fighting between two rival armed groups continues. this was french nationals leaving earlier. most of those being evacuated are diplomats and their families. spain, germany and italy are among other countries still evacuating people, the us and uk have already flown diplomats out, as well as canada. its prime minister, justin trudeau, tweeted that canadian officials in nearby countries have also been mobilized to help . he says they re stationed in nearby djibouti, which has european and american military bases. sudan s army has been fighting a rival paramilitary group, the rsf, for more than a week, and this is what khartoum looks like right now. and while foreign nationals are airlifted out, sudan s civilians rem
Thick fog and heavy rain have hampered efforts, but in the early hours of this morning, this, a drone sent by turkey identified a source of heat. Footage shows an aerial view of a landscape at night and a Dark Blotch On what appears to be a hillside. When rescuers eventually reach the wreckage on foot, they found the helicopter which had been carrying irans president and the Foreign Minister was completely burned with no signs of life. And soon after, confirmation that both irans president Ebrahim Raisi and the Foreign Minister have been killed in the crash. The servant of the iranian people, president raisi, the president of the republic of iran was serving the people of the public of iran. President raisi, seen here on the left, had been visiting a dam project. This is footage of him earlier in the day travelling in a convoy of three helicopters. He became the president in 2021 and was responsible for tightening Morality Laws and oversaw a ruthless repression and were seen as a poten
The white house has confirmed that an iranian attack on israel is a real and viable threat. National Security Communications adviserjohn kirby has told reporters that the danger was credible and the white house was watching very, very closely. Earlier, a us official told our broadcast partner cbs that strikes could start as early as today although nothing is certain and other outcomes are possible. Iran has been threatening reprisals, for the israeli strike on its consulate in syria, nearly two weeks ago. For its part, israel is threatening to hit back hard if it is subjected to a direct attack by iran. French citizens are being asked not to travel to iran, lebanon, israel and the palestinian territories. The United States has told diplomatic staff and their families, not to travel outside three cities. The uk has also warned against travelling to israel, as has india. Just a moment we will be live in jerusalem and in washington to talk to our correspondence there. First david martin i