Live from beirut. We must build a New Britain built from that age old spirit of creativity and enterprise. The Pride And Ambition of working people. Lets start with the breaking lets start with the breaking news in the last Hour News in the last hour that Israeli Military says it has that Israeli Military says it has carried out a what it carried out a what it calls a targeted attack calls a targeted attack on a senior Hezbollah Commander on a senior Hezbollah Commander in the south of beirut. In the south of beirut. The idf says that he was attack the idf says that he was responsible for organising responsible for organising numerous attacks against numerous attacks against israeli Civilians and soldiers. Israeli Civilians and soldiers. These pictures have come from these pictures have come from the Southern Suburbs of beirut. The Southern Suburbs of beirut. You can see the extent of the you can see the extent of the Wreckage And Destruction in the Wreckage And Destruction in the af
back to paris, want to show you some pictures on the streets because large crowds have gathered throughout the day, but they are digesting the news that s come from the constitutional council that has effectively given emmanuel macron the go ahead to change the pension age in france from 62 to 64. we ve had two months and three weeks of looking at diaries of protests right across france, cities of large numbers, large coalitions of students and unions, of workers all against the move. now they were hoping through the protests that it would change the government s mind that didn t work, they were then hoping the constitutional courts would put a break or change the government s mind, that hasn t worked. so president emmanuel macron making it clear he intends to put this on the statute books in the next 48 hours, so having waited for this constitutional council decision, he now wants to get on with it. he s invested so much of his personal capital, he s determined to get this
there is the wreck of the mary rose. it has come to the surface. and it s exactly a0 years since henry 8th s flagship the mary rose was raised from the bottom of the solent, after 437 years under the sea. the bank of england has been forced to intervene once again in the markets warning of a material risk to financial stability. the emergency move this morning will see the bank buy a wider range of government debt, in order to restore conditions in the markets. it follows on from yesterday s announcement of further meaures aimed at ensuring an orderly end to its emergency bond buying scheme. today the institute for fiscal studies think tank warnted the chancellor will need to make big and painful spending cuts to put the country s finances on a sustainable path. it suggests the chancellor could increase working age benefits in line with average earnings, limit public investment to 2% of national income and cut the budgets of every government department except he
in the suffering of his wife, meghan. there s widespread condemnation of the storming of brazil s congress by supporters of former president, jair bolsonaro. and history is about to be made here in cornwall, when later this evening the uk will be launching a rocket to send satellites up into space. and coming up on the bbc news channel, roberto martinez has been appointed as the new manager of portugal. the former everton boss left his role with belgium after the world cup. good afternoon and welcome to the news at 1:00pm. officials from rail, health and teaching unions, are taking part in separate talks with ministers to try to avert more industrial action. there has been no breakthrough so far. the unite union which represents workers across several sectors of the economy says the government has missed yet another opportunity to put this right, and the meeting was an insult to his members . strikes in the health service next week involving unite are now likely to go ahea
and its clear that suella knows the home and its clear that suella knows the home office, having very recently been home office, having very recently been there, and is able to hit the ground been there, and is able to hit the ground running from day one. the new prime minister has already spoken to the first ministers of scotland and wales in what s being seen as a bid to improve relations with the devolved administrations. and at noon today, rishi sunak faces his first big parliamentary test at prime minister s questions. we ll have live coverage. good morning and welcome to bbc news. i m here in westminster on the first day of rishi sunak s premiership. the new prime minister will hold his first cabinet meeting this morning after a major reshuffle of ministers. after a day of hiring and firing, we now know who will be joining him around the cabinet table. mr sunak brought back several experienced ministers. the most controversial appointment was the return of suell