This is bbc news. The headlines Benjamin Netanyahu warns the gaza action has onlyjust begun and israel will use enormous force against hamas. The israeli army tells hamas there is nowhere to hide. It says its recovered the bodies of 1,500 hamas fighters and secured the boundary with gaza. These are the latest pictures from gaza. Our correspondent there is staggered at the scale of the destruction. The heaviest, i think, ever air strikes that i have ever seen in my life and in my 25 years of working as a journalist. Access to food, water and electricity is being cut and the crossing to egypt closed. The un says the gaza siege is a violation of international law. More details emerge of the hamas attack on a Music Festival where 260 people died. Imagine yourself using a rocket that is meant to fire on houses or tanks fired on a group of 20 civilians. This is gaza right now. Well have the latest news from both gaza and israel. More from both gaza and israel. Than 700 people in gaz been mor
Weve just seen donald trump leave the courtroom in manhattan. Donald trump back in court today at the Hush Money Trial in ny. The former president is accused of falsifying Business Records to conceal damaging stories that would have undermined his bid for the white house. Back on the stand today was the lawyer who negotiated a payment for porn star stormy s daniels. Keith davidson has been detailing how that 130,000 payment was arranged. But in the course of his testimony, prosecutors took him back to the election night, in 2016. And a text message he sent at 3 in the morning to the editor of the national enquirer. What have we done . He wrote. 0ur North America correspondent Nada Tawfikjoins us from new york. The suggestion being that their efforts to quash these stories had in no small part assisted Donald Trumps route to the white house. Thats exactly right, christian. He was asked to say but that text message meant. He said the understanding was all of their efforts had in some way
Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. In search of the secret recipe for growth, how governments productivity, for growth, how governments in the United States they productivity, in the United States they found the answer. So what can they found the answer. So what can the rest of us and learn from the american example . As of today, abortion in florida is banned after six weeks of pregnancy. And the New York Times published an investigation today on what that will mean, for women those living in the south. Three years ago, abortion was legal in every state in america, the average American Woman lived less than 25 miles from a clinic. But this is a map the times has created which shows how the picture evolved up to march this year. The deeper the shading the further to travel. You can see that florida, North Carolina and virginia were the only states in the south, offering abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Ans for 6. 4 million women, their nearest cli
If i could ask you to stand there, please. Thank you very much. In that case, sir, when the crowd has gone, ill happily escort you out. Gideon falter told the bbc how shocked he was at what happened. I think its time for sir mark rowley to go. He has had long enough to get to grips with the situation, to get his police force under control, to tell his front line officers, dont worry, we are going to send enough police to back you up so that you can make the right decisions. And instead, he hasnt done that. And because of that, he has to go. The time has come. A little earlier our reporter Angus Crawford outlined the pressure now lying upon the met police commissioner. Well, its been very interesting. Here in london, since the 7th of October Attacks and israels response, if you like, the politics of The Middle East has been played out on the street every weekend with demonstration and counterdemonstration. The met police has come under huge pressure to get the balance right. What balanc
Was in relatiation for an air strike two weeks ago on one of its consulates in damascus, widely thought to have been carried out by israel. Speaking on Iranian State tv, the armed forces Chief Of Staff warned israel of a larger attack on its territory should it retaliate against the overnight drone and missile attack. Lets bring you up to date with the latest. Lets take a look at how events unfolded. Sirens. 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 shoot down some iranian drones and missiles 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 trave