The israeli army has said it has operational control of their rafah crossing here, this is a fellow because mortars were fired from this area killing four other soldiers. We have not verified this ourselves but we have verified several videos circulating on social media of israeli armoured vehicles including this one, which appeared online this morning. It shows a tank ramming into two palestinian flags at the crossing on the gaza side. There is a long shadow stretching on the ground from west to east suggesting it was early in the morning. We have located it to hear by looking at pictures of Satellite Images of the crossing. Overnight, there was continuous israeli bombardment on the border city. We verified this video which was sent to the bbc by someone in khan younis looking towards rafah. You can see some of the players in the sky. Israel claims 20 hamas fighters have been killed but there are also reports of civilian casualties. Israel says it has warned people of it strikes. One
This turning point period, and we will pursue our long term plans and priorities. But first of all, we have to save the people of the country. We have to preserve our values and traditions, and particularly protect voluntary non state and religious organizations and civil society. The measures we take must be targeted and must be realizable. We will be open to cooperation with all countries who see in russia an honest partner. We will not refuse or reject any kind of dialogue with the western world. We are determined to parry aggression and to particularly counter those who are aggressive towards our country. Lets get more now with our russia editor at bbc monitoring, vitaly shevchenko. Good to see you. What stood out for you in president putins address . What happened and what was set as at the kremlin this morning may not be what it really seems. The way Vladimir Putin came to power, a lot of people would hesitate to call it an election after all of his key opponents were barred from
The Prime Minister says the first flight carrying Asylum Seekers to rwanda will leave in 10 to 12 weeks time come what may. He says an airfield is on standby and charter planes are booked. Rishi sunak had originally promised the first flight would take off this spring, but his timetable now suggests a delay until the summer. He says peers and mps will have to sit through the night tonight if necessary to pass the governments controversial rwanda legislation. Our political correspondent, helen catt is in westminster. Helen. New statistics out this morning show one of the reasons why rishi sunak might be so keen to get those flights off soon, last Year Parliament passed a law that said that some asylum cases could only be dealt with by being removed from the uk. But they cant go to rwanda because the Supreme Court ruled it was unsafe and there are now nearly 52,000 Asylum Seekers whose claims simply cant be dealt with here. So what the government did to try and get around this last year
Lawyer i should explain this is not the courtroom itself, no cameras allowed inside the courtroom when proceedings are active. This is on a different floor and you can see there the barrier is where donald trump will often come at the beginning of the day to speak to the media. We are in the short recess which is why cameras can pick him up at this life moment. Lets try and bring you that brief statement he gave before proceedings got under wayjust gave before proceedings got under way just a little gave before proceedings got under wayjust a little earlier. Ijust want to say before we begin, these are all biden trials. This is done as Election Interference. Everybody knows it. Im here, instead of being able to be in pennsylvania and georgia, and lots of other places campaigning. And its very unfair. Fortunately, the poll. Numbers are very good. Theyve been going up because people understand whats going on. This is a witch hunt and its a shame, and it comes out of washington. Its in co
government in london, but not really thinking of the broader picture. one element worth mentioning for viewers wondering, the glaring question of scotland, northern ireland and wales, this inquiry will move to devolved nations later on, early next year. this is very much about the devolved power to the english cities. we ve heard from those two mayors. what comes next? we will hear from steve rotherham, mayors. what comes next? we will hearfrom steve rotherham, the metro mayor for liverpool, another picture of how he felt and possibly similar anecdotes. sadly khan and andy burnham and steve rotherham are all labour mayors, but they kept party politics out of bed. it was a sense of pulling together. we will hear from him. laterthis of pulling together. we will hear from him. later this week we will hearfrom more ministers, the accusations may be answered by them. we have michael gove tomorrow, the cabinet minister, so to some extent his role is to bring what everyone was sayin