a military operation. palestinian officials say it s an invasion. at least 8 people have died. we ll have the latest. joining me on the panel tonight joel rubin who served in the obama administration as assistant to the secretary of state, and paul waugh chief political commentator for the i paper. also on the programme tonight, people in france have been gathering outside town halls to call for calm after days of riots. police are bracing for more clashes tonight following the shooting of a teenage boy by police last week. just weeks after the secretary of state antony blinken met with xi jinping us treasury secretary janet yellen will head to beijing this week as the world s two biggest economies look to find ways to work together on trade. and, in the uk, last month was the hottestjune on record. but wildlife experts have warned the heat has caused the death of an unprecedented number of fish. hundreds of israeli soldiers backed by drones and armoured bulldozers are
if president recep tayyip erdogan should remain in power after 20 years may end in a run off vote. the islamic party of the incumbent president erdogan is being challenged by a secularist candidate, kemal kilicdaroglu. both men have dismissed the other side s claims to be in the lead. counting has continued throughout the day. this is one of the country s most critical elections. the country is dealing with soaring inflation, and is still reeling from two earthquakes in february in which more than 50,000 people died. these are live pictures from the streets of turkey where people are awaiting a result. let s cross live to our middle east corrrespondent anna foster, who joins us from outside the governing ak party s headquarters in the turkish city of adana. voting has been going on for quite a while now, we have had one side claiming they are in the lead and then the other side, so i suppose it shows usjust then the other side, so i suppose it shows us just how tight it is? i
ukrainian security officials have accused russia of depriving belarus of its sovereignty, after president putin said he would station nuclear weapons there. the secretary of the national defence council, oleksiy danilov, said on twitter that the move was a step towards the internal destabilisation of belarus. and he said the kremlin had taken the country as a nuclear hostage. ukraine says the deployment violates nonproliferation commitments, something mr putin has denied. translation: we have already transferred - to belarus our well known, very effective complex iskander. it can be a delivery vehicle as well. on april 3rd, we will start training the crews. onjuly 1st, we will finish the construction of the special repository to store the tactical nuclear weapon in belarus. i m joined from kyiv by our correspondent, hugo bachega. how is this affecting already extremely high tensions in the area? i don t think there was any surprise here in ukraine. russia and belarus have b
people were running away and said there were leaks at pertamina. then i took my baby out of the house and while we were running, there was an explosion. a probe into lockdown parties at downing street indicates the former british prime minister should have known rules were being broken. i believed implicitly that these events were within the rules, nor did anybody tell me before or afterwards anything to the contrary. and memories of 1930s glasgow: we meet the artist holding his first exhibition at the age of 95. i think i got the right atmosphere here. i think i ve just got it right. welcome to the programme. first, russian mercenaries say they have surrounded most of bakhmut in eastern ukraine. the city has been the focus of extensive fighting in recent weeks. ukraine has acknowledged that its troops in bakhmut are under severe pressure and may have to pull out. meanwhile, kyiv has ordered some residents in the northeastern city of kupiansk to leave because of russian shell