Its been just over 2a hours since iran came under attack. Us Officials Say israel fired at least one missile into iranian territory, no major damage or casualties were reported. This was a relatively small scale strike by israel. Earlier, the us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken would not comment on reports the white house was informed in advance about the israeli assault. The United States has not been involved in any offensive operations. What we are focusing on, what the g7 is focusing on and its reflected in our statement and in our conversation is the work to de escalate tensions. And this is why the us and its allies want to calm tensions. Last sunday iran attacked israel with more than 300 missiles and drones causing little damage. The fear in the west is that a cycle of retaliation between israel and iran could ignite a wider war. And there is hope too that the limited nature of the Israeli Attack will allow the iranians to walk away from any further response. Officials in tehr
Against attempting any retaliation following those drone and missile attacks, which iran says were a response to an Israeli Attack on its Diplomatic Mission in syria. Our chief International Correspondent, lyse doucet, has been sending us updates from jerusalem. Israel says it is now launching a diplomatic offensive. The Israeli Foreign minister has written, he says, to 32 countries around the world, urging them to impose even more sanctions against the Islamic Republic of iran. The foreign minister, israel katz, posted this on x, formerly twitter, saying that iran has to be stopped now before it is too late. And that is the message thats also been sounded by leading senior military officials here in israel, including the chief of staff, Lieutenant General herzi halevi. He said that israel would have to respond. He made the comments while visiting the Nevatim Airbase in southern israel, where some of irans missiles did actually hit in the early hours of sunday morning, although israel
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On bbc london. Reaction as a Muslim Student on newsnight at 10 30pm. It seems the Prime Minister will get his smoking and vape ban, but only because the opposition rode to the rescue. What does it tell us that a senior cabinet minister, five other ministers and two tory former Prime Ministers refused to support rishi sunak . The vote in the commons was overwelming and never destined to be a close run thing, with labour backing the governments plans to ban anyone born after 2009 from buying cigarettes. 57 conservative mps did vote against the bill, including the business secretary kemi badenoch, arguing it was an attack on personal freedoms. But the Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said, theres no liberty in addiction. In a moment, hugh pym will look at the implications of any new law for the nhs, but first, chris mason is at westminster. Good evening. This is a place normally associated with tribal and noisy Party Politics but there was less of that today because there was widespread a