Dying in england and wales. Some welcome the move, others express cautiOn. Hello, welcome to todays verified live. We start with the crisis in the Middle East irans supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has defended his Countrys Missile Attack On israel earlier this week as a minimum punishment. In a rare Public Speech as he led Friday Prayers in tehran for the first time in five years. He told a huge crowd of supporters that iran and its allies must prepare for actiOn as he led commemoratiOns for the Hezbollah Leader, hassan nasrallah, who was killed by israel last week. Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles into israel On Tuesday Night in retaliatiOn for his assassinatiOn, and israel has promised to hit back. Overnight there were more huge explosiOns in beirut, close to the main airport. Us officials say, israel, was targeting the potential successor to nasrallah. There have also been reports of 20 rockets being fired from lebanOn into israel. And an israeli Air Strike Hit A Road nea
live. we start in the uk, where borisjohnson has apologised for the pain, loss and suffering during the covid pandemic, saying he takes personal responsibility for mistakes that were made. mrjohnson, who was prime minister throughout that period, has been giving evidence to the covid inquiry. during questioning, he said government ministers did the best they could in very difficult circumstances, but admitted they could have done better. so many people suffered, so many people lost their lives. inevitably, in the course of trying to handle a very, very difficult pandemic in which we had to balance appalling harms on either side of the decision, we may have made mistakes. i don t want to try to anticipate the discussion which i m sure we will get into about the timings of lockdowns. .. will get into about the timings of lockdowns. inevitably, we got some things wrong. i think we were doing our best at the time, given what we knew, given the information i had available to me