hello, i m ben thompson, welcome to the programme. we begin with a developing story hamas says its deputy head saleh al arouri has been killed in a blast in beirut, in lebanon. local media have described the explosion as an israeli drone attack on the hamas office in the south of the city. reports say five other people were killed in the blast. video footage shows a car in flames and damage to buildings in a busy residential area known as a hezbollah stronghold. the israeli military has told the bbc it will not comment the israeli military said whoever did this it was a surgical strike against hamas leadership. we did reach out to them after local media as you mentioned, attributed this blast to an israeli drone attack, we reached out to the idf who came back to the bbc and said they would not comment on reports from foreign media. we did get confirmation that saleh al?arouri, the deputy head, or deputy chairman of hamas political bureau has been killed in this blast, and
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Crashes into the side of a house and bursts into flames. Welcome to bbc newsroom. The Foreign Secretary has become the latest member of the cabinet to put pressure on the chancellor to relax the Public Sector pay cap. The limit is due to be in place by 2020, that a Government Source says borisjohnson 2020, that a Government Source says Boris Johnson strongly 2020, that a Government Source says borisjohnson strongly believes pay writers can be achieved without putting undue pressure on public finances. How would this pay cap be paid for. I think what it tells us is the chances of being able to stick by the Public Sector pay cap for the next couple of years looks increasingly remote because we have now had up to six Cabinet Ministers weather themselves through their intermediate trees, saying that they need to look again at this i intermediate trees, saying that they need to look again at this 1 cap. Borisjohnson suggesting this can be done without what he calls fiscal pressure, without
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afghans should not be going out of the country unless it is necessary. that will certainly strike a chill in the tens of thousands of siv applicants still in kabul or surrounding cities at this time because they now know if the u.s. leaves, it is quite likely the taliban will stick to that policy and they won t be able to start taking civilian flights out. state department officials had been suggesting they would like to see the siv program continue after their military departure. that was a long shot frankly, but we are now into this very important small window. today the scenes at the airport more controlled. about 4.5 thousand on the airport, unclear if it is a residual number they kept and shipped out or if they kept bringing some on and shipping others off the airport and it was the continued number total that remained there. 9,000 at one point on the gates and some of these siv applicants who yesterday the policy was not to admit on to the airport have been allowed on today in sm