our good friend, israel. he set to hold a news conference just moments now. you will see it live. i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus. the gruesome war claiming the lives of more than 1200 israelis and 25 americans now. that number has ticked up. wow. 17 more that we know of americans missing. some being held hostage by hamas terrorist. big questions about how the biden administration will respond to all of it, particularly people on the ground who are not hostages who also need to get home. wait until we see the list we have to show you all of the other countries working with israel to go there with pl pland get their home. we are not doing that. secretary blinken meeting with prime minster benjamin netanyahu. the prime minster with a very clear message. hamas shown itself to be an enemy of civilization. massacring of young people in an outdoor music festival, the butchering of entire families, the murder of parents in front of their children and the murde
a hole in the ozone layer over antarctica, that s fuelled by smoke from wildfire events in australia, is exposing wildlife to protentially damaging levels of uv light. scientists from the university of wollongong say animals and plants are having to put more energy into avoiding the rays. here s our science correspondent victoria gill. the ozone layer that protects us from the sun s most harmful rays is healing gradually. but in antarctica, in cold high atmospheric clouds, a hole in that layer still appears every year. that ozone thinning or loss used to peak in september or october, when animals and plants are tucked under winter snow and marine animals are protected by sea ice. but it s now lingering until december, well into the antarctic summer, when wildlife is much more vulnerable. researchers say that s been driven in part by smoke from the australian wildfires in 2019 and 2020, which were fuelled by climate change. the researchers found evidence that antarctic plants
are at risk from the rays. welcome to bbc news. president zelensky has renewed his appeal for allies to provide ukraine with more air defences, after another night of russian bombardment caused serious damage to energy infrastructure. he called for decisive action, saying the world could shoot down every missile and drone launched by, what he called, russian terrorists . four power plants were hit in three regions, and gas infrastructure was also struck. an oil refinery in occupied slavyansk was damaged. reports indicate a second oil refinery was also hit, and video has emerged of destruction at an airbase. a little earlier i spoke to victoria vdovychenko programme directorfor security studies at the centre for defence strategies, a ukrainian security think tank. the most important is the time space and that is very important also, our allies understand that the shortage of the weapons on the ground, in the field, on the ukrainian battlefield in particular, therefore, it w
will focus on air defence. this includes interceptor missiles, anti drone systems and artillery ammunition. what s not included are the new patriot air defence batteries, something ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky says are critical. the us defence secretary lloyd austin has been speaking about the importance of the aid. take a listen. the outcome in ukraine will determine the trajectory of our times. if putin prevails in ukraine, the security consequences will be grave and global. europe would face a security threat that it hasn t seen in our lifetimes. as president biden has noted, russia will not stop in ukraine. if the kremlin gets its way, if putin s war and imperial aggression succeeds, every tyrant on earth will take note. america s top diplomat is warning china that washington will act, if beijing doesn t stop providing russia with supplies, for its war in ukraine. antony blinken says he s made it clear to his chinese counterparts that they re helping fuel the b
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