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nearly 1600 were wounded after the retaliatory action into the gaza strip. dozens of israeli soldiers and civilians are being held hostage, as part of an unprecedented attack by palestinian militants on israeli territory. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country is at war . his government says the palestinian militant group hamas launched more than 2,000 rockets into the country, killing at least 100 people, (ani and wounding nearly a thousand. officials in the gaza strip say at least 198 people have been killed there, in retaliatory israeli strikes. (an12 in retaliatory israeli strikes. the barrage of rocket fire from gaza into israeli territory began just after dawn, with explosions heard on the streets of ashkelon. sderot is one of the towns thought to have been infiltrated by militants. with the latest on this fast escalating conflict, here s our middle east correspondent yolande knell and a warning that you may find some of her report upsettin ....
be finding out more. a nightmare night for aston villa. they now have a mountain to climb to keep their european dream alive, after a big defeat at home, to olympiacos. stormzy and the beautiful game. the rapper on home ground, as he opens his own youth centre in south london. good morning. we will see some sunshine for scotland and later southern england. very cloudy with patchy rain elsewhere. all the bank holiday details coming up. it s friday, the 3rd of may. our main story. labour has won the blackpool south by election with a convincing majority. the conservatives came second, they previously held the seat until their mp resigned after a lobbying scandal. the reform party came a close third. the first wave of results for the local elections in parts of england has also started to come through overnight so far, the conservatives have lost council seats, while labour s made some key gains. our political correspondent, damian grammaticus, has the latest. commonly known a ....
patrick harvie and lorna slater were given government minister rolls and they were summarily sacked last week in the early hours of the morning. and then turfed out onto the street to face the media, something that made them extremely angry with humza yousaf. the party had been planning to have a meeting at which their own members would have potentially brought that agreement to an end but obviously it would have been on their own time so some felt on the was under pressure to push them out before he jumped was under pressure to push them out before hejumped but the manner in which he did so, he perhaps underestimated the strength of their fury and i m not sure if he did the sums and he left himself in the position of requiring the support of ash regan from the albot party which is led by alex salmond, she is the only msp and she defected from the msp ansell humza yousaf was left needing her boat and i believe he would have got her vote but within his own party it was u ....
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