president joe biden retaliating tonight, five days after three army reservists were killed in attack on jordan, strikes across iraq and syria is the beginning of what will likely be strikes on iran backed militias making attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east and will continue at times and places of our choosing unquote. while avoiding a full scale blow up with iran in a region already in turmoil over the israel-hamas war all this on the day the president performed one of the most solemn duties of the commander-in-chief, attending to the dignified return of the three american soldiers killed in the attack in jordan on sunday. tonight we are covering all aspects of this breaking news. orrin lieberman at the pentagon ben wedeman. orrin what do we know about these strikes in iraq and syria tonight. laura a series of strikes that are order of magnitude larger than what we have seen the u.s. do the last couple months simultaneous strikes in iraq syria seven different location
mourning have been declared. our belgrade correspondent guy delauney reports. handcuffed and hooded, belgrade police took the suspected shooter for questioning. he is just 1a years old. parents and teachers were left in shock. this sort of thing just doesn t happen in serbian schools, despite high levels of gun ownership. any gun crime is rare and mass shootings in classrooms are unheard of. police say the suspect arrived at the school on the morning after the labor day holiday. first he argued with a security guard at the entrance of the vladislav ribnikara school, then he pulled out a gun and shot him. parents say their children have told them what happened next. the shooter entered a history class, fired at the teacher and then turned his weapon on his classmates. translation: the teacher immediately i sheltered the children, locked them i in, some of them were under the tables so they were safe inside. after i don t know how much time, they let them out. police believe th
jewish worshippers have been gathering at the western wall for passover prayers this morning. the event draws tens of thousands of worshippers, with crowds spilling out from the wall s plaza into the surrounding areas. there is a heavy security presence today and officials are concerned there could be violence. just a short distance away hundreds of palestinians have barricaded themselves inside al aqsa mosque injerusalem. these are the latest images from the mosque. police said they were bracing for violence, but so far it has been calm. jordan, which manages the religious complex, has warned of catastrophic consequences if police storm the mosque. i m joined now by the bbc s middle east correspondent, yolande knell. hi there. just in the last few minutes or so, we have the funeral on the way of two british israelis. would you mind talking us through what has happened. yes. would you mind talking us through what has happened. what has happened. yes, that funeral is caettin
on the kremlin, which russia has called an attempt to assassinate president putin. this video, which has been circulated on social media, and the bbc has now verified shows the moment the drones hit the building. ukraine claims russia is using this accusation as a cover to launch an attack. president volodymyr zelenskiy has been speaking at a news conference in finland. we don t attack putin or moscow, we fight on our territory, we are defending our villages and cities. we don t have enough weapons for this. . . , ~ ., ., , this. that was ukrainian president volod m r this. that was ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky this. that was ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky responding . this. that was ukrainian president| volodymyr zelensky responding to accusations by moscow that that drone strike was launched by ukraine. our russia editor, steven rosenberg, is in moscow and has sent this report. flying in from the left, what appears to be a drone. then an explosion over
and bts, the wildly popular south korean k pop group, visits the white house to speak about the growth in anti asian hate crimes in america. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. . it s 8:00 in the morning here in singapore, and 3:00am in ukraine, where it s reported that a russian air strike has hit a chemical plant in the embattled city of severodonetsk, releasing a cloud of dangerous gas. residents have been told to stay in bomb shelters to avoid the fumes. the ukrainians say russian forces now control most of severodonetsk, the main focus of the russian offensive in the donbas region. the local governor said the city wasn t surrounded, but continuous shelling was making it impossible to bring in supplies or evacuate the remaining civilians. and russian troops are pushing deeper into the region. this is the city of slovyansk, where three people have been killed in a russian missile strike. ukraine s president zelensky has been talking about the