drop in its membership. the former us president donald trump has claimed he expects to be arrested on tuesday. he made the announcement on his online platform, truth social, claiming to have seen leaks from the manhattan district attorney s office, which is yet to comment. mr trump is accused of paying hush money to his alleged mistress and called on his supporters to protest if he is detained. i think it is very important to put this into context. what donald trump seems to be railing against in this tweet on his truth social social media platform is illegal leaks, as he calls them, by the manhattan district attorney s office, the department looking into allegations of hush money payments made on donald trump s behalf to two women. mr trump is not, his lawyers have since clarified, saying he has been notified he will be charged this on any other time with any offence. they are taking issue with the fact that there have been reports to the effect in the media here in the unit
hello and welcome. we begin in the middle east, where the israeli military says it has hit targets belonging to the palestinian militant group hamas in the gaza strip and lebanon. these are the latest images showing the aftermath. the airstrikes in gaza are the heaviest since last august and israel says they re in retaliation for a major rocket attack on israel launched from southern lebanon which the israelis blamed on hamas. our correspondent lucy williamson spoke to us from jerusalem. israel says it carried out a series of strikes over night against targets it says were linked to the palestinian militant group armas in both lebanon and in gaza. in gaza, it says it hit tunnels and also weapons manufacturing sites, and reports from southern lebanon describe explosions around the palestinian refugee camp there. in return, palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets from gaza into israel over night. most were intercepted or landed in open ground, but one hit a house in the s
closing of access to asylum in the uk for people arriving irregularly, we believe it s a clear breach of the refugee convention. they will enable us to take a very bold and forward leading steps in order to reduce the rights of people to claim and to thwart their removal. the bbc is to speak to one of its highest paid presenters, gary lineker, after he criticised the government s immigration plans on social media. he bbc investigation reveals how scammers and con people out of hundreds scammers and con people out of hundreds of millions of dollars. hello and welcome to bbc news. the un secretary general, antonio guterres is in ukraine to hold talks with president zelensky about the continued export of ukrainian grain. brokered by the united nations and turkey lastjuly, and secured with russia, the deal enabled the shipping of ukrainian grain from odesa via the black sea, through the bosphorus strait and istanbul. but, now the deal is up for renewal and russia has signalled t
after they went missing. and, the wait is almost over super fans are poised online as tickets for eurovision go on sale later. hello and welcome to bbc news. welcome to viewers here in the uk and around the world. britain s home secretary, suella braverman, has accepted the government is pushing the boundaries of international law with new legislation aimed at stopping asylum seekers crossing the english channel in small boats. it s thought the measures, being introduced in parliament today, and which put a legal duty on ministers to remove anyone who enters the uk illegally would face legal challenges. here s our political correspondent, iain watson: five years ago, fewer than 300 migrants attempted to cross the channel in a small boat. last year, more than 16,000 undertook the hazardous journey. and as the numbers grew, so too did the political pressure on the government. so injanuary this year, the prime minister made this pledge. we will pass new laws to stop small
the following images disturbing. it happened during the distribution of charity for ramadan. this is video footage from almasirah, a tv station linked to the houthi rebel group, which controls sanaa. the video was picked up by various news agencies and it purports to show the incident in the the city. it s an apparent crush of people, many of whom look to be in distress. our correspondent simonjones joins us from the newsroom. what more can you tell us? ? what more can you tell us? hundreds of people had gathered at a school where they were handing out aid, they were being given the equivalent of $9 each, but so many people arrived that houthi rebels in charge in the city started firing into the air to try to control the crowd. eyewitnesses say one of the bullets hit an electrical cable, that caused an explosion, that led to panic, led to a stampede, led to a crush. we know that dozens of people have been killed and hundreds more have been taken to hospital, some of those in