The iranian backed group. Israel has confirmed its carried out Air Strikes on the yemeni city of Hodeidah Targetting Houthi Sites. Videos have been posted on social media. Bbc verify has confirmed the location. Bbc verify has confirmed the location. Israel says it was targetting Power Plants and a sea port. For the latest, heres our middle East Correspondent Anna foster, who is in beirut. It is really planes have been active. Those attacks are continuing across the Country And Israel announced it has carried out this large Scale Operation. Clearly a real defence from what we are the a few days ago from World Leaders who are arranging some sort of de escalation. They were talking about 21 days of no military action. What weve seen over the last couple of days, particularly with that pivotal moment on Friday Evening, that large Scale Attack here in beirut. In the News Yesterday that Hassan Nasrallah had been killed shows that events here are moving very quickly and it seems that western
Hello youre watching the context on bbc news. Coming up the uk Prime Minister will no longer accept donations for clothes after a row over accepting gifts. Party Conference Season is well under way here in the uk and Today Reform Leader Nigel Farage opened his Partys Conference in birmingham. He told Supporters Britain is broken and said this was the weekend his party would come of age. We do not need to change the mind of a single person living in this country. Because the Silent Majority is already with us on the key issues that we care about. We can win the next general election, just with the numbers of people that agree with our principles, that agree that family, that agree that community, that agree that country should be the things that absolutely everybody in british public life campaigns for because they are the most important things to all of us that live here. Applause the labour partys annual conference will also kick off this weekend but it comes in a week in which the P
We are opposing them on that. We are opposing them on that. We are worried that in the nhs debate, they are talking about reform before investment, when we think there needs to be reform and investment. So, we will hold them to account. But we will be different from the conservatives, because being constructive means you dont do the kind of politics which people are sick of, and you also put your alternatives Forward. At the Prime Ministers questions just last week, when i was opposing the Governments Withdrawal of Winter Fuel payments, we were saying, yes, there is a financial deficit left by the tories, we agree with you on that, but there are other ways to deal with that problem, and we put them Forward. We to deal with that problem, and we put them Forward. To deal with that problem, and we put them Forward. We can go live to brighten we put them Forward. We can go live to brighten out we put them Forward. We can go live to brighten out to we put them Forward. We can go live to bri
Pictures coming from rebeccas home town of bukwo. Close to the kenyan border in uganda. Last night, on friday, family members, friends and activists against gender based Violence Viewed Rebeccas coffin at the Funeral Home in the kenyan town before her body was brought back to her hometown. We heard her mother was wearing a Souvenir Bag at the time, that the athlete had received at the Paris Olympics where she competed in the marathon. Patience akumu is a ugandan lawyer she told me what lessons needed to be learned from Rebecca Cheptegeis violent death. We need to reflect about the ways in which women, no matter their social status, ways in which women, no matter theirsocialstatus, no ways in which women, no matter their social status, no matter what they have achieved in life, are still expected to bow to the expectations of society, evenif to the expectations of society, even if it kills them. Domestic violence is still a reality for many women in africa, in euston africa. The statist
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