Israel. How dangerous is this moment . Good evening. Welcome to newsnight. Tonight, are we now on the cusp of a full blown regional war in the Middle East . Iran has launched a Missile Attack on israel this evening which is now over. Earliertoday, israeli troops invaded lebanon. Also, in whats being described as a terrorist attack, at least six people have been killed in Tel Aviv by two gunmen. Just before we came on air i spoke to Shadow Security Minster and conservative Leadership Candidate Tom tugendhat. Well, this is an incredibly dangerous moment. This is a moment when the vicious iranian regime is targeting notjust jews, muslims and christians in israel, but is putting ballistic missiles overjordan, over iraq, and threatening many, many people on the route. This is a moment when we need the british government to be absolutely firm and clear, standing with our allies in the region, injordan, in israel and standing alongside democracies. We need to be defending ourfriends and stand
Be live in the democratic republic of congo, the centre of a mpox outbreak a day after the country received its first vaccines. And the british indie rock band, English Teacher have won their Mercury Prize for their first album, this could be texas. A united Nations Fact finding mission has uncovered what it described as harrowing Human Rights Violations in sudan. The war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has triggered one of the worlds worst humanitarian crises. Thousands of people have been killed and millions forced from their homes. The un team said the violations by both sides since april last year may amount to War Crimes and crimes against humanity. We have found the sudanese warring parties that the Rapid Support Forces, reported a range of violations and as my Fellow Expert will further detail, we find reasonable grounds to believe that many of these Violations Amount to international crimes. Meanwhile the bbc has seen, first hand, the desperate condit
Heres helen willets. Simon, thank you. Good afternoon and if you are in leek in staffordshire you are looking up to blue skies or you have been so far today. Unfortunately the cloudier skies are to come tonight and tomorrow and some nor more snow. Its a different picture this afternoon, still waterlogged in parts of suffolk as you can see and overcast and grey. You see that on the Satellite Picture in southern england, wales and Northern Ireland. Snow showers but good spells of sunshine. We have Rain And Hill Snow in Northern Ireland and almost a line of that picture is where we have that milder atlantic air trying to get in but that cold air is reluctant to relinquish its residency is. Which means we will continue to have issues with whether it is going to rain or snow. Snow melt as the rain adding to the risk of further Flooding Melt as the rain adding to the risk of furtherflooding and melt as the rain adding to the risk of further flooding and december eruption is likely. So for th
Into the former resident and his aides in relation to the 2020 election. We can bring you some brace in rooms expect Breaking News that the Reuters News Agency says prosecutors have charged donald trump with violations of the georgia reco act, charged with a number of counts including ordering the first degree. Rico act. Including the former trump aide mark meadows and his attorney Rudolph Giuliani and another attorney of the former president , john eastman as well also facing charges. Details on this ijust coming into us as you Arejoining Us and here in the studio with me, we have our North America correspondent. While youre waiting for this Press Conference to get under way, what we know so far in terms of whats happened today and right now . It terms of whats happened today and right now . And right now . It looks like these are and right now . It looks like these are sweeping and right now . It looks like| these are sweeping charges against not only donald trump but some of his clo