they go on to say they are incredibly proud of who he was, and what he achieved. so, that you can read that on our bbc news live page and we will bring you more here on bbc news throughout the day. we will turn to one of our other top stories in taiwan. more now on taiwan which has been hit by it s biggest earthquake in 25 years. the government says at least nine people have died and more than 700 others have been injured after an offshore earthquake struck the east coast of the island. earlier i spoke to william yang, a journalist in tapei who told us about his experience of the earthquake. the morning at about 8.00am i i was woken up but this very lasting earthquake shake, it was shaking left and right and then up and down and i heard thing falling off my shelves and immediately realising that this is an earthquake that a scale we haven t experienced for many year, so i hid under the table and my first instinct as a journalist is to check the information and see where the e
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see the dust settle, this might be an elegant end to the story, but it s also worth pointing out is probably the timing. it s no surprise this attack happened today. sean, thank you as always for all of that. well, as we ve been reporting here from jerusalem and watching the developments in the early hours of the morning, israel launch an attack on iran, we ve heard in the last couple of hours iranian officials telling reuters news agency they have no intention of responding immediately, and that they have no confirmation as to who exactly it was. we re also waiting to hear from the u.s. secretary of state, antony blinken, who s at the g7 foreign ministers summit. and he is going to be giving a briefing. all week we ve heard the israeli war cabinet, israeli officials and leaders say they had to respond in some way, that they
senior officials had told reuters that after the reported strike by israel, that there s no plan for immediate retaliation and no clarification on who is behind the incident. they said there s no clarification on who s behind this, but they say there s no plan for immediate retaliation. significant developments and we are also being told that the u.s. secretary of state is holding a briefing at the g7 foreign ministers summit, so the united states will be responding in a few hours time. as soon as that happens, we will bring that to you live. back to you for that analysis. a few things developed. iran is saying they re not going to respond and we don t know who it is at this stage, as we ve