an official investigation said the shots were fired in breach of the army s rules of engagement. prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the hostage deaths broke his heart , but that military pressure is still necessary. mr netanyahu has said his country is in a war for its existence, which it would continue, despite what he called the heavy price paid by israel. our correspondent hugo bachega reports on the fallout in israel to the hostage deaths, and growing pressure to rescue the others still held in gaza. for the families of the hostages who remain in gaza it s an agonising wait made worse by a tragic mistake. the israeli military has given new details of how three israeli captives were shot dead by its own soldiers. yotam haim, alon shamriz and samer talalka emerged shirtless from a building carrying a makeshift white flag. one of the soldiers misidentified them as a threat and opened fire. two were killed instantly. a third, injured, returned to the building, and was
the temperature up here in the alps is rising by about twice the global average. it s already increased by 2 degrees celsius. and 20 years since the us led coalition invaded iraq to topple dictator saddam hussein, we look at the legacy. hello and welcome to bbc news. the world s financial markets have reacted with unease following last night s emergency takeover of the troubled swiss bank credit suisse. shares in credit suisse fell by more than 60% this morning after european markets opened and the value of banking shares across europe have dropped sharply. credit suisse was bought by rival swiss bank ubs in a deal brokered by the swiss government over the weekend. here s the chief executive of ubs explaining the rationale behind the deal. translation: it means we bring back stability and security for credit suisse clients, but also that we keep the reputation of the swiss financial centre high. and finally it means we are stemming the turmoil in the international financial
are a clear and present danger to american democracy. after a second resignation in as many years, downing street says borisjohnson is looking at whether the role of an adviser on standards is needed after lord geidt stepped down last night. and the bank of england hikes up interest rates to a 13 year high and warns that inflation could hit 11%. tonight with the context, chief political commentator at the i newspaper paul waugh and former adviser to hillary clinton amanda renteria. welcome to the programme. we start in washington, where the third day of the january 6th committee hearings has just wrapped up. it s been focused on mike pence and connecting donald trump s intense pressure campaign on his vice president not to certify the election results with the violent intentions of the mob that stormed the capitol. democrat bennie thompson is chair of the committee. he spoke of the danger mike pence faced in his opening statement. we re fortunate for mr pence s courage onjanu
Barely any aid had been reaching the region after other crossings were closed. With me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic. Good morning to you. So, lets talk about rafah to start with before we move onto humanitarian aid. What is happening in rafah . The humanitarian aid. What is happening in rafah . The idf are askin happening in rafah . The idf are asking more happening in rafah . The idf are asking more people happening in rafah . The idf are asking more people to happening in rafah . The idf are asking more people to leave asking more people to leave rafah, they asked last week that people in the eastern part of rafah to leave near khan younis. Now they are expanding this area to a larger area to ask people to leave rafah, the ground of enzyme rafah, there are many warnings from the united states, from the uk, from the National Agency that this widening area of fighting in rafah lots of humanitarian crisis, would cause lots of Human Casualties between civilians and the situation in ra
Both xi and putin have mentioned the ukraine one but also this process of peace talks means it is in all likelihood going to be front and centre when they have their talks in the coming days, you would love to be there when they are speaking behind closed doors, what will xi be saying to putin about the war really, will he be saying it is time for russia to pull back might he suggest you can keep going argo in hard up and beijing will find a way to back you. i m nowjoined by professor sergey radchenko, who teaches at thejohn hopkins school of advanced international studies. he s an expert in russia s foreign relations. i don t know if you could hear stephen there, but is your sense that president xi is there to show