Are downplaying this. They are not at this point pointing the finger at israel. They are not at this point promising revenge. We are expecting to hear the iranians speaking fairly shortly. This is preplanned speech. Its not specifically in response to this strike, so well be closely monitoring that. In terms of israel, they are not officially claiming responsibility one way or another there are no plans of address from netanyahu and no official comment from the Israeli Government and israeli military. And that, too, is really telling. It feels like the israelis are trying to give iran space to not escalate this further. Theyre not trying to rub irans face in this. Theyre not crowing, not claiming victory. So you have this kind of war of words playing out on top of the actual strike itself, so at this moment despite those iranian threats weve been hearing all week that any iisraeli attack would be met with massive retaliation, it does not look like iran is trying to escalate, and here i
Wider regional war are heightened once again, and one of the biggest escalations weve seen since the israelhamas war began 100. Its a very, very delicate moment, very, very dangerous indeed. And reportedly waves of Ballistic Missiles from iran are heading towards israel as well. They are more deadly and they fly much faster. Both israel and the United States say they will aim to intercept as many of these drones because and missiles as they possibly can. But this much is already certain. These attacks directly from inside iran. And indeed the suspected attack from israel to which arrived says its responding that these two nations, both with a lot of military power, as close to all out roar as weve seen in recent memory and that could have farreaching implications within the region. And certainly well beyond the region, are reporters and our analysts are standing by. Theyve been covering this from All Over The World and concluding our Nic Robertson in jerusalem, Clarissa Ward in tel avi
we start here in the uk and the fourth day of campaigning ahead of the general election on the 4th ofjuly. labour says it won t raise income tax or national insurance, if it wins power. the pledge was made by the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, speaking to the bbc, but she didn t rule out some spending cuts, saying there would be difficult decisions to make. leila nathoo has more. thank you very much. she wants to decide how taxpayers money is spent. rachel reeves making her pitch in west yorkshire this afternoon, promising a labour government would ensure economic stability. today, she said if she became chancellor there would be no rises in income tax or national insurance. but she acknowledged she would face difficult decisions and that public services were struggling. we re not going to be bringing back austerity, but we have got that immediate injection of cash into our front line public services. that s a down payment on the changes that we want to make. but in th
and it s kick off for leeds and southampton and it s half time for leeds and southampton in the championship play off final at wembley. who will return to the premier league? hello, i m lewis vaughanjones. we start here in the uk, and the fourth day of campaigning ahead of the general election on the 4th ofjuly. the home secretary, james cleverly, says the conservatives plan to bring back a form of compulsory national service if it wins, is about pushing young people out of their comfort zone . the party says it would cost £2.5 billion a year and would see 18 year olds join the military for a year or serve and would see 18 year olds join the military for a year or serve the community for a weekend a month for the same period. our political correspondent helen catt has more. the return of national service is certainly an eye catching policy but it wouldn t be national service quite like these men experienced between 1949 and 1963. instead all 18 year olds would have to choo
majority in parliament. i m catherine byaruhanga in gauteng. hello. i m lewis vaughan jones. i m lewis vaughanjones. welcome to the programme. we will start with the programme. we will start with the latest on the general election campaign. the home secretary james cleverly says the conservatives plan to bring back a form of compulsory national service if it wins the general election is about pushing young people out of their comfort zone . the party says it would cost £2.5 billion a year and would see 18 year olds join the military for a year or serve the community for a weekend a month for the same period. our political correspondent helen catt has more. the return of national service is certainly an eye catching policy but it wouldn t be national service quite like these men experienced between 1949 and 1963. instead all 18 year olds would have to choose between a year of military service or volunteer work in public services. it s about addressing the fragmentation we