More divisions i believe into south lebanon. Joining me tonight are emily harding, director of the centre for international studies intelligence, national security, and technology programme. Justin crump, ceo at sibylline. Anja manuel, the Executive Director of the Aspen Security Forum and a former us state department official, and lord kim darroch, former Uk Ambassador to the us. It isa it is a great panel, we will get them all in the next hour. First, the latest bbc news. Services and commemorations have been taking place for the 1,200 israelis killed and more than 250 taken hostage, in the hamas attacks, exactly one year ago. A Minutes Silence was held. World leaders have also been marking the day. President biden lit a ceremonial candle in the White House and said the us was committed to Israels Security and too many civilians have suffered too much in this era of conflict. The british prime Minister Sir Keir starmer said that October The 7th was the darkest Day Injewish history si
Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. As he marks a year since the october seventh attacks, uk prime Minister Sir Keir starmer urges all sides to step back from the brink. Lam iamjust i am just watching some pictures of Tel Aviv at the moment. This is the Night Shot across a city where the Air Raid sirens have been activated in the last few minutes. As far as we can ascertain, there doesnt appear to be much activity around the city, the idea for that activity is they were watching project i coming into space above Tel Aviv from the direction of lebanon, so things tense in the Capital Tonight at a time where people are on the streets marking one year since the october seven attacks. We will continue to watch that and bring you an update as and when things clear. This is the longest war between the israelis and arabs since the end of the conflict that set the boundaries of the israeli state in 1949. But what about the Arab States, Saudi Arabia and the uae, t
, thanks to you and everyone who works in our defense sector, it was possible to produce three times more weapons and equipment than last year. This was at a meeting with the employees of the defenseindustrial complex at the end of december, so the Production Capacity of the Ukrainian Defense industry in general has tripled. But what is the Ukrainian Defenseindustrial complex, who in ukraine produces weapons and which ones. Of course, there is a lot of data during the war classified but at the end of the year, the government announced quite specific figures in the Ukrainian Defenseindustrial complex there are 500 enterprises, 3,000 employees, and mostly private enterprises in the defense industry, four out of five of them. The Ukrainian Government wants to produce six times more weapons this year, but it cites three key challenges not enough money, not enough gunpowder and explosives, and constant shelling of enterprises, that is, the Ukrainian Defense industry operates in such conditi
wagner group sees that early on as a key objective, they pretty much walked in. they have held it since. they left a reasonable force, we think, in that area. although, at the moment, there is some local opposition from the chechens who are approaching rostov. they are very loyal to the regime. that is sort of developing in the city at the moment. so they have seized the city, they didn t have huge strength there, but they do have their headquarters. most importantly, that headquarters. most importantly, that headquarters and the south controls on the communication. so it s really strategically important. prigozhin isn t a critic of the war, he is a critic of the way it is being fought. he thinks it should be fought. he thinks it should be fought more strenuously than it is. they have no interest in stopping the war in ukraine there, it is continuing but under wagner supervision at this point. there is this flying column that is making its way towards masco and we know that i
weekend, it is almost to the west because we have a frontal system are pushing in and it will take awhile to get here but it will eventually bring some heavy thunder and rain and behind ita bring some heavy thunder and rain and behind it a westerly wind and a return to something a bit fresher but ahead of the weather front, we can see highs of 30 or 31. on sunday afternoon. to sum it up it will be very warm indeed, the knights will be humid, it could be uncomfortable for sleeping and increasing chance of thundery downpours. that is what i have got a few. thanks, ben. and that s bbc news at ten on thursday the 22nd ofjune. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight with mark urban, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. but from the ten team, it s goodnight. if more pain for borrowers as the rates go up again. the bank of