palestinian officials say a pregnant mother and her m month old baby have been killed in israeli airstrikes in gaza. a 22 year old man was also killed and 17 others wounded in the air strikes and tank fire from israeli armed forces. israel says the military action is a response to over 200 rockets fired into southern israel by palestinian militants. israel has closed a number of border crossings. the bbc‘sjon donnison explaind the scale of the current violence compared to previous hostilities. there have been lots of escalations like this over the years, usually they quieten down, but in the past they have flared into a full blown war conflict. the last was in 2014. these escalations, they come and go, but the constants are, there is really no prospect of a broader plan for peace between israel and palestinians, we do have this plan that donald trump s son in law, jared kushner is meant to be pushing in the next few months, but commend this scepticism in the region about th
the former conservative leader iain duncan smith has called on the prime minster to resign following the party s worst result in english local elections since 1995. mr duncan smith said she was in effect a caretaker prime minister. our political correspondent nick erdley reports. urgently seeking a solution. tories mulling over devastating local election results trying to find a way to solve the party s troubles. these members are in scotland. there weren t any elections here this week, but many agree failing to deliver brexit was behind the election drubbing. and this former leader has had enough. he believes theresa may has lost her authority and has to go now. we have in a sense a kind of caretaker prime minister at the moment, you could argue a caretaker leader of the labour party, but a caretaker prime minister. and i think therefore making fundamental decisions about where we go with this would be a big mistake. the conservatives always knew that voters were likely to
and thousands throng the streets in thailand, as the king s three day coronation continues. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it s newsday. good morning. it s 8am in singapore, 1am in the morning in london and 3am in moscow, where a russian aircraft with 78 passengers on board made an emergency landing at the sheremetyevo international aiport. a fire broke out on the sukhoi superjet just after takeoff. more than a0 people are now believed to have died. a video on social media shows the plane bouncing as it comes in to land at one of the country s main airports. the bbc‘s steve rosenberg reports from moscow. caught on camera, the final dramatic moments of flight m92. the aeroflot jet exploded in a fireball, during an emergency landing at moscow s sheremetyevo airport. by the time it had come to a standstill, the plane was engulfed in flames. onboard the burning aircraft, 78 passengers and crew. there was a desperate rush to escape from th
of the european elections. a russian plane has burst into flames and crashed while making an emergency landing at a moscow airport. more than a0 people have died, but dozens have escaped. the aircraft had issued a distress call shortly after taking off from the same airport. in the dramatic evacuation of the plane, passengers were seen escaping down inflatable slides. our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports. caught on camera, the final dramatic moments of flight m92. the aeroflot jet exploded in a fireball during an emergency landing at moscow s sheremetyevo airport. by the time it had come to a standstill, the plane was engulfed in flames. on board the burning aircraft, 78 passengers and crew. there was a desperate rush to escape from the inferno. at the front of the plane, the inflatable slide saved some. people leapt onto the chute and ran to safety. but not everyone got out of this alive. it is feared that more than a0 people may have been killed. dimitri survive
of the european elections. a russian plane has burst into flames and crashed while making an emergency landing at a moscow airport. more than a0 people have died, but dozens escaped. the aircraft had issued a distress call shortly after taking off from the same airport. in the dramatic evacuation of the plane, passengers were seen escaping down inflatable slides. our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports. caught on camera, the final dramatic moments of flight m92. the aeroflot jet exploded in a fireball during an emergency landing at moscow s sheremetyevo airport. by the time it had come to a standstill, the plane was engulfed in flames. on board the burning aircraft, 78 passengers and crew. there was a desperate rush to escape from the inferno. at the front of the plane, the inflatable slide saved some. people leapt onto the chute and ran to safety. but not everyone got out of this alive. it is feared that more than a0 people may have been killed. dimitri survived the