what this law means and why this party wanted to change it. its a law that other countries party wanted to change it. its a law that other countries have party wanted to change it. its a law that other countries have but - that other countries have but nothing like in as harsh a form is the one in thailand, where you can end up going to jail, and some have gone to jailfor decades end up going to jail, and some have gone to jail for decades for making any comment perceived as critical or negative about the monarchy. it has long been criticised by human rights groups. it has been used much more extensively in recent years. the current king is a very different personality to his father, and it seems it is being used to defend him. there were almost unprecedented student protest four years ago when calls to the changes to the monarchy were made public. that hadn t happened before and the laws were used to go after leaders of the protests. the argument was, if you are going to
what could the americans do? here s our international editor, jeremy bowen. well, one of the president s officials said actions speak louder than words. what are those actions going to be? well, we can only speculate at this point, but what tends to happen is that the us military gives the president a menu of options that he can choose. and the lowest level, if you like, might be to hit back at iranian proxies operating inside syria or iraq. that might not be enough for the americans, and especially not forjoe biden s critics back home. so they might do something a bit more. they might go for iranian targets in those countries or they could go for maybe iranian targets in the gulf. the most extreme option, and i think this is highly unlikely, would be to attack targets inside iran itself, inside the territory of iran. that s something that the americans have not done. so we get to a situation now where the american secretary of state antony blinken, says that the middle east
but there is no substitution. there is no way any organization can replace or substitute the tremendous capacity, the fabric of unrwa, the ability and their knowledge of the population in gaza. the palestinian representative at the un has called for unrwa to be defended, because it is the only organisation capable of helping the people of gaza. israel s government has accused unrwa of being a front for hamas which several countries consider to be a terrorist group. meanwhile, the fighting continues in gaza with several explosions heard in the southern areas around khan younis and rafah. the israeli army has confirmed it s been flooding tunnels in gaza with sea water to try to neutralise the threat posed by hamas and other militant groups. it said checks had been carried out beforehand to ensure that ground water was not contaminated. let s get more on this with our middle east correspondent nick beake. what are the un saying about these allegations by israel about some un
we need to remember given the totality of needs and the scale and complexity of the crisis that there is no substitution. there is no way any organisation can replace or substitute the tremendous capacity, the fabric of unrwa, the ability and their knowledge of the population in gaza. the palestinian representative at the un has called for unrwa to be defended, because it is the only organisation capable of helping the people of gaza. israel s government has accused unrwa of being a front for hamas which several countries consider to be a terrorist group. the fighting continues in gaza with several explosions heard in the southern areas around khan younis and rafah. the israeli army has confirmed it s been flooding tunnels in gaza with sea water to try to neutralise the threat posed by hamas and other militant groups. it said checks had been carried out beforehand to ensure that groundwater was not contaminated. with me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic. joining me in the s
james landale is in kyiv. today s strikes were unusual for two reasons one, because they came in the daylight, and secondly, because they appeared to be targeted here at the centre of the city. until now, most of the air strikes came at night and they were targeted at the outskirts, at national infrastructure and some of the air defences itself. so the authorities said they managed to shoot down 11 ballistic and cruise missiles. of course, that meant that there was a lot of debris that came from the skies, landing on the ground, damaging some buildings. but miraculously, there were reports ofjust a few injuries. so what we re seeing is an uptick in tempo of this conflict. russia is putting more pressure on the capital here in kyiv, but it s also striking military targets elsewhere. ukraine admitted rarely that one of their military facilities in the west of the country had been targeted, an oil depot set on fire, some aircraft damage. at the same time, ukraine is steppi