harvard s first black female president out after just six months on the job. a suspected israeli air strike kills three hamas leaders in lebanon, including one of the founders of the group s military wing. what it could mean as the conflict widens. a deadly collision in japan involving a passenger plane and a coast guard on its way to victims of the massive earthquakes there. we ve got a gunshot wound. major: our new series, guns in america. we spend a night at one of the nation s top medical trauma centers with a firsthand look at the impact of gun violence. you see people on their worst day, and they are on death s door. shift a few seconds from here to there, and that shift can have a big impact. google maps and ai may mean less red lights in your future. when i look at a red light, i see opportunity. opportunity to help drivers and opportunity to help the planet. major: good evening, to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. i m major garre
it s newsday. welcome to bbc news. it s 8am in singapore, and 9am injapan where we start the programme today. all of the 379 passengers and crew on board a japan airlines plane had a miraculous escape when it became engulfed in flames. thejet was coming in to land, when there was a collision with a coastguard plane. five people on board the smaller aircraft died. it was heading to deliver supplies to people affected by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake, in the province of noto. our correspondent, suranjana tewari, is at haneda airport, with more on the reaction on the ground. haneda airport, behind me, is slowly resuming service about 100 flights were cancelled as a result of that collision on the runway. now, mostly domestic flights, international flights have been taking off and landing, as well, but really extraordinary images coming in. and people here arejust digesting what happened when those two planes collided, leading to that massive fireball on the runway and this,
more than 100 people have been killed and scores of others injured in two explosions in south eastern iran, near the grave of a top revolutionary guards commander. state television says the blasts occurred in quick succession in the city of kerman, during a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the killing of qasem soleimani. he was iran s most powerful military commander and was killed in 2020 by a us air strike in iraq. local officials say two bags containing explosives were detonated by remote control at the entrance to the burial site. bbc persian s parham gobadi earlier told me further details of the blast. as you mentioned, this is one of the deadliest attacks in iran in the past a0 years. it has been unprecedented, the number of the death toll is rising every every few minutes, so far. they say that some of those who were injured are in critical conditions and we know at least one medic was among the casualties who was killed, two others, at least, are in critical condit
killed in lebanon. why the strike is sparking new fears that the war could spill into the wider region. and breaking news out of iran. more than 100 people killed in explosions commemorating an iranian general killed by a u.s. drone strike back in 2020. children amongst the dead and nearly 150 injured. we re going to have the very latest in just a moment as well. good morning, everybody, it s 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. good to see you this morning. we re going to begin in iran in the city of care monowhere just within the last couple of hours two explosions killed 100 people and injured nearly 150 people at the memorial site for ha sam soleimani. he was the head of the revolutionary guard corps. i want to bring in ali arouzi in tehran to talk more about this. this morning iran saying more than 100 people were killed in these blasts. what do we know? reporter: yeah, i mean, this just broke a few hours ago, yasmin, as you said. w
that s how one person familiar with the january 6th trial preparations described the strategy according to rolling stone magazine. in new reporting tonight, rolling stone cites several of trump s legal and political advisers who claim the former president is demanding they incorporate fringe conspiracies into his legal defense. quote, his list of ideas has included asserting that there s evidence of anti-trump elements in the fbi framed him and maga protesters by using undercover agents and informants to instigate the deadly january 6th riot. the anarchists and left wing anti-fascists played a role in attacking the capitol that day and they gathered real evidence showing, quote, massive amount of voter and election fraud, end quote, in 2020 in swing states and heavily democratic urban areas as he has long baselessly claimed, end quote. trump s team has even discussed calling witnesses like nancy pelosi and other political foes to the stand in an effort to paint them as the tr