we ll speak with him in just a little bit. we will be asking him about this new development, the israeli military just confirming that it mistakingly killed three israel hostages. two of them you can see on the screen, this is a developing story. there apieces to be increasing daylight between the united states and israel on the future of the middle east. watch this. i have and will continue to state president biden and the united states commitment to preserving space for peace. there s still a chance for a two-state solution? it s about time that the israel power time failed and we need to build a new one. let s begin live in jerusalem with nate foy. hi, nate. hi, martha. just hours after national security adviser jake sullivan left israel, the idf made that heart breaking announcement where we learned in the confusion of war israeli soldiers accidentally killed three israeli hostages believing that they were hamas terrorists. this happened in the northern gas stri
hello and welcome. there been an appeal for calm in the welsh capital, cardiff, after two teenage boys died in a traffic accident last night. the incident was followed by a riot in the ely area of the city. the two boys who died have been named locally as 16 year old kyrees sullivan and 15 year old harvey evans. bbc verify has verified cctv video appearing to show a police van following two people on either a moped or electric bike apparently minutes before a crash in which two teenagers died. the team at bbc verify has been taking a look at some of the footage that s been circulating following the riots. they ve verified the following cctv video which appears to show a police van following two people on a bike or moped apparently minutes before the crash which killed two teenage boys. live now to our correspondent in the newsroom, nick. we are expecting a news conference had to get more detail from police but bring us up to speed what we know so far. we but bring us up to sp
we start tonight with a special bbc report. for more than a year, el salvador has been living under an emergency measure called a state of exception , in which several constitutional rights were suspended in a national crackdown on the country s powerful street gangs. the police have arrested a staggering 66,000 people and el salvador s murder rate has fallen. but human rights organisations say thousands of people with no link to the gangs have been unjustly detained. 0ur correspondent will grant is covering this story for us. what have you learned? if we think about el salvador s nan- problem, the countries gang problem, the countries really synonymous with two main rival gangs. the ms13 and the 18 street gangs. they did rule all swathes of the country to a reign of terror, intimidation, violence and extortion. that is being exhausting for ordinary people as you can imagine, having to deal with that every day in their communities, fearful about the well being of their child
16 countries take the stage in liverpool later for the second semifinal. sticking with the eurovision theme, we are in liverpool at the shopping centre right in the heart of liverpool, surrounded by these beautiful eggs, i will tell you about them later on. the bank of england is expected to raise interest rates again today to 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. it will be the 12th consecutive hike since december 2021, meaning mortgage payments could rise further for millions of customers. our business correspondent hannah miller reports. this is the first home gheev has owned, bought with his girlfriend two months ago. but since they agreed their mortgage, the monthly payments have gone up twice in line with the base rate of interest set by the bank of england. when we were coming to find a mortgage, the fixed rates were astronomically high. we figured that if the bank of england base rate goes up by another two or three percentage points, we re actually better off staying