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by next summer. barking. thousands of banned dogs are living legally with their owners in britain, according to a bbc investigation. and coming up on bbc news: newcastle boss eddie howe says there s a high chance midfielder sandro tonali could be available to play this weekend despite his ten month ban for breaching betting rules. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc s news at one, live from jerusalem, where nearly three weeks on from the start of this crisis here, military action by israel against what it calls hamas targets continue. the israeli army says its ground forces, backed by fighterjets and drones, conducted another ground incursion into the gaza strip overnight. this morning the un said that gaza is being strangled, its people abandoned and that the aid so far has just been crumbs. hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by many western governments, including the uk. the health ministry in gaza says that 7,326 people have been killed in the territory. ....
and the keys to the door behind me has started. the general election is exactly six weeks today, on the 4th ofjuly. and politicians are wasting no time in launching their campaigns. mr sunak has started a tour of all four nations, in deryshire. sir keir starmer has kicked off his campaign in gillingham in kent. the prime minister is currently en route to another campaign event, but let s hear some of what he had to say at his first major event of the day in derbyshire. even though there s more work to do and i know it will take time for you all to see the benefits of that, the plan is working and we have the economic stability back. but, with that economic stability comes a choice. do we want to turn those foundations into a more secure future for you, your families and our country? do we want to build on that stability? or do we want to risk all that progress and, as maggie said, go back to square one with more uncertainty and no plan? that s the choice at this elect ....
it s on. a rain soaked rishi sunak calls the election. why is he taking the gamble now? drums! a little guitar, please. one, two, three, four. earlier today, i spoke with his majesty the king to request the dissolution of parliament. we will have a general election on the 4th ofjuly. look around our country. the sewage in our rivers. people waiting on trolleys in a&e. crime, virtually unpunished. mortgages and food prices, through the roof. it s all a direct result of the tory chaos in. westminster. # show me, show me, show me, show what you got. immigration is finally coming down and we are stopping the boats with our rwanda partnership. # it s on, it s on, it s on.# on the 5th ofjuly, either keir starmer or i will be prime minister. he has shown time and time again that he will take the easy way out and do anything to get power. # it s on, it s on # ok, now # are you ready? # yeah! # one, two, one, two, three, four.# good evening. it definitely didn t feel like sum ....
the white house has reiterated its opposition to a unilateral recognition of a palestinian state, after three european countries announced they would do so. palestinians have hailed the move by norway, ireland and spain as historic. more than a0 high ranking foreign delegations have been taking part in a ceremony in tehran to commemorate president ebrahim raisi, who died in a helicopter crash. prayers were led by the nation s supreme leader. the former boss of the post office has admitted that evidence she gave to mps in 2012, looking into problems with the horizon it system, was not true. paula vennells broke down as she was questioned over the scandal. so we begin with the big story of the day here in the uk news that the prime minister rishi sunak has announced a general election will be held onjuly fourth. speaking in a rainy downing street, battling against baring music from a nearby street, it s probably not the image the prime minister would have wanted to ki ....
positives and areas where they have managed to hold control of councils, potentially some of the mayor raises my give them a bit of a silver lining but on the whole, the great picture is pretty bleak for the tories. let me show you this. first of all, this is the vote share compared to 2021 when the seats were last contested. in 2021, boris johnson got a bit of around two bounce after the vaccine roller but look what happened since. the change in the last three years. that is the tory vote change, down 14%. that is pretty big. it s worth looking through some councils when the conservatives used to be in power but are not any more because of this. have a look here at redditch. this is a bellwether seat and we said that all morning and an area with the parties think the result is pretty indicative of how the country is feeling. look at that. the conservatives have lost 11 seats, labour won ten and it means this long line of blue down here is done. this is now a labour con ....