Of israeli hostages. My guest is ohad tal, an mp from the far right wing pro settler religious Zionism Party in israels ruling coalition. Amid all the talk of escalation, what is israels endgame . Ohad tal injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. Thank you very much for having me. Yeah, its a pleasure to have you on hardtalk. The world has Just seen two carefully targeted assassinations one of a Hezbollah Commander in beirut, the second of the political leader of hamas, in irans capital, tehran. Now, israel has confirmed it was responsible for the attack in beirut. No official word on the attack in iran, but its widely assumed israeli responsibility for both. Why . Why do you think israel has done it now . Well, maybe we should have done it before. Already before. Maybe that would have prevented october 7th. Er, these. Both of these people are responsible for the death of thousands of people. You know, Just a couple of days ago, there was an attack of hezbollah to a Druze Vill
a really exciting phase for bbc news with the news.with the new channel. we re gradually bringing in the changes during april and early may. as you ve said at the beginning there, some of the output will be combined. and so the way to sort of understand the channel is there are two main feeds. there s a global feed, and there is a uk feed, and at some point they re combined, but at other times they re separate. so, for example, just to give you a sense of things between 6am 11am, every day, every weekday, uk viewers will see bbc breakfast and then the nicky campbell phone in. and also then during the day, the one, six and ten o clock news will also be on the uk feed. and also newsnight is going to be introduced onto the uk feed as well. so these are all programmes they could be consuming on other parts of the bbc output? absolutely, but as we know, people will consume in different ways and some people willjust consume bbc news through the news channel, not necessarily through
oscar pistorius, the former paralympic sprinterjailed for murdering his girlfriend, has been denied an early release from a prison in south africa. the parole board said he hadn t completed his minimum detention period. at 10pm, reeta chakrabarti will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, click. plenty on the menu this week. yeah, paul s with the robots that help blind people to pack and stack. and ai helps jamie oliver cook up some spanish. spanish dubbing. meanwhile, would you let lara cook you dinner? oh, the stench! that is absolutely overwhelming! it s leftovers again. i think i ll go for takeout. it seems that the whole world has been talking about artificial intelligence recently. it s chatgpt this and ai art that. you can have conversations with it, you can be creative with it and the recent release of gpt ll seems to be displaying levels of understanding of questions and images that are astounding the experts. this is the uk s national centre for
again, it s going to be breezy across the north. weather fronts bringing outbreaks of rain. and we re into a milder air mass, i think, on friday. ourairsource coming in off the atlantic. so a lot of cloud around, it starts off sunny and cold in the south, but i think cloud may build up through the afternoon. so i m thinking, i think friday afternoon looks cloudier than what we had through today. some splashes of rain across the north, double figure values for most of us. could be up to around 8 9 celsius degrees in the south because of that cold start. but it turns milder through friday night. quite a lot of cloud streaming in from the west. a few clear spells here and there. it ll be very mild across the north of the uk. it could be ten degrees in aberdeen overnight, four and five in the south. so, i think mostly frost free. and then for the weekend, this area of high pressure holds on quite a lot of cloud trapped in it, but it s going to bring a lot of dry weather both satu