Its 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. Its 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. Its on, its on, its 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. Its on, its on ok, now are you ready . Yeah one, two, one, two, three, four. Good evening. It definitely didnt feel like summer when the Prime Minister announced today
Just take us through what shed been hearing at the inquiry this morning. Its building on a theme that started last week from senior managers at the post office. Today it was david miller He Were Benchley became the Chief Operating Officer of the post office. He started his officer in 1970 as a trainee. He was a Project Director of the Horizon It System and its implementation. He was in charge of how it was tested, how it was implemented in the late 19905. How it was implemented in the late 1990s. This mornings evidence was about how that testing wind, and there was off line testing, and there was off line testing, and there was off line testing, and there was live testing with Sub Postmasters. He was questioned about some of the bugs and faults that came up before the system was rolled out across the country. The inquiry heard that during the testing, some of these bugs, including the issue of how cash balances could be effectively changed in the accounts, how it had come to light even
Let us talk about what we know so far. With me now is said shehata from bbc arabic. Talk to me first of all about the meeting, the second time in 24 the meeting, the second time in 2a hours the war cabinet has met. Do we have any clarity on what can happen next . We what can happen next . No decision what can happen next . No decision has what can happen next . Fir . Decision has been announced yet by the agreement within the cabinet is about the response, the military Chief Of Staff said the Reading Attack will be better with a response, but the timing and the response, it will affect the escalation or the response because iranians have said what is done destructive consulate in damascus was a strategic mistake and what they have done, it was self defence. In that case, that is it. Israel says it is damaging, so the attack on its soil, even if the damage was minimum, inside israel it looks like damage for its reputation as a superpower. The pressure on the cabinet and on mr netanyahu
Against israel, despite allies pleads for de escalation. How critical a moment is this in an already chaotic world . The white house has described irans attack on israel over the weekend as a spectacular and embarrassing failure. Nearly all of the more than 300 missiles and drones fired by iran and its allies in the region were shot down. The us also says iran did not issue warnings to the white house about its timeframe for launching an attack. Tonight, israels Military Chief again said irans actions will be met with a response. Here, the Prime Minister told mps he is working urgently with the uks allies to de escalate tensions in the middle east, to prevent further bloodshed. In a moment, well have the latest from jerusalem and our International Editorjeremy bowen will be here. But first, lets go live to westminster and to our deputy political editor, vicki young. And we heard more from rishi sunak about the raf s role in defending israel . Thats right. After those dramatic scenes on