Thousands of athletes from Around The World set to compete across 22 sports, with the first events starting tomorrow morning. We start in the middle east, where at least nine people have been killed in the biggest israeli operation in the occupied West Bank for 20 years. Last month, the international Court Ofjustice ruled that israels continued occupation of the area, captured in 1967, breached international law. Violence has been increasing in the occupied West Bank since hamas s deadly attack in israel on seven october, with the un saying more than 650 palestinians have been killed by israeli soldiers or settlers there. Attacks have also been launched from the occupied West Bank against israelis. Since 1993, control of the West Bank has been divided across three zones where there is either full control by the Palestinian Authority, partial control shared with israel or where israel is in full control. Unlike gaza, hamas has no control there. Overnight, israeli forces simultaneously w
Two Wind Turbines onshore, which begs plenty of questions many from within the Conservative Party itself aboutjust how committed this Prime Minister is to the uks climate agenda. Today, the pressure finally told. The government caved to a backbench rebellion, announcing that it would relax Planning Permission for new onshore wind farms. Those changes will come into force immediately and will scrap a previous rule that allowed just one objection to a Planning Application for a new onshore development. The new measures will also allow communities to apply to their local council to have Wind Turbines in their area, although elected councillors will still make the final decision. Rebecca windemer is an expert on Onshore Wind Planning for the Energy Market Insight Company regen. Thank you very much for being with us. Theres been plenty of discussion within industry today about how far this goes. Is it likely to give industry enough confidence to start new investments . Frankly, no. The chan
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and mps on both sides of the commons, and it seems the treasury will not be stumping up extra taxpayers money for this. labour said impacted leaseholders should be legally protected from the cost of fixing any historic faults to their buildings. for hundreds of thousands of people, next week s announcement may rebuild some confidence that there will be a solution to their ongoing housing crisis. ben wright, bbc news. with all the sport now, here s sarah mulkerrin at the bbc sport centre. good evening, reeta. there was plenty of drama in the third round of the fa cup match of the day follows the news, so if you don t want to know what happened, then look away now. everton survived a scare to make it through to the next round but they needed extra time to beat championship side hull city. ben croucher reports. watch your step in the fa cup third round, premier league teams must tread carefully, trouble lurks around every corner, and free