This is sky news today. The headlines at 10 00. Iran launches the first ever direct attacks on israel where pour than 300 drones and missiles and ies rate says they intercepted 99 . U. S. Military helped repel and the Royal Air Force was involved. Fears about israels possible response means tensions remain high in the region. Joe biden calls it a brazen attack and reaforms americas ironclad commitment to protect israel. He called a meeting of g7 leaders later today to discuss the unfolding crisis. We will have all the latest live throughout the morning here on sky news and we will be assessing what israel will do next. Good morning. We begin with a tense and significant turn of events in the middle east. Overnight, the skies of jerusalem lit up with explosions as iran carried out its first ever direct attack on israel. It comes two weeks after suspected israeli strike in syria that killed two iranian generals. In a moment, we will hear from the Israeli Military on the state of the coun
[applause] greg: happy wednesday, everyone. [laughter] greg: yes, control yourselves. remember back in grade school when the teacher would leave the room and tell everyone to behave while she was gone, of course, the second she left the room went wild. that s how i got my first tattoo. i would show you but the fcc doesn t allow frontal nudity, so it s great what the teacher got, right? but remember how after a while it would get ugly. the bullying and fights would start. things would get tossed around the room. by things, i mean me. when the teacher came back you were sort of relieved. you knew your class needed a grown-up to keep things from chaos which brings us to america. can someone please call the teacher back into the room? not so they can sleep with their students, although that helps. but to save us from the madness. every weekend we re seeing the same stories of violent mobs disrupting and destroying our cities. it makes me remember the good ole days when it u
[applause] greg: happy wednesday, everyone. [laughter] greg: yes, control yourselves. remember back in grade school when the teacher would leave the room and tell everyone to behave while she was gone, of course, the second she left the room went wild. that s how i got my first tattoo. i would show you but the fcc doesn t allow frontal nudity, so it s great what the teacher got, right? but remember how after a while it would get ugly. the bullying and fights would start. things would get tossed around the room. by things, i mean me. when the teacher came back you were sort of relieved. you knew your class needed a grown-up to keep things from chaos which brings us to america. can someone please call the teacher back into the room? not so they can sleep with their students, although that helps. but to save us from the madness. every weekend we re seeing the same stories of violent mobs disrupting and destroying our cities. it makes me remember the good ole days when it u
the week in parliament. hello again, and welcome to the week in parliament, a week when mps hoped the killing of sarah everard would be a watershed moment to help prevent violence against women. too many of us have clutched our keys in our fist in case we need to defend ourselves. and that is not ok. but ministers face complaints about police tactics and a lack ofjustice. i have parliamentary privilege. i can name the men who have hurt me. but millions of women in this country don t even have that. a victim of stalking shares her experience. he dropped the letters through my letterbox, just so i knew that he knew where i lived. and elsewhere in westminster, a controversial figure returns to haunt the government. in spring 2020, the situation got to where the department of health was just a smoking ruin in terms of procurement to ppe. but first, sarah everard s killing prompted widespread public anger and calls for action to do more to protect women and girls. hundreds gathere
the government s announced there ll be a significant reduction in the availability of coronavirus vaccines from the end of this month, with the shortage expected to last through april. the nhs has written to local health organisations, urging them not to take any new appointments from the 29th of march. those who already have bookings are not expected to lose their slot. the bbc has been told that fewer batches of astrazeneca vaccines are available than expected. here is our political correspondent, laura kuenssberg. i have some fantastic news to be new today. we have now vaccinated over 25 million people stopping the vaccine is on the way. we are on track, so let s stick with that, follow the rules, and when you get the call, get the jab. the rules, and when you get the call, get the jab- call, get the “ab. perhaps the “ourne call, get the “ab. perhaps the journey is call, get the jab. perhaps the journey is less call, get the jab. perhaps the journey is less smoo