Middle east was between saudi arabia and iran and it looked like they would come up against each other but instead they fought proxy wars in yemen especially. Theres been a rapprochement between them recently and the military itself, it is huge, but if you look back, things have changed and look at the Iran Iraq War in the 805, although they had a massive advantage in terms of the people in the army, they were not able to defeat iraq, 5o people in the army, they were not able to defeat iraq, so i dont think at the moment we are looking at an Iranian Military entering into at an Iranian Military entering into a major conflict. This will be, for now, unless they go to an extraordinary situation which will be a major issue for everyone across the globe. They will look to be using pressure as weve seen with hamas and hezbollah, weve seen an incremental rise in skirmishes on the border between israel and laverton but we are not seeing any major escalation where the Rules Of Engagement have
that more than 2,000 people were buried by a devastating landslide in a remote village. palestinian officials say that at least 45 people have been killed at a refugee camp in rafah. israel describes the air strike as grave and says it will investigate. we take a look at indian administered kashmir, in the first general elections since the modi government took away the region s special status. hello, i m geeta guru murthy. welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. we start here in the uk, at the beginning of the first full week of campaigning for the general election on july the 4th. the labour leader sir keir starmer has focused on security in his first major campaign speech. he s been telling undecided voters in west sussex in south east england that his party will deliver stability. the labour party says if elected it will carry out a 100 day national security review, looking at all the threats facing britain. sir keir starmer said
i more now on the uk general election, and the conservative s plans to introduce a form of mandatory national service. under the plans, 18 year olds would be given the choice of either joining the military for a year, or taking part in community service. earlier on radio four they spoke to anne marie trevelyan, a minister of state of the foreign office and a former armed forces minister. the? former armed forces minister. they asked how the former armed forces minister. they asked how the conservatives helped to house 30,000 new recruit went according to experts from the kerslake commission existing troops are experiencing damp, mouldy homes, riddled with pests and plagued by shoddy gas and electrical fittings in service accommodation. it is shoddy gas and electrical fittings in service accommodation. it is not a matter of in service accommodation. it is not a matter of prioritising in service accommodation. it is not a matter of prioritising one - in service accommodati
have been buried alive in a landslide that hit on friday. the country s disaster management agency said in a letter to the united nations that the landslide caused major destruction to buildings and has damaged the economy. unstable terrain is making work dangerous for rescue teams. the figure is substantially higher than the last estimate by the un, which put the number of missing at 670. the disaster hit a remote village in enga province, nearly 600 kilometres north west of the capital port moresby. let s go live to katy watson in sydney, where she is monitoring developments on papua new guinea. in the last couple of hours, we have had the news of this big increase in the numbers of people that are believed to have been buried alive? that s right. a lot of people feared that the death toll would rise, but it s important to emphasise that this is an estimate. it comes from the national disaster centre, who said the landslide buried more than 2000 people alive. as of sunday,
the united nations has described the war in ukraine, as a horror story of violations against civilians , and says there s growing evidence war crimes may have been committed. on saturday, it will again be attempted to establish humanitarian corridors out of the besieged southern port city of mariupol, which russian forces have been trying to fully capture for several weeks. our correspondent, catherine byaru hanga, is in southern ukraine. a warning her report contains some images viewers may find upsetting. haunting, apocalyptic scenes in mariupol. rapid explosions russia has bombarded this city into near submission. once home to about 500,000 people, thousands are believed to have been killed. emergency workers from russia are filmed here, retrieving the dead. moscow has repeatedly denied that its troops are responsible for the mass killings of civilians in ukraine, but mariupol s mayor says some of the worst war crimes have been committed there. translation: they | killed