The iranian backed group. Israel has confirmed its carried out Air Strikes on the yemeni city of Hodeidah Targetting Houthi Sites. Videos have been posted on social media. Bbc verify has confirmed the location. Bbc verify has confirmed the location. Israel says it was targetting Power Plants and a sea port. For the latest, heres our middle East Correspondent Anna foster, who is in beirut. It is really planes have been active. Those attacks are continuing across the Country And Israel announced it has carried out this large Scale Operation. Clearly a real defence from what we are the a few days ago from World Leaders who are arranging some sort of de escalation. They were talking about 21 days of no military action. What weve seen over the last couple of days, particularly with that pivotal moment on Friday Evening, that large Scale Attack here in beirut. In the News Yesterday that Hassan Nasrallah had been killed shows that events here are moving very quickly and it seems that western
A 26 year Old American Activist has been shot dead in the occupied West Bank. Aysenur ezgi eygi, whos of turkish descent, is reported to have been taking part in a Protest Againstjewish Settlement expansion in the town of beita near nablus. Lets speak to our correspondent in jerusalem, mike thomson. Tell us more. She was attending what is apparently tell us more. She was attending what is apparently a tell us more. She was attending what is apparently a regular what is apparently a regular demonstration against Settlement Expansion in the West Bank, which has been increasing at quite a pace and apparently, according to local media, israeli troops tried to suppress the demonstration. They used, it said, live ammunition, Stun Grenades and Tear Gas to try and stop what was happening and in the midst of all this, it is for the Young American Woman was hit in the head. She was then taken to hospital in nablus but medics there were unable to save her life and she was pronounced dead. I life
Are put in to bat on an overcast first morning of the third test against sri lanka. They already hold an unassailable 2 0 series lead. Good afternoon, and welcome to the Bbc News at one. The Prison Population in england and wales has hit a record high for the second week in a row. The latest figures show there are now more than 88,500 inmates. Thats a rise of almost 1,200 in five weeks. Around half of those are cases linked to this summers riots. In a few days time, the governments temporary early Release Scheme will begin, and some offenders will be able to leave jail at an earlier point in their sentences. Lets speak now to our Uk Correspondent daniel sandford. Daniel, what are these high numbers doing to the Prison System . Last week, i was sitting here talking to your audience about the Prison Population hitting an all time high. This week its even higher, and essentially what happened is on the 30th Ofjuly when the rioting Started this summer, the Prison Population has been rising
[ ] i am the supervisor of district one. I am sandra lee fewer. [ ] i moved to the Richmond District in 1950 mine. I was two years old. I moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [ ] when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. It seems so far away. For a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. The stress was storage of the birthplace of that. My father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. It just started to grow very organically. It is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the Richmond District. As russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. So parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the Russian Community and immigrant Russian Community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [ ] i think as l