Hello, iam none hello, i am none to thanks for joining us on bbc news. First to niger where, in the last two hours, a deadline for the militaryjunta to step down has passed. The leaders of nigers coup have hours to restore the ousted president , or face the possibility of Military Action. Thousands of people gathered in nigers capital to support the militaryjunta as that deadline expired. Despite International Condemnation of the soldiers actions, thousands of nigeriens continue to show support for the army 7 hoping it can offer the country stability. Some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. And algeria, which Borders Niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. France says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore nigers elected president. Niger s Prime Minister was in paris on saturday 7 meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the countrys embassy. He has dismissed pro co
launched a joint attack against hugh think rebels in yemen. trey has the latest in tel aviv. jesse, good evening. this is breaking news the united states and united kingdom have launched a dozen strikes against rebels in yemen. this follows attacks against commercial shipping vessels, since mid october about 27 according to our sources. across mid red lines that were ultimately crossed by rebels launching new attacks not just against red sea but israel. back on september 19th they started their participation in the israel hamas war. when hezbollah on the northern border and they are all backed by iran and this is linked and connected and comes amidst concern that things are escalate together a broader regional conflict. israelis are fearing retaliation and we re learning an according to one u.s. defense official that in the strikes that took place tonight, jesse the united states and the united kingdom targeted storage facilitates and launch sites for cruise and ballistic m
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begin with a fox news alert. we have just been notified within the last few minutes that the united states, along with our allies in the u.k. have begun striking the iran-backed houthi group inside of yemen. now, we do not know the extent of these strikes but they come after the houthis have been launching missiles and one way drones on u.s. positions and commercial vessels in the middle east now for a number of months. picking up in recent days in fact this action by the administration comes only after there have been 130 such attacks. the white house has called a lid. that means biden has gone to bed, so as we strike the military targets in the middle east tonight, we don t expect to hear from our commander-in-chief. meanwhile these strikes come as defense secretary lloyd austin is still out of commission. earlier today the pentagon spokesperson strolled to the mics and leveled what now looks like a telegraph. we will continue to call on these iranian proxies to cease the
and new columnist at the times, and for the first half of our programme, professor peter hotez is with us, expert in molecular virology and microbiology at the baylor college of medicine. what we ve known for some time about the uk s response to the covid pandemic is that the protective ring the government claimed to have thrown around care homes wasn t very protective at all. between march 2020 and april 2021, some 39,000 people died in care homes from covid. the public inquiry, which is still to begin, will examine whether more could have been done. in the interim, some of the evidence the panel will consider is now being tested in the court of public opinion. the reporter isabelle 0akshott, who co authored a book with matt hancock, has now shared with the telegraph 100,000 whatsapp messages which the former health secretary had shared with government officials. the goal of 100,000 tests per day by the end of this month. in one message, from april 14th 2020, mr hancock te