that after stunning news as the body of 22-year-old texas army national guard specialist bishop evans was carried out of the rio grande after he drown there. his colleagues saluting him, a horrific, terrible story that unfolded over the weekend. he lost his life working at the rio grande on the southern border, he was trying to save two migrants on the river on friday, he jumped in to do just that. the texas military says the migrants were involved in drug trafficking and you see the hearse there in texas, it s a sad story, this young man s life lost and no reaction at all so far from the white house, but we expect there will be a question about this. we would anticipate at the white house moments away, so listen to that as well. they are getting ready to lift title 42 and as you know, the projection is that could send as many as 18,000 more people across that border on a daily basis, according to the numbers that come to us from the department of homeland security. so a to
and on newsnight at 10.30, we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories. plus, we take a first look at what s on tomorrow s front pages. good evening. in the last half hour, it s been reported that the uk has taken part in further strikes against the iranian backed houthis who operate in yemen. the attacks are in response to strikes by the houthis on cargo ships in the red sea. the houthis say they are attacking vessels bound for israel, in support of palestinians. our defence correspondent jonathan beale is here with me. this story has just broken, what more do we now? all we have at the moment is confirmation from two unnamed us officials at jets from confirmation from two unnamed us officials atjets from that us carrier in the red sea, the uss eisenhower, along with britishjets, they say, have been taking part in strikes on the houthis in yemen. we ve not yet had confirmation from downing street or the mod that that has happened
a senior lecturer in security at the university of bath and former british army captain. welcome to bbc news. we were hearing from lord cameron that he believes that this will degrade the group s ability to attack cargo ships. do you agree with that assertion, and how is the military trying to degrade the houthi capabilities? i do agree with the assertion. i think the strikes on the 11th of january, which hit about 1k targets, the uk was involved with that, that was a big message and it did degrade. we saw that confirmed with the battle damage assessment on the open source imagery coming through. then the us continue to hit missile launching sites, basically, as targets of opportunity. because the houthis have got mobile launchers. when intelligence queues of a target for them, they are able to hit them. but these were smaller and more ad hoc. finally, we had strikes yesterday that were very coordinated again, and larger, so hitting different targets across the spectrum, in t
and heartbroken by the deaths. the foreign secretary david cameron said it s a dreadful event, and he paid tribute to those killed, calling them brave, humanitarian workers . world central kitchen released these pictures of the seven aid workers who killed when a convoy carrying staff from the charity was hit by an israeli strike on monday. the seven were made up of people from britain, australia, poland, a dual us/canadian citizen and a palestinian driver. the three british men, john chapman, james henderson and james kirby, were working as security advisers. israel said the strike was unintended and promised to investigate. the family ofjames kirby one of the three british nationals killed in the strike said they were heartbroken and they are demanding answers from the israeli government. they ve been speaking to danjohnson. humanitarian aid relies on people like this, the three british men killed providing security advice in gaza. he has died a hero. you know, t
the foreign minister, hossein amirabdollahian, was also on board. president raisi had been travelling back from a trip to neighbouring azerbaijan. rescue teams are looking for the aircraft in rain and thick fog. iran s supreme leader, ayatollah khamenei has assured the country that there will be no disruption to state affairs. here s a brief bit of what he said in his first public statement about the incident. translation: may god return the president to the people. i the iranian nation should rest assured they will be no disruption to the running of the country. these people in tehran gave their reaction to the crash. translation: i hope they are fighting well and we get to enjoy the news of them being well. this news is unfortunate for the government and the people. if anything happens to him it will take time to anything happens to him it will take time to replace him. and for the situation time to replace him. and for the situation to time to replace him. and for the