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and, the man who owned new york s legendary studio 5a nightclub dies by assisted suicide in switzerland. welcome to our viewers in the uk and around the globe. we start in sri lanka, where president gotabaya has not honoured his promise to resign. he flew to the maldives about 2k hours ago, but in a public letter, he said he was appointing the prime minister to be the acting head of state, while he was absent. that s led to anger among protestors, who wanted both men to quit. meanwhile, a curfew is in force. from colombo, our south asia correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports. their target heavily guarded. their mood determined. as news spread that prime minister ranil wickremesinghe had just been made acting president, crowds gathered in front of his office, one of the few government buildings not yet occupied by protesters. there is a tense stand off here in colombo. the protesters are here along this avenue, and on the other side you can see the security forces wh ....
a spokesperson said there were no civilian casualties during the operation, but the bbc found evidence that civilians were killed from jerusalem. here is your land were killed from jerusalem. here is your [and now, and a warning, you may find her report difficult to watch. amid ruins that reeked of death. ..palestinians poured over what was once gaza s biggest and best equipped hospital after israeli forces withdrew. israel s military raid in march was the second at the site and it was dramatically destructive. four mass graves containing local search teams say hundreds of bodies have now been dug up at al shifa, prompting international calls for an investigation into possible war crimes. there are reports of suspicious finds shared with us. translation: we ve discovered bodies of women and children i and people without heads, as well as torn body parts. israel s military says it exhumed says it exhumed bodies which palestinians had buried earlier as it searched for ....
denied. a government spokesperson from israel said there were no civilian casualties during the operation, but the bbc has found evidence that civilians were killed. from jerusalem, are middle east correspondent, and you may find her report difficult to watch. amid ruins that reeked of death. ..palestinians poured over what was once gaza s biggest and best equipped hospital after israeli forces withdrew. israel s military raid in march was the second at the site and it was dramatically destructive. four mass graves containing local search teams say hundreds of bodies have now been dug up at al shifa, prompting international calls for an investigation into possible war crimes. there are reports of suspicious finds shared with us. translation: we ve - discovered bodies of women and children and people without heads, as well as torn body parts. israel s military says it exhumed bodies which palestinians had buried earlier as it searched for hostages seized by hamas. bu ....
and first of two days of commemerations in europe to mark the 80 years anniversary of the normandy landings. good evening, a day is a long time in politics. this morning the front pages brough some brief respite to the conservatives. snap polls suggesting that it was rishi sunak who had come out on top in the first leadership debate of the campaign. the prime minister had referred several times in that debate to a so called independent assessment of labour s spending plans, which the tories suggest will mean every working family paying £2000 more in taxes. the prime minister said that was a figure that had been signed off by civil servants at the treasury. the only problem is it hadn t. the bbc has obtained a letter from the most senior civil servant in the treasury, the permanent secretary, james bowler who wrote to labour making clear the civil service had not been as involved as the conservativesclaimed. as you would expect, labour is furious. here s our political e ....
police and sheriff s officials in ohio after the owner of a preserve, game preserve, killed himself and let them loose on the town. the one monkey they couldn t find, police say the t cheetah, ate that monkey. authorities defending the decision to take those animals down. saying it was us or them. ja jason carol. reporter: so many questions this morning. why terry thompson the man that owned all the animals, why he opened the cages and set those animals free. knowing that many of them would most likely be killed. this is a manna by all accounts loved these animals. that s one of the major questions that investigators will be looking at this morning. in all, 49 animals killed. the pictures really tell the whole story. we see those pictures of those animals, wild exotic animals, killed out here. sheriff s deputies telling me they were sickened to have to do what they did to put the animals down but simply felt as though they had no choice. the story actually started t ....