tonight. and breaking america is now responding to the attacksed thr that killed three us soldiers in jordan. so far, the u.s. militareen y launching 85 retaliatory airstrikes against iranian and e in iraq and syria. and there could be many more rounds ahead. but iran is responding now with defiance, saying they knew the u.s. would not dare attackat insidetack iran. the senior correspondent mike tobin is live in tel aviv with breaking in reactiono the to the first round of airstrikes. miked of , what are you hearing? well, trish, we re hearing dhat an iran backe paramilitary group inside of iraq is now claimingaimi that they launched a barrage of rockets at a u.s.ng t airbash west of ramadi in iraq. this in response to us strikeeae earlier today. this is we rr y. e getting the first images out of western iraq verys near o the syrian border, out of iraq, as the u.s. has battled damage assessment is currently underway. we know that iraq is not happy with the strikes inside of
nominations in the scottish national partly leadership national party leadership race close at midday, with humza yousaf, kate forbes and ash regan expected to appear on the ballot paper. and new research for the bbc suggests the price of pasta has nearly doubled in two years for uk consumers with the rate of food price rises still running at almost 17%. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine will do everything it can to defeat russia this year in a statement marking the anniversary of vladimir putin s full scale invasion. ceremonies are taking place across the country remebering those killed or forced to flee from the conflict. here in the uk, rishi sunak will urge allies to increase military support to ukraine, during a meeting of g7 countries. there will also be a minute s silence across the uk at 11 o clock. ourfirst report comes from our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. a thud, marking the
but russia s president putin says the missile strike is retaliation for what he called a terrorist attack by ukraine on a key bridge in crimea. chancellor kwasi kwarteng has agreed to bring forward the publication of his economic plans to october 31st. criminal barristers in england and wales have voted to suspend strike action after accepting a government pay offer. hello and welcome to bbc news. russia has carried out a series of missile strikes on cities across ukraine, in the most widespread bombardment since the early weeks of the war. the capital city of kyiv has been targeted for the first time in months. and there have been explosions in other cities including lviv, dnipro and zaporizhzhia. ukraine says at least 11 people were killed and 64 injured in the attacks. vladimir putin says the strikes are moscow s response to an attack over the weekend on a strategic road and rail bridge from russia to occupied crimea. the russian president says that was an act of terrorism
Known as the foreign agents law, described by protesters as of the russian law. For weeks they have been coming out to protest, and here you see banks of the Security Forces in different stages in the last hour also, they have been trying to disperse the crowds. And now we see that this bill has become law, there is the prospect of the president overruling that but that in itself will eventually be overruled itself. Let s bring rayhan back in, she is On The Streets amongst the protesters. Tremendous reporting over the last hour or so, give me a sense of the sorts of conversations you have been having, why there is so much anger where you are . We ust soke to so much anger where you are . We ust spoke to anotherfi so much anger where you are . We ust spoke to another 18yearold so much anger where you are . We ust spoke to another 18yearold and h so much anger where you are . We just spoke to another 18yearold and i spoke to another 18 year old and i was mentioning that these protests
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