Troops into israel, but pledged support for it as it fights back against hamas, the us releasing a statement along with four other nations condemning the attacks and calling for peace in the middle east. In other developments, the armed wing of hamas has threatened to kill israeli hostages if Palestinian Civilians are not warned about impending air strikes. Theres been International Condemnation of the taking of civilian hostages. Israel says some 100 civilians and soldiers have been kidnapped. But both israel and hamas have denied reports of a possible prisoner exchange. So far in this conflict, at least 900 people have been killed in israel, and almost 700 people have been killed in gaza following Israeli Military action. Right now were looking at a live pictures of gaza city, where weve seen flashes of explosions in the past hour or so. Israels allies, including the us, germany, italy, france and the uk have released a joint statement criticising the weekends surprise strikes by ham
Involving more than 300 drones and missiles. The israelis say 99 were intercepted. The us, britain and jordan, were among the countries involved in israels defence. Some of the missiles were intercepted outside earths atmosphere. Some supporters of the iranian government in tehran celebrate the attack iran warns israel not to retaliate. The iranian retaliatory action comes after israels strike on its consulate in syria two weeks ago. President biden says hell agree a diplomatic response to the attack with other g7 leaders. The United Nations Security Council will hold an Emergency Meeting later. Welcome to the programme. Thank you for your company. An extraordinary sensitive moment in the middle east and we havejust sensitive moment in the middle east and we have just heard in the last hour our first reaction from israel, from a member of the war cabinet. His quote, we will exact a price from iran in the fashion and timing thatis from iran in the fashion and timing that is right for us
as workers, not self employed, with big implications for global employment rights. hello to you. we start with harrowing testimony, from one community in syria, one of the many shattered by the conflict which started a decade ago this week. it began when tens of thousands took to the streets, calling for change. the government tried to crush the protests and the country descended into civil war. united nations estimates more than 250,000 people have died in the conflict, although the true number could be much higher. at least 6.2 million syrians have been forced from their homes, another 5.7 million have left the country. now, a decade on, after all the bloodshed, president bashar al assad is still in power. among the victims of the war are at least 25,000 children. thousands of schools have been attacked. in aleppo in 2013, iqra school was bombed by a fighterjet. some children were killed instantly, others later died of their injuries. a bbc team was filming nearby when the
hospitalisation and death outweigh the risk of the side effects. outweigh the risk of the side effects. police in the us state of georgia arrest a man accused of killing eight peple, at three different spas in atlanta. and a world first uber drivers in the uk will be classed as workers, not self employed, with big implications for global employment rights. we start with harrowing testimony from one community in syria one of the many shattered by the conflict which started a decade ago this week. it began when tens of thousands had taken to the streets calling for change the government tried to crush the protests and the country descended into civil war. the united nations estimates more than 250,000 people have died in the conflict, although the true number could be much higher. at least 6.2 million syrians have been forced from their homes another 5.7 million have left the country. and now, a decade on, after all the bloodshed, president bashar al assad is stil
Hes met the president of china, as well as the general secretary of nato. Hes also launched an airstrike against the Syrian Government. But what does this tell us about how his policies have changed since his inauguration . And more violence has broken out between European Football fans tonight, the start of the match between besiktas and lyon had to be delayed. Well have the latest in os sport. We can speak withjeremy bowen, the bbcs bbc middle east editor now. Im soyuz all the interview with President Assad, what did you make of it . I watched the whole Interview Andi of it . I watched the whole interview and i read the transcript as well. Ina way, and i read the transcript as well. In a way, he is very consistent in the line he has always taken, which is that he is fighting a conspiracy, directed from abroad, that has sent terrorists, and he never makes a distinction between different groups, hejust distinction between different groups, he just calls them terrorists, who are out to