israel launches one of its biggest military operations for years fierce fighting is taking place in thejenin refugee camp in the occupied west bank. a mother and two children killed in a fire in cambridge the fire brigade warns of the dangers of charging ebike batteries at home. and rain on day one at wimbledon but defending champion novak djokovic does his bit to help dry out the court. and join us later for bbc london when we will be bringing you up to date with the latest stories and around the capital. plus your local weather. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. drivers who bought their petrol from a supermarket forecourt last year paid an extra 6p per litre because of a lack of competition between companies. the competition and markets authority says it means those customers have paid around £900 million in additional costs. the government is now promising a change in the law to increase competition. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. fill
16 million citizens with 20 million weapons of war. the people in power acknowledging that change isn t in the cards right nowment so do we have to wait for a whole new generation before kids are safe in their classrooms? music lovers at a concert, or shoppers at the grocery store, and if we have to wait, how many more americans will die between now and then? plus, gut wrenching claims in missouri where residents who lost everything in those devastating tornados say they had warning sirens set up, but they never went off. so why not? and former vice president mike pence testing the campaign waters in iowa, but he can t escape questions about his looming legal issues in d.c. what he s saying now about the court order to force his testimony against former president trump and about his plans for 2024. but we start with those weapons of war, the ar-15 an estimated 20 million of them stored and stashed across the country as republican lawmakers refuse to address or even ackn
the beat with ari melber starts now. you were speaking to donald trump s former lawyer, now grand jury witness last night i spoke to his current lawyer, who blames everything just about on the former lawyer. i m curious what you think of it all, including your skills as an established political communicator what we re hearing coming out of this team? well, first of all, i m so glad to get to talk to you i described you behind your back as masterful it was a brilliant interview i watched it when i got home i think that what he is doing is what you said. he was engaged in political communications his defense as he described it to you was that he would have paid it either way because melania would be mad well, the federal crime isn t being charged by sdny. this is a state investigation. it doesn t seem like an apples to apples kind of comment. what i think is about to happen in this country is a giant debate about whether this was just a foot foul, sort of a b.s. kind of t
the only survivor behind the gun and bomb attacks that killed 130 people in the biggest trial in modern french history following the country s worst peacetime attack. it shook paris to its core in november 2015. as well as those killed, hundreds were injured during horrendous attacks on bars, restaurants, the national football stadium and the bataclan music venue. arrested in brussels four months after the attacks, salah abdeslam said he was a soldier of the so called islamic state group, but later apologised to victims and claimed he decided not to detonate his suicide vest on the night of the attack. but the court accepted evidence that the suicide vest was, infact, defective and there was no last minute change of heart. their full life sentence now leaves him only a small chance of parole after 30 years. the court convicted all 20 men put on trial, 19 of them on terrorism charges. the rulings can be appealed. translation: i m satisfied with the sentence and i think that