reporter: mr president, what is your message to iran in this moment? don't. us vice president kamala harris blames donald trump for the loss of abortion rights in arizona — after the state's total ban on the procedure. labour's deputy leader, angela rayner, says she will resign if she's found to have committed a crime — she's being investigated by police as to whether she broke electoral law. hello, i'm anjana gadgill. president biden has issued a blunt warning to iran not to attack israel — in retaliation for last week's deadly strike on an iranian diplomatic compound in syria. but the president said he expected an attack to come sooner rather than later, and his message to tehran was: "donitu_ simonjones reports.

preparing for a possible iranian attack, israel's defence minister meets the command of us forces in the region with a warning of the potential threat from tehran is real and viable. irate potential threat from tehran is real and viable.— potential threat from tehran is real and viable. we are devoted to the defendant _ real and viable. we are devoted to the defendant of _ real and viable. we are devoted to the defendant of israel, - to the defendant of israel, will support is help defend israel and iran will not succeed, thank you very much. this is the reason for the escalating tensions and an extra at the start of a month on an iranian diplomat building in the syrian capital damascus. it killed a number of senior iranian generals. israel has not admitted it carried out the attack but it is widely considered to have been behind it. getting around the one israel will be punished. un backs, smack as the war between

—— ands. the one also supports has full. last night they lodged dozens of rockets towards israel. the israeli military that most of the missiles were intercepted and nobody was hurt. officials worry they plan to braun strowman �*s in israel. some say that would not being tehran �*s interest. if that would not being tehran 's interest. , ., , interest. if they do, this becomes _ interest. if they do, this becomes an _ interest. if they do, this becomes an israel - interest. if they do, this becomes an israel irani| interest. if they do, this i becomes an israel irani us issue and that would not serve iranian purposes. it would be focus on iran, put the country overrun within israeli crosshairs and that is not something that would be beneficial for a something that would be beneficialfor a run. the beneficial for a run. the israeli military - beneficial for a run. the israeli military list this i israeli military list this footage that says it shows trucks entering gaza through a newly opened crossing the north but there is no sign of the conflict with, smack hamas are

ending. mr president, are you worried iran— mr president, are you worried iran will— mr president, are you worried iran will kill americans? "i am alwa s iran will kill americans? "i am always concerned _ iran will kill americans? "i am always concerned about - always concerned about americans," was the president �*s response. as they remain on high load as the world watches to see what iran does next. so why is the us putting out such strong warnings about a possible attack? and how are those warnings being felt in israel? our diplomatic correspondent james landale has this analysis, from jerusalem. president biden has said that he expects an attack against israel from iran sooner rather than later, and unnamed us officials are saying that attack could involve hundreds of drones and missiles against military targets here in israel. now, that may be a prediction of the future based on hard intelligence, but it may also be the united states trying

to deter iran to try and minimize any kind of response by talking up the threat right now. it also could be an attempt to try and shape expectations so that if and when iran does respond, it's seen as less escalatory. now, from iran's point of view, it has promised that it will punish israel for the attack on its consulate in damascus, the capital of syria, 12 days ago. but equally iranian ministers have said they do not want to widen the scope of this war. and a massive attack using drones and missiles from iran to israel would indeed do that. there has been an attack on israel this evening, across the border in the north, hezbollah launching lots and lots of rockets. but that i have to say is a pretty regular occurrence and there's no evidence yet that is in any way linked, or that even the start of some kind of iranian—led

retaliation. the mood here in israel is calm, the streets earlier today were full of people enjoying and preparing for that their sabbath meal, but the threat is being taken seriously. and there are even reports of hospitals being put on standby. so for now, israel is on alert. and the world is watching and waiting to see what iran does next. with me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic. i want to ask you about the nature of this potential attack, what form to be expected to take? i attack, what form to be expected to take?- attack, what form to be expected to take? i will pick u . expected to take? i will pick u- from expected to take? i will pick up from what _ expected to take? i will pick up from what james - expected to take? i will pick up from what james just - expected to take? i will pick. up from what james just said, up from whatjames just said, the north of israel exposed to attack already from hezbollah. rockets borrowed from lebanon onto israel in the last few hours. how must

it did happen ever last hours that hamas attacked southern israel. it also could not be linked with that expected attack from iran against israel but we now expect and looking forward to what iran might do. this target would be inside israel or another target against israeli interests in the region. one of the analysis also say we saw in the beginning of this warrant that the houthis launched missile attacks. we are all watching and looking forward to seeing what will happen. i

and looking forward to seeing what will happen.— what will happen. i would ask ou what will happen. i would ask you about _ what will happen. i would ask you about the _ what will happen. i would ask you about the situation - what will happen. i would ask you about the situation in - what will happen. i would ask. you about the situation in gaza because another crossing opened to the north but there is some debate about how effective the crossing actually is right now. we saw the first time aid coming to northern gaza from the crossing in northern gaza. there are some pictures we can see of this eight entering to the north of gaza. the co—ordinator of the military affairs of united nations in gaza says it is not enough israel would allow it to enter gaza but it is israel's responsibility that the contribution would be safe and aid would be arriving and reaching civilians in a good way. reaching civilians in a good wa . . ~' reaching civilians in a good wa . . ~ y reaching civilians in a good wa . ., ~ , . let's speak to journalist and analyst fereshteh sadeghi, she joins me live from tehran. first of all, thank you for joining us. what is the mood in

iran at this moment?— iran at this moment? good morning- _ iran at this moment? good morning. thank _ iran at this moment? good morning. thank you - iran at this moment? good morning. thank you for - iran at this moment? good . morning. thank you for having me. the meat is as normal as it used to be. there is no change. now it is about 7:35am. the day has not started yet. we are at the end of holidays. people were on trips and now by the returning home to tehran. were ordinary like is reserved and everything is normal. [30 ordinary like is reserved and everything is normal. do people they believe _ everything is normal. do people they believe an _ everything is normal. do people they believe an iranian - everything is normal. do people they believe an iranian attack. they believe an iranian attack on israel is imminent? it seems everybody _ on israel is imminent? it seems everybody expects _ on israel is imminent? it seems everybody expects this - on israel is imminent? it seems everybody expects this attack i everybody expects this attack but when it happens, it is anyone's guess because it seems the iranian authorities this time around are keeping their cards close to the chest. if

you follow in the iranian media can don't see any hint by the reading officials for law enforcement. whatever i see is the translation of the material published in their foreign media rather than iranian once, giving any information about what is their decision. generally, last night i was watching on one of the channels affiliated with the itc, documents about the iranian missiles and then another documentary about the war. between iran and iraq but they was a sometimes war is inevitable. there are some hints but i can say it is not very clear. you don't see it, people propagating it. itruiith

people propagating it. with iran not having _ people propagating it. with iran not having the - people propagating it. with iran not having the military capability for a significant confrontation, how likely you think it is for them to use a proxy like hezbollah? i think we need to _ proxy like hezbollah? i think we need to correct _ proxy like hezbollah? i think we need to correct you. - proxy like hezbollah? i think we need to correct you. the | we need to correct you. the fact is iran has the capability to attack israel. iran for years has been developing its missile programmes. it is missiles it can fly up to 2500 kilometres and the distance between iran and israel this almost 1600—1800 kilometres. iran has the capability. the only superiority israel has to i iran is thejets. even if you consider the long distance between iran and israel and considering the fact many regional arab countries most likely will not allow israeli

army flyover the countries or use their airspace find attack in iran, we should think about it that maybe it is not so easy for israel to threat we what might retaliate. it is the same situation in the us. the americans have a military base in turkiye, sure neither turkiye or the type would like to use to use their soil for any attack on iran. when it comes to american military assistance, the israelis should take all of these matters into consideration.— consideration. thank you for our consideration. thank you for your insight _ here, labour's deputy leader angela rayner has promised to step down if she is found to have committed a crime.

she's being investigated by greater manchester police about claims she may have broken electoral law, following a complaint by the conservatives' deputy chair; angela rayner has been accused of failing to disclose her main residence in official documents. she said again that she was completely confident she had followed the rules at all times. here's our political correspondent leila nathoo. she is number two in the labour party, one of the most high—profile figures but now angela rayner said she would give up her role as deputy leader if she was found to have committed an offence after police said they were investigating whether she could have broken electoral law. claims first made by former tory pair and taken on by the current deputy conservative chairman centred around where she lived more than a decade ago before she became an mp. she bought a house on vicarage

roadin she bought a house on vicarage road in 2007, three years later she married mark rayner who own and nearby. she appeared you have registered a child at his address but was registered to vote at her own. the tories are questioning whether she really lived at vicarage road, some neighbours reportedly said it was not her main residence. legally married capitols should only choose one property is the primary one at any given time. toys are already questioned whether she should have paid capital gains tax on the property made when she sold her house in 2015. she says she has since received legal advice that such should not owe any tax although she was used to publish it. she said she is completely confident she followed the rules at all times and her boss is back on her. we welcome and her boss is back on her. - welcome this investigation because it will allow anyone to because it will allow anyone to be drawn in relation to this matter. i am fully confident angela rayner has not broken the rules. she will co—operate with the investigation as you would expect. it is really a matter for the police. angela

ra ner matter for the police. angela rayner accused them - matter for the police. angela rayner accused them of - matter for the police. angela l rayner accused them of trying to smear her to distract from her record. the toes are convinced they are onto something.— convinced they are onto somethina. ., , , ., ., , something. the double standards have been extraordinary. - something. the double standards have been extraordinary. angela | have been extraordinary. angela rayner herself spent her political career calling people out for exactly the thing she seems to be doing now. it is not acceptable to ignore it. the contributors hope they have angela rayner on the hopes and hope she will soon be vindicated property and to an issue that doctor part of the issues that doctor party for weeks. —— dogged the party. the us vice president kamala harris has blamed donald trump for the loss of abortion rights in arizona. her comments followed the arizona supreme court's decision to impose a total ban on the procedure, upholding a law enacted a hundred and 60 years ago. speaking in tuscon, ms harris said the former president wanted to take america back to the nineteenth century. what has happened here in

arizona is a new inflection point. it has demonstrated once and for all that overturning roe was just the opening act of a larger strategy to take women's rights and freedoms. full on attack, state—by—state, on reproductive freedom. we all must understand who is to blame. former president donald trump did this. in the war in ukraine, over recent weeks russia has been targeting critical civilian infrastructure such as the country's main power plants, which is leaving millions of people without electricity and water. our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford has travelled to the east of the country to kharkiv — where 10 attacks took place today and more than 200,000 people are without power — to find out how ukrainians are coping with life with no electricity. russia's war on ukraine has entered a new phase.

this power plant in kharkiv was hit with five missiles — part of a massive attack on the energy system across the country. farfrom saving ukrainians, as it still claims, russia is trying to plunge their country into darkness. leading me through the ruins, igor has worked at this plant since soviet times. you don't usually hear engineers talk like this. translation: it's like my home has been destroyed. _ it brings pain and tears. but at the same time, that mobilises us because we know a city of more than a million people is depending on us. they're still assessing the damage here, seeing what they can salvage.

this is where just one of the missiles hit, and as you can see, the result is completely devastating. this was an extremely precise attack because this power plant was hit by the russians a year ago. the company had just got it repaired, just got it working, and the russians hit again. so ukraine is now pleading with its western allies for more air defences, better protection, because the russian attacks are overwhelming. siren wails. so there's just been another air raid alert and this time, there's information that there's a missile somewhere in the sky heading in this direction, so we're going down into the bunker. there are now long blackouts in kharkiv every day. but among it all, we found a firm making bikinis — a business that's even expanded during the war, adapting to the difficulties and the danger.

it's interesting how long we can stay independent. olex shows me the car battery that's now keeping the power on here, charged by the sun. we don't think about electricity now. one problem is off. one thing solved ? yeah. but the war is always on people's minds. russia is very close, and the increase in missile attacks is worrying. so victoria tells me keeping the business going is about keeping spirits up, too, giving people faith that there is a future here. when night falls, whole neighbourhoods are left in the dark. this is a city that calls itself unbreakable — russia is doing its best to change that. sarah rainsford, bbc news, kharkiv. let's get some of the day's other news now. a new nine—member political council, tasked with filling

the leadership vacuum in haiti, has been appointed after weeks of political wrangling. it follows months of escalating violence that has seen criminal gangs seize control of the capital, port—au—prince, and force the resignation of the prime minister ariel henry. the united nations migration agency says nearly a hundred thousand people fled port au prince in a month. consumer price rises in argentina have slowed for a third consecutive month, though economic data reveals that annual price inflation still remains staggeringly high at almost 290%. but the price increases in march were lower than the previous month. the president, javier milei, said earlier this week that bringing monthly inflation down to 10% by may would be "a hell of a goal." a former interpreter for shohei ohtani, the japanese baseball star with the los angeles dodgers, has been charged with impersonating him to steal more than $16 million. the money was allegedly used by ippei mizuhara to pay gambling debts. he could face a maximum

sentence of 30 years. let's return to the situation in the middle east. after six months of war between israel and hamas, medical services in gaza have all but collapsed. the european gaza hospital in the city of khan younis is one of the last functioning healthcare facilities. and a small number of british doctors have been allowed in to help there. dr victoria rose is one of them. she's a consultant plastic surgeon at guy's and st thomas's hospital in london — but has just spent the last two weeks in gaza, where much of her work was on children under the age of 16. she filmed for us — to show what life is like there. so, here we are, we have made it across the border. shouting the day has been pretty long, actually. we left cairo this morning

with the un convoy. i was last here in 2020 and it is completely different, it is like a different entity. inside, they've tried to keep the sort of working areas very clean, the floors are very clean, there's somebody sweeping all the time, but once you get into the corridors, it is full of people in tents and they have made sort of makeshift tents out of sheets and carpets and it is not clean and outside its — you know, it is just mayhem, it is like a massive village. it stinks, it is raw sewage, it is unacceptable for people to live like this. so we were operating until last night. at midnight, we finished our last case, but the general surgeons have been going on night. you can hear the drones again.

drones and explosion this is my first case. he is a young boy who has been hit by a car, got a scab laceration and degloving. he was taken to theatre last week and the scab was closed, but unfortunately a lot of his skin has died. so we're going to take him back to theatre see if we can sort it out the scab. we have had a bit of a delayed start because there has been quite a lot of bombing this evening. so we have got quite a lot more work coming to us tomorrow and i am kind in that situation now where i just want a ceasefire so that we can catch up. this is the field hospital. there's four wards that were all built during covid. it is tuesday, the second of april, and the drones are back. sound of drones so, i am walking back to theatre

so, i am walking back to theatre on my own, which is something that the boys do not really like me doing. i do not whether you can see, i have like a group of children constantly following me and saying, hello. hello. and then they will ask me for money or they will ask me for chocolate. money? i have no money. just walking through the hospital again. we have got three days of operating left and i am already panicking about the fact that we're not going to get through everybody that we need to get through before i go. i know now it is going to be very difficult to leave, and i'm not looking forward to it. i am now out of all my vac sponge dressings. i just have cannisters.

oh, i wish i had brought more. i really wish i had brought more. i have just been around to the girls room where the female medical students live. the best team i have ever worked with in my entire life and i have had the best two weeks ever. thank you. i hope they all get to qualify... i do not know how that is going to happen but i... i think they would all make really good doctors and, god knows, gaza needs some doctors right now. dr victoria rose who's just returned to the uk after two weeks in gaza — she says she's planning to go back. tributes have been paid to the italian fashion designer

roberto cavalli who's died at the age of 83. fellow designer giorgio armani called him a true artist while the singer taylor swift hailed his contribution to her look. his style, enjoyed by the world's jet set for decades, was known for using snake skin and flamboyant animal prints as well as transparent materials. born in florence, roberto cavalli pursued fashion from a young age, and by the 19705 had built a brand in his own name. a tribute their. let's look at the laterals of the southern israel border with lebanon. we will bring you more on the situation in half—an—hour. do you stay with us. ——do stay with us. hello there. friday was a very warm day for april.

temperatures widely reached the high teens and the warmest spots had temperatures a bit higher than that. 21.5 degrees celsius was recorded at both st james' park and northolt, both in greater london, making it the warmest day of the year so far. we have something of a change in the weather forecast, though, for saturday. cooler air is going to be arriving across both scotland and northern ireland behind this cold front. and that's significant because scotland also recorded its warmest day of 2024 as well on friday — 20.2 degrees celsius in fyvie castle. but across scotland and northern ireland, temperatures widely will be dropping by around five or six degrees celsius into saturday. so you will notice that significant change. right now the weather is quite quiet, though. we've got a few patches of high cloud around, one or two areas of mist and fog and a few showers coming in across northern areas with the winds strengthening slightly. temperatures as we start saturday morning around 8 to 11 degrees celsius. we're looking at a mild start to the day. now, a band of rain, a cold front will quickly

swing its way into northern ireland and scotland. as that moves eastwards, what will follow is blustery showers with some hailstorms mixed in the winds gusting up to 50 miles an hour further southwards. now a patch of rain for northern england and across wales, otherwise largely dry. much cooler air across scotland and northern ireland arrives through the afternoon, whereas across england and wales it's going to be the last of the really warm days. temperatures, i suspect, will reach around 21 or 22 in the warmest areas of eastern england, with colder air arriving across most parts of england and wales after dark. well, that takes us into sunday's forecast. and sunday is going to be a blustery day for scotland and northern ireland. frequent showers here, some of them with hail and thunder mixed in. there will be a few showers developing through the day across northern england and wales, but it may well stay largely dry across east anglia and the south of england. wherever you are, temperatures will be much closer to average, 15 degrees in london. so a big change from the low 20s that we'll have on saturday, it will feel cooler. on into the start of the new week, monday sees low pressure move in off the atlantic with this cold front diving its way southwards across the country.

and that's going to be bringing a spell of rain followed by showers, showery weather conditions around for tuesday and for wednesday. but the weather should become drier and a bit warmer towards the end of next week. bye for now.

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warning to iran not to attack israel — in retaliation for last week's deadly strike on an iranian diplomatic compound in syria. mr biden said he expected an attack to come sooner rather than later — his message to tehran was, "don't". the us vice president kamala harris blames donald trump for the loss of abortion rights in arizona. her comments followed the arizona supreme court's decision to impose a total ban on the procedure, upholding a law enacted 160 years ago. labour's deputy leader angela rayner promises to step down if she is found to have committed a crime. she's being investigated by greater manchester police about claims she may have broken electoral law, failing to disclose her main residence in official documents. now on bbc news — the travel show.

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