it further escalation. looks like they didn't hit anything it looks like they didn't hit anything other than military targets. my hope is this is the end. israeli forces withdraw from a hospital in northern gaza, a day after storming it. the world health organization warns of a "catastrophic" situation at gaza's medical facilities. partial results in georgia suggest the governing party has won a key parliamentary election, as both main sides claim victory. as the race for the white house enters its final stages, donald trump tells americans to "dream big" at a rally in michigan — as michelle obama is set to campaign with kamala harris. hello, i'm nicky schiller. we start this hour with reaction to israel's

airstrikes on iran. iran itself has condemned them whilst president biden says he hopes that they are the end as the united nations and countries around the world urge both sides to avoid further escalation. israel says the strikes were on 20 military and missile manufacturing sites by three waves of fighter jets, with some reports of up to 100 israeli jets involved. israel says its strikes were in response to missiles fired by iran earlier this month. we don't know the specific locations of the attacks but reports say that military installations in the capital tehran were hit as well as bases in the provinces of ilam and khuzestan in the south west of the country. iran says four army officers were killed. hezbollah in lebanon condemned the attacks and warned of a dangerous escalation of the entire region. these pictures show iran's air defence system working to intercept israeli missiles as they headed over the iranian capital.

iran says it has to defend itself, but it recognises its responsibilities towards "regional peace and security". saudi arabia, egypt and the uae all warned of the danger of further escalation, and called for restraint. the united states, the uk and the eu have also called for de—escalation and russia blamed israel for exacerbating the conflict. our first report this hour is from our international editor jeremy bowen in jerusalem. israeli pilots set out for the long flight to strike iran. israel and the whole middle east has been waiting for this since iran attacked with around 180 ballistic missiles on the 1st of october. this was tehran in the early hours of the morning. israel said it hit military targets in the capital and the provinces. iran's leaders now face a hard choice. do nothing and risk looking weak, hit back and risk

a bigger israeli attack. if the regime in iran were to make the mistake of beginning a new round of escalation, we will be obligated to respond. 0ur message is clear. all those who threaten the state of israel and seek to drag the region into wider escalation will pay a heavy price. the israeli military released silent, blurred video from the war room. they agreed to president biden�*s request not to hit iran's nuclear, oil and gas facilities. if iran retaliates, they are likely to be the next targets. tel aviv this morning. most israelis believe war in gaza and lebanon as well as iran isjustified and unavoidable. so i think it was a good action. but we need to keep it calm. we don't need to get an escalation going. the message is through and i hope things

will become right now. we need to respond very hard, very quick and that they will understand that we are into it. iran has played down the damage done by the raids, releasing very little video. for the citizens of tehran it is still the first direct attack on their capital since war with iraq in the 1980s. he says, "we heard cannon fire and an explosion, the sound echoed across the sky, it was terrible and horrifying. we are worried the war in the middle east is "we are worried the war in the middle east is going to affect us too. why should we live without peace? why can't we just be happy? it's really worrying me." "war," she says, "is frightening." "everyone is worried about what a war might do to us. but i don't believe a terrible war will happen in iran." israel has released video of another huge strike on hezbollah positions in

lebanon. the israelis have set the pace of escalation since early summer. it's hard to stop tit—for—tat strikes when both sides fear looking weak and deterred if they don't respond, and that is how wars spin out of control. jeremy bowen, bbc news, jerusalem. parham ghobadi from bbc persian has more on a statement from iran's armed forces about the strikes. the significance of that is that they say that israeli aircraft used iraqi air force to launch attacks to launch air—launched missile attacks towards iran. and the distance was roughly about 100km from the iranian border. and that's why they managed to target the three provinces that border tehran, except tehran,

they managed to target ilam, which is in western iran, and also the southern oil rich province of khuzestan. and they said that the area they used in iraq was controlled by the american forces. so they used that to attack iran. and they said that they targeted iranian radars in those provinces. but the damages were minimal and they managed to repair the radars. since the beginning of the attack, the iranians were trying to downplay the damage. they said it was limited. we do not know, and we cannot confirm how serious were the damages to the radars. but axios said that, citing their sources, that israelis managed to take out 3 or 4 iranian russian—made iranian air defence systems, s—300. so if that is true, that makes a huge... that's extremely significant because that kind of paves the way for possible future attacks. so the big question that everybody is asking is what will iran do next? so it's extremely difficult to speculate.

especially iran has proven to be, you know, unpredictable, because last time we didn't expect iran to attack such a large barrage of ballistic missiles. but most of the analysts believe right now that since the beginning, iran is trying to downplay, iran has claimed victory already. when you look at the iranian newspapers, they're saying that, "we managed to win this war. "we defeated their attacks, their projectiles, and our defence system proved to be ready for the battle." so from the rhetoric, you people assume that while they're already claiming victory, it shows that they do not want to retaliate because they know that if they retaliate... and the iranian foreign ministry, the statement they issued, they said that it's iran's right to retaliate. they did not mention directly that iran will retaliate. so the signs you see there, many believe that iran does not want to further escalate the tension.

we have just had a line and from the israeli prime minister's office which says that israel shows in advance they attacked targets according to its national interests and not according to american diktats, so it was and so it will be, the statement says. this comes after what mr netanyahu's office says was completely false local television reports that israel had avoided striking iranian gas and oilfacilities because of us pressure. speaking as he boarded a plane to pittsburgh today us to pittsburgh today, us presidentjoe biden said he hoped this signalled the end of israel's retaliation against iran. i was on with the intelligence community for the last half—hour. it looks like they didn't hit anything other than military targets. my hope is this is the end. did you get a heads up from israel on the iran strike? did you get any heads up? yes. israeli forces have withdrawn from a hospital in northern gaza, a day after storming it.

these pictures from the ground show the damage from israeli attacks on the hospital. the world health organization has warned of a "catastrophic" situation at gaza's medical facilities. he prays. israel's military later said it had released the hospital's director, who in these pictures is seen mourning his eight—year—old son killed during the siege. 0ur middle east correspondent yolande knell has more from jerusalem. we've had some very strong condemnation of israel's ongoing military offensive in the very north of the gaza strip. particularly affected in the past few days has been the kamal adwan hospital, one of the few hospitals that's still functioning in gaza. and what we've been hearing is that the israeli raid, which began a day ago, is now over there, and that many

of the male medics who worked at the hospital have remained in israeli detention. some patients are detained as well. and there is footage which we can't yet verify that does show a lot of damage to the buildings of that hospital. and this is all against the backdrop of the new offensive that israel began in the north of the gaza strip some three weeks ago, saying that it was targeting hamas fighters who were regrouping there. the gazan ministry of health has said that some 800 people have been killed during that time, that shelters have been targeted, that places like jabalia, the urban refugee camp, hundreds of people have really been stuck there, besieged by israeli forces. and the icrc also came out saying that this

was extremely dire, the conditions that there are there, and really calling for people to be allowed to have safe passage to evacuate from those areas which are at the centre of this offensive. and a reminder you can get much more analysis online, including this article on why has israel attacked iran today and why the two nations are enemies. you can find that on the bbc news website or app. to georgia now, where partial to georgia now, where partial results from the parliamentary results from the parliamentary election have put the election have put the long—governing georgian dream long—governing georgian dream party in the lead. party in the lead. meanwhile, election observers meanwhile, election observers are reporting a number are reporting a number of violations, including ballot—stuffing, of violations, including ballot—stuffing, intimidation and violence intimidation and violence used against opposition monitors and journalists. used against opposition monitors and journalists. the vote in this particular the vote in this particular polling station was discounted. of the most important polling station was discounted. and these are the scenes and these are the scenes outside one of the polling outside one of the polling stations in the capital. stations in the capital. you can see that fists are you can see that fists are being thrown there. being thrown there.

the election is considered one the election is considered one of the most important parliamentary elections since independence from the soviet union more than 30 years ago. our correspondent in tbilisi, rayhan demytrie, has been updating me on the latest figures. the central election commission, it published preliminary results of the saturday's parliamentary election, announcing that the governing georgian dream received 52% of the vote. these are preliminary results.

pivotal this election is when it comes to the country looking either to the european union or to russia. incredibly important elections, highly anticipated. they have been described as the most important in georgia's modern history, because many believe that this country's future is at stake and that future either with the european union or with russia. although the governing georgian dream is saying, they've been campaigning with the message that this election is a choice between war and peace — suggesting that the opposition will somehow lead this country, get it involved, and drag it into ukraine's war — while they, the incumbents, are the guarantors of peace while they, the incumbents, are the guarantors of peace and stability in georgia. and that message, of course, resonates with a lot of people, given the previous conflicts with russia, given that 20% of this country is occupied by russia.

however, the opposition believes that the current government has been acting in the kremlin�*s interests by pushing certain narratives pro—kremlin narratives, and policies, including laws that were adopted earlier this year that caused big mass protests in the country. and they're saying that the governing party serves the interests of russia, while they, the opposition, promised that if they can form the coalition government, they can continue on georgia's kind of european integration. but for now, we still haven't heard any reaction from the opposition to these latest figures that were published by the central election commission. here, footage has emerged on social media appearing to show the labour mp for runcorn

and helsby — mike amesbury — pointing and swearing at a man on the ground in frodsham. let's take a look. you won't ever threaten me again, will you?— again, will you? the mp for runcorn! — it's not clear what happened before the video was taken. with me is our political correspondent, harry farley. what do we know about this incident? we should be clear about what we don't know, which is what led up to the incident. what we do know is that cheshire police were called to reports of an assault in frodsham just before 3am this morning. a caller reported that he was assaulted by a man on main street, we have located that video to main street in frodsham. cheshire police say inquiries are ongoing. police say inquiries are ongoing-— police say inquiries are onuaoin.~ . , ~ police say inquiries are onauoin. . , ~ ., police say inquiries are onauoin. . , ~ . ., ongoing. what is the mp had to sa ? ongoing. what is the mp had to say? mike _ ongoing. what is the mp had to say? mike amesbury _ ongoing. what is the mp had to say? mike amesbury said - ongoing. what is the mp had to say? mike amesbury said he i ongoing. what is the mp had to l say? mike amesbury said he felt threatened _ say? mike amesbury said he felt threatened in _ say? mike amesbury said he felt threatened in the _ say? mike amesbury said he felt threatened in the lead _ say? mike amesbury said he felt threatened in the lead up - say? mike amesbury said he felt threatened in the lead up to - threatened in the lead up to the incident and reported it himself to cheshire police and

he will be cooperating with the police if required. he adds that he is fully determined to remain as an open and accessible mp was those inquiries are ongoing. the labour party say they are aware of the incident, and i understand at the moment that he is not suspended and remains a labour mp. now it's time for a look at today's sport. lets start with saturday's games in the english premier league games where champions, manchester city are back at the top of the table after a 1—0 win over southampton. the only goal of the game was scored by erling haaland after just five minutes. southampton drop to the bottom of the table but city's win extends pep guardiola's side's unbeaten premier league .ecord to 32 games they defend with the ball. people believe if you have to defend it has to be with ten players behind the bar, but they depend with the ball and

they depend with the ball and they are one of the best teams in the premier league. we created a lot, and unfortunately we couldn't to score a second, with a credit to them. it is not because we were sloppy or flat. i don't have that feeling. sometimes they are good. we have to accept that. happy for that. elsewhere in the premier league, aston villa move up to third place after a 1—1 draw with bournemouth. newly—promoted ipswich are still looking for their first win of the season — they lost 4—3 to brentford. bryan mbuemo with a 96th minute goal. brighton could have moved into the top four but were held to a 2—2 draw by wolves with three of the four goals being scored in the last 10 minutes. wolves move off the

bottom of the table. everton drew 1—1 with fulham in the day's late game at goodison park. substitute striker beto with the equaliser for the home side. real madrid are facing their rivals barcelona in el clasico this evening. it's currently 0—0 at the bernabeu. elsewhere on saturday, villarreal are third in la liga after a 2—1 win over valladolid. and there were wins for rayo vallecano and las palmas. england have a suffered a chastening nine wicket defeat in rawalpindi to give a resurgent pakistan a 2—1 series win. yet again it was the hosts's spinners noman ali and sajid khan, who combined to dismiss england for 112 all out, their lowest ever total in pakistan.

it left the hosts needing just 36 runs. pakistan secured their first home series win in almost four years. but it's a third test loss in four matches for england we thought we could stay calm and patient we could get a result. new zealand have created history by winning a test series in india for the first time. mitchell santner was their star bowler in pune. he took six wickets, including the key one of virat kohli. india were chasing 359 to win but finished well short, all out for 245. it means new zealand end india's unbeaten home record that's lasted for 12 years, taking an unassailable 2—0 lead in the three test series. we are immensely proud to be in the position of winning test matches here. a lot of new zealand teams come here, and to be the first team to win a series over here is immensely special, and very proud of this group. jack draper is through to the final

of the vienna 0pen — it's the first time in his career that he's reached the final of an atp 500 tournament. earlier this year he won at atp 250 event in stuttgart. the us open semi finalist beat italy's lorenzo musetti, who was just above him in the rankings, in straight sets. draper had to hold off a second—set comeback from the world number 16 — it took him one hour and 48 minutes to win. the 22 year old will now face karen khachanov in the final after khachanov beat the second seed alex de minaur and that's all the sport for now. to the us. there are only ten days until the presidential election, and the campaign is rolling on with full force as milions of americans have already cast their vote in the early voting process. donald trump is in michigan — that's one of the seven key swing states either candidate could win — and called for americans to "dream big". it comes after his podcast withjoe rogan dropped — where he said his biggest

mistake as us president was appointing "bad" and "disloyal" officials. meanwhile, former first lady michelle obama is expected tojoin kamala harris in michigan very soon, less than 2a hours after the vice president was joined by beyonce at a rally in texas. trump and harris are neck and neck in the polls. the washington post has caused a stir after deciding not to publish an endorsement for the election. this marks the first time in 30 years that the paper has not endorsed a candidate, with the decision not to publish made by the paper's owner, amazon founder jeff bezos. it follows the la times' decision to not endorse harris, after the newspaper's owner blocked the plan to do so. let's speak to our correspondent who is in michigan for us at the democratic rally where michelle obama is expected to attend, bernd derbusmann. harris and trump really walked

in a fierce battle in that key swing state of michigan where you are? swing state of michigan where ou are? , ., swing state of michigan where ou are? , . ., you are? they are, and it really is _ you are? they are, and it really is one _ you are? they are, and it really is one of— you are? they are, and it really is one of the - you are? they are, and it really is one of the key i really is one of the key battleground states that could win or lose this election for both candidates. the last polling i have seen it suggested that harris was above by about one percentage point here in michigan, and i think thatis here in michigan, and i think that is reflected on how active they have been here. besides pennsylvania, this has been a state in which they campaigned most heavily. trump has been here 11 times. we are seeing the last final push.— here 11 times. we are seeing the last final push. and harris brinuain the last final push. and harris bringing out — the last final push. and harris bringing out the _ the last final push. and harris bringing out the star - the last final push. and harris bringing out the star power. l bringing out the star power. beyonce last night, michelle obama tonight? she beyonce last night, michelle obama tonight?— obama tonight? she is. for michelle obama, _ obama tonight? she is. for michelle obama, this - obama tonight? she is. for michelle obama, this is - obama tonight? she is. for michelle obama, this is her first time on the campaign trail since we heard speak at the democratic national convention in chicago over the summer, and i think there is a push by the harris campaign to use figures like beyonce or

michelle obama or barack obama to encourage people to get out the vote a few minutes ago, you might have heard them chanting if we vote we went, and that is the message we are hearing from her. they believe that and more people vote, they have a better chance of victory. it is people vote, they have a better chance of victory.— chance of victory. it is the issue for _ chance of victory. it is the issue for both _ chance of victory. it is the issue for both candidates | chance of victory. it is the i issue for both candidates in the swing states, they have to get people to come out and vote for them? , ., ~' get people to come out and vote for them?— for them? they do. i think you heard that _ for them? they do. i think you heard that from _ for them? they do. i think you heard that from both - for them? they do. i think you | heard that from both candidates in recent days. they really do think that both campaigns, for different reasons, they think that the more people could come out there and watch as they have a victory. things are very narrow. both campaigns are very aware how much of a role michigan played in the past. in the last election, biden won by under 3%. the last election, biden won by under3%. in the last election, biden won by under 3%. in 2016, the last election, biden won by under3%. in 2016, trumped by less than 1%. that helped propel both of those men to the white house, it is the success they will be hoping to achieve they will be hoping to achieve

the next ten days before the election. , , ., election. interestingly, donald trum - , election. interestingly, donald trum, i election. interestingly, donald trump, i mentioned _ election. interestingly, donald trump, i mentioned the - election. interestingly, donald trump, i mentioned the joe i trump, i mentioned thejoe rogan popcast and the introduction, he is particularly targeting areas where younger men are likely to be listening? he where younger men are likely to be listening?— be listening? he is, matter is an approach _ be listening? he is, matter is an approach she _ be listening? he is, matter is an approach she has - be listening? he is, matter is an approach she has been - be listening? he is, matter is. an approach she has been taking an approach she has been taking a lot of the he has also been on a podcast with theo vaughan, who is very popular with young men. this hasn't been targeted in any meaningful way in the past, but could be a key way to victory. men across the country are more likely to vote for trump and harris, and the trunk campaign knows that and is trying to make a last—ditch push for young men. and it really is too close to call if we believe pose? it is too close — call if we believe pose? it is

too close to _ call if we believe pose? it is too close to call _ call if we believe pose? it is too close to call nationally l too close to call nationally and in the battleground states, most polls have been tied or offend one or two percentage points of each other. it is very difficult to make predictions at this point, and speaking to supporters here at the harris rally, they are convinced she will win. i was at the trump rally last week, they are all convinced you all in. it is really quite difficult to paint a picture of where this is headed, but i think in the next ten days and on novemberfive we think in the next ten days and on november five we will have a much better idea of how this is going to go for the candidates. thank you very much forjoining us. she is posting on the live page we have up and running on the bbc news website and app. we will have all the latest from both candidates. stay with us on bbc news. hello there. skies will tend to clear overnight and that will allow temperatures to drop. so it's a chillier start for part two of the weekend. but we should see more sunshine around, certainly for england and wales. but even eastern scotland.

however, western scotland, northern ireland will start to see more wind and rain pushing in. i think for all areas after the cool start, it's going to be a little bit chillier than we've had the last few days. so as we head into saturday evening, this weather front, which has brought wet and windy weather to scotland and northern ireland, will sink southwards across england and wales as we move through the course of the night, but you'll notice it fizzles out as it does so. there'll be barely anything on it by the time it reaches south wales and southern england. a few blustery showers for western scotland. otherwise it's dry with clear skies, lighterwinds. it'll turn quite chilly for all areas, but a touch of frost likely for parts of scotla nd and northern ireland. and don't forget tonight the clocks go back one hour, so sunday morning then, it's a chilly start for all areas, particularly in the north. lots of sunshine. however, the winds pick up again across northern ireland and scotland, and cloud and rain starts to push in here. but parts of eastern scotland will see sunshine, england and wales doing pretty well with the sunshine into the afternoon, just tending to cloud up across northern and western areas. but a cooler day — ten to 13 or 1a degrees. as we move out of sunday into monday, with a couple

of fairly weak weather fronts across the country, more isobars as well for all areas. so i think it's going to be a fairly breezy day across the board. a lot of cloud around with some spots of rain. thanks to those weather fronts. i think most of the rain will tend to be across more northern and western areas. there will be some glimmers of brightness further east, certainly east of high ground and temperatures mild again — the mid to high teens. into tuesday, this area of high pressure starts to build in, so we lose the weather fronts and the isobars open out. so the winds will be lighter on tuesday and it should be mostly dry. could see a few showers just clearing the far southeast through the day. elsewhere, variable cloud, maybe a bit more sunshine around on tuesday afternoon. central, northern and eastern areas and again quite mild, mid to high teens. as we move through the week we hold on to high pressure, which brings fine and settled conditions. quite a bit of cloud around with some chilly nights and mist and fog, but we start to see low pressure digging into northern areas and that will bring

a change by the end of the week and into next weekend. so it's mild for most of this week until we reach the weekend, where it turns colder with northerly winds. take care.

this is bbc news, the headlines... iran plays down the impact of a series of israeli airstrikes overnight, saying the attacks caused only limited damage. us presidentjoe biden said it appears israel only struck military targets in iran.

israeli forces withdraw from a hospital in northern gaza a day after storming it. the world health organization head warns of a catastrophic situation at gaza's medical facilities. partial results from georgia's key parliamentary election have put the long—governing georgian dream party in the lead. the election is seen as pivotal as to whether georgia moves closer to the european union, or to russia. the race for the white house enters its final stages with only ten days to go until the election. donald trump tells americans to �*dream big' at a rally in michigan. michelle obama is set to campaign with kamala harris. now on bbc news, newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc.

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