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. a video has emerged appearing to show labour mp mike amesbury shouting and swearing at a man who is lying on the pavement during an apparent disturbance in cheshire. partial results in georgia suggest the governing party has won a key parliamentary election, as both main sides claim victory. and michelle obama is set to campaign with kamala harris as donald trump tells americans to "dream big" with 10 days to go until the us presidential election.

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 will mark "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. and russia blamed israel 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. will be calm 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 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. iran's mission to the un says israeli warplanes attacked iran from iraqi airspace, blaming the united states for what it called its complicity. iran's armed forces have also released a statement. parham ghobadi from bbc persian has more on the iranian reaction. 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. and what has been the reaction as far as you can tell from people living in tehran? is the first time in a very long time that israeli strikes have hit there. ., , ., , there. for me personally, it was surreal _ there. for me personally, it was surreal to _ there. for me personally, it was surreal to see - there. for me personally, it was surreal to see the - there. for me personally, it was surreal to see the skies there. for me personally, it. was surreal to see the skies of tehran, the explosions taking place in tehran, because the last time i heard that i was only six years old and it was in the 80s during the iran— iraq war. and i am over a0 years old, and to see those explosions, it hasn't been that for 35 years many people texting me saying that... for

example, the iranian currency value has increased, because it didn't lead to a full—blown war, and that is why the iranian currency instead of dropping this time increased. in a statement, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's office said that israel had chosen the targets it attacked in iran based on its national interests, not according to what was dictated by the united states. speaking as he boarded a plane to pittsburgh today, us presidentjoe biden said he hoped the strikes marked "the end" of hostilities. 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.

a little hard to hear what he was saying. 0ur north america correspondent rowan bridgejoins us from washington dc. what else of officials had to say about the strikes? i think there will _ say about the strikes? i think there will be _ say about the strikes? i think there will be a _ say about the strikes? i think there will be a sense - say about the strikes? i think there will be a sense of - say about the strikes? i think there will be a sense of relief in the white house over the nature of them. they have described the attack as proportionate and precise strikes. what they were wary of and trying to avoid and apply pressure on israel over is that they did not want israel attacking their nuclear installations or their oil supplies, because they thought that would escalate the situation. i think the feeling from the white house is that their hope is this will draw a line under the matter, and that they will be able to move on from it. they have also warned iran as a kind of stick that there will be consequences, which is they didn't really go into, if iran decides to strike back. ., . ., , ,, back. how much does the us election play _

back. how much does the us election play into _ back. how much does the us election play into this - back. how much does the us election play into this and . election play into this and whether, for example, donald trump wins the election and his relationship with benjamin neta nyahu ? relationship with benjamin netanyahu? i relationship with ben'amin netanyahuvfi relationship with ben'amin netan ahu? ., �* netanyahu? i thinkjoe biden has a somewhat _ netanyahu? i thinkjoe biden has a somewhat difficult - netanyahu? i thinkjoe biden has a somewhat difficult and | netanyahu? i thinkjoe biden l has a somewhat difficult and at times strange relationship with benjamin netanyahu, and donald trump has certainly appeared much more vociferous if you like in his support of the israelis, or in terms of benjamin netanyahu, and his approach. having said all that, i think the key thing about this is the arab— american vote in the native states could be key to deciding the selection. donald trump is in michigan campaigning there, because he knows that the arab—american vote is one that could decide type that state schools will stop arab—american voters, certainly a section of them, are very unhappy with the biden and by extension harris white house because they see it as

being too supportive towards israel, as they see it, not supportive enough towards arabs in gaza and lebanon.— let's speak to barbara slavin. she is a distinguished fellow at the stimson centre — a nonpartisan global peace think tank — in washington, dc. thank you very much forjoining us on bbc news. i wonder if i could first ask you what you make of the scope of israel's attack and their target? first of all, thank _ attack and their target? first of all, thank you _ attack and their target? first of all, thank you for - attack and their target? first of all, thank you for having l of all, thank you for having me. i think for once, the israelis have actually listened to the united states, and this was a calibrated response, it was a calibrated response, it was proportionate, it went after military targets will stop it was not deliberately provocative. it was done in the middle of the night on a weekend, so at a time when there would be fewer people presumably in those facilities.

the iranians have said four people were killed, but it could have been much worse if the timing had been different. it was also timed in a way not to attract that much attention in the united states. it sort of began just as most americans were turning off their televisions for the evenings. i woke up this morning, and i felt somewhat relieved that it was not heavier than it was. the big question now is what will iran do next? what do you think it might do? i will iran do next? what do you think it might do?— think it might do? i don't think it might do? i don't think they _ think it might do? i don't think they will _ think it might do? i don't think they will do - think it might do? i don't. think they will do anything much right now. as your previous speakers have pointed out, everyone is waiting for our elections, and i think the biden administration understood that israel was going to retaliate and wanted them to sort of get it over with in advance of our elections. now we will have to wait and see if kamala harris wins, and i think that will affect is and iranian decision—making. even though

the israelis are sounding very confident, they have a lot on my hands already, they have to be concerned there be more pressure particularly from a harris administration to end the gas are war and the lebanon war if she wins —— gaza war. of course, biden would have a freer hand. if it is trump, he has given a lot of conflicting signals. 0n the one hand, he has told the israelis to attack iran's nuclear facilities, has told the israelis to attack iran's nuclearfacilities, and iran's nuclear facilities, and on iran's nuclearfacilities, and on the other he is courting muslim votes in america. i'm not sure he would come down on all this. in not sure he would come down on all this. , ., all this. in the past, iran would maybe _ all this. in the past, iran would maybe use - all this. in the past, iran would maybe use its - all this. in the past, iran - would maybe use its proxies to target israel, but of course because of the war in the middle east, hamas and hezbollah both degrade it? iran is now reaping _ hezbollah both degrade it? i'a'i is now reaping the bitter fruit of its policies of encouraging these groups in the so—called

axis of resistance. they were supposed to protect the iranian homeland, and instead their actions, particularly by hamas of last october, have dragged a run in. as your previous speakers pointed out, iran is no suffering attacks on its homeland in a way that it has not since the 1980s. i think iran needs to do a major rethink of its strategy. it is trying really hard to improve relations with arab states like saudi arabia or the united arab emirates, and if this were managed properly, one could see perhaps some very productive this policy coming out of it that would de—escalate. —— productive diplomacy. it will take a lot of work, and i'm not sure the biden administration is capable of at work right now. ., ~' is capable of at work right now. . ~ , ., is capable of at work right now. ., ~ , ., y is capable of at work right now. . ~ ,, , . is capable of at work right now. ., ~' ,, y . ., now. thank you very much for our now. thank you very much for your insight — now. thank you very much for your insight here. _ 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 results from the parliamentary election have put the long — governing georgian dream election have put the long—governing georgian dream party in the lead. the election is seen as a pivotal moment, as whether georgia remains close to russia or moves closer to the european union and western partners. meanwhile, election observers are reporting a number of violations, including ballot—stuffing, intimidation and violence used against opposition monitors and journalists. the vote in this particular polling station was discounted. and these are the scenes outside one of the polling stations in the capital. you can see violence there. 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. and the opposition, the combined vote for opposition stands at less than a0%. there are still more vote counting to be done. it is being done manually, as it was reported by the head of the central election commission. but this is the picture for now. earlier today, when polls closed and exit polls were published by both the pro—government media and the opposition media, both sides were celebrating victory. however, now we haven't yet heard any reaction from the opposition to these latest figures that came from the central election commission. and just explain to our audience worldwide just how 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 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. she mentioned we hadn't had any reaction as she was speaking, but this is the same life into pc where the opposition, the united national movement, are just starting a news conference. we will keep an ear across that and bring you any lines on that reaction to the current vote with those

election results in georgia. now it's time for a look at today's sport with carthy. hello from the bbc sport centre. we will get to a very interesting game in spain's la liga in a moment. let's 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 record to 32 games. they defend with the ball. people believe defending means ten players behind the ball but you can defend with the ball and they are really good, one of the best teams in the premier league but we create a lot and unfortunately we could not score the second but big credit to them. not because we were sloppy orflat, i don't have that feeling. i think we were there. sometimes they are good. we have to accept that. and be 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 a—3 to brentford. bryan mbeumo 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. around one hour gone and barcelona have the lead — robert lewandowski with both goals in two minutes. kylian mbappe had the ball in the net but was ruled offside by var.

also this saturday, villarreal are in third place 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' 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. last couple of tests have thrown us a challenge and i think it is pretty easy to assess that. we could not stand up to the challenges thrown at us. but the great thing about sport is that those challenges are always going to come along. throughout this tour, particularly the last two games we were not able to match what pakistan threw at us. a very quick turnaround to another challenge in new zealand, we need to put behind the disappointment

of these last games and move on to new zealand. 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 2a5. it means new zealand end india's unbeaten home record that's lasted for 12 years. they take an unassailable 2—0 lead in the three test series. 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 an 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 a8 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. 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. you won't ever threaten me aaain. ~ ., . ., it's not clear what happened before the video was taken. 0ur political correspondent has been following the story. we should be clear about what we don't know first of all, which is what happened immediately before what we saw in that video, ie what led up to the incident. what we do know is that cheshire police say they were called to reports of an assault in frodsham just before 3am this morning. at 2:a8am, they say a caller reported that he was assaulted by a man on main street.

and we have located that video to main street in frodsham. and cheshire police say inquiries are ongoing. so what has the mp himself had to say? so, mike amesbury said that he felt threatened in the build up to the incident. he said that he reported the incident himself to cheshire police this morning, and that he said he will be cooperating with the police if required. and he adds that he's fully determined to remain as an open and accessible mp while those inquiries are ongoing. labour party also say they're aware of the incident and i understand that at the moment mr amesbury is not suspended, so he remains a labour mp. you can get more of that and the rest of the day's news on the rest of the day's news on the bbc news website or app. stay with us here 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. a video has emerged appearing to show labour mp mike amesbury shouting and swearing at a man lying on shouting and swearing