here in the uk, labour insists it won't break its manifesto commitment on taxes, in this week's budget. new footage has emerged, appearing to show the labour mp mike amesbury involved in an altercation with a member of the public. georgia's president decries the �*total falsification�* of the election following allegations of intimidation at the ballot box. and coming up we meet bernard, believed to be the first vulture to have stem cell treatment for his arthritis. the leaders of israel and iran have made theirfirst public comments about israel's airstrikes on iran. iran's president told a cabinet meeting that tehran is not looking for war but will give an "appropriate response" to israel's airstrikes.

the number of people killed in israel's attack on iran has now risen to five, including a civilian. iran has called for an urgent meeting of the united nations security council to discuss the attack. iran's supreme leader said they should neither be downplayed nor exaggerated. speaking to an audience in tehran, the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei said iranian officials must decide how best to show iran's "power and capability." translation: well, they did something — translation: well, they did something wrong. _ translation: well, they did something wrong. of - translation: well, they did something wrong. of course l translation: well, they did - something wrong. of course they are exaggerating it. their exaggeration is wrong. but note that downplaying this as wrong as well. it is wrong to say it was trivial and not important. israel's prime minister says the airstrikes damaged iran's ability to defend itself and to produce missiles. addressing a memorial ceremony for soldiers who were killed during

and after the october 7th attacks, benjamin netanyahu said that israel �*fulfilled its promise' to retaliate against iranian attacks on its cities. we fulfilled our promise, we hit hard around's defence capabilities and its ability to produce missiles that are aimed at us. the attack on iran was precise and powerful, and achieve dollars its objectives. —— achieved all of its objectives. mr netanyahu has been heckled by the families of some of those killed in the october 7th attacks. he was speaking at another ceremony injerusalem which was being broadcast live when those attending interrupted him and shouted "shame on you". today marks the hebrew date of the one—year anniversary of the hamas attacks on israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others taken hostage.

let's speak to our middle east regional editor, sebastian usher, who is injerusalem. what's your assessment of what both iran's supreme leader and president have said about the attacks? i think their message is essentially that iran will not be rushed into any immediate open to protect response to what israel did, it was not immediately raised the stakes in this cycle of escalation in direct attacks between the two countries that we have seen over the positive month, which has put a new dangerous element into their long—running confrontation. what iran is saying is that it has the right to respond, it will make some kind of response, but the extent to what that response might be is very much keeping

under wraps, and probably has it come to any conclusion about that as yet. i think the decision will be based quite naturally on how big an impact the israeli strikes turn out to have had in iran's military capabilities. and also the casualties, as you are saying, that number has now risen to five with a civilian as well as for soldiers. presumably they will not be many more casualties that will be revealed or acknowledged in the coming days so i think at the moment the message from the iranian leadership is, we had this situation essentially under control, we haven't been badly hurt badly damaged, but this is something to which we must respond operable early respond to it in a way that meets our interests. netanyhu is saying it achieved all its objectives. yes, those objectives were perhaps more limited than some of the more ambitious potential

targets that had me talked about before the strikes took place, where incel go after the economic infrastructure oil feels nuclear facilities —— israel might go after. it doesn't seem to have done so, and that may be to some extent due to us pressure, although it is interesting to see that before netanyahu spoke, his office had issued a statement hours ago saying that it had done exactly what it meant to done exactly what it meant to do without any outside pressure. his message was essentially echoing what the israeli military had already said that it had fulfilled its mission. i think the feeling here in israel amongst many across the practice politicians who very rarely agree about many matters that this was a relatively satisfactory job. some feel it didn't go far enough, some feel there should just be the first step in what

israel does next. i think it is almost certain that israel will do more but i think the way that it works at the moment is that it works at the moment is that the dynamic lies with israel, israel is able to up the stakes both with iran, hamas, his brother, other enemies it feels it is fighting for its existence on a number of rows —— hezbollah. and all of rows —— hezbollah. and all of the enemies are weaker than if militarily, politically, evenin if militarily, politically, even in terms of unity. and that therefore they can keep pushing them and particularly iran, pushing, pushing iran and that iran will make a mistake which will reveal its weakness, notjust which will reveal its weakness, not just to the world, which will reveal its weakness, notjust to the world, notjust israel but its own people, and israel but its own people, and israel been trying to push this, netanyahu addressed the iranian people and said, our fight is not with you, making a separation between the israeli authorities and the israeli people —— iranian people. many

of whom have staged mass protest against the iranian government and want to see and into it. —— and end to it. we stay in the middle east. a truck has been driven into a bus stop near tel aviv in israel, killing one person and injuring at least thirty others. the incident happened as a bus was dropping off passengers outside a military base in central israel. police said the truck driver was shot dead by armed civilians. our correspondent lucy williamson has sent this update from the scene. police are telling us that most of the injured were passengers on this bus. many of them were pensioners on a day trip to a nearby museum, and they'd just been dropped off when this truck rammed into them. one eyewitness said it rammed into people with full force and that some people were left trapped underneath the truck. the driver was shot dead by a civilian at the scene, and the police are telling us they're treating this as a terror investigation, and that the driver had an israeli id, lived not far away from here.

israel is already fighting its enemies on multiple fronts, but this raises a different kind of question — how to keep its people safe from attackers already living inside israel who use vehicles as weapons. lucy williamson, bbc news, near herzliya. as israel's bombardment of lebanon continues, the death toll is soaring. around 2,000 people have been killed in the past five weeks, and more than a million have been driven from their homes. the israel defence force says it is "operating against the hezbollah terrorist organisation, not the lebanese people," but the us has said that "civilian casualties have been far too high." our senior international correspondent orla guerin reports from beirut about one civilian victim, a two—year—old girl called ivana, who was badly wounded in the south. you may find orla's report distressing to watch. cries too small for the bed. too young for such pain.

this is iva na. cries she has third degree burns on almost half her body. her father mohammad tries to comfort her. cries. bravo! this was ivana before the israeli airstrike, playing happily in a home video. her father says she looked like this, a normal baby. then the attack came on september 23rd without warning. all of her was black, he says. black. because of the missile dust. i carried her. something in the house was exploding.

the ceiling was falling. i didn't know what was happening. this is their village in southern lebanon, and on the right the family home. they had packed the car to flee, but israel hit first. ivana was playing on the balcony when a missile landed. israel says it's targeting hezbollah, not the lebanese people. her seven—year—old sister, rahaf, also injured. she's now out of hospital, but both girls may carry their trauma through life. ivana is in the burns unit of the geitaoui hospital in beirut. every day they get calls asking them to take more patients. they only have room for the worst cases. ii—year—old mohammad is now stable.

he keeps track of the war from his hospital bed. the israeli strike that burnt him flattened a multi—story apartment block. the health system here is under massive pressure and under attack. ambulances have been hit. paramedics have been killed. doctors like ziad sleiman take hope from patients like ivana. she is so cute, so nice, so brave. when changing the dressing, she does not shout. she looks at everybody, so she sees everybody. and i think she knows everything. she's so small. she's so cute. she's strong. she's strong, she's so strong. she's so strong, so cute. so small, but so strong. so strong. so strong, the doctor says, that she'll be discharged

in about ten days' time. but the airstrikes continue, and ivana will remain at risk like children across lebanon. orla guerin, bbc news, beirut. breaking news. this all comes afterfresh breaking news. this all comes after fresh cctv footage has emerged appearing to show mike amesbury involved in an altercation with a member of the public in cheshire. it is not known what had happened in the run—up to the incident. join now in the sugar by our political correspondent harry, what is the breaking news? ,., . harry, what is the breaking news? . , . harry, what is the breaking news? ., , ., ., news? got a statement from the labour party. — news? got a statement from the labour party. says _ news? got a statement from the labour party, says that - news? got a statement from the labour party, says that mike - labour party, says that mike amesbury has been suspended

pending an investigation that means he will also lose the labour whip means he will also lose the labourwhip in means he will also lose the labour whip in the house of commons, the full statement reads, mike amesbury has been assisting cheshire police with their inquiries following an incident on friday night. as these inquiries are ongoing, these inquiries are ongoing, the labour party has administratively suspended mike amesbury�*s membership of the labour party pending an investigation. this follows new video that emerged today seemingly from security camera footage that appeared to show mike amesbury punching a man in the street. two men exchanged words and the labour mp hits the man in the jaw and knocked into the ground. mike amesbury appears to continue to punch him a further five times while he is on the floor before members of the public intervene. that follows separate video footage that emerged yesterday of the altercation, that showed mike amesbury shouting at a man who was already on the ground and it was not clear at that point what had led up to the incident. cheshire police are making inquiries, they say they

were called to report on an assault from 3m saturday, and, they had been trying to get a hold of him, he hasn't responded to requests for comment but yesterday he said he felt threatened before the incident and he reported it to the police himself on saturday and would cooperate with their inquiries. and would cooperate with their inuuiries. . ~ and would cooperate with their inuuiries. ., ~ ,, and would cooperate with their inuuiries. ., ~ , ., ., inquiries. thank you, that breaking _ inquiries. thank you, that breaking news, _ inquiries. thank you, that breaking news, the - inquiries. thank you, that| breaking news, the labour inquiries. thank you, that- breaking news, the labour mp mike amesbury has been suspended by the labour party. while that investigation into that incident continues. here, another minister has insisted that the labour government will not break its manifesto commitment on taxes and that working people would not see higher taxes "on their payslip" in wednesday's budget. but in an interview with the bbc, the education secretary bridget phillipson was repeatedly pressed on what labour's definition of a "working" person is. our chief economics correspondent dharshini david takes a look at who's likely to be affected by wednesday's announcements. rachel reeves's budget will be

the first meeting chancellor, once she claims will lead to economic renewal but it may include some measures that could see many workers paying more tax from their income regardless of the government's definition of a working person. first the budget will boil down to this. two targets, she set herself to hit in five years' time. what she calls the investment ruled that she can only borrow to fund a project such as building hospitals or rows, which aim to boost growth. second, all services like education must be funded through income such as taxes. she may have to find £40 billion to fund those priorities. bottom player? let's start with that investment rule. likejeremy investment rule. like jeremy hunt, investment rule. likejeremy hunt, racialabuse investment rule. likejeremy hunt, racial abuse has promised that debt will be falling in five years, as in this forecast —— rachel reeves. the definition of debt from blue to the red line, she could borrow more but only for those longer term projects and not by a huge

amount to avoid boring because escalating. that still leaves 20- £30 escalating. that still leaves 20— £30 billion of possible tax rises to go towards boosting the nhs and avoid other public services like local government being squeezed. the manifesto has already revealed some policies, including vat on school fees, and others may be aimed at the assets of the better of changes to capital gains tax but those do not raise very much. the national insurance contributions employers pay may arise. raising concerns about the impact onjobs and raising concerns about the impact on jobs and wages. the education secretary claimed today people's payslips will not be hit by tax rises. abs, not be hit by tax rises. working person is someone who derived their main income from going out to work, and coming out of this budget people in that category will not see higher taxes on their payslips. is that true? well, the government has ruled out raising rates of income tax, national insurance, vat and

corporation tax. but millions may see more tax still being taken out of their pay if rachel reeves extends an existing policy of fiscal drag, freezing the threshold at which different rates of tax on income apply. a typical worker could actually pay over £100 more in tax by 2030. feel duty also could rise, again after being frozen forever in decade, something that will affect many people who work. rachel reeves has called their a budget for stripers, but fulfilling her pledges on public services and investment may mean most of us are likely to feel the pinch, at least in the short—term. to georgia now, and in the past hour the president has said that she does not recognise the results of saturday's pivotal election and that georgians have fallen victim to a russian special operation during their election. salome zourabichvili spoke of a "total falsificaytion"

of the election. surrounded by opposition leaders, she called on people to gather on monday evening outside parliament in tbilisi to protest. it comes as the european union called on the electoral authorities in georgia to swiftly investigate reports of irregulates after the ruling georgia dream was declared the winner of saturday's elections. the european council president, charles michel, said the probe must be transparent and independent. let's speak to our south caucasus and 1539 00:18:28,09