a bus stop north of tel aviv. labour mp mike amesbury has been suspended from the party as new footage emerged, appearing to show him in an altercation with a member of the public. the georgian president has rejected the ruling party's announcement that it won saturday's election, saying the country had been the victim of a russian special operation. and nine days away from the us election, kamala harris attends church in philadelphia whilst donald trump will be at a rally later in new york. 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. and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that his military�*s air strike on iran on friday night achieved all its objectives.

our middle east correspondent lucy williamson's report contains scenes viewers may find distressing. for iranian crowds, responding to israel is simple. the slogan "death to israel" hasn't changed for generations. but for iranian leaders in this new era of direct confrontation, the question of how to respond is far more complex. the consequences far more unsure. iran's supreme leader said israel's bombing of military sites this week was an evil act. translation: of course they are exaggerating it. | their exaggeration is wrong. but downplaying this is wrong too. it is wrong to say it was trivial and not important. israel's conflict with iran is just one front in a wider regional war.

at a memorial ceremony for israeli victims today, the prime minister said the recent strike on iran was precise and powerful and achieved all its goals. harder, perhaps, to tackle threats at home. a truck driven at speed into a bus full of pensioners arriving to visit a military base. the driver shot and killed moments before this video was filmed by a passenger. police say the driver had an israeli id and lived half an hour's drive from here. israel is already fighting wars with its enemies on multiple fronts, but incidents like this highlight its vulnerability at home and raise the question of how to protect against attack by those already living inside israel who use vehicles as weapons. police say they're treating this as a terror attack. old threats here resurfacing amid fresh

fears that israel's wars are coming home. lucy williamson, bbc news, in central israel. with me is parham ghobadi from bbc persian. i'm interested in your assessment of what the iranian president and supreme leader have been saying.— have been saying. iranian suweme _ have been saying. iranian supreme leader's - have been saying. iranian i supreme leader's statement today was extremely uncharacteristic of him because he is the commander—in—chief in iran. he has been the major decision—maker when it comes to the most significant decisions in iran, such as ballistic missile drone programmes, and also the nuclear programme. however today, the buck stops with him if there is a strike against israel. today he said that, he delegated decision to iranian authorities and iranian

officials, he said that those are the ones who have to assess the situation and make the best course of action and most appropriate action against israeli strikes. that is quite an characteristic of him because he is the kind of person and a kind of leader that in the past three decades, he was involved even in appointing iranian foreign ministers are iranian intelligence ministers, not directly saying he advises, but his advice should be taken actually seriously.- his advice should be taken actually seriously. what you think is going _ actually seriously. what you think is going on? _ actually seriously. what you think is going on? he - actually seriously. what you think is going on? he is - actually seriously. what you i think is going on? he is using a technique — think is going on? he is using a technique i've _ think is going on? he is using a technique i've never - think is going on? he is using a technique i've never seen . a technique i've never seen before, being ambiguous, and i think there can be multiple interpretations. it is either because they don't want to retaliate so he wants to say that this is the decision that the iranian officials made, not me, i'm a strong man, i would have made different. or even if iran retaliates and things go wrong, he could criticise the

iranian officials and authorities saying that these were not the decisions i made, so he could be critical. d0 were not the decisions i made, so he could be critical.- so he could be critical. do you have any _ so he could be critical. do you have any idea _ so he could be critical. do you have any idea of _ so he could be critical. do you have any idea of what - so he could be critical. do youj have any idea of what damage was done by israel's strikes? that is an important question because one of the most important things was the s 300 defence systems that iran had. isaac important? these are the best, they are old but the best iran has. it took iran almost ten years, nine years to buy them from russia. russia kept procrastinating and selling them, they bought them ten years ago. imagine what we know from ten years ago, the russian —based news agency at the time said they sold for batteries of x300. what the new york times reports is that all these for batteries of x300 had been totally destroyed. which if true is a major blow to iranian

defence systems and that paves the way probably bought later strikes, if israel decides to strikes, if israel decides to strike iranian territory again. thank you. benjamin 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. it comes as egypt's president, abdel fattah el—sisi, proposes an initial two—day ceasefire in gaza to exchange four israeli hostages with some palestinian prisoners. mr el—sisi was speaking in cairo as israel's spy chief, the director of the cia, and qatar's prime minister meet in doha to prepare for new talks for a ceasefire and hostage release deal.

let's speak to giddy grinstein — he worked on israel's peace negotiations with the palestinian liberation organisation under prime minister ehud barak from 1999 to 2001, and was at the camp david summit with plo leader yasser arafat and then us president bill clinton in 2000. what do you make of these latest proposals for talks? the war in gaza is reaching a kind of decision—making point for israel because hamas military capabilities had been largely eliminated, we're seeing that a lot of the posies in gaza, soldiers are basically not being significantly engaged in military activities. there is the challenge of bringing

back the hostages. as well as connecting what we call the day after with the political horizon, also the economic dimension of the reconstruction of gaza with the political future, not only of israel's relations with gaza but up israel's negotiations with the palestinians, other which needs to be brought together, but at the moment into her the goal of the moment into her the goal of the talks is to find out if on hamas there is an address that they could negotiate. until now israel's proposition was quite difficult, which is, let's do a hostage deal, give us the hostages but then we will nonetheless try to kill you. so the incentive they are doing the incentive they are doing the deal wasn't that powerful. as well as there was other impediments. now that the commander is dead, hopefully there is a new avenue for engaging with hamas leadership to get a small deal to

establish the avenue of communication in order to be able to move further with broader hostage exchange, and possibly also a ceasefire and ending the war. 50 possibly also a ceasefire and ending the war.— possibly also a ceasefire and ending the war. so you think it will be something _ ending the war. so you think it will be something small - ending the war. so you think it will be something small that i will be something small that the two sides can agree on, hoping that it will lead to something more substantial? the e: tian something more substantial? tue: egyptian proposal something more substantial? tte: egyptian proposal is definitely small. what we heard in israel tonight is that they are talking about a few days of a ceasefire, release of four hostages in exchange for some palestinian prisoners. this is a very small deal. but the goal is to re—establish the channel of communications that have been broken down over the last few months. a few weeks and months. ~ ., , few months. a few weeks and months. ~ . , , ., �*, months. what is israel's long-term _ months. what is israel's long-term exit - months. what is israel's long-term exit plan? i months. what is israel's l long-term exit plan? that months. what is israel's - long-term exit plan? that is the subject _ long-term exit plan? that is the subject of— long-term exit plan? that is the subject of a _ long-term exit plan? that is the subject of a significant . the subject of a significant debate. there is the far right in israel that wants to resettle in gaza, there was a recent conference on the gaza

border with the participation of members of the ruling party about the resettlement of gaza. but the government, netanyahu and the people around him, they are in a different place. they are in a different place. they are speaking about creating some sort of bubbles primarily in northern gaza where humanitarian aid could be provided, through collaboration with local clans and families that will deliver the aid and stabilise the area, a regime that will gradually be extended into the gaza strip. personally i don't believe that this model can work. i do believe that the only way forward is that it some point israel acknowledges that the plo or the pa and the representatives of the palestinian people and to engage with them in order to invite an international force with significant participation, american support, participation of the uae in order to deploy

in gaza, re—establish law and order and begin determined as task of the reconstruction of gaza. ., ~ task of the reconstruction of gaza. . ~ ,, task of the reconstruction of gaza-_ -- - task of the reconstruction of gaza._ -- begin l task of the reconstruction of l gaza._ -- begin the gaza. thank you. -- begin the monumental— gaza. thank you. -- begin the monumental task. _ in the last hour, the labour mp mike amesbury has been suspended from the party, pending an investigation. it comes as fresh cctv footage emerged, appearing to show mike amesbury involved in an altercation with a member of the public in cheshire. seperate video came to light yesterday, showing the mp swearing at a man on the ground in the early hours of saturday morning. it's not known what had happened in the run up to the incident. our political correspondent harry farley has the latest. statement from the labour party, it says that mike amesbury has been suspended pending an investigation. that means he will also lose the labour whip in the house of commons. the full statement reads, "mike amesbury mp has been assisting cheshire police with their enquiries following an incident on friday night. as these inquiries are now ongoing, the labour party has administratively suspended mr amesbury�*s membership

of the labour party pending an investigation." as you say, 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 then the labour mp hits the man in the jaw and knocks him to the ground. mr amesbury then appears to continue to punch him a further five times while he's on the floor, before members of the public intervene. and that follows, as you mentioned, separate video footage that emerged yesterday of the altercation and that showed mr amesbury shouting at a man who was already on the ground. and it wasn't clear at that point what had led up to the incident. cheshire police are making enquiries. they say they were called to reports of an assault just before 3am on saturday morning. and mike amesbury, we've been trying to get hold of him today. he hasn't responded to our request for comment today, but yesterday he said he had felt threatened before the incident. he said that he reported it to the police himself on saturday

and would cooperate with their inquiries. and in the past few minutes cheshire police have released a statement saying, "a 55—year—old man has been voluntarily interviewed under caution by police in relation to this incident. he has since been released pending further enquiries." to georgia now, and 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 falsification" 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.

our correspondent rayhan demytrie has been telling me about the mood in the capital tbilisi, and about the reaction to the georgia's president adress. well, she addressed the georgians from her palace here in downtown tbilisi. she was surrounded by all the leaders of the opposition that refused to accept the outcome of saturday's vote, and she also claimed that... she said, citing widespread irregularities, she said that she also refused to recognise the legitimacy of saturday's parliamentary election. she thanked all the people who she said supported georgia's european future and urged people to come out and protest outside parliament on monday evening to defend their constitutional right to free and fair elections

and also to defend their vote. she accused russia of interference and said that recognising saturday's election would equal "recognising russia's entry" into georgia. so, indeed, very strong words from president salome zourabichvili. she is, however, a ceremonial president in this country. but in recent months, she really kind of became this figure who has been championing georgia's european integration. and a lot of the opposition parties, they kind of gathered around her, and now these strong words from her, because after the election results on saturday night, voters, they've been expecting to hear from the opposition leaders.

initially, opposition parties were kind of celebrating their victory when exit polls were announced. but then once the official results came through and they put the governing georgian dream party in the lead with 54% of the vote, the opposition parties were kind of silent. they were thinking about their next moves. one of the opposition coalitions earlier today, they said that they will refuse their parliamentary mandates. and now it looks like the president, and the opposition, of course, called for their supporters to come out and defend their votes in the streets. the greek coastguard says that it has rescued 40 migrants from the sea off the island of samos. officials say they received reports of a number of people in the sea. the rescued migrants were picked up from the water or found and rescued from rocky parts of the the area near the beach.

those who were rescued have been handed over to the police. a tropical storm has made landfall on vietnam's central coast, bringing hevy rain and flooding, with some roads submerged by half a metre of water. powerful winds have knocked down trees and damaged roofs on several buildings. the central highlands, vietnam's main coffee—growing region, are in the storm's path. four airports have been closed. earlier, trami hit the philippines, where at least 100 people died and nearly half a million had to evacuate. we are nowjust nine days away from the us presidential election and the campaigning began early on sunday for kamala harris. she made a morning stop at a philadelphia church. addressing the congregation at the church of christian compassion she said, "joy cometh in the morning, and morning is on its way," seemingly alluding to a potential victory on november the 5th. philadelphia is a largely

democratic city, but turnout from these voters will be essential to harris's success in winning the state and potentially winning the white house. kamala harris gave a wide—ranging interview to our us partner network cbs on sunday morning. speaking to norah o'donnell, the vice president repeated her pledge to restore abortion rights nationwide. here's a little clip from the interview. we would not be debating this if donald trump had not hand—selected three members of the united states supreme court with the intention they would undo the protections of roe v wade. and what we have seen, as demonstrated last night and every day these last two years, is extraordinary harm that has occurred in america, where women have died because of trump abortion bans, where women who have survived rape and girls incest. and no exception for someone whose body has been violated to make a decision about what happens to their body next.

we have seen women who are experiencing a miscarriage around a pregnancy they prayed for and being denied health care because doctors are afraid they're going to go to prison, and those women developing sepsis. we have seen extraordinary harm and pain and suffering happen because of what donald trump did in intending and effectuating an overturning of roe v wade. yes, my first priority is to put back in place those protections and to stop this pain and to stop this injustice that is happening around our country. donald trump will be in new york this evening for a rally. this is the scene live at madison square gardens where supporters are already gathering, where he'll be joined by supporters like elon musk, former fox tv host tucker carlson, and former presidential candidate robert f kenneder. but it's unlikely he can win the state which last backed

a republican president in 1984. mr trump's running mate, jd vance, appeared on some of the us sunday morning talk shows and called his running mate a "candidate of peace". he was asked on nbc�*s meet the press about russian president vladimir putin. take a listen. when you say that he's an adversary, just to get back to the question, you're not willing to go so far as to call him an enemy. well, we're not in a war with him, and i don't want to be in a war with vladimir putin's russia. i think that we should try to pursue avenues of peace. i'd also call china certainly a competitor. but we're not in a war with china either. i do think, though, that china constitutes the biggest threat that we have for the united states of america. and i think that we have to be serious about it. but i think we have to be careful about the language that we use in international diplomacy. we can recognise, obviously, that we have adversarial interests with russia. we can condemn russia's invasion of ukraine,

and i have, and of course the president has. with nine days to go, the polls are still very tight. if you draw out the overall trends, rather than the individual points, you can see in the national polls vice president kamala harris's lead has been slipping and is now down to around a single point. but the national vote share won't determine the winner. let's turn to the seven battleground states that could be decisive in this election. trump's poll leads in north carolina, arizona, and georgia, you can see them at the bottom of the screen, are between one and two points. other states like nevada, wisconsin, and pennsylvania are even tighter. but none of the leads we're seeing are bigger than the margins of error that come with all polls. live to washington and our north america correspondent rowan bridge1. we saw kamala harris at that philadelphia church. how crucial do you think her engagement with faith communities will be in mobilizing voters in pennsylvania,

especially in a tight race? as you were saying, the issue that both sides face is that we are in a statistical tie, nationally, and in those key swing states like pennsylvania where kamala harris is. what is interesting is notjust that she was at a church but that she was at a church but that she was a black church. that is about energising a particular section of the democratic vote, the black vote, which is big for the democrats in cities like pittsburgh and philadelphia. what they are trying to do is energise those voters to drive up the vote in the big cities in pennsylvania where they know they are strongest, to try and offset donald trump us strength out on a more rural areas of pennsylvania where he is stronger, and there hoping that by driving up their vote in the cities and gaining some votes in the suburbs and a few in the

rural areas, that will be enough to tip the balance in somewhere like pennsylvania which is perhaps the keir starmer those key swing states. —— the most key of those states. trump in new york later — not a swing state — why there? he is at madison square garden which is perhaps the most iconic venue in new york city. there is a number of reasons he is there. first and foremost donald trump is a showman and he will love the razzmatazz and the celebrity that goes around, the celebrity that goes around, the iconic nature of appearing somewhere like madison square garden. also this is a sort of entertainment event, if you look at who is on the guest list. elon musk, hulk hogan, the chief executive of ultimate fighting, this is as close as it gets to showbiz razzmatazz for the conservative sector of the electorate. part of it is just about he knows he will get a lot of publicity by doing this and also part of it is

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