labour mp mike amesbury has been suspended from the party as new footage emerges, 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 this is the scene live in new york — where donald trump is due to speak at madison square gardens. with just nine days to go — till the us presidential election. hello. welcome to the programme. the leaders of israel and iran have made their first public comments about israel's air strikes on iran.

iran's president, masoud pezeshkiani, told a cabinet meeting that tehran is not looking for war but will give an "appropriate response" to israel's airstrikes. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that his military�*s air strike on iran achieved all its objectives. our first report this hour is from our middle east correspondent lucy williamson. you may find some scenes in it 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. for an assessment of what iran's supreme leader had to say about the israeli strikes, we heard from parham ghobadi from bbc persian. he is the commander in chief in iran, and he has been the major decision maker when it comes to the most significant decisions in iran, such as ballistic missile drone programs and also the nuclear program in iran. however, today... and the buck stops with him if, for example, there is a strike against israel. however, today he said that he delegated the 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 the most appropriate action against israeli strike, which is quite uncharacteristic of him, because he's the kind of person and the kind of leader that in the past, over three decades that he's been ruling iran, he was involved even in appointing, for example, iranian foreign minister or iranian intelligence minister, not directly saying — he advises, but his advice should be taken extremely seriously. so what do you think is going on, then? so he's using a technique which i've never seen before, so he's being ambiguous. and i think there can be multiple interpretations. it's either because... one interpretation is that they don't want to retaliate. so he wants to say that this is the decision that iranian officials made. not me. i'm a strong man. i could have made a difference. or even if iran retaliates

and things go wrong, he can then criticise the iranian officials and the iranian authorities, saying that these were not the decisions that i made. so he can be critical of them. now, do we have any idea of what damage was done by israel's strikes? that's an important question, because one of the most important things was the s—300 air defence systems that iran had. now, why is it important? because these are the best. they're old, but they are the best that iran has so far. and it took iran ten, almost ten years, nine years to buy them from russia. russia kept procrastinating selling them and they bought them ten years ago. so now imagine from what we know from ten years ago, sputnik, a russian—based news agency at the time, said that they sold four battery of the s—300. now what axios and also new york times reported so far, they say that all these four batteries of s—300 have been totally destroyed, which if true, that is a major blow to iranian defence system. and that paves the way probably for later strikes if israel decides to strike

iranian territory again. benjamin netanyahu has been heckled by the families of some of those killed in the october 7th attacks. he was speaking at a 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 proposes an initial two—day ceasefire in gaza to exchange four israeli hostages with some palestinian prisoners. abdel fattah 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. here, the labour mp

mike amesbury has been suspended from the party, pending an investigation. it comes as fresh cctv footage emerged, appearing to show mr amesbury involved in an altercation with a member of the public in cheshire. a separate 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 exchange 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 assaultjust 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 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 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 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, quote, kind of recognising russia's entry unquote, 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'd 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 called, 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 a0 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 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 heavy 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. it is sunday and there has been a lot of sport around. let's get it all at the sports centre. start with the premier league. a late equaliser from mo salah earned liverpool a 2—2 draw with arsenal at the emirates stadium. mikel arteta's side twice had the lead but both times were pegged back so both teams had to settle for a point in north london. the result means manchester city end the weekend on top of the table with liverpool and arsenal in second

and third place respectively. it is pleasing to see that we can come back in the game two times. with one day left to recover and go against leipzig, and then to be stronger in the second half than the first car. a draw was for us, especially after the first half. hopefully, we can take this better next week. the team -la ed better next week. the team played so — better next week. the team played so well, _ better next week. the team played so well, they - better next week. the team played so well, they would l played so well, they would dominant, determine, clear where — dominant, determine, clear where they had to attack. very aggressive, playing in the right— aggressive, playing in the right areas which created big chances _ right areas which created big chances. yes, in those games you _ chances. yes, in those games you have _ chances. yes, in those games you have to— chances. yes, in those games you have to be more clinical. the — you have to be more clinical. the second hand goal, open to transition, _ the second hand goal, open to transition, in open spaces. earlier on sunday, west ham

beat manchester united 2—1 at the london stadium to increase the pressure on the united manager, erik ten haag. that's nowjust the one win in 8 matches in all competitions. but it was a much needed win forjulen lopetegui's side who had to rely on a controversial injury time penalty converted by jarrod bowen to give the hammers all three points. the hosts had gone ahead through crysencio summervile before casemiro equalised for united in the 81st minute. that is the third time that we have really seen injustice in the season that has a big impact on ourteam the season that has a big impact on our team and team scores on where you are in the ranking. this is not right. i can again do nothing with the frustration. we don't connect that it might collect points and that is what we need to do. we have to look in the mirror, we don't score, from a really good game from our side, creating loads of chances and conceding no chances. also the frustration when you lose in

this way. yes, that gives a bad feeling. a couple of other results in the english top flight today, chelsea beat newcastle 2—1 at stamford bridge. nicolas jackson and cole palmer on the scoresheet for the home side. and tottenham hotspur lost 1—0 at crystal palace — jean—philippe mateta with the goal. british number one jack draper has won his first atp 500 title after beating karen khachanov in the final of the vienna open. it looked like draper was going to have a comfortable victory after winning the first set against his russian opponent 6—4 and then led 4—love at the start of the second. khachanov responded though, winning the next five games in a row before draper came back to take the final set 7—5 and win the biggest trophy of his career so far. the title win also moves draper up to a career high ranking of world number 15. sometimes in tennis, you believe in yourself as a player, you believe in the work you're doing. but until you

actually do it, you don't really have that belief that you can really do it consistently. i suppose, you can really do it consistently. isuppose, good results and confidence, that goes such a long way. hopefully, i can keep on building and becoming a better tennis player and with that, hopefully my results continue to get better as well. top—seeded qinwen zheng won the pan pacific open in tokyo and clinched her place at the wta's season ending finals next month. the world number seven served up 16 aces as she beat america's sofia kenin 7—6, 6—3. it is the 22—year—old's third title of the year and first on hard court since winning at guangzhou last year. the wta finals begin in riyadh in saudi arabia next weekend just to mention — the mexico grand prix is underway. eight laps gone and it is max verstappen who is leading at the moment. you can follow that on the bbc

sport website and app. 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. she 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. they have had a number of speeches already, including in the last half an hour, the former new york mayor. mr trump will bejoined 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 matejd 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, ratherthan the individual points, you see 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. our senior north american correspondent, told us about the key factors that could swing battle states. nationally and in those key swing states like pennsylvania where kamala harris is. what is interesting is notjust that she was at her church, but that she was at her church, but that she was at a black church and thatis she was at a black church and 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 the voters, drive up the vote in big cities, like

pennsylvania, where they know they are strongest to offset donald trump's strength out in the more rural spaces. they are both driving up their boats in the cities and by getting some in the suburbs and a few in the rural areas, that will be enough to tip the vote in places like pennsylvania, which is one of the key swing states. interestingly, donald trump is a new york later. that is not a swing state and is a democratic area. why is he there? he swing state and is a democratic area. why is he there?- area. why is he there? he is at madison square _ area. why is he there? he is at madison square gardens. - area. why is he there? he is at madison square gardens. i - area. why is he there? he is at. madison square gardens. i think there are a number of reasons he is there. first and foremost, he is a showman and will love the razzmatazz and celebrity that goes around, and the iconic nature of appearing somewhere like madison square gardens. also, this is sort of an entertainment event. if you look at the gasly disk, it is

elon musk, hulk hogan, the chief executive of ultimate fighting. he is trying to get to a certain sector of the electorate and he knows he will get a lot of publicity by doing this and part of it is, yes, he is not going to win new york state, but there are other races going on in the new york state four house seats and the legislature in the united states that they may have a chance of winning and it is partly about drumming up support for those seats. we are seeinu support for those seats. we are seeing the _ support for those seats. we are seeing the live _ support for those seats. we are seeing the live pictures - support for those seats. we are seeing the live pictures where l seeing the live pictures where the crowds are already there and donald trump is probably a couple of hours away. polls have showed a tight race so far. what do you think the key factors are to swing the undecided voters in the battleground states with only so many days left. i battleground states with only so many days left.— battleground states with only so many days left. i think both sides feel _ so many days left. i think both sides feel they _ so many days left. i think both sides feel they have _ so many days left. i think both sides feel they have key - so many days left. i think both | sides feel they have key issues that are winning points for them. forthe that are winning points for them. for the democrats, you seen them talk about abortion

and reproductive rights, and that message was hammered home repeatedly this morning by tim walls, kamala harris and some of their surrogates on the tv news talk shows. i think they also have been trying to drum up also have been trying to drum up concern about donald trump's fitness for office. i don't think there is any surprise, for example, that kamala harris is holding a rally on tuesday in washington, which is where donald trump held his rally in onjanuary donald trump held his rally in on january the donald trump held his rally in onjanuary the sick. donald trump held his rally in on january the sick. that donald trump held his rally in onjanuary the sick. that is about direct contrast between them. ,, ., , about direct contrast between them. ,, ._ , ., about direct contrast between them. ,, , ., �* �* them. stay with us here on bbc news. whether _ them. stay with us here on bbc news. whether coming - them. stay with us here on bbc news. whether coming up - them. stay with us here on bbc| news. whether coming up next. hello, there. for most of us, we have had a fine, dry sunday, but wind and rain has been pushing into scotland and northern ireland. it's a couple of weather fronts which will tend to get squeezed out in the week ahead, certainly on monday, as high pressure begins to build in,

and for much of this upcoming week, it's going to be dry. a lot of cloud around, with limited sunshine. we could see some misty, foggy mornings, as well, from wednesday onwards. so, these weather fronts have brought outbreaks of rain to scotland and northern ireland. they will spread to all areas tonight, tending to become lighter and patchier as it moves northwards and eastwards, and there will be more of a breeze for england and wales, lighter winds across scotland, but we usher in some milder air by the end of the night, so we start monday off with values around 8 to 11 degrees. it does mean monday, though, will be rather cloudy and gloomy with further spots of rain here and there. sunshine will be limited even as we head into the afternoon, and we could see the odd glimmer through some sheltered eastern spots, and that could push temperatures up to 16 or 17 celsius, so, again, pretty mild for the time of year. for most, though, the mid—teens. for monday night we hold on to the cloudy skies, bit of a breeze towards the south. some spots of rain at times, and a little bit of mist and fog here and there, but it does mean it's going to be a fairly mild start to tuesday, values into double figures to begin the day,

but we hold on to cloud because we are underneath this area of high pressure with very little wind, nothing to really mix the air to allow for some sunny spells to break through. so, could start off with a little bit of mist and fog here and there, a lot of cloud, any spots of rain towards central and southern areas will be squeezed out as high pressure builds in. we could see a little bit of sunshine here and there, but it will be limited — but, again, mild, 16 or17 degrees will be the high, for most the mid—teens. into wednesday, this area of high pressure exerts its force across the whole country. you'll notice there are some isobars and some weather fronts across northern areas, so here it will stay quite windy, but for most we are starting wednesday off with light winds, a lot of cloud around, some early mist and fog. some of this fog could linger through the morning and just lift into low cloud, some areas staying grey all day. we could see some holes appearing in the cloud further north and east to allow for a few sunny spells, and temperatures again around the mid—teens for most. similar values for thursday, friday. into the weekend we start to pick up some colder air

from the north, some more sunshine, but also some frosty nights to come.

this is bbc news — the headlines... the iranian president has said tehran will respond appropriately to saturday's israeli air strikes, but that it's not looking for war. the israeli attack followed an iranian missile barrage earlier in october.

at least one person has been killed with dozens injured in central israel after a truck rammed into a group waiting at a bus stop north of tel aviv. police are treating it as a terror—related incident. here, the labour mp mike amesbury has been suspended from the party pending an investigation. it comes after 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. it follows reports of intimidation at the ballot box. now on bbc news, americast. we are nine days away from the us election. you can see the