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. 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. and coming up we meet bernard — believed to be the first vulture to have stem cell treatment for his arthritis. 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 pezeshkian. 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. 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. 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". 0ur senior international correspondent 0rla 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 0rla'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. 0rla guerin, bbc news, beirut. a reminder, you can get more on the war in the middle east on the war in the middle east on the bbc news website and application. the labour mp mike amesbury has been suspended from the party, pending an investigation. it comes as this fresh cctv footage emerged appearing to show mike amesbury involved in an altercation with a member of the public in cheshire. it is not known what happened in the run—up to the instant. with me is our reporter jack surfleet. what have we learned this evening/today? cheshire police have said the 55—year—old man has been voluntarily questioned by police under caution in

relation to this incident. he has since been released. earlier this evening, we could from the labour party that confirmed it had suspended mike amesbury from the party and withdrawing the whip. that means, for the time being at least, he will no longer sit as a labour mp in the house of commons. in a statement with more detailfrom the commons. in a statement with more detail from the labour party, a spokesperson for the party said that mike amesbury has been assisting cheshire police with their inquiries following an incident on friday night, as these inquiries are now ongoing, the labour party has administered glibly suspended his membership of the party. that statement follows new cctv footage of the instant that appears to show a mike amesbury punching a man in the street. two men exchanged words and then the labour mp appears to hit the man and not came to

the ground, and continues to punch him a further five times before the public steps in to intervene. has mr amesbury said anything about this? mike amesbury has not responded today. but on saturday, he wrote... he goes on to say... he will cooperate with any inquiries made by cheshire police. thank ou for made by cheshire police. thank you for bringing _ made by cheshire police. thank you for bringing us _ made by cheshire police. thank you for bringing us the - made by cheshire police. thank you for bringing us the latest. l 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 is in new york for a rally. this is the scene live at madison square gardens where we are expecting mr trump shortly. at the moment we can see this businessman, who also wanted to become the republican party nominee for the president. he

is there with the crowd, a lot of them holding up their trump banners. mrtrump of them holding up their trump banners. mr trump himself will bejoined by supporters banners. mr trump himself will 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 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. let's speak to our senior north america correspondent gary 0'donoghue,

who is at the rally. very who is at the rally. noisy, we know. but an interesting very noisy, we know. but an interesting choice, new york, for mr trump interesting choice, new york, for mrtrump as it interesting choice, new york, for mr trump as it is a blue state, not a red state. yes, he has been _ state, not a red state. yes, he has been talking _ state, not a red state. yes, he has been talking about - state, not a red state. yes, hej has been talking about holding an event here for a number of years. he is a native new yorker of course, born in queens. built a lot of his empire here on manhattan. and in this iconic place that has hosted a concerts for billy joel hosted a concerts for billy joel, would you believe and harry styles was here for 15 nights on the trot. this is an iconic venue to come to and you are right in saying that it is the seven key swing states that will decide the election and he will decide the election and he will be visiting those in the coming days. he has been kept out of places like

pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, less so in the southern belt, he will be back there before november the 5th. this is in some ways a homecoming for him. and a lifetime ambition. that has been reflected by a number of people on stage and who have turned up saying, look at me, i am on the stage at madison square gardens. we am on the stage at madison square gardens.— square gardens. we are expecting _ square gardens. we are expecting people - square gardens. we are expecting people like i square gardens. we are i expecting people like elon square gardens. we are - expecting people like elon musk who has become quite a key campaignerfor mr trump in the campaigner for mr trump in the last few campaignerfor mr trump in the last few weeks. campaigner for mr trump in the last few weeks.— last few weeks. that is right. he will be — last few weeks. that is right. he will be the _ last few weeks. that is right. he will be the man _ last few weeks. that is right. he will be the man that - last few weeks. that is right. he will be the man that will. he will be the man that will tee up before the president. he is not the best speaker, i will say. he has been giving $1 million away each day, that has helped, i think. million away each day, that has helped, ithink. it million away each day, that has helped, i think. it has also been spending a lot of money on the trump campaign, especially through the super pack spending a lot of money in pennsylvania. he is a huge supporter of the

president and has been using his platform on axe, the former twitter platform to promote donald trump and attack, hollis. we will have kennedy junior. we have had indications in the last week of campaigning that will focus on the migration campaign, deporting migrants on day one. he referred to america the other day as the garbage can for the world. that is part of his anti—immigrant rhetoric. world. that is part of his anti-immigrant rhetoric. gary, we will be _ anti-immigrant rhetoric. gary, we will be back _ anti-immigrant rhetoric. gary, we will be back when - anti-immigrant rhetoric. gary, we will be back when donald i we will be back when donald trump takes the stage. let's talk about kamala harris. 0ur north america correspondent rowan bridgejoins us from washington dc. she is focusing on the key state of pennsylvania. it is

erha -s state of pennsylvania. it is perhaps the _ state of pennsylvania. it is perhaps the key _ state of pennsylvania. it is perhaps the key is - state of pennsylvania. it is perhaps the key is that - state of pennsylvania. it 3 perhaps the key is that the key states. because of the electoral college votes that are there. that's why both candidates have spent an enormous amount of know. kamala harris is then that today and speaking at a black church this morning. she has been there to drive up the voter energy. she was at a black church, a key constituent of the democratic vote. she really wants to energise that base to try and offset the votes that donald trump is more likely to get in the more rural areas of that state. she has also been focusing on the issue of reproductive rights and abortion, which they think is a keyissue abortion, which they think is a key issue that could win over some moderate republican women voters. another part of the section they are hoping to peel away from donald trump and to pennsylvania in their direction.— pennsylvania in their direction. ., , . direction. thank you very much indeed. direction. thank you very much indeed- for _ direction. thank you very much indeed. for the _ direction. thank you very much indeed. for the latest - direction. thank you very much indeed. for the latest on - direction. thank you very much indeed. for the latest on what | indeed. for the latest on what kamala harris is up to, and

will be back to get donald trump at madison square garden, but we have time to fit in the sport. hello from the bbc sport centre. start with the premier legaue — a late equaliserfrom 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, having an away game in leipzig, and then maybe to be stronger in the second half than the first half. it pleases me. in the end, you go here to win. but a draw, especially after the first half, let's hope we can take the win next time. 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 eight 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 in the season, and it has a big impact on our team, and how our team scores, and the way you are in the ranking, so this is not right, but i can do nothing with the frustration. we don't collect points, and that is what we have to do, so we have to look in the mirror. we don't score from a really good game from our side, creating loads of chances, concede no chances, but the frustration was when you lose in this way, it is a bad feeling. a couple of other results

in the english top flight — 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. napoli have made the early running in italy's serie a, but the two clubs just behind them, inter milan and juventus played out a thrilling 4—1; draw at the san siro. inter probably thought they'd done enough to win when they went 11—2 up early in the second half — dutch defender denzel dumfries with their 11th goal. but 19—year—old kenan yildiz gotjuve back on level terms — after coming on as a sub withjust under half an hour to go, the turkey international scored twice. so the points were shared. to tennis, and british number one jack draper has won his first atp 500 title after beating karen khachanov in the final of the vienna 0pen. 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. and i suppose, with good results and confidence, that goes such a long way. so, 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 hardcourt 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 under way. you can follow it on the bbc sport website and bbc sport app. and ijust want to leave you this half hour with a tearful moment for a down when she said hello to celine dion during her constant residency. the two singers shared an emotional hug. that was a venue originally built for celine dion's residency. rumour has it, she ended by calling her my heart will go on. 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 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. it follows reports of intimidation at the ballot box. and here in the uk — labour insists it won't break its manifesto commitment on taxes, in this week's budget. we will get more on that in the next half—hour, but i want to return to our main story.

iran's president has said tehran is not looking for war but will give an "appropriate response" to israel's air strikes. iran has called for an urgent meeting of the un security council to discuss the attack, which came in retaliation for an iranian missile barrage earlier this month. 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 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. giddy grinstein — worked on israel's peace negotiations with the palestinian liberation 0rganisation 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. hejoined me earlier, saying he thinks at the very least a small agreement could come out of these new talks. i believe the war in gaza is reaching a kind of decision meeting point for israel because hamas military capabilities have been largely eliminated. we are seeing that a lot of the forces in gaza, the soldiers are basically not being significantly engaged in military activities. and there is the challenge of bringing back the hostages.

as well as connecting what we call the day after, with the political horizon. there is also the economic dimension of the reconstruction of gaza, with the politicalfuture, not only of israel's relations with gaza but israel's relations with the palestinians and all of these things need to be brought together. at the moment, i believe that the goal of the talks in doha is to actually find out actually find out if from hamas, there is someone, an address that they could negotiate with. i would say that until now, israel's proposition was quite difficult, which was let's do a hostage deal, give us the hostages but then we will nonetheless try to kill you. so the incentive that they were doing the deal was not that powerful. as well as scores of other impediments. now that yahya sinwar is dead, hopefully there

will be a new avenue for engaging with the hamas leadership, to get a small deal to establish the avenue of communication, in order to be able to go further with broader hostage exchanges and also perhaps a ceasefire and end of the war. so you think it is going to be something small that the two sides can agree on? hoping that it will lead to something more substantial? the egyptian proposal is definitely small. what we heard in israel tonight is that they are talking about a few days of ceasefire, a release of four hostages in exchange for some palestinian prisoners. this is really a very, very small deal. but the goal is, i think, to re—establish the channel of communications that have been broken down in the last few months. few weeks and months. that is really the subject of a very significant debate. there is obviously far right in israel that wants to resettle in gaza and there was a recent conference on the gaza border with members from the ruling

party about the resettling of gaza. the government, 0k, netanyahu and the people around him are in a different place. they are speaking about making some sort of bubbles primarily in northern gaza where humanitarian aid could be provided through collaboration with local clans and family that will deliver that aid and basically stabilise gaza and that will be a pilot for a regime that will gradually be extended into the gaza strip. personally, i do not believe this model could work. and i do believe the only way forward is for israel to acknowledge that the plo that the plo or a representative of the palestinian people to engage with them in order

to invite international force with significant participation, american support and participation for the uae in order to deploy in gaza, re—establish and order and begin the tremendous task of rebuilding. to the war in ukraine now, where a string of attacks killed and injured civilians in widely separated parts of the country. a day ago a 1a—year old girl was killed in the capit