a bus stop north of tel aviv. 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 has not 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 sites this week was an evil act.

translation: of course they are exaggerating it. translation: their | exaggeration is wrong. but down playing 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 the memorial ceremony for israeli victims today, the prime minister said the recent strike on iran was precise and powerful. and achieved all of 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. rescuers struggled to free people trapped under the truck. all were taken to hospital. police say the driver had an israeli id and lived half an hour's drive from here.

israel is already fighting words with its enemies on multiple fronts, but incidents like this highlight its vulnerability at home. and raise the question of how to protect against attacks by those already living inside israel. who use vehicles as weapons. police say they are treating this as a terror attack. old threats here are 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 batteries 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. the labour mp mike amesbury has been suspended from the party and had the whip removed, after new footage emerged that appeared to show him punching a man in the early hours of yesterday. cheshire police said a 55—year—old man has been voluntarily interviewed under caution, and released pending further enquiries. our political correspondent harry farley has the latest. in the top right of this footage, you can see mike amesbury talking to a man, we cannot see what has been said, but he appears to punch him and then hit him another five times while he is on the ground. yesterday, this video, apparently the same incident

appeared on social media. you don't threaten _ appeared on social media. you don't threaten an _ appeared on social media. wi. don't threaten an np! appeared on social media. you don't threaten an np! the - don't threaten an np! the olice don't threaten an np! the police were _ don't threaten an np! the police were called - don't threaten an np! the police were called to... i don't threaten an np! the police were called to... he has not responded to requests for comment today, but yesterday wrote on social media that the incident took place after he felt threatened.— incident took place after he felt threatened. ~ ~' ~ , , , felt threatened. mike amesbury. he became _ felt threatened. mike amesbury. he became an — felt threatened. mike amesbury. he became an mp _ felt threatened. mike amesbury. he became an mp in _ felt threatened. mike amesbury. he became an mp in 2013. - felt threatened. mike amesbury. he became an mp in 2013. he i felt threatened. mike amesbury. i he became an mp in 2013. he now sits as the backbencher. reform uk was in second. labour have said tonight that his membership has been administratively suspended. he has also lost the whip so will not sit here as an mp while the inquiry is ongoing. they prepare to deliver their first

budget for 111 years. 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. georgia's election is over, but the political battle for this country's future looks set to intensify. tonight, georgia's pro—western president accused the ruling party of rigging the election. salome zourabichvili said georgians were victims of a russian special operation.

flanked by the georgian opposition, she called for protests monday night. many georgians had seen this as the most important election here in decades. physical assault on observers attending to report on violations. but international observers have now confirmed that vote violations were widespread. climate of hatred... even so, georgia's prime minister, irakli kobakhidze, insists the election was free and fair. the opposition says that you falsified the results and stole the election. they say it in each and every case. but there were lots of reports of election fraud. irregularities happen everywhere, in every country. if you look at the reports in different country — international observers' reports — there are many irregularities.

we're notjust talking about voting irregularities, but also there was violence? there was an incidence happening injust a couple of precincts. in more than 3,100 precincts, the environment was completely peaceful. considering the political battles building, tbilisi felt strangely calm to some. to some here, the ruling party georgian dream means stability and they have no complaints. everything's perfect, murat says. "this election went well." but many fear georgia's drift away from europe and into russia's orbit. i want this. you want to be with europe? yes. and is that possible now? after the election? after the election, it cannot be. sorry. i don't know. we sawjust one protester outside parliament.

the georgian opposition is counting on many more. steve rosenberg, bbc news, tbilisi. to the united states now we are just nine days away from the presidential election. i want to take you live to new york because thousands of people have gathered in madison square gardens for a donald trump rally. it is one of the highest profile events on the campaign schedule. speakers, ithink profile events on the campaign schedule. speakers, i think you can see there, i think that is doctor phil? he himself is due to speak later. let's go live to speak later. let's go live to our correspondent gary o'donoghue, who is inside the rally. because he uses mobile phone technology and there are a lot of people in the stadium, the signal is breaking up a little bit. we will hopefully be able to hear him. gary, it is an interesting choice, new

york, for donald trump because it is a blue, not a red state. that is right. there are about 25,000 broadcasting equipment here at the moment they are causing problem with the signal. we will persevere. it is a blue state, but it is donald trump puzzle at home, he was born here. he regards this as his territory. he believes he is going to move things in new york. though they have not voted for a republican in a presidential race since 1984. it is a bit of an ounce, but he has wanted to come here for a number of years. and as you can see, he has filled the place, it is a big capacity and it is full. there has been a string of various members of congress, is we have had a couple of

fighters, a couple of singers, another singer back here now and we will get elon musk quite quickly who will tee up donald trump. we are expecting the former president to begin this final campaign to talk about immigration and his plans for mass deportation of illegal migrants and really sort of go for a full negative message, thatis for a full negative message, that is a sort of thing that tends to motivate his base. and he believes it will also motivate those undecided in those key swing states. the seven states, the seven swing states that crisscross the middle west and what we call the sun belt here. arizona, nevada, north carolina, georgia. lots going on in the last week because there is very little to pick between the candidates in terms of the

modular error. jid candidates in terms of the modular error.— candidates in terms of the modular error. , , . . ., modular error. jd vance we are seeinu modular error. jd vance we are seeing there- _ modular error. jd vance we are seeing there. you're _ modular error. jd vance we are seeing there. you're talking - seeing there. you're talking about the swing state and the vice president, harris is in pennsylvania. a big one to win for either candidate, isn't it? it is kind of a ground zero in this election in terms of swing states. it is because the number of electoral college votes you get the winning pennsylvania is 19. that is the most of any of the swing states. you put that in the bag and you are well on the way to making those margins, to get into the magic 270 number in the electoral college complex system, not one we are used to in the uk or elsewhere. but it doesn't matter the popular vote in this country. back in with the previous election with

hillary clinton, she had 3000 more votes than donald trump, but not in the electoral colleges. this is now the final push. before, it is too close to call, the pollsters are now saying we definitely don't know. you might as well flip a coin, quite frankly.— coin, quite frankly. thank you very much _ coin, quite frankly. thank you very much for— coin, quite frankly. thank you very much for that _ coin, quite frankly. thank you very much for that piece - coin, quite frankly. thank you very much for that piece of i very much for that piece of advice, we will flip a coin and see where we get in nine days. gary o'donoghue live there at the trump rally in new york. his opponent, harris has been campaigning in philadelphia, the swing state of pennsylvania. 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. she gave a wide ranging interview to our us partner network cbs on sunday morning. 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.

with nine days to go, the polls are still very tight. let's ta ke let's take a look at them. 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. as gary said, you could just flip a coin.

and don't forget, every day in the run up to the presidential election, we have a live page online with all the latest analysis and campaign events. you can find on the bbc news website or app. to the war in ukraine now, where a string of attacks killed and injured civilians in widely saparated parts of the coutry. a day ago, a 14—year—old girl was killed in the capital kyiv, when kamikaze drone hit a residential block. it has damaged flats on five floors, causing a fire and wounding five more residents. and this is a dramatic rescue of a woman, who was stuck for hours under the rubble of a flattened home in the city of dnipro. another five civilians, including a child, were killed in the attack, 20 more injured. residential homes and a hospital have been damaged. president zelensky issued a new call to kyiv�*s

allies to intensify pressure on moscow. 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 from a female chancellor, one 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, though, the budget will boil down to this. two targets, she set herself to hit in five years' time. what she calls the investment

rule — that she can only borrow to fund a project such as building hospitals or roads, 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. but from where? let's start with that investment rule. likejeremy hunt, rachel reeves has promised that debt will be falling in five years, as in this forecast. by tweaking 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 borrowing costs 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 off, such as changes to capital gains tax, but those

do not raise very much. the national insurance contributions employers pay may rise. this raises concerns about the impact on jobs and wages. the education secretary claimed today people's payslips will not be hit by tax rises. a working person is someone who derives 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. fuel duty also could rise, again after being frozen

for over in decade, something that will affect many people who work. rachel reeves has called this a budget for strivers, 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. and we will have full coverage of the budget here on the bbc on wednesday. now this is the story that has got us all talking in the newsroom today. bernard — a eurasian black vulture has become the first of his kind to have stem—cell treatment to alleviate his arthritis. the 28—year—old bird of prey had been experiencing stiffness in his leg. but since undergoing the procedure at the start of the month, conservationists say his movement has improved and that bernard is "much happier wandering around". so how does this treatment work?

to understand the ins and outs, we spoke to andrew cope — who's a professor of rheumatology at kings college london. this is an extraordinary story and it is not often that i am called to ask for an opinion on arthritis in vultures. bernard was limping, i suspect that his mobility restriction was because of pain. the trick here is to harvest these stem cells, as we have heard, from his tissue. usually it is from fat, blood and bone marrow. and what the scientists have done, the company that produces the stem cells, is come up with millions of cells which have self renewal or multipotent function that can go into cells that regenerate and repair things like muscle, bone and cartilage and i think in his case, these were cells that can regenerate, cartilage cells and restore the

injury that he may have had and they inject that back in, which further bird is the equivalent to us humans for the knee joint. very encouraging story and it appears he is improving already. we and it appears he is improving alread . ~ . ., ., , _ and it appears he is improving alread .~ . . already. we are all happy about this. how much _ already. we are all happy about this. how much would - already. we are all happy about. this. how much would something like this cost? it this. how much would something like this cost?— like this cost? it still in the experimental _ like this cost? it still in the experimental phase - like this cost? it still in the experimental phase in - like this cost? it still in the i experimental phase in human patients, but it will cost somewhere in the region of 4000 or £5,000 per injection, and thatis or £5,000 per injection, and that isjust because or £5,000 per injection, and that is just because of the technologies required to grow the cells and patients would try very hard to identify scaffolds and matrices in which these cells are produced and injected to try and restore a tissue that resembles the tissue that resembles the tissue that resembles the tissue that was damaged in the first place. tissue that was damaged in the first place-— first place. and we all wish bernard very _ first place. and we all wish bernard very help. - first place. and we all wish bernard very help. it - first place. and we all wish bernard very help. it was l first place. and we all wish bernard very help. it was a tearful moment for singer adele

as she said hello to celine dion during her concert residency in las vegas. the two singers then shared an emotional hug in cesar�*s palace. the venue was originally built for celine dion's original residency. she called the singer one of her favourite people of all time. let me take you back to the pictures at madison square gardens. they can seejd vance and the trump family because donald trump is due to speak in the next hour or so. we will bring you that on bbc news so stay with us. no, quite a bit of sunshine. but they extended up the eastern coast in england, here

cloud second and outbreaks of rain moved into northern ireland and the isle of man, which was the wettest place in the country. a lot of cloud streaming, that is coming our way on streaming, that is c