our middle east editor, jeremy bowen is injerusalem now. een building for several weeks. yes, they have. seven weeks, culminating in the week coming. tuesdayis culminating in the week coming. tuesday is what palestinians call the day of the catastrophe, as they call the foundation of israel. the day before that, the americans are moving their embassy. for mr netanyahu, moving their embassy. for mr neta nyahu, the moving their embassy. for mr netanyahu, the israeli prime minister, this is an absolutely great week. this is something he really wa nted. great week. this is something he really wanted. he has got a lot of support for it as well in israel. for palestinians, it is pretty disastrous. i don't think it is something they will sit there and accept, even though the americans, the us ambassador here has said they just need to get on with the new reality. there will be more protests in the coming days. the thing about this conflict between the israelis and palestinians, and history has shown this repeatedly, if it is left to fester without

jeremy bowen, thank you. accused russia of "criminal thuggery" and "bare—faced lying". andrew parker condemned moscow for the salisbury nerve agent attack as well as for backing the use of chemical weapons in syria and annexing crimea. in his speech in berlin, mr parker also revealed that since last year, the security services are thwarting, on average, one terror attack a month in the uk. 0ur security correspondent, gordon corera, reports. more than two months after the poisonings in salisbury, signs today that the investigation is still underway. but across europe, in berlin, the head of m15 today told a meeting of security officials that the evidence pointing the finger at russia was stronger than ever. andrew parker was outspoken about the threat european democracies face from moscow. the russian state's now well—practised doctrine of blending media manipulation, social media disinformation and distortion, along with new and old forms of espionage and high levels of cyber attacks, military force and crimi

jeremy bowen, bbc news, jerusalem.jeremy bowen and to our north america editor jon sopel in washington. but first let's go to yolande knell in ramallah. what is the mood there tonight bestial yellow here the palestinian leadership has declared three days of mourning and a general strike. —— what is the mood there tonight? here the palestinian leadership... there has been the bloodiest day since the 2014 conflict with israel. the palestinian leader in his headquarters here, mahmoud abbas, has accused israel of carrying out massacres. he has repeated the us can no longer be a mediator in the peace process and has called instead for international mediation. what we are seeing at the moment is plenty of international condemnation of what has happened at the border and international calls for restraint with both south africa and turkey recalling their ambassadors to israel. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is defending the actions of israeli forces. what remains to be seen is what will happen tomorrow when all the

east editor jeremy bowen starts our coverage. jeremy: palestinians cl the protest the great march of return. for many of the young people who rushed the border with israel, it was a one-w journey. israel used tear gas and bullets. the prime minister said the defendi forces were israel's borders from its sovereignty, andts citizens. edthe dead and wou, he said, were the fault of hamas, the islamic resistance movement over gaza. palestinians say their rage comes from israel's brutality and denial of the right to protests ace. most of the day. for in jerusalem, police scuffl with israeli police campaigners outside the new american embassy. peaces left of israel's movement, this is a dark day. inside the u.s -- inside, the u.arines showed their colors, and so has the trump administra it has broken with international consensus that jerusalem's status is undecided, so the embassy should stay in tel aviv. president trump's daughter ivanka did the honors. he ivanka trump: we welcome you fofficially for tst time to the embassy in jerusalem

our middle east editor jeremy bowen reports from mosul, the biggest city to fall under i.s. control. jeremy: fouyears the mosque s the symbol of mosul until the jihadists of the islamic state blew it to pieces last year when they were on the brink of defeat. the ruins are still a symbol of what the extremists did to iraq, and of the risks of another political failure after this weekend's elections. in iraq, failure doesn't just mean not rebuilding cities destroyed by war. only a few of the thousands who lived in the center of mosul have found a way back. volunteers patrol the ruins, still collecting war dead. when politicians fail in ais country ragile, it can mean the deaths of a lot of people. some neighbors are helping each other rebuild. like most people in mosul, they are sunni. he worries that shia fighters could influence the election. "we don't want sectarianism. it will destroy ." this man said that if iran left, they could live in peace forever. and if i' doet, iraq is finished. many want the election to be a new start. this candidate, part of a wave of younger cand

jeremy bowen, bbc news, jerusalem.loodiest day since the 2014 palestinian—israeli conflict in gaza, and the protests weren'tjust in gaza, but in the west bank too. yolande knell is in ramallah and gave us this update. here in nirmala, the palestinian leadership has declared three days of mourning and the huge strike. those protests were on a huge scale and produce the bloodiest day at there since the previous contract, conflict with israel. —— ramallah. the leader of the has accused israel of carrying out massacres, he has repeated that the us can no longer bea repeated that the us can no longer be a mediator in the peace process and is calling instead for international mediation. what we are seeing is plenty of international condemnation of what has happened out of the border and international calls for restraint. i sucked puppet and turkey have recalled their ambassadors to israel. the israeli prime minister though is defending the actions of israeli forces. what really remains to be seen is what is going to happen t

here's our middle east editor, jeremy bowen.call these protests the ‘great march of return‘. for many of the young people who rushed the border wire with israel, it was a one—way journey. israel used tear gas and bullets. the prime minister said the security forces were defending israel's borders, its sovereignty, and its citizens. the dead and wounded, he said, were the fault of hamas — the islamic resistance movement that runs gaza. palestinians say that their rage comes from israel's brutality and its denial of their right to independence. protests and killing went on for most of the day. injerusalem, police scuffled with israeli peace campaigners outside the new american embassy. for what is left of israel's peace movement, this is a dark day. inside, the us marines showed their colours, and so has the trump administration. it's broken with an international consensus thatjerusalem's status is undecided, so embassies should stay in tel aviv. president trump's daughter ivanka did the honours. we welcome you officially and for

jeremy bowen, bbc news.el and the palestinians is one of the world's deadliest flash points, and focused on land and borders following the war that established israel in 1948. 70 years ago, gaza was controlled by egypt and the west bank byjordan, and both were home to hundreds of thousands of palestinian refugees driven from israel. but the israelis captured them both, along with east jerusalem, in the six—day war of 1967, and never fully gave them back. the 0slo accords of 1993, a set of agreements that tried to establish a long term peace process, did give the palestinians the right to run parts of both areas. and now nearly 2 million live in gaza. but israel controls its coastline and most of its access points. well, jeremy bowenjoins us now live from gaza. no repeat of the terrible scenes we saw yesterday? no, all that has ended, well, subsided. the thing about the intractability of this conflict is that violence is built into it, and violence will occur again. it may be tomorrow, maybe next week, maybe

in a moment we'll talk to our our middle east editor, jeremy bowen, who's in erbil in iraq.pe editor, katya adler, in brussels. i think it is fair to say that eu leaders almost begged president, not to do this so what is the thinking tonight there? there is deep regret across europe, and not a little concerned that expressed clearly in a statement by the prime minister issues on behalf of the three european signatories of the deal, the uk, france and germany. all involved in the frantic last—minute diplomacy to try to keep the us in the deal but in the end donald trump's decision does not come as a huge surprise and behind the scenes in the last month european leaders, the eu is a key backer of the deal, they have been working to try to come up with plans to keep it alive, whatever the washington decision. there was even a last—minute meeting with an iranian delegation here in brussels this afternoon and the disquiet in europe that the us said it could not impose sanctions on countries or businesses that do deal with iran. still european leaders are keeping the door open, op

our middle east editor jeremy bowen, in gaza.ell is on the israeli side of the border with gaza near to mefalsim kibbutz. so far today, is it fair to say mercifully there hasn't been quite the level of tension of yesterday? that is correct. here at the border if we look across, we can see one of the palestinian protest camps, there isa the palestinian protest camps, there is a palestinian flag and several white tents. what we don't see is the numbers of people or the same kind of violence we saw a day ago. instead, the big numbers have been turning out to the funerals of those several dozen people killed on what was the bloodiest day in gaza for several years. on the israeli side there is a big military presence, the soldiers are on high alert still. there has been that international criticism of israeli forces, accusations they have used excessive force. but israeli military officials are rebuffed in their defence saying they are acting in the defence of israel tried to stop people crossing illegally into israeli territory, stop

on occasion, sometimes in the context of ministerial or other state visits, so lyse doucet and jeremy bowenelled to iran in recent years and reported for the english—language output of the bbc. so there has never been a more important time for the kind of understanding of the iranians story, like you just saw in the clip there, that comes from the world service, the funded iranians service, to reach licence fee paying audiences here in the uk, because this is a really crucial time for that story. jamie angus, thank you, and stay with us because we are going to talk about something else now, which is the threat to bbc we re journalism where the danger is not so much to individual employees, as to the integrity and reputation of the corporation itself. and to the democratic process. we have breaking news of a serious incident between russian and nato forces, near the coast of latvia... this is not a bbc news bulletin, despite the authentic looking studio. but it is a video posted on youtube last month, warning on what's app. warning, on what's app. the bbc made it clear it was fake, but not b

jeremy bowen, bbc news, mosul. jane: a daunting task indeed. the humble bicycle has been a mainstay of china's city streets for decades, but i recent months, giant mountains of discarded bikes have been popping up across the country. authorities are encountering rented bicycles that they say are clogging city streets. john sudworth has the story. john: it could be lowers, but lk closely. this is a crop not of plants, mebul and rubber. thousands upon thousands of bike s impounded. bike-sharing has taken china by storm. of a phone,h a wave ired can be hired or off-h anywhere. with innovative technology has a frenzy of it speculation. chinese cities have been duged with biks, millions of them. backed with huge investment in dozens of companies have been fighting for market share, resulting in blocked pavements d a random sprinkling of abandoned bikes almost everywhereou look. horitiescities, the a have had enough. the extraordinary thing is that many of these bikes are brand-new, hardly used at all. forget stock market bubbles and preterty bubbles

jeremy bowen, bbc news, gaza. today marks the 70th anniversary of what palestinians call the catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands of people fled or were expelled from their homes when the state of israel was established. the antagonism between israel and the palestinians has led to one of the worldeadliest conflicts with the lyse doucet takes a closer look at the history of the ongoing struggle. lyse: a history of people on the n time and again. really weree arab at the creation -- the 1948, the eaarab-israeli war at the on of israel. ow sliver of land became known as the gaza strip. border is defined by the positions of egyptian and israeli forces separate from the west bank, when the 1948 cease-fire was declared. for the next 70 years, gaza's future would be shipped by its neighbors -- most of all, the state of israel. in 1967, ithe six-day war, israel occupiedan gaza d the west bank, started building jewish settlements on the best land, including on the mediterranean. and then decades later, promise of land

our middle east editor jeremy bowen sent this report from gaza. a warning, his report does mantain some distressing is. jeremy: on the border, the soundtrackas anti-israeli songs, not gunfire. 24 hours after the killings, the big protests have stopped, but res were burning, palestinians looked warily towards the israeli positions. enterprising traders brought refreshments. so what's next? the israelis deal with thete ational political fallout, the palestinians have 60 dead. politicians and diplomats abroad call for peace, but real peaceai talks ended,d a long time ago. with the current genern of palestinian and israeli leaders, no chance of them being revived. the israelis started firing tear gas. the crowd by then, including many families, was getting too big. the young men were getting too close to the border wire. on the other side, the isr say they are in the right. >> we are not looking to create casualties of palestinians. that is not our aim. we are simply here to defend what is ours. we are defending ourve ignty, civilians living in close p

jeremy bowen, bbc news.hts of new york city councilman and trump supporterjoe borelli, who joins us now from new york. i have seen your tweets today, 23 yea rs i have seen your tweets today, 23 years this has been a decision in the waiting and it is about time, you said, that donald trump took the decision. right, and thank you for having me. this is 23 years of fulfilment of us policy, not a divergences from it. it is something that has been promised since the days of bill clinton. it was promised by barack 0bama when he promised by barack 0bama when he promised it to the apac audience which is a conglomerate ofjewish organisations he pulls up it has been promised by the trump campaign and his people since he ran for office. and this is the fulfilment and acceptance of the reality on the ground. if you visit is welcome your standing in jerusalem and ground. if you visit is welcome your standing injerusalem and not where oui’ standing injerusalem and not where our embassy is standing injerusalem and not wher

listen to this, move your embassies tojerusalem because it advances peace. 0ur middle east editor jeremy bowenwell, life goes on but there is also a lot of tension and there is the deployment of various kinds of police, paramilitary police, the army is not very far away either in the territories. i think there is a fear that there could be some trouble. the move of the american embassy for the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is a great triumph, a great day, something he has wanted for a very long time. for the palestinians, it is pretty disastrous but it is something they are protesting against, and particularly down in gaza where over the last seven weeks of protest, more than a0 palestinians had been shot dead by the israelis and more than 2000 wounded. so that kind of thing is likely to come to a crescendo in the course of this coming week. in your assessment, you have been covering the region for a number of years, what do you think the likely impact will be of this tomorrow?” what do you think the likely impact will be of this tomorrow? i think the mood of the embassy is somethi

jeremy bowen, bbc news, gaza.king the news now. the european union's foreign policy chief has said the eu is considering options to save the nuclear deal with iran, after president trump withdrew the us from it. speaking after a meeting with the foreign ministers of iran, france, germany and the uk, federica mogherini said the eu would come forward with new measures in the next few weeks. the iranian minister, mohammad javad zarif, said there had been a good start to the talks. russia's president says he's confident people will love the new bridge linking russia and the crimean peninsula. vladimir putin opened the highly controversial bridge by driving across it. crimea was annexed by moscow from ukraine in 2014. ukraine says russia is continuing "to act outside international law". meghan markle‘s father is reported to have said he won't attend his daughter's wedding to prince harry on saturday because he needs to undergo a heart procedure. there have been concerns over his health since allegations surfaced that h

state group, which took control of large parts of the country in 2014. 0ur middle east editor, jeremy bowen. for 800 years, this mosque was the centre of mosul until thejihadists and islamic state blew it to pieces in june last year when they were on the brink of defeat. the ruins are still a symbol of what the extremists did to iraq and of the risks of another political failure after this weekend's elections. in iraq, failure doesn'tjust mean not rebuilding cities destroyed by war. only a few of the thousands who lived in the centre of mosul have found a way back. volunteers patrol the ruins, still collecting war dead who lie where they fell. when politicians fail in a country this fragile, it can mean the deaths of a lot of people. some neighbours are helping each other rebuild. like most people in mosul they're sunni. these men are worried that shia fighters could influence the election. we don't want sectarianism, the men said, it will destroy us. this man said that if iran left they could live in peace forever, and if it doesn't iraq is finished. many want the election to be a new star

jeremy bowen, bbc news, gaza.s foreign policy chief says the eu can't provide any legal or economic guarantees to iran about delivering the benefits of the nuclear deal, now that the us has withdrawn. iran's foreign minister, mohammad javad zarif, has been meeting with european union countries about the future of the deal. the eu says it is still considering options to save the agreement. there are very clear economic benefits that have been specified in the jcpoa, that benefits that have been specified in thejcpoa, that have to be carefully negotiated in thejcpoa, to remain. facebook has revealed it has removed more than 580 million fake accounts. it has also published data for the first time about the amount of inappropriate content it removes, showing a sharp increase in the number of posts containing graphic violence. it follows calls for transparency after the privacy scandal involving a british firm cambridge analytica. rico will have more on this in asia business report, straight after newsday. russian oppo

jeremy bowen, bbc news, jerusalem. the killings in gaza have triggered widespread condemnation. protests in istanbul. turkey's president accused israel of genocide. the european union has urged restraint on all parties. the un high commissioner for human rights said those responsible for outrageous human rights violations, should be held to account. there is more information on the region's conflict on our website. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the iraqi political bloc led by the former shia militia chief moqtada al—sadr is headed for victory in last weekend's elections, with more than ninety per cent of the results now announced. mr sadr was not standing as a candidate for prime minister, but the surprise success of his group will give him considerable influence in deciding who gets the post. at least 80 people have died and more than 130 others have been injured after a wave of sand and thunderstorms battered india. high—speed winds of over 100 kilometres per hourflattened nearly a0 houses across the country's most populous state, uttar prades

jeremy bowen, bbc news.sing on the hostility between israel and the palestinians, which has long since been about to land on the borders. our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, takes a closer look at the history of the continuing struggle. a history of the people on the run time and again. 19118, the arab—israeli war and the creation of israel. tens of thousands of palestinians fled to gaza, many forced from their homes. a narrow sliver of land became known as the gaza strip. its borders defined by the positions of egyptian and israeli forces, separate from the west bank when the 19118 ceasefire was declared. and for the next 70 years, gaza's future would be shaped by its neighbours, most of all, the state of israel. in1967, in the in 1967, in the six day war, israel occupied gaza and the west bank, started building jewish settlements and the best land, including along the mediterranean. and then, decades later, a promise of land for peace. the last settlers and soldiers would leave in 2005, pro

and our middle east editor jeremy bowen is also injerusalem.to gauge the mood there. well, life goes on, but there's also a lot of tension, and there is a very big deployment of various kinds of police, paramilitary police. the army isn't very far away either, in the territories. so i think there is a fear that there could be some trouble. now, the move of the american embassy for the prime minister, mr netanyahu, is a great triumph, it's a great day, it's something he's wanted for a very long time. for the palestinians, it's pretty disastrous. but it's something they are protesting against, and particularly down in gaza, where over the seven weeks of protest, more than a0 palestinians have been shot dead by the israelis, and more than 2,000 wounded. so that kind of thing is likely to come to a crescendo in the course of this coming week. indonesian police say that a family of six, including two girls aged nine and 12, carried out the suicide bombings on three churches in which at least 13 people were killed. dozens were injured in the explosio

our middle east editor jeremy bowen is injersualem.estinians call the day of catastrophe, as they call the day of catastrophe, as they call the foundation of israel in 19118. the day before that, the americans are moving their embassy. for benjamin netanyahu, israeli prime minister, this is a great move. the palestinians, it is pretty disastrous but i do not think it is something they are going to just sit there and accept, even though the americans, the us ambassador here, has said that theyjust need to get on with the new reality. there will be more protests in the coming days, the thing about this conflict between the israelis and palestinians, and history has shown repeatedly, that if it is left to fester without a positive political horizon, without the sense that things are going to get so, and even though benjamin netanyahu may think that this will make things better from his point of view, i don't think that it will in terms of the conflict involving two peoples, what history has shown is that if you leave it, it gets worse, te

our middle east editor jeremy bowen reports from mosul, which was the biggest city in the country tore of mosul until thejihadists and islamic state blew it to pieces in june last year when they were on the brink of defeat. the ruins are still a symbol of what the extremists did to iraq and of the risks of another political failure after this weekend's elections. in iraq, failure doesn't just mean not rebuilding cities destroyed by war. only a few of the thousands who lived in the centre of mosul have found a way back. volunteers patrol the ruins, still collecting war dead who lie where they fell. when politicians fail in a country this fragile, it can mean the deaths of a lot of people. some neighbours are helping each other rebuild. like most people in mosul, they're sunni. but these men are worried that shia fighters could influence the election. we don't want sectarianism, the men said, it will destroy us. this man said that if iran left they could live in peace for ever, and if it doesn't, iraq is finished. many want the election to be a new start. this man, part of a wave of yo

on occasion — sometimes in the context of ministerial or other state visits, so lyse doucet and jeremy bowenhat comes from the world service, the funded iranian service, to reach licence fee—paying audiences here in the uk, because this is a really crucial time for that story. jamie angus, thank you, and stay with us because we are going to talk about something else now which is the threat to bbc‘s journalism where the danger is not so much to individual employees as to the integrity and reputation of the corporation itself and to the democratic process. we have breaking news of a serious incident between russian and nato forces, near the coast of latvia. this is not a bbc news bulletin, despite the authentic—looking studio. but a video posted on youtube last month and then circulated, minus the fictional dramatisation warning, on whatsapp. the bbc made it clear it was fake but not before it had been widely shared. these are truly extraordinary scenes. russian warships firing directly at us and british forces from nato in what now surely must represent a state of war. and it's not the first

through those extra vouchers we have found throutheremy those extra vouchers we have found through jeremy bowenremy bowen, leadership in the general election. there is some relief we have managed to do that. but we know we have to do more work in the run—up to the next general election and think about some of those seats. the team is telling me labour have made a gain in kirklees. that is coming in to us. james, your ta ke that is coming in to us. james, your take on the overnight results?” think it has been a strong result for the conservatives, as a government that has been in place for so many years. reflecting back, labour had eight years in power and lost aooo labour had eight years in power and lost 4000 feet. we are still very firmly the party of local government. i think tom is rapidly trying to reappraise some of the approaches taken before. but in london it was about, well, there wasn't a place in london we could not win to wit doing quite well, we didn't win any councils... it is just notable that labour had set out andjeremy just notable that labour had set out and jeremy corbyn lau

here's our middle east editor, jeremy bowen.tinians call these protests the ‘great march of return‘. for many of the young people who rushed the border wire with israel, it was a one—wayjourney. israel used a lot of tear gas... and lots of bullets. its army says it shoots to kill and under carefully controlled circumstances. it shot a lot today. israel blames the dead and wounded on hamas, the islamic resistance movement that runs gaza, it organised the protests. palestinians say their rage comes from israel's brutality and its denial of their right to independence. injerusalem, police scuffled with israeli peace campaigners outside the new american embassy. for what is left of israel's peace movement, this is a dark day. inside, the us marines showed their colours and so has the trump administration. it's broken with an international consensus thatjerusalem's status is undecided, so embassies should say in tel aviv. today, we officially open the united states embassy in jerusalem. congratulations, it's been a long time coming.