he is a mental to president assad rohani.she said in your introduction, we have got only a few months before the presidential election in iran and his absence is going to impact the situation with the moderates and the situation with the moderates and the reformists. what will the impact be? in a sense that they have lost a network, a figure of influence who had the ear of the supreme leader, to some extent. during the previous elections he was instrumental in getting president rohani elected. he supported him, called on his supporters to support president rohani. four israeli soldiers are killed in jerusalem, after a lorry drives into them. 15 other soldiers were injured after the lorry hit a group of service personnel who'd just got off a bus. cctv footage shows the lorry approaching, police say the driver was a palestinian who was shot dead at the scene. the hamas movement has not claimed responsibility but described the attack as a ‘heroic act'. also this evening: the prime minister appears to accept that leaving the eu i

a huge amount of support for president rohani.se of rafsanjani that rohani was able to get elected. but he'll certainly be missed amongst the moderates in a time of uncertainty now with the united states. we don't know where we're heading with president trump, but rouhani could have persuaded hard-liners to come around to the side of moderates. he'll sorely be missed by moderates in iran and it will probably made hard liners in iran a little bit stronger when they come to things with america. back to you. >> thank you very much, ali. >>> when we return to look at the stories making news in the day ahead. oud offe infinite scalability. the microsoft cloud helps our customers get up and running, anywhere in the planet. wherever there's a phone, you've got a bank, and we could never do that before. the cloud gave us a single platform to reach across our entire organization. it helps us communicate better. we use the microsoft cloud's advanced analytics tools to track down cybercriminals. this cloud helps transform business. this is t