live from london, this is bbc news. israel says it's killed a senior iranian commander, described as one of the key architects of the october 7th hamas attacks. iran's foreign minister insists his country won't negotiate with the united states while israel is still attacking them. the husband of the exiled belarusian opposition leader - svetlana tikhanovskaya - is freed after more than five years in prison. the pro-palestinian student activist - mahmoud khalil - speaks out after being released from detention in the us. whether you are a citizen, an immigrant, anyone on this land, you are not illegal. that doesn't make you less of a human. and feeling the heat - temperatures climb in

europe and america, while the uk experiences the warmest day of the year so far. hello, i'm karen gianone. israel says it has launched fresh strikes on southern and central iran, targeting a "weapons depot" and "military infrastructure". meanwhile, iranian media is reporting that the air defences are "being engaged" as a result of those latest strikes, with israeli drones being "monitored and destroyed". iran's foreign minister has said his country cannot negotiate with the us while it's being attacked by israel. he was speaking in istanbul at a gathering of his counterparts from dozens of muslim-majority countries. he warned that us involvement in the conflict would be "very very dangerous". meanwhile there are reports that the us is moving b2 stealth bombers to guam. they're the aircraft capable

of delivering the huge bunker buster bombs that could destroy iran's underground nuclear facilities. earlier, israel says three more senior iranian commanders have been killed, including saeed izadi, who it claims was key in planning the october the seventh attacks. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega reports. attempts at diplomacy continue, so does the war. the israeli military released this footage saying it shows an attack on a senior iranian military official. behnam shahriyari was a commander of the revolutionary guards overseas arm. israel says he was responsible for weapons transfer from iran to its regional proxies. another senior commander israel says it killed was saeed izadi. he was described as being one of the architects of the hamas attacks in israel on october the 7th. the israeli military called his killing "a major achievement". translation: izadi and shahriyari were at the forefront of the iranian project to transfer the war

to israeli territory. in this operation we transferred the war to their territory. israel also hit a nuclear facility in isfahan, central iran, for the second time in this conflict. this picture, taken a week ago, shows damage to at least two buildings after the first attacks. this footage from today shows extensive damage to different parts of the complex. israel says it struck centrifuge production facilities which are used as part of the uranium enrichment process. there were no reports of radioactive leaks. overnight, iran fired more ballistic missiles at israel in response to the attacks. a fire broke out on the roof of this building in the central city of holon after apparently being hit by shrapnel from an interception. hours later in the north this house was hit by an iranian drone that penetrated the air defences. no one was injured. after a diplomatic effort by european officials

ended in no breakthrough, iran's foreign minister repeated that his country is ready to negotiate. but in order for us to come back to diplomacy, aggression should be stopped. it is obvious i cannot go to a negotiation with the united states when our people are under bombardment under the support of the united states. president trump's window for talks remains open. in israel the talk is about war, and people are being warned again to prepare for a prolonged conflict. hugo bachega, bbc news, jerusalem. our correspondent, ione wells, is in jerusalem and told us more about further strikes. there have been further strikes today and in particular we have just had confirmation from the un's nuclear watchdog that israel has hit another nuclear site in isfahan in iran. this is a centrifuge facility, somewhere where the machines are made to enrich uranium.

the un watchdog has said that no radioactive material, no nuclear material was at the site, so there hasn't been radiological damage, however the un has been warning now that this is the third nuclear site that has been hit like this, of degradation, in their words, of nuclear safety. in addition to that, israel has said it has continued to target military targets, in particular taking out these three military commanders in iran. in particular, izadi, who israel has said was one of the people who orchestrated the hamas attacks on israel two years ago on october the 7th. israel say that he was somebody who coordinated between iran and armed proxy groups of iran in the region, so israel has said they have had notable successes today. meanwhile, here in israel, it has been relatively quiet compared to previous days. the israeli military say that eight drones were fired towards israel in one hour.

there was a siren early this morning here in jerusalem at about 2:30am but since then relatively quiet compared to recent days and i think the israeli government has been stressing through some of its rhetoric around this that it feels increasingly confident it has done significant damage, both to iran's missile capacity to fire missiles towards israel, but also iran's defence capabilities, too. and ione, very significant shipping routes in the region, what effect is this having on those? it's interesting because, again, just in the last hour or so, we have had confirmation from the iran-backed houthi group in yemen, they have said they would target us ships in the red sea if the us decides to join israel in directly striking iran. a ceasefire between the houthis and iran was agreed in may after the houthis had initially struck some of the us ships in the red sea in response to the war in gaza, in solidarity with palestinians.

this warning is yet another warning to the us as they deliberate whether to join militarily israel's fight against iran. if they do so, they can expect strong retaliation. we have heard that now from the houthis but also previously heard it from iran itself. iran's foreign minister today saying it would be very, very dangerous if the us joined this conflict, but we have also heard from iran that they would consider us military bases in the wider region, in the gulf for example, as targets if the us were to do that. we've been speaking to our south caucasus correspondent rayhan demytrie. she's in meghri in armenia and told us about the flow of people going across the border from iran. well, we've seen dozens of people crossing through this border every hour. it's a bit unpredictable when people are coming through, but they're coming through continuously. i'm standing right next door to the state border.

you can see this barbed wire. and here, this is the iranian territory. this border crossing sprawls for several kilometres to my left, and it's usually very busy with traffic and just a few hundred metres this way, there's a large iranian flag, duty free shop and so on. but we've been focusing on this particular area here because this is where people are emerging with their suitcases. we've seen some emotional scenes of reunion. just a short while ago, it was parents who travelled all the way from iran and they were met by their children. and it was just some emotional scenes. we'll try to move a little bit, mark, because we just saw some people coming through and we'll try asking them. there, you see them with their suitcases. let's just see where they're coming from. most of the people so far, they've been telling us that they travelled from...

hello, can we ask you a question? no. have you travelled from...? no? oh, well, unfortunately, it is challenging to make people talk, especially when they're faced with cameras right into their faces. but going back to those that we've managed to speak with a short while ago, there were two women that travelled from tehran and they told us that they're travelling further, to uae. that's where they live. and they want to use the airport in the armenian capital, yerevan. the reason why people are using the land border crossings with armenia, with turkey, is because, of course, there are no flights from iran. so these two ladies from tehran, when i asked them, "does it really feel like there's war?" they said, "absolutely, it feels like there's war in iran." a suspected iranian spy has been arrested near an raf base in cyprus, after intelligence

suggested he was planning a terror attack. local media say the man is of azerbaijani descent and has links to iran's revolutionary guards. but the foreign office says it is in contact with the cypriot authorities regarding the arrest of a british man and israel says an iranian attack on israelis in cyprus has been foiled. our correspondent joe inwood explains that many israelis have travelled to cyprus to escape the fighting. cyprus - i'm sure people can think of the geography - cyprus is the closest island, the closest part of europe to israel so i think what has been happening is a lot of people, because they can't fly out, you get in via the sea route. one imagines there are going to be a lot of israeli citizens going both directions because that is the only way to get in and out of the country, and presumably that is why there is this concern or reports of attacks on israeli citizens there. the pro-palestinian student activist mahmoud khalil has been released after more than three months in detention in prison in the us

state of louisiana. mr khalil was arrested by immigration agents in march. he was a prominent voice in protests at columbia university against israel's conduct in gaza. a federal judge ordered that the syrian-born palestinian be freed. mr khalil is a legal us resident and has not been charged with any crime. instead the administration invoked a rare immigration law to claim his views threatened american foreign policy. mr khalil spoke to journalists after arriving in new jersey. this is what i was protesting, this is why i continue to protest with every one of you. not only have they threatened me with detention, even if they would kill me i would still speak up for palestine. again, i just want to go back and just continue the work that i was already doing, advocating for palestinian rights. a speech that should actually be celebrated rather

than punished as this administration wants to do. mahmoud khalil at newark airport. our north america correspondent, nomia iqbal, told us more about what mr khalil has been saying regarding his time in detention. he was understandably overjoyed when he arrived at the airport, he had his wife by his side and they were pushing a pram carrying their newborn son, a son born while he was in detention. he was accompanied by congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. when i asked him what was his message to president trump, given that the trump administration wanted to keep him detained and they are continuing to appeal his release, he said that the fact he is here is the message. and it shows that palestinians exist. he is a big advocate for palestinians, he is palestinian-born, he was living in syria, but he says the fact he is here is a message. it's worth remembering

that it's not a case of this all being done now. there is another separate case involving mahmoud khalil, in terms of his immigration status and whether or not he might be deported that is going through the courts. his lawyer says the fact he has been released, he is back with his wife and son, they say it makes it easier for him to take on that particular court case. tell us about the events back in march when mahmoud khalil came to be detained. to go further back to last year, mahmoud khalil was one of the more prominent voices of the anti-war protests we saw spread across us campuses, he was based at columbia university. we interviewed him at the time. he was sort of a go-between between the university and students, who were making a list of demands to stop the encampment. it was back in march when he was detained by agents at his home in new york.

his wife had taped it. since then he has been in louisiana, in a facility, appealing his release constantly. the trump administration never charged him with any crime. instead, secretary of state marco rubio used a rare immigration law which basically said his speech was a threat to foreign policy, the foreign policy being to combat anti-semitism, which mr khalil denied. nomia iqbal at newark airport. the husband of the exiled opposition leader of belarus has been released from prison, along with 13 other prisoners. svetlana tikhanovskya posted this video of her reunion with her husband sergei on x. she thanked members of the us administration, for their work in securing her husband's release, saying: "it's hard to describe the joy in my heart". sergei tikhanovsky, an influential blogger, was arrested in 2020, after announcing his plans

to run for the presidency, and sentenced to 18 years in prison. his wife ran in his place and is widely considered to have won the election, but was forced to go into exile with their children. all 14 prisoners were released during a visit to minsk by the us envoy keith kellogg, who met president alexander luakshenko. they are now safe in lithuania, but there are thought to be more than a thousand political prisoners being held in belarus. sarah rainsford, our correspondent covering eastern and southern europe, told us more about how unexpected the release of sergei tikhanovsky was: i have been speaking to members of the belarusian opposition in exile and they are pretty gobsmacked, to be honest, they didn't expect this at all. sergei tikhanovsky was one of the most dominant names amongst the many political prisoners that there are in belarus today and whilst there had been people pushing very, very hard for his release, always including his name on the lists of people whose release they were demanding, he was never on the list of people

who actually were freed. i think that's why there was so much surprise and joy, frankly, from svetlana tikhanovskaya, who posted that short video, just ten seconds, of her hugging her husband for the first time in five years. the couple have two children as well so this has been an extremely difficult period for them. in fact, mr tikhanovsky was held in isolation for the vast majority of that time, not allowed any calls, any letters, any communication with the outside world so it was a form of torture, so this is a huge moment for them. just looking at the pictures, it is quite clear he has lost a huge amount of weight in prison, his clothes hanging off him, he was pretty chunky, pretty stocky when he was arrested back in 2020 and he has physically changed an awful lot in that time. but now finally freed and, as i say, a surprise move by the belarusian authorities. where does this leave what's left of the opposition movement inside belarus and what can we tell about the lukashenko

regime's reasons for doing this? there is no opposition within belarus any more, the opposition are all in exile, the regime is extremely repressive and there are hundreds and hundreds people in prison in that country purely for their political opposition to aleksandr lukashenko. his is an authoritarian regime, that hasn't changed, but it is clear from the fact he has released such a prominent name today that he's angling to improve relations with the west. his re-election has never been recognised by western leaders. he has always been seen as an illegal, self-proclaimed leader of belarus since those elections and mass protests we saw in 2020 so this in a way, this visit by the us envoy keith kellogg, is a real coup diplomatically speaking, something of an end to that isolation, crack in the isolation and i think that is something lukashenko certainly wants.

he appears to have paid the price of handing over sergei tikhanovsky. he will now be forced to live in exile and it isn't clear what his role will be going forward within the political opposition outside the country. remember, his wife only stepped in to run for election inside belarus in 2020. she was a total political novice, she was a housewife, only stepping in because her husband had been arrested. so, a complicated situation but also a moment of extreme relief and happiness, of course, for the family finally reunited. earlier, we spoke to franak viacorka, he is a friend of the family and chief of staff for the belarusian opposition leader sviatlana tsikhanouskaya who took over from her husband sergei when he was arrested. franak has been spending time with everyone after their release and i asked him how they are all doing. oh, it was so, so nice to see them together. these are two powerful persons who inspired the protests of 2020. you know, sergei, when he spoke first to svetlana, he said,

"svetlana, i forgot to speak, i forgot to talk, because for five years i was talking only to the walls of the prison cell." but in the end, you know, he joked, you know, addressing the american state department people, he said, "oh, americans, you made my day today." and it was very funny how this person who maybe looked very differently from sergei tikhanovsky five years ago, but inside he's the same, you know, with humour, with energy, with charisma. and i think he will give a lot of inspiration to belarusian movement, both inside the country and in exile. we see today, you know, thousands of messages, requests, come into the office of svetlana tikhanovskaya from inside of belarus. they want to join the movement, they want to do things. so this release will help to revive our movement, our work and the changes in the country, and also to raise the topic of political prisoners. it will not be the last release. we have to fight for the release of all 1,150 people. that is an extraordinary number of people still

being detained simply for political opposition. sergei, you said, was in solitary confinement for the entire time, five years, he was in there, and he had been expecting to spend 18 years in prison? yes, yes, yes. and he said today that, "you know, svetlana, i didn't believe i will come out alive." because the health was deteriorating, he was basically killed by the regime. he was tortured without contacts, without medical care. he will tell more stories tomorrow. we know the truth about how people are being held there. but he also is willing to get back to the political life, and i'm sure he will join the democratic forces, he will be a powerful voice on the international arena. we will work continuously with the european union, who is our major ally, but also united kingdom and the united states, to release all political prisoners because it's the first step to bring changes in belarus. our goal, free and democratic elections. where also sergei, maybe svetlana, maybe some others will be able to compete, because people are tired of lukashenko. belarusians don't want

lukashenko any more. and our goal is not just to release people, but to change the country. and just tell us what it was like for all those families getting their loved ones back, i mean, completely out of the blue, simply, we think as a result of this meeting between the us envoy kellogg to the belarusian capital minsk, and that meeting with president lukashenko. you know, these people, they didn't know they will be released. because we were working with americans, with state department, white house, president trump's team for months and months and months to make this happen. it was very, very hard work to push lukashenko for this release. and these people, they didn't know anything today. they were brought to their prisons' administration. they were put, you know, the masks or bags on their heads, handcuffed and brought to the border where americans took them, you know, and bring them to the safe side, to the european union. but this visit of kellogg, it basically forced lukashenko. maybe this visit of special envoy kellogg will not bring big change

on the ukrainian russian front, will not bring much progress in peace talks, i am not naive here, but definitely it brought already very concrete result. we saved lives of 14 people. very briefly, franak, what is life in lithuania like for these people who oppose president lukashenko? what work can they do there? we are in exile. we want to return home. we understand that we are temporarily here. it's not always safe here because still there are kgb agents, there are constant death threats, attacks and threats. but lithuania and poland are doing a lot to help belarusian refugees. and we are extremely thankful to all the countries who host belarusians fleeing repression. an accident involving a hot air balloon in brazil has killed at least eight people. the balloon caught fire and plunged to the ground in the southern state of santa catarina. the local fire department

said 13 people survived, including the pilot. an investigation is under way. it's the hottest day of the year so far in the uk - with a provisional temperature of 33.2 degrees celsius recorded in surrey. at stonehenge, a record-breaking crowd gathered in warm temperatures - already 18 celsius at 5am - to watch the sun rise on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. spain and france have also seen soaring temperatures. temperatures in paris are above 30 degrees celsius , with the french weather agency reporting that the country is experiencing a heatwave. millions of americans have been warned to prepare for extreme temperatures. a heat dome is already smothering the midwest and is expected to expand to much of the rest of the country over the coming days. potentially dangerous temperatures of 40 celsius or over are expected this weekend. olivia richwald reports. when the longest day of the year coincides with the hottest day of the year, the result

is thousands of people up early to see in the summer solstice at stonehenge. the crowd this morning broke new records. it's beautiful, sunrise is beautiful. it's picture-perfect. you stand in front of these stones and you feel that weight of history. for thousands of years people have been gathering and it's incredibly special. a sticky night for many gave way to sunny skies, and with it an amber warning for heat. a record temperature of 33.2 degrees celsius was recorded in surrey. it was hot, too, in central london. these swimmers in hampstead heath were taking advantage of the cool water as the intense heat kicked in. and at lincoln zoo, keepers put sun cream on some of the animals, including this tapir. and the monkeys enjoyed frozen treats. in the small village of buckden in the heart of the yorkshire dales, around 100 runners took part in a fell race up an incredibly steep hill. imagine running up a hill that steep in a heatwave. thankfully, the upper wharfedale fell rescue team

they're up there with water and rehydration sachets if needed. did it put you off, the fact we are in a heatwave, doing a fell race? no, a few friends text this morning saying, are you sure it's a wise choice, i hope you stay safe. but no, it was absolutely fine. how did you find the run? for 65, not bad. very warm, but enjoyable. the village gala here is a tradition broken only by covid and foot-and-mouth. last year it was a wash-out with heavy rain. this year, organisers hoped to raise thousands of pounds for the local community. tonight, a yellow storm warning is in place for northern england, north wales and south scotland, with flash flooding and intense lightning possible until three o'clock tomorrow morning. back in north yorkshire, the buckden gala ends with something else that should also come with a yellow warning.

olivia richwald, bbc news, in the yorkshire dales.

i am karin giannone, you are with bbc news. the headlines... israel says it's assassinated another three top iranian military officials - including saeed izadi, who's been described as a key figure in planning the october the 7th hamas attacks on israel. iranian state media reports that at least 430 people have been killed since the conflict with israel began. iran's foreign minister says tehran cannot consider negotiations with the us while it remains under bombardment. speaking at a meeting of foreign ministers in istanbul, he again accused washington of being involved in israel's attacks from the beginning - something the trump administration has denied. the husband of the exiled belarusian opposition leader svetlana tikhanovskaya has been freed after more than five years in prison.

influential blogger sergei tikhanovsky is one of 14 political detainees released during a visit to minsk by the us envoy keith kellogg. all of them are now in lithuania. and soaring temperatures are affecting much of europe and the us. what's described as a heat dome is already smothering the american mid-west and is expected to expand to much of the rest of the country over the coming days. a warning is also in place for parts of england and wales. i very much appreciate the resilience and commitment to duty you all demonstrate so effectively. and king charles sends a message to the team working at the british antarctic survey - as they mark the darkest as we've mentioned, israel has struck iran's nuclear facility near isfahan, pressing ahead with its aerial

assault. so far israel has struck both netanz and isfahan. but the fordow nuclear facility - which is believed to be even deeper underground than the channel tunnel which connects the uk and france - has remained out of reach of israel's weaponry. only the us possesses a bomb considered large enough to destroy fordow - a 13 tonne weapon called a "bunker-buster." but it's not clear whether president trump would be willing to deepen us involvement in the conflict by providing that bomb. earlier i spoke to william alberque, former director of strategy, technology and arms control at nato, on where things stand right now with potential us military involvement. the united states has moved bombers and tankers and fighter jets to signal its readiness to move into the conflict, as you mentioned, b-2s in guam. there are also b-2s that have been moved from whiteman air force base to diego garcia, and we've seen the pegasus refuellers and fighter jets moving

all into the area. so if the united states makes the decision - and that's a big if - it's ready to go with strikes very, very quickly. it's a big if. we heard two weeks, that time scale given by donald trump to iran, what do you think he wants? i mean, does he really want to go ahead with military involvement, or does he just want to cut some kind of deal to stop this? this is exactly what you would do if you wanted a deal. if he didn't want a deal, the bombers would be striking right now. if he wanted a deal, he would move everything into place to make the threat as credible as possible and say, "i'm going to wait." two weeks is an awful long time. i think he's giving iran the clearest signal possible that they must give up on their enrichment capability, which was the red line as of june 12th, and you kind of feel like is probably going to be less of a red line moving forward. tell us why that nuclear facility we hear so much

about at fordow in iran, why is it such a focus? it's 80 to 90m buried deep inside a mountain with reinforced concrete around it. iran specifically put it in there so that it could not be bombed, because they knew that they were going to do things that other countries would want to bomb. otherwise they'd put it on the surface where it was originally back in 2005. so in there is some of the most advanced centrifuges they have. this is where they're enriching to 60%. they had previously been doing that at natanz, that facility that was blown up back on the 13th. so this is clearly the place that they want to signal to the world that they are able and willing to enrich uranium all the way up to bomb grade. and so this is the jewel in the crown. this is what the israelis want destroyed. and it's part of the reason israel got involved here is because they were hoping that the united states would finish this operation. i just wanted your thoughts, if you will, on the kind of discrepancy we've had from what president trump is saying about iran's

nuclear capacities and that of tulsi gabbard, the director of national intelligence, testifying back in march that iran wasn't trying to build nuclear weapons. what's going on? well, and you also heard these the iranian ambassador to the uk say the same thing, but also saying, critically, they were doing things that are enabling them to build a bomb, but without making the decision to build a bomb. and you understand the tension here. they're trying, on the one hand, to threaten to increase their leverage because they thought this would help them in a negotiation. but i agree, i don't think they made the decision to build a bomb. if they had made that decision, they would have built a bomb by now. they are close enough, but they have decided to keep pushing in order to try to increase leverage in a negotiation. and they fatally miscalculated on june 12th by threatening to go further. and this is where israel used that opportunity to say, "ok, that's it, we're going to attack." but all of this is about leverage. if iran really wanted to negotiate all this away, they could have negotiated

all this away. if they wanted to build a bomb, they could have built a bomb. instead, they decided to try to increase pressure by getting as close as possible without crossing that threshold. so in a way, trump and gabbard were kind of right. we've been hearing from the academic mehrzad boroujerdi. well, actually, as this conflict goes on, i think the chances of us finding a resolution actually goes up rather than go down. i mean, first of all, we are entering week two. so this was not necessarily a, you know, an absolute victory for the israelis. the iranians are still able to get around the iron dome and send those missiles, you know, into israel. and it seems, like militarily, they have emerged out of their initial shock and are beginning to, you know, fight back. meanwhile, we are hearing all sorts of worries from other countries - next-door turkey, you know, president macron of france and others, even, you know, when we think about the predicament that president trump faces

in this situation. look, you know, on the one hand, you can understand that president trump wants to jump on this bandwagon of a victory. on the other hand, there are all sorts of serious challenges for him and the us to get involved, right? a split in his party, if there is a radioactive leak that needs to be dealt with later on, attacks on us soldiers stationed in the region, losing investments in and from the persian gulf countries, what happens to the price of oil, the cost of military operations in the region, etc. so i think by extending this, giving us this two-week window, president trump has enabled the various parts to come into more serious negotiations. it's understandable, the iranian position, that they want the bombings to stop before they can negotiate, and if the price is to reduce or entirely try to give up their prized possession, which is enriching uranium.

we mentioned earlier a meeting taking place in istanbul, which is discussing the conflict. it's the organisation of islamic cooperation council of foreign ministers. at that meeting the president of turkey 'strongly condemned' israel's attacks on iran and gaza. translation: with all these attacks, the netanyahu government has once again proved that it is the biggest obstacle in front of regional peace. i strongly condemn israel's attacks on iran. on behalf of my country and my nation, i offer my condolences for our iranian brothers and sisters who lost their lives in israel's terrorist attacks, bombings and assassinations. bbc turkish reporter emre temel told us that president erdogan

has been having a busy few days of diplomacy president erdogan had multiple phone calls with world leaders in the last nine days. he spoke with us president trump twice and the iranian president pezeshkian twice as well. turkey seems to focus its diplomatic efforts by engaging with the united states and the regional powers, compared to the european countries, and turkey is extremely concerned about the potential spill-over effect of israeli-iranian conflict, and doesn't want to see another wave of migration towards this border from iran. nato summit will be held in the netherlands next week. turkey is a nato member as well, and turkey aims to target the message, which will be... get with a statement

from the organisation of islamic cooperation tomorrow and convey this message, to the nato next week. the protest group behind yesterday's break in at the raf brize norton airbase have told the bbc plans to proscribe them are 'absurd' and a 'kneejerk reaction'. it's understood that the home sectary will add palestine action to the government's proscribed list of terrorist organisations in the coming weeks. our political correspondent joe pike reports. they struck at night, breaking into the raf's largest base and spraying red paint on two aircraft. palestine action, the group behind the break in, may now be banned, something that's never happened before to this type of organisation. i think it's absurd. i think it's a knee jerk reaction from the government. it's being rushed through. saeed taji farouky from the group told us he has a conviction for criminal damage related to a different

palestine action protest. he says people should be concerned that the government is considering effectively classing them as terrorists. it really rips apart the very basic concepts of british democracy and rule of law. that's something everyone should be terrified about. this decision on proscription, though mr farouky, shouldn't come as a surprise to your organisation. no, as i said, the government has tried to reclassify palestine action for years and it has failed. but it's never been a tactic that scares palestine action. in recent years, the group has targeted government buildings, the bbc, as well as defence companies, banks and universities with alleged links to israel. there is clearly a big difference between direct action on civil sites and on military sites, which have a role in protecting the uk's national security. you realise you've crossed a line here. i think palestine action's whole reason for being is to break the material supply chain to genocide. if that includes...

it's a step forward, isn't it, mr farouky? well, like i said, it's an escalation. it's an escalation in tactics because the genocide has escalated. the uk's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation says proscription wouldn't be out of the question. i think what you might say is, this has gone beyond protest to blackmail. it's gone beyond saying, "we're going to make our point, "we want you to hear our point and agree or disagree." it's gone to a point where they've started to say, "we will carry on, causing hundreds of millions of pounds "worth of damage unless you stop." the brize norton break-in has prompted both a police investigation and a review of the base's security. meanwhile, home secretary yvette cooper is expected to make her move within weeks. joe pike, bbc news. let's get some of the day's other news now a superyacht which sank in high winds off the coast of sicily last year has finally been raised to the surface. the bayesian went down last august, killing its owner - the british tech entrepreneur

mike lynch - along with his daughter and five others. a diver was killed during initial efforts to raise the yacht off the seabed. the bayesian will remain in its current position while final checks are carried out. it will then be towed back to port, where investigations will continue into the exact cause of the accident. panama has declared an emergency in its main banana-producing region, after shops were looted in ongoing protests over pension reforms. the government says constitutional rights will be suspended for the next five days in the province and police will be allowed to make arrests without a warrant. the authorities in romania have launched a criminal investigation into social media personality tristan tate, seen here on the right. it's alleged that he attempted to illegally influence voters during the country's recent elections. tristan, the younger brother of controversial influencer andrew tate, has been summoned for questioning on tuesday. glastonbury is just around the corner, and each year around 200,000 people arrive eager

to see their favourite acts, but so do the so-called glasto-intruders. this year, the festival's security team is going to extreme lengths to keep them out - including holding intruders in a makeshift "prison" on site. glastonbury spends huge sums on its security, hiring former members of the sas and ex-police officers to patrol the perimeter, and using drones, guard dogs and infrared cameras to find trespassers. earlier i spoke to emily prescott, arts and entertainment correspondent at the sunday times, on why the security at glastonbury is so costly. since glastonbury began, people have been trying to sneak in, even michael eavis himself. he conceived of glastonbury at a festival, he had snuck into, in shepton mallet. so there's always been that issue. in 2000, it reached a peak and they decided to erect

this four metre long, tall fence, to try and stop some of the people sneaking in. but this year, we at the sunday times, alongside some of my colleagues, we've been looking into all the people planning on sneaking in and how they're planning to do it and the various ways they're being stopped. it's obviously £400 a ticket, around that, and they sell out in 35 minutes. so there's many people who haven't got tickets. on top of that, emily eavis this year has said she reduced some of the... some of the offering to stop overcrowding. so it's more popular than ever, and so it's just... more people are desperate to get in. throughout the years, many people have snuck in, including jess phillips mp. she actually broke her ankle while attempting to watch david bowie. they're sort of, you know, cracking down because it's obviously a safety issue. so people who do sneak in, who get caught, will then be held in a kind of glastonbury jail while they're being processed. and they are, you know...

they're given drinks and they are allowed to make a statement - water, that is - they're allowed to make a statement, and then they'll be driven off the site and have to make their way back to the station. and so there's various methods that people use for sneaking in. there's all sorts of tales of people climbing over the fence with a ladder, or going under with a... through a tunnel underground. and then there'll be whatsapp groups discussing how to get in, reddit threads discussing various ways, but it's obviously not advisable as there's such high security, like emily eavis said, that they actually spend more on their security than the royal family spend on their security. emily prescott of the sunday times. the pictures we're showing you, donald trump getting on marine one, the helicopter at the base in maryland. this is at a time

when he has told iran there will be two weeks for it to decide whether it will give up its nuclear programme and there has been a lot of speculation as to whether the us will provide assistance to israel in the form of those extremely powerful so-called bunker buster bombs which could penetrate underground to around's fordow nuclear facility, the one israel's weapons on their own cannot get to. everybody watching very closely what the us military on donald trump are doing at the moment. the italian fashion designer giorgio armani will miss his two shows at milan's men's fashion week for the first time in over 50 years. the company has said the 91-year-old is recovering at home after being admitted to hospital. they added that mr armani will closely follow every phase of the shows, as usual. his right-hand man will greet

the audience at today's and monday's shows. mr armani is expected to attend fashion shows in paris to present his haute couture collection. here in the uk, king charles has become the first monarch to send a message of support to the team working at the british antarctic survey to mark their mid winters day. each year, the bbc world service broadcasts a message to those stationed in antarctica, as they begin their longest night of the year. here's daniella relph. the northern lights over one of the british antarctic survey research stations. during the midwinter months, life here can feel dark, cold and isolated. over the decades, the bbc world service annual midwinter broadcast has been a morale boost for those working in the extreme conditions of an antarctic winter. now in its 70th year, today the audio message comes from the king. i very much appreciate the resilience and commitment to duty you all demonstrate so effectively, and which embody the pioneering spirit

that has characterised british polar exploration for generations. on the 70th anniversary of this midwinter broadcast, i send countless special thoughts for your celebrations today. and those celebrations by the research team in the antarctic have been compared to their own version of christmas day. traditionally, we start with a bit of a brunch. we'll have a large midwinter meal. we'll usually have a broadcast every year, in which we'll get some messages from family and friends and hear some tunes that we've picked as a station. and then throughout the week, we have a variety of celebrations to coincide with that midwinter period, including this year, we're going to do a 10k fun run. a 10k fun run in those conditions - how fun is that? ask me when i'm halfway round! the history of midwinter broadcasts has been varied.

in 2017, there was a song from comedian and musician bill bailey. # there's rock and roll in the south pole # in your cosy antarctic hidey-hole.# and also a unique message from the cast of the bbc comedy w1a. what are we saying, then? i think we're saying well done and good luck. yes, good luck. they're being very brave, so good luck. and thank you. yes, thank you. many thanks for the work you're doing and good luck from the bbc. come home, keep warm, yeah. ok, yeah. so that's all good. and how will the british antarctic survey team round off their celebrations? they'll watch the 1982 horror sci-fi film the thing... anybody there? ..the story of antarctic researchers battling with an extraterrestrial being. a quirky end to this midwinter day. daniela relph, bbc news. a photo of the prince of wales with a litter of puppies has been posted to mark his 43rd

birthday. william is shown with his family's cocker spaniel, orla, and three of her four recently arrived puppies. there was also message from his wife and children, and was one of two pictures posted to mark his birthday. restaurant chains in japan specialising in rice dishes are introducing more noodles in their menus as they struggle to keep up with the sky-high cost of rice. in the past year, rice has doubled in price in japan. the cost has continued to rise, despite the release of more than 600,000 tonnes of stockpiled rice from government reserves. japanese consumers are also looking for alternatives to the staple food at supermarkets. one company said sales of frozen udon noodles grew by about 10% in april, compared with a year earlier. now, how do you go

about moving 80,000 bees from inside a building? well, for factory workers in eastern england, it involved some scaffolding, the right protective gear - and a call to the local beekeeper. our reporter debbie tubby has the story. this is a story with a sting in its tail. since 1870, this factory, one of the largest of its kind in the world, has been making malted barley. but thousands of uninvited workers have just been discovered. and it's not barley they're producing. it's honey. we were putting some scaffolding up, the scaffolders recognised there were some bees flying in and out of the building. so we stopped, had a little look, and then we found what we believe to be a bit of a hive. first we all need protective gear, although we're told the bees can sting through the suits. we're going to take our time. i'm going to give them a little bit of smoke and a little bit of tepid water just to calm them down, and we're going to try and take as many of the bricks out as we can by hand, and i can

hopefully identify the queen. my first mission is to see her royal highness and get her in the box. that's what we want to do. so this is the brood pattern where she's laying, and the brood pattern will be rugby ball shaped. so as we go up, we can see the brood. and we're more likely to come across the queen. the plan is wherever the queen goes, the others will follow. but with 80,000 bees, it's not easy to find her. how wide is this cavity? chris fulford feels bad destroying their home. slowly removing each brick in the wall. i've been told by some of the workers here that had been in there ten years. so you expect it to be big, but no real... no idea it would be as big as it is, and so much of it. and you got stung once. only once, yeah. the wall needs repairing. and although they're not a protected species and could be destroyed, they're going to be rehomed.

steve's about to remove the fifth layer of honeycomb. it's a slow and steady process, but he's still looking for the queen. i would imagine that she's probably just above there. there's a settlement just above, on the outside of the brickwork. after searching all day, the queen still hasn't been found, but the colony has been saved. this is the biggest, biggest i've ever dealt with. it's really good size and very healthy too. they've managed to keep themselves healthy. it's a shame that they had to be moved, but the company need to do things with the building and it's nice they've got me out to try and save them, so i'll do that. he'll give the bees a lift to their new home at adnams brewery in suffolk, leaving the maltings in norfolk, which has been a hive of activity. debbie tubby, bbc news. it's the international day of yoga, and millions are rolling out their mats to celebrate. in india, prime minister modi joined a class

on ramakrishna beach - with 500,000 turning out to take part in a mass yoga session. yoga teacher sweta bahri showed us some of her yoga moves so i do a lot of poses in my classes, i'll start with the most beginner friendly one, and i think the balancing poses bring a lot of spatial awareness. the popular one that you'll all have seen is the tree pose. i always say try to bring the foot above the knee or below the knee, keep the spine neutral, palms to heart centre, all the way up. and this is going to help you build spatial awareness, make you less injury prone. so that would be my beginner class. and if you want, with regular practice you'll see the body builds mobility and you start to realise that the body's range of motion improves. for example, in this forward fold you can start with the palms down, and with regular practice, you'll notice the crown of the head reaching comfortably towards the mat. and all this happens with ease and consistency when you show up to that yoga

class every week.

live from washington, this is bbc news. israel says it's killed a senior iranian commander - described as one of the key architects of the october 7th hamas attacks. the pro-palestinian student activist - mahmoud khalil - speaks out after being released from detention in the us. whether you are a citizen, an immigrant, anyone on this land, you are not illegal. that doesn't make you less of a human. and feeling the heat - temperatures climb in europe and america, while the uk experiences the warmest day of the year so far.