Interview: Departing Dutch MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld says Ursula von der Leyen has kowtowed to national governments and played politics with the rule of law. politico.eu/article/ursula…

"I hope they'll listen" People in Spain're protesting against the consequences of mass tourism.#Mallorca many locals can no longer afford to rent a place.Alicia's son works at the airport for €650/month."We don't want to be the waiters of Europe" w/ Nick Beake Juan A. Dominguez

What’s going on in #Venezuela ? Listen to this great episode of the Global Story podcast. Bbc’s Will Grant & Ione Wells speak to Sumi Somaskanda to bring you both the context & the mood on the streets. 🎧producers Beth Timmins Laurie Kalus 👇🏼 spotify.link/bXmRTsGxELb

The sky above us in Northern Israel. A few minutes ago. alerts then sounded and people went into shelters.

100 rockets fired from Lebanon in the last hour according to Israeli army. Some were intercepted just above us in northern Israel 30mins ago. With Nick Beake Francesco Tosto and Yoram Black

Hezbollah has fired rockets into Israel all day today, showing that the group is still able to inflict damage while under pressure from the Israeli army. Not all rockets were intercepted and the village of Deir Al Assad & the town of Karmiel were both hit with Nick Beake &

The cities of Haifa and Tiberias were hit by Hezbollah rockets for the first time. Israeli air defence systems did not intercept all incoming missiles in the past few days. Loud explosions from beyond the border with Lebanon and intense aircraft activity could be heard through

« There were many heroes that night » Dani Burguet was one of them, he took 4children to safety. They were stuck in a flooded language school. The video of the rescue went viral. We found him in Paiporta rebuilding the school. 👇🏼

The European Court of Human Rights finds Greece guilty of systematic pushbacks of people looking for asylum. Despite the hundreds of horror stories of masked armed men behaving like thugs, confiscating phones, pushing people at sea out of EU waters, Greek authorities have always

"The consequences of so much destruction and death will be felt for a generation at least." Jeremy Bowen analysis on the ceasefire deal announced yesterday. #Gaza #Israel #Palestine

Little Assad, 3years old survived the bombing of his house in Gaza city yesterday. The ceasefire comes into force on Sunday. A majority of Israeli support it. But settlers in the West Bank oppose it. They don't want the army to withdraw from Gaza. Jeremy Bowen Oren Rosenfeld Watch

Little Assad survived but he's now an orphan relying on the generosity of friends and neighbours. Jeremy Bowen tells you his story. w/ malak hassouneh and colleagues in Gaza. #BBCNews

19/01/2025 Gaza The ceasefire came into force. 3 Israeli hostages were freed. 90 Palestinian prisoners were freed. BBC coverage of the day 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=i6jbr0… Anna Foster Jon Donnison Fergal Keane Jeremy Bowen lucy manning

“The police says this man acted alone, but this hate,it is coming from somewhere.” Read this piece by Joel Gunter on Tuesday’s attack on a school in Sweden.

"Europe needs to say stop to the killing and to the slaughter that's going on in Gaza at the moment." The Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin was the only EU leader to directly address the situation in Gaza at his arrival at the #EUCO this morning. #Israel

📣 Some news about me: Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love. Journalism is not a crime. Here’s the BBC’s statement:

"The fact that we are watching people being entirely stripped of their human dignity should really shock our collective conscience." Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President, shared with Jeremy Bowen about the dire situation for civilians in Gaza and made a call for leaders to act now👇🏽

Even wars have rules. And they are being broken. Jeremy Bowen (and me) on how decisions made now about the war in Gaza could haunt governments for years to come: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Smugglers are adapting and launch “taxi boats “ and try and pack as many people as they can for the dangerous crossing to the UK. Brilliant report by the Bbc Paris team on the beaches of Calais

100+ NGOs have called for the EU to suspend its treaty with Israel - because of Gaza. But the EU is divided - and the economic weight of this bloc of 450 million people is not translating to a coherent or unified voice. With Bruno Boelpaep bbc.com/news/articles/…