Israel-Iran live: Iranian nuclear site and notorious jail 'bombed by Israel' - as supreme leader asks Putin for help
Israel's military has targeted Iran's Fordow nuclear site a day after the US bombed the facility, while also blowing the doors off of a notorious Iranian prison. Iran has asked Russia for help, while vowing revenge against the US. Follow the latest and listen to The World podcast below.
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Daily Mail
34 minutes ago
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Labour STILL can't bring themselves to back Donald Trump's strikes after Iran retaliated by launching missile barrage at US airbase in Qatar
Keir Starmer risked being marginalised on the world stage last night after failing to back Donald Trump 's strikes against Iran. As Tehran launched revenge attacks on US bases in the Middle East, the Prime Minister was last night accused of a 'lack of moral clarity' as he refused to take sides in the deepening conflict. British citizens in Qatar were warned to 'shelter in place' last night as Iran fired missiles at America's giant Al Udeid Air Base. Iranian state media said the country's 'mighty and victorious' response to the American assault on its nuclear facilities had begun. Tehran vowed to inflict 'serious, unpredictable consequences' on the US, but, in a sign that it fears further provoking President Trump, it is reported to have warned the Qataris in advance of the attack and focused on a base from which military aircraft had already been removed. Sir Keir was last night facing growing questions about his refusal to support the action taken by America in striking Tehran's nuclear facilities. Yesterday he insisted the UK was 'absolutely focused on de-escalation in the Middle East'. Critics warned that ministers had been left 'paralysed' over the issue after Attorney General Lord Hermer advised that joining Israel 's attacks on Iran, which began 11 days ago, would break international law. Labour's agonies intensified at the weekend following the audacious US assault on the Fordow facility at the heart of Iran's nuclear programme. Foreign Secretary David Lammy told MPs the issue of whether or not Britain supported the attack is not a 'binary question'. And the PM risked diplomatic marginalisation after Nato and Germany backed President Trump's dramatic intervention. Nato chief Mark Rutte said the US bombing raid did not break international law – and said that his 'biggest fear' was that Iran's murderous regime would acquire a nuclear weapon. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said there was 'no reason to criticise what America did at the weekend,' adding: 'Yes, it is not without risk. But leaving things as they were was not an option either.' Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds yesterday acknowledged that the PM's influence on the escalating crisis in the Middle East is now 'not great' with the UK left on the sidelines of the 'special relationship'. Sir Keir emerged from talks with the US President last week to declare Mr Trump would not attack Iran – only to find himself proved wrong days later. Chancellor Rachel Reeves also dodged the question as to whether she backed Washington yesterday. Kemi Badenoch said it was 'quite extraordinary' that ministers were unable to side with the United States against a regime which MI5 says has attempted 20 plots on British soil in the past three years. Mrs Badenoch said Labour's attempt to sit on the fence showed 'a complete absence of moral clarity and, in fact, moral courage'. The Tory leader said she was clear that the US bombing raid was legal, after the shadow attorney general Lord Wolfson advised that aiding Israel was in line with international law because a key ally was facing a 'genocidal threat' from Iran's nuclear programme. During a BBC interview yesterday, Mr Lammy refused eight times to endorse Mr Trump's actions, saying repeatedly that the UK was 'not involved'. In a separate interview with LBC, armed forces minister Luke Pollard failed on seven occasions to back the military action by the US, saying: 'That's not one for me to comment on.' A spokesman for the PM said preventing Iran gaining a nuclear weapon would be a 'good thing'. But he added: 'Our focus is on diplomacy. That is the priority and that is what every member of this government is working towards and that's been the focus of the calls with international partners over the weekend. Iran should take the opportunity presented by the US to re-enter talks.' Sir Keir raised eyebrows yesterday by leaving Mr Lammy to update MPs on the crisis. He missed his weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions last week because of the G7 summit in Canada and is likely to miss it again tomorrow when he is due at the Nato summit. Before and after pictures of Fordow underground complex, taken on June 20 and June 22 'The strikes were a spectacular military success,' Trump said in a late-night address from the White House No 10 insisted the PM was 'not avoiding Parliament'. Sir Julian Lewis, former chairman of Parliament's intelligence and security committee, said Israel and its allies had a right to defend the country from Iran. He asked Mr Lammy: 'How many times must a terrorist-funding, fanatical regime threaten to wipe another country from the face of the earth before a Government advised by Lord Hermer of Chagos acknowledge that military action to delay and degrade its nuclear weapons programme is both ethically and legally justifiable?' Mr Lammy acknowledged that Iran's uranium enrichment programme goes far beyond what is needed for civilian energy purposes. 'Britain has long had concerns about Iran's nuclear programme,' he said. 'A nuclear-armed Iran would endanger the immediate region and threaten the global community.' Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin said that Lord Hermer's advice had left ministers 'paralysed and divided'. Former security minister Tom Tugendhat said: 'Labour and the Lib Dems agree they don't want a nuclear Iran and demand only diplomacy – as though no one had thought of that for the past 20 years. 'It's bad enough to look weak. It's worse to advertise irrelevance but the Government has just achieved it.' Human rights lawyer Phillipe Sands, a friend of Lord Hermer and Sir Keir, last night said Israel's attacks on Iran went 'way beyond' what could be justified under international law and that the US was 'not directly threatened at all by Iran'.
Daily Mail
41 minutes ago
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ROLAND WHITE reviews Death In The Desert: The Nurse Helen Mystery - 'How Foreign Office covered up the suspected murder of British nurse'
Is there anything that politics can't make a great deal worse? One night in May 1979, a young nurse called Helen Smith was enjoying herself at an illegal alcohol party in a block of flats in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She was dancing with a Dutch tugboat captain called Johannes Otten, and they eventually left together. That was the last time anybody saw them alive. The following morning, Helen's body was found on the street outside, while Johannes was impaled on nearby railings. She was 23. The Saudi authorities insisted the couple had accidentally fallen from a balcony while having sex. Last night's Death In The Desert (Ch4) made a convincing case that they were both murdered. If they fell from the balcony, why weren't their bodies spotted by some fellow guests, who left the party at 3am? Why weren't Helen's injuries consistent with a 70ft fall? A Home Office pathologist - who conducted a second post-mortem after a long campaign by her family - concluded she had probably been raped and beaten. The producers of the documentary, using the Freedom of Information Act, managed to obtain 121 Foreign Office files about the case. These show that, behind the scenes, officials were far from convinced by the Saudis' story. And the Director of Public Prosecutions wrote to the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire to report 'a strong suspicion that both people were murdered'. The trouble was, nobody in government was prepared to say this out loud. It was politics, of course, that got in the way. Margaret Thatcher had only recently become Prime Minister, and relations with Saudi Arabia were particularly delicate. Ministers feared that any shift in the price of oil could cause inflation, which Mrs Thatcher was struggling to bring down. If we offended the Saudis, they could also cancel valuable arms contracts. To make matters worse, there was already tension between the two countries after ITV's Death Of A Princess documentary - about the execution of a Saudi princess for adultery. As barrister Geoffrey Robertson put it: 'It's quite clear from these papers you've discovered that it suited the Foreign Office for this to go away'. It did go away, eventually. This was partly because Helen's campaigning father Ron died, and partly because there was no obvious suspect. Last month, the Mail reported a new development in a similar case. When Julie Ward was found dead in Kenya in 1988, local officials said she'd been eaten by lions. But evidence now suggests that the late Jonathan Moi, son of former president Daniel arap Moi, should have been arrested. It's reassuring, I suppose, that injustices like these can be exposed by newspapers and television programmes so many years later. By then, of course, it's usually far too late to do anything about it.
Sky News
an hour ago
- Sky News
Iran confirms it has agreed to ceasefire with Israel - as Trump declares it will begin within hours
A "complete and total ceasefire" has been agreed between Israel and Iran, according to Donald Trump. The US president made the announcement on Truth Social - hours after Tehran launched a missile strike on a US army base in Qatar. In a post shared at just after 11pm UK time, Mr Trump said the first stage of the ceasefire would begin six hours later. This means both countries could still launch strikes in the meantime - and soon after, Israel announced evacuation orders for two areas in Tehran. A senior Iranian official told the Reuters news agency that Tehran has agreed to the ceasefire after being persuaded by Qatar. Mr Trump wrote: "Officially, Iran will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 24th Hour, an Official END to THE 12 DAY WAR will be saluted by the World. "On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, 'THE 12 DAY WAR.' "This is a War that could have gone on for years, and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't, and never will!" 2:58 Just hours earlier, people in the Qatari capital Doha had stopped and gazed up at the sky as Iranian missiles flew to the American al Udeid base and interceptors fired. Officials said there were no casualties, and the US later confirmed it had been warned about the attack by Iran. Mr Trump was in the Situation Room in the White House as the strikes took place. He later claimed on his social network that the missiles were a "very weak response", which the US "expected" and "very effectively countered". The Iranian attack came after the US dropped "bunker buster bombs" on three key nuclear sites in Iran over the weekend. 1:08 In a new interview on Fox News, US Vice President JD Vance claimed Iran is no longer able to build nuclear weapons after the American attacks. "Iran was very close to having a nuclear weapon," he said. "Now Iran is incapable of building a nuclear weapon with the equipment they have because we destroyed it."
