hello. i'm carl nasman. a palestinian bid tojoin the united nations as a full member has failed, after the united states used its veto during the vote. the us is a permanent member of the security council. it argued that an independent palestinian state should be established through direct negotiations between israel and the palestinian authority and not through un action. have a listen. we also have long been clear that premature actions here in new york, even with the best intentions, will not achieve statehood for the palestinian people. as members of the security council, we have a special responsibility to ensure that our actions further the cause of international peace and security and are consistent with the requirements for the un charter. as reflected in the report of the admission committee, there was not unanimity among committee members as to whether the applicant met

the criteria for membership. of the 15 council members, 12 voted yes while britain and switzerland abstained. we agree that the people of the west bank and gaza must be given the political perspective of a credible route to a palestinian state and a new future. and it needs to be irreversible. this is not entirely in our gift but our recognition of a palestinian state should be part of it. we believe that such recognition of palestinian statehood should not come at the start of a new process. but it doesn't have to be at the very end of the process. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas condemned the us veto as "unfair, unethical, and unjustified," saying in a statement that it challenged "the will of the international community, "which strongly supports

palestine�*s full membership." the push to recognise its statehood comes after more than six months of war in gaza, while israel continues expanding settlements in the occupied west bank. that's a move widely considered a violation of international law. our north america correspondent, john sudworth, has more on the vote. yeah, there's been a long day of speeches here at the united nations. passionately held positions on both sides. the palestinian representative saying that granting palestine full membership status would give hope to the palestinian people. a response from the israeli ambassador here saying that six months on from the hamas attacks, it would simply be a reward for terror. now, the us position, as you say, has long been known. it argues that granting palestine full status would be premature, that it should not come ahead of a negotiated settlement,

a bilateral agreement between palestine and israel. but nonetheless, although that was the us position, it was clear that it did not want, if it could possibly avoid it, to have to do what it did today. there are reports of pretty intense lobbying behind the scenes. the us would have liked to have got this vote delayed or even better had other members come on board to help defeat it. but in the end, what's remarkable is 12 of the 15 members of the security council voted in favour, including some pretty key us allies — japan, south korea and france. and that forced the us ambassador robert wood, to raise that hand, issuing the veto and killing the proposal. but not only that, some critics would say once again exposing how isolated the us is becoming on the international stage over this issue. that wasjohn that was john sudworth. live now to hussein ibish,

senior resident scholar at the arab gulf states institute. thank you forjoining us. the us said that after this boat it supports a palestinian state but it still veto the resolution that would have fully recognised palestine at the united nations at least. what you make of the us�*s action today? it what you make of the us's action today?— what you make of the us's action today? it is consistent with us positions _ action today? it is consistent with us positions going - action today? it is consistent with us positions going back| action today? it is consistent. with us positions going back a couple of decades of supporting palestinian statehood and supporting un security council resolutions that call for the creation of a palestinian state that was done under george w bush. but at the same time, not supporting a request for full membership in the general assembly. palestine is a nonmember observer state in the general assembly. nonmember observer state in the generalassembly. i nonmember observer state in the general assembly. i think the biggest difference this time is that it has come with a heavy heart rather than in anger. in the past it has always been a

veto applied in anger at the palestinians, how do you ask this, and this time it is not, it is sort with a heavy heart and explanation that no, this is not the way, and there is no threat of us sanctions or reprisals against the palestinians at this point. in the past us aid has been cut, israel has withheld money and there's been an effort to punish the palestinian authority the west bank for the actions of the plo at the un and that's not on the cards this time, so i do think there is the sense that the us position is moving towards greater sympathy for the eventual creation of a palestinian state, itjust has not reached the point where it wants to get ahead of itself and enter palestine in the un when there is no palestinian state on the ground. i when there is no palestinian state on the ground.- when there is no palestinian state on the ground. i want to touch on _ state on the ground. i want to touch on what _ state on the ground. i want to touch on what israel- state on the ground. i want to touch on what israel had - state on the ground. i want to touch on what israel had to i state on the ground. i want to| touch on what israel had to say about this. israel nonmember of the security council but are representatives calling the

proposal shameful and essentially saying that a recognition of statehood for palestine six months after the attacks by hamas on israel would be a reward for terrorism, kind of paraphrasing.- terrorism, kind of paraphrasing. terrorism, kind of --arahrasina. ., paraphrasing. do you agree with that? of course _ paraphrasing. do you agree with that? of course not, _ paraphrasing. do you agree with that? of course not, that's - that? of course not, that's preposterous. it is the reverse of the truth, it would have been a great victory for the palestinians who want to talk to israel and do a deal with israel rather than the palestinians who want to shoot at israelis but this is really government is an extremist government, it is committed to annexation, it is opposed to a two state solution, it has a lot of people in it who if they were palestinians would find hamas to be too wishy—washy for them and they are very radical. so of course they make up some absurd sort of up is down, down is a logic like this where a move that might have strengthened the plo and the

palestinian authority, the palestinians who are committed to a peace agreement with israel, at the expense of hamas, becomes a reward for hamas, becomes a reward for hamas, it is all wrong, of course, but you see the israeli government is being totally opposed to statehood, wants to conflate all palestinians with hamas and punish all palestinians for the actions of hamas whereas the israelis themselves kept hamas in power in gaza. ~ . ., ., in gaza. what about globally? i want to touch _ in gaza. what about globally? i want to touch others _ in gaza. what about globally? i want to touch others because l in gaza. what about globally? i i want to touch others because it was interesting to see the boat, 12 of the 15 members voting in favour, there were two abstentions, we're here in countries like spain, ireland, malta and flaminia reportedly want to recognise palestine as a state diplomatically. looking globally, how would you describe support for palestinian state? it describe support for palestinian state? it is very stron: palestinian state? it is very strong and _ palestinian state? it is very strong and the _ palestinian state? it is very strong and the global- palestinian state? it is very i strong and the global standing on the plo which speaks for the palestinians internationally is the crown jewel in the palestinian national movement. all these embassies, 130 round

the world, and the nonmember observer state status in the un is the most important things palestinians have accumulated politically since the plo was reformed in 1967 and that israel can't take away from them. that's what hamas is fighting to get a hold of. it is what fattah has, palestinians who want to talk to israelis have that, they control the international standing and voice, hamas is fighting and in fact the attack israel precisely in order to further a long—term plan to get hold of that voice. for israel to say, well, we have to weaken that voice, in order to kind of punish palestinians who are opposed to hamas in order to, i don't know, punish palestinians from 7 october, is just crazy. international support for palestine is growing, there is not much israel can do about it

but the israelis can do, they can pick what palestinians they want to do business with, the ones who want to kill them all the ones who want to talk to them and write elie okobo great job of strangling the ones who want to kill them and we getting the ones who want to talk to them. hussein ibish, senior resident scholar at the arab gulf states institute. thank you for your thoughts tonight. thank you for your thoughts toniaht. ., ., ., , , tonight. you are absolutely welcome- _ tonight. you are absolutely welcome. thank— tonight. you are absolutely welcome. thank you. - to the italian island of capri, where aid to ukraine dominated discussions on day two of talks between g7 foreign ministers. ukraine's foreign minister — dmytro kuleba — also joined those discussions. he said there needs to be a change in strategy if kyiv is going to fight off russia's continued aggression. in attendance were foreign ministers from italy, canada, france, germany, japan, britain, and the united states. kuleba also told them ukraine needs more air defence systems. nato secretary general jens stoltenberg — also in capri for the talks — acknowleged the need for those defence systems, and said nato is actively working to supply them.

jessica parker reports from capri. a majorfocus here is ukraine's calls for more air defence systems. the nato secretary—general, jens stoltenberg, is here in capri. he said earlier there is an urgent critical need, that russia is pushing on the whole front line whilst carrying out waves of air strikes. but, look, this is a g7 foreign ministers meeting — ukraine's foreign minister is here but it's not a formal weapons pledging session. that being said, they can discuss, they can coordinate. but speaking to officials today, the mood on this issue overall is somewhat downbeat. causing a bit more optimism, though, is the prospect of a vote in congress on the long—stalled us aid package to ukraine of $60 billion. that's certainly being talked up here. they are looking, though, at other ways to raise money

for ukraine and one idea that's been kicking about for quite some time now, seen as potentially legally quite tricky, is using frozen russian assets — specifically, according to people i've been speaking to, whether they could use the interest from those assets to effectively channel money to ukraine. but we don't expect any final decisions on that here, it's something that's been indicated that you could see maybe being proposed at the g7 leaders' meeting later this year. the united states and britain have imposed new sanctions on iran and its weapons manufacturers to punish tehran for its missile and drone attack on israel last weekend. white house officials said the sanctions were aimed at disrupting iran's ability to produce the drones that its military used to attack israel. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, has more. israel is cunning number substantial pressure to reduce and minimise any response that

makes to iran in response to iran's attack at the weekend and comes under pressure from different angles. from the detonations you have got antonio guterres, the us secretary general, saying, look, because we are now in a place of maximum danger, we need to be in a position of maximum restraint. warning that if there is and vasculature out by israelis, we could have a full—scale regional war. that's the pressure from the un. from the pressure from the un. from the other side you have pressure from the iranians themselves doing everything they could to try to deter anti— israeli counter—attack, so you have got a revolutionary guard general saying if israel attacks are hard, we might have to revise our nuclear strategy. you've got the iranian foreign minister at the united nations saying if israel retaliates, we will have to retaliate as well. so that's the pressure that

israel is under at the moment and then it's getting some diplomatic nudging from its allies, the americans and the british and some of the europeans now agreeing new sanctions on iran, they are not that substantive because there are a lot of sanctions already in place on iran but essentially this is the americans and uk saying that international pressure should be reimposed on iran, that israel is not alone, that there is a broader coalition against what iran has been doing and they are currently supporting israel and the coalition has been encouraged and increased because of that attack at the weekend. you've got a little bit of carrot and stick approach that's been levelled against israel and they still have yet to decide what to do. the israeli leadership made they are going to respond to iran but they about to say when or how. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at another

story making news. the former chief executive of the scottish national party, peter murrell, has been charged in connection with the embezzlement of funds from the snp. mr murrell, who is married to the former scottish first minister nicola sturgeon, was taken into custody for questioning on thursday — more than a year after he was first arrested. a police investigation is ongoing. our scotland editor, james cook, has more. at the heart of this enquiry is nearly £667,000 raised by the snp between 2017 and 2020 to campaign for independence. questions first arose at the end of 2019 when it emerged that the party had just under £97,000 in the bank. tonight one more development in enquiry that has sent shock waves through scottish politics, peter marshall has resigned his membership of the snp. what happens now? well what happens now? the police say in due course, they will send what is known

as a "standard prosecution report" to the public prosecutor in scotland. you're live with bbc news. a fulljury has been sworn in for former us president donald trump's historic criminal trial in new york. the 12jurors will decide whether mr trump is guilty or innocent in a case stemming from a hush money payment he made to an adult film star. dozens of potential jurors had been dismissed throughout the week. our north america correspondent, nada tawfik, explains how the selection process played out. donald trump looked on as they raise their right hands and saw that they would be fair and impartial in hearing this case. it comes after a day of twists and turns after two jurors were abruptly excused. one day a woman who said she felt intimidated after details of her identity were made public. she said friends and family had reached out, guessing she was a likelyjuror, and she felt reached out, guessing she was a likely juror, and she felt that outside opinions might impact

her decision—making, she said she couldn't be sure that she could be impartial and fair and she was excused. another was a gentleman, originally from puerto rico, he said he found donald trump fascinating and was an it consultant. prosecutors questioned whether he was forthright about his criminal history and ultimately he was excused. later outside of court he told reporters that he had wanted to serve, but for the 12 jurors that have been selected, also one ' the remaining alternates will be chosen tomorrow, when court resumes, but out of the 12 there are seven men, five women, they range, diverse ethnicities, diverse professions, from a recent couege professions, from a recent college graduate to two lawyers and an investment banker, someone who works in sales, and the process of selecting the jury the process of selecting the jury really started to speed up later in the day after the defence and prosecution ran out

of their strikes which are essentially variability to get rid of enduro based on any reason. in fact, rid of enduro based on any reason. infact, one rid of enduro based on any reason. in fact, one woman who said she did not have donald trump's persona, his defence lawyers tried to get her removed for cause, but they were unable to do that. the judge that it wasn't about how she felt about him but whether she felt about him but whether she could serve impartially. donald trump was subdued throughout the day but upon leaving court he said that he should be out campaigning and he said that this was an unfair trial. china's economy is facing its biggest economic challenge in two decades. the so—called factory of the world is struggling to recover from years of covid lockdowns and a global economic downturn. president xijinping's plan is to make and sell more electric cars, solar panels and wind turbines to sell to the uk and europe. but that has many western firms worried that low—cost chinese—made goods will force them out of business. our china correspondent, laura bicker, has been to the country's manufacturing hub, the city of dongguan.

ren wenbing is a lifelong factory worker who's helped forge china's rise. this is your home? everything he owns is behind this door. but as china's economy falters, the last firm he worked for closed without warning, leaving him without his redundancy pay, which will take years to earn back. translation: it's hard to find newjobs. - we are old and we don't have many skills. most companies only hire younger people. he spent 16 years of his life in what is now a concrete shell. even in the wreckage, he can remember the furniture assembly line. this factory was his family's future — a pay cheque sent to his village home for children he couldn't afford

to travel to see. i feel reluctant to part with this place. i feel heartbroken. i've spent so many years here and now, this place has become like this. all the workers feel astonished and are disappointed and we grieve. prolonged covid lockdowns and bitter trade wars have chipped away at the pillars of china's economy, so the country has changed course. new technology and a new robotic workforce is taking over and the made in china brand is at the heart of the world's drive towards renewables. you're about to get a clear view of china's capacity to build. china dominates the world's solar panel market. 80% of the world's solar panels are made here. in fact, they've installed more in one year than the us have

in a decade, but that has both brussels and washington worried. many in the west say china is making too much of the world's green tech. they accuse beijing of giving firms state hand—outs. that means china's goods are so cheap, it's driving western brands out of business. and what do you think of, like, the capacity in china to produce this kind of green energy? right now, i think 80—90% of the energy storage equipment are designed and manufactured in china, so we are leading the market in the whole world. china is helping the world capture the sun, but at a cost. this feat cannot save its workforce and the west wants its dependence on china to end so now, once again, trade tensions threaten to cast a shadow over east—west relations. laura bicker,

bbc news, dongguan. and laura joins us now from beijing. it's great to see you and in your peace be touched on competition between china and other global economic superpowers like the us. we just had yesterday president biden proposed tripling tariffs on chinese steel. he says china is, quote, not competing. they are cheating. how that being received in china? it are cheating. how that being received in china?— received in china? it was stron: received in china? it was strong words _ received in china? it was strong words from - received in china? it was strong words from the i received in china? it was - strong words from the campaign podium from joe biden by the foreign ministry here have responded and in the press conference yesterday what they turned around and said was is the us talking about china or is it talking about itself? he added that the urge the us to

play by the rules and play competitively when it came to world trade and that china would do what it could to protect its own interests. at the heart of this is subsidies, who is subsidising what, all countries subsidise their industries to some respect but the argument here is that china is subsidising to such an extent that it is allowing solar panels for instance to be sold at half the cost that they were last year and that is not allowing western firms to compete and that is why many countries including the us are considering these greater tariffs. ~ , . considering these greater tariffs. , ., ., ., tariffs. we seen a lot of back-and-forth - tariffs. we seen a lot of| back-and-forth between back—and—forth between officials from the us and china on that. speaking of the solar panels, we saw that amazing shot there on your piece about the wide range of solar panels in the field. do you think that will be enough for china to reach these pretty aggressive growth targets that the country wants to meet?— wants to meet? yes, it's at a urowth wants to meet? yes, it's at a growth target _ wants to meet? yes, it's at a growth target of _ wants to meet? yes, it's at a growth target of 596 -

wants to meet? yes, it's at a growth target of 596 which . wants to meet? yes, it's at a i growth target of 596 which many growth target of 5% which many economists fear that they won't manage. but they have managed to kind of do it in this first quarter, they've increased gdp by 5% year—on—year and that surprised many people. but when you speak to economists, what they talk about is the china shock wave. they are exporting their way out of trouble. first of all, it was steel and aluminium, but we saw cheap toys, furniture and goods all going and now it is this high—tech, high and green technology goods. the problem with exporting your way out of trouble as it does not deal with the problems at home and here they have an incredible real estate crisis, 20 million homes lying empty, the price of homes lying empty, the price of homes is crashing and that's affecting their own population and the argument from the waste is looking within your own borders and solve your own problems and stop dumping your goods on us to solve your economy. goods on us to solve your economy-— goods on us to solve your econom . . ., �* economy. laura bicker reporting for us there _ economy. laura bicker reporting for us there from _ economy. laura bicker reporting for us there from china. - economy. laura bicker reporting for us there from china. really l for us there from china. really great stuff and amazing to see

those shots of all those solar panels. thank you very much. let's turn to some important news around the world. kenya's military chief, general francis ogolla, has been killed in a helicopter crash. nine others also died when the military aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff on thursday, about 400 kilometres — or 250 miles — northwest of the capital nairobi. two soldiers survived. ogolla's death was confirmed by kenyan president william ruto, who announced three days of national mourning. more than a dozen members of the kennedy family endorsed us presidentjoe biden for a second term — a rebuke to family member robert f kennedyjunior, who is running as an independent for the white house. rfkjr has qualified as a 2024 presidential candidate in the battleground state of michigan. speaking of leaders, taylor swift's new album drops in a couple of hours. if you search hard, you might be able to do

it now. the tortured poets department appears to have been leaked online but there are loyal fans out there who call themselves the real swifties who are adamant that they will hold out until its official release date on friday. taylor swift has not confirmed if that lead is hers or if it is fake. i am carl nasman in washington. we will have plenty more coming up we will have plenty more coming up at the top of the hour. stay with us here on bbc news. hello, there. some beautiful rainbows spotted again on thursday, particularly across parts of scotland, such as here in aberdeenshire. and there will be more rainbows on friday with sunshine and showers still very much the theme of the day but lots more dry weather to come in the forecast as we head through the weekend and into the start of next week now with high pressure starting to edge in from the west, killing off some of those

showers by the time we get to the end of the afternoon. it's a cloudy, mild start to the day across england and wales. it's a little brighter further north across scotland and northern ireland. the focus of the showers gradually shifting further southwards as we head through the afternoon across the midlands, down through central southern england. now, there will be quite a brisk and a chilly northerly to northwesterly wind blowing, lightening again by the time we get to the end of the day. and quite a range of temperatures, too — just eight celsius in aberdeenshire with that northerly wind but 15 celsius across the south—west of england. now, as we head through friday night, the skies will clear and away from north sea—facing coasts, which stay rather cloudy and breezy, then we could again see a touch of frost with temperatures dropping back to low single figures, so another chilly start to the weekend. now, the weekend — a lot of dry weather. in fact, it is looking mostly dry. we'll see some rain across scotland and there will be quite a bit of cloud around at times, especially towards the east, and a bit of east—west split in terms of temperature. with that high pressure over us, we're drawing in quite a chilly north—easterly wind, so those north sea—facing coasts. so here, it is always

going to feel cooler and there will be quite a lot of cloud around as well — the north sea really quite cold at this time of year. so, west is best in terms of sunshine amounts and temperature, certainly. now, as we head through saturday, there's a warm front gradually easing its way across the far north of scotland. this will bring some cloud, some outbreaks of rain. further south, it is largely dry but cloudy, drizzly perhaps towards these north sea—facing coasts. best of the sunshine out towards the west — it will get to 16 or 15 celsius perhaps here. some of the cloud could break up a little further eastwards, too, and that's also true on sunday, but temperatures towards these eastern coastal areas will really struggle to get much past eight or nine degrees. compare that to further west where, in parts of northern ireland, we could get to 17 degrees perhaps. feeling warmer here.

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i'm steve lai. we began with some live pictures are from india which starts voting today, the world's most popular country has over 950 million voters, my colleaguejoins us. it's has over 950 million voters, my colleague joins us. it's only a day one of a six—week along election, tell us how things have gotten under way? just a fact that time. _ have gotten under way? just a fact that time. gives - have gotten under way? just a fact that time. gives you i have gotten under way? just a fact that time. gives you a i fact that time. gives you a sense of the skill of the elections which have been held in the was largest on in a massive exercise by election officials. we currently in the city of shehnai, the southern state of tamil nadu. there are 39 lawmakers sent from the state into the parliament and all of those 39 seats will be voting through the day today. tamil nadu as a state, from an economic point of view, has been very important, it found in self in the middle of all discussions on policy decisions as well making at the state

which is the second economy of