The man who led Hamas for seven years and orchestrated the October 7th attacks against Israel has been killed by the IDF. Yahya Sinwar died in a firefight in central Gaza. US President Joe Biden has spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and urged him to seize the opportunity to bring the war in Gaza to an end. Since it began the war has claimed the lives of more than 42,000 people. An air strike on a school in Jabalia on Thursday left a further 22 people dead.

The government has announced an independent review of overpayments to carers - after ministers acknowledged some people had been pushed to "breaking point". We speak live to the Liberal Democrat leader - and carer - Sir Ed Davey. Also tonight: A bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales has been formally introduced in Parliament. We hear the view of the Silent Witness actor - and disability rights campaigner - Liz Carr. And the composer of the score for a newly restored silent...

The United States has told Israel it may withhold some military assistance unless the provision of aid into Gaza is improved within 30 days. The demand was made in a letter sent to Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday. We get the reaction of Simcha Rothman - a member of the Religious Zionist party in Israel's ruling coalition - and the former US ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides. On the eve of an assisted dying bill being introduced in parliament, we speak to the Archbishop of...

Lebanon is blaming Israel for an air strike in northern Lebanon that left 21 people dead. The strike hit the mostly Christian village of Aitou, far from the hotspots of the current conflict in southern Lebanon, Beirut and the Bekaa Valley. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to ease regulations in some parts of the economy as he welcomed billions of pounds of inward investment. And 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the legacy of East Germany continues to cast its shadow. A...

As MPs pepare to debate whether to legalise assisted dying, the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in England and Wales has made a rare political intervention to urge people to oppose the change. Cardinal Vincent Nichols has been speaking to The World Tonight. Also on the programme: The Prime Minister has tonight rebuked his Transport Secretary after she called for a boycott of a ferry company that was poised to increase investment in the UK. We have the latest. As the Nobel Peace Prize is...

Twenty-two people have been killed and 117 injured in Israeli air strikes on central Beirut, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. BBC reporters heard loud explosions echoing from the site of a strike in Bachoura, a small Shia area in the Lebanese capital. A trail of destruction has been left in Florida after Hurricane Milton struck. The aftermath includes political barbs between the two US Presidential candidates. And the Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang,...

US officials are warning Hurricane Milton, which is scheduled to make landfall on Florida's western coast within hours, could be "deadly and catastrophic". Millions of citizens have fled those areas in the storm's path, but others have decided to stay. We spoke to one man preparing to bunker down with his girlfriend and dog. US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken on the phone. The pair discussed Israel's response to an Iranian missile attack last week...

The Israeli prime minister calls on the Lebanese people to reject Hezbollah. Benjamin Netanyahu used his appeal to claim that Israel had killed the man who would have been Hezbollah's next leader. We get reaction from a Lebanese MP allied with Hezbollah's political wing. We speak to a Florida woman fleeing from Hurricane Milton, a fortnight after Hurricane Helene flooded her home. And has it been a good evening for meteor gazing?

As Israel has been mourning the mass killings and abductions by Hamas exactly a year ago, the conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon has been escalating. We hear from an Israeli who survived the assault and from a Palestinian who's spent the last year in Gaza and get the latest on the fighting in Gaza and Lebanon. We also discuss the impact on British Jews with Booker Prize winning novelist Howard Jacobson. Plus, we hear an urgent call for the government to improve care for people with ME - or...

Across the Middle East it's expected that Israel will launch an attack on Iran soon, after the Iranian regime fired a volley of hundreds of missiles towards Israel on Tuesday. Meanwhile Israel continues to confront Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank. An airstrike in the West Bank city of Tulkarm killed 18 people, including a Hamas commander. In this special episode of The World Tonight we're joined by the BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner, as well as other...

Proposals to change the law to give terminally-ill people in England and Wales the choice to die are to be voted on in parliament for the first time in nearly a decade. We hear from the Labour MP putting forward the bill, from an opponent and from a terminally-ill woman. Our international editor Jeremy Bowen interviews the most senior leader of Hamas outside Gaza. And on National Poetry Day we have a reading by Michael Rosen.

Israel says it has lost eight IDF soldiers in fighting in southern Lebanon, as it continues its operation against Hezbollah. Meanwhile Beirut suffered further Israeli air strikes. Netanyahu's government is also considering how to respond to Iran's massive missile attack yesterday. The four MPs vying to become leader of the Conservative Party delivered keynote speeches on the final day of the party conference. And after the south-eastern US was battered by Hurricane Helene, we spoke to a man...

Israel has vowed a 'powerful response' to a wave of missile strikes by Iran. Tehran says it was in response to Israeli attacks on its allies, Hezbollah and Hamas. The UK and US have condemned the Iranian attack and reiterated that Israel has the right to defend itself. The strikes came after Israel launched its cross-border ground operation against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in Lebanon.

A BBC reporter in Beirut has heard explosions in the south of the city after Israel's army ordered an evacuation of three areas. Israel is reportedly poised to mount a ground incursion into Lebanon. Hezbollah's deputy leader Naim Qassem says the group is ready for an Israeli ground offensive and says the battle "may be long". The Conservative mayor of Tees Valley, Lord Houchen, has told the BBC that all four candidates for the party leadership need to be "more honest" on how they plan to...

Dame Maggie Smith dies - the King and Sir Keir Starmer have both described the actor as a "national treasure" Israeli military bombs what it says is Hezbollah's central headquarters in Beirut Kamal Harris visit the US-Mexico border and plans to expand Wimbledon by building 39 new tennis courts are approved

The US says a call for a twenty-one day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was coordinated with Israel, despite its government's apparent rejection of the proposal. We get reaction and hear about people fleeing from Lebanon to Syria. In Washington, Volodymir Zelensky presents his plan for victory in Ukraine's war with Russia. And Baroness Sayeeda Warsi resigns from the Conservative Party in the House of Lords, saying the party has moved to the far right.

The head of Israel's armed forces has told IDF soldiers to "prepare yourselves" for a possible ground offensive into Lebanon. Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said air strikes by Israeli jets are "preparing the ground for your possible entry". The Prime Ministers says people claiming long-term sickness benefit should be looking for work. How hard is it to re-enter the job market after an illness? And former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove has been appointed as the new editor of right-wing...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has told British nationals in Lebanon "now is the time to leave" as Israeli air strikes targeting Hezbollah continue. An additional 700 UK military personnel are being flown to Cyprus tonight, joining 500 who were sent earlier this year. Meanwhile thousands of Lebanese civilians are fleeing the country's south and the Bekaa Valley. Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel. Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken at the United Nations Security Council saying...

Officials in Lebanon say almost 500 people have been killed and more than 1,600 injured, after a wave of Israeli airstrikes in the south of the country. It's been the deadliest day of conflict across the border in nearly two decades. We speak to the Lebanese health minister, Firass Abiad, who says thousands of people are fleeing their homes and heading north to escape the bombardment. Also in the programme: We look ahead to Sir Keir Starmer's speech at the Labour Conference in Liverpool; and...

The UN Security Council is meeting to discuss the crisis in the Middle East as fears mount of a much wider war. We speak live to the UK's former ambassador to the UN to ask does diplomacy stand a chance - or is it too late for the wider world to prevent a dangerous escalation? Also on the programme: As fresh allegations against former Harrods boss Mohammed Al Fayed emerge we ask the barrister representing dozens of women who've accused the late billionaire of sexual assault how they can get...

The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, says bomb attacks using thousands of the Lebanese armed group's pagers and radios "crossed all red lines", and accused Israel of what he said represented a declaration of war. As he was speaking, Israeli jets flew in the skies over Beirut and later bombed many locations in southern Lebanon. Israel says it has approved battle plans for its northern front. Sir Keir Starmer insists he is "completely in control" amid a spate of off-the-record briefing...

Another day of explosions in Lebanon. At least 20 people have died - after walkie talkies blow up - and as Israel says it's opening a new phase in the war. We're live in Beirut - and ask whether the attacks on Hezbollah could be a breach of international law. Also tonight: We report from the US state of Oregon - where drugs like fentanyl are being re-criminalised....just four years after they were de-criminalised. And we speak to a British soldier whose DNA helped identify a relative who died...

Deaths and thousands of injuries in Lebanon after pagers used by the militant group Hezbollah explode. We speak to the Lebanese health minister and ask what's next for the region. Also in the programme: rapper Sean Diddy Combs pleads not guilty to sex trafficking charges; US economy; throat cancer; the future of Oxford Street.

US Republicans are asking more questions of the Secret Service after another apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Trump was golfing in Florida when one of his Secret Service agents noticed a rifle muzzle in a bush and opened fire towards it. The suspected gunman was later apprehended, 58-year-old Ryan Routh has been charged with firearm offences. Junior doctors in England have accepted the government’s offer of a 22% pay rise over two years, bringing to an end an...

The prime minister has sat down in the White House with President Biden, as tensions grow with Russia over Ukraine. Our political editor joins us live from Washington. How will the two leaders respond to President Putin's warning that their decisions could provoke a wider war? The two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station speak for the first time about how they're coping with being stuck there until next year. We talk to a former Nasa astronaut about the routine of life in...