BBC news with Jerry Smit.
Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says those responsible for a deadly attack on an Iraeli military convoy would pay their price for their actions. Israel says 2 of its soldiers were killed and 7 injuried in the attack carried out by Hezbollah.
Whoever's behind today's attack will pay the full price. For some time, Iran via Hezbollah has been trying to establish an additional terrorist front against us from the Golan Heights. The Lebanese government and the Assad regiem share responsibility for the consequences of the attacks disseminating from their territories against the state of Israel. Israel responded by firing shells into southern Lebanon. The UN security council is convening now to discuss the violence.
The family of a Jordanian fighter pilot held hostage by IS group is intensifying its pressure on the government of Jordan to do what it can to save his life. In a video on Tuesday, IS threatened to kill the pilot and a Japanese jounalist Kenji Goto Jogo unless Jordan release an
Iraqi female jihadist. Jordan has offered to release her. But the uncle of the pilot has said he had received word from IS that they rejected the offer.
The financial markets in Greece have fallen sharply after the new left-wing prime minister Alexi Tsipras signals his government will stand by its anti-austerity pledges. The main stockmarket closed about 9% down while Greek banks lost more than a quarter of their value. Mr. Tsipras has said he will review the entire prioritization programme which is the condition of the international bailout. Andrew Walker reports.
Behind these falls lies the new Greek government's desire to end austerity policies and have its debts to the eurozone reduced. If he can not get an agreement with Europe, it's conceivable that Greece might end up leaving the Eurozone. The fact that it's possible means the country's banks could face customers pulling their money out and there are reports that some have done so already. That risk has hit the bank share prices very hard. One Piraeus bank fell nearly 30% and has in total lost almost half of its values since Sunday's election.
The South African city of Cape Town has approved plans to rename a major road after the last white president FW de Klerk. Opponents have accused Mr. de Klerk of having blood on his hands during apartheid. Grant Ferrett reports.
The council says the proposal to rename Table Bay Boulevard after Mr. de Klerk was put forward by eminent figures including archbishop Desmond Tutu to honour his role in the transition from apartheid. But local ANC represent chief was furious. The mayor Patricia de Lille accused him of behaving like fags. She said they spattered police who were called in to prevent disruption of proceedings. Council had eventually retreated to another room and voted to approve the rename of the road with ANC members locked outside.
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The Cuba president Raúl Castro has urged president Obama to use his executive powers to bypass the US economic embargo on Cuba. Speaking at a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders, Mr. Castro suggested it wouldn't make any sense to restore deplomatic relations unless embargo was lifted.
A private vet is taking place in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires for Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor who was found shot dead in his flat with a gun next to him more than a week ago. Mr. Nisman has been investigating the bombing of a Jewish centre in the city in 1994. He died hours before he was to appear before congress to accuse president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of protecting Iranian suspects in the case.
Iran has chosen a new ambassador to the UN in New York 10 months after the US rejected its orgiginal candidate. The new candidate is Gholamali Khoshru. Nally Tofick reports.
Iran's new candidate is a career diplomat who has served once before as the country's ambassador and deputy representative to the UN between 1989 and 1995. He is currently Iran's amabassador to Switzerland and it's considered a moderate, having served during the presidency of reformist Mohammed Khatami and now moderate president Hassan Rouhani, but still looming is the diplomatic illegal to dispute between Iran and the US over the coutry's former designated UN envoy. 10 months ago, the White House refused to grant Hamid Abutalebi a visa to entre the country because of the alleged links to students who stormed the US embassy in Teran in 1979. Abutalebi says he only acted as a translator.
The French government has released an online video designed to stem young people away from joining military groups in the Middle East. The filming includes the warning that the foreign fighters will be complicit in the murder of civilians and will die alone far from home.