The US said it had launched a fresh wave of strikes against Iran on Wednesday as President Donald Trump warned Tehran it “better behave”.

The US military said “Iranian military capabilities used to threaten vessels” moving through the Strait of Hormuz had been targeted. Air defences also sounded in the capital Tehran, according to state media.
Iran meanwhile said it had struck US military targets in the region, including in Bahrain and Kuwait, as a fifth day of renewed hostilities strained their preliminary deal to end the war.

Iran’s top negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, told state media Tehran had “no reason” to abide by the deal if it did not benefit from it.
Trump had threatened late on Tuesday to attack bridges and power plants should Iran not return to talks next week.

Asked by reporters late on Wednesday whether he would give a deadline before doing so, he responded: “I ‌don’t like giving ​deadlines, but they pretty ⁠much know, they know ​the story… ​they ​better ​behave.”

He later told delegates at a defence summit that Iran was “not happy right now”.

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From Manchester mayor to prime minister in a matter of months; Andy Burnham has been in politics for decades but what is his record and what does he stand for?

The BBC’s Joe Pike explores who is the man behind the top job.

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Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister, the BBC has been told.

The Labour Party’s 2024 manifesto – which the new leader said he would follow – had pledged to not issue new licences but to honour existing ones.

It is understood that the announcement will form part of a flurry of measures from Burnham, including plans to take water and energy companies under public control and a new council house-building programme.

As he prepares to take over from Keir Starmer on Monday, the Makerfield MP is also expected to announce his new cabinet.

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Marco Rubio’s State Department has unveiled plans to dismantle the International Criminal Court, a tribunal that prosecutes …

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In an exclusive investigation, a whistleblower has told the BBC how he unearthed evidence suggesting that US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick failed to disclose a business relationship with the paedophile financier, Jeffrey Epstein.

Simon Andriesz was a trader at one of Lutnick’s Wall Street firms, but it wasn’t until the Epstein files were released earlier this year that he says he confirmed a longstanding suspicion that his boss was misrepresenting his relationship with Epstein.

BBC financial investigations correspondent Andy Verity joins The Global Story’s Tristan Redman us to unpack the new investigation.

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00:00 Introduction
01:30 Our whistleblower’s relationship to Howard Lutnick
06:00 Who is Howard Lutnick?
06:36 Howard Lutnick at 9/11
07:05 Lutnick’s links to Jeffrey Epstein
11:09 A whistleblower in the Epstein files
12:17 Searching the files
13:12 Lutnick’s newly uncovered links to Epstein
16:18 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s links to them both
20:54 The impact on our whistleblower

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