Israel’s general election is too close to call, as exit polls suggest that Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc has won the most seats, ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.

Eisenkot leads the newly formed Yashar party and is the main figure in the “change bloc”, a group of opposition parties with the shared goal of ousting Benjamin Netanyahu from power.

Israeli elections can be decided by just a handful of seats, the exit polls have not always been reliable and counting the votes may take several days.

All 120 seats in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, are up for grabs, but no party has won an overall majority in the past and governments have been made up of coalitions.

It’s Israel’s first legislative election since the Hamas-led attacks on 7 October 2023 and the issue of Israel’s security has dominated the campaign.

Netanyahu’s challengers have criticised security failures that led to the 7 October attacks, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others taken back to Gaza as hostages. Despite that, Netanyahu has again portrayed himself as the strongman protecting Israel, and claiming a series of military victories.

Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Lucy Williamson and Lyse Doucet.

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Today, Andy Burnham has doubled the funding for his pledge to get rough sleepers off the streets by Christmas. £432 million pound will be announced for the plan in Wednesday’s budget. Adam and Chris are joined by housing correspondent Tarah Welsh to discuss how the money could be spent and why the government has chosen to focus on rough sleeping.

Plus, with elections taking place in Brazil and Serbia over the weekend and Israeli voters set to go to the polls tomorrow Adam caught up with political scientist Ben Ansell from the University of Oxford to break down what the elections tell us about trends in global politics.

00:00 Andy Burnham’s £874m rough sleeping pledge

02:00 Where will the money go?

05:00 Can Burnham end rough sleeping by Christmas?

09:00 Why focus on rough sleeping?

12:00 Burnham’s plans for the UK’s relationship with the EU

16:00 Could freedom of movement return?

20:00 Brazil: Lula’s dramatic election comeback

23:00 Who is Flávio Bolsonaro?

28:00 Serbia: the student movement that defeated Vučić

31:00 Israel’s election: why forming a government could take weeks

33:00 Are people using AI to decide how to vote?

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Callum Turner, Jack Lowden and Josh O’Connor are among the actors thought to be taking part in final auditions to play James Bond, according to reports.

Screen tests are said to be taking place this weekend, according to the Hollywood Reporter, with between three and five actors understood to have reached the last stages of the process.

The finalists are said to be taking part in auditions with three components – stunts, camera presence and dialogue.

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US singer Chris Brown has avoided jail after striking a man twice in the head with a glass tequila bottle in a London nightclub.

The R&B star was given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, over the attack at private members’ club Tape in Mayfair, in the early hours of 19 February 2023.

Brown’s vocal coach, rapper Omololu Akinlolu, who joined the attack, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months. Both men, who had pleaded guilty to affray, were also ordered to pay £1,500 costs.

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Brazilians are voting to choose their next president in a closely fought run-off election.

The choice is between incumbent left-wing leader Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva and right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro.

It is the second round of voting after Bolsonaro won the first round earlier this month – beating President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known widely as Lula.

Bolsonaro told reporters on Sunday that the “time has come for real change”, while Lula was pictured greeting supporters outside a polling station.

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