Israel launches missiles into Gaza and Lebanon

Israel's military has shot missiles into the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon in what it says are in retaliation to rocket attacks by Hamas, which themselves were prompted by Israeli police twice raiding and violently ejecting worshippers from Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem this week.

Republicans in the US state of Tennessee have expelled two Democratic Representatives who halted Parliamentary proceedings by bringing a public protest against gun laws into State house.

And as French President Emmanuel Macron's trip to China concludes, we look at what impact he might have had on convincing his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to put pressure on ally Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine.