Trump-Iran live: World is 'much safer place' after Iran strikes, says White House press secretary
Donald Trump's press secretary has hailed the US strikes on Iran for making the world a "much safer place". She spoke after the defence secretary furiously defended the mission in the wake of an intel report that questioned its success. Follow live and listen to Trump 100 below.
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Telegraph
37 minutes ago
- Telegraph
Starmer will fail to keep women safe, says murder victim's aunt
Women are not safe in Britain and the Government is unlikely to achieve its goal of halving violence against females, the aunt of Zara Aleena has warned. Speaking on the third anniversary of the murder of the law graduate, Farah Naz said she feared more young women would lose their lives in tragic circumstances because public services, including probation, were broken. Ms Aleena, 35, was sexually assaulted and killed by career criminal Jordan McSweeney as she walked home in Ilford, east London, in June 2022. McSweeney, who had 28 convictions for 69 separate offences, had only been released from jail nine days earlier and was wanted for recall to prison having breached probation following his release. An inquest concluded that failures across multiple agencies had contributed to the death of Ms Aleena, with a coroner telling the Metropolitan Police and the Probation Service to improve their services or risk future deaths. But Ms Naz said while some progress had been made, the statistics on violence against women and girls had barely improved. She said: 'I think we have to tell women that they are not safe. I think we should be making blunt, clear messages to women saying we do have this undercurrent of misogyny. 'We do have a huge amount of women who are stalked, followed, assaulted, murdered in their own homes. 'Between two and three women a week are murdered in the UK. A recent survey found that 40 per cent of women reported being harassed or stalked and a third of women feel unsafe on the streets. 'The reality is you are not safe, we are working on it but I think we have to be honest and if we have a Probation Service that requires the precision of an aeronautical engineer and it is on its knees and everyone knows that it is on its knees then we need to admit that there are going to be people who are falling through holes.' Ms Faz said the Probation Service had been 'absolutely broken' over the last 20 years and now struggled to recruit and retain high-quality staff. She said the recent settlements in the spending review raised questions about whether the Government's manifesto pledge to halve violence against women and girls in a decade would be achievable. Ms Faz explained: 'I think everyone raised their eyebrows when we heard the commitment. It is the right thing to want but is it a promise you can keep? 'We do need our politicians to be visionaries and inspire us. But there is a danger they have got caught up in their own rhetoric by making such a bold claim and being held to that. And the Treasury is not making the funds available. 'Probation is not a service that operates in isolation, it is dependent on good social housing, it is dependent on an effective mental health system, it is dependent on youth services, an effective education system, it's dependent on a rehabilitation of offenders programme working effectively and it's dependent on prisons working. 'We know that all of those services are stretched. We have such short-term focus.' She added: 'I think the spirit is there, the intention is there but [I don't know] whether there is any money there.' But Ms Faz said as well as requiring investment, tackling violence against women and girls required a cultural shift in society because misogyny was still rife. She said: 'Last week we had the Government announce it was going to ban strangulation in pornography. 'It just beggars belief that it happens in the first place; it says everything really that the Government needs to take action to prevent this sort of thing. It speaks to the levels of misogyny in society. 'Just look at the number of young men who follow Andrew Tate. There are so many alarm signals. How do we shift a culture? These are really big questions.' She said members of the public also had to show more courage to call out misogyny in society, describing how it would be a fitting tribute to her niece. 'Zara was courageous, not just in ambition, but in action. She stood up when others stayed silent. And she was just on the cusp of everything she'd worked for when her life was stolen by preventable systemic failure. 'We as the public need to do more. Justice must be a civic duty, not just a political promise. 'One of the areas I am most interested in is how we move from being bystanders to upstanders. 'I know with the increase in knife crime in Britain people are afraid to step in but there are ways we can step in safely. Just asking if someone is okay. 'Zara was an upstander; she comes from humble beginnings but she was always interested in putting things right and trying to make things fair. 'She would point out what wasn't fair and she would want to fix it. She had a tiny frame but she was courageous enough to stand up to whatever she thought was wrong and unfair and unjust.' A vigil to remember Zara Aleena will be held on Sunday June 29 at 1.30pm at Valentines Park, Ilford.
Daily Mail
44 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
PETER HITCHENS: Donald Trump's attack on Iran was lawless and we'll all regret it soon enough. But it was his actions afterwards that everyone has missed
Donald Trump 's allies are more afraid of him than his enemies are. There are plenty of examples in Washington DC of former critics who now serve at his court, so crushed that they would clean his shoes for him in public if asked. Last week he treated the US constitution like a used paper bag, making a lawless attack on Iran which he was specifically not allowed to do by an overwhelming resolution of Congress, passed when that body still had some guts, in 1973.
The Independent
an hour ago
- The Independent
At least 60 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, health staff say
At least 60 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, health workers have said. The strikes began late on Friday and continued into Saturday morning, killing twelve people who were reportedly sheltering in a stadium that is being used to house displaced people. Eight others were killed in their apartments, according to staff at Al-Shifa hospital where the bodies were brought. Hospital staff said that six others - including three children - were killed in southern Gaza when a strike hit their tent in Muwasi. The children's grandmother Suad Abu Teima told the Associated Press: 'What did these children do to them? What is their fault?' More than 20 bodies were taken to Nasser hospital, according to health officials. A strike on a gathering at the entrance to the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza also killed two people, staff at Al-Awda hospital said. The strikes come as US president Donald Trump said there could be a ceasefire agreement within the next week. He said on Friday: 'We're working on Gaza and trying to get it taken care of'. Mr Trump added: 'I think it's close. I just spoke to some of the people involved. We think within the next week we're going to get a ceasefire'. Israel's minister for strategic affairs Ron Dermer is expected to arrive in Washington next week for talks on Gaza, Iran and other subjects. Qatar's foreign ministry spokesperson has said that mediators are engaging with Israel and Hamas to build momentum on the ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Majed al-Ansari, Qatar's spokesperson, said: 'If we don't utilise this window of opportunity and this momentum, it's an opportunity lost amongst many in the near past. We don't want to see that again'. He said they were working with the US 'very closely to make sure that the right pressure is applied from the international community'. Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu also hinted at further peace negotiations in a video on Thursday in which he said that a new opportunity had opened up for a 'dramatic expansion of peace agreements'. He added: ' There is a window of opportunity here that must not be wasted. We must not waste even a single day'. The bombardment of Gaza has claimed over 56,000 lives, according to local officials. The Israeli army said on Saturday that they had 'most likely successfully intercepted' a missile fired from Yemen, with the Houthis claiming responsibility for the launch. An Israeli strike also killed one person in southern Lebanon on Saturday, according to the Lebanese health ministry, despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Meanwhile, hungry Palestinians are enduring a catastrophic situation in Gaza. After blocking all food for two and a half months, Israel has allowed only a trickle of supplies into the territory since mid-May. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds more wounded while seeking food since the newly formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing aid in the territory about a month ago, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Palestinian witnesses say Israeli troops have opened fire at crowds on roads heading toward the sites. The Israeli military says it has only fired warning shots and that it was investigating incidents in which civilians had been harmed while approaching the sites.
