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Two people in a serious condition who were evacuated from a Hantavirus-hit cruise ship have arrived in the Netherlands for treatment, operator Oceanwide Expeditions has said.

A third passenger in a stable condition was on board an evacuation flight that has been delayed, the operator added.

The MV Hondius is now sailing towards Spain's Canary Islands after being anchored for three days near Cape Verde.

Three people who were aboard the ship have died since it set sail from Argentina a month ago.

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Iran says a US proposal to end the war is "still being considered", after reports the two sides could be close to an agreement.

The White House believes it could be closing in on a 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran, according to a report by US news outlet Axios.

A senior member of Iran's parliament dismissed it as a "wish list", while a foreign ministry spokesman said Tehran would share its views of a US proposal with Pakistani mediators.

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A US warplane has fired on an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman. The US military said the ship was trying to breach the US imposed blockade of Iran’s ports. The attacks is the latest threat to the four week ceasefire between the two countries.

President Trump has threatened Iran with a new wave of bombing if a deal is not reached to open the strait of Hormuz, the key shipping lane which usually carries around a fifth of the world’s supplies of oil and natural gas.

Trump also suggested the war would end soon and that oil and gas shipments would restart. He again insisted that Iran was ready to make a deal to end the conflict.

Israel has renewed its bombing of Lebanon’s capital Beirut. Iran has previously said that no deal will be reached while Israel continues its attacks on Lebanon.

Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith and Jeremy Bowen.

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We count down to the Senedd, Holyrood and English local elections happening on Thursday.

With less than 24 hours to go until the polls open, the parties are making their final efforts to win over voters across the UK.

Adam, Chris, Laura, Felicity and James put their heads together to give a rundown of what’s dominated the campaign trails and how that might shape the next few days.

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00:00 Introduction

03:15 What's on the table for the May elections?

09:15 What do Scottish voters want?

11:01 What do Welsh voters want?

15:33 Zack Polanski under scrutiny

18:45 Nigel Farage's reputation in Scotland

23:39 How are things looking for the other party leaders?

Around 150 people from 23 countries are stranded on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, after a deadly outbreak of hantavirus. The World Health Organization has confirmed eight cases of the virus onboard the MV Hondius, including three people who have died.

The BBC's health reporter Jim Reed tells us what we know about this strain of hantavirus, how it may have been transmitted to passengers on the ship, and whether - six years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic - the world is better at dealing with viral outbreaks.

The WHO has confirmed that, while most hantavirus infections occur through contact with rodents or their waste, the strain detected on the ship can be transmitted between humans. The ship has been anchored off the coast of Cape Verde. On Wednesday, three passengers were evacuated for treatment.

Spain has given permission for the ship to now travel to the Canary Islands, where the remaining passengers and crew will be examined, though the president of the Canary Islands says he will not allow the ship to dock there.

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00:00 Introduction

02:10 What is hantavirus?

03:17 How were passengers infected?

05:44 Are cruise ships a viral breeding ground?

07:11 How are passengers coping?

08:20 Reminiscent of Covid?

10:24 Has Covid prepared us for outbreaks?

Iranians living in Tehran have told the BBC what they think of the war and revealed how the conflict has affected their day to day lives.

In recent days, attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz has raised fears that an already fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran could collapse.

Donald Trump's "Project Freedom", which began on Monday, aimed to use the US military to escort cargo ships out of Strait of Hormuz.

Iran, however, insists that it controls the key waterway and has warned that it is “just getting started” in the Strait of Hormuz. This escalation of hostilities risks tipping the region back into full-scale war.

As the conflict enters its third month with no clear end in sight, there has been mounting anxiety about what comes next. But what is the view inside Iran?

In today’s episode we speak to the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet who recently returned from a ten day trip to Tehran where she spoke to government officials and ordinary Iranians about their fears and expectations as this war continues.

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:20 Why have journalists been allowed into Iran?

03:30 What is life like for people in Iran?

10:17 Women in Iran

14:00 What do the people of Iran want?

18:00 What do Iranians think of Donald Trump?

On the afternoon of 8 April in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the neighbourhood of Hay el Sellom was hit by an Israeli air strike.

It was part of a deadly wave of strikes that begun at 14.15 local time and saw about 100 targets across Lebanon hit in the space of just 10 minutes, according to Israel.

The destruction wrought in this brief window would surpass that of any other day in this war. The stated targets included Hezbollah command centres and military sites, but among the casualties were many ordinary Lebanese citizens.

The death toll for the day reached 361, according to the Lebanese authorities, with more than 1,000 injured. In the weeks after the attack, the BBC World Service visited some of the areas hit to piece together what happened on that day.

Hezbollah denied the Israeli claim that it embeds military infrastructure in civilian areas. It added that it never wanted war and is acting in self defence.

The Israeli Defence Force said it killed 250 Hezbollah operators on 8 April. The Lebanese Ministry of Health disputes this, saying the vast majority of those killed were civilians.

01:31 Another home in ruins

03:20 Strikes on Hay El Sellom

04:43 Lives upended in Central Beirut

05:03 Noha’s story: “I felt like the world went black”

07:58 The picture across the country

08:11 Investigating the targets in southern Lebanon

08:54 Two young lives lost

11:00 A father returns to an empty home

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Ocean engineering and technology company DEEP is on a mission to make humans aquatic, which is why it's setting up an underwater training facility in Chepstow.

The 50-acre site, with a controlled body of water, will be dedicated to saturation diving - a technique that allows people to live and work underwater for longer.

BBC Tech Now’s Andrew Rogers visits the former quarry where new technology is being tested.

Video journalist: Grace Ekpu.

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Airlines have cut 13,000 flights globally in May as jet fuel prices soar due to the conflict in the Middle East.

Airlines have removed nearly two million seats from flights over May, new data shows.

Istanbul and Munich have seen the largest reduction in flights, according to figures from aviation analytics firm Cirium.

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A Dutch cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak on board is to sail to the Canary Islands, Spain's health ministry has said.

Two crew members, including the ship's reportedly British doctor, require urgent medical care and were due to be evacuated on a hospital aircraft to the Canary Islands on Tuesday. A third person linked to a German national who died was also due to be evacuated.

Officials were determining which passengers required urgent evacuation from Cape Verde, where the ship was docked, the health ministry added.

Three passengers who were aboard the MV Hondius have died, after it set sail from Argentina on its voyage across the Atlantic Ocean around a month ago.

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