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The broadcast began with a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the co-pilot was arrested after stabbing the pilot and trying to crash the plane. The flydubai flight was about two hours into its journey when it sent an emergency signal and then a hijacking code, prompting Israeli and Saudi fighter jets to scramble. Flight tracking data showed it dropped 17,000 feet in about two minutes. Passengers and crew overpowered and tied down the pilot, and two other pilots on board took over and landed safely at Tabuk Airport in Saudi Arabia. The captain and first officer were taken to hospital, and all passengers were reported safe. Netanyahu said the pilot had been arrested and was being questioned by Saudi authorities. BBC Verify's Thomas Copeland said the altitude changes and emergency codes indicated a high likelihood of an attempt to seize control. Sebastian Usher reported that Netanyahu suggested a terror attack, while Defence Minister Israel Katz called it a jihadist terror attack, and that Israel's transportation minister said flights on the route should be suspended.

At least five people were killed and 14 injured across Ukraine in overnight Russian attacks, President Zelensky said, with missile and drone strikes targeting infrastructure and residential buildings in and around Kyiv. Russia's defence ministry said it hit a communications centre and energy facilities supporting military production. Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko said fires affected private houses, a store and a warehouse, and electricity was cut off in parts of the city; Ukraine's largest private energy company said power had been restored to around 8,000 homes. The broadcast also reported on BBC Eye Investigations filming in Gaza nearly a year after a ceasefire was supposed to end the fighting. More than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since October, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, a figure the Israeli military disputes. Six-year-old Raseel Albalawi was injured in Al-Mawasi camp in Khan Younis and her nine-year-old sister was killed; she has had more than 20 operations, infections are not responding to antibiotics, and doctors say shrapnel in her brain is causing seizures and cannot currently be removed. Israel says medicines including antibiotics enter Gaza without restriction, but humanitarian organisations and medical staff told the BBC of major shortages, and UNICEF says nearly all children in Gaza require urgent mental health and psychosocial support.

In breaking news from the United States, a final-hour stay of execution was ordered for Christa Pike in Tennessee, who would have been the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 years. Pike had been on death row since being convicted and sentenced 30 years ago for the murder of a teenage classmate, and was 18 when sent to prison. Tennessee's governor denied clemency on Monday and the US Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch attempt by her lawyers on Tuesday, but a last-minute stay was granted before her scheduled execution at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Hannah Arsenault of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project said it was welcome news but too early to guarantee the execution would not move forward, and that the state was seeking to vacate the stay. She said Pike's jury never heard mitigating information about sexual abuse she suffered from age two. The victim, 19-year-old Colleen Klemmer, had a mother who was adamant the punishment should go ahead, Arsenault said, and Pike's abuse history did not excuse the crime but helped explain it.