South Korea's president faces impeachment

Hello. South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol faces an impeachment vote after his controversial decision to try and impose martial law failed. Laura Bicker has the details. We also bring you the latest on French president Michel Barnier, who hopes he can survive a vote of no confidence taking place later today, as well as the Israeli reservists refusing to fight in Gaza and Namibia's first female president. And finally, a Bitcoin miner is battling a Welsh council for access to a landfill site where he thinks there's a lost hard drive containing $760m.

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South Korea's president faces uncertain future

President Yoon's address felt like a throw back in time - to military rule decades ago. Credit: Reuters

Less than a day after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared that he was imposing martial law in a late-night address, his political future is in jeopardy. After being swiftly forced to back down, impeachment proceedings against him are now in action. The president's shock declaration was a bid to get the kind of grip on power that has eluded him since he won the presidency in 2022 by the slimmest margin in South Korea's history, writes BBC China correspondent Laura Bicker from Seoul. However, from the furious protesters and lawmakers who gathered outside the country's National Assembly, to the MPs who made it inside to vote down the order, South Koreans have successfully rejected the most serious challenge to their democracy since the 1980's.

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These Israeli men volunteered to fight - but now refuse to return to Gaza

Yuval Green is among those refusing to continue fighting in Gaza. Credit: BBC

Yuval Green knew at least three people who were killed in the 7 October Hamas attack. A reservist and medic in the paratroops of the Israeli Defence Forces, he immediately answered his country's call to arms. But a year on, he is now the co-organiser of a public letter signed by 165 reservists and permanent soldiers who are refusing to serve, or threatening to do so unless the hostages are returned. Fergal Keane tells their story.

And finally... in the UK

A Bitcoin miner is suing a Welsh council to get access to a landfill site he says contains a lost hard drive storing £600m ($760m) of the cryptocurrency. The High Court in London heard that James Howells wanted access to the Docksway site or £495m in compensation. Mr Howells has argued that his former partner erroneously dumped the hard drive containing a Bitcoin wallet in 2013.