First Thing: Israeli president labels Tehran ‘empire of evil’

Isaac Herzog also tells Davos that Gaza's population is entrenched in network of terror'. Plus, Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice every hour

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Israel's president has told the Davos conference that there is an empire of evil" emanating from Tehran, which must be faced by a very strong coalition, and that Gaza's population is entrenched in a network of terror.

What else is happening in the Middle East? The US military has fired another wave of missile strikes against Houthi-controlled sites, marking the fourth time in a week that it has directly targeted the group in Yemen. Meanwhile, Pakistan has launched retaliatory strikes against militants in Iran in response to attacks by Tehran that targeted sites within Pakistan's borders allegedly belonging to a Sunni separatist militant group.

What did her lawyer say? Mr Trump has been sitting at the back table and has been loudly saying things throughout Ms Carroll's testimony," said the attorney Shawn Crowley. It's loud enough for us to hear it. [So] I imagine it's loud enough for the jury to hear it."

What was Trump saying? He said it is a witch-hunt', it really is a con-job," Crowley told the judge.