BBC News with Gareth Barlow.

Senior U.S officials say president Trump will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel later on Wednesday. He willalso direct the state department to start the process of moving the America embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The decision will break years with years of U.Spolicy on the status of the disputed city, as well as the international consensus.

Russia has reacted angrily to a decision by the International Olympic Committee to ban its participation in next year's Winter Olympics, following a report accusing it of systematic doping. The deputy speaker of the Russian parliament called the ban a humiliation and an insult.

One of Australia's most prominent clerics,the catholic archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson has appeared in court, accused of covering up child abuse in the 1970s. If found guilty, he could face two-years in prison. He says he is innocent.

5 fighters tackling a huge wildfire in Ventura County, North of Los Angeles, say the blaze has crossed the main coastal highway and reached the Pacific Ocean. The fire has raged over more than 200,000 square kilometers. Nearly 30,000 people have been forced from their homes.

A man is due to appear in court in London today, accused of a plot to kill the British Prime Minister. The BBC understands the alleged plot involved a plan to detonate an explosive device at a security gate leading to the Downing Street, and stabbed the Prime Minister in the chaos thatit ensued.

A billionaire Euro-skeptic businessman Andrej Babis, who today will be formally confirmed as Prime Minister of the Czech Republichas failed to form a coalition. He will lead a minority government and may need support from the communists, a far-right party that opposes immigration.

France's biggest rock star Johnny Hallyday has died at the age of 74 after a battle with lung cancer. In a career spanning 5 decades, he sold more than 100,000 million records, worked withindustry's biggest starsand headlined 50 majortours.

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