 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists the war won't end until Hamas has been destroyed. The BBC's Nick Beek. Russia's parliament has approved a bill raising income taxes for the wealthy, a move to help fill government coffers during the war in Ukraine. The bill endorsed today in the third reading in the lower house of State Duma and hours later by the upper house, the Federation Council. The bill must now be signed by President Vladimir Putin in order to become law.