Stay dry. We will have some of that low cloud affecting the North Sea coast. Into next week, low pressure continues to fire across the atlantic, across england and wales, bringing further zones of heavy rain. Is that clear through later in the week, turns friday we will start to get these colder northwesterly Wind Diving its way southwards. Next week we will see a sharp drop in temperatures, average at this time of year in edinburgh is 17 degrees, so it will be quite a cold week next week. Fayed welcome to Bbc News. Welcome to Bbc News. Israel launches another strike on the outskirts of beirut reports suggest the target was a senior Hezbollah Commander. Mohamed Al Fayed is described as � a monster� by lawyers, representing women whove accused the former billionaire of sexual assault. The allegations involve cover ups, threats and a Quarter Century of Sexual Abuse by Mohamed Al Fayed after he purchased harrods and became its chairman. A busy research has found that the number of identified russian fighters killed in ukraine has now reached 70,000. Bbc ukraine has now reached 70,000. Bbc research has found that. Early voting for the 2024 election Starts Today in minnesota, virginia and south dakota. Domestic abuse specialists will be employed in the uks Emergency Control rooms as part of a plan to halve violence against women. Before you go to sport, let me update you on the regulators, from lebanon. Let me show you the live pictures, the skyline from beirut. The lebanese Health Ministry is saying that eight people have been killed and 50 injured in what we have seen a little earlier today. So, the numbers are rising and we have been reporting that three were dead and 17 injured but that is going up markedly. The Health Ministry now reporting that eight people have been killed, 50 injured in the initial toll after this strike in beirut� s southern suburb. There is at the live pictures, you can see right in the centre, you can see smoke rising from what i presume is the area that the israelis launched a targeted strike. They say they were going after Ibrahim Aqiland they say they were going after Ibrahim Aqil and that is what they say is the person they Hezbollah Commander they targeted. No word in terms of his fate, much the White House has been talking in the last little while, given the latest briefing, starting of the sea with a situation going on lebanon. Again, the White House is saying they are involved in intense diplomacy to prevent escalation of this conflict along the israel lebanese border they then went on hand to talk about a Ceasefire And Hostage deal that they are still trying to get off the ground when it comes to the war in gaza. They said nobody is giving up hope regarding a Hostage And Ceasefire deal. President biden has directed his team to continue to see if they can get that Harvests Hostage Release and Ceasefire Deal that both sides can agree on. It is interesting that they have to make the point that they have not given up on that deal because of course, with all of these events throughout the course of this week, it is really been the focus of attention. Those at the latest comments coming from the White House as they repeat that they are involved in the diplomacy to try to de escalate underground, but everything on the ground is going in the opposite direction with more stages on fire, Rockets Being fired by hezbollah in the last 12 hours. That sparked another response from israel and the strike, one assumes, in the suburbs of beirut. Those are the latest pictures, those are some of the latest details and also, the White House strongly urging american citizens not to go to lebanon, echoing the source of warnings that we have heard from the uk Foreign Secretary that he has repeated in the last little while. The situation continues and their to deteriorate on the ground in beirut and lebanon. 21 on this story, but clearly moving and clearly breaking. We will return to that in the next few minutes. Now, as promised, lets pause from that for the next few minutes and cutouts might catch up with todays sports headlines. Hello from the bbc sport centre. Lando norris has gone fastest after second pratice a at the singapore grand prix. The Mclaren Driver leapfrogged ferraris Charles Leclerc by six hundredths of a second, with Team MateCarlos Sainz six tenths off the pace in third. Red bulls championship leader, max verstappen, has dropped way down the list and is currently fifteenth fastest. Norris is looking to eat into verstappen� s lead in the driver standings. Pep guardiola says hes expecting a tough match when Manchester City welcome arsenal to the etihad this weekend. Its a clash between the top two teams from the past two Premier League seasons and in the last Campaign City were unable to beat the gunners in either the league or the community shield. They have an unbeliever defined really well for the great chances, they score goals, they are good in really every aspect. Really, the bigger challenge for the contenders, the last two seasons, they are that they will be there for many years because they created that scott, a younger team but they created that squat, young team. Another good test, but in september, but i like to see the team, many things, that we are better in the past. Chelsea start the defence of their womens super League Crown later against aston villa. 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The Weigh In for the all british heavyweight Title Fight between anthonyjoshua, and champion, Daniel Dubois takes place in a few hours time. 96,000 fans are expected to pack out Wembley Stadium in london on saturday. Dubois won the interim Ibf Title Injune and was elevated to World Champion when 0leksandr Usyk vacated the belt, but he feels he needs to beatjoshua to be recognised as the World Champion. A. They welter title, i need to retain it and hold onto it so, it a great thing to have but i need to legitimise myself by winning this fight so i am ready to go, i am ready for a fight. As a Resurrection Story for my career and im just trying to roll right now so, you know, ijust want the biggest challenges and make a name for myself and a history. Its a blessing to be back again. 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Ready to rumble reminding myself that i can do what reminding myself that i can do what im reminding myself that i can do what im capable of i can watch what im capable of i can watch some of the old fights as Wett And Shohay 0htani has created major League Baseball History by becoming the first player to hit 50 Home Runs and steal 50 bases in an mlb season. The Los Angeles dodgers superstar needed one stolen base and two Home Runs to achieve the feat and ended the night with 51 Home Runs and 51 steals in a 20 4 win over the miami marlins. The japanese superstar moved to the dodgers just nine months ago, signing the largest contract in Baseball History worth 700 Million dollars. And thats all the sport for now. Lets go straight back down the centre of the screen, smoke is still rising, that is the area where has conducted their latest track. They described describe it as a targeted strike but in the last few minutes, the lebanese Health Ministry updated us on a Capitalfor Ministry updated us on a capital for good. Ministry updated us on a capitalfor good. They Ministry Updated Us on a capital for good. They say that eight people have been killed and that number of edges has been adjusted now to 59. Eight dead and 59 injured. Letters let me show you another shot, just a different view of the same area of beirut and the camera is pointing at the southern suburb. That is where this happened. Let me show at Street Level as well because He Bechet got was talking to us as a short while ago is showing us the details and that is as close as he could get to Todays Strike and the israeli is saying that a targeted a senior hezbollah military commander, named as the Ibrahim Aqil. We have not got any update or details about his fate but the White House has also been talking about, saying that the us was not aware of any notification by israel to the us before Todays Strike. Strongly urging people, us citizens not to travel to lebanon. Citizens not to travel to lebanon citizens not to travel to lebanon. , ,. , lebanon. They continue to with diplomatic lebanon. They continue to with diplomatic efforts lebanon. They continue to with diplomatic efforts to lebanon. They continue to with diplomatic efforts to escalate l diplomatic efforts to escalate on the ground. Lets go to one of the hospitals in beirut. We got our correspondence. Just tell us, the sort of thing that you are seeing and hearing in the last hour or so. Just a while ago, they brought one of the casualties and confirmed that this is what it was from the air strike, theyjust the air strike, they just brought the air strike, theyjust brought to a hospital that we are in a report in front of. This hospital is treating tens of hezbollah we did fighters and workers winded by the Pages Blast but now, they brought one casualty. What we are hearing is that it still has not been confirmed by hezbollah officially but what were hearing is that there has targeted in a very area of the area, full of residential builders, belong to the top commander. He was the head of the operation, Special Operation and apparently, he replaced fouad shukr, the high Ranking Commander who was killed injuly the 13th. He was accused by the us for operating as a us embassy in 19 80 and killed at least 63 people in beirut and the us were saying that they are not going to forget this. He is also accused of plotting against the us marines at the same time in 1983 so the us have picked about Seven MillionDollar Bounty forgetting any information on him. It seems that this is the reasoning that the us has reacted so fast, saying that they had no idea about this attack. Let me tell you that what i saw here in beirut, just hours ago, before this attack, this morning, i could see two israeli jets all over beirut. I can see from a balcony and another location and i could feel then, as they were doing, circling above different areas of beirut which reminded us of very similar scene that a while ago. Thank you very much. I know there was a problem with this sound on that line through so apologies that. It is worth just telling you the very latest because the Reuters News Agency is reporting that that top hezbollah Ibrahim Aqil has been killed in that top Hezbollah CommanderIbrahim Aqil has been killed in that strike. That strike. That is according to the Reuters News Agency. Thats commander has been killed in Todays Strike. We will have more on that story and the red of our Headline Stories here are just of our Headline Stories here arejust a on Bbc News. Welcome back to Bbc News that will have plenty more from lebanon. The latest after the israeli strike, eight people dead, 59 injured. You have plenty more on that story in a moment or two. I was just turn away from the next few minutes for it to an important story because. Bbc research has found the number of identified russian fighters killed on the frontline in ukraine has hit 70,000. While official statistics may be hard to come by, an investigation by Bbc Russia and the independent russian Media Outlet Mediazona has been collating data and identifying dead russian soldiers since the beginning of the war with ukraine. Our analysis reveals volunteers are increasingly older men with lower incomes, and are not surviving long in battle. 0lga Ivshina reports. The faces of russian fighters killed in ukraine are changed. Now, more and more men in their 405, 50s and even 60s are volunteering for the frontline. 62 year old Rinat Khusniyarov was one of them. Before he volunteered, he had two jobs. Fighting for russia, he earned seven times what he did before. Russian authorities have repeatedly increased sign up bonuses to attract men like rinat. He died in february this year. We dont know where exactly, but thousands of kilometres away from his home in russia. Last month, russian forces faced a ukrainian offensive in kursk, the first on russian territory. The kremlin claims this attack has encouraged more volunteers to sign up to fight. There are no official figures on the numbers of russians killed. So, since the start of the war, the bbc and its Partner Mediazona have been trying to build a picture of whats happening on the frontlines. We have been using photos of graves, Social Media posts and News Articles to uncover the scale of russian losses. So far, we have managed to verify that 70,000 russian troops have died since the start of the war. The recent figures also show that, for the first time, the largest group of men dying are volunteers, not regular soldiers or convicts, but men who have signed up after the start of the full Scale Invasion in february 2022. A study from the russian ministry of defence, seen by the bbc, suggests that many of those deaths could be avoided with better first aid and medical care. They are fighting a battle where they are not prepared and might not have the needed equipment to fight. There isnt sufficient preparation and there are also Equipment Shortages or non existent equipment for which there have been prepared for those few limited weeks that they have done so. This graph shows how losses of russian troops were distributed since the start of the war. Moscow continues to use so called meatgrinder tactics, trying to wear down ukrainian forces. And volunteers now seem to be used at the most challenging parts of the front line. Our data shows that volunteers are now dying at a faster rate than in the first two years of the war. This spike in the number killed coincides with the russian offensive on avdiivka in the east of ukraine. It was one of the deadliest confrontations in this war. Having lost thousands of troops, russia was able to take the ruins of avdiivka in early 202a. As our count only includes deaths reported publicly, the true figure of losses is significantly higher. Asked for comment, the russian government did not respond. Early this year, ukraine acknowledged 31,000 soldiers had been killed, but estimates from the us intelligence suggest the number is higher. Moscow continues to push on, willing to exchange thousands of lives for small pieces of scattered land. 0lga Ivshina, Bbc News. The announcement was made during a visit to kyiv by the European Commission president , Ursula Von Der leyen. She said ukraine needed continued support, because of what she called russias relentless attacks. President zelensky said the money would be used for energy, Air Defence and for weapons purchases. Hes due to Travel To Washington next week where Hell Present a � Victory Plan to President Biden and has been explaining how important those proposals are. I really hope that he will support this plan, which is designed for quick decisions of our partners. The plan is designed for decisions that will have to happen from october to december. And not to delay these processes. We would like that very much. Then we believe that the plan will work. President zelensky speaking in the last hour or so. Ijust went to a net spend the next if you must recover what has happened to lebanon. A lot has happened to lebanon. A lot has happened in the next hour and a half. There was a strike at the southern suburbs of beirut. Let me just say the pictures from a little earlier and right in the centre, you can see the plume of smoke because that is aware the strike was. It is the southern suburbs, it is what is described as the stronghold of Hezbollah Or Wb we have been learning more about the target which i will come to in a moment or two. Certainly, the latest on the lebanese Health Ministry that eight people have died in todays attacks and 59 have been injured. It is interesting that the White House have been talking about it in the last little while and saying that they had no prior knowledge of this attack and said similar things about those Page Attacks and the Walkie Talkie attacks of tuesday and wednesday. We also learning a little more detail about the person that the israelis say they targeted and he is the Hezbollah CommanderIbrahim Aqil. The Reuters News Agency is appointing, to Security Sources that he is my confirming that he had been killed in this israeli strike. Well be hearing from our correspondence, saying that he was on a we had from our correspondents i was short while ago said that he was in the us wanted list. The us talked they said they whole area needs to be to escalate and urgent diplomacy conversations are going on. But every underground is heading in opposite direction. 0n every underground is heading in opposite direction. On tuesday and wednesday, committal exploding devices, over 30 people being killed and thousands more being injured is we saw exploding devices. 0vernight, is a lot of hezbollah Rockets Being fired at israel and outsmart a response from israel with fire in opposite direction and now this, what the israelis to scrub as a targeted attack but as i say, 59 people after that building exploded what the israelis described as a targeted attack. Eight people being killed. Hezbollah have lots more rockets aiming as the israeli intelligence bases it blames for assassination. All the while, you can see that a movement in the region is the opposite to the escalation. It is as geisha and the fear is of course, the Bottom Line is that the region, Israel And Lebanon and hezbollah are heading to an all out war. That is the fear and that is why theres so much diplomacy we will bring you more underground in beirut a moment. You are. Hello, stunning scene here in the highlands. Excessive low cloud give or take. The south west of england, the menace or worse, some of their shells can be heavy enough to cause localised Surface Water Flooding although, many errors im sure well miss that one together. Through this evening and overnight, for muscle coming up from europe to fix other areas of england and wales. Away from nuts, dry but again low cloud that excessive with mist patches. Lead is around ten or 11 degrees to mile, a similar kind of weather. Watch out from summer. Hit ms in nature. Caddie start elsewhere but the candles tend to thing and break out. A cloudy start elsewhere but it will tend to a it will tend to thin and break up to give way to some sunshine, but it will probably stay rather cloudy again and parts of Eastern Scotland and perhaps the far northeast of england as well. Through Saturday Night and into sunday, we are then going to see low pressure bring heavy, Thundering Rain across quite a large area of england and wales, some places could see a Months Worth of rainfall in the space of 2a hours. The threat of seeing some localised flooding is that much greater as we look into sunday. Heavy downpour is quite widespread for england and wales, scotland and Northern Ireland and probably the far north of england look like they will great stay dry. We will have some of that low cloud affecting the North Sea coast. Into next week, low pressure continues to fire across the atlantic, across england and wales, bringing further zones of heavy rain. Is that clear through later in the week, turns friday we will start to get these colder northwesterly Wind Diving its way southwards. Next week we will see a sharp drop in temperatures, average at this time of year in edinburgh is 17 degrees, so it will be quite a cold week next week. Live from london. This is Bbc News. Lebanon says eight people have been killed in beirut after israel launches another strike on the outskirts of the lebanese capital, reports suggest the target was a senior Hezbollah Commander. These are live pictures from beirut. You can still see smoke continue to rise at the location of Todays Strike. 0ur Location of Todays Strike. Our other headlines. Mohamed Al Fayedis other headlines. Mohamed Al Fayed is described as a monster by lawyers representing women who have accused the former Billionaire Owner of the herds of sexual assault. The allegations of sexual assault. The allegations involve. Of sexual assault. Iie allegations involve cover ups, threats, and a Quarter Century of Sexual Abuse by Mohamed Al Fayed after he purchased harrods and became its chairman. Early voting for the 2024 election Starts Today in minnesota, virginia and south dakota