Marked a rapid escalation marked a rapid escalation of this conflict. Of this conflict. Israel says its air strikes in yemen, targeting power plants and the port of hodeidah, were their response to missile attacks by the iranian—backed houthis. The houthi—run health ministry says at least 4 people were killed and 29 wounded. Translation: we have no interest in expanding the war. We have no interest in looking for additionalfronts. But if somebody attacks israel, as the houthis have recently done with missiles and throughout the war with cruise missiles and drones, anyone who carries out such an attack, we will settle the account with them, and we know how to do it. Israel is not holding back — its air force releasing footage as they set off for the raid. And earlier today, it says it shot down another drone launched from yemen. For the past year, the yemeni houthis have been trying to influence the conflict in the middle east. This is their commandos seizing a british owned ship in the red sea last november. They have long—range missiles, are supported by iran and are fiercely opposed to israel. Speaking yesterday, the houthis�* military spokesperson, yahya saree, said they wouldn't stop until israel ended its aggression against gaza and lebanon. Today's strikes in yemen highlight another dangerous front in a war that threatens to engulf the region. Jon donnison, bbc news, jerusalem. Israel is continuing to launch strikes against what it says are hezbollah targets inside lebanon. At least 50 people are reported to have been killed in a series of attacks in the east of the country. Our senior international correspondent orla guerin reports from the bekaa valley. A warning — you may find some parts of it distressing. Israel keeps hitting hard. For now, it looks unstoppable. This is the bekaa valley this afternoon. There were at least 30 air strikes in an hour. Danger in every direction. And new dead. Our neighbours, the jamil family, are all gone, he says. As more air strikes went down, noor lies in intensive care. She is six years old and was injured on her own doorstep on monday. Her family says she is intelligent and chatty, and loves meeting new people. But here, shortly before the attack, she was afraid and praying. Her mother now praised by her bedside. —— prays. And suddenly, as we filmed, the planes were back. Well, within the last few seconds, we have had a strike. We heard the plane in the air. Then we felt the impact. The windows here shook, they rattled. And it's an indication of how nowhere here is safe. Even patients in hospitals can't feel completely safe. Minutes later, new wounded. An ambulance has just arrived now, bringing casualties from the latest air strike. They are being treated in the emergency department. There is a lot of anger and tension. People are stressed, wondering when this is going to stop. Back in intensive care, noor�*s father abdullah wants the world to see his child. Was she fighting?, he asks. She was playing at home. Does she have weapons? half of her brain is gone. Noor was born after her parents had ten years of ivf. Her father says he is not in hezbollah, but now wishes he was. Orla guerin, bbc news, in the beqaa valley. Hezbollah has suffered a string of blows to its command structure in lebanon over the past fortnight, culminating in the killing of its leader, hassan nasrallah, on friday. So how did the israel defense forces manage to track him down, and how have they been able to target so many of hezbollah's top commanders so quickly? our security correspondent frank gardner has been looking into it. Targeting hassan nasrallah was a strategic decision by israel. In hiding foryears, he had long been in their sites, so how did they do it? israeli intelligence was widely assumed to be behind the lethal sabotage of all those thousands of hezbollah pagers and walkie—talkies. Mossad, the israeli spy agency, is thought to have inserted explosives into the supply chain. That was almost a fortnight ago. What's transpired since then is that it goes deeper still. Have a look at this pyramid. The israeli military says it has assassinated all of these senior hezbollah commanders. So, just how has this israeli campaign been able to penetrate hezbollah's security so comprehensively? it certainly looks like something that would have been put together over probably years. It would have been built up from multiple disciplines, signals intelligence, interception of communications, the analysis of imagery, be that satellite or covertly taken photographs. But almost certainly some kind of human intelligence. In other words, spies on the ground. Once the israelis located now is well, their air force f—is warplanes reportedly dropped 80 bombs. They hit the underground cellar in south beirut where he was meeting top commanders. So it's clear hezbollah's security is deeply compromised by israeli intelligence. Nasrallah will be replaced, and soon, by someone with similar religious credentials. But it could take years for that new leader to build up a following. And in this climate, time is probably not on his side. Us presidentjoe biden has said he'll be speaking to the israeli prime minister. Taking questions from reporters in delaware, as he prepared to return to the white house on air force one, he also said a wider war must be avoided. Are you going to talk to prime minister netanyahu? have you got anything to say?— got anything to say? yes, i will be talking _ got anything to say? yes, i will be talking to _ got anything to say? yes, i will be talking to him. Got anything to say? yes, i will be talking to him. 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For more, we can speak to merissa khurma, non—resident fellow, middle east programme, wilson centre. Thanks forjoining me. Let's schedule thoughts onjoe biden and what he was saying, that he will speak to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. What will he say and why does he have so little sway over him? we he say and why does he have so little sway over him?— little sway over him? we have to wait and — little sway over him? we have to wait and see _ little sway over him? we have to wait and see what little sway over him? we have to wait and see what he little sway over him? we have to wait and see what he will. To wait and see what he will say, but he's had conversations with prime minister netanyahu before and here we are today. I think are today in the war, especially after the assassination of hassan nasrallah, that was not shared beforehand with united states, really does make the biden administration and it's very intensive diplomatic efforts over the last 11 plus months, has completely irrelevant. ——as. I think i mr netanyahu understand this well. He is a shrewd politician, understands the us foreign policy establishment and the us domestic political scene very well and his goal is to make sure he survives politically and the longer these wars last, the longer he will stay in office and let's also be very honest about the achievements from israel's perspective that have been achieved. . Theyjust kill the number one enemy, the leader of hezbollah. With all these military successes from israel. . . From israel's side, netanyahu will gain more popularity but there are also many israeli hostages still held by hamas and other militant groups in gaza. The pressure is still on. It doesn't seem there is pressure coming through from the biden administration or not enough at least for the israeli prime minister to change course and de—escalate. We minister to change course and deesealate_ minister to change course and deescalate. We have only seen words from _ deescalate. We have only seen words from the _ deescalate. We have only seen words from the us _ deescalate. We have only seen words from the us comes deescalate. We have only seen words from the us comes to words from the us comes to putting pressure on prime minister netanyahu. Talk to us about the domestic pressure. We have moved significantly beyond hamas and gaza now. Essen have moved significantly beyond hamas and gaza now. Even after the assassination _ hamas and gaza now. Even after the assassination of— hamas and gaza now. Even after the assassination of hassan the assassination of hassan nasrallah, there are many israelis that are celebrating, but the protest, even around his own house, have continued. People want the end of, i guess, both wars in gaza and lebanon on but primarily those who out are also calling for a ceasefire in gaza so the hostages return home safely. So far we have only heard prior mr netanyahu talk about that, but the families and friends and other israelis protesting, the four —— the for a hostage seal, do not see anything taking place. That is pressure he is feeling. He seems unfazed by that as well. — that as well. How is iran likely to _ that as well. How is iran likely to respond that as well. How is iran likely to respond out. That as well. How is iran likely to respond out of| that as well. How is iran likely to respond out of these continued attacks by israel on its proxies, hezbollah and now the houthi smack as well? the statement _ the houthi smack as well? the statement that _ the houthi smack as well? tue: statement that came the houthi smack as well? tte: statement that came out the houthi smack as well? ttl: statement that came out from higher toll, statement that came out from highertoll, nay statement that came out from higher toll, nay stated clearly that iran will support hezbollah, that all the other groups that formed the axis of resistance should continue to fight and support hezbollah in that fight. Ayatolah khamanei. It that fight. Ayatolah khamanei ——. It doesn't seem the iranians are looking for an all—out war, even with all of these assassinations particularly with hassan nasrallah. One would think they would step in, but it does not seem this is the cause they want to take. So so far that gives us an opportunity for a little bit more diplomatic pressure on all sides. Thanks very much — pressure on all sides. Thanks very much for— pressure on all sides. Thanks very much for your _ pressure on all sides. Thanks very much for your thoughts. J pressure on all sides. Thanks very much for your thoughts. We appreciate your time. While the focus over the last week has been on israel's actions in lebanon, the conflict in gaza continues. An nhs surgeon who has volunteered for over 50 humanitarian missions worldwide has told the bbc that on his recent visit to gaza, the situation was the worst he's ever encountered. Dr ammar darwish said that he saw horrors unparallelled to anywhere else. He recorded a video diary for the bbc to show what life is like there. Operating since yesterday, all the way through the evening, all the way through the night. 8. 40 this morning, and we have been operating on a young lady, three months pregnant, multiple shrapnel injuries to the abdomen, multiple injuries. Overwhelmed with the amount of injuries coming through. We are running out of suppliers. Without these supplies, unfortunately, some people will die. A lot of injured civilians, including children and women, suffering. Just about a couple of hours ago, a bomb was dropped in front of the hospital, from a drone, which caused more casualties to come through. It's an extremely difficult situation to operate in, especially when we have no electricity all day to day, until this evening. It was really difficult to run theatres, the emergency department, with a small generator that the hospital uses. Electricity is back on now, but we don't know for how long. The night is still young. We'vejust had unconfirmed news that the other hospital next to the area has had to evacuate. This means that our hospital is the last standing hospital here that can accept or able to deal with mass casualties and major trauma injuries. We've just seen a 15—year—old who had his house bombed and came with grade four orfive liver injury. It's really difficult to do anything for him. We're going to keep a close eye on him. Unfortunately, if he deteriorates, we are going to take him for an operation which he might not survive. It's been quite an exhausting and intense day. And the night's still early. Another child, a four—year—old girl, with a bullet straight to the head. We had to operate on her. The staff are doing their best but it's not looking very good. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. You're live with bbc news. Austria's far—right freedom party looks set for an unprecedented victory in the country's general election. But projected results suggest it won't secure an outright majority. And the second—placed conservative people's party has ruled outjoining a government headed by the freedom party's polarising leader, herbert keekle. Other parties have also rejected the idea. Austria's president has urged the parties to hold talks to find a compromise. Here's our correspondent bethany bell in vienna with the latest. The freedom party and its supporters are celebrating. The freedom party leader herbert kickl has tapped into voter concerns about the economy, about rising prices and, crucially, about migration. He says he wants to build fortress austria to keep the migrants out. He also said he wants to be what he calls a people's chancellor, a volkskanzler — a term that worries some austrians because it was used to describe adolf hitler. Whatever happens, forming a coalition government is likely to be very complicated, because the other parties have all said they don't want to form an alliance led by kickl. It's likely that all talks to form a government will take weeks, if not months. A bbc investigation has tracked down a british man who brazilian police accuse of trying to traffic cocaine with a street value of around $134 million from south america to europe. Authorities in brazil believe he hired an innocent crew to sail his yacht across the atlantic, but when they had to make an emergency stop off the coast of west africa, police there found more than a tonne of the drug hidden in secret compartments below deck. Yemisi adegoke has more. The sunken yacht made headlines in 2017 when it was seized in cape verde. The boat's owner who went by the name fox has never been questioned by authority so the bbc have been searching for him to find out if he will talk. The position between south america and europe, cape verde's position makes it a hub for traffickers. Nearly a third of the 50 tons of cocaine that crosses west africa ends up being sold en route, bringing clime social problems to places like cape verde. This person runs a bible focused rehab centre where recovering addicts sleep in tents. Stopping drugs coming into cape verde is tough with limited resources and territorial waters larger than in france. When the rich harvest stop for repairs in cape verde, police discovered a ton of cocaine hidden underneath the crew's pads. Just south of here in salvador is where the rich harvest started its journey towards europe after spending just over a year in the country. Police now say it is likely the drugs, just over a ton of cocaine, were already on the vote —— boat with an unsuspecting crew on board. Members of the crew who sailed on the rich harvest was sentenced to ten years in this cape verde prison. They convictions were later overturned and the case dismissed. The sailors claimed a british man, box, was responsible. One member of the crew was devastated when he received a sentence. Looking at his instagram account, despite having obviously travelled a loud, most of his post from the uk. Fox was known to be a uk citizen, so with the help of a british journalist, citizen, so with the help of a britishjournalist, colin freeman who has been following the case for years, and a braziljournalist, christine, we continue the search for fox in the uk. When we added his name, george saul, into this database, seven different uk addresses come up. All addresses come up. All addresses are in a city called norwich to the east of england and these posts are from norwich city centre. A new search combining his name with his business addresses leads us to a profile page for fox on the website of a professional networking group. Scrolling through the group's web page find members meet every thursday morning at seven am at a hotel on the outskirts of the city. We head to the hotel car park to wait for george saul to arrive. Excuse me. We are from the bbc. Resilient police say you are an international drug trafficker. I am you are an international drug trafficker. Iam not. And you are an international drug trafficker. I am not. And that you masterminded this operation, put a ton of cocaine on the boat. I am not doing this. Would you consider going back to brazil? we wrote to him to ask if he had anything else to ask if he had anything else to say about the allegations contained in this film. But we received no reply. The national crime agency has said there is no current uk arrest warrant for fox. If you want more on this investigation, you can watch finding mr fox on bbc africa's youtube channel. If you're in the uk, you can also watch finding mr fox on bbc iplayer. Let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines: the death toll following hurricane helene hasjumped to 91, as rescuers battle to reach people across the southeastern us. The category 4 hurricane hit states from florida to ohio. These images from horsehoe beach in florida show the scale of devastation. More than 2. 5 million people were left without power. A huge rescue effort is under way in nepal afterfloods and landslides killed nearly 150 people. More than 50 people are still missing after two days of intense rainfall that flooded the valley around the capital, kathmandu. Residents say they jumped from one roof to another to escape rising waters. The government has been criticised for the speed of their emergency response. Before we go, new zealand has regained the world record for the largest number of people taking part ina haka. More than 6,000 people came together for the performance at a stadium in auckland. The haka is a traditional dance associated with new zealand's indigenous maori people. It's been made famous by the all blacks rugby team who perform it before their matches. The previous record of 4,000 people was held by france. Very brave of france. Anyway, business today is next. Hello there. Well, it's now the end of the month, and it's been a very wet one across the southern half of the uk. Some spots here have seen more than three or four times their average september rainfall. And there's more wet weather to come too, notably for the start of the week and then through the middle of the week, things will settle down, it will turn drier, there will be some sunshine, so things looking up and temperatures will return to the seasonal average too. But in the meantime, this is the rainfall accumulation chart for the next couple of days. So more wet weather, especially in the south. And there could be some more flooding over the midlands with more heavy downpours here on the ground already saturated. And it's all because this deep area of low pressure is rolling in from the southwest through the rest of the night, bringing heavy, persistent outbreaks of rain, especially over the higher ground. Strong, gusty winds, especially on the southern flank there. A few showers further north, but generally here it is drier, and it's a milder start across the board than we saw over the weekend. And that low continues to push further northwards and eastwards as we head through monday. Bumps into the area of high pressure out towards the east. So it is going to stall, and that is not good news where we've seen the recent flooding, because there'll be more heavy rain falling on the saturated ground. Some of the heaviest of the downpours of rain on monday could be across the liverpool bay area stretching across the midlands. North midlands in particular down from southeast yorkshire through into northern areas of east anglia. Towards the south, it will dry out and the winds will gradually ease down. And towards the north, we'll see a few showers scattered across parts of scotland, northern ireland, but generally a lot drier here. But it will turn drier, particularly out towards the west, as we head through monday night into tuesday as that low rolls off into the north sea. So some clear spells starting to appear and a slightly chillier start for western areas we'll be seeing on monday morning. But underneath the cloud and the rain of course still very mild. And then on tuesday, well, our low pushes into the north sea. High pressure starts to build into the north and the west. We'll be seeing that a bit later on through the week. But we're starting off tuesday with still outbreaks of rain across parts of east anglia, southeast england, a brisk north—easterly wind blowing for the north sea—facing coasts, but towards the north and the west, there'll be some brightness and spells of sunshine, perhaps a few showers but generally dry and temperatures will start to pick up. It's looking largely dry on wednesday, thursday and friday. Bye— bye. China tries to reboot its ailing property sector with more stimulus — but will it be enough? and we look at how a new online university launched by sir richard branson could level the playing field for people with dyslexia. Hello and welcome to business today. I'm steve lai. With the beginning of the new week, china has announced new measures to try and boost sluggish growth. The ailing property sector is the target this time — with the central bank telling banks to lower mortgage rates for existing home loans. We're expecting commercial banks to cut rates by about 0. 5%. The move is the latest in a string of measures introduced by beijing. Tianchen xu, senior economist for china at the eiu explains the new economic strategy of the government. These three errors, the first is that monetary reducing where last tuesday there was costs to banks and so on, a lot of monetary efforts. The second is the effort to rescue the struggling housing market. Rate cuts from existing mortgages which is technically subsidies on mortgage