Place across lebanon. Heres a crowd gathered in beirut, in the aftermath of explosions. Weve also verified these videos of ambulances apparently taking the wounded to hospital in tibnin, in the south of the country. How many were injured . Reports say more than 2,500 people were hurt, with some killed. So what happened 7 it appears that what were blowing up were these pagers used to receive messages. The militant Group Hezbollah had switched away from using phones to using pages over Fears Israel could track those phones. But that decision appears to have been exploited to target them. We cant verify this Close Up of what appears to be a blown up pager, but the markings appear to match a particular brand. Its not clear how they were detonated simply hacking into them remotely or making them overheat would not be able to make them explode. And so, one possibility is that all the pagers were physically intercepted at some point and had small amounts of explosives planted inside, ready to
A supermarket in beirut. Other videos posted online show people with injuries, some of them severe. These are pictures inside one hospital being overwhelmed by the number of people injured. The lebanese government are appealing to citizens to donate blood and to ditch their pagers if they have one. The incidents happened in the groups strongholds in Southern Lebanon and beirut. Also injured in the attack was irans ambassador to lebanon, mojtaba amani, whos in a stable condition in hospital. Our diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams has more. Iwarning, i warning, there are description images from the start. This was a devastating attack. In supermarkets. On the street, in cars, at home and even in barbershops scores, perhaps hundreds, of hezbollah members simultaneously injured by exploding pagers. Incidents reported from all over lebanon, from beirut to the bekaa valley, and even in neighbouring syria. Each explosion was small, but some left terrible injuries, more than 2700 wounded, acc
Worth over £85 million. Its now down to kane to decide whether to leave. Hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. At least 36 people are known to have been killed by wildfires sweeping across hawaii. Large parts of the Tourist Town Of Lahaina on the Island Of Maui have been burned to the ground. This was the scene overnight, when flames spread rapidly, forcing some people to jump into the sea to escape. Daylight revealed devastation, with multiple areas burnt to the ground and the western side of the island almost cut off. Officials say the Hospital System is overwhelmed, with many people suffering burns and smoke inhalation. 0ur correspondent Richard Galpin has this report. Is anybody still out here . If anybody is still out here, its time to go. Anybody is still out here, its time to no. ,. ,. , anybody is still out here, its time toao. ,. ,. , to go. These are the desperate calls for eole to go. These are the desperate calls for peeple still to go. These are the desperate calls fo
More in the way of cloud. Northern ireland is turning cloudy because of this approaching Weather Front which will change things. It means this dose of Summer Weather may not last that long for all of us. Even ahead of this cloud, there are some cloudy areas, parts of central and Southern Scotland and northern england, this cloud could produce the odd spot of light rain. Further south there will be the odd shower but most places will be dry and in the best of the Sunshine Temperature is 25, maybe 28 celsius. Quite a humid field to the weather as well. I mentioned the weather as well. I mentioned the Weather Front out towards the west. Through this evening its expected to bring heavy and possibly thundery rain eastwards across northern ireland. There could be localised travel disruption, may be some flooding. That rain will then push north east across scotland. It is going to be quite a warm and muggy night, minimum temperature is 15, 16, 17 night, minimum temperature is 15, 16,17 degree
Before the next general election. So there is a lot riding on this and after the chancellor delivers his statement, we will hear from the labour party, they will deliver a response in the House Of Commons to that budget as well. Joining me now is our political correspondence who is our political correspondence who is at Downing Street as well. We saw the chancellor depart from number 11 in the last 20 minutes or so, that budget firmly inside that red box. I was saying earlier, i did a story years later about those red boxes and how they are made, a secretive process, and they are very heavy, about three kilograms, so it takes a muscle to hold that up we knew some of what is in the box, we knew about the 2p reduction in National Insurance but what other rumours swirling around westminster . It is interestin swirling around westminster . It 3 interesting you mention swirling around westminster . It 1 interesting you mention the particle context around this because we think this will be t