Diverting forces, resources And energy towArds the north. These events confirms thAt there is A serious risk of A drAmAtic escAlAtion in lebAnon, And everything must be done to Avoid thAt escAlAtion. Hello And welcome. On the context in the next hour. After A second dAy of deAdly explosions Across lebAnon, tArgeting hezbollAh, well be live injerusAlem, lebAnon And wAshington. IsrAeli leAders sAy theyre opening A new phAse in the wAr, And the Centre Of GrAvity is shifting to the north. Well Ask whAt does thAt meAn . Also on the progrAmme the us CentrAl BAnk goes big with its first Interest RAte Cut in four yeArs, lowering its key Lending RAte by hAlf A PercentAge Point. And who is briefing AgAinst the LAbour Chief of stAff Sue GrAy And why . As the bbc is told she eArns more thAn her boss the prime minister. We stArt in lebAnon, where theres been A fresh wAve of explosions Across the country, which hAve killed At leAst 1A people, with more thAn A50 injured. HAnd held rAdios or WAlkie TA
Joining me tonight are political Strategist And Commentator Rina Shah and columnist for the i and former Labour Executive Director of Policy Andrew Fisher first , the latest headlines. Israels Defence Minister has said the military is opening a new phase in the war, and will be diverting troops and resources northwards. Yoav gallant was speaking to troops at an airbase near the border with lebanon. It comes as 14 people have been killed and at least a50 injured in further explosions across lebanon involving Walkie Talkies. The us Federal Reserve has cut Interest Rates by half a Percentage Point in its first reduction since the pandemic. It puts the Central Banks benchmark Lending Rate at between 4. 75 and 5 , sharply lowering the cost of borrowing with less than 50 days to go until the us president ial election. The Foreign Office has summoned the russian ambassador to the uk over the expulsion of six british diplomats from moscow. A spokesperson Accused Moscow Of Making malicious and
The entire country has emitted as much Carbon Dioxide since the 19505 as americans have in wait for it the last three days and in the uk, conservationists declare an emergency, as Butterfly Numbers fall to their lowest on record. We start this hour in the Middle East, where at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a new wave of attacks in lebanon this time its Walkie Talkies that have been detonated. The latest blasts come just 2a hours after pagers used by the armed Group Hezbollah exploded simultaneously across the country killing at least 12 people and leaving more than 3,000 in hospital. Iran which backs hezbollah has described the attacks as mass murder. Hezbollah is blaming israel and has vowed to retaliate. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav gallant says the country is opening a new phase in the Gaza War and the Centre Of Gravity is shifting to the north. 0ur Senior International Correspondent 0rla Guerin sent this report from beirut. Hezbollah, coming to bury its
These short term targets were so weak as to be almost 00 01 02,426 4294966103 13 29,429 impossible to miss. If this trend continues, the uk could achieve targets agreed with the government for Methane Reduction which campaigns for a rapid and fair transition away from Oil And Gas production says, this is all smoke and mirrors. Impossible to miss. Mark wilsonjoins me now from 0euk where he is health, Safety Environment and operations director. Good to have on the programme. What is your response to that, that actually, the targets were easy to meet so that you could have a good, positive narrative about the North Sea . The taruets about the North Sea . The targets that about the North Sea . The targets that were about the North Sea . Lie targets that were said about the North Sea . Tue targets that were said through the North Sea Transition Deal allow the industry to demonstrate that it in infrastructure alone, if used to its full extent in the North Sea, would cause three times the emi
56, from the us, from north carolina. This is ryan routh, now 58, speaking two years ago in ukraine where he had volunteered to fight against russia. He is now in custody in florida, after He Alledgedly turned his sights on Donald Trump. Attempted assassination of the former president. Routh was detained on one of the main highway heading out of florida. Pictures taken by a Passing Motorist show a large number of police surrounding a vehicle. Routh was driving the black car, seen here on the side of the road. Donald trump was playing golf on his own course when a number of gunshots were heard. They have an agent Thatjumps One Hole ahead of time to where the president was at, and he was able to spot this Rifle Barrel sticking out of the fence and immediately engage that individual, at which time the individual took off. The police recovered what they say is an Ak L Style rifle with a scope. Two backpacks containing ceramic tiles, and a gopro camera. We are not sure right now if the indi