Or, after the business of the exploding pagers and the continuing targeted bombings, is he hoping to continue humiliating hezbollah and showing it up as powerless? but suppose hezbollah hangs on and keeps firing missiles at israel, to the point where mr netanyahu feels he s got to take that extra step of putting israeli boots on lebanese soil? i spoke to nafiseh kohnavad, a middle east correspondent of bbc world service, at her flat in beirut. Nafiseh originally worked as a journalist in iran, but was forced to leave after asking too many hard questions of iran s political leaders. At the moment that i m talking to you, israeli air strikes have intensified significantly. For the first time, when hassan nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah, was giving a speech, he clearly mentioned that now this is a new phase, and that the group was expecting that israeli forces may enter southern lebanon by land. Before that, erm, all words were around that both sides don t want all out war. Now, you re
Bombings, is he hoping to continue humiliating hezbollah and showing it up as powerless? but suppose hezbollah hangs on and keeps firing missiles at israel, to the point where mr netanyahu feels he s got to take that extra step of putting israeli boots on lebanese soil? i spoke to nafiseh kohnavad, a middle east correspondent of bbc world service, at her flat in beirut. Nafiseh originally worked as a journalist in iran, but was forced to leave after asking too many hard questions of iran s political leaders. At the moment that i m talking to you, israeli air strikes have intensified significantly. For the first time, when hassan nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah, was giving a speech, he clearly mentioned that now this is a new phase, and that the group was expecting that israeli forces may enter southern lebanon by land. Before that, erm, all words were around that both sides don t want all out war. Now, you re in beirut, of course, and i can hear, in the background, children playing.
Be a dry start to the weekend. Tomorrow starts dry and ChIlly Chubut there wIll be some wet and WIndy Weather later In the day. Dry and chIlly too. Fresh attacks have contInued on the lebanese CapItal BeIrut overnIght. It comes after Israels MIlItary carrIed out a StrIke South of the CIty Yesterday targetIng Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah. It has not been confIrmed If he was In the buIldIngs when It was struck. Lebanons Health MInIstry say sIx people were kIlled and 91 Injured. Our reporter SImon Jones has the latest. ExplosIons, screamIng new strIkes overnIght on Southern BeIrut. Israels mIlItary saId It was targetIng buIldIngs storIng hezbollah weapons underneath them. Hezbollah denIed they were arms depots. ExplosIons. EarlIer, a serIes of massIve explosIons. It Is thought the target here was the Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah. It Is unclear whether he was any of the buIldIngs that were hIt. Iran, whIch backs hezbollah, has called the attack a dangerous, game changIng escalatI
And we find out what these adelie and Gentoo Penguins in antarctica have to tell us about global warming. Hello and welcome. We begin in beijing where the Winter Olympics torch relay has just got under way. Over the next three days, 1,000 people will carry the torch past chinese landmarks, including the Summer Palace and great wall. Its a scaled down event with very few spectators because of coronavirus restrictions. But despite the governments commitment to a zero covid strategy, the Omicron Variant is spreading. The Beijing Olympics organiser says 32 new cases have been detected among games related personnel in the last 2a hours. Lets go to beijing and our china correspondent stephen mcdonell. You are covering every twist and turn as these games are about to begin. Talk us through todays torch relay. This about to begin. Talk us through todays torch relay. Todays torch relay. This is nothina todays torch relay. This is nothing like todays torch relay. This is nothing like the todays
Hello, im sally bundock. It all sounds a bit fishy, we will get to that a little later stop. Lets get down to business, and we begin with the rising price of oil which is pushing up the cost of living globally. With tensions on the Ukraine Russia border not easing, markets are betting demand for oil could go up, and, recently, we saw the price of the black stuff hitting its highest level for 7 years, and this impacts everything from fuel to food bills. Today, the members of the Oil Cartel Opec and other oil producers, will meet. So will they change their Decision Making on Oil Production . And what pressure are they under as well. As you can see from this graph, though, oil has been on a steep upward trajectory over the past year with some analysts now predicting it wont be long before it hits 100 a barrel. Well, there are three main reasons. Firstly, theres now growing optimism about the speed at which the Global Economic will recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Secondly, geopoliti