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
Continues to make baseless allegations of widespread fraud in states like pennsylvania which officials flatly reject. What the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on knowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner. And on resolved election a nation on edge 3 days after one of americas most divisive president ial votes it appears that the democratic challenger joe biden is moving further ahead of President Donald Trump in battleground states which will decide the outcome. So far biden is projected to have 1264 Electoral College votes trump has 214 the magic number required is 270 by the needs to win in only one of those undecided states to get him over the finish line lets start with pennsylvania where biden is ahead of trump by just over 19 and a half 1000 votes the remaining mail in ballots are mostly from democratic leaning cities like philadelphia and pittsburgh biden is also leading in georgia by nearly 4000. 00 votes in an unusually tight
Affected areas. This is not a decision that has been taking lightly but it is and this is very precaution whats worrying scientists is that the new strain showing decreased sensitivity against antibodies meaning vaccines currently under development to treat covert 19 might not be able to stop it the World Health Organizations praised the decision saying denmark showed determination and courage despite the huge Economic Impact on mink farmers the move is likely to devastate the countrys pelt industry the w. H. O. Urged other countries to be vigilant especially where large numbers of animals are packed together but stress that coronavirus mutations occur often and dont always pose an increased risk to humans mutations are normal these types of changes in the virus are something that we have been tracking since the beginning and youve heard me say many times that w. H. O. Has a Global Laboratory network and we have a specific working group that is looking at the virus evolution and lookin