By sending around 700 additional Uk Military personnel to cyprus as part of a possible evacuation. They willjoin 500 british troops who are already based at raf akrotiri. Meanwhile, Israel And Hezbollah continue to exchange heavy cross borderfire, defying calls from World Leaders for an immediate de escalation. The lebanese government has called on the us for help to end a wave of israeli assaults, the deadliest bombardment the country has seen in decades. Health authorities there say 569 people, including many children, have been killed since monday. Hezbollah continues to launch rockets in the other, direction. The purple dots on this Map Show where those rockets landed. Israels Air Strikes within lebanon are marked here in red. And as World Leaders meet in new york, the un Security Council says it will discuss the escalation on wednesday evening. Aru na iyengar reports. Firing across borders, there is rarely iron Dome Defence System intercepts rockets fired by hezbollah from lebanon
we start in the uk, where the wait is now over for eurovision fans. in the last hour in liverpool, the winner of this year s eurovision song contest has been annouced, with sweden taking the crown for the seventh time with loreen s song tattoo. this was the moment her victory was announced. loreen was already the bookies favourite but she now becomes the first woman to ever win the contest twice, after her victory in 2012 with the track euphoria. well, loreen led the way from the start of the jury vote. here she is with her winning performance of tattoo earlier. # to get closer to you. # you re stuck on me. # like a tattoo. # to get closer to you. # you re stuck on me. # like a tattoo. # no, i don t care about the pain. # i ll walk through fire. # and through rainjust # to get closer to you. # you re stuck on me. # like a tattoo. # no, i don t care about them. and here she is accepting the award. only the second person to win eurovision twice. how does it feel? this is overw
and the militant islamichhad went into effect. crowds celebrated in the streets. emergency services and civil defence vehicles had their sirens blaring and lights flashing. the truce came into effect a few hours ago, signalling an end to the worst episode of cross borderfire in the last years. the agreement, brokered by egypt, follows five days of violent exchanges which have killed at least 35 people, all but one of them palestinians. there has been no comment from the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, or other officials since news of the truce emerged. a palestinian source told the bbc that the new agreement included a commitment by israel to stop so called targeted assassinations. israel has been demanding a complete halt to rocket fire by islamichhad at its civilians. for more on this i spoke earlier to khaled elgindy, senior fellow at the middle east institute and the director of its programme on palestine and palestinian israeli affairs. it would seem the ceas
Their kingpin and leader, who is a dead man walking. We will get to them, every single one of them. This is the scene live in gaza city israel contines to urge anyone still there to leave as soon as possible. Hello, welcome to bbc news. The bbc has confirmed that Young Children were among those killed in an air strike on a convoy of vehicles leaving Northern Gaza on friday, along a route designated by israel. Our team at bbc verify analysed two videos of the strike on the vehicles heading towards southern gaza. Both videos have been verified, these first images show a Lorry Carrying at least 30 civilians on the move, moments before it was hit. And these are still images taken from a subsequent video from the aftermath of the strike, too graphic to show in detail. The video shows men running to the lorry, trying to help those whove been hit. There are at least 12 visible dead bodies in the video. In the past hour, israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu, has visit