It comes in the hours after the israeli military carried out what it called extensive strikes on hezbollah targets in southern lebanon. Israeli aircraft destroyed thousands of hezbollah rocket launch barrels in southern lebanon, according to israeli officials. Also tonight, the us state department is urging american citizens to leave lebanon, with fears growing of an all out war. Meanwhile, the death toll from israel s strike on a densely populated area of southern beirut on friday has risen to 37. Hezbollah says 16 of its members were killed in the attack, including senior military commander ibrahim aqil. He was wanted by the us government for years and was designated a global terrorist for his involvement in the 1983 bombing of the us embassy in beirut. Friday s bombing also killed civilians, including three children, with more feared trapped in the rubble. Our middle east correspondent orla guerin reports from the scene in beirut. A beirut suburb turned into a battlefield. They are
Should thin and break with some sunshine developing, but then that threat of heavy showers and thunderstorms, hail could be mixed in and some torrential downpours through parts of the midlands, wales and the south west of england. Again, this area most prone, but there could be one or two elsewhere. Temperatures about 16 to 23 degrees again on saturday, so fine in between any of those showers and some sunshine again in the north, which is going to be the picture on sunday. Again for Northern Ireland and western scotland, sunny, warm conditions here, but cool and cloudy around the North East coast. Further south, though, those showers and thunderstorms by sunday are going to be heavier and more frequent as well. Could be some frequent hail and lightning. Into next week things turn cooler and more unsettled. A distinct autumnal and fairly windy spell of weather on the way. Bye for now. This is bbc news. The headlines lawyers representing some of the women who have accused the late Mohame
A work has reportedly restarted on the controversial nord stream 2 gas pipeline in the baltic sea almost a year after u. S. Sanctions brought the german russian project to a halt u. S. Argues the pipeline is meant to isolate ukraine and divide the e. U. On saturday its ambassador to germany robin quintile repeated calls for germany to end the 1000000000. 00 project. Work is underway once again on the north stream 2 pipeline German Authorities have given the go ahead for the russian ship academic cesky to lay another 2. 6 kilometers of pipe by the end of the year but that is nowhere near enough to complete the project a total of 160 kilometers still have to be laid. Only then with the underwater pipeline be ready allowing russian state owned Company Gazprom to deliver siberian gas directly. To germany. For that the u. S. Has been watching developments with alarm late last week american lawmakers added measures against the baltic sea pipeline to the annual Defense Budget these provide fo
A controversial election victory what does that mean for people struggling on a crippled because. Also lufthansa says that by the end of this year it will slash 29000. 00 jobs thats a 5th of its total workforce and thats not all there will be more job cuts next year. And some exciting weekend soccer action in germany has been asleep by a lever whos scoring goals. And stopping on their way to 2nd place in the district i will tell you how they extended a remarkable unbeaten streak. Welcome to the program british and european negotiators will today resume talks to secure a post bragg. Trade deal with an agreement hanging in the balance the latest round of talks is taking place in brussels ahead of an e. U. Summit later this week the e. U. Is offering tariff free access to the Single Market in exchange for britain agreeing to e. U. Rules on state environmental and labor regulations britain will leave the Single Market trading block at the end of the minds. Joined by the. Nominee and brusse
Hes fighting for because to be some kind of front this country. How low you are watching our teams national the sauce save the 7th. Its now fool day since the u. S. Election and it looks like we might find me have a result a number of media are projecting the joe biden has been elected the fool to president of america having secured 273 Electoral College votes just to remind 270 are needed for victory the former v. P. When in his home state of pennsylvania has pushed him across that threshold donald trump meanwhile stands at 214 well lets cross live now to. Wolf and whos in new york ok to everyone wanted to know the results from pennsylvania some more details are coming out in huge moment for joe biden thought tom lucky it seems. Indeed joe biden seems to be declaring himself the winner of the president ial election i however if you look on social media just shortly before hand we got dom trump proclaiming on twitter that he won by a lot but at this point the media seems to be echoing