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
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cnn this morning continues right now. deep uncertainty on capitol hill over kevin mccarthy s plan to lock down the votes to get this passed. when you maxed out your credit cards, it s a pretty good time to evaluate your spending habits. no one in this country can afford the risk of default which is why republicans should take it off the table. e. jean carroll expected to take the stand today. they say donald trump raped carroll in a dressing room. trump s lawyers say she schemed. and two other women will testify who allege that trump forced himself on them can also take the stand. mastermind of the 2021 suicide bombing at kabul airport has been killed by the taliban. the white house hasn t said when he was killed or how. the chairman of the house foreign relations committee said, quote, any time a terrorist is taken off of the board is a good day. but this does not diminish the biden administration s call pablt. culpability. incompetence, that s how