Blitzer in washington in for fredricka whitfield. Were standing by for major Breaking News right now significant developments unfolding in the Middle East right now, another huge Explosion Rocking Beirut Just A Little while ago in the last hour or so, as israel continues its punishing airstrikes On Hezbollah forces in the lebanese capital. This as we learn, the leader of one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the Middle East was killed in one of those strikes around backed Militant Group hezbollah, confirming its secretary general Hassan Nasrallah was killed in israeli bombing in beirut On Friday, around State Media says a senior iranian commander was also among those killed in that blast. Nasrallah was one of his balahs founders playing a key role in its formation. And the targeting of israel for over four decades. If his death igniting fears of a wider conflict in the region, those fears, fear of very vague very serious right now iran Supreme Leader saying today that all reg
Longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and strikes last night on Apartment Complex In Beirut. Israel claims that hezbollah was using the complex as in underground headquarters. This represents a major escalation of the backand forth between Israel And Hezbollah, which israel has intensified in the last couple weeks. The strikes killed several other Highranking Hezbollah officials and the iranian State News that says in revolutionary Guard General was killed in the same strike. Lebanon lawns and more than 100 wounded in the strikes. That number is expected to rise. Nasrallah is a travertine cleric, who has led the group since 1992 and has grown the group in most powerful Running Back and forth and the reason both militarily and political terry. It is what is called a state within a state. He also led the group through decades of conflict with israel, participate in the Syrian Civil War On Behalf of of the regime and help back others in the region including the houthis in yemen. The national
Breaking news from The Middle East, new and growing tension following confirmation from lebanon, the leader of hezbollah was killed friday in an israeli airstrike on an apartment complex. We dont have that sound. We will get that for you. You can see the effect of the airstrikes that continue today and plumes of smoke can be seen rising over Southern Lebanon. Protesters have gathered on The Streets Of Tehran today. Officials in iran say one of its military generals was also killed friday adding they expect to soon deploy troops to lebanon. The biden administration says it has no advanced warning of the israeli strikes. President biden in a statement moments ago said hassan Nasrallahs Death is a measure of justice for his many victims including thousands of americans, israelis and lebanese civilians. We have reporters and analysts in place across the world ready to go over these developments for us. We will go to Matt Bradley who joined us from beirut. Welcome. I know you heard a lot of
Forces is doing. What general jeremy diamond. Thank you. An, that s it for us. The news continues the source with kaitlan collins starts now taking the source tonight, vice president harris at the border right now in her first visit as the democratic nominee, trying to cut into donald trump s immigration edge as he mocks her for showing up. Meanwhile, a hospital that was surrounded by hurricane helene s floodwaters, the dozens trapped on the roof, including patients. We re going to show you that dramatic and dangerous rescue that happened today also, we re tracking new explosions in beirut tonight israel, israel s targeted thank the leader of hezbollah, launching a strike in the heart of the capital. I m kaitlan collins, and this is the source moments ago, vice president kamala harris was just visiting the u. S. Southern border for the first time since she became in the democratic nominee really confronting what has been one of her biggest political vulnerabilities immigration harris i
This is bbc news. Lets go straight back to that breaking news of the last few minutes. We will you knew the live scenes In Beirut. A massive explosion in the last little while from beirut. There you see the seconds after the explosion. We are hearing that there have been multiple explosions. That is coming to us from our correspondents on the ground in terms of the pictures you can see. Hugo bachegais pictures you can see. Hugo bachega is In Beirut for us, telling us this explosion is in one of the strongholds in the south of beirut. The Israeli Military also updating in the last few minutes, saying that they are currently striking Terror Targets, that is how they describe it, currently striking Terror Targets belong to hezbollah in the southern lebanon. This happened about five or seven minutes ago. You can see just the skyline, beirut, and the size of that explosion. Of course that fits entirely with what we have seen in terms of tactics from israel since monday, the sort of strikes.