Hurricane milton has re strengthened to a category five storm as it barrels straight towards florida. People there are evacuating en masse, ahead of its projected landfall on wednesday night local time. The national hurricane center says the storm has doubled in size since tuesday. You can see this timelapse, here shared by american astronaut matthew dominick, showing how this storm looks from space. Local authorities and weather experts say milton will bring a destructive storm surge, in which some areas will not be survivable. Hundreds of flights have been canceled ahead of its landfall, which is expected to bring strong winds of up to 165 mph or 270 kph. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the south eastern us; 225 people were killed by the natural disaster across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlan
On lebanon as cross border attacks between israel and hezbollah intensify. These are live pictures from of the session in new york. The egyptian representative is speaking right now. It comes as the head of israel s army has told troops to prepare for a possible ground invasion of lebanon saying air attacks are in preparation for boots on the ground. Us presidentjoe biden has warned an all out war in the middle east is possible, but said there is still an opportunity to settle the conflict. Lebanon s health ministry says at least 72 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in israeli strikes on wednesday. Un secretary general antonio guterres said lebanon cannot become another gaza and called for an end to hostilities between israel and hezbollah. Hell is breaking loose in lebanon. As i told the general assembly yesterday, we should all be alarmed by the escalation. Lebanon is at the brink. Of course, the blue line is see intentions for aeons. Since the 6th of october, they
On the bbc sport website. But to pick out a couple, lazio had the biggest win of the night 3 0 away at dynamo kyiv and ligue 1 s nice came from a goal down to draw with real sociedad. The europa league continues on thursday and tottenham will open their account at home to qarabag. Their midfielder rodrigo bentancur is facing an fa charge for an alleged racist remark made in a media interview this summer concerning his team mate son heung min. Well, the spurs captain has expressed his love for the uruguayan today in spite of bentancur s misconduct charge, which, if proven, could bring with it a hefty ban. I love him, i love him. We had a lot of good memories. We started playing together when hejoined and he apologised straight afterwards, you know, when we had a holiday. I was at home, and i didn t even realise that was what s going on, and hejust sent me a long text that i could feel that he was coming from his heart, you know? and afterwards, when we come back to the training grou
Welcome to hardtalk. Thanks very much, stephen. Its a great pleasure to have you in the studio. Let me start by trying to establish a core principle. Is it your belief that animals should enjoy equal rights, the same rights as humans . Well, not the same rights, because, of course, they dont need the right to do some of the things we wish to do, like drive a car or vote, although they might do better than weve done sometimes. But they do need the right to be respected. I think theyre living beings just like us, and so they should be understood as much as we possibly can understand them. We shouldnt inflict needless pain on them, and we should curb some of our habits that cause them a lot of suffering. Peta, your organisation, people for the ethical treatment of animals, opposes what it calls speciesism and a, quote, human supremacist worldview. Can you sort of explain what that actually means . Well, i think we have to get over ourselves as a species, as a Human Species. Weve sort of s
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