Air strike in beirut. But first, these are live pictures from beirut where israeli warplanes launched new attacks on buildings in the city s south in the past several hours. Blasts were heard in the southern suburbs and residents of three specific blocks were ordered to evacuate. Returning now to that earlier strike that caused tensions to erupt, lebanon s health ministry says the death toll from that strike has risen to six, with 91 wounded. Hezbollah s leader, hassan nasrallah was reportedly the target of the attack. Neither israel nor hezbollah has formally confirmed his status. Israeli air raids on lebanon this week have killed nearly 800 people according to lebanon s health ministry. We begin our programme with this report from our middle east correspondent hugo bachega in beirut. Scenes of war in beirut. Hezbollah s conflict with israel returning to its stronghold of dahieh, with a series of massive explosions and an escalation with unpredictable consequences. Explosion. An att
Foreign businesses and officials for nearly a decade. The mayor this morning defiant despite cascading scandals and resignations from top aides. Its an unfortunate day. Its a painful day. I look forward to defending myself and defending the people of this city as i have done throughout my entire professional career. This hour, the House Task Force investigating attempt against former President Trumps life in butler, pennsylvania. Questioning the secret Service Today and local Law Enforcement about critical failures in protecting the former president. Israels Prime Minister is coming to new york to speak to the United Nations tomorrow morning. The White House has no plans for a meeting with the president. The Secretary Of State tries to cobble together a temporary halt in the escalating fighting between Israel And Hezbollah in lebanon. Hoping for a ceasefire there as fighting in gaza fades. Israel, our closest ally, we provide them more weapons than anyone in the world, keeps raising ob
Israels name bringing back 60,006 placed rail to the northern border, how do you do that . Northern border, how do you do that . Displaced residents. Theyve been trying to set up Buffer Zones to minimise direct Market Fire on northern israel. But i dont think telling people theyve taken away the immediate threat of anti tank missiles being fired at the border. Theres still a very well armed militant group with thousands of rockets. I dont think that will convince people to come back to the northern border. An aerial campaign, if it goes out for days or weeks, and can damage the capability of hezbollah to fire rockets and missiles, but they will stop to have 150,000 of those. It will take a very big, very long israeli campaign to damage the artisanal s to the point where it was no longer able to regularly fire projectiles. What is israel going to do that will give residents of the north the confidence that they would need to go back . It wasnt clear from Daniel Hagaris statements or th
Israel launched an allout assault in hezbollah in lebanon over the weekend. Is this a continuation of a war that began october a year ago . Lets say good morning from New York. Im bill hemmer. Here we go. A new week begins. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. I love the way you set that up. I do think that were at a precipice now and where we go from here well find out. A great guest for you as well. Israel has struck 300 Terror Targets in Southern Lebanon. Before the operation it urged civilians to evacuate saying it would strike homes where hezbollah has been hiding weapons. Bill an israeli Air Strike in beirut that killed a top commander. Hezbollah said its response would be an openended battle of reckoning. Dana it is casting a shadow of the u. N. General assembly in New York. It is happening this week expected to be President Bidens final major appearance on the world stage. General Jack Keane is here with analysis. First the Nate Foye in tel aviv. Good morning. Mas
Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to Bbc News. Lets continue with rolling coverage of the rapidly evolving Security Situation in lebanon, where over the last few hours, fresh ways of exploding electronic devices have caused new casualties. The Health Ministry, quoted by afp, says nine people have been killed in more than 300 injured. Let me show you some images found by reuters in beirut. They show the plumes of smoke to the Middle And Right of the screen at several different locations across the city, and not altogether clear whether this was the start, but as we mentioned, the lebanese authority saying Walkie Talkies targeted in the attacks and the iranian backed Hezbollah Group bought the radios around five months ago, around the same time as the pagers that exploded yesterday. Lets start this hour in washington. Joining me now from washington is tom bateman. Antony blinken saying only a few hours ago that washington knew nothing about these impending Attacks Yesterday. Well, ye