Hello, im Karin Giannone. Israel has been carrying widespread attacks on Southern Lebanon with fighter jets, as The Us warns the risk of an escalation in fighting between Israel And Hezbollah is acute and real. These are the latest pictures weve received, showing explosions lighting up the Night Sky in Southern Lebanon. Saturday has seen cross Border Fire between israel and the iranian backed lebanese group, hezbollah throughout the day. And those attacks have continued into the night. The Israeli Army says its using dozens of fighterjets and striking extensively after it learnt that hezbollah was preparing to launch a large Scale Launch against israel. Lebanons Health Ministry now says 37 people, including women and children, were killed in fridays israeli attack on beirut. Rescue workers have been searching through the rubble of a high Rise Building that was targeted in the attack. Hezbollah has confirmed two of its senior commanders were killed in the strike. The us national Secu
and founder of the eurasia group. they might also have a view on new research that suggests home working.is not working. google, apple, meta are among those who now demanding their workers spend at least three days in the office. we talked in the first hour of the programme about ukraine s path to nato membership and the obstacles in the way of that. let s concentrate this hour on some of the things that have been achieved at this nato summit. notably, the path that s been cleared for sweden to join. we brought you the news last night on this programme that turkey had dropped its veto and will now put sweden s accession to a vote in the turkish parliament, which we expect will be a formality. there has been reaction in moscow to that today. a kremlin spokesman said russia s security would be furtherjeopardised by sweden becoming a member. becoming a member a concern wholly dismissed within the alliance. what is more important to the swedish prime minister, ulf kristersson,
news, are the latest in the so called partygate controversy, prompting further accusations that the prime minister has been lying over his version of events. now on bbc news, addiction: the road to recovery . cocaine is a. ..devil, to be fair. this is a story of drugs and booze and addiction. i think with addiction the end result for anybody is death, prison, or institution. it s the story of the fight to get clean for those living the edge. generally, seriously, one slip would kill me because i d feel like there would be no going back. a sharp scratch. at a time when drug and alcohol deaths are soaring, something has to change. i simply hope that people who have been treated rather like lepers are now on a journey which treats them as people with a health condition and that they have hope that it can be better. hello. mike? yes. jeremy. didn t recognise you with your mask on, mate. you all right? yeah, good to see you. thank you. it s early may 2021. come on, we ll have a s
ukraine produces enough grain every year to feed 400 million people. along with russia, it exports one third of the world s entire wheat harvest. or, at least, it should. but russia s blockade of ukrainian ports means millions of tonnes of grain are going nowhere, prompting the head of the un s world food programme to call it a declaration of war on global food security that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. our economics editor faisal islam reports. across the world, food and energy crises are hitting households, increasing social instability and hunger, and leading to whole countries going bust. sri lanka at first, but more are feared to be heading in the same direction. from southeast asia to the middle east, and it s also affecting the uk, too. with russia s war in ukraine making these supply shocks much worse, the economic stakes are very high here, and across the world, according to one of britain s top bankers. many of the conversation
indo pacific region. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week, the team re visits the cambodian temple complex of angkor wat, to see how the area s hoping to recover, now that borders have reopened. this week on the travel show waiting for the backpackers return. we have beautiful temples and a lot of beautiful places around cambodia. so it is something that they should come and have a look in their lifetime. ..following my nose in amsterdam. oh, it s very it s lovely! yeah! ..it smells likejust a really good air freshener! ..and we go inside the world s largest crystal cave. hello and welcome to amsterdam, the famous city of canals. a little later, i ll be sniffing my way around town to find out about new efforts to create a catalogue of historic odours, and not all of them pleasant. but first. we re starting in cambodia, at the vast and ancient buddhist temple complex of angkor wat. it s the world s largest religious site, normally attracting around 2.5 million peop