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Prevent antigovernment protests. Hello and welcome to the program. We begin in israel where Benjamin Netanyahu has belied quote, playing fire. He has accused the Lebanon Group has blood denies denies anyh confrontation. Al jazeera has more. Reporter smoke plumes over southern lebanon after what the Israeli Military referred to as a security incident. It said a cell of hezbollah fighters try to infiltrate israeli territory, and israeli fighters propelled them. Held repelled them. A rare show of unity. Hezbollah terrorists cross into israel to harm israeli soldiers. Officers acted professionally and accurately and prevented a severe incident that could have cost human lives. Reporter israels Prime Minister made explicit reference to the war of 2006 in morning hezbollahs leader that israels armed forces respond further. Hezbollah must understand it is playing with fire. Andade a big mistake lebanon paid a price. Any attack against us will be met with great force. Israel has been on height
Country that it appears the blast was caused by a highly explosive material and clearly it was highly explosive material because the lebanese capital shook. Buildings. Kilometers away 3rd glass shattered people in the streets they were crying. There was really panic everywhere it was very difficult to move from one area of the capitol to another because everybody just wanted to get home as quickly as possible because they did not know what happened and they were worried that there would be further explosions 1 so beirut was rocked by a massive explosion just over 2 hours ago Lebanese Security saying highly explosive material in a warehouse in beirut port confiscated material in the words of the head of Lebanese Security which is going to really raise a lot of questions authorities will have to answer a lot of questions on what this material was doing at beirut ports how was it stored at the root ports and whether or not it was stored in a safe manner clearly what we saw today that it w
On a better path so i think right now its going to be about you know counting the losses and i think we havent scratched the surface yet have a good start to many thanks have. Found out of beirut reports it is 1800 hours g. M. T. Hello im Adrian Finighan this is aljazeera if youve just joined us theres been a huge explosion and lebanons capital beirut at least 10 people have been killed Lebanese Security Officials Say the blast was triggered by explosive material that was stored in a warehouse in the force area which is at the heart of the sense here lebanons president has called an emergency meeting of the Prime Minister has called a national day of mourning on what the state the head of the Lebanese Red Cross says that hundreds of injured people have been taken to hospital but that many people are still trapped in the homes the cause of the blast is still on clear at the moment israel however has issued a statement denying any involvement. Omar shelby is a criminal justice analyst he
Looking out over the port area and within the last 90 minutes there has been a massive explosion here it is. First a plume of smoke somethings gone terribly wrong. Well looks appears to be in that in the middle of that plume of smoke that file. Explosions maybe 5 works we dont know there are reports that maybe this was a fireworks storage area. And then several seconds later off of this. You get this Mushroom Cloud. That just. Mushrooms out right over the city look at that. Glass windows buildings damaged windows shattered. Columbuss away the blast felt as far as 10 or 15 kilometers away from the blast site. Just a massive explosion which has caused. So much damage to that to downtown beirut many people injured by flying glass blast injuries the Emergency Services rushed to the scene. We saw them try to extinguish the flames of the fire that is still burning there in the port area. Look at that thats remarkable and youve the camera shaking there as the blast wave hit. The person filmin