Anywhere because i want to bring in christiane amanpour, who joins us now and christiane, you know, full well that the biggest one of the biggest concerns aside from hamas and hezbollah inside israel, maybe a bigger concern has been the kind of thing were seeing right now, which is iran, which has a very, very, very deep bench of very strong artillery and missiles. And it appears that they are using them right now indeed. And its incredibly important to be absolutely precise about whats going on so far, there is no evidence that anything has landed that it is being intercepted according to our correspondents, on the ground. And also the united states and israel said that the they assessed that the targets would the three israeli Air Bases and intelligence and an intelligence base, again, as our correspondents have said, thats very important to keep in mind. The second thing is that ive been speaking to Foreign Ministers from the region just today, the lebanese Foreign Minister, current
Ila i mean, he is one that tomorrow please donate. Now joining we are following Breaking News, iran launching a barrage of missiles into israel, major escalation in the conflict in the Middle East. Im Anderson Cooper alongside my colleague Wolf Blitzer. Weve witnessed missiles intercepted across israel a short time ago as Air Raid sirens went off on the ground below the israeli military now confirms some of those missiles made a direct impact in central and southern israel. Its estimated iran launched nearly 200 missiles, hundred projectiles iran says this attack was in response for the killing of Hezbollahs Leader Hassan Nasrallah and other assassinations a source says the israeli Security Cabinet is in their Emergency Bunker right down the israeli military says, irans attack and im quoting now will have consequences. The White House says both President Biden and Vice President harris are in the white House Situation Room monitoring the situation. Were standing by to get an immediate
Welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. The un has warned that the middle east is on the brink of imminent catastrophe amid fears of an all out war as israel and the iran backed group hezbollah in lebanon carry out large cross border strikes. Israel said hezbollah launched more than a hundred rockets from lebanon towards them. Hezbollah said the attacks were in response to the wave of explosions of pagers and walkie talkies that s widely believed to have been carried out by israel. In haifa, hospital patients have been moved to underground facilities, schools have been closed and gatherings restricted, as well as in other northern areas up to the lebanese border. Meanwhile, israel said it carried out more air strikes on targets in southern lebanon, destroying thousands of hezbollah s rocket launchers. The un chief antonio guterres said he fears the conflict between israel and hezbollah could risk lebanon becoming another gaza. Our senior internat
Killing at least 20 people. Israel hasn t said whether it was involved. As the fighting intensifies, un chief antonio guterres says he fears lebanon could become another gaza. The lebanese health ministry raised the death toll to 45 in friday s strike by israel targeting hezbollah commanders in southern beirut. Most of those killed were civilians. Authorities say women and children are among the dead. On sunday, israel launched further strikes on towns in southern lebanon killing three people. And the israeli military says it destroyed thousands of hezbollah rocket launcher barrels over the past few days. Israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu had this to say. No country can accept the wanton rocketing of its cities. We cannot accept it either. We will take whatever action is necessary to restore security and to bring our people safe, back to their homes. Meanwhile, in lebanon hundreds attended the funeral of ibrahim aqil, a high ranking hezbollah commander killed in an israeli s
As they were held to a 2 2 draw by arsenal, who were down to ten men after leandro trossard was sent off. Substitute stones scored in the eighth minute of time added on after goals from ricardo calafiori and gabriel had threatened city s 32 game unbeaten run at home in the premier league. Earlier, erling haaland had scored his 100th goal for city to open the scoring injust his 105th game, equalling cristiano ronaldo s record for the fastest man to score 100 goals for a european club. They put four players in line. So incredible, tall, incredible commitment. I think we are not able to do that as a team. So a big compliment from arsenal because they defend every single ball, every single block until the end. You know, what we did really well. We were patient enough for the, you know, for the turn the right, left, left right. No cross, to cross. You know look the right moment. And at the end we were yeah, we were fortunate. A big blow because we had it. It was 97 minutes. They extended ag