Benjamin netanyahu is cutting short his visit to New York and returning to israel following the attack. Earlier Mr Netanyahu told the Un The Offensive against hezbollah would continue, rejecting calls for a ceasefire. The award winning british Actress Dame Maggie smith has died. She was 89. We start in the Middle East, where multiple blasts have reverberated in the southern suburbs of beirut, sending clouds of smoke into the sky. These are the latest pictures from the scene of the explosions, in a densely populated area. The israeli Defence Forces claim to have targeted hezbollahs central headquarters. In the last half hour, the Reuters News Agency reported comments from the israeli military saying its continuing to Degrade And Dismantle hezbollahs capabilities. A source close to hezbollah told reuters the Groups Leader Hassan Nasrallah is alive. With irans tasnim News Agency also reporting that hes safe. These are pictures of children being pulled out of the rubble of the buildings hi
North of beirut, where again, an israeli strike this morning has targeted, we are told, a senior Hezbollah Commander in the north of the country. We had seen pictures of members of the north Lebanese Red Cross searching through the rubble for survivors from the early morning attack. We saw this morning attack. We saw this morning in the early hourS People in Tel Aviv waking up to the news that hezbollah had targeted israels biggest most populous city with a Ballistic Missile. It is the first time that one of those really scaled up that one of those really scaled up weapons has been used in this conflict. It has clearly been used to send a message by hezbollah that even after several days of fierce israeli strikes, hezbollah wants to show it still has the capacity to strike back inside israel. Just want to show you this footage from the event earlier in the day. You can clearly see and hear the sound of the Air Raid sirens in this footage, which shows the missile just after it was inter
The United States for its part has called on israel not to attack rafah after that hamas response. Lets speak to our security correspondent, who is in jerusalem. The bottom line is if hamas says yes but israel says no. I the bottom line is if hamas says yes but israel says no. But israel says no. I can give you an idea what but israel says no. I can give you an idea what the but israel says no. I can give you an idea what the hamas but israel says no. I can give you | an idea what the hamas proposals but israel says no. I can give you an idea what the hamas proposals are terms are, it comes to us from a statement made which my colleagues have caught have translated and it says the deal that hamas have prepared to accept his three consecutive truces during which there will be an exchange of hostages and prisoners. 33 hostages, dead and alive, would be released from gaza, from hamas captivity in gaza, and a number of Palestinian Prisoners would come out of israeli jails. These 42 periods
think wallace called it, to paraphrase him an interesting diplomatic moment. secretary kerry said, listen you should be able to defend yourself from rockets that come into your country and you should be able to go after tunnels if they re sending terrorists into your territory. hamas knows it will not win the fight. it is a round of violence hamas always starts. they start. they have an incident. israel respond. hamas responds by lobbing rockets into israel. israel goes in and takes out rockets. what does hamas do in interim period? build up more rockets to fight again. hamas knows it doesn t win militarily. it hopes it will lynn diplomatically, politically. if there are casualties and they want palestinian casualties, they can grow to the world and say, israel is the aggressor. bill: what you re suggesting hamas would score a huge victory if it divides israel and united states. that is the key. bill: do you see that happening under this administration? that is the key and that i
panetta view of defense size and scope. he wants to cut it below. secretary panetta says we are destroying the defense department if we move forward with sequestration. and you are picking someone that the iranians applaud and israel is under scrutiny and in the cross hairs of history like any other time i have seen and we are about to nominate a person for secretary of defense who tells israel you should negotiate directly with hamas? a group of people who tried to kill israeli children every day by lobbing rockets. makes no sense to me. shannon: and you have tough concerns and tough questions about the nominees and others probably coming up as well. i know that you are deferensial to the president in many cases when justices sotomayor and kagan were up for nomination you did vote for them. i thought they were qualified. shannon: when do you draw the line? when the signal you are sending to the secretary of defense nominee to the iranians that we are not really serious about s