Hello, Im nIcky schIller. Welcome to the programme. Israel has carrIed out further BombIng RaIds on beIrut, as fIghtIng wIth hezbollah contInues on the ground In southern lebanon. Israel claIms Its kIlled 440 hezbollah fIghters sInce the start of Its Ground InvasIon. WhIlst the un says lebanon faces a terrIble refugee crIsIs. These are todays maIn developments In the MIddle East conflIct. Israel agaIn struck the Southern Suburbs of beIrut. Clashes were also reported around lebanons southern border. Hezbollah has fIred rockets Into Northern Israel, wIth reports that resIdentIal buIldIngs were hIt. Israel says 90 rockets have so far been fIred. IsraelI prIme MInIster BenjamIn Netanyahu has tonIght vowed to respond to Irans MIssIle Attack on hIs country earlIer thIs week he saId, Israel has the duty and the rIght to defend Itself and respond to these attacks and we wIll do so. Israel meanwhIle has called on palestInIans to evacuate parts of central gaza, as the mIlItary saId It was prepar
And wales for the first time in nine years. Campaigners in favour welcome the move whilst others remain cautious. Donald trump is set to hold a rally in the same location of pennsylvania where he survived an Assassination Attempt three months ago. We examine key questions about what happened on that day injuly. Hello. We start with Irans Supreme Leader addressing Friday Prayers In Tehran for the first time in nearly five years. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced irans enemies for trying to sow the seeds of division in the islamic world. World. He told a huge crowd in the grand Mosalla Mosque that iran and its allies should roll up its sleeves and prepare for action. The ceremony can with commemorations for Hassan Nasrallah killed by as well last week the ceremony began. Let us speak to our bbc persian correspondent in israel. Hello. Thank you for joining us. You have been listening. Take us through the key points of the addresses so far, a call to unity among islamic nations. Islamic nat
Breaking news. We are getting official word from the White House what youve been seeing play out live in israel. As Israelis On right now sheltering in place and sirens are blaring across the country after iran begins launching missiles into that country. Hello and welcome, everyone. Im Sandra Smith in new york. John im John Roberts in washington. Good to be with you. This is america reports. The situation unfolding before your eyes. Getting word of the shooting in the southern part of Tel Aviv, the area called jaffa. Light rail train car. Multiple casualties. Being investigated as a terror attack. Sandra lets get to Trey Yingst in the middle of everything. Jaffa, israel. What is the latest you are hearing and seeing . Theres a massive ballistic Missile Attack on 14 right now against israel. The iranians are Launching Waves of missiles toward israel. We have seen interceptions here or over the city of haifa that sits about 17 miles from the border with lebanon. As we speak, i can see t
Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to