Looking forward to talking to julie and brian shortly but the latest Bbc News first. Israels prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that his military has eliminated the expected successor of the hezbollah leader, hassan nasrallah, and the next in line after him. In a Video Address posted on social media, made in english, he didnt refer to anyone by name but he did call on the people of lebanon to reject hezbollah, and their iranian backers. Meanwhile, the Israeli Military says its expanding its Ground Offensive into south western lebanon. Until now its focused on the south eastern side. Hezbollah has fired more than 100 rockets at northern israeli cities. President biden says Hurricane Milton could be the worst storm to hit florida in a century. The category four storm will make landfall in this next 48 hours. 51 florida counties are under a state of emergency, more than 200 State Health Care facilities have been evacuated. There are just three mps left in the race to be the n
A difficult information vacuum. On the hezbollah side, they dont let journalists on the hezbollah side, they dont letjournalists into those areas freely. You need permission to go in, you need permission to go in, you need permission to go in, you need permission to move around. Its not permission to go in, you need permission to move around. Its not somewhere permission to go in, you need permission to move around. Its not somewhere where permission to go in, you need permission to move around. Its not somewhere where you permission to go in, you need permission to move around. Its not somewhere where you can permission to go in, you need permission to move around. Its not somewhere where you can no not somewhere where you can go in and independently verify that there was nothing there. Equally, when the idf say that it is a hezbollah Command Centre or weapon storage site, they dont always provide information to cooperate that, either. So you are left in a position where the two sides
Israel urged its citizens to head to safety and move into shelters. The idf said it would do what it could to protect people. The difference between this attack and the one that israel was subjected to by iran in april is the type of missiles that are being fired and the length of time it is taking them to reach israel. In april, it took several hours, because drones and Cruise Missiles were fired first and that gave Allied Forces from the us and the uk the chance to get their planes in the sky and shoot them down. Tonight it happened more quickly and we have seen the dramatic pictures of Iron Dome interceptions and people rushing for cover in Tel Aviv and just liam. Jerusalem. Lets speak now to Tom Bateman, whos in washington for us this evening. This was launched very quickly . To this was launched very quickly . Trr give you an idea of the sense of urgency here, we had been expecting a briefing from officials in the next few minutes, that has been delayed. The secretary of state, an
Defences firing missiles at incoming missiles and it looks like, i did not see in the explosions above us In Jerusalem but there may have been because it is partly cloudy here and some of them, some of what was going on behind the clouds, it went on for about 20 minutes and probably more than that around half an hour above us and suddenly, it went quiet. And for the last a0 minutes or so, half an hour or for the last a0 minutes or so, halfan hour orso, for the last a0 minutes or so, half an hour or so, theres been nothing but the israeli military saying that they do not see any more threats over israeli skies of the moment and people coming out of their shelters. And saying that a lot of missiles were fired at israel and a lot of them were intercepted, they do not say how many but some of them, they say some may have gotten through but the ones that they did, did not leave any serious casualties, only two people in Tel Aviv with slight injuries. Beyond that, there have been no injuries
Anxious wait, i think, To see how israel respo another nine shooting attack. Another nine others were injured, some seriously. Please heavy attack near railway station. Israeli media say the two assailants who were seen getting off a Commuter Train where shot dead by a passer by and a security guard. Well, in the last few minutes, the White House national Security Adviser gave this update. National Security Adviser gave this update this update. Today, iran launched this update. Today, iran launched nearly this update. Today, iran launched nearly 200 this update. Today, iran launched nearly 200 ballistic missiles Towards targets in israel. The United States Military coordinated closely with the Israeli Defense Forces To help defend israel against this attack. Us naval destroyers joint israeli Air Defence units and Firing IntercepTors To shoot down inbound missiles. President biden and Vice President harris moniTored the attack and the response from the white House Situation Room joined