urged the israeli prime minister to halt a pre emptive strike against his brother forces in lebanon, days after hamas militants, launched the october seven assault on southern israel, warning that such an attack could spark a wider regional war. this was the view across the israel lebanon border earlier today, where we ve seen a thick plume of black smoke in the sky as hostilities continue in that border area. let s start this hour by hearing from israel s prime minister. translation: last night, - i talked again with president biden. i do appreciate us steadfast position at the security council a position which backs our war effort. yesterday, i told president biden that we will fight until total victory, as long as it takes. the us understands this. i saw false reports that claimed the united states has prevented us from operational activities in the region. this is not true. israel is a sovereign country. our war decisions are based on our operational considerations
so i feel very, i love being onstage. i love being in a live environment. i haven t been onstage, actually, for a couple of years now, five years, probably. but i m looking forward to going back and doing some more because it is, it s live and you have a control over the performance, which you don t on screen. is it true, that thing people always say about how you feel the audience when you re onstage? you can feel whether they re paying attention or slightly looking at their watches, thinking, am i going to make the last train home? yeah. you can? totally. the last play i did was a beautiful play by bill nicholson called shadowlands, which is a movie with debra winger and tony hopkins about cs lewis and his late flowering love. and it s shot through with great wit and humour about this very closed off man who finds love late in life, and then she dies. and it s really a story about the question that he asks at the beginning of the play is, if god is love, why does he allow s
in the bitter cold of winter, this deadly war grinds on, and big guns, provided by western partners, still play a crucial role. ukraine s 93rd brigade is stationed near bakhmut. they say the russians attack at least twice a day. theirjob, to stop them advancing. as the conflict turns to stalemate, ukrainian soldiers say they need the support of their international partners more than ever. it is demoralising for them to hear that, instead, america s funding for ukraine has ground to a halt. translation: if there is no support from the western i countries, then it s going to get really bad. russia will seize ukraine, then it will be the turn of the baltic states and poland. i don t think the russians will stop here. our conversation is interrupted by orders to destroy a new target. the crew has to be quick. after a long silence, they re told to stand down and hide the howitzer. but these soldiers worry their guns will remain silent for much longer without new us funding and sup