Downtown abbey who has died at the age of 89 years old. He welcome to the World Today an hour of international news from the bbc . The lebanese Capital Beirut has been rocked by a series of powerful explosions after another series of israeli Air Strikes on the city this time reportedly aimed at the leader of his brother, Hasan Nasrallah. Israel said it was attacking hezbollah s central headquarters In Beirut s southern suburb of dahhiyeh there are reports of half a dozen buildings being destroyed, with many casualties. Israeli media are reporting Hasan Nasrallah was the target but a source close to his brother said the leader is alive. Heres the latest on the situation with the bbc s Orla Guerlin explosions. Israel has struck beirut with a series of massive explosions. Its hard to imagine a bigger escalation or a starker picture of war. And here was the aftermath. The Hezbollah Stronghold of dahieh in the Southern Suburbs, now looking like gaza. Many lebanese fear thats where things ar
Inoculated. And from a massive tours to so for safaris hope virtual tourism is providing an escape from reality during the pandemic. Lebanese leaders are meeting right now to discuss their ongoing response to last weeks devastating blast in beirut on the agenda will be appointing a new cabinet and Prime Minister forming a new government will help unlock billions of dollars in foreign aid that the country needs to rebuild with an extension of the state of emergency is also expected to be ratified by the parliament that gives authorities more power to crackdown on street demonstrations burned smith joins us live now from beirut so bernard theyve started talking what are their options on the table that they are discussing. Yeah the discussions going on behind me and the streets closed all the way around where the session is taking place a very long cordon set off much further down these roads in the anticipation of protests although we havent seen any protests as yet this morning now bury
Morales. Also ahead united against science well look at whats driving the movement in germany against karun virus restriction is. Our top story the head of the u. N. Food agency says hes worried lebanon could run out of bread in about 2 and a half weeks David Beasleys in beirut assessing the impact of last weeks catastrophic port blast he spoke during a un briefing on the humanitarian situation there 85 percent of lebanons grain came through the devastated port the World Food Program says it sent in 50000 tons of wheat flour to beirut to stabilize lebanon supply lines to be easily says some of beirut port could be reopened quickly to restart imports kristen salumi is in new york explaining what else was discussed during that briefing. This was a chance for the humanitarian affairs chief to brief members states on the situation on the ground in lebanon and the International Response so far secretary general antonio terus called it a huge catastrophe coming on the heels of the socioecono
At. The end thank you very much for joining us its been a day of extraordinary and fast moving developments as a sense of crisis grips much of the middle east Iraqs Parliament has passed a resolution urging the expulsion of u. S. Troops from the country even as the u. S. Military says old supes have stopped most of their operations against eisel and are now focusing on protecting themselves at the same time the leader of hezbollah i never known has warned that the u. S. Military across the region is not fair target for retaliation after the assassination of an iranian commander cass sense and amani these are live pictures right now from iran where massive crowds have gathered in several cities to welcome home the body of cars and cinema any was assassination by us 3 days ago set in motion the Current Events are we have reporters covering this story from washington beirut and baghdad we begin in iraqi capital where in the last few hours weve seen extraordinary scenes in the Iraqi Parlia
From protests in india rises the home minister says hes willing to discuss changes to the new citizenship law. And for weeks theyve been demanding a new constitution now people in chile a big asked what theyd like to see in it. Are 2 week Climate Conference in madrid has ended 2 days overshadow and with negotiators pushing off a key decision until another meeting in a years time the u. N. Organized cop 25 talks were seen as a test of governments willingness to heed scientific advice and try to stick to target limiting Global Warming to 1. 5 degrees delegates did agree on motions calling for greater ambition to cut Greenhouse Gases bought brazil China Australia saudi arabia and the u. S. Led resistance to bolder action and there was no agreement on a key objective on Carbon Markets and on countries or companies to trade slowly reducing emissions permits European Countries saying no deal was better than a weak one so that will come up again at the next talks in glasgow next year our envi