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Speech in around 90 minutes time from behind a bullet proof glass. Ill have a full bulletin of news for you at nine oclock. Now on bbc news, newscast. Newscast, from the bbc. Its laura in the studio. And its paddy in the studio. So, we are recording just after 2 00 on Saturday Afternoon and, paddy, it has been another week of mounting, mounting, mounting tensions and more and more worrying conflict going on in the Middle East. Last saturday we were talking about, is a wider war now inevitable . And somebody, a former official, said to me yesterday. Actually, sorry, a former Foreign Minister said to me yesterday on the phone, lets get real. This is a war now. We shouldnt be talking about escalation. Yes, because on friday, thats last week, the Hezbollah Leader, hassan nasrallah, was killed by an israeli Air Strike on beirut. Thats just before our last weekends edition. And three days later, on monday, israel invaded lebanon. And the next day, tuesday, iran launched nearly 200 ballistic
These are the latest pictures we can bring you showing a large explosion following one of those strikes. Earlier on saturday, the Israeli Military had issued orders to residents of specific buildings in Southern Beirut to evacuate. We dont yet know what was hit in the strikes, but israeli forces have bombed areas reported to be Hezbollah Strongholds. They have also clashed with hezbollah fighters in lebanons southern border region. The Israeli Military says it has killed 440 hezbollah fighters since the start of the ground invasion. Meanwhile, hezbollah has fired rockets into northern israel, with reports that residential buildings were hit. Also on saturday, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, addressed iran s missile on his country earlier this week, saying israel has the duty and the right to defend itself and respond to these attacks and we will do so. We can go live to our correspondent In Beirut, Anna Foster now. Anna, what is the latest you can tell us . Just after 1am he