On wednesday. Israel and iran have each wanted the other against further attacks after iran launched a massive ballistic missile attack on israel on tuesday. Meanwhile the israeli military confirmed it has been engaged in what it describes as close range combat with hezbollah inside southern lebanon. Where aid israeli soldiers died in combat. It is the first report of the israeli military casualties since israeli forces started their campaign in lebanon. With the details lucy williamson s has report. Israel s air force was defending other targets when iran s missiles came. . . . . Slipping through defences to hit several air bases, like this one at nevatim. Another narrowly missing an intelligence base in tel aviv. The crater it left filled with visions of what if. The us said this attack had twice the scope of iran s last bombardment in april. Not all the targets hit were military. 0ne landed in this residential suburb of tel aviv neighbours rushing through repairs before thejewish
The late hezbollah leader have been set up here. The scale of this destruction gives you a sense of the power of the attack that happened here. Israel and iran have each warned the other against further attacks, after iran launched a massive ballistic missile attack on israel tuesday. Israel is vowing consequences for iran, which fired some 180 missiles at israel in its second, and largest, direct attack ever. There is our chief international correspondent. Iran s most powerful missiles. Sending the most darkest message to israel. And today, a message from the president while visiting qatar. Translation: we were left with no choice but to respond. If israel decides to retaliate, then it will face harsher reactions. It s this man who calls the shots in tehran, the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini. . . . . Revered by his supporters, reviled by enemies, ultra conservative, deeply distrustful of the west. Translation: in our region, the root cause of all these i wars is the presence of th
That around 180 missiles were launched towards israel around 5. 30 pm local time on tuesday. They were fired across huge swathes of israel, including its largest city Tel Aviv, and the capitaljerusalem. And, these pictures from iranian State Media show the ballistic missiles being launched from Military Sites. Tehran said the attacks were in retaliation for the killings of senior militant leaders, including the hezbollah chief hassan nasrallah. Well, israel have responded by continuing its aerial assault of beirut s southern suburbs. These are live pictures of the lebanese capital. The idf said it had targeted a number of hezbollah sites as it orders 25 lebanese villages to evacuate. Both the us and uk were involved in helping to protect israel from yesterdays Missile Attack. Our Correspondentjon Donnison had to seek shelter when the missiles were fired. Hes injerusalem and sent this report. Sirens blare. Israel was warned it was coming. But this was irans revenge almost 200 ballistic
Im nowjoined by our North America Business correspondent ritika gupta. What is it that markets make of what they are saying . They are nervous because they dont know whats going to happen next. Yes. The mood of nervousness. Little change now but losses off the back of those Middle East tensions. There is a dent to risk appetite. Markets dont like Uncertainty And Risk now is can this respondent is this going to blow into wider war. One of the sectors that is bucking the trend and going higher Todays Energy stocks and that is off the back of oil as you mentioned. It was up as much as 3 today and continuing again from yesterday over Supply Disruption concerns. Yesterday we saw some of those Safe Haven assets like gold, we are seeing some of Varese Today but i still think overall there is this wait and see mode and a very risk of town. Is this Waitandsee Mode and a very risk of town. Very risk of town. There is one thing they very risk of town. There is one thing they are very risk of town
About 100,000 jobs impacted as a Ripple Effect because of this strike and that may show up in the October Jobs report, dont forget on the west coast, we have a strike at boeing going on right now. And so you have those jobs taken offline in addition to this Port Strike and all but impacts of the Ripple Effects, you could see not such a healthy Job Number in october that is the last Jobs Report that well see before the election. People are going to be watching that very, very closely as these strikes drag on i think itll be part of the political fodder as well. Thank you so much, vanessa. Appreciate it. A new hour of cnn, new central starts right now longfeared wider war in the Middle East has arrived, is real promises to make iran pay efforts precedented Missile Attack what does that look like now . And what role will the united states play you could call it a Throwback Debate of sorts. A throwback because civilians he actually returned to the Debate Stage for the first time in a long