Welcome to bbc news. There have been more israeli Air Strikes on southern beirut, after the israeli military warned people there to leave their homes. These are live pictures overlooking beirut where our bbc teams have reported hearing another strike in the south of the city. These are the live images. This would be the third strike in that area so far today. So lets cross over to Anna Foster in beirut now. Kasia, thanks. We have seen and heard as he sat there numerous strikes in beirut in the last few hours today. I was crossing the city and in the mountains upside earlier on today and we sought fresh plumes of dark smoke from new Air Strikes that had happened in the city around the southern suburbs. There was a strike visible earlier with the plume of smoke from the area near the airport earlier. We have had warnings for people to leave their homes in beirut, parts of beirut, but not for 14 hours now, it was last night when the idf last issued warnings. The last strikes have not come
within the coming years. they also say that a key temperature threshold, a rise in global temperature by 1.5 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels, is likely to be breached for the first time. our climate editorjustin rowlatt has more details. rising temperatures thanks to global warming are one reason but we are also seeing a change in a crucial weather system in the pacific ocean called el nino. for the last few years, winds blowing along the equator have been stronger than normal, pushing warmer water towards the coast of asia and helping deep, cold water well up on the coast of the americas. this phase is known as la nina, and is associated with below average global temperatures. we are now moving into the el nino phase, where winds are weaker which means warm water spreads across the pacific. now, that tends to increase global temperatures by about 0.2 celsius on average. that does not sound much, but it makes it almost certain, a 98% chance according to the un s w
to desecrating the quran and insulting the prophet muhammad in 2021. rights groups report that iran has put more than 200 prisoners to death since the beginning of the year. and in a further crackdown on high profile figures iran has charged two well known actresses with violating its strict dress codes for women. the president of iran, ebrahim raisi, has ordered an inquiry into the widespread protests seen here triggered by the death in custody of a young woman, mahsa amini, last september. taraneh stone from bbc persian joined me earlier in studio. this wasn t related to a protest per se, but it s causing a lot of concern about the high number of executions that we re hearing here and there in the news lately. we have heard in the news about many executions, especially the execution of minorities. and they re raising concerns over the imminent execution of some minorities, like arab minorities. now, we know that iran is notorious for executions, for death penalties. and w
welcome to bbc news. you stood with us shoulder to shoulder the words of ukraine s president, volodymr zelensky on his first official visit to neighbouring poland. the nato country has been one of kyiv s strongest backers during the conflict with russia taking in millions of refugees and supplying arms. and that loyalty has been on show in warsaw president zelensky welcomed here with full military honours. from his polish counterpart renewed backing for ukraine s bid to join the western military alliance. speaking at a press conference with president zelensky, the president of poland and zhey duda said more polish fighterjets will make way to ukraine soon. translation: four fighterjets, translation: four fighter “ets, hundreds of i translation: four fighter “ets, hundreds of an i translation: four fighter “ets, hundreds of an error, translation: four fighterjets, hundreds of an error, brings - translation: four fighterjets, hundreds of an error, brings the | hundred
which has been ordered to evacuate. the palestinian red crescent say it s impossible to move the hundreds of patients being treated there, including babies in incubators. the un s main relief agency has warned that the social fabric in gaza is starting to break because of a lack of basic supplies. this is the live camera shot from israel looking into gaza where the missile strikes have continued for another day, heading into past three weeks now since this war on hamas started. dr 0mar abdel mannan, a paediatric neurologist who has worked in gaza and the west bank since 2011 as part of medical delegations carrying out training and surgery. he s also co founder of gaza medic voices and has been in close contact with doctors in gaza since the fighting broke out, he described what doctors in gaza have been saying. we ve been in contact with doctors and surgeons on the ground since the first day of the escalation, so it is now more than three weeks. what i ve had this morning, an