Hello, im Karin Giannone. Israel has been carrying widespread attacks on Southern Lebanon with fighter jets, as The Us warns the risk of an escalation in fighting between Israel And Hezbollah is acute and real. These are the latest pictures weve received, showing explosions lighting up the Night Sky in Southern Lebanon. Saturday has seen cross Border Fire between israel and the iranian backed lebanese group, hezbollah throughout the day. And those attacks have continued into the night. The Israeli Army says its using dozens of fighterjets and striking extensively after it learnt that hezbollah was preparing to launch a large Scale Launch against israel. Lebanons Health Ministry now says 37 people, including women and children, were killed in fridays israeli attack on beirut. Rescue workers have been searching through the rubble of a high Rise Building that was targeted in the attack. Hezbollah has confirmed two of its senior commanders were killed in the strike. The us national Secu
This weekend. It will get to a frosty start, below freezing for some. By the end of the weekend, much milder. Along the way, some rain and some sunshine. There is a bit of rain out there today, outbreaks of rain continuing to work across scotland. A bit of snow over the highest round here. Some pretty hefty showers working across parts of england and wales, perhaps the odd flash of lightning and the odd rumble of thunder that has all this wet weather swelling away. Temperatures will fall away through the afternoon. But Northern Ireland are having a decent day. Through this evening, the skies were clear out and the winds will fall light. You can see a few mist or fog patches. A bit of cloud and rain in the west corner later. Elsewhere, around or below freezing. There is your frosty start to the weekend underneath this ridge of high pressure. But we see a Frontal System pushing in from the west. Cloud and rain with that, and as it moves its way in during the day on saturday, this will be
And when parties have to report it. This is one of the many problems that we have in our system. It appears to be born out of historical reasons rather than anything else. We do have, for what is supposed to be a very transparent system, quite a complicated one in which there are various different registers updated at various different points. The electoral commissions register is only updated every quarter and i think this story has sort of renewed questions about whether thats really appropriate in this day and age when websites can be updated at the drop of a hat. That was the conservative Party Response so far when it came to frank hester s donations, that they have reported everything that needed to be reported in the public sphere. You have looked into this closely, could you tell us how big a donor frank hester is, how important he is to the tory partys treasure chest, essentially . Sure, i would say first of all, for many people, even political obsessives and conservative figur
There have been reports of a deadly incident last night in Northern Gaza where palestinians were waiting to get aid for teachers emerged online, claiming to be from the aftermath of the incident at Kuwaiti Roundabout here on salahadin road. Now, two very graphic videos appeared on social media showing a large number of casualties. This is one of those videos. Weve blurred some of the footage as its too graphic to show you. Weve been unable to verify the location, but we know that they both show the same scene of chaos and dead bodies and that they were first shared online late last night. We also see what appear to be bags of aid being carried in one of the clips. Doctors at Al Shifa Hospital nearby have told the bbc that a large number of people were brought in last night. The bbc have been in contact with one doctor called dr moataz herrera, who has been treating patients at that hospital. He said. Now, in their statement, the israeli army, the idf, said that armed palestinians opene
This is bbc news, the headlines. Israel sends a delegation back to qatar for Ceasefire Talks despite branding hamas proposals unrealistic. Meanwhile Benjamin Netanyahu approves plans for a military operation in rafah. An aid ship with 20 tons of food and medical supplies arrives off the coast of gaza. Ajudge rules a judge rules an attorney can continue prosecuting donald trump in the Georgia Election interference case. And we show you the incredible images from this years British Wildlife photography awards. Some of those stories coming up in a moment or two, lets head back to the middle east. Israel deployed thousands of Police Across the old city in occupied eastjerusalem as muslim worshippers marked the first friday of ramadan. With tensions soaring over the gaza war, palestinians in the west bank crossed israeli checkpoints, to reachjerusalems al aqsa mosque compound. Our correspondent anna foster said the morning had passed off peacefully amid tight security. Thousands of people a