We start in the Middle East where. Lebanon has called for us help to end a wave of israeli assaults the Deadliest Bombadment the country has seen in decades. Health authorities there say 569 people including many children have been killed since monday. The Foreign Minister says the number of people displaced from Southern Lebanon is probably approaching half a million. Israel says it wants its campaign against hezbollah to be as short aS Possible and says its killed a senior commander of the iranian backed group, which has been Firing Rockets into northern israel. And as World Leaders meet in New York, the un Security Council says it will discuss the escalation on wednesday evening. Orla guerin starts our coverage. A community in mourning. The village of saksakiyeh in Southern Lebanon today. Ii were killed here yesterday by israels massive bombardment. The dead included four women, an infant and a seven year old girl called joury. Herfather, mohammad halal, says she was an innocent ch
The crossborder strikes have intensified after a series of exploding device attacks on hezbollah members was blamed on israel. We have ontheground reporting from both side of the border first to our chief international correspondent 0rla guerin, who s in beirut. Explosion. Southern lebanon awoke to this. It looks like allout war. The israeli army says it hit 1,300 hezbollah sites today. There were gazastyle warnings, telling residents to go, including from the israeli leader. Now, starting this morning the idf has warned you to get out of harm s way. I urge you, take this warning seriously. Don t let hezbollah endanger your lives and the lives of your loved ones. Don t let hezbollah endanger lebanon. Please get out of harm s way now. But where to find safety in the middle of all this? explosion. Screaming. For one man, too late. My siblings and their children were all killed here, he says. The israeli army insists its air strikes are destroying weapons, some hidden in homes, and it ac
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At the moment the uk spends about 2. 3 on defence so it will be interesting to see if John Healy the defence actually makes any mention of that at all, particularly given the wide economic context. We had from the Chancellor Rachel reeves this morning about public finances and the central labour we had in the Run Up to the election about them wanting to sustain fiscal discipline. There is escalating tension in the Middle East. Give us an idea of where the government is on this and what messages they are trying to put a cross on both lebanon and israel. We heard from both lebanon and israel. Heard from the foreign Secretary Yesterday in a pretty wide ranging speech when again he touched upon ukraine and continued support for ukraine. He said the escalating tension was worrying and i had to be an immediate ceasefire and the information the government released to citizens in lebanon telling them to leave now. I think we can go no to the Conference Stage. I have a feed in front of me. It i
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