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
out over pay and conditions. temperatures in japan are temperatures injapan are at their highest in nearly 150 years. now, fears that the electricity grid could be overwhelmed. hello and welcome. the chinese president xijinping has sworn in hong kong s new leader, john lee. the territory is marking 25 years since the handover from british colonial rule. in a speech, mr lee praised the security law that s been used to crush pro democracy protests. he said it had brought stability. britain has accused beijing of failing to meet the commitments it made to respect hong kong s freedoms. mark lobel reports. president xi s steps out of china since the start of the pandemic, choosing hong kong, two years on controller parr state security law here stifling protests, reducing the city public autonomy. it is also 25 years since the british handover to chinese rule. translation: the practice of one country, two systems has achieved success in hong kong, recognised by all. but after scen
Unai emery is one of the best we have in our business, 100 . Where ever he was he was a success. Sometimes clubs were not ready to wait. He always organises the team extremely well. Thejob he is doing is exceptional and we all know how important it is for a club to qualify for the champions league, how difficult it is to do that and he probably very what likely will do that. He is absolutely exceptional. The Womens Super League all time top scorer Vivianne Miedema will leave arsenal at the end of the season. The Dutch Strikerjoined from Bayern Munich in 2017 and has scored 125 goals in her 172 appearances for arsenal. She won the 2019 wsl title but was out for ten months last year with a serious knee injury and has only played 13 times this season. Shes only 27, but the club have not offered her a conract extension. The england manager Gareth Southgate has distanced himself from the Manchester United job that might possibly come up in the summer. Southgate s contract takes him through
Of the national elections, a six or seven week long process. Mr modi, being strongly tipped to win a third term as indian Prime Minister, although turnout has been an issue across the country. You can see there, live pictures, slightly holding the, with huge crowds in this very sacred city. It is possible that the Prime Minister is going to very famous temple there and he has clearly got a lot of supporters out in his home city there. The place that he represents and is filing his nomination for as Prime Minister. Of course, this is a contentious election. It is represented in some parts of india but indian state politics is very split, with a number of other parties in the south and the east. In this fourth phase, a number of states are voting, with the Election Results finely due at the Beginning Ofjune but these pictures from varanasi in india with clearly a huge bjp turnout there. Our correspondent in delhi explain a bit more about why the votes were taking place in this phase of t
And matt has the weather. Good morning, a night of severe storms across South East England but could there be further rumbles of thunder elsewhere for Bank Holiday Monday . The forecast in 15 minutes. First, our main story. The Intelligence Service mi5 is to review the way it deals with information from the public, in the light of the manchester suicide bombing. It will look in particular at its response to warnings that the man who carried out the attack, salman abedi, was a threat. Police are this morning Searching Properties in chester and Greater Manchester and have arrested a man in west sussex. Tom symonds now reports. Its been nearly a week and the pace of this massive Counterterrorism Operation is not letting up. Last night, it was rush home and gorton, more armed police and controlled explosions. A 19 year old man was arrested, taking to 13 the total in custody. Earlier yesterday, there was anger in the moss side area of South Manchester after heavily armed officers blew the d