Fierce cross border clashes are continuing with israel striking southern lebanon, and hezbollah firing dozens of rockets into northern israel. On tuesday, the israeli military said they d killed a senior hezbollah commander in a strike on beirut. These pictures show the extent of the destruction from that strike. Our senior international correspondent, orla guerin, sent this report from tyre, where thousands of people have fled their homes. A community in mourning. The village of saksakiyeh in southern lebanon today. Ii were killed here yesterday by israel s 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 child and a martyr. He pledges his support for the hezbollah leader, sheikh hassan nasrallah. Even if they kill us, he says, we are at your service. Also being mourned today, dina darwiche and her son, jad. Killed in their own home by an israeli missile. Here she was at work with
Immigrants are eating household pets has spawned that one by the musician the kiffness. False it may well be but the claim has dominated news cycles, and onejournalist set out to find the source of the now debunked rumour. Jack brewster is enterprise editor at newsguard and he s been telling us about how he did it. Yeah, so finding the source of this claim is almost as interesting as the claim itself. We went to the screenshot that everyone was sharing online, purporting to come from the person who originally shared the claim, and it was posted first in this private facebook group. And when it was shared on x which is where it went viral somebody had redacted the name at the top, so you couldn t tell who was the original poster of this claim. But my colleague and i noticed that a couple of the letters were exposed at the top and so, we zoomed in and after about a few minutes of searching, we guessed that the name might be erica, just by the way that the tops of the letters were e
Welcome to the programme. We ll start with the news manchester city fans didn t want to hear. Manager pep guardiola has confirmed their influential midfielder rodri will be out for a long time. He went off injured in city s 2 2 draw with arsenal on sunday and went to spain for further tests on monday. The full extent of the injury is not yet known, but there have been reports he could be out for the rest of the season. The confirmation of rodri s injury came after city booked their place in the fourth round of the english league cup. They overcame championship side watford 2 1. Jeremy doku gave city an early lead before matheus nunes doubled it before half time. Watford did get one back late on through tom ince, but the eight time champions hung on to progress. Will be out for a long time, a while, but there are some opinions and it maybe will be less than we expect, but unfortunately he was injured. Right now, still i cannot tell you because we are awaiting the last phone calls from h
Across into North East England in partiCular, especially for the north York Moors as we had to thursday, stretching further west into Northern Ireland. To the North And South of that front, a lot of dry weather, but it is Feeling Cold across scotland. We draw down a northerly wind and cold air spreads everywhere on friday, with possibly a widespread frost on friday night. Thanks, elizabeth. And thats Bbc News at six. Now its time to join our colleagues for the news where you are, goodbye. Hello and welcome to sportsday im jane dougall. Are england on course for an embarrassing defeat to australia . Theyre struggling to save the series and their blushes, well be live to durham for the latest. Its rumoured to be serious, but will rodri be out for the rest of the season . And how much of a dent will that put in manchester Citys Title Challenge . Plus, the pitch that looks more like a golf course. Fans have been fundraising after flooding at Afc Wimbledon wrecked their Home Fixtures for th
Good Evening And Welcome to the Bbc News at six. Sir Keir Starmer has promised National Renewal in his first speech to the Labour Party Conference as Prime Minister but he warned of tough choices ahead. The Prime Minister insisted that keeping a Cool Head during challenging times would be better in the long term than easy answers. And he pledged to stabilise the economy but made it clear that some of his decisions would be unpopular. Our political editor, Chris Mason is at the conference in liverpool. Conference, please welcome| Keir Starmer, prime Minister And Leader of the labour party. Little wonder the audience in here are whooping. They have waited 15 years to hear a sentence like that at their conference. A party so often crushed by defeat, basking in winning. Take pride that labour won in every single region in england. Take pride that labour won in wales. Take pride that labour won in scotland. Governing is always difficult for every party, and thats before Slip Ups and unforce