They were fired across huge areas of israel, including its largest city Tel Aviv, and the capitaljerusalem. Nd, these pictures from iranian State Media show the ballistic missiles being launched from military sites. Tehran said the attacks were in retaliation for the killings of senior militant leaders, including the hezbollah chief hassan nasrallah. And tehran says it warned the us against intervening. Well, israel has responded by continuing its aerial assault of beirut s southern suburbs. These are live pictures of the lebanese capital. The idf said it had targeted a number of hezbollah sites. Meanwhile, the iranian backed Militant Group says it has clashed with israeli troops in the Southern Lebanese town of Adaisseh Biv both the us and uk were involved in helping to protect israel from Yesterdays Missile attacks. Our Correspondentjon Donnison had to seek shelter when the missiles airraid siren. Israel was warned it was coming. But this was irans revenge. Almost 200 ballistic missi
Cities may follow. In the studio, a former Top Gear Presenter says its all nonsense. Friends of the earth says its about time. Good evening. He was Barack Obamas head of the cia and he departed office the day donald trump became president. John brennan will deliver the Dimbleby Lecture On Bbc One tomorrow night, but tonight he talks to newsnight about the threat from north korea, and whether Donald Trumps promise of us unilateral action is wise if china will not help. He is scathing about the president s proposed ban on travellers from certain muslim countries, and he told us the Trump White House notion of a deep state including the Intelligence Agencies working against him is delusional. I began by asking him if President Trump was right to say that if china wont solve the issue of north korea, america will do. North korea does pose a very serious challenge for the asian region and for the world because of its continued march on a Nuclear Weapons programme. China certainly holds a lo
cnn has also learned that north korea s most advanced submarine is engaged in unusual activity in the east sea. what are you learning? reporter: it s right now been noticed it s about 100 kilometres, about 60 miles or so offshore north korea. not a very advanced submarine, by the way. it s diesel, it can t go underneath the sea, it can t descend for very long. it has to stay on the surface. it can t stay out of port for very long. but concerning nonetheless because it was a different deployment pattern than the north korean sub had done in the past to go so far afield. so it s being watched because in the past north korea has used these submarines, used their torpedo attack capability to attack shipping, especially south korean shipping in the past. everyone keeping a close eye on this wondering what north korea might be up to next, jake. a lot of people alarmed yesterday when the vice chair, the joint chiefs of staff,
there he said it was the most tense place on the planet, a place where violence could break out at any time. and of course we are now seeing that come truitt these very serious escalations. it s not uncommon as you know, wolf, to hear north korea threaten war, but it is much more rare to see live fire across the dmz. and the big fear is there could be a repeat of october 2010 when there were two separate incidents, including an alleged torpedo attack, that left 50 south koreans dead. keep in mind that there are more than 1 million north korean soldiers and three-quarters of them are stationed near the dmz. that is why you have the united states and south korea watching so closely to see what kim s next move will be. and you make a good point. 1 million north korean troops not far from the border. almost 1 million south korean troops. those 30,000 american troops in between. it s a really, really tense situation right now. let s hope it calms down.