Lets give you latest now on the situation in the Middle East. Israel says its bombed a mosque in southern lebanon, which It Claims was being used by hezbollah as a Command Centre. By Hezbollah Israel has also struck an Apartment Building in the northern lebanese city of tripoli hamas affiliated Palestinian Media say that a commander in hamas Armed Wing was killed, as well as his wife and children. This is the live scene in the Southern Suburbs of beirut where the israeli attacks are continuing. You can just see smoke continuing to stream over the skyline there and we have seen a lot of activity in the Southern Suburbs of beirut where there attacks are continuing. With me is our Middle East regional editor, sebastian usher. We are Going to step back and a second and look at some of the groups involved in the onGoing conflict but first of all, just bring us up to date with what we are seeing. Where are we at the moment . We are seeing. Where are we at the moment . Just Day By day, we are
Moving closer to russia, which happened after coups in neighbouring burkina faso and mali. Later, leaders from the 15 countries that make up the Economic Community of west african states, and the eight leaders from the west African Economic and monetary union, will meet to discuss their response. Brandon kendhammer is politics professor at Ohio University and expert on politics in west africa. Hejoins us now. Thank you and welcome to the programme. What is your take on what we are witnessing in niger right now . Right now . Good morning. I think what right now . Good morning. I think what we right now . Good morning. I think what we are right now . Good morning. I l think what we are witnessing right now . Good morning. I. Think what we are witnessing is likely the consolidation of any Military Regime. Enough time has passed now that we have a general sense of who was in charge or who would like to be in charge and while we have seen a fair bit of International Response at this point,
the uk had hottestjune since records began, with heat killing fish in rivers and threatening insects. sport and for a full round up, let s go to the bbc sport centre. i want to show you these pictures first because these are the pictures from the israel gaza border and you can see the fires that are burning and young men carrying out their protests as the unrest spreads after that launch of the israeli military operation in the refugee camp at the start of the day. already we have been seeing the pictures from inside the camp and we know from the palestinians, they say they targeted what they described as seven palestinian militants. palestinian officials say eight have been killed and 50 wounded and have been describing it more as an invasion rather than a military operation. that phrase from one palestinian official talking to the bbc in the last couple of hours. but the unrest clearly spreading as of that operation continues. we will have more on that which is our main sto
hello and welcome. this is verified live, free hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. we will have the latest on the bad search that is going on for the submarine in a moment or two, that i want to go straight to breaking news of the last little while from the united states. news aboutjoe biden s son, hunter, and that news coming into is that hunter biden has agreed to plead guilty on two federal tax charges and enter a third pre trial diverging agreement on one a firearms charge. that is apparently in a deal with the justice department, according to court documents that have been published. the details emerging all of the time. there is bound to be a lot of political reaction, the president s son has been in the focus around various investigations for such a long while. but this, the latest detail that there are going to be tax charges, two guilty pleas on those federal tax charges. in deferred pre trial diverging agreement, that is what it is desc
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