Be a dry start to the weekend. Tomorrow starts dry and ChIlly Chubut there wIll be some wet and WIndy Weather later In the day. Dry and chIlly too. Fresh attacks have contInued on the lebanese CapItal BeIrut overnIght. It comes after Israels MIlItary carrIed out a StrIke South of the CIty Yesterday targetIng Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah. It has not been confIrmed If he was In the buIldIngs when It was struck. Lebanons Health MInIstry say sIx people were kIlled and 91 Injured. Our reporter SImon Jones has the latest. ExplosIons, screamIng new strIkes overnIght on Southern BeIrut. Israels mIlItary saId It was targetIng buIldIngs storIng hezbollah weapons underneath them. Hezbollah denIed they were arms depots. ExplosIons. EarlIer, a serIes of massIve explosIons. It Is thought the target here was the Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah. It Is unclear whether he was any of the buIldIngs that were hIt. Iran, whIch backs hezbollah, has called the attack a dangerous, game changIng escalatI
Welcome back. Before we get into our other stories, let me give you a summary of some of our main lines in the middle east. As Cross Border attacks between Hezbollah And Israel continue, lets bring you some live pictures from the border between Israel And Lebanon. Lebanons Prime Minister has cancelled his trip to the Un General Assembly according to reports in the last half hour. Thats after israeli attacks, including the Pager And Walkie talkie explosions. He made the announcement in a statement a short time aGo. The Un General Assembly is due to start on september 28th. We also heard earlier from the us national security adviserjake sullivan, who said he was worried about escalation between Israel And Lebanon but when he was asked about the Isralie Strik Targeting hezbollah commanders, he said, its a Good outcome when people are brought tojustice. A reminder that hezbollah are designated a Terorrist Organisation by the us and other western nations. Human rights chief Volker T Rk has
Analysis on the President Trump visit and nato meeting. Five women who allege they were abused byJeffrey Epstein urge Prince Andrew to testify in their cases. The 12 year old boy killed yesterday when a car ploughed into a group of children near a school in essex is named as Harley Watson. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with holly hamilton. Weve got a full midweek calendar of premier League Fixtures coming up over the next few days weve been hearing frmo the managers, including an under pressure Manchester United boss. More at 2. 30. Thanks holly, and stav danaos has all the weather. Thank you, there is a change on the cards, today might be settled, mostly dry, but cold, it will be turning milder later on in the week, but thats only half the story, i will have all the details in around half an hour. Also coming up our live coverage from enniskillen, annita. Thats right, bbc news continues its election tour of the uk. Today, im in enniskillen, which is in the fermanagh const
With adam fleming. Electioncast from the bbc. We are in this election because of brexit. We dont want to be thinking about having a general election. We want to be going out and buying a christmas presents. If anybody comes to you and says they know what is going to happen, kok an eyebrow, smile politely and turn your back. Clock an eyebrow. Hello, everyone. Welcome to tonights episode of electioncast. It has been a bumper day with lots of things being discussed on the podcast. First of all, i pondered how that nato Leaders Summit nearly ended in a war between canada and the united states, caused by princess and. Something i chewed over with chief Political Correspondent vicki young. Ok, so this was the reception last night at buckingham palace, and one camera is allowed in and they are allowed to film various things. So one thing that they spotted was at one point there was the line up, the leaders were coming in and being greeted by the queen, and it looked like princess and, when mr