Organising aid In Beirut. Meanwhile, the Lebanese Army says, that two of its soldiers have been killed, by israel in separate incidents in Southern Lebanon. Lets speak to our correspondent nick beake, whos in northern israel. In Terms Of what you are seeing just bring me right up to date. We have seen more israeli tanks being taken towards the border with lebanon, that is the reflection of the way the israelis are intensifying this operation against hezbollah. I say operation, it is a mission now and they insist it is made up now and they insist it is made up of lots of separate targeted operations. Some teams going in and then in some cases retreating. But certainly it seems to be gathering pace. In Terms Of a snapshot of where we are, i think in Terms Of what we heard in the skies above us so far today that has been considerably less than yesterday. But of course that is just a snapshot of one particular location. The Israeli Army is saying its carried out a lot of strikes in the pas
Plumes of smoke over the capital still over beirut. In central beirut, a massive overnight Air Strike killed nine people, in a multistorey building, Housing A Hezbollah affiliated health centre, near the lebanese parliament building. Lebanon says paramedics are among the dead. While the World Health Organization says 28 Health Workers have been killed in the past day. As the conflict escalates, more people are on the move well talk in a few minutes to the Un Agency organising aid in beirut. Meanwhile, the Lebanese Army says, that two of its soldiers have been killed, by israel in separate incidents in southern lebanon. I want to return to Whatjoe Biden has been saying because he responded to questions thrown at him yesterday saying of course the us did not support any potential israeli strikes on nuclear facilities. He was asked today whether there are discussions about israel and Irans Oil facilities and his answer was we are discussing that possibility and that resulted in a spike of
In a moment well speak to our Correspondents Nick Beake in Northern Israel and Will Grant in washington. And Anna Foster as well. But lets start with the comments from the us president. Lets head to Will Grant, the president very open about the potential targets and what they could be in the coming days. That is right, these were comments made on the South Lawn of the White House as he boarded Marine One on route to his journey to florida to overlook the devastation from hurricane hitting there, so the comments were straightforward. He was asked if he would support his roads striking Irans Oil facilities, support his roads striking Irans Oilfacilities, he support his roads striking Irans Oil facilities, he said theres a discussions on that, and he was also asked if you would let israel retaliate, what are the plans to allow israel to strike back against iran . He said we dont allow israel, we advise, there is nothing going to happen today. Interesting diplomatic suggestions there. Firs
The country causIng severe floodIng and landslIdes. Lebanon has banned WalkIe TalkIes and pagers from all flIghts out of the countrys only commercIal aIrport In operatIon. The move comes after explosIons were trIggered In pagers and WalkIe TalkIes used by hezbollah. The attacks kIlled at least 37 people and Injured thousands. Israel hasnt confIrmed It was behInd the attacks but Is wIdely assumed to be, and Its Defence MInIster, yoav gallant, has saId Its openIng a new phase In the war. And these are pIctures from the IsraelI mIlItary, whIch says It hIt hezbollah Infrastructure In an overnIght attack across The Border. It says It carrIed out AIr StrIkes on seven targets In southern lebanon. The us says Its Involved In IntensIve dIplomatIc efforts to prevent the conflIct escalatIng further. The leader of hezbollah, whIch some western states have desIgnated a terrorIst organIsatIon, Is expected to address the events In a speech later today. ThIs Is the moment a blast rocks beIrut. Hezboll
Tomorrow, the british Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, Will Travel To Washington to discuss it with him. Lets talk about the decision because the calibration have to because the calibration have to be very careful. Time is of Course Tort because we have a us election upon us and we are what Donald Trump said on tuesday not when asked whether he wanted ukraine to win. What do you Thinkjoe Biden will be thinking about when he meets Sir Keir Starmer tomorrow . Is Sir Keir Starmer tomorrow . Is possible we might see the us not objecting to the uk sitting its long Range Storm Shadow missiles its long Range Storm Shadow missiles and the french version as Well Missiles and the french version as well to missiles and the french version as well to at least allow the ukrainians to send those type of weapons further and deeper into russian territory, but of course into russian territory, but of course they cannot go as deep as the course they cannot go as deep as the us course they cannot go as d