Hezbollah*s attack comes after pagers and radio devices held by members of the group detonated across lebanon last week, killing at least 20 people. Israel hasn't said whether it was involved. As the fighting intensifies, un chief antonio guterres says he fears lebanon could become another gaza. The lebanese health ministry raised the death toll to 45 in friday's strike by israel targeting hezbollah commanders in southern beirut. Most of those killed were civilians. Authorities say women and children are among the dead. On sunday, israel launched further strikes on towns in southern lebanon, killing three people. And the israeli military says it destroyed thousands of hezbollah rocket launcher barrels over the past few days. Israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had this to say. No country can accept the wanton rocketing of its cities. We can't accept it, either. We will take whatever action is necessary to restore security and to bring our people safe back to their homes. Meanwhile, in lebanon hundreds attended the funeral of ibrahim aqil, a highranking hezbollah commander killed in an israeli strike on friday. The group's deputy leader has declared that the conflict has entered a new phase of reckoning. Orla guerin reports from beirut. Hezbollah today. In mourning, but unbowed. This was the funeral of a top military commander, ibrahim aqil, killed on friday in an israeli air strike. The armed group's deputy leader said it was entering a new phase of openended battle against israel. All chant and there's resounding support for that in its stronghold in southern beirut, where hezbollah fighters, living and dead, are heroes. Many have lined the streets here to say goodbye to ibrahim aqil. His killing is a major loss for hezbollah at a time when the organisation is suffering blow after blow. There is anger here and grief, but also defiance. The message is hezbollah is not broken and will fight on. And it's been doing that today, firing missiles deeper into israel. Hezbollah says its targets are military but this residential area in northern israel was hit. This, too, was a residential area in beirut, until friday's israeli strike which killed the hezbollah commander and 15 of his men as they met below ground. A lebanese government minister linked to hezbollah says israel is dragging the region to war. At the end, lebanon is not seeking the war. Even the lebanese people. But israel is calling us, worldwide, come to war. Come to war. And do you think it will happen? i don't know. We will see. Around 30 civilians were killed here, too, including entire families. Some of their relatives are still waiting at the scene today, hoping for remains to be found. Orla guerin, bbc news, beirut. For more on the situation, i've been speaking to aaron david miller he's a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace. Always great to have you here on the programme. The un chief antonio guterres has been warning that lebanon could become another gaza. Is he right? are we that close to another devastating war breaking out in the region? look, noone ever lost money betting against escalation in the middle east. But i must admit we've watch this for 11 months. For 11 months, i would've predicted by now israel and hezbollah would have been escalating for more than we see. Even in the wake of what was probably the october 7 event from the standpoint from the standpoint of hezbollah in terms of hezbollah in terms of a massive failure of a massive failure and officials. And breach of communications and breach of communications and not to mention and not to mention the psychological damage the psychological damage and the morale israel has and the morale israel has continued to eliminate top continued to eliminate top hezbollah commanders hezbollah commanders and officials. But even now, six days after the pagers and the walkietalkies exploded, you see the rules of the game appear to be observed by both sides. Yes, the israelis struck and killed ibrahim aqil in the southern suburbs but the retaliation for this was intense and hezbollah launched rockets further than they ever have but they avoided major which would involve the use of hezbollah*s hyperjective weapons against israeli population centres and major infrastructure. And the israelis probably mounting a significant ground operation into southern lebanon. Those are the two red lines that have not been crossed yet. They may yet be but i am not at all sure. There have been discussions around a diplomatic agreement between israel and hezbollah. Do you think that those can reach the finish line without a ceasefire in gaza? hard to imagine. Notjust the ceasefire in gaza, hezbollah has linked its future and, sadly, for the majority of the population of lebanon, hezbollah has linked its future to a gaza ceasefire. That's not on the horizon any time soon. It is the calculation that hezbollah has to make in terms of its own credibility if after what it suffered its own october 7, so to speak it will now turn around and make nice with the americans and those who have negotiated borders between israel and lebanon to negotiate now, that deal is real and it is on the table. It is just the circumstances. In the last 11 months to me suggest that it will take a major escalation and a sense that the parties have now pushed each other too far to have blinken o in washington and to basically say that we need this right now. We hope from the president today he likes to do quick answers as he is getting off or on to a helicopter or air plane but he said that the us will do everything it can to prevent a wider war. Briefly, if you don't mind, ruefully, how much weight do you give statements like that for the president at this point? not much. History is littered with the remains of great powers who believed they could impose their schemes and dreams and ambitions on them. This close to the election, i am not sure the administration is up to exerting the kinds of pressure that would need to be exerted in order to produce a ceasefire. Maybe the parties have come to it on its own, if it is bad enough, but right now, i think us leveraged is drastically limited. Certainly not the task you want before a big presidential election. Aaron david miller, always great to have your perspective. Thank you. Sri lanka's presidential election has been won by a leftwing anticorruption candidate. A warning there is some flash photography in the following pictures. Anura kumara dissanayake promised a fresh start for the country. The poll, which went to a second round of counting for the first time in sri lanka's history, has been described as one of the country's closest. Earlier, i spoke to daniel bass, south asia program manager at cornell university about sri lanka's new elected president. Well, anura kumara dissanayake, or akd, as he is is part of the leftist pbb which has toned down a lot of their marxist rhetoric to become more social democratic party, socialist democratic. And he promised relief for his people. So, since the economic crisis of 2022 and some measures power cuts and queues for petrol and the rupee has not depreciated so badly but for everyday people, there is still massive food insecurity, massive poverty and much of that is the result of corruption from the previous administration, so he's promising relief for people but it is still uncertain how soon he will be able to achieve that. That was my next question how difficult will some of these promises be when it comes to the economy, tackling corruption? can mr dissanayake really get down to business in the first few months? it will take some time. He says he will renegotiate he says with the imf about the terms of their loans and agreements and that is still yet to be seen but mainly, he will have to wait for a new parliament before he could proceed much further. Although he promised to dissolve parliament within the first few days. If he does that this week, another parliament will take a month or two for parliamentary elections and then, if he gets a majority then he will be able to make some major changes. But he can begin investigations in terms of corruption pretty soon. It was interesting, too, wasn't it, to look at the way that this vote happened? we heard from the correspondent there that this was less divided than usual along ethnic lines or religious lines. What do you think that says about politics in sri lanka? is this a shift here now? well, the campaign was not on ethnic lines, it was much more on economic lines but the opposition candidate, sajith premadasa, that the he won in the predominantly tamil areas of the north and east and central highlands. And so, his party has a history of being nationalist and while they have not played in to that single nationalist rhetoric as they have in decades past, it is still uncertain what the future may hold for minority communities in sri lanka. This was also a fairly peaceful election, especially for sri lankan standards. What do you see coming next? you mentioned that there may be new parliamentary elections, because the party of dissanayake has, what, three seats right now in parliament? and the aragalaya the struggle in 2022 that led to the ousting of the president then, his party remained with a supermajority, so they retain power for two years now and there is a lot of dissatisfaction with parliament. So, when that changes they may be able, they hope that akd can make substantial changes. But it will be interesting to see how he deals with this party that has had little power beforehand, and whether they can actually get a majority is still to be seen. And while i have you here you touched on this briefly but what is the situation like right now in sri lanka? there was a big economic crisis a couple of years ago. How much of that are still in effect? what are sri lankans facing right now in their daytoday lives? well, they said some of the major measures have eased and the instability, but families who years ago could afford to purchase metre meat are barely able to purchase eggs or lentils. People have fewer meals per day, the child poverty rates have skyrocketed. The former middleclass families are now less than they used to be. The widespread vote for dissanayake shows that there is a huge dissatisfaction with the current situation and it has affected pretty much everyone's lives, except perhaps for the elites in colombo. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. Labour's first conference in 15 years as the party of government is under way. Chris mason was there. In the wilderness of opposition for 1. 5 decades. Now, labour is in power but the political weather is a bit nippy, blustery and grey. Trickier still as what some are describing is duffjudgements. Publicly today, the deputy prime minister who has been given free clothes, and alongside her colleagues now won't accept any more said. . . I get that people are angry and i get that people are upset but you're not going to change the rules? i think the transparency is there so people can see that. Later, angela rayner addressed the conference, keen to crank our attention back to what the government is trying to do. When i took on this job, i promised the biggest upgrade to workers* rights in a generation nothing less then a new deal for working people. Everywhere here, for the first time in a long time, the trinkets of victory, the potential of government. But so, too, a desire to change the record after a bumpy few days. You're live with bbc news. Early results suggest the political party of german chancellor olaf scholz has secured a narrow victory over the far right alternative for germany, orafd, in a key regional election. The social democrats are on track to keep hold of brandenburg in the country's northeast, where it has led since german reunification more than 30 years ago. Sunday's election follows major gains for the afd including a win in the eastern state of thuringia on september i. Our correspondent mark lowen is in brandenburg's capital potsdam, and explained how immigration is increasingly impacting german elections. At the height of europe's migration crisis under angela merkel, germany welcomed in 1. 5 million migrants. Germans were lining the train stations, welcoming migrants and saying that germany was proud of this change in its reputation from 80 years ago and its wartime past. But there has been a dramatic change since then. From 2013 between 2013 and 2022, six million migrants have come to this country. One in five people are now foreignborn here in germany and there has been an increasing backlash against them as the cost of living crisis has bitten and as there have been individual attacks that have been sort of magnified. Last month, there was a stabbing by syrian asylum seeker which played into the hands of the afd and now, we hearfrom some migrants here that many of them say they do not feel welcome any more. It is something that we see right across europe, in france, in italy, in many parts of the country. In many parts of the continent. The farright is rising and it is this youth vote that is coming out. Your most associate farright voters sometimes with elderly voters. That is not the case, particularly here in germany, where the afd has really used tiktok and social media to harness young voters. And that is a real concern, i think, for the traditional establishment parties here going forward and of concern for olaf scholz, even though he will have some respite from the results tonight. Two recent security breaches involving donald trump including one in pennsylvania in which he was shot have sparked a new wave of disinformation and hate online ahead of november's presidential election. The bbc*s social media correspondent marianna spring has been to colorado a state which has become a hotbed for conspiracy theories to investigate how two people, one republican and the other democrat, have been drawn into those conspiracies. Gunshots. This moment when donald trump was shot at injuly triggered a whole wave of speculation, conspiracy theories and false claims online, drawing in people across the political spectrum. This is actually where i walked to from our cabin. That includes desiree. Under the pseudonym *wild mother', she regularly posts about natural medicine. Now, she also shares unproven theories about major news events. I had been extremely passionate about trying to figure out the real truth about september 11. Everything about this town has just been. . . She thinks donald trump is the best option for president and when the fi