Is to prepare for a Ground Invasion, which, again, would be of further escalation and what we have seen which began after October The 7th, but what we have seen along the border between Israel And Lebanon has been very different than we have seen In Gaza. Weve seen a steady, over the course of ii steady, over the course of 11 months or so, exchange of fire, but everything changed just over a week ago when It Pagers and then Walkie Talkies held by members of hezbollah exploded here in beirut and around lebanon. And we have seen a real israeli object. Lets go to the un in New York. Sir Keir Starmer is speaking now. Lets see what he says. See what he says. Other than helinu see what he says. Other than helping those see what he says. Other than helping those in see what he says. Other than helping those in need. See what he says. Other than helping those in need. The i see what he says. Other than l helping those in need. The un and the icrc have both lost staff this month In Gaza, lebanon and donetsk. More than 208 workers have been killed so far this year. Including british citizens. More than 200 aid workers. This should eliminate the work of this council. Because we have heard again today just council. Because we have heard again todayjust how dire the situation has become, the Security Council must deliver its responsibility for global peace and security. Soi so i want to use this meeting to Call To Action in three key areas. First, we need to renew the international consensus on delivering humanitarian support. This should be a bare minimum, yet, too often, we are falling short. We must address the situation In Gaza. The 7th Of October was the bloodiest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. I utterly condemn the Terrorist Actions of hamas. The ordeal of the hostages and their love drugs continues almost a year later. Six of them were killed in Cold Blood just a few weeks ago. So i say again, let the hostages go. We must face up to humanitarian catastrophe In Gaza that continues to deepen by the day. Israel must grant humanitarian access to civilians in line with its obligations onto international humanitarian law. There can be no more excuses. Israel must open more crossings, allow vital life saving aid to flow and to provide a safe environment for the un and other humanitarian organisations to operate. These Civilians SufferingIn Gaza is beyond belief, so we have restarted our funding to unravel, supporting uk med to operate theirfield unravel, supporting uk med to operate their Field Hospitals and we are supporting unicef to deliver water, and we are supporting unicef to deliverwater, health and we are supporting unicef to deliver water, Health Care and special treatment for malnourished children, but the most fundamental need is even more basic. They need the fighting to stop. The situation in sudan also demands our urgent attention. Millions are facing Emergency Or Famine conditions, exacerbated by deliberate attempts to prevent aid reaching those in need. This is now the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. In the worst displacement crisis. With over 10 Million people driven from their homes, it also risks destabilising South Sudan and chad which are already suffering their own humanitarian crisis. The uk has doubled its aid to the victims of this war to almost £100 million, but much more is needed. The world must step in. Second, calm the Security Council to seek political solutions that can break repeated cycles of violence like that in the Middle East. The region is on the brink. We need an immediate Cease Fire between israel and lebanese hezbollah. In the implementation of a political plan, which allows israeli and lebanese civilians to return to their homes to live in peace and security. That security will come through diplomacy, not escalation. There is no military solution here. Nor is there a military only solution to the conflict In Gaza. This council must demand again and immediate full and complete Cease FireIn Gaza with the release of all the hostages. We need a political route to that agreement which provides a bridge to a better future, a credible and irreversible path towards a viable Palestinian State alongside a safe and secure state of israel. That is the only way to provide Security And Justice for both israelis and palestinians. In june, uk brought a resolution to this council on the war in sudan, calling for both parties to commit to a Cease Fire. I repeat that call today. The word parties must engage in Cease Fire talks, support the secretary general� S Envoy in his efforts towards peace. We must keep working to bring this war to an end. And we must ensure that those responsible for committing atrocities are held accountable. This leads me to my third and final point, we must ensure accountability for those violating the Un Charter and this council must recommit to the values it sets out. Now, this should go without saying, yet the greatest violation of the charter in a generation has been committed by one of this councils permanent members, Russias Invasion of ukraine is illegal, it threatens global security, its caused colossal human suffering, over 35,000 human suffering, over 35, 000 civilians human suffering, over 35,000 civilians have been killed or injured, 6 Million forced to flee. In almost 20,000 ukrainian children forcefully deported, kidnapped, to put it bluntly. I think of yaro � s love, whose wife and three daughters were killed earlier this month by a russian strike on civilians in levee of. And i wonder how russia can to show its face in this building. Lyviv. 6000 russian shoulders have been killed or wounded in this war. Russian soldiers. And for what . Do Un Charter which they sit here to uphold speaks of human dignity, not treating your own citizens as bits of meat to fling into the grinder. Russias war has triggered a global Energy Crisis and a global food crisis, causing hunger in the horn of africa. They entered into a un brokered Black Sea Green Deal and then withdrew. They tried to block the pact for the future. Now the world looks on as russia deepens its military ties with the likes of North Korea and iran. There can be no equivocation here. They must be held accountable. Aggression cannot pay, borders cannot be redrawn by force. Russia started this illegal war, it must end it and get out of ukraine. We stand with 89 countries who make clear at the swiss Peace Summit that ukraines territorial integrity must be the basis of anyjust and lasting peace. Any process that does not recognise this will only be used as a pretext by russia to regroup and come again. President, in this moment of deepening conflict, the world looks to this council more than ever to provide leadership for peace, preserve our collective security and protect the most vulnerable. The united kingdom will always play its part in fulfilling that responsibility. Thank you. I think Sir Keir Starmer for his statement. I think Sir Keir Starmer for his statement. The uks Prime Minister, his statement. The uks Prime Minister, sir his statement. The uks Prime Minister, Sir Keir his statement. The uks Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, minister, Sir Keir Starmer, speaking there at the Un General Assembly in New York, touching on various crises and conflicts that are happening around the world at the moment. And of course, the one we are focusing on as night falls here in lebanon, the fact that the Israel Defense forces looked to be readying themselves for a Ground Incursion into lebanon. We can speak to our international editor, who does Live Injerusalem for us tonight. Jeremy, there were various scenarios being talked about at the moment. What is likely to happen in the next 2a hours or so . 2 1 likely to happen in the next 24 hours or so . Likely to happen in the next 24 hours or so . 24 hours, it might be a bit longer hours or so . 24 hours, it might be a bit longer than hours or so . 24 hours, it might be a bit longer than that. Be a bit longer than that. Theyve mobilised a couple. To Reserve Brigades of infantry. The israelis, thats probably four or 5000 soldiers. They already have soldiers mobilised up on that border. They have been reinforcing. The chief of staff, head of the army, he pretty much said its going to be happening. He said we are preparing for it and your boots will be manoeuvring on the other side of the border, words to that effect. So, yeah, its happening. And i think that hopes that it might be a quick in and out, some kind of glorified raid i think are unlikely. The way its been looking come i think the israelis want to do some damage to hezbollah facilities there, but the minute they get over that border, hezbollah will want to do some damage to them. Jeremy, what is your assessment of the timing of this . Because, of the timing of this . Because, of course, israel are still fighting a war In Gaza. Why have they decided to do this in lebanon now . I have they decided to do this in lebanon now . Have they decided to do this in lebanon now . I was in southern Israel Lebanon now . I was in southern israel today. Lebanon now . I was in southern israel today. I lebanon now . I was in southern israeltoday, i can lebanon now . I was in southern israeltoday, i can hear israel today, i can hear periodic Air Strikes coming from there. They are doing this because they say they want to make it safe for israeli civilians to get back to border areas and they believe that the only way to do that is this slightly mad atjargon phase, which is escalate to de escalate, in other words, because hezbollah so much pain that they will stop sending rockets into israel, rockets and missiles. However, they have said, hezbollah has said the thing that will stop them is the Cease FireIn Gaza, and thatis is the Cease FireIn Gaza, and that is the objective right now, particularly of The Americans or World Leaders in New York for the general assembly this very week, the so called high level week, so they will be doing a lot of diplomacy trying to get at least a pause, but it all depends, any hope for diplomacy, its a bit thin, frankly, and up until now, but the Hamas Leader who is In Gaza presumably in some kind of tunnel they are, he has insisted any Cease Fire requires israel to get up 100 from the gaza strip. Israel has not been prepared to do that and while The Americans have had so called Bridging Proposals across the gap for two sites. That is another question. If they dont, then they will have to go ahead. The israelis most likely will go ahead with this. Why now . Well, people in israel who are very cynical about prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahusObjective Benjamin NetaNyahus Objective says Benjamin Netanyahus Objective says he feels he needs a victory at this point because a year on from, virtually a year on from those October The 7th attacks, they are still fighting In Gaza and they dont have a victory there. However, i dont think based on the record of history there are quick victories to be had inside lebanon. ,. , inside lebanon. Jeremy, a brief thou~ht, inside lebanon. Jeremy, a brief thought. We inside lebanon. Jeremy, a brief thought, we are inside lebanon. Jeremy, a brief thought, we are different inside lebanon. Jeremy, a brief thought, we are different sides| thought, we are different sides of the border, im in lebanon, you are in israel, but of course countries around us Middle East region have a stake in what is going on here as well. As we see this Escalation Begin can that impact more widely . Begin can that impact more widel . ~. , , widely . Well, one very big question widely . Well, one very big question is widely . Well, one very big question is what widely . Well, one very big question is what iran widely . Well, one very big | question is what iran might widely . Well, one very big question is what iran might do. Iran is the armour and principal backer of hezbollah. They have a very, very close relationship with them and since the leader of hezbollah has, thanks to israeli assassinations, loss and very important people in his high, and, im sure they will be talking even more attentively and closely with the iranians. The iranians have armed hezbollah, basically, as a forward defence against israel. So one of the questions is, would they be prepared to see hezbollah using the potent weapons its given them against, say, israeli towns, if israel sends troops over the border. Would they try and keep it local . Would they try to actually attack those troops using their own hezbollah soldiers who are well trained and well armed and in the last 2006, when israel sent in ground troops, they knocked out tanks and they killed israeli soldiers while losing men themselves, of course, and in themselves, of course, and in The End, that resulted in essentially a stalemate and a Un Resolution that ended that war. ,. , ~ Un Resolution that ended that war. ,. ~ , Un Resolution that ended that war. � ,. ~ i. , war. Jeremy, thank you for oininu war. Jeremy, thank you for joining us war. Jeremy, thank you for joining us. Our war. Jeremy, thank you for l joining us. Our international editor live from jerusalem. Do stay with us, much more to come on this developing story tonight, and sumi is at the un in New York as well. Much more to discuss is this Escalation Looks like it may become even more serious here in the Middle East. Around the world and across the uk, this is Bbc News. You are live with Bbc News, i am Anna Foster here in beirut, as fears continue to grow over further escalation in the conflict here in the Middle East. Weve heard just in the last hour the chief of Israels Defence Force speaking to soldiers on the northern border, telling them to prepare for a Ground Invasion into southern lebanon. And we also have the uk Prime Minister talking about that and other world conflicts and crises at the un in New York. Of course, countries from around the World Meeting for the general Assembly And Sumi is their following development over the last few days. When you hear the calls therefore De Escalation, but here in the Middle East, the messages, the sounds, are they expecting the Un General Assembly to have an impact on whats happening here . ,. , impact on whats happening here . , here . That rea