With my guests shortly. First, the latest headlines. Lebanons Health Ministry says israeli Air Strikes are now known to have killed over 560 people including 50 children with hospitals struggling to cope with the number of casualties. Israel says it has killed a Hezbollah Commander in an Air Strike in beirut. In a direct address to lebanese civilians, Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, our war is not with you, our war is with hezbollah. President biden has told the United Nations General Assembly that the world cannot grow weary and look away from supporting ukraine in its defence against russias invasion. The president said vladimir Putins War had failed in its core aim of destroying ukraine, but support must be sustained. Meanwhile the Ukrainian President , volodymyr zelensky, has told a Special Session of the un Security Council, that the war with russia cannot be calmed by talks. Mr zelensky said russia could only be forced into peace by united, international action. He described Ir
Lebanon could become another gaza. It follows days of continued exchanges of fire between the idf and the iranian backed militia after last Weeks Pager and Walkie Talkie attacks which killed dozens and injured thousands. Three people were killed in an israeli attack on Southern Lebanon On Sunday. And israel says hezbollah has fired more than 150 rockets into its territory. Meanwhile, the funeral has taken place for a senior Hezbollah Commander killed in fridays israeli aerial assault on beirut. The Deputy Leader of the Armed Group said its confrontation with israel had entered a new phase, describing it as an open ended battle of reckoning. Orla guerin has more 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 Groups Deputy Leader said it was entering a new phase of open ended battle against israel. All chant and theres resounding support for that in its stronghold
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Pictures coming from rebeccas home town of bukwo. Close to the kenyan border in uganda. Last night, on friday, family members, friends and activists against gender based Violence Viewed Rebeccas coffin at the Funeral Home in the kenyan town before her body was brought back to her hometown. We heard her mother was wearing a Souvenir Bag at the time, that the athlete had received at the Paris Olympics where she competed in the marathon. Patience akumu is a ugandan lawyer she told me what lessons needed to be learned from Rebecca Cheptegeis violent death. We need to reflect about the ways in which women, no matter their social status, ways in which women, no matter theirsocialstatus, no ways in which women, no matter their social status, no matter what they have achieved in life, are still expected to bow to the expectations of society, evenif to the expectations of society, even if it kills them. Domestic violence is still a reality for many women in africa, in euston africa. The statist
A country where millions of children are malnourished, and where in one hospital, 700 children have died injust the last six months. It is a humanitarian crisis that deepens every day, with much of the Country Living in Extreme Poverty, after years of war causing economic collapse. The un says more than 3 Million children under five are malnourished, with the delivery of aid becoming much harder, since the taliban took over in 2021. The bbc s yogita limaye, Camera Journalist Sanjay Ganguly And Producer Imogen Anderson have been in the country for the last two weeks chronicling the disaster, and a warning her report does Show Images of children in distress. This is what an average morning looks like at jalalabads main hospital. Hundreds throng every corner, every passage, as Extreme Poverty pushes more children into disease each day. Zara, 13 months old, one of 3 Million malnourished children in the country. A disease thats ravaging afghanistans youngest. For every child here whos made