Welcome to Bbc News. There have been more israeli Air Strikes on southern beirut, after the israeli military warned people there to leave their homes. These are live pictures overlooking beirut. Bbc teams there have reported overhearing another strike in the city. It is close to the airport. Well be live with our colleagues in beirut shortly. Elsewhere in lebanon, israel has bombed a mosque In The Southern part of the country. Israel says the mosque was being used as a Command Centre by hezbollah fighters. The building was next to a hospital. The humanitarian situation in lebanon is worsening, with at least four hospitals now closed In The South because of israeli Air Strikes. The World Health Organization says at least 37 Health Care facilities have closed since israel began its Air Bombardment of lebanon two weeks ago. The un says more than 200,000 people have fled lebanon into neighbouring syria. Hezbollah says its fired rockets at the Ramat David Airbase near the city of haifa in n
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hackers out number cyber personnel, at least 50 to one. and inching toward disaster, growing concerns across the midwest as people watch flood waters inch closer and closer to their homes and businesses. our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments for you. we re going to begin with major flooding tormenting the midwest now as the national weather service says we are still days away from the mississippi river cresting. let s go to maggie vespa, joining us from davenport, iowa. we can see evidence of the mess behind you, maggie. the usda is reporting that barge traffic, that has been halted across the upper mississippi river for likely weeks, and this flooding is only expected to get worse, so how are folks there preparing? reporter: first and foremost, what you highlighted, that is a rare move. it s unclear at this point how and or if that might trickle down to consumers but definitely something to watch and something officials say to be worried about. a
sudan where the warring rival military factions have agreed to extend the cease fire at least through the weekend. thank you for joining us on that. despite the street pledge we are seeing reports of street fights and air fights in the capital. what do we know right now? reporter: you re absolutely right. that cease fire was set to expire today. it has been extended for another three days. make no mistake about it. this violence continues throughout the capital city and throughout sudan. this continues to be a deteriorating situation. we re talking about a lot of the violence taking place in residential areas where the citizens, it s the americans, it s other people who are in the country that are the casualties of the back and forth violence between the sudanese armed forces and para military. there are lulls where there s opportunities for people to make it out. again, we talk about the danger of it all, the turkish defense
south east corner. stick with the mild theme into monday and then the weather fronts will bring outbreaks of rain into many parts of the country, just adding to the floor, beware, you could see minorflooding but outbreaks of rain coming and going across the country was not a bit of snow to northern scotland and wins coming in from a northerly direction could just 50 or 60 miles an hour. a windy day across the board and widespread gales for england and wales which could get up to 60 or 70 miles an hour in the south later. four in stornoway and 13 or 14 in london. the colder air fights back into tuesday and wednesday eight colder spell and snow at times and parts of scotland and north east england once again, blown around by the strong winds, but later in the week with local pressure close by, more banks of wet and windy weather to come so a bit of a rollercoaster ride, i think you could call it, over the next week. maga and roger, back to you. naga.