Using sabotaged pagers and Walkie Talkies a campaign widely believed to have been carried about by israels spy agency, mossad. 12 people were killed and nearly 3,000 injured On Tuesday. Yesterday, 25 people were killed and 600 people injured in a second wave of blasts. Hezbollah, which is backed by iran and is proscribed as a terrorist group, by the us and uk and western governments, has promised to retaliate. Fears of an all out warare mounting, israel announced yesterday that they have moved to a new phase in the war, the stakes could not be much higher. 0n todays programme, well hear exactly how the Hezbollah Leader responds. 0ur Teams in the Bbc Newsroom are monitoring that. 0ur Specialist correspondents will provide context and analysis. Frank gardner, our Security Correspondent, is with me. So is our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. Daniel de simone is our correspondent injerusalem. Bronwen maddox from Chatham House is with us. Shes just back from israels northern border.
I just want to take you to central london, where a Security Conference is taking place. Among the speakers at the the event are william burns, head of the cia, and sir Richard Moore, head of mi6. Two big names. They have already been talking about two big names. They have already been talking about the war in ukraine and they have also just been talking about the Middle East, so what we are going to do is take a listen into what they are saying to the audience that is at an event organised by the ft. A very highly fragile price in the Middle East, but all the risk to go with that, and we have navigated, touch wood, touch wood, past a Crisis Point between israel and iran, but as long as we dont get to a ceasefire, that risk is there, and for all the horror of gaza, and for all the horror of gaza, a wider conflict in the Middle East would be vastly worse. figs East would be vastly worse. As Ou East would be vastly worse. As you both know, in negotiations, you both know, in negotiations,
Hello, welcome to the programme. Military leaders in myanmar have staged a coup and declared a State Of Emergency for at least a year. Hours earlier, they detained the countrys de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and several of her fellow leaders in the National League for democracy. The military says its in response to alleged Election Fraud in novembers General Election which saw aung sang suu kyi returned to power by a huge majority. Lets speak to our South East Asia correspondentjonathan head. Just a few hours ago, elected politicians were about to convene a new parliament and just a couple of hours later it is now a Military Coup. An extraordinary sequence of events in a very short time period. What have the military been saying . Been saying . Well, they have siml been saying . Well, they have simply announced been saying . Well, they have simply announced that been saying . Well, they have simply announced that this i been saying . Well, they have simply announced that this is| sim
Of information we have from afp saying rescuers entering the tunnel to extract the five year old who has been struck down the bottom of that 30 me to shaft. He has been stuck down the bottom of that 30 metre well shaft. We will bring you more on this when we get any updates. Now its time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins. Hello. Its a wet and windy afternoon for many, the best of any sunshine across the far east and southeast of england. Meanwhile, for scotland, snow becomes an increasing hazard over the next 2a hours, this cold front sliding its way south and eastwards, the snow showers piling into scotland. Notice the squeeze in the isobars, so weve got some strong winds to deal with through this afternoon and into tomorrow. Gusts perhaps 50, 55 mph for some western coast. For many, its milder compared to yesterday, Butjust Mid Single figures as a high across scotland. And here further snow showers piling in through the evening and overnight. Coupled with those gusty winds
Of information we have from afp saying rescuers entering the tunnel to extract the five year old who has been struck down the bottom of that 30 me to shaft. He has been stuck down the bottom of that 30 metre well shaft. We will bring you more on this when we get any updates. Now its time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins. Hello. Its a wet and windy afternoon for many, the best of any sunshine across the far east and southeast of england. Meanwhile, for scotland, snow becomes an increasing hazard over the next 2a hours, this cold front sliding its way south and eastwards, the snow showers piling into scotland. Notice the squeeze in the isobars, so weve got some strong winds to deal with through this afternoon and into tomorrow. Gusts perhaps 50, 55 mph for some western coast. For many, its milder compared to yesterday, Butjust Mid Single figures as a high across scotland. And here further snow showers piling in through the evening and overnight. Coupled with those gusty winds