Still waiting for people who are still being held hostage In Gaza and new research on a revolutionary treatment aims to discover why immunotherapy fails to work for most cancer patients. Hello. Welcome to bbc news. Israel has been stepping up its offensives against hamas in Gaza And Hezbollah in lebanon the eve of the first anniversary of the hamas attacks on israel that killed about 1,200 israelis and started the widening war. Lets bring you the latest developments from the Middle East this hour. The lebanese capital, beirut, experienced one of its most intense waves of israeli strikes yet, with large explosions reported across the southern part of the city last night. The strikes continued into the morning. Fresh Evacuation Orders have been issued for residents of several areas in Southern Lebanon as israel pushes forward with its campaign against hezbollah. In northern israel, Rocket Barrages from lebanon are continuing to trigger sirens and interception systems. 0vernight, the Isra
President. Hello and welcome to the news. The Health Ministry of lebanon says an intense Israeli Bombardment has killed at least 180 people. It comes amid speculation that israeli troops could mount a Ground Invasion of Southern Lebanon to create a Buffer Zone so that civilians who have been evacuated from israel can return. There is heavy traffic on the streets of beirut as people rush to leave the area and we can show you live pictures of Southern Lebanon, because from early this morning there have been so many huge explosions as the israelis have ramped up their operations. The most ferocious bombardment yet since October The 7th of last year. With the idf saying that by lunchtime they had launched over 300 strikes and we have seen many more since then. The Prime Minister of israel has been speaking, talking about pre empting any actions of hezbollah. As you can see from that. As well as 182 people killed, more than 700 people have been wounded today. Lets get the latest from our Mi
80 people dead. and in claiming responsibility, the pakistani taliban calls the attack retaliation for the american raid that led to bin laden s death. reza sayah is live for us in islamabad. does the pakistani government view that has a singular message from the taliban, or do they believe there ll be more attacks? reporter: they believe there will be more attacks and the pakistani taliban says there will be more tobaccoattacks. this was a coordinated attack designed to kill a lot of people, and it did just that. 80 people killed, the deadliest attack this year. twin suicide attacks targeting hundreds of military recruits that hd just finished an extended training program. apparently, the night before, they were celebrating. morning came, they came out of this the training facility, ready to board vans to go home. that s when a suicide attacker walked up to the scene, blew himself up. there was chaos, commotion, people came to help, and that s when another suicide attacker came on t
pornography. this in the hideaway of a self-described religious warrior who says the united states and the west are immoral and godless. let s assess the importance of these new revelations with michael shoier, and with our national homeland security adviser, fran townsend. michael, let me start, i guess it s no surprise that the leader of al qaeda would want the president of the united states dead. but it s startling and jolting a bit to hear what written communications, plural, in which bin laden discusses his desire to have the president of the united states assassinated? i don t think it s surprising. and i think it s probably even worse now. they ll be looking to exact an eye for an eye. i suspect the secret service is very much en garde, because obama put himself in the bull s-eye. is assassination in the playbook? bin laden was very much involved in the early 90s in yemen in arranging the assassination of socialists and marxist yemeni politician. so it s not out
two pakistani soldiers on september 30th. the soldiers were mistaken for insurgents. tom is joining me live from kabul, afghanistan, with more on this. good morning to you, tom. i guess the question is, is this attack retaliation to the accidental air strike? reporter: well, no. i think, alex, it is a target of opportunity for the pakistani taliban. all those tankers now gathered at two points from the west of pakistan leading into afghanistan through the area there and through the area where the morning attack happened into afghanistan. while the tankers are not allowed to cross the border, they invite a target for the pakistani taliban. for the past week they have been attacking the counterparts burning up to 80 tankers so far and killing quite a number of local guards there. so far the pakistani government has given no indication to reopen the border. a nato spokesperson here says the lack of fuel is not really