Confirmed it had fired missiles over the border early sunday. Hezbollah said on telegram it had targeted israel s ramat david airbase, 20 kilometres south of the city of haifa. Air raid sirens were also triggered in several areas of northern isarel, including near haifa, according to israel. These pictures show part of an intercepted rocket launched from lebanon that fell in nazareth in israel in the early hours of sunday. It comes in the hours after the israeli military carried out what it called extensive strikes on hezbollah targets in southern lebanon. Israeli aircraft destroyed thousands of hezbollah rocket launchers in southern lebanon, according to israeli officials. Also tonight, the us state department is urging american citizens to leave lebanon, with fears growing of an all out war. Meanwhile, the death toll from israel s strike on a densely populated area of southern beirut on friday has risen to 37. Hezbollah says 16 of its members were killed in the attack, including seni
in just a few days. it also forced more than a million people to evacuate. most of the countries on this list are richer nations, where it s easier to measure financial losses, because people are more likely to have insurance. dr kat kramer is the report s author. she explained more about what she found. we looked at the top ten most expensive extreme weather events and occurances that were climate related this year, and i think it s important to say that they can t be directly ascribed to climate change, perhaps, buta number of them have been studied by attribution scientists, and this is a new area of science that is looking at seeing how much more likely an extreme weather event is, or how much more powerful an extreme weather event is because of human caused climate change. so we looked at the top ten in terms of the economic costs, because, as you say, there is the data to do that, but we also looked at five additional devastating events which occurred, which maybe didn t have nec