Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to Bbc News. Lets continue with rolling coverage of the rapidly evolving Security Situation in lebanon, where over the last few hours, fresh ways of exploding electronic devices have caused new casualties. The Health Ministry, quoted by afp, says nine people have been killed in more than 300 injured. Let me show you some images found by reuters in beirut. They show the plumes of smoke to the Middle And Right of the screen at several different locations across the city, and not altogether clear whether this was the start, but as we mentioned, the lebanese authority saying Walkie Talkies targeted in the attacks and the iranian backed Hezbollah Group bought the radios around five months ago, around the same time as the pagers that exploded yesterday. Lets start this hour in washington. Joining me now from washington is tom bateman. Antony blinken saying only a few hours ago that washington knew nothing about these impending Attacks Yesterday. Well, ye