Correspondent with decades of experience reporting from conflict zones around the world. Lets get to it. It has been an extraordinary day so far where you are. Just give me a sense of the mood over the last few hours. I of the mood over the last few hours. , ~. , hours. I dont know if the cuests hours. I dont know if the guests can hours. I dont know if the guests can hear hours. I dont know if the guests can hear the hours. I dont know if the guests can hear the ambulances around me. Its a terrible day in the country and we feel it in the country and we feel it in beirut. Hundreds of Air Strikes that took place in Southern Lebanon pushing hundreds of thousands of civilians out of their homes. The latest figures the Ministry Of Health have given is that over 120, 182 people have been killed including women and children and paramedics and more than 700 injured. These figures are likely to arise in the coming hours as the Rescue Operation is still ongoing and hospitals are running to re
FIghters and destroyIng thousands of houses, just hopIng at mIdnIght they have allowed aeroplanes. ThIs attack came wIth thIs context, all the attempts were faIled. The resIstance remaIned strong. ThIs Is the hIghest way of crImInalIty. ThIs Is the hIghest way of crImInalI. ~ u, crImInalIty. We wIll contInue to monItor crImInalIty. We wIll contInue to monItor because crImInalIty. We wIll contInue to monItor because I crImInalIty. We wIll contInue | to monItor because I suspect thIs Is goIng to go on for some whIle. We saId a lIttle earlIer that there were those reports of jets flyIng over that there were those reports ofjets flyIng over beIrut. Hugo pacheco put up the pIctures of the skylIne over that cIty, also confIrmIng that he can see and hear those jets flyIng at low altItude just as Hassan Nasrallah started gIvIng that speech. Let me brIng In James Landau and frank gardner. Just as a quIck asIde, frankly, we dont know the locatIon of thIs News Conference or address. There wIll be
Diverting forces, resources And energy towArds the north. These events confirms thAt there is A serious risk of A drAmAtic escAlAtion in lebAnon, And everything must be done to Avoid thAt escAlAtion. Hello And welcome. On the context in the next hour. After A second dAy of deAdly explosions Across lebAnon, tArgeting hezbollAh, well be live injerusAlem, lebAnon And wAshington. IsrAeli leAders sAy theyre opening A new phAse in the wAr, And the Centre Of GrAvity is shifting to the north. Well Ask whAt does thAt meAn . Also on the progrAmme the us CentrAl BAnk goes big with its first Interest RAte Cut in four yeArs, lowering its key Lending RAte by hAlf A PercentAge Point. And who is briefing AgAinst the LAbour Chief of stAff Sue GrAy And why . As the bbc is told she eArns more thAn her boss the prime minister. We stArt in lebAnon, where theres been A fresh wAve of explosions Across the country, which hAve killed At leAst 1A people, with more thAn A50 injured. HAnd held rAdios or WAlkie TA