Their moment of freedom would come a lot sooner than people think. More on that in a moment. On lebanon, israel s defence minister said they were ready to use forces from air, sea and land to achieve its objectives against hezbollah to ensure people who d evacuated their homes in northern israel, were safe to return. He told the troops, you are part of this effort. Hezbollah s deputy leader has insisted that the group is ready if israel decides to invade lebanon. In a defiant speech, he said the battle against israel will continue. There have been more israeli attacks today. Hamas says the leader of its operations in lebanon has been killed by an airstrike. Another palestinian group said three of its leaders were killed in a strike on an apartment block near central beirut. We will have more on all those developments in a moment, but first to a news conference that has just started with some of the families of the hostages are still being held. The families of the hostages are still be
Earlier on friday, huge plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the capital of lebanon, after israel said it fired a series of rockets into beirut. The israeli Defence Force says it was targetting hezbollah s headquarters, as huge explosions leveled buildings in beirut s densely populated Southern Suburbs. Hezbollah S Leader, Hassan Nasrallah was reportedly the target of the explosions. Neither Israel Nor Hezbollah has formally confirmed his status. At least six people died in the attack and more than 90 have been injured according to lebanese officals. The embassy of iran which backs hezbollah called the attack a dangerous, game changing escalation. Our bbc teams on the ground describe the situation as chaos, with ambulances rushing to the scene through roads packed with people trying to flee. Our Correspondent Hugo Bachega has the latest from beirut. Scenes of war in beirut. Hezbollah s conflict with israel returning to its stronghold of dahieh, with a series of massive explosions
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The bbc has heard harrowing testimony for the first time from a woman who says she was raped by the former Harrods Owner mohamed Al Fayed when she was 16. He has said that it was. He goes on to say. The statement goes on. Lets talk through their statement and its significance with our reporter. Louise, this is a very strongly worded statement from the current boss of Harrods. Statement from the current boss of Harrods of Harrods. Absolutely, ben. This is the of Harrods. Absolutely, ben. This is the current of Harrods. Absolutely, ben. This is the current boss this is the current boss apparent distancing himself as the bus from the former boss mohamed Al Fayed and distancing his company, the business Harrods from the former. There were strongly worded statements within this. Toxic culture, he talks are, of secrecy, fear of repercussion and Sexual Misconduct. He talks of his personal horror, a very strong word, of what happened in terms of these allegations and what i need to make clear
North of beirut, where again, an israeli strike this morning has targeted, we are told, a senior Hezbollah Commander in the north of the country. We had seen pictures of members of the north Lebanese Red Cross searching through the rubble for survivors from the early morning attack. We saw this morning attack. We saw this morning in the early hourS People in Tel Aviv waking up to the news that hezbollah had targeted israels biggest most populous city with a Ballistic Missile. It is the first time that one of those really scaled up that one of those really scaled up weapons has been used in this conflict. It has clearly been used to send a message by hezbollah that even after several days of fierce israeli strikes, hezbollah wants to show it still has the capacity to strike back inside israel. Just want to show you this footage from the event earlier in the day. You can clearly see and hear the sound of the Air Raid sirens in this footage, which shows the missile just after it was inter