As World Leaders meet in New York to try and avert all out war. The idf has called up two brigades to the northern borderfor what could be an imminent invasion. Sir Keir Starmer is urging british nationals to leave lebanon now. 700 troops are on their way to nearby cyprus to prepare for a possible evacuation. Well be live tonight in beirut and New York, where the un Security Council is soon to meet. Welcome to the programme. The head of the israeli armed forces, Herzi Halevi, has said preparations are being made for a possible Ground Invasion of lebanon. Visiting his troops in northern israel today, general halevi, said the Air Force will continue degrading hezbollah, to such a point that they can put boots on the ground. Two brigades of reserve soldiers have been called up for operational missions on the northern front. Israel says it has hit more than 100 Targets Today mostly in the south. Lebanons Health Ministry says 51 people were killed, and more than 200 wounded. Meanwhile hezbo
Against israel, despite allies pleads for de escalation. How critical a moment is this in an already chaotic world . The white house has described irans attack on israel over the weekend as a spectacular and embarrassing failure. Nearly all of the more than 300 missiles and drones fired by iran and its allies in the region were shot down. The us also says iran did not issue warnings to the white house about its timeframe for launching an attack. Tonight, israels Military Chief again said irans actions will be met with a response. Here, the Prime Minister told mps he is working urgently with the uks allies to de escalate tensions in the middle east, to prevent further bloodshed. In a moment, well have the latest from jerusalem and our International Editorjeremy bowen will be here. But first, lets go live to westminster and to our deputy political editor, vicki young. And we heard more from rishi sunak about the raf s role in defending israel . Thats right. After those dramatic scenes on
that will take some time, this is notjust military, but also financial, political, social by all of the worlds great powers. mistakes have been made on all sides. the president, who was of grace and charge for most of those two decades is also the commander in chief. he never really wanted to be the commander in chief. mistakes were made on his side as well, but certainly even the general mailer, the top us commander has said in a recent interview that we did with him that we have to take an honest look at why some things didn t turn out the way we wanted them to. the british prime minister borisjohnson has confirmed that he intends to lift all coronavirus restrictions in england in two weeks time, with a final decision next week. that would mean workers returning to the office and an end to social distancing. but it comes as cases across the country continue to rise.