In northern israel. The us Defense Secretary Lloyd austin has given his support to israels objectives after speaking with with his counterpart, yoav gallant. Mr austin also warned iran it faced Grave Consequences if it carried out a direct attack against israel in support of hezbollah. This is the scene in beirut where explosions have continued overnight in the capitals southern suburbs. Israel had ordered the evacuation of 3 areas. These pictures show explosions and smoke rising near beirut international airport. There have also been reports of an Air Strike hitting a crowded palestinian Refugee Camp near the southern lebanese city of sidon. Syrian State Media says that 3 people have been killed by israeli strikes on the capital damascus. Israel is yet to comment on the reports. Meanwhile, the Uk Government has charted a flight to help british nationals leave lebanon scheduled to leave beirut on wednesday. In a moment, we will hear from my colleague anna foster, who is in beirut but f
And what would you do with a spare 25 Billion Euros . Thats the question facing the irish Government Today as it delivers its budget following a huge Tax Windfall from Tech Firms. Live from london, this is business today. Im lukwesa burak. We start in the us where in the last 30 minutes tens of thousands of East And Gulf Coast Port workers have started striking for the first time in nearly 50 years. This comes after the international longshoremen s association and the us Maritime Alliance were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of their contract. The strikes will halt trade in a wide range of goods and disrupt the Countrys Economy just as we enter the final weeks before the president ial election. Our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupt the two major sticking points between international longshoreman s association and the us Maritime Alliance are wages and automation for the workers are unhappy with the current contract which spanned the pandemic and dockworkers st
You seem fairly comfortable talking about sex. I am very comfortable with it. I did include my own fantasy in the book. Any clues which one? it is just over 50 years since nancy friday published her groundbreaking book my secret garden, full of women s sexual fantasies. This book, want, is your selection, equally groundbreaking, from women who have written to you from all over the world. We have such a wide range of letters and all different kinds of fantasies from different women and cultures and sexual preferences and diverse backgrounds. Why don t you start by telling me how you feel when you think about having sex? your role in sex education was very much that: a role. You re not a psychologist, but you are, of course, an advocate for women, a supporter of lgbtq+ rights. I wonder how you tread the line between curation of the book and analysing the fantasies. I find it hard to read them and not think, who are they, what s going on in their lives? because they haven t revealed very
We all made it in togetherness, this decision to stay together and what we have to improve as an organisation and how also we want to construct the squad and all decision making in togetherness but we also when you that it would take some time because how the window went, we still have to do with some interest, also from impact players interest, also from impact players and i think we will get better there and we need some time. No official comment has been made by the club. Dan roan has been covering the story and he has more from old trafford. Given the fact they find themselves languishing down into 12th place, just seven points, their worst start after six matches in premier league history, only southampton, newly promoted, have scored fewer goals, would you believe, than manchester united this season. They desperately need two wins in the next few days and of course, if that does not happen, with the international break then happening, that would give united the time perhaps to ha
The military is going to use military from the air, land and sea. The deputy chief of hezbollah said the group s fighters are ready to confront invasion, he acknowledged the assassination of leader must is assassination of leader must is a big blow but all following commanders would soon be replaced. Let s go right to be rude and anna foster who was standing by for us. Thank you forjoining us, we mention the reports of blasts in southern beirut, bring us up to date on what you ve been witnessing. That s right, the last few hours, there were three more airstrikes here in the southern suburbs of beirut in die here, we knew they were coming because once again, the idf and israel defense forces said they told them to live to evacuate told them to live to evacuate to a safe distance and again, we heard the strikes in the echo around the whole of the city, they are really loud when they happen and you can see the plumes of the smoke and the flames when it s dark like it is now rising up into