This is bbc news. Lets go straight back to that breaking news of the last few minutes. We will you knew the live scenes In Beirut. A massive explosion in the last little while from beirut. There you see the seconds after the explosion. We are hearing that there have been multiple explosions. That is coming to us from our correspondents on the ground in terms of the pictures you can see. Hugo bachegais pictures you can see. Hugo bachega is In Beirut for us, telling us this explosion is in one of the strongholds in the south of beirut. The Israeli Military also updating in the last few minutes, saying that they are currently striking Terror Targets, that is how they describe it, currently striking Terror Targets belong to hezbollah in the southern lebanon. This happened about five or seven minutes ago. You can see just the skyline, beirut, and the size of that explosion. Of course that fits entirely with what we have seen in terms of tactics from israel since monday, the sort of strikes.
first there was a row over the arresting of protesters. now a royal fan has revealed she was detained too, as she waited to glimpse the king outside buckingham palace. in her first tv interview, we ask alice chambers exactly what happened. also tonight, the question facing lawmakers across the globe is artificial intelligence going to be the next economic miracle or a danger to our whole way of life, or both? as the eu votes on the world s first ai laws, we ask how do you get the balance right between innovation and safety? and remember this promise? when he ran for conservative leader, rishi sunak pledged to review or repeal thousands of eu laws still on the statute book. but the government says far fewer than that will actually face the shredder. this brexiteer says sunak should go much further. this remainer says labour should throw the whole brexit wagon into reverse. and after air strikes on gaza kill two senior palestinian islamichhad commanders, along with a dozen o
The un says its Aid Operations in gaza will start winding down tomorrow for lack of fuel. So what happens after that . Israels Prime Minister says a Ground Assault will come, but meanwhile, the brinkmanship over letting in aid versus letting out hostages carries on. We are now reducing the fuel we are using every day so we can keep the most Critical Services running for as long as possible but it is going to mean that people dont have access to drinking water. Well be talking to people who know about humanitarian operations in gaza about what happens next and whether the United Nations is taking a side. And well explore the splits in labour caused by keir starmer s statements, which hes now caveated, on israels right to blockade gaza. Also tonight, is there trouble ahead forjoe biden from within his party . Listen, there are two peoples here, palestinians and israelis. We need to show care and solidarity with the Palestinian People and these civilians who are being killed every day in
posting a severe threat to israel s security and to jewish identity. posting a severe threat to israel s security and tojewish identity. i am not familiar with that. i can give you 5 million signatures of israelis who are telling the government of israel to defend our people. it will not be quiet in gaza, it will not be quiet in israel. fire will be met with fire. we have no intention to ask about the situation, but nobody can expect us to sit idly by when we are under attack from a terrorist organisation being funded by iran. they provoked this escalation, they are paying a heavy price, and will continue to pay a price as they will not stop the rockets landing on our civilian communities. the rockets landing on our civilian communities. t ii i i, communities. what is the endgame, then? it is communities. what is the endgame, then? it is very communities. what is the endgame, then? it is very simple. communities. what is the endgame, then? it is very simple. once - communities. wh
is going to be looking at taiwan. they re already surrounding that island, and that would be a strategic failure for a lot of reasons. interesting you say that. and i just wonder whether you, in the spirit of candid review of your own party, whether you re prepared to say to me, you know what, the four years of donald trump, the way he handled vladimir putin and indeed xijinping was a disaster for us foreign policy making. because, on both fronts, we saw that donald trump wasn t really about principle. he was about transactional politics. and he thought he could conduct transactional politics with both putin and xijinping and we see the results today. would you agree? well, if i could answer that, we didn t. we saw kim jong un stop firing rockets. he just fired two rockets injanuary, claiming they were hypersonics. we didn t see china under trump launch a hypersonic missile.