This is bbc news. The headlines in breaking news, there are reports at least two more Communication Devices used by hezbollah have detonated across lebanons south in the southern suburbs of beirut. It comes after 12 were killed and thousands more injured following the synchronised explosions of Hezbollah Pagers across lebanon on tuesday. Hezbollah blames israel for the attacks and vows to retaliate. Here at bbc verify we have been looking here at bbc verify we have been looking at here at bbc verify we have been looking at the chain of companies involved in the Supoly Companies involved in the supply of the pages which reportedly exploded in lebanon yesterday. Still reeling from an economic and political crisis, Sri Lanka prepares to hold pivotal elections. Somalia, one of the worlds poorest countries, is being hit hard by Climate Change and conflict. Well be speaking to the International Committee Of The Red Cross for more on this. More on all of Those Stories In ust more on all of Th
The Champions League taking place today. Manchester city are opening their European Campaign against inter milan, a repeat of the 2023 final which city won as they completed the treble. Its still goalless at the etihad. No goals in the game between last years runners up Borussia Dortmud who are in belgium to play club brugge, but Liam Scales has put celtic 1 0 up against slovan bratislava. Psg girona still 0 0. Earlier Sparta Prague were 3 0 winners over Rb Salzburg and it was all square between Bolgna And Shaktar donesk. Vivianne miedema scored on her Manchester City debut to help her side to a big lead over Paris Fc in their Champions League second round qualifier. City travelled to paris without Record Goal Scorer Khadija Shaw after they failed to file a visa application. They still won 5 0. Arsenal were beaten by swedish side hecken. Juventus were 3 1 winners against psg. Roma won by the same scoreline against swiss side servette. Two games under way in the English Leaue cup 3rd ro
Troops deployed and a state of emergency imposed ethiopias president moves to replace the Regional Governments in the troubled north. And in sports only going to social looks to pull themselves some breathing space as Manchester United manager is struggling to see just beaten every 3 warning in the english i mean really. Well it has now just gone 1500. 00 g. M. T. Thats 10 am on the us east coast and joe biden is slowly inching ahead in the race to become the 46th president of the United States right now he has a narrow lead over president in battleground states 4 days off to america went to the polls the votes are still being counted amid protests and several legal challenges by the Trump Campaign well biden has spoken in an address to the nation saying he is convinced that he will win he is ahead and. Pennsylvania nevada and in georgia now so far biden is projected by the Associated Press to have won 264 Electoral College votes trump has 214 the magic number acquired is 270 now that
Tactics today our panel guests who have both backgrounds in Law Enforcement join me to discuss policing and america all right its time to prove your news i knew. The United States war on drugs was ramped up in the caribbean and eastern pacific with the u. S. Military targeting cocaine trafficking on the high seas meantime a new u. N. Report indicates that the amount of land being used to grow the coca plant in colombia has actually decreased so what is that all actually mean for that lets turn our to correspondent john how he was live in our miami studio with more on this so john whats going on. In the middle of the un office on drugs and crime as its called released a report on wednesday showing that the amount of land and you touched on this in the. The amount of land being used to grow the coca plant in colombia dropped by 9 percent in 2019 from 169000 hectors to 15154000 so thats basically the equivalent of 380500 acres heres the thing though while the amount of land being used to
Human about their unemployment status many of them waiting as long as 8 hours just to be turned away were going to tell you all about that all right its time to meet my new. Tension is building over International Waters near the coast of alaska after the United States says it intercepted another fleet of russian bombers but while the u. S. Claims the flight was too close for comfort russia claims it went according to schedule argues Rachel Blevins is joining us now to break this all down for us so rachel what does russia said about this incident so far well the Russian Defense ministry is saying this was a scheduled flight and they say that a no point did they deviate from their plan to fly off the coast of siberia and alaska and they actually released footage from this incident which shows one of their 14 you know. 5 bombers on the mission and it then shows the u. S. F. 22. 00 fighter jets that shadowed their aircraft during part of the patrol now take a look at just how close those f