The Israeli Military has been describing it as a targeted, localised limited incursion so far. We had some details from a senior israeli Security Official, saying that these are local raids, very limited in scope, in the area, so no crashes happening so no clashes happening at the moment between israeli forces and hezbollah fighters in the south according to this senior israeli official. Obviously hezbollah has remained defiant. Yesterday, we heard from the Groups Number two who said that hezbollah fighters were ready to confront any israeli invasion. This is a part of the country that is a hezbollah stronghold. Obviously after two weeks of widespread israeli Air Strikes, high profile assassinations, hezbollah has been weakened, its leadership has been almost completely decimated, but the group remains a very powerful force. It is believed to have thousands of rockets, including missiles that can strike deep inside israel, also thousands of experienced fighters. So there is here the qu
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Return to austerity. And the new leader of Sri Lanka says he wants to restore faith in politics. Hello, welcome to Bbc News now. Fast moving news, interviews and reaction. We begin in lebanon where the Health Ministry says 182 people have been killed and more than 700 injured in the latest wave of israeli Air Strikes in the south of the country. Israel says it carried out more than 300 strikes on hezbollah targets, aimed at preventing the group from launching a large Scale Rocket Attack on israel. In response, hezbollah has said it has fired dozens of rockets across the border. Israeli troops could also mount a Ground Offensive to create a Buffer Zone so that civilians who have been evacuated from the north of israel can return to their homes. From jerusalem, here is our correspondent. The idf put out this Video Set to be showing hezbollah operatives launching Cruise Missiles from civilian house. We ask residents of villages to pay attention to the Message And Warning published by the
The government in poland has warned of a critical night ahead with the country facing severe flooding. Authorities have shut a Border Crossing with the Czech Republic after a riverflooded its banks. Theyve also closed several roads and halted trains. Polish prime Minister Donald Tusk has been visiting flooded areas in silesia and he spoke to reporters there. Translation the low pressure that brought these heavy rains i to poland and the Czech Republic is not entirely predictable. These forecasts have changed within 48 hours, but generally they are not optimistic. What awaits us Tonight And Part of sunday will be heavier, actually record breaking rainfall in many places. Our correspondent in warsaw, adam easton, has the latest. Well, what this cyclone is doing, catherine, is causing extremely heavy rainfall, which is leading to dangerously high River Levels, water levels, in the rivers across the region. Many rivers have burst their banks, and thats causing flooding in many countries, p
to violate un resolutions, and sow instability throughout the region. maritime agencies say there s been another missile attack on a cargo ship off the coast of yemen. a maltese flagged vessel is said to have suffered minor damage. the oil giant shell says it s suspended all shipments through the red sea indefinitely. iraq has recalled its ambassador from tehran after describing iranian missile attacks on targets in iraqi kurdistan as a flagrant violation of sovereig nty . the united states described the missile attack, fired into iraq by iran s revolutionary guards, as reckless and imprecise . the us military said it had tracked the strikes which iran claims, had destroyed anti iranian targets, including what it called an israeli spy headquarters. israel hasn t commented. this was one of the buildings hit near erbil, in north of the country. local officials said, four people were killed. these pictures from iranian television, purportedly show the missiles taking off and