Benjamin netanyahu is cutting short his visit to New York and returning to israel following the attack. Earlier Mr Netanyahu told the Un The Offensive against hezbollah would continue, rejecting calls for a ceasefire. The award winning british Actress Dame Maggie smith has died. She was 89. We start in the Middle East, where multiple blasts have reverberated in the southern suburbs of beirut, sending clouds of smoke into the sky. These are the latest pictures from the scene of the explosions, in a densely populated area. The israeli Defence Forces claim to have targeted hezbollahs central headquarters. In the last half hour, the Reuters News Agency reported comments from the israeli military saying its continuing to Degrade And Dismantle hezbollahs capabilities. A source close to hezbollah told reuters the Groups Leader Hassan Nasrallah is alive. With irans tasnim News Agency also reporting that hes safe. These are pictures of children being pulled out of the rubble of the buildings hi
Zelensky is presenting. Arseniy yatsenyuk. Good evening. Volodymyr zelensky is in washington this hour to sell his vision of a ukrainian victory. His visit comes at a crucial point, with ukraine very much on the defensive. Despite a bold incursion into russia 5 kursk territory, earlier in summer, the russian troops have made significant in roads in the east of ukraine, as they churn forward, mile by mile. First stop today was the us congress, where zelensky met with the leaders of both parties. Though he is being forced to navigate an extremely complex political landscape. The speaker of The House Mike Johnson wrote to him only yesterday demanding that he sack his ambassador to the united states, who had arranged President Zelensky s visit to an Arms Factory this week in pennsylvania escorted only by democrats. It is an important Swing State in these upcoming elections. As for the Victory Plan, the details of which are closely guarded, that was presented just a few hours ago to Preside
To the White House for a meeting with President Biden. Hello, you are watching bbc news, i am Anna Foster live In Beirut. Some breaking news. Israel is calling up two additional Army Brigades to its Northern Border. This has been confirmed by the Israeli Defense Forces in the last half an hour or so. They say the troops would be there to continue Combat Operations against hezbollah. Many of hezbollah s leadership are based on the south and we have seen many strikes, including hezbollah s commander. Joining me now from jerusalem is our correspondent daniel de simone. Talk us through the context of the idf talk us through the context of the idf preparations on the Northern Border . The the idf preparations on the Northern Border . The context is israel set a Northern Border . The context is israel set a goal Northern Border . The context is israel set a goal for Northern Border . The context is israel set a goal for itself Northern Border . The context is israel set a goal for itself of
The Victory Plan that president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will present to the White House tomorrow, has been kept largely under wraps untilJoe Biden has seen it. But some elements of the plan have been briefed, including the need for more timely decisions from western allies. The us president is still lingering on his decision as to whether the longer Range Atacm missiles can be used on targets inside russia. Today at the general assembly in New York, zelenskyy was Exhorting The International Community not to forget ukraine or the dangers of a nuclear disaster that russia poses inside his country. Now, putin does seem to be Planning Attacks on our nuclear power plants and their infrastructure, on our nuclear power plants and infrastructure, aiming to disconnect the plants from the power grid. Any missile or drone strike, any critical incident in the Energy System could lead to a nuclear disaster. A day like that must never come. And moscow needs to understand this and this depends in part on
At the moment the uk spends about 2. 3 on defence so it will be interesting to see if John Healy the defence actually makes any mention of that at all, particularly given the wide economic context. We had from the Chancellor Rachel reeves this morning about public finances and the central labour we had in the Run Up to the election about them wanting to sustain fiscal discipline. There is escalating tension in the Middle East. Give us an idea of where the government is on this and what messages they are trying to put a cross on both lebanon and israel. We heard from both lebanon and israel. Heard from the foreign Secretary Yesterday in a pretty wide ranging speech when again he touched upon ukraine and continued support for ukraine. He said the escalating tension was worrying and i had to be an immediate ceasefire and the information the government released to citizens in lebanon telling them to leave now. I think we can go no to the Conference Stage. I have a feed in front of me. It i