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.
Downtown abbey who has died at the age of 89 years old. He welcome to the World Today an hour of international news from the bbc . The lebanese Capital Beirut has been rocked by a series of powerful explosions after another series of israeli Air Strikes on the city this time reportedly aimed at the leader of his brother, Hasan Nasrallah. Israel said it was attacking hezbollah s central headquarters In Beirut s southern suburb of dahhiyeh there are reports of half a dozen buildings being destroyed, with many casualties. Israeli media are reporting Hasan Nasrallah was the target but a source close to his brother said the leader is alive. Heres the latest on the situation with the bbc s Orla Guerlin explosions. Israel has struck beirut with a series of massive explosions. Its hard to imagine a bigger escalation or a starker picture of war. And here was the aftermath. The Hezbollah Stronghold of dahieh in the Southern Suburbs, now looking like gaza. Many lebanese fear thats where things ar
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Welcome to inside politics. Im Dana Bash in washington. We have a lot of Breaking News this hour we begin with major news out of the middle East Israel says it has struck hezbollahs Central Headquarters in the lebanese capital of beirut. Cnns Jomana Karadsheh is now here with us from beirut. Jomana, what are you seeing and hearing . Well, dana, a short while ago, we were here on the roof and we heard massive blast that shook our hotel as well as the rest of beirut. And then we could see the thick plume of smoke rising from the direction of beiruts Southern Suburbs that is an area one of the most densely populated areas of the country where you have hezbollah presence, where their leadership has been known to have been based in the past where we have seen multiple Israeli Strikes in recent days. But this certainly was the largest blast that anyone here has witnessed since the start of this escalation, according to lebanese colleagues, they say that this is the biggest Israeli Strike tha
Airport, not use weaponry from iran in forming their part in the road its more civilian use and were not going to allow any Transfer Weapons through this airport we are in constant touch with the United States right. Were gonna break away from that. Thats the spokesman for the idf, Cnn National Security analyst, Beth Sanner joins us now. So beth, our Jim Sciutto just reported that a former senior israeli official says that the israeli military must have been shore that the leader of hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was there in those apartment buildings. But now israel appears to be warning that there might be more strikes to come. We still dont know if his nasrallah is dead. What do you make of it . All . They are trying to basically eliminate. Now all of the hezbollah leadership that might be in that neighborhood. That is that the center of power for hezbollah, they wiped out six buildings buy from what im hearing from Cnn Reporting along with the headquarters building. And now they want