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His comments came after a second day of explosions in lebanon this time involving walkietalkies used by hezbollah. Lebanons health ministry says at least 20 people were killed in tuesdays walkietalkie explosions. More than 400 others were wounded. Hezbollah, coming to bury its dead in south beirut today. Casualties of a new chapter in middle east warfare. Killed not by air strikes, but by exploding pagers. Apparently, a message from mossad. Among the dead, an 11yearold boy. But even the mourner...

A second day of explosions in lebanon this time involving walkietalkies used by hezbollah. Lebanons health ministry says at least 20 people were killed in tuesdays walkietalkie explosions. More than 400 others were wounded. Hezbollah, coming to bury its dead in south beirut today. Casualties of a new chapter in middle east warfare, killed not by air strikes, but by exploding pagers. Apparently, a message from mossad. Among the dead, an 11yearold boy. But even the mourners werent safe. Explosion...

A second day of explosions in lebanon, this time involving walkietalkies used by hezbollah. Lebanons health ministry says at least 20 people were killed in tuesdays walkietalkie explosions. More than 400 others were wounded. Our senior international correspondent, orla guerin, reports from beirut. His polo coming to bury its deadin his polo coming to bury its dead in south beirut today. Casualties of a new chapter in middle east warfare. Killed not by airstrikes but by exploding pages. Apparentl...

More in the way of cloud. Northern ireland is turning cloudy because of this approaching Weather Front which will change things. It means this dose of Summer Weather may not last that long for all of us. Even ahead of this cloud, there are some cloudy areas, parts of central and Southern Scotland and northern england, this cloud could produce the odd spot of light rain. Further south there will be the odd shower but most places will be dry and in the best of the Sunshine Temperature is 25, maybe...

returning to our top story this hour, fighting is raging for a third day in the sudanese capital, khartoum. the clashes are part of a power struggle within the countrys military leadership, who have failed to deliver a transition to civilian government. doctors in sudan are telling us almost 100 civilians have died, they expect that figure to go up as more reports come in. you can foreign secretary, james cleverly, has called for a ceasefire and is urging both sides to return to talks....

delivers independence for scotland. prince harry makes a surprise appearance at a high court hearing in london. hes among several high—profile figures bringing a privacy case against the publisher of the daily mail newspaper. israels prime minister benjamin netanyahu will delay regarding the leadership of the scottish national party but before we address those stories, just to bring you some breaking news coming out of the united states the last few minutes, we are hearing of a shoot...

hello. this is bbc news. im samantha simmonds and these are the latest headlines. labour opens its annual conference as its leader, sir keir starmer, prepares to set out the dividing lines between his party and the new conservative government. the chancellor, kwasi kwarteng, defends the tax cuts he announced on friday as being the key to growth, despite his measures having a negative impact on the financial markets. voting is under way in italys general election, with opinion polls sug...

the streaming giants audiences will be measured independently for the first time. market turmoil and questions over how the british government will pay for promised tax cuts, after the prime minister liz truss said she would not cut government spending. have you wrecked the economy, minister? — have you wrecked the economy, minister? time for another u—turn? this was liz truss leaving number ten for her first session of prime ministers questions since last months mini—budget spar...

Updated us on the latest news on the incident. We are still waiting to get as many details as we can as this situation unfolds in bangkok. And i just want to announce that my colleague Jonathan Head is there. Hes just arrived at the airport and is gathering as i speak here. What we do know so far is that one death has been confirmed due to the turbulence, that flight 50321 faced from London Heathrow Airport on its way to singapore, as you mentioned, diverted to land in in bangkok. We also know t...

By representatives of hamas and islamic which are in operation here. He did not sound conciliatory. Crossfire at the border between lebanon and israel, iranians not conciliatory but at the same time very interesting to see the iranian Supreme Leader saying that iran had nothing to do with the planning of this attack. Everyone is taking pause and looking at what is coming next. Very much uncharted territory. Kim ghattas , thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for watching. Live from israel sta...