Hurricane milton has re strengthened to a category five storm as it barrels straight towards florida. People there are evacuating en masse, ahead of its projected landfall on wednesday night local time. The national hurricane center says the storm has doubled in size since tuesday. You can see this timelapse, here shared by american astronaut matthew dominick, showing how this storm looks from space. Local authorities and weather experts say milton will bring a destructive storm surge, in which some areas will not be survivable. Hundreds of flights have been canceled ahead of its landfall, which is expected to bring strong winds of up to 165 mph or 270 kph. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the south eastern us; 225 people were killed by the natural disaster across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlan
You can see this time lapse here shared by american astronaut matthew dominick showing how this storm looks from space. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the southeastern us 225 people were killed by the natural disaster across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlantic ocean. President biden has postponed a trip to germany to oversee preparations and prepare a federal response. He urged those in milton s path to evacuate, calling it a matter of life and death also warning this could be one of the worst storms to hit florida in a century. Melanie bevan is the chief of police in bradentown a town that is right in the path of hurrican milton and experienced a lot of damage during the recent hurricane helene. She spoke about what a forecast like this means for law enforcement in the area. We have
Involved in either. There are so many layers of complexity to what is going on in seven lebanon at the moment. As hezbollah sends those missiles towards israel for that and the idf tries to push for that you heard Antonio Guterres defending the palestinian refugees and the work that they are doing for the place talking about the number of people displaced, 60,000 In Northern Israel for the more than1 million here in lebanon for the people who had to flee their homes because of the fighting. You listen to what is being said and you listen to whats going on, hes talking about diplomatic solutions, ways to try and solve theirs. None of those seem to be getting any closerjust yet. And he had some pretty blunt things to say also about israel is conducting the campaign in gaza. He said there is something fundamentally wrong with the way israels war in gaza is being conducted. He also said they are ordering civilians to evacuate does not keep them safe if there is no safe place to go. That wi
On the World Today. The art that ended up in the bin will understand how this work made out of cans caused a stir at a gallery in the netherlands. Welcome to the World Today an hour of international news from the bbc. Within the last hour, the israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told lebanese people to reject hezbollah, or lebanon would face War And Destruction like gaza. The stark warning came in a video message, posted in a video message, online in english, in which Mr Netanyahu confirmed israel had killed the expected successor of the hezbollah leader, hassan nasrallah, and also said the next in line after him had been killed. Though, he didnt name anyone. Lets cross straight over to our chief international Correspondent Lyse Doucet is in tel aviv. A stark Warning Tonight from the israeli Prime Minister, not the israeli Prime Minister, not the first time he has spoken directly to the people of lebanon, but he is very much amplified the fears that many in lebanon now fear
The world as the annIversary of October 7 approaches. In other news. Tech BIllIonaIre Elon Musk joIns republIcan NomInee Donald Trump On Stage In butler, pennsylvanIa as he returns to the sIte of hIs attempted assassInatIon. You are watchIng Bbc News and you joIn us here In the kr boots not far from the Gaza Border In front of one of the homes as you can see was brutally attacked In the early hours of october seven a year ago. Everybody who lIved In the homes behInd us are dead. Some of the famIlIes that are gatherIng near to not farfrom where we are broadcastIng to commemorate the lIves that were taken and the hostages stIll beIng held In gaza. The communIty suffered terrIbly In the october seven attacks. A small communIty of 400 people saw 117 people kIlled or kIdnapped. That Is a quarter of thIs communIty. In a moment, we wIll speak to someone who saw sIx members of herfamIly taken and someone who lost Loved Ones In the attack. Lets look fIrst at the latest development, begInnIng wI