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Lebanon could become another gaza. It follows days of continued exchanges of fire between the idf and the iranian backed militia after last Weeks Pager and Walkie Talkie attacks which killed dozens and injured thousands. Three people were killed in an israeli attack on Southern Lebanon On Sunday. And israel says hezbollah has fired more than 150 rockets into its territory. Meanwhile, the funeral has taken place for a senior Hezbollah Commander killed in fridays israeli aerial assault on beirut. ...

Im sally bundock. We start here in the uk, where the Chancellor Rachel reeves will pledge A Budget To Rebuild Britain in her speech to the Labour Party Conference in liverpool today. Shes under pressure to provide some optimism after labours gloomy messaging on the state of the economy they inherited from the conservatives. But her controversial decision to Axe Winter Fuel payments for 10 Million pensioners threatens to overshadow her speech, with a vote challenging the move also expected today....

Soaring, but does that mean that foreign trips are of the cards this year . Ill have some top tips a little later. We knocked the wall down jurgen klopp says liverpools mini crisis is over, after they won their First Premier League match this year at tottenham. Good morning. Some rain and hill snow around this morning, which should ease for most places. Mild in the south, but turning colder for the south, but turning colder for the weekend with some more snow for some of us. All the details comi...

hello. if you justjoined us, im sally bundock. we will now talk through the top stories. if this is your first day back at work after a long christmas break we will bring you up to speed. and we start in the middle east, where the threat of military escalation continues to hang over the red sea. the us, britain, and their allies in the region are on alert to see if their warnings to the iran—backed houthis are now working. attacks on commercial vessels have been happening since the w...

hello, im sally bundock — welcome to the programme. with almost all ballots counted in turkeys crucial general election, president recep tayyip erdogan has said he would accept a run—off vote. officialfigures give mr erdoganjust under 50% of the counted ballots. his secular opposition rival, kemal kilicdaroglu, is on around 45%. if confirmed, itll be the first time a challenger�*s taken mr erdogan to a second round in a presidential contest. the conservative leader, who has domin...

lets start in the us where some of the worlds leading money managers are warning the collapse of another american bank could lead to a credit crunch and an economic slowdown. constrained lending as a result of stricter banking regulation could stifle credit to the us economy at a critical time. well get an expert view on this in a moment but first heres my colleague samira hussain on the collapse of first republic. as of monday, first republic customers turning up at their bank are in ...

tales of traumatic atrocity. and the most difficult years of his career. the billionaire businessman sir richard branson tells the bbc he thought he was going to lose his entire empire in the pandemic. hello, im sally bundock. a new wave of russian airstrikes is under way in ukraine, with reports of explosions in kyiv and the southern cities of zaporizhzhia and odesa. the raids come a day after russia accused ukraine of carrying out a drone attack on the kremlin it what it claimed was ...

the national trust says that the recent cold weather has delayed blossoms in many parts of the uk, but the trust also says that when the temperatures start rising, we can look forward to a riot of spring colour, like these cherry trees in shipley in west yorkshire. and talking of temperatures rising, lets get the expert view with chris. well, we had temperatures up to 16 degrees today. that was in nantwich in cheshire. that is one feature of the weather this week. its been pretty mild ...

two weeks before the coronation, a new bbc poll suggesting less than a third of young adults want the monarchy to continue. hello and welcome. we start in sudan, where more than two dozen countries have been evacuating their citizens from the capital khartoum — as fighting between two rival armed groups continues. this was french nationals leaving earlier. most of those being evacuated are diplomats and their families. spain, germany and italy are among other countries still evacuati...

look at what it is like to take over a long—running family business. time now to get down to business. we begin with energy. it will be clean and safe and power 1.8 million homes in the north of england and the midlands. that is the plan presented by the uk government and the netherlands who have announced the worlds largest multiuse electricity powerline built under the north sea. the will connect the uk in the netherlands with offshore wind farms providing energy to britain aiming ...