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These pictures show explosions near beirut airport. The us Defence Secretary Lloyd austin has given his support to israels objectives after speaking with with his counterpart, yoav gallant. Mr austin also warned iran it faced grave consequences if it carried out a direct attack against israel in support of hezbollah. You can see smoke filling the skies there as explosions have continued through the morning as they began overnight in the capital s Southern Suburbs. Israel has ordered the evacuat...

Cbs News Correspondent Aviv Chris Livesay is in Tel Aviv and sent this report. The israeli military confirms that its begun, quote, limited, localised and targeted raids against his brother in the Border Area of Southern Lebanon. But as we saw at a staging ground, its building up For much more. There were more than 100 israeli tanks, Armoured Fighting Vehicles and bulldozers in the clearest sign yet that israel is mobilising For a full blown ground offensive. But on the other side of the border ...

Good Evening And Welcome to the Bbc News at six. Sir Keir Starmer has promised National Renewal in his first speech to the Labour Party Conference as Prime Minister but he warned of tough choices ahead. The Prime Minister insisted that keeping a Cool Head during challenging times would be better in the long term than easy answers. And he pledged to stabilise the economy but made it clear that some of his decisions would be unpopular. Our political editor, Chris Mason is at the conference in live...

With big interviews and our regular panel of newsnighters, and of course look at what the papers are saying about tomorrows news. Good evening. Sir Keir Starmer has promised National Renewal in his first speech to the Labour Party Conference as Prime Minister, but he warned of tough choices ahead. The Prime Minister insisted that keeping a Cool Head during challenging times would be better in the long term than easy answers. And he pledged to stabilise the economy, but made it clear that some of...

Good afternoon. In the last hour, Rachel Reeves has used her fIrst Labour Conference Speech as chancellor to promIse that therell be no return to austerIty. After weeks of warnIngs about the dIre state of the publIc fInances, she trIed to convey a brIghter message, sayIng she Is optImIstIc about the uks economIc future. She was brIefly heckled by one protestor at the start of her speech. Our polItIcal correspondent Helen Catt reports. As you can see behInd me, people are stIll fIlIng out from th...

Behaviour, is still employed by harrods the Uk Chancellor says she has hard decisions what will make. Decisions to assist the economy. Also coming up on the World Today prosecutors say the suspected gunman, arrested near donald trumps golf course, wrote a letter saying he planned to assassinate the former president. Welcome to the World Today an hour of international news from the bbc Lebanons Health Ministry says at least 274 people have been killed and more than A Thousand injured in israeli S...

A collection of womens sexual fantasies. Tributes have been paid to rebecca cheptegei, she was reportedly doused with petrol, she sustained burns on more than 70 of her body, her attacker was also injured. Attacks on women have become a major concern in kenya and there have been a number of high profile athletes who have been killed in the last two years. Lets start this hour with a report by our Deputy Editor from africa and soy. Cheptegeis family in mourning. This was their daughter on the int...

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Also on the programme this lunchtime. Scotlands first minister Nicola Sturgeon sets out her plans for another independence referendum, and warns Boris Johnson not to oppose it. Record temperatures in australia almost 42 degrees celsius as hundreds of bush fires burn out of control. And after stepping out of the ring, a dramatic change of career for the olympic boxer nicola adams. And coming up on bbc news, liverpool confirm their First Signing of the january transfer window japans Takumi Minamin...

Governments agenda. Welcome to this bbc news special of the state opening of parliament. Im simon mccoy. The queen has laid out the conservative governments agenda for the year, following last weeks election win. There are around 30 bills. Lets have a look at some of them. Front and centre is delivering brexit by bringing the eu Withdrawal Agreement bill back to parliament to ratify the brexit deal agreed by the government in october. There will also be legislation on immigration. The government...