Knowledge of friday s israeli air strike in beirut. But first, we can bring you these live pictures from beirut where israeli warplanes have launched new attacks on buildings in the city s south. The israeli military says hezbollah is storing weapons there, a claim hezbollah denies. Blasts have been heard in the southern suburbs and residents of three specific blocks were ordered to evacuate. Now lebanon s health ministry says the death toll from israel s earlier strike on beirut has risen to six, with 91 wounded. Hezbollah s leader, hassan nasrallah, was reportedly the target of the attack. Neither israel nor hezbollah has formally confirmed his status. Israeli air raids on lebanon this week have killed nearly 800 people, according to lebanon s health ministry. We begin our special programme on the conflict tonight with this report from our middle east correspondent hugo bachega in beirut. (explosions) scenes of war in beirut. Hezbollah s conflict with israel returning to its strongho
Air strike in beirut. But first, these are live pictures from beirut where israeli warplanes launched new attacks on buildings in the city s south in the past several hours. Blasts were heard in the southern suburbs and residents of three specific blocks were ordered to evacuate. Returning now to that earlier strike that caused tensions to erupt, lebanon s health ministry says the death toll from that strike has risen to six, with 91 wounded. Hezbollah s leader, hassan nasrallah was reportedly the target of the attack. Neither israel nor hezbollah has formally confirmed his status. Israeli air raids on lebanon this week have killed nearly 800 people according to lebanon s health ministry. We begin our programme with this report from our middle east correspondent hugo bachega in beirut. Scenes of war in beirut. Hezbollah s conflict with israel returning to its stronghold of dahieh, with a series of massive explosions and an escalation with unpredictable consequences. Explosion. An att
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
Hello. Israel has been carrying widespread attacks on Southern Lebanon with fighter jets, as the us warns the risk of an escalation in fighting between Israel And Hezbollah |s acute a nd real these are the latest pictures weve received, showing explosions lighting up the Night Sky in Southern Lebanon. Saturday has seen cross Border Fire between israel and the iranian backed lebanese group, hezbollah throughout the day. And those attacks have continued into the night. The Israeli Army says its using dozens of fighterjets and Striking Extensively after it learnt that hezbollah was preparing to launch a large Scale Launch against israel. Lebanons Health Ministry now says 37 people, including women and children, were killed in fridays israeli attack on beirut. Rescue workers have been searching through the rubble of a high Rise Building that was targeted in the attack. Hezbollah has confirmed two of its senior commanders were killed in the strike. The us national Security Adviserjake Sulli
Hello, im Karin Giannone. Israel has been carrying widespread attacks on Southern Lebanon with fighter jets, as The Us warns the risk of an escalation in fighting between Israel And Hezbollah is acute and real. These are the latest pictures weve received, showing explosions lighting up the Night Sky in Southern Lebanon. Saturday has seen cross Border Fire between israel and the iranian backed lebanese group, hezbollah throughout the day. And those attacks have continued into the night. The Israeli Army says its using dozens of fighterjets and striking extensively after it learnt that hezbollah was preparing to launch a large Scale Launch against israel. Lebanons Health Ministry now says 37 people, including women and children, were killed in fridays israeli attack on beirut. Rescue workers have been searching through the rubble of a high Rise Building that was targeted in the attack. Hezbollah has confirmed two of its senior commanders were killed in the strike. The us national Secu