Hour, huge clouds of smoke has been seen rising from beirut after a series of explosions. Huge plumes of smoke 2530 minutes ago. The israeli defense forces have claimed to attack hezbollah s central headquarters in beirut saying the headquarters is under residential buildings in the suburb of the cities south. It would not stop until its objectives were met. Air strikes have continued throughout the course of the day with thousands of people being killed in lebanon. Hezbollah has been Firing Rockets into israeli cities including. Just in the last Half Hour, as i was saying, these huge blasts in beirut with the israelis giving details about their operations. More about that in a moment. Anna foster is there for us. Shes been describing what it actually felt like when those blasts went off, notjust seeing those plumes of smoke, but physically what that felt like that so many different people describing these as the since the beginning of this conflict. I will speak to anna in a moment, b
Period between the two sides since 2006. Hezbollah began a campaign against israel on october 8 in support of hamas, and the two sides have exchanged fire since then. 0ur senior international correspondent, 0rla guerin, reports from lebanon on the children caught up in israel s bombardments. Awarning you may find elements of this report distressing. Firefighters rushing to another air strike. This one in nabatieh. They carry out the wounded. Not fighters, but children. Israel says it s targeting hezbollah sites. But it s bombing many residential areas. How old are you? he asks. Three fingers are raised. A young generation, now threatened by a war that has already killed at least 50 children this week, like the members of this family, who died together in a strike in beirut. Ali, jalal, fatima and farra all gone. And iman and talia nasser who took their last breaths together, also killed by israel s bombardment. But some have made it to safety, having run for their lives. My name
Has been happening here. The israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, has instructed the Israeli Military to continue fighting with full force against hezbollah In Lebanon, despite growing calls for an immediate ceasefire. This was a statement released by his office just a few hours ago. Mr Netanyahus Office said that he had not even given a response to a proposal by the us and france for a 21 Day Ceasefire. The key thing is they will continue with full force. The World Leaders were hoping to have a period of negotiation, ofjust have a period of negotiation, of just trying to have a period of negotiation, ofjust trying to de escalate but at the moment it is difficult to see whether that will be successful. The israeli Foreign Minister has said that therell be no ceasefire until they achieve victory over hezbollah. Some of Netanyahus Coalition partners in his government have also been speaking out against it. The Israeli Military is targeting infrastructure on The Border there, infra
Number of schools talk about getting the Education Sector back on its feet. ThIs Is the last day of the Labour Party Conference in liverpool. We will bring you all of the speeches that we can. The work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall Is on her feet delivering her speech and i think we can lIsten to it into what she has to say. The first Labour Government in the first Labour Government in the first labour Prime MinIster in 14 long years. Our national Wealth Fund Is up and running but Gb Energy has switched on. The unsure when banks scrap renters rights overhauled and local busesin renters rights overhauled and local buses in local, teachers pay up tackling Child Poverty back where it should be. A top priority all around us we see the consequences of tory failure. Most record numbers of people who want to work locked out because of poor health. Millions stuck in insecure jobs. Mum struggling with childcare. DIsabled people denied equality. Food Bank Use soaring and more than 4 Million
Sovereignty, just as we do for any other nation. We need to withdraw russian occupiers, which will bring an end to the hostilities in ukraine and we must hold those responsible for War Crimes accountable. We need to prevent the destruction of nature because by the war and we must not allow a second or third phase of these russian invasions. And we need to make it clear the war is over this is the peace formula. What part of this could be unacceptable to anyone who upholds the Un Charter . If someone in the world seeks alternatives to any of these points or tries to ignore any of them, it likely means they themselves want to do a part of what putin is doing. The point hides the desire they are hiding. And when the chinese or brazilians tries to grow into a choir of voices, with someone in europe, with someone in africa saying something alternative to a just peace, the question arises what is the question arises what is the true interest . Everyone must understand, you will not boost you