It isn t easy travelling in somalia. This is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist, or for anyone else for that matter. We re with the red cross, and to ensure the safety of the team, we ve got to bring along some pretty serious security. Somalia is the only country in the world where the international red cross travels with armed guards as standard. We are headed out into the wild scrub that covers much of the country to meet a community who are right on the front line of climate change. Somalia is still overwhelmingly an agricultural society. Some two thirds of the people here depend on farming. About half the population earns its living by herding animals. Translation: when i had many camels, we would walk very far. | i would take them to places with good pasture where they could flourish. Sheikh don ismail used to be a nomadic camel herder. They sing the herders sing traditional songs to soothe the animals as they scoop water into the camels trough. T
Of exploding device attacks of exploding device attacks on hezbollah members was blamed on israel. We have on the ground reporting from both sides of the border first to our chief international correspondent 0rla guerin, who s in beirut. Explosion. Southern lebanon awoke to this. It looks like all out war. The israeli army says it hit 1,300 hezbollah sites today. There were gaza style warnings, telling residents to go, including from the israeli leader. Now, starting this morning the idf has warned you to get out of harm s way. I urge you, take this warning seriously. Don t let hezbollah endanger your lives and the lives of your loved ones. Don t let hezbollah endanger lebanon. Please get out of harm s way now. But where to find safety in the middle of all this? explosion. Screaming. For one man, too late. My siblings and their children were all killed here, he says. The israeli army insists its air strikes are destroying weapons, some hidden in homes, and it accuses hezbollah of usi
But somalia is beginning to help itself investing in new technology. Starting new businesses. Translation: | buy food from the shop. | i cook it and i keep the profit. There is hope. There is a whole narrative in the country that s called somalia rising. So what will it take to lift somalia out of the vicious cycle of climate and conflict? it isn t easy travelling in somalia. This is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be ajournalist, orforanyone else for that matter. We re with the red cross, and to ensure the safety of the team, we ve got to bring along some pretty serious security. Somalia is the only country in the world where the international red cross travels with armed guards as standard. We are headed out into the wild scrub that covers much of the country to meet a community who are right on the front line of climate change. Somalia is still overwhelmingly an agricultural society. Some two thirds of the people here depend on farming. About half the populatio
It comes in the hours after the israeli military carried out what it called extensive strikes on hezbollah targets in southern lebanon. Israeli aircraft destroyed thousands of hezbollah rocket launch barrels in southern lebanon, according to israeli officials. Also tonight, the us state department is urging american citizens to leave lebanon, with fears growing of an all out war. Meanwhile, the death toll from israel s strike on a densely populated area of southern beirut on friday has risen to 37. Hezbollah says 16 of its members were killed in the attack, including senior military commander ibrahim aqil. He was wanted by the us government for years and was designated a global terrorist for his involvement in the 1983 bombing of the us embassy in beirut. Friday s bombing also killed civilians, including three children, with more feared trapped in the rubble. Our middle east correspondent orla guerin reports from the scene in beirut. A beirut suburb turned into a battlefield. They are
This is Bbc News, the headlines. Palestinian media say the number of people killed in an israeli airstrike on a former school in Gaza City has risen to at least 13. Israel says it targeted a hamas command room. Hezbollah confirms senior commanders are among the 31 people killed in an israeli strike on beirut. Israels military says it killed 16 terrorists. Russia is evacuating Twelve Hundred people after Ukraine Used Drones to attack an Ammunition Warehouse on the border of occupied crimea. It appears to be the second such attack in a week. 700 nato Paratroopers Land near the dutch city of Arnhem Part of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the second World War Operation known as Market Garden an attempt by allied troops to capture key bridges in the netherlands. Here on Bbc News its time for now on Bbc News. Somalia from Crisis To Renewal Climate Change is bringing droughts and floods around The World, but in many countries its doing something else as well acting as a kind of chaos