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Emergency Evacuation Order and a there were volunteers here all Night Stuffing Sandbags like this and forming human chains, to bring the bags down now near to the embankment, where a section of the River Bank had subsided and there was a danger according to the mayor of that River Bank collapsing completely at the water rushing through into the town of nysa where we are now. You can see the wall of sandbags and the river behind. They have plugged the gap and in fact the River Water Level has beg...

Thousands have been left homeless, and more bad weather is forecast. Slovakia and hungary are bracing against floodwaters moving down the River Danube and its tributaries. These are the pictures from nysa overnight where people have been helping protect the flood defences. 0ur correspondent, sarah rainsford, is there. I am in nysa now, just a few miles from where we were for that report and here in nysa it was a pretty dramatic night overnight. The mayor, as you heard in that report, had given a...

Sea. Switching on great british energy to crowd investment into clean power projects. Launching a rapid review of the environmental improvement plan for completion before the end of this year. So that we can clean our rivers, plus millions more trees, improve Air Quality and halt the decline in species. And with over 90 of the uks biodiversity within our overseas territories looking to expand, the Bluebell Programme to increase marine protection. This domestic programme is notjust essential to o...

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WIth InjurIes. Ambulances have been rushIng through the suburbs, the mInIstry has called on staff to report on people to donate blood. Anyone wIth a pager should ImmedIately dIscard It. Unnamed SecurIty OffIcIals say the pagers were hacked by Israel, whIch has not commented. WIth me Is our SecurIty Correspondent Frank Gardner. These are stIll the early detaIls of thIs, It was fIrst reported less than two hours ago, take me through, fIrst of all, what We Know. It ago, take me through, fIrst of al...

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The case against him. Being competItive like we are in the Premier League. The difficulty is how to compete in the Premier League being in the tough sItuation like last year. And how similar we will have to do this year. Because we are the best in the world and the Champions League and the Premier League. Liverpool begin their campaign away to Ac Milan. But their goalkeeper, allison, isnt a fan of the new format which means they have even more matches to play. Again, we are here to do ourjob. No...

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Place across lebanon. Heres a crowd gathered in beirut, in the aftermath of explosions. Weve also verified these videos of ambulances apparently taking the wounded to hospital in tibnin, in the south of the country. How many were injured . Reports say more than 2,500 people were hurt, with some killed. So what happened 7 it appears that what were blowing up were these pagers used to receive messages. The militant Group Hezbollah had switched away from using phones to using pages over Fears Israe...

A supermarket in beirut. Other videos posted online show people with injuries, some of them severe. These are pictures inside one hospital being overwhelmed by the number of people injured. The lebanese government are appealing to citizens to donate blood and to ditch their pagers if they have one. The incidents happened in the groups strongholds in Southern Lebanon and beirut. Also injured in the attack was irans ambassador to lebanon, mojtaba amani, whos in a stable condition in hospital. Our ...