Must be avoided. Died aged 88. Must be avoided. He said he plans to speak the operation directed by israel's defence minister. Translation: we have no i interest in expanding the war. We have no interest in looking for additionalfronts. But if somebody attacks israel, as the houthis have recently done, with missiles and throughout the war with cruise missiles and drones, anyone who carries out such an attack, we will settle the account with them, and we know how to do it. Israel is not holding back, its air force releasing footage as they set off for the raid. And earlier today, it says it shot down another drone launched from yemen. For the past year, the yemeni houthis have been trying to influence the conflict in the middle east. This is their commandos seizing a britishowned ship in the red sea last november. They have longrange missiles, are supported by iran and are fiercely opposed to israel. Speaking yesterday, the houthis' military spokesperson yahya saree said they wouldn't stop until israel ended its aggression against gaza and lebanon. Today's strikes in yemen highlight another dangerous front in a war that threatens to engulf the region. Jon donnison, bbc news, jerusalem. Meanwhile, israel is continuing to launch strikes against what he says are hezbollah targets within lebanon. The idf says it is hit 120 military sites belonging to the iran backed little grip. The bernese officials say more than i officials say more than 1 million people face being forced from their homes in that country. The body of the late hezbollah leader has run the solar is also now reported to have been discovered, recovered from the site of an israeli air strike in beirut. His assassination is fuelling concerns about allout war in the region. 0rla guerin reports from the beqaa valley and a warning you may find some parts of her report stressing beqaa. Israel keeps hitting hard. For now, it looks unstoppable. This is the beqaa valley this afternoon. There were at least 30 air strikes in an hour. Danger in every direction. 0ur neighbours, the jamil family, are all gone, he says. As more air strikes went down, noor lies in intensive care. She is six years old and was injured on her own doorstep on monday. Her family says she is intelligent and chatty, and loves meeting new people. But here, shortly before the attack, she was afraid and praying. Her mother now prays by her bedside. And suddenly, as we filmed, the planes were back. Well, within the last few seconds, we have had a strike. We heard the plane in the air, then we felt the impact. The windows here shook, they rattled, and it's an indication of how nowhere here is safe. Even patients in hospitals can't feel completely safe. Minutes later, new wounded. An ambulance has just arrived now, bringing casualties from the latest air strike. They're being treated in the emergency department. There's a lot of anger and tension. People are stressed, wondering when this is going to stop. Back in intensive care, noor*s father abdullah wants the world to see his child. Was she fighting? he asks. She was playing at home. Does she have weapons? half of her brain is gone. Noor was born after her parents had ten years of nf. Herfather says he is not in hezbollah, but now wishes he was. 0rla guerin, bbc news, in the beqaa valley. The white house national security spokesperson john corby want is well of starting an allout war with hezbollah or iran on bbc news this week kirby. Is that it remains unclear what iran's response to israel's offensive might be. We are israel's offensive might be. are watching this very, very closely to see how, if and how hezbollah and or iran may react as well as militia groups in iraq and syria. You have to be prepared for some sort of response and we have to make sure we are ready, and we are. We believe we have the force capability we need in the region. But it is not clear right now and too soon to know. For more, i've been speaking to christina ruffini. Israel striking several hezbollah targets across lebanon. If you targets across lebanon. If you targets in yemen. Is this the escalation in this context that the community is embracing for? houthi. It is not what us officials were hoping for. We spent the weekend of the un talking to world leaders and were given a guidance, as a lot of other outlets have reported, there was a ceasefire deal that there was a ceasefire deal that the us have worked out with the french, the italians, the germans, the qataris, the saudis, got a playbyplay as to who was brought into each meeting and the american officials had confidence that they were going to get signed on to this, or a list finding thinking about signing on but netanyahu lands of the un on friday, kind of shows no interest in it and pushes back against it and says it will not happen and the next day we see this massive bombing in beirut that takes out ms roller so the statements you've seen what they have to be you want to condemn a terrorist and you want to acknowledge this is an important move ofjustice for many americans who have died at the hands of or his organisation but nasrallah organisation but nasrallah or his organisation and puts them in a bind because once again israel is going against the direct guidance and will of the direct guidance and will of the allegedly close ally and partner the us and in fact there is reporting that israel did not want us ahead of time with enough time for there to be any debate about the strike because they did not want have the conversation and even folks like secretary of defense austin who has a very good working relationship with his counterpart ahmad way this went down and, of course, it is not what you will see reflected in public statements but i was talking to a senior middle eastern diplomat earlier today who said it is basically masochistic how the biden administration keeps going back to the table thinking that israel will sign on and having israel will sign on and having israel pull the rug out from under them at the last minute. To follow up on that, we heard today us president biden saying that an allout war in the middle east must be avoided. Do you think his words hold much weight at this point? i you think his words hold much weight at this point? weight at this point? i don't think s0 weight at this point? i don't think so. The _ weight at this point? i don't think so. The us _ weight at this point? i don't think so. The us since weight at this point? i don't i think so. The us since october seven, unai, secretary blinken has been practically in the middle east, there has been an allout diplomatic effort to try to keep the lid on these conflicts you know. And israel and netanyahu especially israel and neta nyahu especially seem israel and netanyahu especially seem to have their own agenda and don't seem to care what the us or the international community thinks about what they have to do all they say they have to do all they say they have to do all they say they have to do to protect their sovereignty and, they have to do to protect theirsovereignty and, of their sovereignty and, of course, theirsovereignty and, of course, there are other issues here. I spoke to another reporter this and the fact we wonder if this were not an election year if the us administration would have more latitude to threaten to hold back weapons shipments for the israelis if they don't come to the table and don't heed a little bit more of what the us is trying to get them to do but given what is happening in november and the politics of all of this, it is really not going to happen. You are even seeing other democrats pushing back against the idea that the biden administration would withhold some of this aid and isjust this week, withhold some of this aid and is just this week, the bill that was signed in april to give israel billions of dollars of military aid was finalised in congress and it looks like it is working its way through so that is really the only thing the us could do at this point is take more of a hard line and say listen, if you don't come to the table we will stop these eight shipments and there isjust not stop these eight shipments and there is just not the political will to do that right now in the us, aid shipments. All politics are local and that is true for netanyahu as well and he knows he has a very difficult coalition he is holding together and jerusalem and others reported the far right coalition members threaten to pull out and possibly be the end of the coalition government if he agreed to a ceasefire jeruslem post. Agreed to a ceasefire jeruslem post. jeruslem post. That is reporting _ jeruslem post. That is reporting that jeruslem post. That is l reporting that suggests jeruslem post. That is reporting that suggests the bombing that was used to kill hassan nasrallah were likely made in the us, we are hearing from the houthis calling the strikes american british aggression. Is there a risk of how high do you think it may be that the us could get dragged a bit further into the conflict? i think any conflict that involves israel automatically involves israel automatically involves the us. However, it would be hard to see how the court of public opinion, especially in the middle east, views the us if so many of these weapons or the funding for these weapons or even the backfill behind the weapons are being used, i don't have any knowledge about the specific bombs and where they were manufactured but it is hard to tie the complicity of american policy with the action of tel aviv, especially given the lack of ability of the us and the white house and pentagon to manage or deter or mitigate what israel says it is doing, there is a big concern this is going to widen because obviously now hezbollah has a proxy of a run and run has to respond and everyone else in the region who has a dog in the fight, most everyone, is going to feel like they have to get involved in this and this is what the biden administration so they don't want. 2. 5 million eole so they don't want. 2. 5 million peeple are _ so they don't want. 2. 5 million people are without _ so they don't want. 2. 5 million people are without power so they don't want. 2. 5 million people are without power and | so they don't want. 2. 5 million i people are without power and 91 dead after hurricane helene swept through the southeastern united states. Joe biden plans to visit communities affected by the category four hurricane once he is sure it will not disrupt the emergency response. An the white house have just said vice president kamala harris will also visit. Donald trump says he will be in the region in the coming days as well. The storm brought torrential rain and flooding in florida, georgia, the state of virginia as well as south carolina and north carolina. That's where the city of asheville was particularly badly hit. More than 300,000 people across north carolina are still without power and many residents are facing difficulties reaching emergency services as cellphone services have gone down. More than 400 roads across the state are closed due to damage from the storm. The american red cross as it has opened about 140 shelters across those five different states that have been affected. I spoke withjeremy knighton, the first assistant fire chief at the asheville fire department. Firstly, i'm sure you have been around your city, can you describe some of what you've seen?. . ~ describe some of what you've seen?. ~' ,. Describe some of what you've seen?. ~ i. . describe some of what you've seen?. ~.. seen? thank you for having me. A lot of devastation. _ seen? thank you for having me. A lot of devastation. Our a lot of devastation. Our community is suffering, we have suffered impacts that we have never seen. Storm totals are unprecedented. We are currently running 24hour operations, trying to get out there. We are doing targeted search is now of the area, the damaged area, trying to assess and still in live safety move mode for nanamy looking for our community members are several folks are missing and lots of folks are missing and lots of folks cannot connect with their loved ones here who are out of state and our infrastructure has taken some serious impacts, our roadways are closed, our ceuphone our roadways are closed, our cellphone carriers and the things that we depend on day to day has been severely impacted. We are out of power. We have been on generator power here for about four days now. Since the storm hit. Just trying to get better and make it better, one day at a time. Do get better and make it better, one day at a time. get better and make it better, one day at a time. Do you have a sense now one day at a time. Do you have a sense now of _ one day at a time. Do you have a sense now of how one day at a time. Do you have a sense now of how many one day at a time. Do you have l a sense now of how many people may still be missing and what kind of challenges are you facing right now in the rescue effort? you mentioned difficulties with power and communication, cellphones. What kind of rescue operation is this right now? absolutely, it's difficult, _ this right now? absolutely, it's difficult, really, this right now? absolutely, it's difficult, really, in this right now? absolutely, it's difficult, really, in the l it's difficult, really, in the mountains normally, right? it's just the topography and the amount of, you know, just different slopes and things and features that we have. It is hard to understand the gravity of this. Being on the ground, being in the mud, obviously, our critical infrastructure and our critical infrastructure and our access has really been damaged, so firstly, we've got to open the roads. We've got to get some of the access into places so we can begin these targeted searches. We are disconnected. We are disconnected. We are disconnected from our normal means. Our radio system is kind of keeping us afloat through this whole thing and we are depending heavily on it but we are also having to, as we take are also having to, as we take a step forward, we have a primary plan and we also have to have several contingencies for the primary plan. In many cases, we had to pull the parachu