The site of an israeli strike in dahieh, hezbollah*s stronghold in beirut and it this building was hit and there is nothing left of it. There is still smoke coming from the rubble and heavy smell in the air. You can probably hear the sound of drones flying overhead. The buildings nearby, were also heavily damaged by the attacks and pictures of the late iran leader hassan nasrallah have been set up here. The scale of the destruction it gives you a sense of the power of the attack that happened here. Meanwhile, israeland iran attack that happened here. Meanwhile, israel and iran have aged wanted the other against further attacks after iran launched a massive missile attack on israel. It five 180 missiles on tuesday in a second and largest direct attack ever. The iranian president today said they were not looking for war but pledged a strong response by israel. Iran's most powerful missiles, sending their starkest message last night to israel if you hit us or our allies, we'll hit you. The order given by commanders and clerics. In the name of god, he declares, in revenge for the martyrs* blood. And today, a message from the president while visiting qatar. Translation: we were left | with no choice but to respond. If israel decides to retaliate, then it will face harsher reactions. It's this man who calls the shots in tehran, the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini. Revered by his supporters, reviled by enemies, ultra conservative, deeply distrustful of the west. Translation: in our region, the root cause of all these i wars is the presence of those who claim they want peace and calm, america and some european countries. Iran's cautious cleric has tried to avoid direct confrontation with israel, with america. But today, his supporters celebrated iran's attack. For hardliners, israel's assassination of hassan nasrallah, the hezbollah chief, crossed a red line. They had to retaliate. And this is why. Iran believes it had to protect what it calls its ring of fire, militias it's armed in these countries across the region, most of all hezbollah in lebanon, right on israel's border hassan nasrallah was part of iran's forward defence and in gaza, hamas. Their political leader, ismail haniyeh, was killed injuly while visiting iran. Israel was blamed. These groups, which also call themselves the axis of resistance, are in syria, iraq and as far away as the houthis in yemen. They've all been weakened but not wiped out by israel's recent strikes, and they're certain to keep attacking. But what matters most of all for the islamic republic is to preserve the islamic republic, their power at home. That means striking hard enough to send a message, but not so hard it drags iran into an allout war it knows it cannot win. Lyse doucet, bbc news. For more on the middle east i am joined by sara lee parkinson. Thank you for joining me. Iwill get parkinson. Thank you for joining me. I will get your thoughts on iran but first on 11 on. You have done research on resilience of armed groups there. Can israel achieve its objective with the ground insertion? objective with the ground insertion?... insertion? that stratification. This is currently _ insertion? that stratification. This is currently israel's this is currently israel's fourth invasion of lebanon with the others being in 1978, 1982 with a subsequent occupation and 2006 and none of these engagements need any sort of resounding strategic success and in fact many of their failures have fed into the situation today with the listener being there really is no military solution to what is fundamentally a political conflict. When it comes to israeli strategy and these ideas of targeted killing and leadership decapitation, two of the terms used to describe these missile attacks on whether or not it is someone's home or something called the command centre or someone's up, research tells us that taking out leaders tend to encourage more violet. There is less restrained and competing factions. Attacks perceived as indiscriminate also unsurprisingly tend to mobilise more people, people who may have been uninvolved or uncommitted or had very little ideological investment in conflicts. When they find their homes, belongings and life distro, they find motivation to get involved in a conflict. When we're looking back at the history of this particular conflict and talking about the success of israeli tactics and strategies, one of the things to think about if we're going to think about if we're going to do the long is that hassan nasrallah, he was secretary general of hezbollah, gained his position because israel assassinated his predecessor. One of the letters attack 11 on rose to leadership due to an assassination in 1980. . . It is assassination in 1980. . . It is eas to assassination in 1980. . . It is easy to see _ assassination in 1980. . . It is easy to see how _ assassination in 1980. . . It is easy to see how the assassination in 1980. . . It is easy to see how the cycle i assassination in 1980. . . It is easy to see how the cycle can repeat itself is what you are telling us. I want to get your thoughts on the lebanese people and how they separate themselves or are blinded to hezbollah? hezbollah? first of all, 11 on is not equivalent _ hezbollah? first of all, 11 on is not equivalent to hezbollah? first of all, 11 on i is not equivalent to hezbollah. lebanon. Iwould is not equivalent to hezbollah. lebanon. I would say it is a wild mistake to make any equivalence between the two, people and lebanon are living a different life. Whether focus should of a humanitarian catastrophe that has led and the kind of politics that engenders. the kind of politics that engenders. The kind of politics that enaenders. . ~. Engenders. Thank you so much. We appreciate _ engenders. Thank you so much. We appreciate your _ engenders. Thank you so much. We appreciate your time engenders. Thank you so much. We appreciate your time and. We appreciate your time and thoughts. Toa to a court here in singapore that will sentence a former transport minister on thursday. It could be the first gaining of an ex cabinet member in the state's history. He was a minister for 13 years and pleaded ministerfor 13 years and pleaded guilty to four counts of receiving gifts and one of obstructing justice after prosecutions weatherhead with only five of the 35 charges. The investigation centred on acceptance of lavish gifts that total more than 400,000 singapore dollars. The gives include tickets to english premier league football matches, formula one grand prix, musicals, hotel stays, private jets and a bicycle. The last corruption case such as this was in 1976. That minister die before any charges were filed in court. Joining me live is a reporter with what we can expect today. What are you keeping an eye out for? we do understand _ keeping an eye out for? we do understand proceedings keeping an eye out for? we do understand proceedings are i understand proceedings are understand proceedings are under way. Understand proceedings are underway. He understand proceedings are under way. He arrived here a short while ago and look quite sombre. We will find out whether he will go to jail or not today. The prosecution has ask for eight ninths months in jail and defencejust ask for eight ninths months in jail and defence just weeks ask for eight ninths months in jail and defencejust weeks if it is necessary. As you mentioned, he is accused of taking gives while in public office, amounting to more than 100,000 us dollars, including formula one tickets, hotel stays and flies and a prompt and bicycle. S. Iswaran was also charged with corruption but last week at the trial those charges were amended and now he just faces fired for accepting valuable gives while in public service and one for obstructing justice. We are waiting to hear what the final sentence is. We will bring at the very latest as soon as we get it. 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Two ukrainian soldiers told the bbc they retreated mostly overnight before receiving an official order from before receiving an official orderfrom commanders before receiving an official order from commanders to withdraw. One orderfrom commanders to withdraw. One soldier said many of their comrades were killed on the way out. The city was home to about 14,000 residents before the fighting. While all children had been evacuated, it is not a small number of civilians still remained there. Jess parker has the latest from care. It had been expected that russian troops might take the town of vuhledar. Now, this is a coal mining town in the donbas region that had a population before russia's full scale invasion of around 14,000 people. There have been repeated efforts by moscow's troops to take the town, but today there was confirmation from ukrainian military officials in the area that they were withdrawing from vuhledar. They described how they were at risk of being encircled by russian troops and that ukrainian defences had essentially been exhausted. The bbc has also been speaking to a couple of soldiers who have been involved in this retreat. They describe very difficult conditions for the ukrainians, some troops suffering from communications blackouts which left them disorientated, some being targeted by russian drones and guns as they tried to retreat out of vuhledar. In terms of the town's strategic significance, it's on slightly elevated ground, the intersection of two battlefields as well, and of course for the kremlin, taking it feeds into their wider aim of trying to capture the entire donbas region. For ukraine, it is a blow to morale. This is a town that they've spent a lot of time and a lot of lives trying to defend. Us federaljudge us federal judge until us federaljudge until new evidence in the federal election case against former president donald trump. Special counseljack smith used to bring to layout his case for why he believes trump is not immune from prosecution for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election. He claims that donald trump resorted to crimes in a bid to stay in power. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges against. A spokesman for his campaign told cbs news that the filing is a falsehood read and criticise its release. A founding partner of former prosecutor weighed in. Why is it important for smith to prove trump acted in such a capacity? earlier this summer, the supreme court issued a sweeping ruling which said that a president is broadly immune from any act taken in connection with his official duties so in order forjack smith to proceed he must prove that trump was not acting as a president but was acting as a failed political candidate who knew he had lost the election and who wanted to defraud the american people for a wouldbe president. So the either the act had to be taken in a private capacity as a candidate, candidate trump, or if they were acts taken in his official power, there has to be a presumption which jack smith can rebut if you can show that those acts, if they are not treated as immune would not infringe on a future president's ability to carry out his duties. He president's ability to carry out his duties. president's ability to carry out his duties. He had the chance to _ out his duties. He had the chance to go _ out his duties. He had the chance to go through out his duties. He had the chance to go through the l out his duties. He had the chance to go through the rather lengthy brief. What are the most damaging accusations against trump? against trump? what was happening _ against trump? what was happening with _ against trump? what was happening with this against trump? what was happening with this briefl happening with this brief today, first of all it has to be in sales at the american people can understand the basis for which thejudge has people can understand the basis for which the judge has a case in front of her. Whether trump must stand trial or is immune. It is an important document for the public to see and of course trump's lawyers will have a chance to rebut that in a couple of weeks. There is nothing brandnew in terms of broad categories but there is much more detailfor broad categories but there is much more detail for example about the role of stephen bannonin about the role of stephen bannon in this conspiracy and much more detail about the fact that trump already knew he had lost the election so therefore was engaged in a vote acts of fraud. There is much more detail about trump putting his own vice president in danger by tweeting to crowds that vice president pence was not a patriot and was not willing to overturn the legitimate election result. So the real piece of these they strike and especially in this point in time, right before the american elections, is the amount of detail that jack elections, is the amount of detail thatjack smith, the special prosecutor, has asked to show that trump was acting as a failed candidate, he had lost the election and was attempting to defraud the american people. Attempting to defraud the american people. Attempting to defraud the american eole. ~. ~ american people. What you think will happen _ american people. What you think will happen to american people. What you think will happen to this _ american people. What you think will happen to this case american people. What you think will happen to this case if american people. What you think will happen to this case if mr will happen to this case if mr trump the election? if will happen to this case if mr trump the election? will happen to this case if mr trump the election? if you wins election, trump the election? if you wins election. He _ trump the election? if you wins election, he will trump the election? if you wins election, he will direct trump the election? if you wins election, he will direct his election, he will direct his justice department to dismiss the charges. I think the case will be over. If he loses the election, i believe whatever thejudge election, i believe whatever the judge decides, election, i believe whatever thejudge decides, it election, i believe whatever the judge decides, it will likely be appealed all the way up likely be appealed all the way up to the supreme court as to which act if any survive under the cloak of presidential immunity health. It is a long time. Eitherthe immunity health. It is a long time. Either the case will be dismissed if he went, and if he loses the election, there will be a large process arguably to the supreme court to determine t