Return to austerity. And the new leader of Sri Lanka says he wants to restore faith in politics. Hello, welcome to Bbc News now. Fast moving news, interviews and reaction. We begin in lebanon where the Health Ministry says 182 people have been killed and more than 700 injured in the latest wave of israeli Air Strikes in the south of the country. Israel says it carried out more than 300 strikes on hezbollah targets, aimed at preventing the group from launching a large Scale Rocket Attack on israel. In response, hezbollah has said it has fired dozens of rockets across the border. Israeli troops could also mount a Ground Offensive to create a Buffer Zone so that civilians who have been evacuated from the north of israel can return to their homes. From jerusalem, here is our correspondent. The idf put out this Video Set to be showing hezbollah operatives launching Cruise Missiles from civilian house. We ask residents of villages to pay attention to the Message And Warning published by the
Wounded. Just turned 10 am good morning their life works internationals world view center here in moscow is kevin owen here for next hour with those headlines and so much more detail for you to stick around to take you through it now 1st that development we talked about in the headlines in the last hour in better routes which is released to freelance staff working for arties roughly video agency they were detained on sunday while covering the disputed president ial election a correspondent. Across it for us roman details still sketchy but whats going on here now these guys were believed to several new stuff called up providing election and protests coverage since sunday what happened to them bring us up to speed what some of them now. Oh these particular freelancers who work for iraq the video agency while they were detained at the very beginning well before the protest even began and they were filming in. The polls they were covering the election in general the last we heard from them
From arts internationals world you say moscow kevin im with you for the next half hour with me as we go through those headlines in more detail than 1st released to freelance staff working for video agency they were detained on sunday while covering the disputed president ial election there are crossed developments. Well we have been talking extensively about journalists who were detained during mass protests and mass rallies in that bill or if there were at least a 50 according to official figures and many of them i were working for a Russian Media now some have been deported from the country and theyre already in russian across the belarus similar however until this morning freelancers working for a ruptly media agency were still unaccounted for they were detained on sunday soon after polls opened in belarus and we havent heard of from them for days on wednesday we received a message from one of the stringers who was detained and released a little bit earlier all in all there are 4 up
R. T. Follows a russian Surgical Team assisting there but he says were treating the most seriously wounded. Fellow there just gone 3 pm here in moscow youre watching international now well start with those developments in bell are released because unidentified men have vented the battery softness of the Russian Internet giant its also being reported to the offices of the right hailing services which is locally owned by yandex are also being raided it is amid days of protests and tough and Police Responses to sundays disputed president ial election will. Give us more details as always oh man its hard to establish at this early stage exactly what is happening but whats been confirmed so far. Well. Searches have not been confirmed so far were still waiting on the a confirmation on that meanwhile the press Service Office yes they confirmed that armed masked men in. Wearing all black entered their offices and blocks all of their exits and their demands are unknown at this point and no one k
A look plus also on the way with hospitals reduced to ruins in beirut following last weeks catastrophic explosion in the city we follow a russian team of medics lending a helping hand. Hello there are 6 pm here in the russian capital youre watching the International Tensions in the belorussian capital of minsk continue to soar this evening citizens have already started to gather in the city center Armored Vehicles are reported to have moved in as well it does come in the wake of sundays disputed president ial election which has plunged the country into chaos our correspondent reports from the city. This is just the where there was only a 6 quite difficult to describe to you whats going on in victory square in minsk on the square there are women with flowers in hands you can also see the women dressed in white with flowers in the hands remaining along independence avenue cars and buses which are passing by honking their horns in support of what they call the solidarity actions the solid