With my guests shortly. First, the latest headlines. Lebanons Health Ministry says israeli Air Strikes are now known to have killed over 560 people including 50 children with hospitals struggling to cope with the number of casualties. Israel says it has killed a Hezbollah Commander in an Air Strike in beirut. In a direct address to lebanese civilians, Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, our war is not with you, our war is with hezbollah. President biden has told the United Nations General Assembly that the world cannot grow weary and look away from supporting ukraine in its defence against russias invasion. The president said vladimir Putins War had failed in its core aim of destroying ukraine, but support must be sustained. Meanwhile the Ukrainian President , volodymyr zelensky, has told a Special Session of the un Security Council, that the war with russia cannot be calmed by talks. Mr zelensky said russia could only be forced into peace by united, international action. He described Ir
Hello, im azadeh moshiri. Welcome to the programme. We start this hour with the latest on the electronic Pager Explosions in lebanon. Multiple reports say that israels mossad Spy Agency placed explosives in thousands of hezbollah pagers, before they detonated across lebanon on tuesday. So far, Israel Hasnt commented. And given the simultaneous explosions, hospitals in lebanon have been overwhelmed with casualties. The Countrys Health ministrys says at least 11 were killed among them an eight year old girl. Thousands more were wounded, with hundreds in a critical condition in hospital. Some were blinded, others lost fingers or required amputations. The context here is hezbollah, which is a proscribed Terrorist Organisation by The Uk and other Countries, had been using the pagers instead of Mobile Phones to communicate with each other. Thats due to the Risk Phones could be hacked. A senior lebanese Security Source told the Reuters News Agency they were brought into the country months ago