in other news... german police say a syrian man has confessed to carrying out a mass stabbing attack in the city of solingen. telegram founder pavel durov is expected in a french court today after being arrested on saturday when his private jet landed in paris. welcome to bbc news. i'm kasia madera. israel has launched air strikes across lebanon, and the militia group hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets and drones at israel in a further escalation of the conflict in the middle east. israel has said it hit more than 200 sites in lebanon, in what it called a "pre—emptive strike". hezbollah, which is backed by iran, fired more than 300 missiles in retaliation for the assassination of one of its top commanders in lebanon last month.

jon donnison has the latest from jerusalem. 4:30 in the morning, and israel's biggest attack on hezbollah since the full—scale war back in 2006. its military says around 100 fighter jets hit hezbollah targets across southern lebanon, in what israel says were pre—emptive strikes. and the barrage went on and on. a short while ago, the idf identified hezbollah terrorist organisation preparing to fire missiles, rockets towards israeli territory. in a self—defence act to remove these threats, the idf is striking terror targets in lebanon, from which hezbollah was planning to launch their attacks on israeli civilians. for its part, hezbollah says it fired more than 300 rockets and missiles across the border. many were shot down by israel's missile defence system. but some got through.

this house was hit in the northern coastal town of acre. translation: we didn't even get| the chance to close the closet door. there was a huge boom inside the house. the whole house was shaking. i remember, like, flashbacks of fire, smoke, that sort of thing. siren wails the iranian—backed lebanese militia group said it was the first phase of its response to the israeli assassination of a senior hezbollah commander in beirut last month. ever since the assassination of hezbollah�*s fouad shukr injuly, which was quickly followed by the killing of the hamas leader, ismail haniyeh in iran, widely blamed on israel, there have been fierce diplomatic efforts to try and stop the war in gaza escalating into a wider regional conflict. 0n today's evidence, though, those efforts are failing. early this morning, israel's prime minister convened his security cabinet and the question — what happens next?

translation: we are determined to do everything to protect our country, - return the residents of the north safely to their homes and continue to uphold a simple rule — whoever hurts us, we hurt them. israel and hezbollah insist they don't want another war. but both say they're ready for it if it comes. john jothonathan john jonathan without a report from jerusalem. a lot of points to pick up jerusalem. a lot of points to pick up on there. —— jon jerusalem. a lot of points to pick up on there. ——jon donnison jerusalem. a lot of points to pick up on there. —— jon donnison with that report. let's talk to former bbc middle east correspondentjim muir. the critical question there, neither israel nor hezbollah want war but they are ready for it, where are we? we are certainly on the brink but the question is whether we go over it and i think they have kind of pulled back. we will be hearing very

shortly from the hezbollah leader who will be given one of his televised address is in the next few hours, so we will hear what he has to say. i'm sure he will claim today's action as a great victory. hezbollah is saying israel's narrative that it carried out pre—emptive attacks, they say that is illusionary and is not true, they say all the missiles hezbollah wanted to fire went off on time and it is hinting it hit an important target such as the mossad headquarters in central israel. so they will be showing this as a kind of success, but also the first phase of success, but also the first phase of their response to the killing of their senior military commander, fuad shukr, back at the end ofjuly. so there may be more to come, but i have a feeling that, certainly it

has been shown over the last ten months of war, that it has been within an envelope. hezbollah does not want to have a completely no holds barred war with israel and neither does israel so i get the feeling there is a bit of choreography going on here, so as long as israel does not do anything provocative back, and it has already done a huge number of air raids and says it has done a huge amount of damage and destroyed thousands of hezbollah missiles, if israel regards that as enough, i don't know if we will hear much more from hezbollah. it is watching those talks about gaza which are going on in cairo now very closely and i think both the hezbollah and iran, it would be a great offer ran, if there was an agreement in gaza and they could say we don't want to

upset that so we are putting it all off for the time being, but everything hinges on getting that agreement in cairo over gaza. that is a big ask, the americans are pushing very hard, they want to get it across the line, but there are still some very important snacks. but it feels like, let's touch upon those snacks because it felt like antony blinken was talking about that bridging the proposal in a far more optimistic terms and benjamin netanyahu was not as enthused by this bridging concept. what are those that snags? it is extraordinary - those that snags? it is extraordinary how - those that snags? it is i extraordinary how antony those that snags? it 3 extraordinary how antony blinken kang come out of a meeting with mr netanyahu saying the latter had accepted the plan when five minutes later mr netanyahu says no, the war will go on until hamas is destroyed. the snags are several. mr netanyahu is insisting israel retains military control of what is called the

philadelphia corridor which is the kind of corridor along gaza's southern border with egypt. that is not acceptable either to hamas or the egyptians who say it is a breach of their own peace treaty signed with israel in 1979. israel also want to keep control, they have made a kind of barrier across the middle of gaza, cutting it in half east to west so anyone who wants to go from the south to the north would have to pass through israeli military control and that is not acceptable to hamas and is not compatible with the commitment to withdraw completely from gaza. there are other arguments about how many palestinian prisoners should be released, israel wants to send some into exile, not to west bank and gaza, so these are snags that are hard to overcome but the americans are pushing hard, they want to get it over the line and believe will

defuse all these dangerous regional tensions that proceed today and it basically diffuse things. but getting that agreement has proved elusive so far and fingers crossed, but so far there have been many disappointments.— but so far there have been many disappointments. indeed, thank you so much for — disappointments. indeed, thank you so much for your _ disappointments. indeed, thank you so much for your clarity _ disappointments. indeed, thank you so much for your clarity in _ disappointments. indeed, thank you so much for your clarity in talking i so much for your clarity in talking us through those points, jim muir, former bbc middle east correspondent, speaking from beirut. andjim mentioned and jim mentioned the andjim mentioned the press conference we are expecting, let me tell you a little bit more about this organisation. hezbollah, which is considered a terrorist organisation by some governments including the uk, says today's operation has now been "completed and accomplished". its leader, hassan nasrallah, is due to give a speech in around an hour's time at 16:00 bst. yemen's houthi movement has also commented on hezbollah�*s attack, calling it a "courageous attack carried out by the resistance this

morning against the israeli enemy". the iran—backed group also renewed threats to launch its own attack on israel in response to israeli strikes on a port in yemen injuly. israel has said those strikes were a response to a houthi drone hitting tel aviv. reaction to today's intense exchange of fire between israel and hezbollah militants is coming in all the time. we have a live page up and running with the very latest reports and analysis from our correspondents around the region — you can find that on the bbc news website and app. we are also monitoring that press conference from hezbollah. german prosecutors have confirmed they're treating friday's mass stabbing in the town of solingen, in which three people died, as a terror attack. it follows the arrest of a syrian man, who's suspected of being a member of the islamic state group.

damien mcguinness sent this update. german police have now confirmed to us that they have arrested a suspect who they believe is behind the stabbing in solingen on friday night. they say that this is a 26—year—old man who is a syrian national. the case has now been handed over to public prosecutors in karlsruhe, which indicates that german officials believe this could be terror—related. reportedly, he was hiding in a courtyard behind an apartment block near the crime scene, and then he gave himself up to police late last night, saying that he was the attacker. now, of course, police have to investigate whether this is true, and they're now questioning him and piecing together the evidence they have in order to find out whether this suspect is indeed the man behind the stabbing. the very latest there. now it's time for a look

at today's sport. thank you very much, we are going to start with golf. we're into the business end of the women's open. the final round is under way at st andrews in scotland. jane dougall is at the old course for us. what is the latest? i think the conditions might be causina latest? i think the conditions might be causing a _ latest? i think the conditions might be causing a few — latest? i think the conditions might be causing a few of _ latest? i think the conditions might be causing a few of the _ latest? i think the conditions might be causing a few of the players - latest? i think the conditions might be causing a few of the players to l be causing a few of the players to struggle somewhat. as you can tell it is still raining and pretty windy with strong gusts which must be difficult to drive into. the overnight leaderjiyai shin hasjust overnight leaderjiyai shin has just bogeyed overnight leaderjiyai shin hasjust bogeyed the third at which means she drops to six under and is nowjoint leader alongside the defending champion lilia vu who has paid pretty consistently. jiyai shin it was the overnight leader on seven under but shejust was the overnight leader on seven under but she just dropped a shot in this fourth round on the final day.

the world number one nelly korda started yesterday with a three shot question over the rest of the field but even she fell foul of the notoriously tough course here at st andrews. five bogeys and a double bogey at the 16th yesterday. today she is still on a five under, she has parred every hole so far and will hope to keep that up and match her flawless round on will hope to keep that up and match herflawless round on friday. she is now a one shot of the olympic champion also won a five under. unfortunately england's charley hull looks to be out of contention, she is on one under, she dropped another shot. there were big hopes for her after she was the overnight lead on the first day but she had a few erratic rounds of golf and now she is down to one under. that erratic rounds of golf and now she is down to one under.— is down to one under. that is the latest. thank _ is down to one under. that is the latest. thank you _ is down to one under. that is the latest. thank you so _ is down to one under. that is the latest. thank you so much. - after wins for last season's top two, manchester city and arsenal,

the team that finished third, liverpool, return to action later. brentford will be the visitors at anfield for what will be arne slot�*s first premier league home game in charge, and the new liverpool boss says he's looking forward to the occasion. no, i'm not nervous at all, certainly not at this moment because i'm in the middle of preparation, prepared the team for sunday and actually, no, nerves are not there. it wouldn't be a good thing if you've got nerves, then you probably don't trust what you did before, you don't trust your team, and i trust what we as a staff do during the whole week to prepare the team in the best possible way and i trust the team a lot as well again on sunday. before that match, two others to bring you up to date with — newcastle are at bournemouth. and it's the hosts who lead at half time. marcus tavanier the goal—scorer, while there's a thriller brewing at molineux. wolves hosting chelsea. 2—2 at the break. nicklas jackson

with a goal after 99 seconds for the londoners. wolves equalising through matheus cunha before cole palmer restored chelsea's lead. jorgen strand larsen then opening his account for wolves to make it all square. and in cricket, bangladesh have made test—match history with their first ever win against pakistan on pakistani soil. they pulled off a dramatic ten—wicket victory to take a 1—0 lead in the two—test series. bangladesh captain najmul hossain shanto has belief in his team. it is an amazing feeling, first of all, and then we believe after we came here in the morning, we know we can win this match because we are still 94 ahead and the picture looks quite difficult, especially for this, and with the seamless bowl is a little bit up and down, so we believe on brighter days we can beat

this team and this is what happened. and for all your f1 fans, the dutch grand prix is on right now. lando norris in the lead. head to our website bbc.com/sport for the latest on the race. back to you. really appreciate it, thank you so much. the reuters news agency says one of its team covering the war in ukraine is missing after a strike on an hotel in the east of the country. it happened in the eastern city of kramatorsk. ukrainian authorities say three journalists were wounded when their hotel was hit in a russian strike. one is still missing in the rubble. 0ur correspondent nick beake is in kyiv and has this update. we have this statement now from the reuters news agency, and they say that six of their colleagues were staying in a hotel, as you say, in the east of the country, in the city of kramatorsk, when their hotel was hit last night, in what they describe as an apparent missile strike. they say that two of their

colleagues were taken to hospital, but a third member of the team is unaccounted for, and that reuters are urgently trying to find more information. the news agency also released some footage which showed the aftermath of what happened. and a very large part of this hotel has been completely flattened. there was other video taken by other people that's been released and that shows the same sort of scene. it was clearly a very powerful missile strike. the governor of the donetsk region, where this took place, has also been talking about similar sort of things, giving similar details. so reuters confirming that this has affected a six—man team, a six—person team in this part of the east of ukraine, and that they're supporting the families of those affected at the moment while they try and get more information. this is the latest we've had from the overnight fighting. you've got that from the russian

authorities in that border region on the russian side. at the same time, the ukrainians are talking about more than 20 casualties in at least four different regions of this country, of ukraine, with people being injured, including children. so this is an indication of the fighting that continues. and, of course, that's slightly separate from the big things we've seen over the past couple of weeks. and that's been the ukrainian forces that actually went into part of russia in the surprise incursion. and, of course, what's happening in the east of the country, this war of attrition that continues with russia, it seems, making gains there, albeit at quite a slow pace. telegram is one of the most downloaded apps in the world. it's popular with pro—democracy movements and other protesters in countries which have strict laws, but it has also been used for criminal activity. now its russian founder, pavel durov, has reportedly been arrested near paris. reports say authorities have been investigating a lack of moderators on the app, which they say allows criminal

activity to take place. the russian state news says its embassy in france is taking "immediate steps" to clarify the situation. so who is pavel durov? he was born in st petersburg in 1984, but spent most of his childhood in italy. mr durov founded telegram in 2013 with his older brother nikolai. he left russia in 2014 after he refused to comply with government demands to shut down opposition communities on a separate social media network. telegram was banned in russia in 2018 after pavel durov refused to hand over user data to the kremlin. that ban was later reversed three years later. the social media network claims to have more than 900 million monthly users worldwide. 0ur correspondent will vernon explains what we know about the owner. a number of different french media have reported that pavel durov was arrested last night when he arrived at an airport near paris in his privatejet

on a flight from azerbaijan, and according to these reports, that arrest was made on the basis of a warrant in connection with telegram's failure to moderate illegal content and cooperate with law enforcement over drugs trafficking, child sexual content, and fraud. of course, telegram would almost certainly deny all of those allegations and we are expecting that mr durov may appear in court today. and just in terms of telegram itself, for those that potentially don't know, i described it as one of the world's most downloaded apps butjust talk us through what it is. well, it is one of the most popular apps, almost a billion users, as you said. it's particularly popular in russia and ukraine. it is actually used by both sides in the war, it is used by russian state news agencies, pro—kremlin military bloggers, people spreading propaganda for the kremlin�*s war, but it's also used by president zelensky, ukrainian officials, ordinary ukrainians to keep up—to—date with the course of the war, to fundraise,

to support ukrainian troops. now, the reason it's controversial, telegram, is because there is very little moderation. so western law enforcement agencies have a whole long list of issues with telegram, people using it for drug trafficking, for extremism, terrorism, pornography, i mean, the list goes on and on and on. 0ne german police official called it a medium for radicalisation, and here in the uk, telegram was also linked to the summer riots, that violent disorder we saw in english cities earlier this month, because telegram was actually one of the apps of choice for these far—right groups that were instrumental in organising that disorder. nasa says two astronauts who went into space for eight days will now have to wait eight months to be rescued. sunita williams and butch wilmore have been stranded on the international space station

sincejune and won't be brought home to earth until a space x mission in february next year. 0ur science editor rebecca morelle has more. the start of a mission that was supposed to lastjust eight days on the international space station. lots of cheering here in the room, big hugs. but nasa astronauts butch wilmore and suni williams have now found out their stay has been extended to a total of eight months. getting a beautiful view now of starliner. boeing's starliner spacecraft they arrived on has been deemed too risky to take them home, so it will come back with no—one on board and they'll return to earth in a spacex capsule instead. space flight is risky, and so the decision to keep butch and suni aboard the international space station and bring the boeing starliner home uncrewed is a result of a commitment to safety. our core value is safety. this was the first test flight

for boeing's starliner spacecraft with a crew on board, but it had problems with some of its thrusters and several helium leaks, which delayed docking. engineers at boeing and nasa have spent months trying to overcome these technical issues but they couldn't fix them, so instead, they've turned to spacex. but because of scheduling, it means the astronauts won't return until february next year. it's disappointing that they're not coming home on starliner. but that's ok, it's a test flight. that's what we do, they knew those risks going in. but we keep them very busy, there's a lot of science and research going on on the international space station. nasa selected two companies to ferry their astronauts, spacex and boeing. spacex won a contract worth $2.6 billion for its crewed dragon spacecraft. boeing got more for starliner, $4.2 billion. spacex launched its first crewed mission in 2020 but it's taken

boeing four more years for its maiden flight. so far, spacex has launched nine crews for nasa but boeing's first mission won't finish as planned, the capsule is returning to earth empty. novak djokovic has called for "clear protocols" and "standardised approaches" to doping cases in tennis after world number one jannik sinner escaped a doping ban despite testing positive for banned substance. the italian twice failed drugs tests for clostebol, a steroid that can be used to build muscle mass. he insists he has done nothing wrong despite calls from some players that he was given preferential treatment. novak djokovic was speaking ahead of the us open which starts on monday where he is looking to defend his title. i understand the frustration of the players is there because of lack of consistency. and as i understood,

his case was cleared the moment basically it was announced but, you know, i think five or six months passed since the news was brought to him and his team, so, yeah, i mean, there's a lot of issues in the system. we see a lack of standardised and clear protocols. i can understand the sentiments of a lot of players that are questioning whether they are treated the same. novak whether they are treated the same. djokovic their ahead novak djokovic their speaking just ahead of the start of the us open tomorrow. i want to take you back to our top story, israel saying it has conducted pre—emptive strikes against hezbollah in lebanon. these

are the live shots on the israel lebanon border and we will bring new elements of the press conference from hassan nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah, live in the next half hour. hezbollah, just worth noting the military wing of hezbollah is considered a terrorist organisation by at some countries, including the uk. when he starts speaking we will bring that to you live. 0r uk. when he starts speaking we will bring that to you live. or so more on our live web page where we are monitoring all the developments on that story. hello. in southern and eastern parts of the uk, where yesterday was such a soggy affair, today it is a little drier and brighter. compare that with the situation further north and west, where we are bearing the brunt of yet more heavy rain. this shield of cloud on our earlier satellite image, which has been spinning its way in from the atlantic,

continuing to bring heavy rain across a good part of scotland through the afternoon, some of that rain into the far north of england. the rain perhaps easing off a little bit across northern ireland. some drizzly bits and pieces for parts of north wales, the south—west at times. further south and east, a little bit of sunshine. quite windy out there, in fact, gusts of more than 40mph across parts of north wales and northern england. temperatures, well, maybe just a little bit higher than they were yesterday — 14 to 20 degrees. now, this evening and tonight, i think we'll see a few showers across southern counties of england. also, the remains of this weather front bringing cloud and some showers across parts of northern ireland, south—west scotland and northern england. 0n the whole, not quite as chilly as it was last night, although in the north—east of scotland it will get quite cold, aberdeen all the way down to six degrees celsius. and then we head on into tomorrow, a bank holiday for most of us, of course. still the remains of this weather front here bringing a zone of cloud and some bits and pieces of showery rain. those showers tending to edge northwards through the day. so scotland having a bit more cloud.

some showery rain at times. a few showers, perhaps, for northern ireland, for northern england. further south it should be largely dry, with some spells of sunshine. 0n the whole, a drier day than we've been used to of late, and a slightly warmer one as well. north to south, 14 to 23 degrees. as we head through monday night and into tuesday, here comes another frontal system that will bring some wet and rather windy weather across western parts of the uk. but just ahead of that weather front, we are going to start to tap into something a little bit warmer. so, across many central and eastern parts of england on tuesday we should see some spells of sunshine and some warmth. but for western england, for wales, parts of northern ireland and scotland there will be some outbreaks of rain. even here, temperatures higher than they have been of late, but 25, maybe 26 degrees for east anglia and the south—east. it may turn warmer still for the middle parts of the week. always some outbreaks of rain further north and west.

this is bbc news, the headlines: israel says it's destroyed dozens of hezbollah launch sites in lebanon to pre—empt a large—scale missile attack.

hezbollah denied the barrage had been stopped, and said more than 300 drones and missiles had been fired at israel, in retaliation for the killing of one of its commanders. anti—terrorist prosecutors have taken over the investigation into friday's mass stabbing in the town of sohlingen in western germany. a suspect who turned himself in is said to have confessed to carrying out the attack. the 26—year—old is reported to be a syrian asylum seeker, who's being investigated for links to the islamic state group. the russian founder of the telegram messaging service, pavel durov, is expected to appear in court later on sunday. french media is reporting that the billionaire was arrested on saturday at an airport on the outskirts of paris. let's get more now on our top story, there's been an intense exchange of fire between israel and hezbollah militants. these are live pictures from the israel—lebanon border. israel launched a wave of air strikes against hezbollah

positions in lebanon, saying it was pre—empting plans for a large—scale attack.