in the assassination. we also wanted this target to be deep inside israel, closer to tel aviv. these are live pictures fom inside israel where sirens have sounded as hamas says it's fired a rocket at tel aviv. and the owner of x, elon musk, has criticised the arrest of telegram founder pavel durov saying it's a sign that freedom of speech in europe is under attack. the prime minister sir keir starmer is set to warn that "things will only get worse" in the uk before they get better. hello, i'm samantha simmonds. welcome to the programme. sirens have sounded south of tel aviv as the armed wing of hamas says it has fired an m90 rocket at the city. this is the scene live of the tel aviv skyline. the israeli military said the m90

rocket landed "in an open area" south of the city. sirens were also hear sounding in rishon letsiyon, in central israel. we will keep across the situation there and bring you any updates. it comes after israel launched airstrikes across lebanon, and the militia group hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets and drones at israel — in a further escalation of the conflict in the middle east. israel says it hit more than 200 sites in lebanon, in what it called a "preemptive strike" against the lebanese shia organisation, which was retaliating for the assassination of one of its top commanders in lebanon last month. hezbollah says the first phase of its attack is over — and it is not seeking all out war. our correspondent lucy williamson reports from nahariya in northern israel, close the border between the two countries. by the time the sirens came, northern israel was awake. israeli fighterjets bombing hezbollah launch sites, the army said, before hundreds of drones and rockets met israel's air defences overhead.

the fight, clearly visible from this house six miles from the border. we felt really large explosions. we felt, like, an earthquake. the whole ground was moving. my windows were shaking, the keys in the door, everything was shaking. so i went outside to look at it, and i just saw the whole sky is bright orange, and there was an explosion, like, every three seconds. shrapnel from an intercepted missile was caught on camera hitting a patrol boat off the coast, killing one army officer and injuring two others. very few rockets slipped through, but israel says hezbollah had planned a much wider attack, and that only a predawn bombing raid by israel's air force prevented it, destroying thousands of rockets at their launch sites. 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: who hurts us, we hurt them. the limited damage from this assault obscures how dangerous this moment is. for months, the conflict to cross this border has been widening. for months, the conflict across this border has been widening. now, israel has sent 100 fighter jets to bomb hezbollah positions, and hezbollah rockets are flying further south, testing the tripwires for all—out war. this hotel looks out on the hills that mark the lebanese border. this man thought this morning's assault was the start of a full—blown war. it's not normal times, so if a war should come and finish it, there are no tourists, no businessmen, no nothing. so we have to start living again. it sounds like you want a war. if it will finish the situation as it is now, yes. this border, bristling with weapons,

could pull regional and global powers into a war, a war fuelled by the conflict in gaza that even israel and hezbollah say they don't want. lucy williamson, bbc news. tonight in lebanon, hezbollah said it did not intend its missile attacks on israel to lead to a "full scale war". the powerful militia group, which is backed by iran, said it had delayed its action — in the hope that that peace talks would lead to a ceasefire in gaza. orla guerin reports from southern lebanon. hezbollah�*s leader, sheikh hassan nasrallah, said tonight the group might strike again in the future but for now, everyone could feel at ease and stand down. earlier, it released this map of its targets, showing the exact locations of military bases and barracks in northern israel. hezbollah claims its

attack was a success. israel says most of the rockets missed their mark. hezbollah was retaliating for this — israel's assassination of a top commander, fuad shukr, in beirut last month. he was a huge loss to the iranian—backed group. now, it has sought revenge, but in a carefully calibrated attack. israel hit back in southern lebanon throughout the morning. this is the biggest flare—up here since the conflict began last october. well, just a few moments ago, we heard a very loud blast and you can see there — smoke is still rising in the direction of the border. now, we don't know yet exactly what has been hit but we do know that israel has been targeting

firing positions that hezbollah has been using. so, israel's strikes are continuing here now. this weekend, hezbollah has been burying more of its dead. the conflict is far from over. for now, both sides have hit hard but stopped short of triggering all—out war. and our senior international correspondent orla guerin has more analysis from tyre in southern lebanon. in which the conflict has been heating up, and a day in which we had 100 israeli fighterjets in the air, 300 hezbollah rockets firing across the border. there may actually now be a chance for a bit of a de—escalation, because the region had been holding its breath for a month waiting for hezbollah to seek retaliation for the killing of that top commander, fuad shukr,

and it has now done that, but today, it chose military targets in israel. it did not target critical civilian infrastructure. it did not hit a major city. it did not kill civilians. and israel, for its part, also targeted military sites here across the border in lebanon. there may now be a chance for some breathing room, and i was very struck by the language used by the hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah. he said that this might be it for hezbollah, it might leave it at that. people could now feel easy and get on with their lives after a month in which there had been a great deal of tension, and tension, i have to say, on both sides of the border. some of the latest lines at a venue on the hostage ceasefire negotiations. reuters is reporting talks in cairo ended without any agreement according to tim egyptian

security sources who say neither hamas nor israel agreed to several compromises imposed by mediators. yaakov katz is an israeli jounralist — formerly editor in chief of the jerusalem post. i asked him about the escalations we have seen in the past 2a hours. definitely what happened, samantha, with the situation in lebanon on the northern front was a definite escalation. hundreds of rockets fired by hezbollah into israel, and israel pre—empting that, trying to deny hezbollah the ability to launch what was, we were told, thousands of potential rockets, maybe up to 6,000, into the centre of the country, towards the metropolitan of tel aviv. but then, later in the evening, hamas from gaza, the front that israel was not necessarily focused on today, but that war does continue. they're launching a rocket that strikes just south of tel aviv into a main city called rishon lezion. so it's just another illustration of what israel has been saying for a long time. it's fighting a war on multiple fronts simultaneously. both israel and hezbollah have said

that they do not want all out war, and they've repeated that many times over the past ten months or so. but both say they are ready. what are the possibilities now? where are the opportunities for a de—escalation, do you think? well, i think the best opportunity for de—escalation is what we're seeing actually happening in doha, in qatar and in cairo, egypt. the ongoing negotiations for a possible hostage release that would lead to a ceasefire in gaza and hence would likely also lead to hezbollah saying, "we have no reason to continue to attack israel "from the north" and iran then also de—escalating. let's remember that iran has also said that they will retaliate for the killing of a top hamas leader, also a month ago in tehran attributed to israel. so there's a lot of tension at the moment. and these hostage talks, if they reach and culminate in a deal, do have the potential to de—escalate the entire region.

if that doesn't happen, though, there's no doubt that what happened earlier today, hezbollah did blow off steam. it was able to fire close to 400 rockets and mostly into northern israel. israel was able to deny them the large scale assault that they had planned. but if each side is willing to say, "ok, we had enough for now" that could also take us back, though, to what has become the new normal — every day rockets from lebanon, every day, israeli strikes in lebanon. that's not something that we want to see continue, but that would be better than a direct escalation, as was possible earlier this morning. the reuters news agency has just posted some information online saying that hamas have rejected a new israeli conditions put forward in the gaza ceasefire talks, and there have been months of on and off talks with both sides blaming each other. and it seems like the goalposts shifting all the time. there does seem to be a sticking point, doesn't there, overthis so—called philadelphi corridor?

this is a stretch of land along the southern border with egypt. what do you see as the opportunities for a breakthrough here? well, i think it's really going to be up to the americans who are exerting amazing influence and power here in the region. i mean, just look at what's happening right now in the persian gulf, where they were supposed to have sent the lincoln aircraft carrier to replace the roosevelt. and for now, defence secretary austin just announced that he's keeping both aircraft carrier strike groups in the region. this is all part of america flexing its muscle and trying to exert influence on what's happening in the region, including on these talks, saying to the iranians, "you have to crack down on your proxies, i.e hamas "and hezbollah to get them to accept a deal." we know that the prime minister of qatar is going to be visiting iran, likely tomorrow, and this is all part of signalling that we're going to see the iranians have a lot of influence over hamas and over yahya sinwar, the leader of hamas, who's still in a tunnel inside gaza. hopefully, this can bring both sides

to agree to some sort of deal, but also we need to see flexibility on the israeli side. there's no question the philadelphi corridor is a strategic corridor. that's where hamas has smuggling tunnels. and israel is therefore concerned that if it vacates that area, they would renew their smuggling and get back all the weapons that were destroyed. but israel has to be creative, and we have to find a way to end this so that the hostages can come home and we can de—escalate the conflict in the region. do you believe that prime minister netanyahu wants to end this in the near term? back you talk about us influence, and we've all seen the frustrations that president biden has had with prime minister netanyahu over the past, what, nearly a year we're coming up to — do you believe that they that prime minister netanyahu does want a deal and want it soon? well, it's a great question. it's hard to read exactly what's going on inside his mind. i think he definitely wants to get the hostages back home. i think that that's not something that i would question. what i do question is similar to what you just asked.

does he want the war over? so i think he wants a deal that would get the hostages. but i'm not certain that he wants the war to come to an end, because i think that the war continuing does help him out, politically. he's concerned that if he reaches a hostage deal that would lead to an end of the war, the more right wing parties in his coalition would bolt, would topple the government, and then he would face a new election. and he's blamed for a lot of the failures that led to the october 7th hamas massacre and this war that has ensued now for more than ten months. so to him, to some extent, the continuation of hostilities is not necessarily a bad thing. and therefore it's a mixed — it's a mixture of interests and a delicate balancing act that he needs to walk. but really, at the end of the day, we have to hope is that he puts the national interest first. and that is, at least in my view, and i think in most israelis�* view at the moment, to get back the hostages, even at the price of having to pay with a ceasefire

that would last for maybe even several months. german prosecutors have named the man suspected of friday's mass stabbing at a festival in the town of solingen that killed three people and injured eight. they said syrian national issa al h is suspected of being a member of the islamic state group. as is normal in the german legal system, they haven't specified his surname. the suspect turned himself in late on saturday and admitted to the crime. he appeared in front of german prosecutors earlier on sunday. the owner of x, elon musk, has criticised the arrest of the founder of the telegram messaging service, pavel durov. he said it was a sign that freedom of speech in europe was under attack. the russian billionaire, who's also a french citizen , who's also a french citizen, is accused of failing to act on reports that the platform is being used for organised crime, including fraud and drug trafficking. 0ur correspondent will vernon has more. by the way, it's my first public appearance... he's known as russia's zuckerberg.

pavel durov, the billionaire ceo of telegram, likes to show off his extravagant lifestyle, as well as his muscles, on social media. but now, mr durov, who lives in dubai, has been arrested — shortly after landing his private jet at this airport in paris. french media say he's accused of failing to take action against criminals using telegram. telegram is one of the world's most downloaded apps, with almosti billion users. it's most popular in russia and ukraine, used by both pro—kremlin media and by ukrainian officials, such as president zelensky. pro—democracy groups in places like iran and hong kong also use telegram, but it's controversial because there's very little moderation of material posted. governments have often struggled to persuade the company to remove content. western law enforcement agencies are increasingly concerned about telegram's use by drug traffickers, terrorist

groups and paedophiles. 0ne german security chief called it "a medium for radicalisation". have you come under pressure from other governments... - in a recent interview, pavel durov said he was right to refuse some requests to remove content. where we thought it would be crossing the line, it wouldn't be in line with our values of freedom of speech and protecting people's private correspondence, we would ignore. today, russian officials on state tv accused the west of double standards over the arrest. a lesson in democracy from the kremlin. will vernon, bbc news. the reuters news agency says one of its team covering the war in ukraine has been killed after a missile attack on a hotel. it said its safety adviser ryan evans was part of a six—person crew staying at the hotel sapphire in kramatorsk. two journalists from the team are in hospital and one is being

treated for serious injuries. the news agency said they send their deepest condolences and thoughts to ryan evans' family and loved ones. here in the uk, the prime minister is warning that things will get worse before they get better. in a speech this week, sir keir starmer will say there are no quick fixes to the problems left by the conservatives. but the tories have accused labour of "fabricating" claims of a black hole in the nationalfinances, in order to justify planned tax rises. here's our political correspondent iain watson. cheers and applause. the last time labour won a big majority, in 1997, we were told things could only get better. there seemed to be a hint of that optimism, too, when keir starmer swept to power this summer. the sunlight of hope, pale at first, but getting stronger through the day, shining once again... but this has been eclipsed. his message now is that things could get worse before they get better, and he's blaming the previous conservative government.

the prime minister says he's releasing some offenders early because of a fundamental failure of the last government to provide enough prison places, and even this is blamed on his predecessors. he says that rioters exploited cracks in society created by 14 years of conservative rule. we've inherited a society problem, too. there's a lot of work to do but the speech will also say that progress will be made. itjust won't be made overnight. labour claims the state of the public finances are worse than anticipated — this means tough choices. the chancellor has removed winter fuel payments from the vast majority of pensioners, creating unease in their own party and criticism from opponents. it does feel very restrictive, a cut that will hit pensioners when we see the increase to the energy price cap, plus cuts to cost of living payments that they enjoyed last winter. i think it makes it look very difficult and in terms of change, which is what the government promised us during the general election, i don't think this

is the change that people were voting for. and the conservatives are accusing labour of fabricating a black hole in the public finances to clear the way for tax rises. labour say they'll make difficult choices but these will generate early political headwinds. iain watson, bbc news. the paralympic flame is on its way to paris, after 2a british torchbearers carried it midway through the channel tunnel. they then handed the symbolic torch to french paralympians in calais. the torch itself was lit on saturday in stoke mandeville — the birthplace of the paralympic movement. 0ur correspondentjoe inwood spoke to some of team gb�*s paralympians as they were getting on to the eurostar. do you know your s3 from your c7? do you know why wheelchair rugby is called murderball? well, over the next 15 days or so we're going to find out, because the paralympics are going to get going in paris. now, of course, the olympics were a fantastic success and team gb are hoping to replicate that with the paris games.

i'm joined now by a couple of the swimming team who are on their way here on the eurostar at st pancras. will and maisie, tell us which category and classification do you both compete in? so, i am s14, which is swimmers with, like, an intellectual impairment. and maisie, you are? i am an 56, and that's kind of in the middle of the physical impairments, yeah. now, maisie, you were at tokyo and you had great success, you are one of our big medal hopes. how are you feeling about these games? yeah, really good. you know, this year i have been swimming the fastest i have, so hopefully going into the games that can continue and i will try my best to hopefully replicate those medals. you broke your own world record recently? yeah, in may in berlin, so that was kind of a shock for that point in the season, so i think it shows that i am in a really good place and hopefully that will carry on for over the next few weeks. and how much sort of support have you got, how has the public mood around these games been going? completely different to tokyo. i think, you know, the whole crowd are behind us and i think

because we are so close to home in paris, it is going to be really special and even down here in the station, you know, we had everyone waving flags and cheering for us, so yeah, it has been really good so far. and will, this is your first games, how are you feeling about it? nervous? not too nervous, no. i'm going in favourite for 200 freestyle which is on the 31st, so yeah, hopefully that will be good, and yeah, it's my first games, just try and embrace the crowd. i know in tokyo there was no crowd, so just try and bring as much of the 15,000 people in as possible. so do you think, are you a favourite for a gold? how do you rate your chances? yeah, so i hold the world record, well, joint with reece dunn who won it in tokyo, i'm1.52.li, so i'm going in favourite for that by 1.8 seconds. so hopefully i can handle the pressure well and try and just hang onto a gold or at least get a medal, and just enjoy the moment. it's my first games, so hopefully many more to come as well. will, maisie, thank you very much. now, of course, we have a golden train for these athletes heading to paris, they are hoping this is an omen. they are aiming for anywhere

between 100 and 140 medals which would better what they managed in tokyo. ukraine's paralympics athletes are preparing to take part in the competition — which begins this week. their country has a remarkable record of success in the paralympics. but inevitably ukrainian athletes have been affected by the war with russia — many of them have to train abroad. our sports correspondent andy swiss reports. he's one of ukraine's biggest paralympic hopes... ..danylo chufarov. but how do you prepare for a games after this? in 2022, he was here — the then besieged city of mariupol. chufarov, who's visually impaired, survived three weeks of shelling before his house was destroyed. translation: i was ready to die. i hoped i would survive, but the probability of dying was so high that you just put

up with it. over the last 20 years, ukraine's paralympians have become heroes at home — one of the most successful teams in the world. but they say around 500 of their sports facilities have been destroyed. chufarov now trains here, near dnipro, where he's often interrupted by air raid sirens. many athletes have had to move abroad. fencer andrii demchuk has been training in poland with their team, but he's gone back to ukraine, where he speaks to injured soldiers about adapting to life with a prosthetic. he's even delivered jeeps to help the war effort, driving them with a little help from his fencing sword. i have only one normal leg and three pedals. and, for me, i can help with a broken epee, orfoil, and push the clutch, and after, i can push my left leg to another two pedals.

this is a little problem. he laughs. every day, all what i do, i do for my country. at the paris olympics, 15 russian athletes took part as neutrals, but at the paralympics, 90 are set to compete. for ukrainian swimmer anna hontar, who had to move to finland after the invasion, facing them will not be easy. i will try to close my emotions but i don't know how it will go. will it give you an extra motivation to win in the paralympics? yes. yeah. yes. i want to be in it, i want to fight for ukrainians, for my family, for our paralympic team, and i want to fight. that challenge has never been greater, but ukraine will be hoping their paralympic success story can continue against all the odds. andy swiss, bbc news.

good luck to all of the paralympian is taking part. that of course begins on wednesday. this is... now, take a look at this manette baillie from suffolk here in the uk has marked her 102nd birthday by doing a sky dive for charity. it was the first time she'd ever done one! speaking to the bbcjust before thejump, ms baillie said she "doesn't do fear". she is a legend. happy birthday. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. when it comes to rainfall totals so far this month, there's quite a marked contrast between the northwest and the southeast. hardly any rainfall in comparison to what we should be seeing for this month. but further north and west, we've had double the amount of rainfall, over 200% in the far northwest of scotland and across the lake district as well.

and in fact, that's where we're likely to see further rain to add to these totals to close out the month of august, potentially another 80mm in the extreme northwest, whereas hardly any traceable usable rain once again across eastern england and southeast england. so for monday, we are going to see a relatively dry, quiet day this week. quiet day. this weak weather front, a band of cloud, a few nuisance showers close to the scottish borders, northern england and north wales to the north and south of that sunny spells breezy, but the winds not as strong as over the weekend and it will feel a little warmer, which is good news for many as it's the bank holiday weekend away from scotland, so highs likely of 23 degrees as we move into tuesday. so highs likely of 23 degrees. as we move into tuesday, central and southern areas under this influence of high pressure into the near continent.

but a toppling around that high is another low moving in bringing wet and windy weather, but at the same time, the wind direction swings around to a south—westerly and just taps into some pretty warm air coming from the near continent. so the rain still heavy as it moves out of the scottish borders and into north wales. but ahead of it, with that sunshine and that increasing warmth, we should see temperatures at 25 degrees. that's 77 fahrenheit. we're looking at mid to high teens across scotland. now that weather front is not moving very far at all on wednesday as it continues to bump into this area of high pressure so we could see this conveyor belt of rain just sitting across southwest england, wales and northern england for a time. and that means we'll see some increasing warmth. still a level of uncertainty where that front is going to be sitting, but potentially from hull down to the isle of wight, anywhere south and east of that could see temperatures peaking at 27 or 28 degrees. that's 82 fahrenheit. we keep some sunshine and warmth, although not quite as warm, through thursday and friday across england and wales, staying unsettled further northwest.

this is bbc news, the headlines israel launches a wave of what it calls pre—emptive strikes across southern lebanon to thwart a large—scale attack by hezbollah. while hezbollah says it launched a wave of rockets and drones against military targets in retaliation for the recent assassination of a top commander.

these are live pictures fom inside israel where sirens have sounded as hamas says it's fired a rocket at tel aviv. german prosecutors name the syrian man who has confessed to carrying out friday's mass stabbing attack in the city of zohlingen in western germany. the 26—year—old is reported to be a syrian asylum seeker, who's being investigated for links to the islamic state group. and the owner of x, elon musk, has criticised the arrest of telegram founder pavel durov saying it's a sign that freedom of speech in europe is under attack. now on bbc news...newscast hello. it's another one of those episodes of newscasts where we spend the whole episode just chatting to an interesting person. and today it's the actor david harewood, who, yes, of course you remember him from homeland, which was a massive hit a few years ago, but he's been

in lots of other things. and recently he became the president of rada,