the, the system even come in as an international anti corruption, excellence award, nominator hero. now the law is rare. land leases and nights have massive. s strikes on southern barrier with the ministry says it's been targeting sites, put money to has a lot in a suburb of to hear the hello. i'm darn jordan. this is out. is there a life of the latest of souls on the capital began as the sun set on friday, residential blocks of flats and in the southern summer, it is time to face the truth and the truth is, unless submit to me,

i stopped and list this government this stopped war when encompass all of us lead us on the arm will condemn, as well as the actions of the united nations. as warnings grow about the risk of a wide, a regional and has the law size rockets into the northern is really city of suffolk and its best response to the attacks on the 11 on these waking up after nights have sustained and relentless bombing of its capital. and other targets throughout the country, southern bad route was hit by an intense wave of his riley and strikes, which as well says, was, ain't that science belonging to has blah and they have any populated. some of the here fire hasn't golf buildings across the area. many had been reduced to rubble. a coverage begins with ali ashan who sent this report from southern level lighting up the lights. kyle, with a root straw like at the slide launched light is was shot to ring. any hole that it

would teach please to stop escalating a tax on devon, on that docs have targeted the densely populated sub of di. what is radius also struck a guess for the south, including targets out on the southern city on the tire. one of the largest attacks on a route and decades began as dusk fell over the city and continued long into the 9th . the to begin with 10 massive strikes, targeted the aftermath and this residential neighborhood watched devastating the rescue as a nearby residence, rushed to search the rubble for survivors. the he has been hit by is with several times this week. but friday's attacks are, by far,

the largest water shut up. that would be the items that was in the strike felt like an earthquake of the ground was shaken there. i was on the 7th floor in the southern suburbs and saw a strange mass of fire. the entire building was shaking and it has affected me psychologically. i know a lot of the more them, if you know some of this was a painful strike with innocent civilians affected. what can we say? there are a bunch of criminals, 11 these, i'm not fighting them or bombing buildings like they all have you look at the is really let us create for just the 5 bombing. you have any populated civilian neighborhood, saying it's strong and major has black command center. and weapons defaults please palace central headquarter was intentionally built under residential buildings in the heart of the gulf here in beirut. as part of cliff bought a strategy of using lebanese people as human shields. but it's clear, many of the victims in dusky home to about 700000 people are civilians. the us

has been pushing is risk to negotiate the c spy with his blog and says the strikes and the he went to achieve that game. but secretary of state hunter blinking weston creek defend is rez. auctions. the question is not. this is real, have a right to deal with existential threats with security and enemies across its uh, its borders with the a valid intent to destroy his real force. it does. but the question is, what is the best way to achieve its objectives? we believe the diplomatic horses, the best point is what it says. it strikes on level. and that's something has laws that tax allowing displaced is really to return to the north with the latest attack on be within the south, as well as once again made it clear that bombing, residential buildings is no obstacle to that goal. or the actual just see it all

fire southern level. so let's just say some live pictures. now i'm coming from the southern suburbs of the here in the roots. the sun has been up for just over half an hour or so. and somebody can still rising as a result of what spend the night of dramatic development. this is a live pictures where you have to see close up what the damage is and of course, how many casualties they have been in. those is really head strikes. but let's take a closer look at the location of israel lights as a tax on the southern bay roof. here is a densely populated somebody up in the south and the city home to around 700000 people. the neighborhood was loudly destroyed by these randy administrate during the 20064 and 11. on the summit above the he has been hit by his radio strikes multiple times these ready on a killed at least 2 has black come on. does an early as strikes and thousands of civilians were also killed last spring and i'll just say it was in the hold of. she joins us live from a real tight st in terms of the timeline. just bring us up to date with these intensive, his radio strikes on by route to have a night. what's been happening while it's been

a long night of violence near non stop is really strikes targeting neighborhoods in baby southern suburbs. what you see behind me is just a slice of these 2 monetary and crisis who monetary and impacts of those uh, bombardments, those fears and intensive bombards. they route southern suburbs is known to be a place, whereas fuller has a presence. it is also aware of some of it supporters live, but other civilians live there as well as like you mentioned, it's a densely populated area. the people are making their way out of what is known 11 on as saucy. but at the end of the day, there is a lot of concern that this is just the beginning. that's the is really our. we have placed a root southern suburbs in the equation on monday. when let me just walk around as

we speak so that we to show you the visa master displacement really on monday went down this intensive and expensive ways of air in southern 11 on eastern 11. on the traditional off has the law were largely out of the equation. we saw a strikes in in the, off the target to assess the nations. but we did not see this intensive error a sold on talk us as we witnessed on on monday nights, which all really started approximately 12 hours ago with multiple exposure. loud explosions were heard across the capital. a series of air strikes 11 the neighborhoods in the southern suburb. some better to mention about the casualty told. we still do not have final numbers up there, which we are hearing from. some people here is that throughout the night, we're not able to reach areas where kids due to the intensity of the bombard.

that's so this is, i don't know how many times we are going to repeat this phrase, a noun phrase. if this war, i said it's numerous times since october 11 months, a fight fighting began. we're now in the 11th months and we've seen really this gradual escalation, 1st limited to the border area, moving deeper inside leaven on. but the past 2 we have been different. we are on a different level for people here. this is the war and they feel that, you know, it's, it's, this is just the beginning. i'm saying, as i say he does like 7 nights have causes huge displacement crisis out of the last couple of days as well. and we have done a response yet from has blah run these overnight strikes and wherever a balance of elidah, assigning us roller the

mass of attacks that destroyed a residential block, the fates of hezbollah, leadership. the faith of how's the secretary general throughout law is not know. and when you talk to people here, what they tell you is that this was a man, or this is a man who protects. so there's a loss of fear and worries. people here looked up to him, they see him as their protector, and that's why they don't know what's next. one woman told me this was worse, this is what we witnessed overnight was worse than the 2006 the full on war between as well as and has the law. and, and that's, you know, what they saw that they haven't seen this intensity in bombardment and, and they feel about this. this is the worst i've heard from a lot of people here. they feel about not just by the world for them. what is more important is they feel abandoned in their own country, or i to, i'll just,

there was a now hold on, just bring yourself to date with events from a night in the liberties capital by route zayna. thank you. let's bring it in for an economy, joins us from mazda you, and that's in southern lebanon. payments levels have been, is there any strikes in the south? we have becca also in time, so that's what's been happening in my as well . absolutely. no laptop in the is really strikes so the we've heard several explosions in the area. the i am which is the number to you, a governor of over night. we've seen explosions in here as well. remote to governor . it was supposed to be one of the safe places that people felt they could flee to from here. and that's now on the intense and bow a bombardment as well as da here, which my colleague designed to hold up was just speaking about these really have been very, very clear. what they've said is that we are attacking weapons launches and his

beloved military buildings in lebanon. and that seems to be what they keep saying. they keep saying that this is against, as well as military infrastructure, but civilians. even the here in the tier governor as the words where i am. yeah, keep dying now. just about an hour ago in the fall distance over that way, just over the original. i knew we had as bullet rockets being fired. the was a alarms going off the inside of it and in the upper galley as well. he's ready. all me says, observed about 10 rockets coming in to that territory that we dealt with by the rocket defense system. and what impact in mind is all of this having on people in the south of the country where you are a hole in the towns, all of the villages. even the little hamlet's old emptying out people are just

fleeing. there's a lot of pressure hit on uh no, just the people, the emergency services are under tremendous amounts of pressure when one of those booms and guided old guy did or missile lands in lebanese territory. this is a very far as the era you get forest fires. uh, somebody told me from the civil defense, but they've been battling and continued tobacco 3 or 4 or 55 as a day they completely stretched uh some 276 in the last week. a lot of them. so that's a big problem. the health care site to 37 hospitals have been shorted because of medical stuff. there are simply skid, that israel will do what disney garza and just go off to the village as far as medical infrastructure and just start to bomb hospitals. everything is on the prussia right now, and whether it gets to breaking point or not really means to be seen. but now we're

looking at the something suburbs and it people here wondering if this is likely to hold this said a new phase a would review. so many times. all right, so i'll just bear with him and come back, and mazda unit is something 11 on him on. thank you. so it has a lot. meanwhile, aside rockets up as well as northern city of south. that is the 1st strike announced by the groups since the 1st is right here. so i'm a liberties capital on friday is where the police said there's extensive damage to the properties. as a result of fully instructional, no casualties though have been reported to 0 is honda fluid has these randy reactions from the jordanian capital, a man because he's really government fund down to 0 from importing inside israel. these really military says they're going to continue to attack his bottle of targets all across lebanese territory on friday. around 7 p. m. local time, 10 consecutive airstrikes hit the last few suburbs in the southern part of bates. this was the largest air strike of its kind on the lebanese capital. in decades,

these rarely army says they were targeting his bullet command center, but it's still unclear who the person or persons that they were targeting were. or if they were even in the area at the time, these really army has not released any sort of proof or evidence to back up the claims that this was a, his bullet command center. but what they did release rather was a simulated video saying that there were weapons stored in the basement of this building, which is why they attacked israel frequently. does this we've seen a previously before in gaza. and now in 11 on while the stripe was taking place, these really prime minister's office released a photo of him, along with a short statement saying that benjamin netanyahu had approved this strikes from his hotel room in new york. now, after the strike had taken place and that's in yahoo, left new york at the general assembly early to return back to israel. but throughout the day and throughout the evening, the tax on loving on own weight continued. these really military says that they are

going to continue to attack his by law until their goal is achieved. they say that they want to return the evacuated is released back to those northern townsend settlements along the border. they had been evacuated by these really government on october over the age and had not really been dealing with the problem according to locals. now is really is have also said that there are a lot of capabilities. his bola hasn't yet see these really defense minister, along with the army chief of staff, have been hinting at a potential ground evasion into southern lebanon, and are even making preparations for that. the army chief of staff in the last couple of days, even telling troops in the know in the north quote, your boots will be in enemy territory. the chief of these really air force had also said that he would assist the army on the ground from the air in any sort of situation where troops needed to invade lebanon resources are being allocated to the northern border. they have already been to reserve brigades that have been sent

one sect of these really army from dogs of it has been sent and other tanks and military vehicles that receive through our israel, traveling north with these rarely as have said that their attacks on his bullet 11 on, we'll continue, no matter what the central does eat though, i'm the one that's bringing in romani again. he's a non resident fellow at the center of a conflict and humanitarian studies. he joins us live from montville new and thanks for staying with us. so what do you make then of israel is escalation overnight on lebanon because this is a war and everything, but name is nick. yes, and i think of israel has taken a decision to do everything with its power to crush has voted on and remove it as a significant military factor in the middle east equation. whether it will succeed in doing so or not, remains very much an open question has been the, has been built up over decades. and it would take a massive ground invasion many years for it to succeed. just look at what's what it

has failed to achieve and the gaza strip during the past year. in addition, i think is real also has wider ambitions which go well beyond loving, on which has to change the entire strategic equation in the middle east. just as how i'm us sought to irrevocably shout or the status quote on october 7th of last year. israel's response has been a campaign to fundamentally reconfigure the middle east, rather than to simply store the status quote on the us administration movie and has repeat them. he said he doesn't want to see a wider war, but it doesn't seem to be using it's leverage of israel to stop one. it's still supplies is where with arms and ammunition. this is the effect of contradiction isn't, is very much so, i mean either the us is completely on board with israel's agenda, or it has decided that it will do absolutely nothing to obstruct as real. and in promoting its agenda as you know, that it's providing the weapons. i mean,

we're not, we are speaking here about the us supplied is really military. the us supported is really genocidal campaign and the gaza strip. and now also the us endorsed is really attack on love and on the united states and the to europe and allies frame everything that's been happening in the past year from the genocide and the gaza strip to what we've seen and beta during that time in the past 24 hours, they frame everything in the context of what they term, israel's right to self defense. in other words, it's given legitimacy from the get go and absolutely no leverage is used to restrain is related anyway. and there's that organic connection between how is real conducts itself and the lack of any opposition that it receives from its western allies and sponsors. i'm just the final thoughts you then moving. i'm in is ready to need is talk about escalating to de escalate,

but there's no de escalation here. i mean, does as well. seat us now as the bright, the opportune time to go off the hezbollah once and for. and i believe that's very much the case. and in other words, the israel's objective is not only to the link loving on from the gaza strip, but to deal a body blow to the soft style to access of resistance to seek to separated from each other to week and a. and if is real, has its way to destroyer with direct to us involvement it's. it's a very tall order. look again at israel's failures in the gaza strip during the past year. but if israel is allowed to continue with its front page, it's going to cost very many more lives than it already has moving everybody always good to get your thoughts analysis, moving. thank you very much with you for talking to us. thank you. talk for a short break here, and i'll just say when we come back we'll have continuing coverage of a massive. it's very strikes on very southern suburbs which i'm,

if possible city funding for the on counting the cost is rails war on guns that has damaged its economy cannot afford another war with 11 months. but 11 in itself is in a deep economic crisis at a war could strain its resources even further plus confinement as the case tom fixed the purchase economy, counting the cost on that, which is the wrong or pro democracy activists risk and their lives fighting or to proceed, i know that's why i might go to prison. good. so i will join the ron and you episode of democracy may be exposed to struggle if the believe democracy is with dying for we never know when and opening the window root vendor is going to emulate themselves and say enough is enough. my life for democracy on how to 0.

the . the welcome back here watching out. is there a quick reminder about top stories here? this out as well as been striking babies densely populated, some of the he has throughout the night with an intense series of and strikes. he's really ministry says it's been heating sites belonging to his blog file hasn't come fillings across the area. many been reduced to rubble, the soap again, on friday evening with a massive weight of strikes on the same southern summer residential buildings were also hitting the attack again, which is to revel with a desktop at this stage. i'm not but you in security council has held another meeting on the escalation in the middle east with a focus on living on. i'll just say it was my kind of has more than that from the united nations. israel is a massive bombing of

a root suburbs bloom. the proceedings today is relatively sales forces. deluxe union buildings invaded saying they have targeted, as well as may have caught up. those located sees and the nice water in lebanon would leads to further that escalation, involving outside the bowers flute. earlier, are a part of ministers made clear the frustration and anger at the international inability to cook, israel's actions the only, and the real danger that he's danger? in the region is the policies of this government of his right out of the options of this government of his ride and the failure of the international community to stop it and say enough. i mean, we have been saying, you know, for months now that this is an incredibly dangerous moment, that the risk of the situation spiral out of control is real. and that is

not less the case. now it is indeed more of the case and that is why we continue to push for a ceasefire ceasefire certainly because the but also now to cease by 11 on because again, guns on off the answer back in the chain. the, the is really response was blunt, we will continue to defend our people, both that the boat is in a, pull, the value of the piece and just to reveal review, unbreakable omission is clear. and we will prevail. and to remind to that as part of that to mission, israel appears, intent on silencing those who witness it. oh, just here, a general is that being killed, the network band from operating in israel and the occupied westbank. the closure, as alex is offices in ramallah, by the idea is country to the democratic principles. that is what is rightly proud of media. freedom and security of justice must be respected. still on the

table this a proposal for a 21 day cease 5 between israel and hezbollah to create space for why the negotiation. israel has indicated that's not interested, and it's bombing in by root. what appeared to ensure that a positive response from his bullet is unlikely. mike kinda, i'll just hear a united nations that's bringing heavy buckeye. he's an independent journalist and found the baby with report. that's a website featuring investigative news on 1190 jones as live from new york. i'd be great to have you with us. so you've been in touch with people understand on the ground and by roots about what's been happening over night, where they've been telling you heavy as well. they've been saying that it's a night, but they'll never forget the rest of their lives. but they've been saying that every, every bomb that hit last night was so powerful that it felt like it was striking your heart wherever you are in that neighborhood. they've been saying that these are missiles and bombs that have never been seen before,

or felt before and be rude and buried has a long history of experiencing as rarely attacks by one of the most bomb cities over the decades by uh, by the is really, uh, air force and military and people are saying they've never seen anything like this . they're saying that, but the bombs were barbaric that they weren't. they didn't feel they were targeted . they felt that they were very kind of random destroying of all kinds of a commercial centers. so, you know, there's a very highly pack neighbors. this is one of the most densely populated parts of, of a barrier, which is one of the most densely populated cities. so really, every time a bomb goes off in a city like that, it reverberates across the buildings are all connected. so i'll send you an investigative journalist on 11 on, let's talk about the media will because it now plays a critical role these days. does it not seem to have informational, this information is disseminated between the protagonist? how is that narrative been shaping up about 11 on so i think we've, we've seen,

you know, a lot of the western media coverage. and these really media stones being accepted as, as facts and, and also the words of the us government officials claiming that they are due the escalating situation which is. ready really, in a logical statement wire, providing you know, billions and billions of dollars of weapons. but for some reason, a lot of the media seem to be taking up the positions of the us government. and these really government using the language that they're saying the word targeted for example, there is no evidence that any of these attacks are targeted. we can also, you know, have plenty of evidence to go back and lovenox history to know that many of the attacks is real, has been using as a tactic to really cause psychological tear in the minds of so many people. people are feeling trapped right now. people are so that they can't move and that, and that could be, you know, the goal that we're seeing as, as well as trying to implement trying to turn the country against itself. because they haven't really been able to really claim a lot of uh, victories on the battlefield weather and got or 11 a just

a final thought to you i be, we saw israel closed down out here was news gathering operation. israel over the cause of will more recently, of course they close down on use gathering in the outside westbank. how much is that part of israel trying to control in narrative as part of the information of all that you've just talked about? right. i mean, i think we have to look at any statements, not from these officials, as part of the war effort. you know, war is about propaganda. propaganda is one of the main weapons of war. and israel has been creating all kinds of propaganda. videos has been actually targeting and killing journalists if not shutting them down. so we're, we should know by this point that any, any statements, one of these really officials mouse really as part of that war heavy. but i wanted to get your thoughts and you analysis. thank you very much indeed for talking to us . thank you. thank you for not a we spoke to alex ali hush him by phone. he's in tie and southern 11 on the way. there's also been a huge wave of s strikes during the night. a fight for now. we are out of shelter.

boston that all is ready. as strikes wants to town, i'm going to change surrounding the city on top of costs during the past hours. there were in case it strikes me. i should have never seen something like this before. the whole sky wasn't liking and of course this is, this is just spots of what's happening again and they weren't all so it's just a continuation of what's happening in the. ready savvy has a name power. i'm getting the 5 g mirage that the launch 2 wants to is the last one i'm just a few minutes ago. but for now it's, it's clear that situation is getting was minutes off in minutes, and it's just giving us the impression that we are a lot more going on right now. we'll just do this in the beginning of this for

instructional, probably in the past few days. there was some kind of patience when we solve the big strikes, the duration is with the pager of talk with the walkie talkie, a talk with the head about to be the strike on the, on the and today with this huge was another start here on the 2nd, it sounds like it's a bit more so yeah, i mean it's, it's, it's cleared up. thank you and have been working on kind of doing this chain of command. the law might have been several times today say that the child hit the command center by trying to hit the control that you have, which is the communication by trying to catch on. so the structure, the ministry infrastructure with what you're seeing today with several of strikes,

something different than this has been going on, of course, for several weeks a month. not which and can supply. and of course, the issue all between the in general, the front, the support in areas where they are and of course, the whole country to day there were several strikes in addition to the following. and then on the, i've been called reporting here in the file also in the and before leaving. and you know, the law says it's known. so may i get that on the show, which is the most and as it has nothing to do, if we want you to see is really the finishing offer areas. that's what you do on several aspect to lot is only attacking their mainly doors who are being killed off. oxygen is the number of civilians. that's because of.