the, the right spot. otherwise, with the strategic downstream industry on the client, your better tomorrow the, [000:00:00;00] the hello i'm about to send it's 1100 gm to you're watching. i'll just say that we're bringing you continuous coverage of breaking news is really management says it's killed as the baltics commander in chief class on the sala in strikes on valence. there's no confirmation for as well that strikes have continued to saturday morning . these really management says it's targeting sites belonging to the on good

displaced by the constant is very bombing money and be able to forced to live on the streets. the it goes on me says the leader of hezbollah has been killed. the spokes person is at house on this no sala was targeted and a massive or striking bay route on friday attack from the southern suburbs of ducky, i've reduced buildings to rubble is really middle things as it targeted. what it called has of all those central come on as well. that is yet to comment on the status of this, or is that the good for 32 years then i called and joins us now from david. we should stress, of course, that this has yet to be confirmed by has bought and talked to us about the significance. if indeed what the is really ministry is saying is accurate. i will like you mentioned hezbollah has still not confirmed whether or not their

leader has been killed in that mass of air strike multiple airstrikes that target to a residential block that leveled residential buildings is really military saying that they targeted an underground bunker where house on the throne, the was in a meeting so, but i can tell you that his supporters are extremely concerned. the asking questions, waiting for any indication about the faith of their leader. a man who they see as a father figure his death will be a political earthquake, not just for the organization, but for the country. now starla has been the head of the, of, has the law for more than 3 decades responsible, really for transforming the group that from what it was really in the 1980s of melissa force into, you know, one of the most powerful political actors and 11 on today, it is a political party, it has an armed wing, it's one civilian and military institutions. it has members and parliament that has members in government and along with its allies, controls, political power for many of its supporters. this is

a group that his supporters are main mainly from the muslim she or community. they feel that hezbollah has given them a voice in this country. this is a deeply divided country. a polarize the secretary and divisions. they feel that they have been left out of the political decision making for years. so hezbollah, giving them a voice and giving them a se, but there, there are domestic opponents and enemies in the country who believe that has the, has done this through the use of arms, that they have been dictating their terms. whether in the choice of the president or, or any other choice, they've been using their arms to do just that. so. so he is at the same time while a father figure and a man who is highly respected, also as a religious figure among his supporters. he has opponents in this country, no doubt. this is a man who it has been involved in the strategic thinking of the organization. and the biggest question many are asking if indeed he was killed in the strike. who else was in the a bunker? who else was killed was hash himself aid in his cousin and

a member of hezbollah as executive co counsel, was he killed to because he was considered to be the replacement, the successor? so really a lot of questions and a lot of concerned because it's not just, you know, the political leadership that has been targeted as well, has been targeting the organization in recent days and, and recent weeks and in recent months. and we're just looking at pictures, not from the root of smoke rising above the skyline. there is really a text continuing on because of all the testing bags in a as well. yes, as well. continuing to target the positions inside neighborhoods in beta with southern suburbs, the area behind me, you can see smoke still blowing. there have been a number of airstrikes this morning after a brief respite after really what was a long night of violence, intense air strikes that force thousands and thousands of people to make their way out. in fact,

the displacement wave began after that major attack carried out by this really military that it was believed or at least as really military saying that killed how some the smallest since last night people have started to make their way out. it was really seen as a tipping point that a baby with has become really part of the equation that, that is relevant no longer just focus. it strikes against has bullet targets in the south and the east where the group has the presence. but also in this densely populated neighborhood and they with international airport is very close to the neighbor. this neighborhood until now is around has not bombed the airport. but there's only one line one airline operates, and that's middle east airlines living on a national carrier. but israel said that it's jets are patrolling to make sure that the airport is only use for civilian purposes. so there's also a threat of the airport being bombed. now we managed to make our way in and, and one of the neighborhoods in, in the southern suburbs and we saw for ourselves really how people were scrambling

to make their way out the bombardment of the neighborhoods in baby southern suburbs continue. you can see behind me the smoke of this is a residential area. hundreds of thousands of people live here over night because of the intense environment. many, many people made their way out of this area and they still are trying to make their way out of this area. we understand from people's that the, during the night this was very difficult for them to leave because of the, the, the, the strikes a baby with southern suburbs is now part of the equation when israel launch the why scale air assault on, on, as well as the on in areas where hezbollah has a presence in this house, in the east of the country, they with southern suburbs was largely out of the equation that has now changed. so the situation is very tense. the people here are telling us that they believe that this is just the beginning, and that's why you see people carrying suitcases,

whatever they can to leave the area of time and time again. we can hear the sound of israeli fighter jets in the skies. so this is, this is, this is a war. we have been reporting 11 months of the fighting between hezbollah and israel. but now we are definitely in a new phase, it appears that this is as well as stated objective or more objective to return residents to the north of the country. so, and that has the health is firing, that seems to be, that has changed if this is clear from as well. so action in the past week or so. now this is more about destroying has the law and this is what people here are saying. and the stuff now to strike later on uh, late yesterday where we saw multiple explosion smoking tools strikes that leveled at least 6 to 7 residential buildings. of that massive explosion really was a tipping point. and that's what led to this new mass, the displacement some,

some people still, you know, with the victory sign showing their steadfastness. but the people also told me that this is very, very different than what they with us in the last 4 in 2006, they're saying that this is much, much more into the for their own baby. so then suburbs. so the feeling here is that we're just at the beginning, and this could be an open ended battle. the last time has on this roller appeared really in a what was believed to be a recorded address. he did acknowledge that the groups suffered setbacks losses following the pager and walkie talkie explosions, but he did say the infrastructure of the group remains intact. the days and weeks maybe to come will determine whether or not that is the case is in a call to embed rhodes in a thank you very much. indeed, most of the doctors in jordan's capital a month, and that's because these really, governments find all just data from reporting insights. israel, what's the,

is really military. i'm been saying in the hours off to the statement that came, that came out that suggested that house on the fall that had been killed. yes, the military confirming in absolute terms, that they believe that he has been assassinated in that mass of targeting, engulf here. we've just had a tweet from the these are the foreign ministry saying this is who house on the seller was and listing all the a taxes rout accuses him of carrying out. you've also just had a meeting from israel's defense minister you i've got on with the head of the army, the army chief of staff hurts. you have a b and also the head of the most saw that is, is your israel's spy agency? of course, updating each other on the way. ford is role is on high alert. it's on so pulled up 3 reserve as brigades into the areas around inside the occupied westbank. and it's fighting torque,

and also it continues its flight is not that it's stopped after the confirmation of the assassination of his ball as a, you know, top 9, it's continuing and it's continuing to strike across level no, not just the in southern never known or the southern suburbs will sit in the back call in the east, and so, and, and it's giving a message, a very, a newly emboldened israel in a way saying that if you are going to threaten israel, we will find you where you are, which of course, they're taking a major victory of having managed to take out tests on the father who has operated under massive secrecy for years. i'm not just, tim is we're mentioning there are the pager and we'll talk each breach and all the talk commodities that they've taken out over the last couple of weeks. major intelligence breaches seen as a major victory for israel at this point in time. me, stephanie, for many months, certainly for the the,

the length of the is really war in gaza and benjamin netanyahu, whose reputation as court mr. security really came on does right, didn't that he was heavily criticized for the way a not only that the original attack by homeless on october the 7th was carried out . but also the way that these really ministry handled the war in jazz a subsequent to that. and the failure to bring back the captives from johnson at the same time with a new seems about 2448 hours. there's reputation, at least as far as the media is concerned. and israel seems to have changed significantly. the media and the people. uh the latest poll which was before this strike on us on this. but i know he was already the highest pulling that he has been since october. the 7th, in the sense that support had rudy risen since they upped their their attack on has by law. now i think i can say i have no doubt that if there is a new poll,

it will show that he has increased even more this morning before the confirmation of the assassination of house on this that i law. they were already saying in the media, the headline was mr. security is back, he has restored the trust of the is really people. this is something that he always wanted. and that's one. yeah. drives his whole identity. his whole existence depends on his political career on being at the helm of israel. it's something he openly admits. uh, you know, people call him a political survivor. is it political boss or mind like him or not? he bowed to come back when he was voted out about 2 years ago. he did come back and he bored with him. the most right wing government. israel has ever seen the geology of these about sit in his cabinet, are not really reflective of the majority of these really public. so there was a backlash to that too. but what he has done now in what was very divided as well,

is certainly unite israel. behind this victory is really is have seen has blah as a massive threat to them for many, many years. now that's not to say that the group is no longer a threat to them, but it's seen as a major, major win for as well. for sure, stephanie deca and jordan's capital, i'm on stephanie, thank you very much. indeed. the algo is a political analyst that is a contributor to the daily is really paypal products. he's with his life from tel aviv. thank you very much indeed for being with us as deputy was just explaining to us. there was nothing yahoo has been cultivating this image of quote mister, secure team, protecting this very people for almost the entire entirety of his tenure. he may have got it back within 24 hours or so of this, these attacks happening in southern lebanon. but what is the risk? do you think that hezbollah is going to feel it has to respond significantly in

a far greater way than before in order if nothing else to undermine the reputation of benjamin netanyahu as well. uh, i think that uh, nothing else has. uh the news right now, personally we are in effect experiencing a regional in the last 2 years since october 7. um, is there any, is that a kind of a lot of i appreciate the, uh, is there any economy, these rarely society, these rarely international relationships and regions. our relationships uh, being begin the in a cost of confrontation with every one a stronger region of the world. the members over the advent of gold, the president of the united states euro. so it's not definitely that, and it's are now is got the upper hand,

the is what heavy g d p has ranked already by more than 10 percent. the more this rating being decreased again. so you know, is what is a high tech, super file that is losing the elite. and we have to remember that until october 6, the is ready, government lost its legitimacy since they have been enrolled in the palace of democracy. and the uh, is rarely suppose is not taking. granted. when a 8 we will have to face an ongoing war. and that will also involved the one who dees. i'm looking go from my window to the strains of the empty people afraid to go to a concept or to

a demonstration. and it's more. busy to be the button on the it's hard to say, but the use of being its living in a kind of a sales was economy for a very long time. there was any of this, of these really oh me. and the, these riley's or, you know, used to travel to europe, july, to spend diamond shopping in new york and in berries. and i'm not sure how long they will keep supporting this government, which is not here. some live pictures coming out from parts of a route. now would you be targeted by as many attacks so you can see the level of devastation and some of the, the streets and letters there with the destruction in the rubble from the buildings on, on either side of the cover. i just wanted to ask you one of the premises for this latest round of attacks by israel was benjamin netanyahu, his intention to take tens of thousands of people, of is really a box to their homes in the,

towards the north and boys are given the level of tension that we're seeing now, and as you were referring to, we don't yet know where this, where or how this is likely to and most likely to do things that these people to come back to me not trying you who made this promise are likely to be able to go home. i am not sure if they want to go home. um where i live to the hundreds of people in this neighborhood that have left their homes. and for the last year they got jobs. they uh, went to the apartments and they have uh, actually experience the benefits of living in the center where you can enjoy culture and meet friends without being concerned about what's happening on the other side of the boulder. uh, actually is where it has already lost the box of the spirits of the nose. um, but the problem is, is that uh,

coming from the government there from the military. is that unless we push the feasible uh uh to the dining room and get guarantees that uh, they will not be deployed again along the road is people will not go back. so he has to be at country headed same agreement the just deceased by it will you heard the lead is uh, the may is of the last saying that they will not recommend the citizens to go back home before they know that uh they are safe and they get stopped actually rebuilding their houses that were destroyed in the last year and it was takes time. i don't believe that the they want to set it bridge the jewish new year in their homes. hopefully they will do it in the next year. we a couple of days ago we've been talking about um,

the story that have come up from the is really military. what it's chief of staff are being telling troops to prepare for a possible ground invasion that they would be leading that ground invasion. i don't know what the latest is on that maybe you have a clear idea of an idea of what the thinking is on that at the same time. if that did happen, and there was a grand invasion by is really trips into an out of suffering nation. how would that change things? i believe that uh, the idea of the ground invasion was steak. it was through the see the enemy and uh to get ready for the air ride on the bay roads. um is there a doesn't type of right now the international the just let me see to do this. as you mentioned, bravo. uh, this is a sofa and country, its not garza, its not the west bank. and the same time is uh, does not have the main power. people, you know,

the reserve is exhausted and doesn't have the kind of, i mean, initially they use for the a 0 a for the, the backs. uh, so i believe that uh, they will try to do everything to avoid it. so when they get to get your thoughts on this, i can definitely appreciate it. thank you very much. thank you for joining me, an honest mohammad on my same professor, the doha institute for graduate studies. thanks very much for being with us. we're already seeing anti israel protests that have been gathering in tech. right. and there is clearly a tremendous strength of feeling following the statement that has come up from the mainland. trinity, is there any military claiming that they have killed has been a leader hoss on ness, charlotte uranian. leadership has said that it does not want an escalation on this situation. what are the chances? do you think that the iranian leadership may feel pushed to do something that they would not normally do simply by the strength of feeling in their own country and the increased attacks by israel?

at this point i would say it's unlikely that you're on uh doesn't respond at all. mostly because not responding really puts into jeopardy ron's deterrence capacity. we have to remember that iran already promised a forceful response to israel after they assassinated. it's mary me into her on a weeks ago and they haven't responded right and there are already questions about why they haven't, why they haven't responded. if they don't come to the defense of their ally of their proxy has belong. now, after all of these assassinations after the secretary general has apparently been assassinated, and after this massive pager attack and walkie talkie attack, which even, you know, a former c, i, a director called an act of terrorism. right? if they don't respond, after all of this,

then i think it's going to really raise questions about their determines capacity. and that, as we've seen, you know, actually invites israel to do even more damage. so, you know, i don't have a crystal ball, but my, my strong suspicion is that we will see an iranian response in the coming in the coming days in terms of has bought a itself, there of course there's a lot of speculation about what impact this is likely to have on its capabilities, particularly of course, because i'll send the follow has been, as we've been discussing over the last, or a significant role in the strategic planning of hezbollah. so if you were, if you're in a position to advise, has bought a leadership at the moment in terms of the kind of response that would give, is there an idea of how you think it should respond in order not to escalate the situation. but at the same time,

to be able to indicate it's the degree to which it, regardless as such a serious event. what i would advise and not to take my advice. i'm just, i'm just the media professor, but what i can say is that there they are in a very difficult position. there is no question that they've been, they've been degraded right. a couple of weeks ago or 10 days ago or so i was, i was in this chair and i said that there are serious communications problems. there are problems with their communications infrastructure and the fact that they weren't that israel was able to infiltrate them the way that they they did and then carry out these walkie talkie and pager attacks and back to back to is clearly that has some impact on, on has the laws ability to communicate, right? that they have been relying on those 2 to means. that's at one level. now at a, at another level, they've suffered several assassinations now including to their, their top leaders. so as you mentioned, that you now have this

a sort of deficiency in strategic leadership and direction. so they've been degraded on that front as well. israel also claims to of been able to take out many rocket rocket launchers, although i'm, i'm not able to to confirm that. and so the question right now is how quickly i haven't, there is no question that fits, but i will regroup and reorganize. but how quickly can they be organized, and to what extent will they be able to launch some kind of a legitimate, forceful response to what israel has done. and they're in, in, in, in many ways in the same position as iran, they have to re establish deterrence by now. israel is essentially doing do it and doing what it wants. and i failed to mention when i was listening off those things that principal also has to deal with this intelligence breach. they have to figure out how it is exactly that. israel has gotten all of this intelligence to know where all of its leaders are over these past, you know, 7 to 10 days. so it's quite a challenge. um,

but i do think because the law is going to regroup sooner rather than later. and it's really good to get your thoughts on this mohammed on last night. thank you very much indeed. or among cons, joining us from much i own in the southern level on an run. that's where many of the attacks have been going on. what's been happening? well just in the last few minutes we've had, we might be to the reselling in the southern town of k. i'm on the border with israel, we've had fight to just overhead. we've had drones. i've had this morning. i just want to show you that ridge line over the about 3 hours ago was the side of a, a, at least to has below rock rock. it's going off. we actually sold them now. um, since the hours of the morning as well as size is carried out, 7 operations in support. now to those came before the is really announcement of the

claim that nelson has ms rela, was dead. now they is targeted, they could pre supplement using it for the one miss all they targeted the remote ad base with the for the 3 missiles as a small, uh, short to medium range missiles off to the announcement of 5 attacks, including outside the us are set to him in the rush peanut settlement and the supplement of mit mit, so the whole in northern israel now according to his resources, i'm speaking to his reading, media, 70 real kids have been fired from living on at israel. 20 of them, which i'm targeted. the goes and hides, so everything is still happening. we've seen it strikes in ball back we've seen as strikes and i'm doing which is not even anywhere remotely near the south. it's in the center of the country. we've also seen

a struction deep and in the root as well, and in the back of valley, so very much a message from his beloved off to the announcement. that's why they sent those workers in. but these relays also responding in kind a. m on thank you very much. i'm on con, talking to us from most i own risk is a security and political affairs donnell. this is joining us live from beverly. thanks very much indeed for being with us. um, in terms of the way that the situation will not change if indeed it is correct, that is really mandatory. it has killed, has bought a leader hoss on not saw the what are we likely to see happening on the ground as well? i think that uh, unfortunately we are gonna highly expect some dramatic is really escalation is right. it is going to continue because all the time is of the segment buying binding is rated drawing sheet of stock and see how heavy he basically said, we're not going to get this because of the law. i need

a breathing or so based upon that, i think that these are all views that has momentum on each side right now, particularly if what it says is true about the assassination of psych, it's costing us some, but i didn't want to give us a possible any breathing space, a monitoring group, or in order to address the situation. i think that it gets real as they use a lot of easy hi, raw the basement. and the predicament there is a leadership doctor, and i think somebody wants to take advantage of that to the maximum. i think for this reason the 1st block is called upon now to wish or rather dramatic retaliation which far exceeds what it has done yet a lot of it. so you know, kind of that moment and which here's where you'll appears to happen. so let's wait and see. as i said, i do expect this ro, willing escalate, is going to ask, i have more and then coming hours and days. and i think the time is not very much on the hospital side,

which requires visible to quickly go ahead and issue that firm response. even if, even if it has this leadership issue now, which are despising, there's going to be a lot of attention being paid on the way iran responds to this. there is a suggestion from some of the guess we've been talking to this morning that in iran is going to feel obliged to respond in some form. but it is going to be difficult to do it in such a way that won't lead to a further escalation. and i think that must both be wrong. principle they have destroyed correct governance. now they've done it successfully until now striking the correct balance between continuing to pressure the is ready side by the operations about the same time of giving the is really sort of the excuse for the launch of what all that balancing act is becoming increasingly more difficult on the, on the side of both talk both principal or penalty wrong. but at the same time, i think that um, as below,

in particular has proven to be to be quite skillful. have you know that strategic thinking how to strategically in effect paying 4 motors on the is ready side without the necessary the leading to a whole lot more. the problem now is i was a but i think sonya test on my soul and the other brains, all possible are many of them have been taken out. so what remind city saying is will cause the lot continued to have this strategic ability to inflict that damage on israel. it kind of break does waiting to issue a lot, uh, you know, the firm response to what has happened without further igniting that situation. because we're trying to go back to the wrong account has been lock. it's been clear, i think, from the stocks, but the doors are not interested in such a war. we appreciate you being with us as risk. thank you very much. indeed. thank you. the

dentist joining us as we kept breaking news story with the following here on the 0 . israel's army says it's killed the leader of has bought our husband, the smallest for the groups lead up to 32 years as well that has not from farm just