israel's military says it's been hitting his israel's military says it's been hitting hezbollah targets and intercepting rocket fire. these are live pictures of the border between israel and lebanon. hezbollah confirms two senior commanders are among 31 people killed in friday's strike on beirut. israel's military says it killed 16 terrorists. israel hit a gazan school being used as a shelter. hamas says at least 22 people were killed. a former fulham football manager tells the bbc extra precautions were put in place to protect female players from mohamed al—fayed. here — the labour party conference begins this weekend, its first in government for 15 years. but ministers are expected to deliver sobering messages. counting begins in sri lanka's first presidential election since the country's economic meltdown two years ago.

the israeli military says it's carrying out more strikes on his brother targets in lebanon. ——the israeli military says it's carrying out more strikes on hezbollah targets in lebanon. these are live pictures from the region. in separate statements, the iran—backed group says it fired "a salvo of katyusha rockets" at two israeli barracks. reuters video shows rockets coming from southern lebanon being intercepted by the israeli military.news agency correspondents are reporting heavy israeli strikes in several areas of southern lebanon. at least 31 people were killed in an israeli air strike on beirut on friday. israel said it was targeting a top hezbollah military commander who also died during the attack.

it says it killed, in their words, 16 �*terrorists�*. hezbollah, which is designated as a terrorist organisation says many of those killed included women and children. as morning broke, the destruction became clear. an israeli air strike hitting daraya, hezbollah's heartland in southern beirut, its conflict with israel returning with force to a place they considered safe. many here were still incredulous. people were walking, going out and coming home. this is as close as we can get to the site of the attack. and as you can see, this is a densely populated neighbourhood of beirut.

and all morning there's been intense activity from emergency services. the search continues for people who are believed to be under the rubble. and the situation here is still very tense. this footage captured the moment of the attack. israel has called it a precision strike targeting top hezbollah officials. it says they were meeting on the ground of this building to plan more attacks. among the dead is ibrahim aqil, a senior military commander. the us had put a $7 million bounty on his head, accusing him of being involved in the killings of americans in beirut in the 1980s. this is another humiliation for hezbollah but it is also a blow to a country already exhausted by this conflict. translation: the israeli army,

with all its continued crimes with the excuse of pursuing the hezbollah movement, has targeted a residential compound. it's committed a massacre in a residential building against unarmed children, women at home. how hezbolah is going to respond isn't clear. it doesn't want to spark a wider war with israel. and its supporters in iran don't want a major confrontation, either. but israel says this is just the beginning. hugo bachega, bbc news, beirut. in gaza, israel has struck a former school. hamas says at least 22 people were killed. the israel defense forces say the attack targeted a hamas command room at al—falah school, which had been serving as a shelter for displaced civilians. the army insists that steps were taken to mitigate harm to civilians, but accused hamas of systematically using civilian sites to house its fighters. the israeli military has received widespread global condemnation for attacking schools, civilians shelters and hospitals in gaza. israel says they were

housing hamas fighters. live to our correspondent injerusalem, daniel de simone. daniel, injerusalem, daniel de simone. first, i want to ge the daniel, first, i want to get the latest from you on the current strikes, the fighting between the borders because of course this has been going on for months, but what are what we are witnessing is what we have seen for months, israeli air strikes in southern lebanon, israel say it is targeting hezbollah targets. and hezbollah saying they are firing rockets into northern israel. we have been saying this for a long time. i think yesterday it was a bit different, we have only seen israel strike three times in beirut since this conflict

began very, very densely populated area. several hezbollah senior figures were meeting in a basement but the lebanese authorities have said 31 people died, including three children. the israeli military has said 16 people who died were senior hezbollah figures. but what we're seeing today, in terms of the israeli air strikes in the hezbollah —— hezbollah rocket attacks, it is quite in line with what we have seen daily for quite a long time now. this week, we have seen a significant escalation in the conflict. at the beginning of the week, the israeli security cabinet has set a new or goal

of this goal. previously, there were three goals, they related to hamas and gaza. the fourth one relates to the return home, the aspiration to return home 6000 israelis who have been displaced in the north of the country due to rocket fire from hezbollah. an israeli ship has been talk about a new phase of this war, about the centre of gravity moving north, a division of the israeli army has been moved north from the south, and then we saw obviously significant strikes against hezbollah. we saw air strikes yesterday in beirut on other days in southern lebanon and elsewhere where they have been taken place again for months. we also obviously saw something we hadn't seen before which was the pager and walkie—talkie explosions, the deadly explosions throughout lebanon targeting his weather—macro. given that israel set out this goal and hezbollah has said it won't stop fighting israel until it

stops its activities in gaza and the occupied west bank, it is hard to see what happens because at the moment israel isn't achieving that goal, didn't isn't achieving the goal of getting those 60,000 people home. as we speak, hezbollah says they are firing rockets today into northern israel so that raises a question about what next what else israel might do so there is a public debate here about what that could look like. there is discussion of a possible ground incursion, a public discussion, and that is all feeding into real international concern about where this conflict goes next. the us defence secretary saying he overnight he was to see a diverting resolution to this are that people on either side of the border can go home. the israeli government saying their military actions are going to continue and benjamin netanyahu saying that our goals are clear and our actions speak for themselves.— for themselves. thank you so much for _ for themselves. thank you so much for the _ for themselves. thank you so much for the update. - let's speak to or yissachar, vice president

for research and content at israel's defence and security forum. he is based in tel aviv, but todayjons us from budapest. as daniel mentioned there, israel has declared a new war goal, a formal goal which is to return the tens of thousands displaced israelis to that border. do you believe this ratcheting up of tensions, fighting, is the best strategy for that? . ~ fighting, is the best strategy for that? ., ~ , ., ., ., for that? thank you for having me. i for that? thank you for having me- i think— for that? thank you for having me. i think indeed _ for that? thank you for having me. i think indeed we - for that? thank you for having me. i think indeed we have i me. i think indeed we have entered a new phase of warfare. and israel by doing that, the very famous pager and walkie—talkie explosion, as well as the killing and targeting of ibrahim aqil and other senior hezbollah officials, they really did do away from the kinetic perception of warfare and made it into a new phase where you have sophistication, the disk elation of enemy and command

can spell structure, throwing militants into disarray. and i think in that, they have expressed the sophistication of warfare. the deeper outlook is that their objectives remain to bring the 60,000 displaced people back home to the north, and and in so doing, hezbollah doesn't allow them to do this, especially and by entering —— shooting at anti—tank missiles as well as continued rocket attacks. in my opinion, i think israel has no choice but to break the stalemate. in terms of breaking — break the stalemate. in terms of breaking that _ break the stalemate. in terms of breaking that stalemate, i break the stalemate. in terms. of breaking that stalemate, the west, the us, some of israel's allies are concerned that by ratcheting up this fighting, as you mention, these are embarrassing security failures for hezbollah, the risk of an all—out war is not a future that the middle east could potentially handle, that this would not be in israel but my

interest either, in getting the hostages back home. what is your view in that? i hostages back home. what is your view in that?— your view in that? i think we need to reframe _ your view in that? i think we need to reframe the - need to reframe the conversation, we have to remember how we got there in the first place. israel did not initiate this war, this was imposed on israel the october seven and since october the 8th, hezbollah has shot thousands of rockets. their situation is absolutely untenable. israel did not initiate, their interests have always been to avoid multi—front and indeed the military has been caught initially in this dilemma, how to conduct these two fronts. but i would reframe it as an iranian campaign against israel on severalfronts, iranian campaign against israel on several fronts, hezbollah and hamas are obviously the ones with the highest intensity. let's remember how we got here in the first place. israel did notjoyfully cross the border. israel did not “oyfully cross the border._ israel did not “oyfully cross the border. some context to what you _ the border. some context to what you are _ the border. some context to what you are saying, - the border. some context to what you are saying, you - the border. some context to j what you are saying, you are referring to the fact that iran

backed groups like hamas, hezbollah that are on these two fronts of the war, as you say. i also want to ask you about comments by the un human right commissioner because you did refer to those pager and walkie—talkie explosions, he has told the un security council that this was a breach of humanitarian law, and i want to get your view, do you believe attacks that jeopardise civilian lives in this way are justified, given of course the context of the war you are talking about?— context of the war you are talking about? context of the war you are talkin: about? , ., _ talking about? yes, i would say that is within _ talking about? yes, i would say that is within the _ talking about? yes, i would say that is within the limits - talking about? yes, i would say that is within the limits of - that is within the limits of the laws of armed warfare. i would just say that further terrorist organisations that interweave themselves into such a dense fabric of civilian society, i would say it is almost impossible to pinpoint ibrahim aqiland the almost impossible to pinpoint ibrahim aqil and the five other people who were senior

hezbollah militants. the united nations is playing a dangerous game because it used a reputation and now it has just become crying wolf, calling every single action that israel does a breach of humanitarian affairs. our operation in geneva led to the death of 12 terrace and know civilian called it a human catastrophe. we saw a strike killing militants, there was zero civilians, simply hamas who took over the compound so crying wolf and giving alerts against civilian collateral damage, it is dangerous for the un. ., ., ., ., un. you are referring to hamas fiahters, un. you are referring to hamas fighters, according _ un. you are referring to hamas fighters, according to _ un. you are referring to hamas fighters, according to israel, i fighters, according to israel, that have been sheltering in these civilian structures that have been targeted. the human right commissioner is arguing that the problem of the attack like walkie—talkies and explained —— pages exploding this way, displacing booby tracks in objects that would otherwise appear harmless, that is what he said, that rather

than targeted attacks, these are attacks that are putting civilian lives in danger. do you believe an attack like that is one that any country would be able to avoid civilians get wrapped up in? because of the injuries are said to be very dangerous with several people in critical condition after them. i in critical condition after them. ' :: :: , in critical condition after them. ':: in ., in critical condition after them. ':: :: , ., _, them. i 100% agree with you that this them. i 10096 agree with you that this is — them. i 10096 agree with you that this is a _ them. i 10096 agree with you that this is a consideration i that this is a consideration that this is a consideration that the cabinet has to make. to what extent do we have —— want to have civilian casualties? and if we compare it to the military ratio of other militaries around the world, the us, the uk, french, certainly in afghanistan and iraq, we can see that this has to balance out. this could all have avoided had hezbollah had not started shooting at israel on october the 8th. there was a status quo of the ceasefire beforehand and israel has no interest in fighting a

multi—front war. we have to be careful in assessing violations of warfare especially when israel was not the ones initiating the war and the interest is to finish this as quickly as possible. there has to be a de spel —— destabilisation of lebanon. i am half lebanese myself, i would be happy ifjewish people and christians and other groups within lebanon would tear apart from hezbollah and maybe charge a new future for israel and lebanon. a new future for israel and lebanon-— a new future for israel and lebanon. , ., ., ~ lebanon. or yissachar, thank ou for lebanon. or yissachar, thank you foryour— lebanon. or yissachar, thank you for your time _ lebanon. or yissachar, thank you for your time and - lebanon. or yissachar, thank you for your time and your i you for your time and your analysis. counting has begun in sri lanka's presidential election — widely seen as a referendum on the government's handling of the economy. there were a record 38 candidates running to lead the country, including the incumbent, ranil wickremesinghe. all of them are men. the full results are not

expected until at least sunday. sri lankans are looking for a leader who will be able to further repair the country's finances, after an economic collapse two years ago. thousands of protesters faced with skyrocketing inflation and severe food shortages forced the country's president at the time, gotabaya rajapaksha, to flee and later resign. live to our correspondent, samira hussain who is in colombo. yes, look, these elections are really important because they are the first elections since that economic crisis. and we have to remember that sri lankans are still feeling the repercussions from that crisis. in order to stave off bankruptcy, they had to borrow billions of dollars so it is currently in debt. by the tune of $92 billion, if you include both national and foreign debt. and so that has cascaded in terms of impact in —— on to the

people. a lot of voters had been complaining about the higher taxes that they have to pay, and just have expensive everyday goods have become. in fact, i wasjust everyday goods have become. in fact, i was just speaking with one other who said that everything from buying food or any necessities for my kids is just that much more expensive. really, this has all been about the election, it has been the main issue here in these elections. now, the other thing to consider, of course, is that there are 38 candidates that are running. there are four front runners that i think a lot of people are really looking towards, and now that the counting has finally started, i think some people are wondering whether we are going to get, how quickly we are going to get results, given how many candidates are contesting for president. the expectation is that we should get those results sometime on sunday.

get those results sometime on sunda . ,,., , , sunday. samir hussein there, and there _ sunday. samir hussein there, and there is _ sunday. samir hussein there, and there is plenty _ sunday. samir hussein there, and there is plenty more i sunday. samir hussein there, and there is plenty more on i sunday. samir hussein there, i and there is plenty more on our bbc website, but now it is time to look at the weather. , the sport, rather. i'm good at weather as well, by the way. i'm good at weather as well, by the way. i don't want to have to make you ad lib. the weather! in the premier league, liverpool can move top for 2h hours if they beat bournemouth and newcastle fail to get a result at fulham. the reds bounced back from defeat to nottingham forest last weekend by beating ac milan in the champions league. head coach arne slot was full of praise for their upcoming opponents and their manager andoni iraola. they started off quite well. that caught the eye the most. 0f of course because they were 2—0 down so late in the game. there was a tremendousjob down so late in the game. there was a tremendous job over there, it was nice football to watch, developed players, he has a nice playing style. all

credit for him but hopefully we can manage to do better against bournemouth tomorrow than we did against nottingham forest last week. it's into the last few minutes at the london stadium where chelsea are leading west ham 3—0, nicholas jackson with a double in the first 20 minutes before cole palmer added a third. the big game of the weekend, is on sunday, when leaders manchester city host second placed arsenal, so there's a chance for newcastle to snatch top spot — for a day at least — if they can win at fulham. both everton away at leicester and southampton, at home to ipswich, are still searching for their first point. after a positive showing at the korea open there's been another injury blow for emma radacanu. she was forced to retire just half an hour into her quarterfinal against daria kasatkina, raducanu was trailing 4—1 in the opening set, when she had a medical time out, because of a problem with her left ankle. radacanu was given what appeared to be pain killers, but she lasted just two more games, losing the set 6—1, before calling it a day.

this means kasatkina went through to the semifinal where she beat her compatriot diana shnaider in straight sets. she'll now face number three seeded beatriz haddad maia in the final on sunday. india have the upper hand after day 3 of the first test against bangladesh in chennai. bangladesh need an unlikely 357 more runs to win with only six wickets in hand when they resume on day 4. elsewhere, in cricket — england are facing australia at hedingley in leeds in the second one day international of their series. the aussies are looking for a 14th consecutive odi victory but they're up against it as england's bowlers have reduced them to 266—9. anthonyjoshua has a chance later on saturday, tojoin a elite group of legends, including the likes of mohammed ali, if he can become a three—time world heavyweight champion, he's taking on english compatriot daniel dubois,

the ibf champion, in this all british heavyweight title, fight. the two boxers then had their traditional face—off, this was in trafalgar square. joshua weighed in at 18 stone, with dubois, a few pounds less at 17 stone 10 pounds, that's still the heaviest he's been. a post war record crowd, of 96,000 fans, are expected to pack out wembley stadium later. and that's all the sport for now. ididn't give i didn't give this weather, i did the sport, but i am pretty sure it is going to be nice and dry that that later on. you did a fantastic — dry that that later on. you did a fantastic job, _ dry that that later on. you did a fantastic job, thank- dry that that later on. you did a fantasticjob, thank you i dry that that later on. you did a fantastic job, thank you for | a fantasticjob, thank you for that. all right, let's go back to news now. us presidentjoe biden will shortly meet japanese prime minster fumio kishida, as part of the indo—pacific quad summit. mr biden is hosting his counterparts from the group, which also includes australia and india, with plans to announce new strategic security initiatives in the indian ocean. for more on this, let's speak to tomohiko taniguchi, special advisor at the think tank fujitsu future studies. he was also previously

a special advisor to the cabinet of former prime minister shinzo abe. thank you so much for your time. when it comes to a summit like this, how significant is this meeting? because these are the last few months for president biden, his last ten year, so a lot of hopes are pinned on this, i imagine. precisely, because two of the four leaders scheduled to leave very much soon. it is very much important for those leaders to hammer out the importance among them, among themselves, to build a stronger group identity so that that strong group identity is going to be inherited to the future leaders. certainly the japanese leader, but very much hopefully the next president of the united states.— the next president of the united states. �* ,., , united states. and both these leaders, both _ united states. and both these leaders, both prime _ united states. and both these leaders, both prime minister. leaders, both prime minister fumio kishida, as well asjoe

biden, they have a relationship, don't they? quite a stron: relationship, don't they? quite a strong relationship? - relationship, don't they? quite a strong relationship? indeed. | a strong relationship? indeed. because their terms have coincided with the lifting of the travel bans and so on and so forth so in—person meetings started under their leaderships and joe biden has actually elevated the quad meeting to the summit level, and joe biden has also invited fumio kishida, as well as the filipino president and the south korean president and the south korean president to once again strengthen the us led democratic maritime group, which is going to be a side, let's say, group, in addition to the ford.— to the ford. and it when it comes to _ to the ford. and it when it comes to some _ to the ford. and it when it comes to some of - to the ford. and it when it comes to some of the i comes to some of the key security issues, of course now is a time of globalist ability, in some ways, there are two

major wars that many countries are involved in. —— a time of global instability. and this is affecting the world globally, in resources. i wonder what you see as the key strategic goals when it comes to those conflicts.— when it comes to those conflicts. ., ., , , ., conflicts. the two wars you have just — conflicts. the two wars you have just mentioned i conflicts. the two wars you have just mentioned are i conflicts. the two wars you i have just mentioned are about european and middle eastern landscape. when it comes to the indo—pacific region, it is all about seascape. one of the significant features of the quad meeting is that it is the grouping of four maritime democracies, india, australia, japan, and the united states. so, they all share the same view that when it comes to the long—term challenge that is number one, china, numbertwo, number one, china, number two, china, number one, china, numbertwo, china, numberthree, china. so it is going to be once again shared by the four leaders that will gather in the stately

mansion of the alma mater of joe biden. mi mansion of the alma mater of joe i“den-— mansion of the alma mater of joe biden. all right, thank you so much for— joe biden. all right, thank you so much for your _ joe biden. all right, thank you so much for your time - joe biden. all right, thank you so much for your time and i so much for your time and expertise and as it is we do have more updates, we will bring them to uk on the bbc news channel. 700 nato paratroopers have landed near the dutch city of arnhem as part of events marking the 80th anniversary of a failed second world war operation. thousands of troops died during operation market garden — an allied attempt to capture bridges, which would have paved the way for an assault on nazi germany. now, of course, there is plenty more on our top stories, including live events in lebanon, cross—borderfighting lebanon, cross—border fighting between israel and lebanon, cross—borderfighting between israel and hezbollah, so please do stay with us here on the bbc news channel, there is plenty more to come.

storms will continue across mainly southern england into the midlands and across wales. those could be really quite intense. lots of rainfall in a short space of time, frequent lightning and gusts of wind. not everyone is going to see those heavy downpours. they will be very hit and miss. in between there'll be some spells. there'll also be some sunshine this afternoon across north—west england and northern ireland. for central and eastern scotland it is going to remain fairly cloudy. a cloud hanging on in the final seat of england. the temperatures around those north sea coast about 15 to 16 celsius. further south and east it was still

feel pleasantly warm, like a late summer's day in london. 2a the expected high. for tonight thundery downpours before a another batch of storm starts to move in into the early hours of sunday morning. you might get woken up by a rumble of thunder. ten to fort —— ten to 40 degrees in all. though storms will continue during sunday. some travel disruption, intense downpours with some flash flooding. similar to today. further north it is looking drier with some sunshine. through sunday into the evening it says showering across the south. that continues into monday. we have this area of low pressure. very wet conditions from south—west england up to lincolnshire. rain is going to stick

around much of the day. further north it will get a bit chillier. from mid week on with this arctic air moving its way southwards across many parts of the uk. temperatures will drop below the average. quite unsettled as you can see but by thursday and friday 11 or 12 degrees in northern areas even in the south 13 or 16 celsius. feeling much more like autumn.

this is bbc news. the headlines... israel attacks a school in gaza, saying it was being used as a hamas command room. hamas says at least 22 people — including children — were killed. israel is continuing its attacks on southern lebanon, saying it's hit hezbollah targets. it's also intercepting rocket fire from across the border. hezbollah confirms senior commanders are among the more than 30 people killed in an israeli strike on beirut. israel's military says it killed 16 "terrorists". a former fulham football manager tells the bbc extra precautions were put in place to protect female players from mohamed al—fayed. seven hundred nato paratroopers land near the dutch city of arnhem — part of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the second world war operation known as market garden — an attempt by allied troops to capture key bridges in the netherlands.