in southern lebanon, as the us says it's worried about an escalation. lebanese officials say the number of people killed in friday s israeli air strike in beirut has risen to 37, including children. hezbollah confirms two of its senior commanders are among the dead. dozens more women contact the bbc — and legal teams — with fresh allegations about the former harrods boss mohamed al fayed. kamala harris accepts an invite from cnn to have a second televised debate with donald trump. but he rejects the idea — saying it's too late a pilot is freed after more than a yearand a pilot is freed after more than a year and a half. a big blow for anthonyjoshua — after suffering a fifth round knockout to daniel dubois in their heavyweight fight at wembley

hello. israel has been carrying out widespread attacks on southern lebanon with fighter jets, as the us warns the risk of an escalation in fighting between israel and hezbollah |s "acute" a nd "real" these are the latest pictures we've received, showing explosions lighting up the night sky in southern lebanon. saturday has seen cross—border fire between israel and the iranian—backed lebanese group, hezbollah throughout the day. and those attacks have continued into the night. the israeli army says its using dozens of fighterjets and �*striking extensively�* after it learnt that hezbollah was preparing to launch a large—scale launch against israel. lebanon's health ministry now says 37 people,

including women and children, were killed in friday's israeli attack on beirut. rescue workers have been searching through the rubble of a high—rise building that was targeted in the attack. hezbollah has confirmed two of its senior commanders were killed in the strike. the cross—border attacks follow the pager and walkie—talkie explosions in lebanon last week which killed 37 people and injured thousands of people — thought to be carried out by israel. our senior international correspondent orla guerin reports from beirut. a beirut suburb turned into a battlefield. they are standing on the ruins of a seven—storey building in the hezbollah stronghold of dahieh. israel says this was a precision strike. it doesn't look very precise. the search for bodies

is continuing here now. rescue workers are still picking through the rubble. the strike took place in the middle of this densely populated residential area. the result for hezbollah has been the loss of a top military leader and other senior commanders. it is another blow to an organisation that is looking exposed and weakened. but the dead here also included women and children, and every member of the daqduq family. still counted among the missing, four—year—old niha ghazi. local people gathered today waiting for news, fearing what it might be. some said the attack would change nothing.

people absorb the shock and they start their life again. it's hard, but this is the way we choose and we will not stop. we have to defend our country. we have to defend our border. we have to defend our people from any aggression — from israelis orfrom others. hezbollah has been burying some of those killed by israel yesterday. they were carried aloft on anger and defiance. the iranian—backed group is fighting on, firing volleys of rockets firing volleys of rockets across the border today. across the border today. and israel has been hitting and israel has been hitting hard, with dozens of fighter hard, with dozens of fighter planes bombing southern planes bombing southern lebanon, targeting hezbollah lebanon, targeting hezbollah rocket launchers, israel says. rocket launchers, israel says. if the international if the international community was concerned community was concerned

before, it will be far before, it will be far more worried tonight. more worried tonight. orla guerin, bbc news, beirut. orla guerin, bbc news, beirut. a short while ago i spoke to orla guerin in beirut and asked her about the israeli strikes on lebanon tonight. tonight israel has been stepping up its bombardment of southern lebanon. it says it is doing that in response to intelligence that has that hezbollah was planning to carry out a series of attacks on israel, so israel's presenting this as preemptive action on

israel, so israel's presenting this as pr: that tive action on israel, so israel's presenting this as pr: that hezbollah, >n israel, so israel's presenting this as pr: that hezbollah, for also know that hezbollah, for its part, the reigning backed group, it isn't backing down. it has continued firing rockets across the border into israel, up across the border into israel, up to 100 rockets and israel says that it was specifically targeting hezbollah rocket launch sites. but i have to say in broad terms, if the international community was worried about what was going on here, and i imagine it certainly was, which will be much more concerned tonight. the images we are seeing from the border area show large explosions show fires on the southern side of the border. we are told are also fires on the israeli side. and of course, in recent days, israel has been stepping up its attacks on hezbollah, first of all with the exploding walkie—talkies, the exploding walkie—talkies, the exploding walkie—talkies, the exploding pagers and then, of course, yesterday's deadly air strike here in beirut where the death toll has now risen to

37. .,, , , ., the death toll has now risen to 37. those series of attacks and all sorts of _ 37. those series of attacks and all sorts of different _ 37. those series of attacks and all sorts of different methods | all sorts of different methods that you mentioned, what impact of the last few days had on hezbollah�*s capacity to fight? i think we can to be sure about that yet, but it has certainly been devastating. there's been a series of devastating blows for the organisation. first of all, countrywide, its munication �*s network has been severely disrupted. many of its members have been injured, many innocent members of the public also and indeed two children died during that wave of attacks. the exploding pagers when they picked them up, so many hezbollah members wounded, many hezbollah members wounded, many killed. the communications network disrupted then yesterday, israel targeted a very senior military commander, managed to kill him and other senior commanders who were meeting below ground in beirut.

the impact on the ability to respond. you just don't yet know how and when it will amount to response and what level of response it can manage at this stage. the hamas—run gaza health ministry says at 22 people have been killed in an israeli air strike on a school sheltering displaced people. the un has found numbers from the health ministry in previous conflicts reliable. the health ministry says most of the victims were women and children. the israel defense forces say a hamas command room at the school was targeted. there are reports of an unborn child being among the dead. bbc verify has looked at several videos of the aftermath and clips appear to show a foetus being carried by a civil defence worker. lawyers representing women allegedly raped or sexually assaulted by the late egyptian billionaire, mohammed al fayed say they've received about 100 new enquiries about the investigation. the former harrods owner has been accused of sexual assault by more than 20 ex—employees of the luxury department store while it was under his ownership. harrods current owners

say they are appalled by the allegations. and fulham football club has said it's trying to establish if anyone at the club has been affected. al fayed bought the club in 1997 for thirty million pounds. the manager of fulham's former women's team said precautions were put in place to protect female players from him. our correspondent ellie price, updated me on the story. the impact on the ability to respond. just don't yet know how and when it will amount to response and what level of response and what level of response it can manage at this stage. today we have had dozens of women contact us about all of this. i have testimony here. i have spoken to a number of them. of course the egyptian billionaire mohammed al fayed owned harrods between 1985 and 2010. he died last year but we have been hearing about today a network of some have described as enablers. people who enabled the abuse to happen and there have been questions today about what their role was in all of that. i spoke to two women

who described that they were pimped by senior members of harrods, of senior managers, who thought they were attractive, who thought that mohammed al fayed would find them attractive, and that they should be promoted intojobs. and they both allege that he later sexually assaulted them. another former worker said her line manager brushed it off when she voiced some of her concerns. we have been hearing more from the lawyers today, lawyers representing those victims who have described this as the worst case of corporate sexual exploitation of young women potentially that the world has ever seen. only now are we getting to understand publiclyjust how much — and i used the word monster yesterday and i stand by that — just how much of a monster he was. did the bastions of society, did those in power and influence protect him? i don't know the answer to that question. what i do know is he died without taking responsibility.

given the number of women who are now speaking out, how are they likely to seek justice, also because mohammed al fayed is no longer alive? absolutely. i have spoken to a number today who say this is about closure, this is about talking about what has been happened and feeling like their voices have been heard. there are 37 women involved in the civil case. hundreds more, we are told, have come forward. some of those are victims but some have evidence of what happened, so it is for the law firm to sort through what may be added to the case. i think it is worth noting that this is, as the lawyers say, an international case now, and we are focusing on harrods and fulham football club. but the abuse has been detailed as happening in properties paris. there are also victims who have come forward from the us, from dubai, australia, romania.

the list goes on. this becomes an international case where lawyers will seek to sort through exactly what happened in that entire network. it is worth noting, harrods have said that they are appalled by what has happened and they accept that many victims were failed. and they are under new management now. absolutely. the business was sold to them in 2010 and so we are talking about 1k years ago. but quite clearly this is very raw for a number of people who are affected. this case will very much ask questions of who was involved then and of course there are a number of people who were involved during the time in the business who have remained in post or who have gone on to other senior roles in business here in the uk. sir keir starmer has promised to show how his government will "fix the foundations" and rebuild the country, during his address to the labour conference in liverpool. the party's first annual gathering in powerfor 15 years follows criticism over donations and gifts accepted by members of the new cabinet, and calls to abandon the decision to scrap winter fuel payments for pensioners.

there have been protests outside the conference calling for an end to the war in gaza and urging the uk government implement a full arms embargo on israel. 0ur political correspondent iain watson is following events. cheers for keir starmer, but it's been a difficult week — his suits, his specs and his staff's salaries, dominating the headlines. the labour leader now wants to shift the focus. welcome back to liverpool. welcome to conference. our biggest conference ever. last time labour held a conference in government was 15 years ago, when some of its many new mps weren't even old enough to vote. i was a teenager. i couldn't even grow a beard back then. it's now turning grey. so it's great to be here and great to be in government. he's optimistic but new polling suggests his party leader's approval ratings are on their way down. despite labour's massive majority at the election, there are fears here about voter volatility. unions have been meeting

keir starmer behind closed doors and some of them are suggesting there may even need to be a change of direction in some key policies to maintain voters' trust. yesterday, keir starmer changed his mind on accepting donations to pay for clothing. this union leader is urging him now to make a more significant change. i mean, he has done a u—turn, so it's possible to do one and actually, i would say it is far more important that he does a u—turn on the winter fuel allowance. this is wrong, this is a misstep, he needs to think and he needs to make a very different decision. and unions normally loyal to the labour leadership are increasingly worried about the impact of the government's environmental policies. if labour fails to listen to us on the issues about realjobs in places like oil and gas and steel, communities will get hollowed out, people will lose theirjobs and the only winners will be the far right. touring conference events tonight, keir starmer wanted to focus on early achievements. in less than 1a weeks, we have achieved more than the tories did

in 1a years. those close to him believe if he can deliver on his promises, voters will forgive or at least forget his more recent difficulties. iain watson, bbc news, liverpool. iain mentioned those "recent difficulties" for labour — the leader of the house commons, lucy powell, has been speaking to our political correspondent alex forsyth and says the party isn't taking its election success for granted. it's the first time we've gathered in, ithink, 15 years as a party, or a conference as the party of government. and it should be a moment to celebrate — but actually, we knew, coming into this conference, these are very serious times with very serious issues happening across our country that we now bear the responsibility of trying to sort out and getting that change beginning, as you say, for people to actually feel that in their everyday lives.

so we're coming here, in any case, with our work heads on, being serious about the job we've got to do, because we're determined to do that. we've heard from the prime minister, the deputy prime minister, the chancellor that they won't accept gifts in terms of clothing any more — but do you think that is enough to draw a line under this? or do you think this will dog you through the course of the next few days, as you're gathered here in liverpool? because it's ultimately about a question ofjudgment — should these senior people have done it the first place? look, the important things here are, firstly, are you being completely transparent? and as you say, these are things that are a matter of public record that happened over a long period of time, that we've been completely transparent about. and that's absolutely right, that's not what the previous government used to do, many times they were found in breach of the rules because they weren't being transparent about that. and then, the second issue which relates to that, is,

are these in any way affecting your decisions? have people got undue influence, or is there a conflict of interest? to see what we're doing. and i would say absolutely not — we're bringing in a football governance bill in a matter of weeks, we're taking on the water companies, the rail companies back into public ownership — we've just brought in a bill to give renters huge rights they've never had before, when the last government were in hock to the landlord lobby. we're not in hock to these vested interests at all — we're on the side of fans and consumers, and we're on the side of ordinary people, and that's what our government is about. now let's have a look at sunday mornings front pages. the observer leads with a pledge from its exclusive interview with sir keir starmer in which he promises to protect public services from fresh austerity. the mail on sunday focuses on the "freebie row" involving labour, saying the the prime minister and sue gray enjoyed lavish football hospitality at tottenham hotspur�*s corporate box last sunday. the no ten chief of staff's

salary remains news for the sunday express, which leads with a call to ditch toxic aide to end chaos. in other headlines — the sunday telegraph has a story on conservative party leadership hopeful robert jenrick — who claims individuals linked to islamic state and al-qaeda sought refugee status in britain. us presidential hopeful kamala harris has challenged donald trump to a second debate. in a statement, the harris campaign says the vice president has accepted an invitation from cnn for a debate on the 23rd of october. the nominees met for the first time at a debate earlier this month — and kamala harris says they "owe it to the voters" to have another. donald trump has been addressing his supporters at a rally in wilmington in north carolina — a key battleground state — and appeared to rule out another debate. i've already done two. 0ne with crooked joe biden at cnn, and the other- one with kamala on abc.

cnn was very fair, i thought. joe was driven out of the race — it was a coup, by the way, i but he was driven out of the race. - and they've been widely criticised by the radical. left lunatics for all of the fairness — l they were very fair. in other words, they won't be fair again! i because they took a lot - of abuse from the radical left. abc was three—on—one, but i was given credit i for having done a very, very good job~ - crowd boos. i appreciate that — | we did a greatjob. it was three—on—one. cheering. the problem with another debate is that it's just too late, - voting is already started. bryan anderson is a political journalist in north carolina. it's an interesting strategy. it's worth noting that trump says it's too late to debate, but if you remember back

in 2016 and 2020, those debates were actually scheduled for later than september 21, so he has accepted debates universally in 2016 and 2020 in later times then we are now. he says it's because voting, but you think it's for other reasons. voting has just started in north carolina were military and overseas ballots went out to voters just yesterday. early in person voting, there's certainly a lot of time and opportunity to get the information out for voters, but generally speaking, not specific to this race, butjust generally across all races and in my experience in people want to debate when it serves them and not when they feel they don't.

brian anderson speaking to me from north carolina. ukraine's armed forces say they've attacked two russian ammunition stores overnight, including one near crimea, described as one of the largest in russia. ukraine's defence force said it hit another munitions warehouse and a military airfield elsewhere. weapons supplied by north korea where said to be among the targets of the attacks. jess parker reports. a fireball erupting into the night sky as ukraine staged a major drone attack. this, says kyiv, was a russian ammunition depot that included supplies it believes are from north korea — one of two munition stores ukraine claims to have hit last night. translation: these were . warehouses of russian tactical missiles and guided aerial bombs. all that russia uses for terror against our cities, our positions. ukraine has been ramping up these kinds of attacks, demonstrating a growing drone strike capability. but what kyiv really wants is permission to use

western—made long—range missiles on targets deep inside russia. permission president zelensky has confirmed he still doesn't have. he's heading to the us this coming week seeking further support. and this military analyst says the recent drone attacks are all part of kyiv�*s wider political message. the point is that ukraine could show to our western partners in the biden administration that even without western permission, western missiles, we could achieve our targets, our goals in russian territory. but of course, with western missiles, it could be better, more massive, more concentrated, more effective. in russia, authorities released footage of what it says are evacuees following last night's drone strike, while in ukraine, moscow's bombs continue to cause devastation.

its troops try to push further into ukraine. 0ne constant is the growing toll of victims. jessica parker, bbc news, in kyiv. a pilot from new zealand says he is very happy to be going home — after spending more than a year and a half held hostage by separatist rebels in indonesia. the 38 year old was released after lengthy negotiations. the impact on the ability to respond. just don't yet know how and when it will amount to response and what level of it's the moment he was free. indonesian army says he's lost a lot of weight but is in good health. he was kidnapped last year, former dutch colony. he landed a plane to collect construction workers but it was stormed by separatists from the west papua liberation army. they are among several groups in the region who have been campaigning for independence from indonesia for decades. they are among several groups in the region who have been

campaigning for independence from indonesia for decades. the kidnap of the pilot is part of a violent long—running issue between the government injakarta and the indigenous people of west papua. earlier this year, at least one indonesian soldier was killed after a group searching for the pilot were ambushed by rebels. on saturday, the pilot arrived back and was in the care of indonesian officials spoke of his release. translation: today, finally i have been - freed. i am very happy that shortly i will be able to go home and meet my family. philip was greeted back injakarta by officials because there had been months of diplomatic efforts to get him home and to have a reunited with his family. new zealand's foreign minister says his family will be over the moon to have him back. hundreds of nato paratroopers have been taking part in a jump — close to the dutch city of arnhem. it marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most daring allied operations of the second world war. 0ur correspondent, anna holligan, sent this report from the commemorations. how to say thank

you without words. 700 paratroopers from several nato nations including the uk, poland and the usa who were involved in the campaign dropped onto the fields which saw some of the fiercest fighting. tens of thousands of people gathered on ginkel heath to witness a re—enactment of what was one of the bloodiest episodes of the second world war. archive: during eight| days and nights of hell, those magnificent troops of the first airborne - division hung on. operation market garden — 35,000 airborne troops were dropped behind enemy lines in a creative attempt to carve out a short cut into nazi germany. this was the objective. if the bridge at arnhem was taken, there was a hope of an early invasion that might have ended the war in december, 19114. after nine days of relentless fighting, a third of those involved were taken prisoner or killed. geoff roberts is among the few

surviving veterans of arnhem. i'm not a hero. the heroes are in the cemeteries. i'm not a hero. i'mjustan ordinary old squaddie. we did as we was told. operation market garden may not be remembered as a military victory, but perhaps even more strikingly, for the courage and tenacity demonstrated by the allied forces. this drop zone, this heath here, was contested. the enemy were in the woods around it. it was on fire. the drama of that afternoon is something you canjust begin to realise as you look at the tree line and think about the place. this may have been one of the final opportunities to re—enact what was one of the most daring missions of the second world war, while veterans who took part in the battle for arnhem are still here to share the experience. this isn'tjust about remembering the past but ensuring future generations are conscious of how and by whom their freedom was fought for.

anna holligan, bbc news, ginkel heath. anthonyjoshua's hopes of becoming a three—time world heavyweight boxing champion have been after he was was knocked out by daniel dubois in the fifth round in front of a record 96,000 fans at wembley stadium, in london. dubois, who retains the ibf heavyweight championship, dropped joshua mutiple times before the final knock out. joshua said the loss would not stop him from rebuilding but did admit he and his team came up short. if you want to see more on that, lots of reaction and analysis of that huge setback for anthonyjoshua. analysis of that huge setback foranthonyjoshua. it's analysis of that huge setback for anthonyjoshua. it's on the bbc sport website. it's on the bbc sport website. it's on the bbc news app as well. plenty of updates from the bbc�*s team at wembley. now it's time for a

look at the weather. hello. well, it's already been a lively start to the weekend, with a number of thunderstorms reported on saturday across england and wales. this was one cluster of storms that went across the skyline of ashbourne, in derbyshire — the same storms earlier in the day dumped what seems to be marble—sized hail in wolverhampton. and that cluster of storms will clear away northwards from merseyside, cheshire, and north wales — but then, our focus shifts towards the south and across northern france, where we've got more thundery downpours waiting, and they will swing in. now, worst—case scenario on sunday, some communities could see a month's worth of rainfall — so there's an increasing threat of seeing some localised flooding building in as we progress through sunday. next few hours, then, sees those storms arrive from the south. in scotland, we've still got a lot of low cloud and drizzle across eastern areas, a bit misty, too.

temperatures for the most part around 13—16 celsius for england and wales, a bit cooler than that in scotland. sunday's forecast, then — those thundery downpours with us for much of the day, and there'll be some places that see storm after storm, particularly i think across parts of the midlands and parts of wales, as well. further northeastwards, into eastern scotland, inother cloudy and dull day with some mist patches around the coastline, still some spots of drizzle. should be brighter and drier in northern ireland, with some sunny spells and sunshine for west scotland, too. monday — well, we've still got some rain to come across england and wales, heavy and thundery still. another area of rain works into northern scotland through monday — and that's actually a cold front, so that'll be starting to drop the temperatures across northern scotland. highs of 12 in stornoway, 13 for aberdeen, and just ten in lerwick. in towards the middle part of the week, we see areas of low pressure move across the country, bringing some heavy rain particularly focussed on england and wales. 0nce that's cleared through, we then get these northwesterly winds diving in across the country — and that will really drop the temperatures as the week goes by.

tuesday, we pick up on our cold front in scotland, bringing some rain here — that will move into northern ireland and northern england as we go through the day. further southwards, across the rest of england and wales, it finally stops raining. should be a drier day with more in the way of sunshine, and still some reasonable temperatures in the south. it's turning colder in the north, though — just ten in aberdeen and 1a for belfast. and, as we go deeper into the new week, stays unsettled, there'll be rain at times, and temperatures for all of us will be well below average.