by a pro—iranian group in iraq. these are lives pictures from the northern israeli city of haifa hezbollah says it has launched rockets at a military base in retaliatory strikes. a mass shooting in the us state of alabama has left at least four people dead and dozens wounded. deputy prime minister angela rayner defends labour's record after rows over rule breaches overshadow labour's message of change. mps have accepted donations and gifts for years, all mps do it. what we talked about is making sure we are open and transparent about that. and what happened when this secondary school went mobile phone—free? we'll bring you more on this.

welcome to the programme. we start in the middle east, where israel says hezbollah has fired over 100 missiles into the north of the country, following extensive israeli air strikes in lebanon on saturday. the rockets targeted the city of haifa, nearly 30km from the border with lebanon, and the ramat david airbase, further south. israel has told its citizens to restrict gatherings in the city, and in areas near the northern border, in anticipation of a fresh aerial assault. these pictures show part of an intercepted rocket that was launched from lebanon and fell near nazareth in the early hours of sunday. israel has been carrying out more air raids in southern lebanon. here you can see explosions lighting up the night's sky. saturday saw constant strikes and counter strikes between the idf and hezbollah, which is designated a terrorist organisation by several western countries. lebanon's health ministry now says 45 people, including women and children, were killed in friday's

israeli attack on beirut. hezbollah says that includes 16 of its members. and these are live pictures from haifa where hezbollah has targeted its attacks. in a statement, the iranian—backed militia group said it was in response to the pager and walkie talkie blasts earlier this week. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega is in beirut and our news correspondent paul adams is injerusalem. they talked me through the latest developments in lebanon and israel, and hugo started by addressing the restrictions issued by israel. these are instructions that have actually been announced by the israeli authorities in northern israel because of these rockets that have been fired by hezbollah from southern lebanon. so we've seen that it's been a very violent morning of violence across the israel—lebanon border. uh, hezbollah said it had carried out an initial response after those explosions,

targeting pagers and walkie talkies used by the group. and one of the targets was an israeli military production facility in the city of haifa. and in response, the israeli military has been carrying out a number of air strikes targeting hezbollah positions in lebanon, and the statement by the israeli military said that these attacks were going to continue and intensify. so the fear is that we could be seeing a wider israeli offensive against hezbollah. we've seen that there has been an escalation in this conflict between hezbollah and israel in the last few days, and hezbollah remains defiant. it is saying that these attacks are going to continue unless there is a ceasefire in gaza. so obviously, the fear here in lebanon is that the country is being dragged into a conflict with israel that is not in the country's interest, a conflict that could be devastating for lebanon. and, hugo, there has been this cross—border fighting for 11 months now.

could you put this into perspective for us, given the events of this week, what's different about this moment? yeah, so hezbollah has been carrying out these attacks, saying it is supporting palestinians in gaza. again, it says that these attacks are going to continue unless there is a ceasefire in gaza. all the efforts for a deal in gaza have failed so far. so that was the main hope to try to de—escalate tensions along the border. what's changed now is that the israeli authorities have declared that the return of residents who have been displaced because of this violence is one of the country's war goals, and they say that they're going to change the situation in the north, that the situation is unsustainable, unacceptable. so there has been speculation that this strategy by the israeli military could even include a ground invasion of southern lebanon to try to create a so—called buffer zone, to try to push hezbollah fighters away from. so it's been a humiliating few days for hezbollah.

a number of major setbacks, not only those explosions targeting the group's communication systems, but there was an israeli air strike here in beirut on friday. a residential building was destroyed. it hit the hezbollah stronghold of daraya. so again, a major blow for the group, because the entire command of hezbollah�*s main fighting unit has been decimated in this air strike. a lot of civilians killed as well. this has sparked angry reaction here in lebanon. and again, the fear that we could be seeing an intensification between hezbollah and israel. all right, hugo, thank you for that. now let's turn to paul adams. paul, you may have heard hugo there briefly. he was referencing correctly correcting me, that it was the rambam hospital in the city of haifa that is transferring patients. that's the latest we know to its underground secure facility. that's according to

the lebanese, to the israeli ministry there. could you tell us more about the advice and the precautions that have been coming in from the israeli government? yeah, so that's been a steady increase in the level of precautions. we heard yesterday from the authorities that all schools north of haifa, and that is a huge area between haifa and the lebanese border, and all the way across northern israel, should be closed until further notice that public gatherings should be kept to a minimum. and so clearly yesterday, the israeli authorities were anticipating another wave of rocket attacks from across the border. and sure enough, that came in excess of 100 rockets. we believe this morning. and some of those rockets have hit further into israel than any previous salvoes. the fact that the outskirts of haifa do seem to have been

hit this time is indicative that hezbollah is using some of its longer—range weapons, which raises the fear, of course, that hezbollah could start to unveil even longer range weapons that could be capable of hitting targets in central israel, including in tel aviv. so there is a feeling that as a result of what israel has done in lebanon over the past several days. of course, israel has yet to comment at all on the pager and walkie talkie attacks, but everyone knows that that was the work of israel, that as a result of that and the assassinations of senior hezbollah commanders, hezbollah is likely to retaliate and possibly to retaliate in ways that it has not done so far. i think any suggestion or any hope that the actions against hezbollah in the last few days will have somehow lessened the group's appetite for a confrontation. those have so far not been realised.

and so for the moment, israel is on edge and we are seeing images of houses that have been hit, of reports of a handful of injuries and a sense that there could be more of this to come and that we could be, and we're not quite there yet, but we could be on the edge of another, further significant escalation. ijust want i just want to bring you ijust want to bring you some lines coming through to our newsroom now. benjamin netanyahu has been speaking and he is saying in the past few days israel has inflicted a series of blows on hezbollah it wouldn't have imagined. he also said hezbollah will understand the message that israel is sending eight. he is speaking now. as soon we have more updates from israel we will bring them to you. there is another development we want to bring you.

israeli forces have raided the offices of the news organisation aljazeera in the occupied west bank, closing it down for an initial period of 45 days. the qatari—owned television network aired live dramatic footage showing heavily armed israeli soldiers entering its bureau in ramallah with a military order before the israelis disrupted that broadcast. the israeli government had previously shut down aljazeera's offices in eastjerusalem, confiscating the channel's equipment and banning its broadcasts in the country. it said aljazeera was a threat to israel's security. as soon as we have as 50011 as we have more as soon as we have more updates on that, we will bring them to you. we've had a number are breaking news coming into the newsroom this morning. we have heard this one. a mass shooting in the us state of alabama has left at least four people dead and dozens wounded. police say several gunmen fired at people in the five points south district of birmingham, just after 11:00pm local time. two men and a woman were found dead at the scene.

a fourth victim died in hospital. dozens of people were wounded, with at least four sustaining life—threatening injuries. these are pictures which aren't live but shortly after the incident took place. police have not arrested anyone over the shooting and are appealing to the public for information. president biden has said he will announce a new executive order on gun law soon. 0ur news correspondent steve knibbs told us more about the attack. this is a really busy part of the city, popular with boys, there would have been people there. police say a number of shooters fired multiple rounds into a group of people in the streets. we know to man and a woman died at the scene with a four person passing away in hospital. dozens of other people were injured in this

attack and four people are in hospital with life—threatening injuries. we know that no arrests have been made. there are a number of agencies involved in this investigation, including the fbi. they are actively looking for the people responsible, and looking for a motive obviously for it. this is the breaking news in the last hour of this latest my shooting in america. could you remind us _ shooting in america. could you remind us about _ shooting in america. could you remind us about how _ shooting in america. could you remind us about how many - shooting in america. could you l remind us about how many mass shootings that have been in the last year and how it is defined?— defined? there is an organisation - defined? there is an organisation called l defined? there is an i organisation called the defined? there is an - organisation called the gun violence archive which processed statistics, and they define a mass shooting where for more people are injured. they say this incident in alabama brings 403 the number of mass shootings this year in america alone, compared to 636 last year. we have heard

presidentjoe biden will announce a new executive action on gun violence. we have no other details on it at the moment, but this comes at an important time with the election coming our way later this year. figs election coming our way later this year-— election coming our way later this year. as soon as we have any updates. _ this year. as soon as we have any updates, we _ this year. as soon as we have any updates, we will- this year. as soon as we have any updates, we will bring - this year. as soon as we have | any updates, we will bring you to them on the news channel. iranian state media say at least 51 people are now known to have been killed in an explosion at a coal mine in the east of the country. the blast in the city of tabas in south khorasan province is thought to have been caused by a methane gas leak. iran's president massoud pezeshkian has expressed his condolences to the families of those who died and called for an investigation into the incident. there were 69 workers in the blocks at the time of the explosion, state tv reported. as soon as we have as 50011 as we have more as soon as we have more figures, we will bring them to you. let's turn to germany, where voters in the east state of brandenburg are heading to the polls to elect

a new regional government. the anti—migrant, far—right alternative for germany, also known as afd, could win the most votes in the former east german state. earlier in the month, the afd won a major german election for the first time, coming first in the eastern state of thuringia. latest polling in brandenburg had the afd in the lead with 28%. 0ur europe correspondent mark lowen told me how significant these results could be. this is a state that brandenburg that has been ruled by the social democratic party of 0laf schulz since german reunification in 1990. so if that party loses brandenburg, it would be a major setback for the party and a major setback also for 0laf schulz, who lives in the state and is hoping to lead the spd into germany's federal elections next year, but is, according to polls, the least popular chancellor since german reunification. so if the spd were to lose, to come second to the afd, there would be even deeper questions over his ability to lead the party into those elections next year. but also just consider

germany's history. 20th century history. i mean, we're talking about a country that, of course, lived through the the nazis and the second world war and is now seeing this far—right party, which is classified in some states as right wing extremist, topping the polls in regional elections when they won in thuringia earlier this year. this month, it was seen as a political earthquake, the biggest electoral victory for the far right since the second world war. if it wins in brandenburg, that would show the strength of that party nationwide. and it would be a major shock to many germans who feel extremely concerned about the far right, anti—migrant positions of that party. but it has managed to capitalise on voters concerns about immigration, about the continuing cost of supporting ukraine and of young people, frankly, across germany, who are hungry for change and an end to the old political establishment here. but practically speaking, what chance does the afd party have in forming a coalition and being able to access regional or federal government?

well, no party has said that it is willing to work with the afd. so even if it wins in brandenburg today, it's unlikely to get into office. and even if the spd were to come second, it probably would manage to cobble together a continuing coalition. but the spd leader in brandenburg has said that he would resign if the party comes second to the afd. so even though they may not actually get into office in the regional election, even if they were not to be able to get into office and form a government in next year's federal election, what this is showing us today is clearly that what we're seeing right across europe, which is the rising support for the far right, the strength of the far right, which has managed to shake up the political establishment really across europe. and it's capitalising on all these conservative concerns about immigration. i mean, you know, you'll remember back in 2016, at the height of the migration crisis, germany let in 1.5 million migrants, and they were welcomed and they were cheered

by angela merkel. this is a very different germany today. it is a country where migrants increasingly feel ostracised, threatened, where there is a growing weariness, where there have been attacks by some migrants that have been seized upon by the afd to push their political message. and that is really the main reason that explains that party's rise to the position that they're at today. now it's time for a look at today's sport. anthonyjoshua says he won't give up after being defeated by daniel dubious — who retained his ibf world heavyweight title with a blistering performance on saturday night. dubois dominated the all—british fight in front of 96,000 spectators at wembley stadium. and ultimately knocked joshua down for a fourth and final time in the fifth round. he could not keep me down. he was going to have to nail me to that canvas. i was unstoppable tonight. it was a good fight. i just enjoyed it. enjoy the whole moment, winning and coming through that

and fulfilling my potential tonight anyway so on we go. of course i want to continue fighting. that is why i said, we took a shot at success and we came up short. what does that mean now? we're going to run away or live to fight another day? that is what i am, i am a warrior and also before i finish we have to give credit to our opponent as well, daniel. even though when i set up to fight opponents i don't really like them in my head any more, but now that it is done, i take my hat off to him as say well done to him and his team. the champions manchester city or arsenal will be top of the english premier league later. the top two for the last two seasons meet at the etihad in an early clash of the title favourites. iam i am looking forward to play the game. every game is a chance to getting better or playing better or doing better

than before. they are consistent and doing similar things, you always have a child to improve aspects. so, it is a chance for us, we play at home —— have a chance to improve. the singapore grand prix gets under way in the next couple of hours. britain's lando norris is on pole position. the mclaren driver says it's "pretty cool" he's facing a battle for victory with title rival max verstappen who he beat in qualifying by two tenths of a second and lewis hamilton, who starts from third. it's norris' fourth pole in six races but he's yet to turn one of those into a win. he's currently 59 points behind championship leader vertsappen. a bit more pressure to put a lap in at the end. i already put a latin so we had two bites of the cherry. yes, it was stressful than i wanted. where i wanted to be and needed to be, so happy.

the final roud of the pga championship at wentworth is under way and it could be a thrilling finish. the leaders go out in around 40 minutes. rory mcillroy is up there after a round of 66 on saturday. he'sjoint second at 15 under par, three shots behind matteo manassero. victory would cap a career revival for the italian who was expected to become a golfing superstar after winning this tournament 11 years ago aged 20. he's currently 101st in the world rankings. matteo and i played in the final round in scotland and last week and looks like again this week. honestly, it is great to see him back playing the golf he is and where he supposed to be. it will be an exciting day for both of us. ravichandran ashwin bowled india to victory in the first test against bangladesh. that and a century made him the clear man of the match in chennai. bangladesh had six wickets in hand when they resume on day

four, but were bowled out for 234. india remain in a strong position at the top of the world test championship. it could be a close finish in galle. sri lanka set new zealand 275 to win the first test. they are struggling on 135 for four wickets. keep across it on the bbc sport website. that is all your support. keir starmer has promised to show how the government will fix the foundation and rebuild the uk. the party's first annual gathering while in powerfor 15 years comes amid criticism over donations and gifts accepted by some of the new cabinet, and calls from union bosses for the party to u—turn on its decision to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners. angela rayner has told the bbc

she didn't think she had broke any rules. this is what she said. ~ , ., ,, ., said. well, first appeal i didn't go _ said. well, first appeal i didn't go to _ said. well, first appeal i didn't go to new- said. well, first appeal i didn't go to new york i said. well, first appeal i l didn't go to new york with another person, they went there and i met up with them and met up and i met up with them and met up with friends. it was a personal holiday and i followed the rules. i went and wanted to do it to be transparent. the connection i had of the use of that department. but connection i had of the use of that department.— that department. but they sta ed that department. but they stayed in _ that department. but they stayed in that _ that department. but they | stayed in that department, that department. but they - stayed in that department, and you didn't declare it. did you break the rules? i you didn't declare it. did you break the rules?— break the rules? i don't believe _ break the rules? i don't believe i _ break the rules? i don't believe i broke - break the rules? i don't believe i broke any - break the rules? i don't i believe i broke any rules. i had the use of the apartment and i disclosed i had the use. in fact, i think i was overly transparent because i think it was important despite it being a personal holiday, because the person had already donated to me for my deputy leadership... you are not sorry for it, saying to people maybe it was a

misjudgment, maybe i should have declared everything? i will read the rules, members should register in this category any visit whether accompanying the member or not. it says pretty clearly if someone else is that you should declare it, and you didn't. it says if it is in connection with your parliamentary duties. that's how i understood it. it was a private holiday that i think people needed to know. because i had a relationship where i had a donation from that individual.— where i had a donation from that individual. angela rayner s - eakin . that individual. angela rayner speaking this _ that individual. angela rayner speaking this morning. - that individual. angela rayner speaking this morning. let's l speaking this morning. let's speaking this morning. let's speak to our political correspondent in liverpool. alex, difficult headlines that are surrounding labour into this conference.— this conference. yes, the labour — this conference. yes, the labour party _ this conference. yes, the labour party conference l this conference. yes, the - labour party conference gets going in earnest. some people arrive yesterday but this place is packed today. behind me you can see the entrance to the

conference hall, which is where the main speeches will take place. the first big speech of this conference is coming from angela rayner, the deputy prime minister, where she will want to talk about some key policy areas that for under her brief. as well as being the deputy prime minister she is the housing secretary, soap building more homes, plans to ensure decent standards, making sure they are warm and secure. the backdrop to all of this, labour's first conference in power, keir starmer�*s first conference as a prime minister, is those stories we've had all the past week about gifts of clothing and spectacles and hospitality and donations, and the internal leaks and the internal lea ks and briefings the internal leaks and briefings about keir starmer�*s chief of staff sue gray and her pay package. it is undoubtedly a difficult backdrop to the first conference, which you would think would be full of labour celebration because they had the huge majority at the

general election a couple of months ago. but they are being followed by these difficult stories. they are keen to change the narrative, and that is what i will think we hear from angela rayner in the next few minutes. it is whether they can shift the focus from the stories about gifts and donations onto the policy platform they are so keen to talk about. it is worth saying there's a lot of interest in there's a lot of interest in the deputy prime minister's speech, because i've been here for 15 minutes and there were queues of people trying to get into the hall. in front of me, i'm not sure if you can see, this again is the queue of people lining up to get onto the conference hall, get a seat and try watch the deputy prime minister gave her speech. this is a big moment for a party in opposition for so long. they are a party of government. as well as wanting to talk about

policy there's another element, and that is whether or not their policies they promise to voters in the election, whether they can deliver on them. the slogan all over the place at the centre is change begins. they are trying to convince the public they have the answers to some of the problems the country faces. people will be watching closely and making their own judgments watching closely and making their ownjudgments if watching closely and making their own judgments if that is their own judgments if that is the case. in their own 'udgments if that is the case. , ., their own 'udgments if that is the case. ,., ., ., the case. in some of the leaks ou the case. in some of the leaks you mentioned, _ the case. in some of the leaks you mentioned, keir- the case. in some of the leaks you mentioned, keir starmerl you mentioned, keir starmer says he wants to address those leaks. �* , ., leaks. he's given a few interviews _ leaks. he's given a few interviews over- leaks. he's given a few interviews over night, l leaks. he's given a few i interviews over night, as leaks. he's given a few - interviews over night, as is often the case, and one of them was to the observer newspaper. he was asked about the leak of sue gray, the briefings, the fact there is anger on both side, supporters and detractors. the essence of the story was it was revealed through my colleague chris mason that sue gray was getting paid more than the prime

minister, about £170,000. keir starmer said in that interview he accepted and wanted to take responsibility to address some of this, acknowledging it had been damaging. all part of the effort to move things away from a difficult week and focus attention on what they want to talk about, which is the business of government. alex there. business of government. alex there- the — business of government. alex there. the annual— business of government. alex there. the annual conference is under way in liverpool, and we are currently expecting to hear from the deputy prime minister alongside others. stay here on bbc news. again, we are expecting to hearfrom bbc news. again, we are expecting to hear from the deputy prime minister alongside others including the foreign secretary. let's return to alex to get more from the party conference. we were talking there about some other difficult issues the labour party is dealing with in the midst of this. when it comes to keir starmer, he has said he is

prepared to be an unpopular leader. there are more difficult issues the labour party will have to address in the next few days.— party will have to address in the next few days. that's been the next few days. that's been the narrative _ the next few days. that's been the narrative from _ the next few days. that's been the narrative from ministers, l the narrative from ministers, the narrative from ministers, the prime minister and chancellor, who have talked a lot about the economic inheritance they say they were left with from the conservatives. they said they had a black hole for this financial year and have had to make difficult decisions. 0ne make difficult decisions. one that has had a lot of attention is the decision to remove the winter fuel payment all but the very poorest pensioners, which has been contentious. bubble up because unite the union are pushing forward a motion, they won't a vote here on winter policy. the union says it should be reinstated, they don't like the cuts. the boss of that union sharon graham told the bbc last night that if keir starmer hadn't a u—turn over close, saying he would no longer accepted,

over close, saying he would no longeraccepted, he over close, saying he would no longer accepted, he could do a u—turn over winter fuel payment. i think this is about the economic choices the government is facing. i'm keeping half a night on a feed i have on what is happening on the conference floor because we are expecting to hear from angela rayner any moment for what will be the first set piece speech of this conference. 0ver piece speech of this conference. over the next few days we will hear from a lot of the cabinet. tomorrow the focus is on the economy with the chancellor rachel reeves, and the big speech from keir starmer follows on tuesday. returning to some of the key themes, the economy will be one of them. there's been some criticism of the government for sounding too gloomy on the economy. their argument is they want to be upfront, realistic about the choice is coming down the line. i do think what we might year as the line. i do think what we might yearas a the line. i do think what we might year as a change in tone in terms of them trying to explain why they are doing what they are doing, making the choices they are now. this is

running up to the budget which comes on october 30, so not too far—away. not everybody is on board with policy, strictly economic choices. keir starmer again in those newspaper interviews he's been giving, to the sunday mirror, he made clear his government would not go down the road of austerity. they are trying to say what they want to be seen as fiscally responsible, in control of spending, make sensible decisions, and that was what we heard in the run—up to the election, they are conscious and have said from their perspective public services are under pressure and are struggling. so some of the messages and tone we heard from the prime minister was cautious, saying to people we won't return to big cuts even though we are having the conversation in government about the choices having to come in the budget. my eyes

very firmly fixed on the conference stage, which i'm just looking at a feed. the microphones are ready for angela rayner. brute microphones are ready for angela rayner.— microphones are ready for anuela ra ner. ~ ., ., . angela rayner. we are watching it as well and _ angela rayner. we are watching it as well and are _ angela rayner. we are watching it as well and are showing - angela rayner. we are watching it as well and are showing it - it as well and are showing it to our viewers. everyone with their eyes peeled. angela rayner to speak shortly. we are expecting her to set out plans on house—building, a major issue for the labour party. aha, issue for the labour party. huge issue for the country as well because successive governments have acknowledged there is a crisis when it comes to housing. people are struggling to get on the property ladder, rent rises, people struggling as the cost of living has increased. the labour party has made a couple of commitments. a key one is they will get 1.5 million homes built during parliament. a big figure, higherthan built during parliament. a big figure, higher than the target set by the previous government. in the first few weeks we saw some changes to planning in

particular. labour focus