aged 88. hello. in the last few minutes the israeli defence forces israel has carried out strikes on dozens of hezbollah targets in lebanon. they are more than 50 people have been killed in israeli strikes on people have been killed in israeli strikes on sunday. people have been killed in israeli strikes on sunday. the strike hit an apartment building in central beirut a short while ago. it is believed to be the first israeli strike within city limits in nearly a year. footage shows ambulances and a crowd gathering underneath that building. that is as us presidentjoe biden says an all—out war in the middle east must be avoided. speaking to reporters on sunday he said he plans to speak with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu about the widening offensive in the region. he did

not say when that phone call would take place. on sunday israel carried out large—scale strikes on yemen targeting energy facilities help by houthi is. it targeted powerplants ina in a seaport. the houthi—run health ministry said at least four people were killed and 33 wounded. houthi is have vowed revenge and a response is inevitable. —— houthis. our correspondent injerusalem, jon donnison, has more on the situation. israel's military reach and power is long and strong. this is not lebanon, or gaza, but almost 2,000 kilometres away in yemen. the target — one of the country's biggest ports and two power stations, controlled by iranian—backed houthis, the operation directed by israel's defence minister.

translation: we have no i interest in expanding the war. we have no interest in looking for additionalfronts. but if somebody attacks israel, as the houthis have recently done with missiles and throughout the war with cruise missiles and drones, anyone who carries out such an attack, we will settle the account with them, and we know how to do it. israel is not holding back, its air force releasing footage as they set off for the raid. and earlier today, it says it shot down another drone launched from yemen. for the past year, the yemeni houthis have been trying to influence the conflict in the middle east. this is their commandos seizing a british owned ship in the red sea last november. they have long—range missiles, are supported by iran and are fiercely opposed to israel. speaking yesterday, the houthis�* military spokesperson yahya saree said they wouldn't stop until israel ended its aggression against gaza and lebanon. today's strikes in yemen

highlight another dangerous front in a war that threatens to engulf the region. jon donnison, bbc news, jerusalem. the bbc news, jerusalem. israel defence forces say they the israel defence forces say they have hit 120 military sites belonging to the around back militant group. lebanese officials say more than i million people face being forced from their homes. meanwhile the body of the late hezbollah leader hassan was —— hassan nasrallah is reported to have been recovered from the site of the strike in beirut. it is fuelling concerns about an all out war. our senior correspondence reports from the beqaa valley and a warning dashed you may find some parts of her report distressing.

israel keeps hitting hard. for now, it looks unstoppable. this is the bekaa valley this afternoon. there were at least 30 air strikes in an hour. danger in every direction. and new dead. "our neighbours, the jamil family, "are all gone", he says. as more air strikes went down, noor lies in intensive care. she is six years old and was injured on her own doorstep on monday. her family says she is intelligent and chatty, and loves meeting new people. but here, shortly before the attack, she was afraid and praying.

her mother now prays by her bedside. and suddenly, as we filmed, the planes were back. well, within the last few seconds, we have had a strike. we heard the plane in the air. then we felt the impact. the windows here shook, they rattled. and it's an indication of how nowhere here is safe. even patients in hospitals can't feel completely safe. minutes later, new wounded. an ambulance has just arrived now, bringing casualties from the latest air strike. they are being treated in the emergency department. there is a lot of anger and tension. people are stressed, wondering

when this is going to stop. back in intensive care, noor�*s father abdullah wants the world to see his child. "was she fighting?", he asks. "she was playing at home. "does she have weapons? "half of her brain is gone." noor was born after her parents had ten years of ivf. herfather says he is not in hezbollah, but now wishes he was. orla guerin, bbc news, in the beqaa valley. a white house spokesman warned israel against starting an all—out war with hezbollah or run. he said it is unclear what the response might be. we are watchin: the response might be. we are watching this _ the response might be. we are watching this very _ the response might be. we are watching this very closely - the response might be. we are watching this very closely to i watching this very closely to see how... if and how hezbollah

and all around may react as well as the militia groups in iraq and syria. we have to be prepared for some sort of response. have to make sure we are ready and we are, believe we have the force capability we needin we have the force capability we need in the region but it is not clear, too soon to know. for more let's bring in the director of the reinhart programme on counter intelligence and terrorism. great to have you back in the programme. we are getting reports first of all in the last few hours of israeli strikes within beirut�*s city limits. we believe that to be the first time in about a year. what might that mean? could that be seen as further escalation here? thanks for havin: escalation here? thanks for having me _ escalation here? thanks for having me on _ escalation here? thanks for having me on the _ escalation here? thanks for having me on the show. - escalation here? thanks for having me on the show. i i escalation here? thanks for. having me on the show. i think the israelis have made it clear they will go after those people who are targeting their civilians and the reports i've seen so far only as well as they were targeting members of they were targeting members of the popular front for live this time —— palestine. it is beyond

lebanon and others engaged in these activities as the story you had to educate. insofar as the houthi is go it is quite clear. as soon as the who stop should it israel, as soon as hezbollah stops shooting at israel, these things can end but after 11.5 months of suffering rocket attacks from hezbollah and others, the israelis are saying enough is enough. israelis are saying enough is enou:h. ~ . �* israelis are saying enough is enou~h.~ . �* , . israelis are saying enough is enou:h. . �* , . ., enough. we haven't seen much of a military response _ enough. we haven't seen much of a military response from - a military response from hezbollah. do you expect a strong response or will the group be so weakened by losing 70 leaders there may not be a response? 70 leaders there may not be a response?_ response? inaudible to be a resonse response? inaudible to be a resnonse but _ response? inaudible to be a response but when _ response? inaudible to be a response but when you - response? inaudible to be a response but when you say i response? inaudible to be a l response but when you say that there will be the next day. the hezbollah that exists now is a shadow of its former self. it is notjust hassan nasrallah and its top leadership and the leadership level is below that and below that it is also the

israelis taking out a significant portion, how much is not exactly known but it seems a significant portion of hezbollah's more serious weaponry, longerand weaponry, longer and medium—range rockets, weaponry, longerand medium—range rockets, so it is not clear hezbollah has the capability. they shot five, ten, 15, 20 rockets at a time here and there but nothing more than that. if they do have rockets that they are able to fire, and they are probably wary of escalating much more because they understand they are nowhere near as capable today of fighting a prolonged, full—scale war as they were before and they have taken significant hits, they are leading this aimed at without a leader now, how to run the command and control would be difficult, so i think hezbollah is in a conundrum and at the moment it is more about than striking back.— striking back. what would a week and — striking back. what would a week and hezbollah - striking back. what would a week and hezbollah mean i striking back. what would a l week and hezbollah mean for striking back. what would a - week and hezbollah mean for the region? might that change the balance of power significantly?

i think it absolutely could. too early to say exactly how weakened hezbollah is in terms of the amount of weaponry destroyed. i think at the near term we are likely to see at least a 10% international terrorist plots of the type hezbollah has been known to carry out in the past. just a few months ago one of the operatives was convicted for trying to kill operatives in brazil. i think we will see those types of plots from iranians. they have tried to carry out assassination plots can targeting their foes and thatis can targeting their foes and that is likely to continue. in the longer term, how powerful hezbollah would be in lebanon on? with the lebanese armed forces step up, will there benefit to enforce for the first time the un security council resolution 1701 passed out of the last war between hezbollah and israel in 2006? too early to tell all of that. the israelis for their part are working very hard to make sure hezbollah cannot rearm.

reportedly today and a ionian plane was about to land in beirut. —— plain. the plane turned around and laid in the day they were israeli airstrikes on the syrian and iraqi border, efforts by iran, it was billy, to see weapons to hezbollah. if the welcome step up hezbollah. if the welcome step up and perverted —— prevent hezbollah from being we are and it is possible this could be a region chain for the better. you mentioned iran. what do you think happens next with iran? how will it out? a couple of proxies, the houthi is an now hezbollah have been seeing major attacks by israel in the past couple of days. iran major attacks by israel in the past couple of days.- past couple of days. iran has two problems. _ past couple of days. iran has two problems. the - past couple of days. iran has two problems. the first - two problems. the first is as much as it might want to respond because of her son nasrallah's death, he was very close to senior iranians and in part because several or at least one senior iranian general appears to have been killed they may want to respond themselves but they will be

very wary of doing that because they understand the israelis will hit back hard, much harder than they did in april when iran shot 300 projectiles at israel and they also understand for them the one red line is whatever violence, whatever regional conflict or war happens inaudible not cross the borders into iran. again, for the iranians, it is live another day. they have basically lost hamas as a fighting force, may have just lost hezbollah as a fighting force and hezbollah is first among equals within the proxy network so there will be an effort to maintain what they have at the moment, but iran, hezbollah have long memories. they might not strike back tomorrow but they may in the future, for sure.— future, for sure. always great to have you — future, for sure. always great to have you on. _ future, for sure. always great to have you on. thank - future, for sure. always great to have you on. thank you. i to have you on. thank you. thank you _ to have you on. thank you. thank you so _ to have you on. thank you. thank you so much - to have you on. thank you. thank you so much for- to have you on. thank you. i thank you so much for having me. fist thank you so much for having me. �* . , ' ' thank you so much for having me. ~ " , thank you so much for having me. " , ., thank you so much for having me. ., ., me. at least 91 people are dead and 2.5 million _

me. at least 91 people are dead and 2.5 million people - me. at least 91 people are dead and 2.5 million people are - and 2.5 million people are without power after hurricane heleen swept through the southeastern united states. us presidentjoe biden plans to meet those affected once you're sure it will not affect the response. it brought torrential rain and flowered —— flooding and the city of asheville was bitterly badly hit. over 300,000 people crossed north carolina after being left without power, facing difficulties reaching emergency centres and cellphone services have gone down. over 400 roads are closed due to damage from that storm. according to the american red cross, it has opened about 140 shelters across the five states. affected. let's bring in the miami correspondent with cbs. what is the situation in the region? what is the latest you are hearing? it

region? what is the latest you are hearing?— are hearing? it is absolutely devastating. _ are hearing? it is absolutely devastating. the _ are hearing? it is absolutely devastating. the governor l are hearing? it is absolutely| devastating. the governor of the north carolina, roy cooper, has said this is an unprecedented tragedy and it requires an unprecedented level of response. at this point as you rightly mentioned, asheville appears to be the epicentre of the disaster that has been left behind by this storm. communities around asheville and in that part of north carolina are essentially underwater. there have been certain neighbourhoods, certain smaller cities that have been practically cut off and at this point they are bringing in supplies by air and attempted to get a hold of folks who are in these areas because there is no internet, no cellphone service and as i mentioned, it is something that is unprecedented for that area. the cleanup also continues here in the state of florida where

officials have said they saw up to 15 feet of storm surge in certain areas. this was a monster of a storm making landfall and a category four going across several states and leaving behind that path of destruction. figs leaving behind that path of destruction.— leaving behind that path of destruction. �* , . destruction. as we heard, the death toll _ destruction. as we heard, the death toll continues _ destruction. as we heard, the death toll continues to - destruction. as we heard, the death toll continues to rise. l death toll continues to rise. at least 91 people confirmed deadin at least 91 people confirmed dead in this region. do we have a sense of what has made this storm so dangerous and deadly? you have to take into account the amount of rainfall that certain parts of particularly north carolina have had. about 31 inches of rain for some areas. that causes issues with rivers that to overflow, there are certain areas already prone to flooding and these are communities. here in florida, you are sort of... you know what is coming and you know you have to evacuate certain areas

but for some of these communities that are still low lying, they do not anticipate to get this level of rainfall, despite it being on the part of the storm. in addition, it is just a matter of what has complicated it so much, of all of this, is this was a system that, if you look back, intensified so quickly and something we have seen in the past couple of years, in the past couple of years, in the past three years, when you have these rapidly intensifying storms and you have communities that perhaps ten years ago were meant to handle hurricanes, of ten years ago, but now because they intensify so quickly, they dump this amount of rain at unprecedented levels, it is just community is not prepared to handle what we have been seeing. to handle what we have been seeina. ~ ., to handle what we have been seein. a, seeing. the miami correspondent without us news _ seeing. the miami correspondent without us news partner, - seeing. the miami correspondent without us news partner, cbs, i without us news partner, cbs, thank you so much for that

update on the tragic situation in the aftermath of hurricane helene. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. the four candidates left in the race to become conservative leader are making their cases at the party conference. kemi badenoch, robertjenrick, james cleverly and tom tugendhat are all trying to win support. earlier, current leader rishi sunak addressed the conference. our political correspondent joe pike was there. this is the last time i will address you all as leader of our party. audience groan 12 weeks after he said he would stand down, rishi sunak still hasn't gone. but in his departing message to members, he made a plea for party unity. whoever wins this contest, give them your backing. murmurs of agreement we must end the division, the backbiting, the squabbling. it's hard to avoid that when all day, the final four vying to succeed him have

been battling it out. it will soon be up to mps and party members to decide who will be the best to take the fight to labour. the opposition social democratic party secured its worst ever results with 21%. the fpo has twice served in previous coalitions but the conservatives people's party has refused to take part in the government headed by the fpo's polarising leader. hundreds gathered outside austrian

parliament building to protest the outcome. the leader's victory is the latest in a string are far right election successes in europe, the first far right national election victory in austria since the era of the nazi party. our correspondent is in vienna. the freedom party and its supporters are celebrating. the freedom party leader herbert kickl has tapped into voter concerns about the economy, about rising prices and crucially about migration. he says he wants to build fortress austria to keep the migrants out. he also said he wants to be what he calls a people's chancellor, a volkskanzler — a term that worries some austrians because it was used to describe adolf hitler. whatever happens, forming a coalition government is likely to be very complicated, because the other parties have all said they don't want to form an alliance led by kickl. it's likely that all talks to form a government will take

weeks if not months. use rescue efforts are under way in nepal after floods and landslides killed more than 150 people. —— huge. more than 50 are missing. the government has faced criticism over the speed of the emergency response. in the past two days some parts of nepal have seen some of the highest levels of rainfall in more than 50 years. thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes. some major roads have been cut off because of the intense rainfall and landslides. especially in the area around the capital kathmandu, which has been hit hardest by the intense rainfall. police have been using zip lines to rescue people and some

residents have described the lengths they went to, to escape the rising waters. translation: as the water levels rose, we had to cut the roof and get out. wejumped from one roof to another and finally reached a concrete house. a huge rescue operation continues, and these pictures show the extraordinary moment a young boy was pulled from the rubble of a building which had collapsed following a landslide. officials in nepal have ordered schools to close for three days because there has been so much damage to buildings, and while the government has faced criticism for its search and rescue operation being too slow, it looks like there is some respite on the way. officials believe the worst of the weather has now passed and the main airport in kathmandu has now reopened. it's now the tail end of the monsoon season in nepal, and while deadly floods and landslides have happened before, experts say intense rainfall events like this are happening more frequently and they are more intense because of climate change.

chris kristofferson has died at the age of 88. he played a major role in defining american country music in the 1970s. known for hits like me and bobby mcgee and help me make it through the night, as an actor starring in films including a starring in films including a star is born. our correspondent looks back at his life. it was chris kristofferson's mix of songwriting talent and rug and charm that turned this helicopter pilot into one of the biggest star asked this in the biggest star asked this in the stars of the 70s. alongside willie nelson, jonny cash and waylonjennings he took a bit of the rock attitude and musical freedom to create a new

sound, outlaw country. and there was more than a touch of that mood in movie roles in films like convoy. and a star is born in which she appeared with barbra streisand. he played a singer with a taste for the excesses of the music world and there were more than a few parallels with his own life at the time. if you feel that way about it, go to hell. there are so many ways i got away with murder. rolling cars, having accidents on motorcycles. just playing fulltilt. that hard living takes an image was far from the

whole story. he had been a rhodes scholar at oxford university and an army captain who was at one point offered a teaching post at west point. his family did not approve of him abandoning the military for music. # freedom'sjust another word... it's perhaps not a surprise that his best—known song me and bobby mcgee, sung here by his girlfriend at the timejanisjoplin, was a celebration of freedom and escape. # help me make it through the night. and here with his wife rita, a reminder of the intense charisma of kris kristofferson. # help me make it through the night...

quite the life and quite the career. chris kristofferson has died at 88. apologies if there were issues with the sound. we will bring that packaged you again in full in the next hour. stay with us right here on bbc news. hello there. well, it's now the end of the month, and it's been a very wet one across the southern half of the uk. some spots here have seen more than three or four times their average september rainfall. and there's more wet weather to come too, notably for the start of the week and then through the middle of the week, things will settle down, it will turn drier, there will be some sunshine, so things looking up and temperatures will return to the seasonal average too. but in the meantime, this is the rainfall accumulation chart for the next couple of days. so more wet weather, especially in the south. and there could be some more flooding over the midlands

with more heavy downpours here on the ground already saturated. and it's all because this deep area of low pressure is rolling in from the southwest through the rest of the night, bringing heavy, persistent outbreaks of rain, especially over the higher ground. strong, gusty winds, especially on the southern flank there. a few showers further north, but generally here it is drier, and it's a milder start and it's a milder start across the board than across the board than we saw over the weekend. we saw over the weekend. and that low continues and that low continues to push further northwards to push further northwards and eastwards as we and eastwards as we head through monday. head through monday. bumps into the area of high bumps into the area of high pressure out towards the east. pressure out towards the east. so it is going to stall, so it is going to stall, and that is not good news and that is not good news where we've seen the recent where we've seen the recent flooding, because there'll be flooding, because there'll be more heavy rain falling more heavy rain falling on the saturated ground. on the saturated ground. some of the heaviest some of the heaviest of the downpours of rain of the downpours of rain on monday could be across particularly out towards on monday could be across the liverpool bay area the liverpool bay area stretching across the midlands. stretching across the midlands. north midlands in particular north midlands in particular down from southeast yorkshire down from southeast yorkshire through into northern through into northern areas of east anglia. areas of east anglia. towards the south, it towards the south, it will dry out and the winds will dry out and the winds will gradually ease down. will gradually ease down. and towards the north, and towards the north, we'll see a few showers we'll see a few showers scattered across parts scattered across parts of scotland, northern ireland, of scotland, northern ireland, but generally a lot drier here. but generally a lot drier here.

but it will turn drier, but it will turn drier, particularly out towards the west, as we head through monday night into tuesday as that low rolls off into the north sea. so some clear spells starting to appear and a slightly chillier start for western areas we'll be seeing on monday morning.

china tries to reboot its ailing property sector with more stimulus — but will it be enough? and we look at how a new online university launched by sir richard branson could level the playing field for people with dyslexia. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. with the beginning of the new week, china has announced new measures to try and boost sluggish growth.

the ailing property sector is the target this time — with the central bank telling banks to lower mortgage rates for existing home loans. we're expecting commercial banks to cut rates by about 0.5%. the move is the latest in a string of measures introduced by beijing. tianchen xu, senior economist for china at the eiu explains the new economic strategy of the government. these three eras, the first is that monetary reducing where last tuesday there was cuts to bank requirements and so on, a lot of monetary efforts. the second is the effort to rescue the struggling housing market. rate cuts on existing mortgages which is technically subsidies on mortgage takers and also removal of purchase

restrictions in some of china's largest cities. finally, we have not seen it yet but it is