and for nothing left to lose. and the american _ for nothing left to lose. and the american country - for nothing left to lose. and the american country singer songwriter and actor kris kristofferson has died aged 88. hello, i'm carl nasman. the idf hello, i'm carl nasman. the idf says israel has come about says israel has come about strikes in dozens of strikes on strikes in dozens of strikes on lebanon, it comes as the health lebanon, it comes as the health ministry says more than 50 ministry says more than 50 people have been killed and people have been killed and strikes since sunday. the strikes since sunday. the strikes since sunday. the strike hit an apartment strikes since sunday. the strike hit an apartment building, you can see the building, you can see the footage, and central brad footage, and central brad drewett. a separate group, the drewett. a separate group, the popular front for liberation of popular front for liberation of palestine said three of its palestine said three of its leaders were killed there. it leaders were killed there. it is believed to be the first is believed to be the first israeli strike within city israeli strike within city limits in nearly one year and limits in nearly one year and comes as hezbollah also fired comes as hezbollah also fired rockets across the border into rockets across the border into israel. the us president says israel. the us president says an all—out war in the middle an all—out war in the middle east plus the avoidance of what east plus the avoidance of what

must be avoided. died aged 88. must be avoided. he said he plans to speak

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. meanwhile, israel is continuing to launch strikes against what he says are hezbollah targets within lebanon. the idf says it is hit 120 military sites belonging to the iran backed little grip. the bernese officials say more than i officials say more than 1 million people face being forced from their homes in that country. the body of the late hezbollah leader has run the solar is also now reported to have been discovered, recovered from the site of an israeli air strike in beirut. his assassination is fuelling

concerns about all—out war in the region. 0rla guerin reports from the beqaa valley and a warning you may find some parts of her report stressing —— beqaa. israel keeps hitting hard. for now, it looks unstoppable. this is the beqaa valley this afternoon. there were at least 30 air strikes in an hour. danger in every direction. "0ur 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're being treated in the emergency department. there's 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 nf. herfather says he is not in hezbollah, but now wishes he was. 0rla guerin, bbc news, in the beqaa valley. the white house national security spokesperson john corby want is well of starting an all—out war with hezbollah

or iran on bbc news this week —— kirby. is that it remains unclear what iran's response to israel's offensive might be. we are israel's offensive might be. , are watching this very, very closely to see how, if and how hezbollah and or iran may react as well as militia groups in iraq and syria. you have to be prepared for some sort of response and we have to make sure we are ready, and we are. we believe we have the force capability we need in the region. but it is not clear right now and too soon to know. for more, i've been speaking to christina ruffini. israel striking several hezbollah targets across lebanon. if you targets across lebanon. if you targets in yemen. is this the escalation in this context that the community is embracing for? —— houthi. it is not what us officials were hoping for. we spent the weekend of the un talking to world leaders and were given a guidance, as a lot of other outlets have reported, there was a ceasefire deal that

there was a ceasefire deal that the us have worked out with the french, the italians, the germans, the qataris, the saudis, got a play—by—play as to who was brought into each meeting and the american officials had confidence that they were going to get signed on to this, or a list finding thinking about signing on but netanyahu lands of the un on friday, kind of shows no interest in it and pushes back against it and says it will not happen and the next day we see this massive bombing in beirut that takes out ms roller so the statements you've seen what they have to be you want to condemn a terrorist and you want to acknowledge this is an important move ofjustice for many americans who have died at the hands of or his organisation but —— nasrallah organisation but —— nasrallah or his organisation and puts them in a bind because once again israel is going against the direct guidance and will of the direct guidance and will of the allegedly close ally and partner the us and in fact there is reporting that israel

did not want us ahead of time with enough time for there to be any debate about the strike because they did not want have the conversation and even folks like secretary of defense austin who has a very good working relationship with his counterpart ahmad way this went down and, of course, it is not what you will see reflected in public statements but i was talking to a senior middle eastern diplomat earlier today who said it is basically masochistic how the biden administration keeps going back to the table thinking that israel will sign on and having israel will sign on and having israel pull the rug out from under them at the last minute. to follow up on that, we heard today us president biden saying that an all—out war in the middle east must be avoided. do you think his words hold much weight at this point? i you think his words hold much weight at this point?— weight at this point? i don't think s0- — weight at this point? i don't think so. the _ weight at this point? i don't think so. the us _ weight at this point? i don't think so. the us since - weight at this point? i don't i think so. the us since october seven, unai, secretary blinken has been practically in the middle east, there has been an all—out diplomatic effort to try to keep the lid on these

conflicts —— you know. and israel and netanyahu especially israel and neta nyahu especially seem israel and netanyahu especially seem to have their own agenda and don't seem to care what the us or the international community thinks about what they have to do all they say they have to do all they say they have to do all they say they have to do to protect their sovereignty and, they have to do to protect theirsovereignty and, of their sovereignty and, of course, theirsovereignty and, of course, there are other issues here. i spoke to another reporter this and the fact we wonder if this were not an election year if the us administration would have more latitude to threaten to hold back weapons shipments for the israelis if they don't come to the table and don't heed a little bit more of what the us is trying to get them to do but given what is happening in november and the politics of all of this, it is really not going to happen. you are even seeing other democrats pushing back against the idea that the biden administration would withhold some of this aid and isjust this week, withhold some of this aid and is just this week, the bill that was signed in april to give israel billions of dollars of military aid was finalised in congress and it looks like it is working its way through so that is really the only thing the us could do at this point is take more of a hard

line and say listen, if you don't come to the table we will stop these eight shipments and there isjust not stop these eight shipments and there is just not the political will to do that right now in the us, —— aid shipments. all politics are local and that is true for netanyahu as well and he knows he has a very difficult coalition he is holding together and jerusalem and others reported the far right coalition members threaten to pull out and possibly be the end of the coalition government if he agreed to a ceasefire —— jeruslem post. agreed to a ceasefire -- jeruslem post.— jeruslem post. that is reporting _ jeruslem post. that is reporting that - jeruslem post. that is l reporting that suggests jeruslem post. that is - reporting that suggests the bombing that was used to kill hassan nasrallah were likely made in the us, we are hearing from the houthis calling the strikes american british aggression. is there a risk of how high do you think it may be that the us could get dragged a bit further into the conflict? i think any conflict that involves israel automatically involves israel automatically involves the us. however, it would be hard to see how the

court of public opinion, especially in the middle east, views the us if so many of these weapons or the funding for these weapons or even the backfill behind the weapons are being used, i don't have any knowledge about the specific bombs and where they were manufactured but it is hard to tie the complicity of american policy with the action of tel aviv, especially given the lack of ability of the us and the white house and pentagon to manage or deter or mitigate what israel says it is doing, there is a big concern this is going to widen because obviously now hezbollah has a proxy of a run and run has to respond and everyone else in the region who has a dog in the fight, most everyone, is going to feel like they have to get involved in this and this is what the biden administration so they don't want. 2.5 million --eole so they don't want. 2.5 million peeple are _ so they don't want. 2.5 million people are without _ so they don't want. 2.5 million people are without power- so they don't want. 2.5 million people are without power and | so they don't want. 2.5 million i people are without power and 91 dead after hurricane helene swept through the southeastern united states. joe biden plans to visit communities affected by the category four hurricane

once he is sure it will not disrupt the emergency response. an the white house have just said vice president kamala harris will also visit. donald trump says he will be in the region in the coming days as well. the storm brought torrential rain and flooding in florida, georgia, the state of virginia as well as south carolina and north carolina. that's where the city of asheville was particularly badly hit. more than 300,000 people across north carolina are still without power and many residents are facing difficulties reaching emergency services as cellphone services have gone down. more than 400 roads across the state are closed due to damage from the storm. the american red cross as it has opened about 140 shelters across those five different states that have been affected. i spoke withjeremy knighton, the first —— assistant fire chief at the asheville fire department. firstly, i'm sure you have been

around your city, can you describe some of what you've seen? .. ~ describe some of what you've seen? ., ~' ,. describe some of what you've seen? ., ~ i. ., describe some of what you've seen? ., ~ ., ., seen? thank you for having me. a lot of devastation. _ seen? thank you for having me. a lot of devastation. our - a lot of devastation. our community is suffering, we have suffered impacts that we have never seen. storm totals are unprecedented. we are currently running 24—hour operations, trying to get out there. we are doing targeted search is now of the area, the damaged area, trying to assess and still in live safety move —— mode for nanamy looking for our community members are several folks are missing and lots of folks are missing and lots of folks cannot connect with their loved ones here who are out of state and our infrastructure has taken some serious impacts, our roadways are closed, our ceuphone our roadways are closed, our cellphone carriers and the things that we depend on day to day has been severely impacted. we are out of power. we have

been on generator power here for about four days now. since the storm hit. just trying to get better and make it better, one day at a time. do get better and make it better, one day at a time.— get better and make it better, one day at a time. do you have a sense now — one day at a time. do you have a sense now of _ one day at a time. do you have a sense now of how— one day at a time. do you have a sense now of how many - one day at a time. do you have l a sense now of how many people may still be missing and what kind of challenges are you facing right now in the rescue effort? you mentioned difficulties with power and communication, cellphones. what kind of rescue operation is this right now? absolutely, it's difficult, _ this right now? absolutely, it's difficult, really, - this right now? absolutely, it's difficult, really, in - this right now? absolutely, it's difficult, really, in the l it's difficult, really, in the mountains normally, right? it's just the topography and the amount of, you know, just different slopes and things and features that we have. it is hard to understand the gravity of this. being on the ground, being in the mud, obviously, our critical infrastructure and our critical infrastructure and our access has really been damaged, so firstly, we've got to open the roads. we've got to get some of the access into

places so we can begin these targeted searches. we are disconnected. we are disconnected. we are disconnected from our normal means. our radio system is kind of keeping us afloat through this whole thing and we are depending heavily on it but we are also having to, as we take are also having to, as we take a step forward, we have a primary plan and we also have to have several contingencies for the primary plan. in many cases, we had to pull the parachute and just do the best we could until the water recedes or it's safe to get in there and start working, so it is definitely a very complex incident here. we is definitely a very complex incident here.— is definitely a very complex incident here. we have been heafina incident here. we have been hearing about _ incident here. we have been hearing about the _ incident here. we have been hearing about the death - incident here. we have been hearing about the death toll| hearing about the death toll there and the dozens just in your county alone. do you have a sense of what led to those tragedies? what was it about this storm that ended up with so many people unfortunately passing away there in your community? i passing away there in your community?— passing away there in your communi ? ~ . community? i think the sheer magnitude — community? i think the sheer

magnitude. this _ community? i think the sheer magnitude. this exceeded . community? i think the sheer| magnitude. this exceeded any community? i think the sheer . magnitude. this exceeded any of the 500 year flood for us. our gauges wouldn't even register as high as what the water rose. it was hard to forecast. we had a lot of good intel, lots of collaboration with our partners in cooperation. everyone did the absolute best they could to measure this complexity. however, the storm exceeded it all and i think that's — there is water in places that megertu i've lived in this community my whole life and i never thought i would see water where there is water today and the past several days.— is water today and the past several da s. �* ., ., several days. around the world and across _ several days. around the world and across the _ several days. around the world and across the uk, _ several days. around the world and across the uk, this - several days. around the world and across the uk, this is - several days. around the world and across the uk, this is bbcl and across the uk, this is bbc news. the four candidates left to become a conservative leader are making their cases at the party conference. kemi badenoch, robertjenrick, james cleverly and tom tugendhat are all trying to win support. currently the rishi sunak addressed the conference earlier. jo pike was there.

this is the last time i will address you all as leader of our party. audience groans. 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 is the best leader to take the fight to labour. that was jo pike from the conservative party conference in birmingham. you are life with bbc news. projections in austria suggest the far right freedom party is headed for unprecedented general election victory,

although without a majority. exit polls give her a good giggle of mikati 29.2%, that's two points ahead of the conservative people's party at 26.5% and the opposition social democratic party secured its worst ever result —— herbert kickl. the fpo has twice served in previous coalitions but the conservative people party has refused to take part in a government headed by the fpo's polarising leader herbert kickl. hundreds gathered outside austrian parliament buildings to protest the election outcome. herbert kickl�*s victory is a string of thyroid successes in europe and the first in austria since the era of the nazi party. bethany bell 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 — which is 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. huge rescue efforts are under way in nepal afterfloods huge rescue efforts are under way in nepal after floods and landslides killed nearly 150 people there. the government has faced criticism over the speed of the response. stephen murphy has more. in the past few days, some parts of nepal have seen the highest rainfall in more than 50 years. thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes and 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. 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 the american singer songwriter and actor kris kristofferson has died at the age of 88. known for his hits like me and bobby mcgee and is an actor starting in films such as a starting in films such as a star is born. david salerno looks back at his life. -- silitto. # lay your head. # uoon on my pillow. it was kris kristofferson's mix of songwriting talent and charm that turned this texan oil rig helicopter pilot into one of the biggest stars of the 70s.

# i was born upon the tide... # and with the sea, i did abide. along with willie nelson, johnny cash and waylonjennings, he created a new sound — outlaw country. you're finished! there was more than a touch of that mood in his movie roles in films like the convoy. # because we have the brightest love. and a star is born, in which he 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 that i got away with murder, just rolling cars, you know? having accidents on motorcycles. just playing full—tilt. but that hard—living texan image was far from the whole story. he had been a rhodes scholar at university and an army captain who, was at one point, was offered a teaching post at west point. his family did not approve of him abandoning the military for music. # freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. 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 at the time rita, a little reminder of the intense charisma rough—hewn charisma of kris kristofferson. # help me make it through the night... that's all from us here in washington. stay with us. plenty more 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 across the board than we saw over the weekend. and that low continues to push further northwards and eastwards as we head through monday. bumps into the area of high pressure out towards the east. so, it is going to stall, and that is not good news where we've seen the recent flooding because there'll be more heavy rain falling on the saturated ground. some of the heaviest of the downpours of rain on monday could be across the liverpool bay area stretching across the midlands, north midlands, in particular, down from southeast yorkshire through into northern areas of east anglia. towards the south, it will dry out and the winds will gradually ease down. and towards the north, we'll see a few showers scattered across parts of scotland, northern ireland, but generally a lot drier here.

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. but underneath the cloud and the rain, of course, still very mild. and then on tuesday, well, our low pushes into the north sea. high pressure starts to build into the north and the west. we'll be seeing that a bit later on through the week. but we're starting off tuesday with still outbreaks of rain across parts of east anglia, south east england, a brisk northeasterly wind blowing for the north sea facing coasts but towards the north and the west, there'll be some brightness and spells of sunshine, perhaps a few showers but generally dry and temperatures will start to pick up. it's looking largely dry on wednesday, thursday and friday. bye— bye.

voice-over: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur.

outside the confines of his own regime, few people believe nicolas maduro won venezuela's presidential election two months ago. independent observers say the vote count was compromised. the opposition points to evidence that its candidate won by a wide margin. so, what now? well, the maduro government has ramped up repression. international diplomacy hasn't persuaded the president to step down. my guest is the de facto leader of the anti—maduro opposition, maria corina machado. maduro has long defied those predicting his demise — is now any different?