hello from the bbc sport centre arsenal take on french champions paris st —germain in the the pick of the champins league ties tonight. psg have dropped ousmane dembele for that game after being accused by his manager luis enrique of lacking respect for the team. enrique says he'd make the same decision 100 times, while also insisting he didn't have an argument with the french international, who he'll be without as he comes up against a man who he knows well from their time together at barcelona an unbelievable personality, you know. huge charisma. huge energy. very supportive with the young players. he has won every competition in his

career and transformed a club that has an identity in him and that is how he gets the achievements, is in it. 50 how he gets the achievements, is in it. ., how he gets the achievements, is in translation: i believe it was best for the team i without a shred of doubt. i would redo it 100 times. this does not mean the situation is irrevocable or irreversible but what i consider the best situation for the team as this. i signed last year with psg to build a team and this is something i can guarantee until the last day i remain in paris, i will build a team. nine games in the champions league tonight. two of them under way at 5.45. later, manchester city take on slovan bratislava, the team that lost 5—1 in their opening game to celtic, who go to borussia dortmund. there's also one game in the league cup tonght. it's the re—arranged fixture as newcastle take on afc wimbledon, after the leage two side had to postpone the match due to their pitch being badly damaged by last week's flooding.

should've played the game a week ago, last tuesday. this time last week we found out what that happened to the picture overnight and the game, yes, we lost the game, and thenit game, yes, we lost the game, and then it has been a strange few days, not knowing the first few days, we spent not knowing whether we are preparing for echo to annex, and that did not happen, obviously it has been a crazy week in the wimbledon story. ahead of next week's international break, scotland have named their squad for the nations league fixtures against croatia and portugal. john mcginn and scott mckenna are both missing through injury, 41—year—old goalkeeper craig gordon has been recalled by manager steve clarke after being left out of their euros squad in the summer, and there are first call—ups for aberdeen full—back nicky devlin, preston defender liam lindsay, and west ham midfielder andy irving. after two days without play, india have wrapped up victory in the second test against bangladesh, sealing a 2—0 series clean sweep. jasprit bumrah and ravi jadeja

combined to take six of the eight wickets to fall early on the final day in kanpur as bangladesh were bowled out for 146 in their second innings. india only needed 95 to win and they completed a seven wicket victory, reaching their target in under 18 overs.s in under 18 overs. if you make 400, try to make a game out of it, it tells you that the captain believes the bowlers will get the job done, i believe in them, and they had the ability to take 20 wickets, so you will encounter situations where butter is to dominate where batters dominate against our bowling attack, that is given in the game, but the bowling attack is quite special and i do hope this legacy of bowling is taken forward. and there was drama on the water as italy's luna rossa team recovered from a high—speed nosedive during today's first louis vuitton cup race against ben ainslie's ineos britannia. and that's all the sport for now.

i will take you straight back to the middle east because i want to show you the sound and images of sirens there in tel aviv mark the israeli military saying that missiles have been launched from iran into israel. that information just coming in the last 30 seconds, and it is what had been anticipated, those warnings coming from the white house, us officials saying there was an imminent threat of an iranian attack on israel from iran, and they warned earlier, that official, that there will be serious consequences if they launched that attack, and of course all of this as the middle east has ratcheted up and ratcheted up in terms of tension. and of course,

last night israeli forces moved across the border and started their invasion into southern lebanon to take on hezbollah, and of course hezbollah one of iran's proxies in the region, just like hamas in gaza, and at different stages over the last two months, all eyes had been on tehran in terms of how they might respond. back in april, of course, they launched a missile and drone strike on israel, but it had been heavily telegraphed in the days before, and most if not all were shut down using israel's iron dome, but also the americans and british have been israel in their defence, but those the pictures that are coming in, and apologies that they are so dark there the as they try to

track these missiles the access news agency reporting about an hour ago that it would be ballistic missiles not cruise missiles or drones that were sent by iran last time in that april attack and just in the last 20 minutes the idf had another briefing, warning is released to stay close to shelters and listen to advice and warnings issued over the last few hours, warning about the potential of these attacks, and seem to be both stay near to the shelters, and that was a warning that we had also heard from the us embassy, sainted their staff to had to shelters, so all of that being warned about in the run up to what

we are seeing now, but confirmation that the israeli military saying that the israeli military saying that missiles have been launched from iran into israel, and president biden, we are hearing, has convened a meeting with the vice president, harris and their national security team to discuss the hearing and plans to launch an attack against israel. and this difficult to make out exactly what it is. of course, israel has its iron dome, the protective shield that comes up in terms of any sort of missiles or drones aimed towards israel, sojoe biden convening the meeting with his national security team, and we heard from access that the source of missiles that were anticipated or expected would take about 12 minutes

to go between iran and israel, and these the pictures as israel prepares for those missiles to actually had into their airspace. and of course the warnings had been that these attacks could be directed widespread, right across israel, and there was no particular targeted mentioned in warnings but as you can see regular flesh is mentioned in warnings but as you can see regularflesh is in the air as we have word from the israeli military that those missiles have been launched from iran into israel. regular flesh is been launched from iran into israel. regularflesh is in the been launched from iran into israel. regular flesh is in the air. been launched from iran into israel. regularflesh is in the air. we have our correspondence in the region and will talk to them in the next few moments, but of course for weeks

now, and months, there's been a real worry about the escalating tensions in the region. 0nly today, antonio guterres warning and say that we had to avoid an all out war, and of course, the chance of that was greatly increased after what we've seenin greatly increased after what we've seen in lebanon over the last two weeks, that decapitation strategy, going after the leader of hezbollah, killing him, has redness or other last friday, and we saw before that the pager attacks and walkie—talkie attacks in southern lebanon. hassan nasrallah. aimed at so many of the hezbollah fighters. and we saw the build—up of israeli forces on the border before last night, and the start of that incursion. i know we have the response that many people had thought might come earlier from

iran because, don't forget, hezbollah have asked their proxies in the region, and of course it does been a huge blow to iran that week by week and month by month, those proxies have been taken out. i would talk to frank gardner, or security correspondent, just coming into the studio, so we will get his thoughts in a moment or two, but staying with these live pictures because as is been said, israel —— missiles have been said, israel —— missiles have been launched from iran into israel, and you can hear the sirens in the background as those warning sounded out because the israeli authorities saying to citizens, anticipate this and expect this, that is what gives it over the last two or three hours, but now it appears as you can see, those explosions just happening, it is difficult to work out whether we

are seeing those ballistic missiles actually striking or whether it is part of the iron dome, but frank gardner, our security because brendan is here in the studio with me. frank, you are looking at those pictures as we are as our viewers are around world, give me your headline thoughts as we see one of those explosions at ground level. this is pretty serious. this is exactly the execute —— escalation that almost everyone was trying to prevent, try to head off. it is why all those countries at the un last week got together, came together with a cease—fire proposal for desh for iran, this is been a difficult anime because the hawks who appear to one the date in the argument would have been seen that they cannot simply sit back and watch the systematic dismantling of their closest allies in the region, hezbollah, dentist can help the

leader and the second tier and third tier, and exploded the pagers, it made them look weak. the pragmatists would have said what or well, hang on, we are not as strong as israel, they have already proven they can hit the houthi from nearly 2000 km already, and have already assassinated, ismail haniyeh, we think, how did we do that, the clearly penetrated our security establishment, and if we do something like is they would hammer us. i. something like is they would hammer us. i know we will see the results. us. ", i know we will see the resulte— us. ", i know we will see the results. ~ ., ., . , results. we are watching these ictures results. we are watching these pictures trying _ results. we are watching these pictures trying to _ results. we are watching these pictures trying to record - results. we are watching these pictures trying to record how . results. we are watching these - pictures trying to record how much are the missiles iran has sent on how much is the iron dome, but i was citing what xes had reported in the last hour, seen that the western sources talking to them saying that iran was expected to check with ballistic missiles that would reach

in 12 minutes, not drones or cruise missiles which happen with the last attacks back in april, so talk about the type of weaponry that we are perhaps seeing here, and whether it is different in terms of the magnitude of that tack from last time. ~ ., �* ., , , magnitude of that tack from last time. ., , _ time. we don't on the numbers yet, but last time. _ time. we don't on the numbers yet, but last time, and _ time. we don't on the numbers yet, but last time, and referring - time. we don't on the numbers yet, but last time, and referring to - time. we don't on the numbers yet, but last time, and referring to that i but last time, and referring to that in april, on april one israel carried out on on iran's consulate in damascus which killed several members of the uranian revolutionary guards corps, and iran said they will respond, but they telegraphed it well in response to stop 12 days after the had a volley of around 300, a mixed volley of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, and 99% of those were shot down by notjust israel but by the us, france, the uk, jordan, probably the uae as well, so it was ineffective. and there was enormous

diplomatic pressure on israel not to go overboard in responding and start a big massive regional war, so israel responded with a symbolic hits, it was tiny, budgeted type facility near a nuclear facility, showing that they could hit them if it chose, but then came thejuly 31 assassination, first of all there was the assassination in beirut of the number two military commander in hezbollah, followed by the july 31 assassination of ismail haniyeh in tehran. iran vowed revenge for that, so they have had their finger on the trigger ever sincejuly 31 i know watching the systematic dismantling of hezbollah by their about enemy, israel, and there will be in enormous pressure on them to respond, and this appears to be their response, which could be

extremely damaging, potentially to israel but also to iran.— israel but also to iran. frank i 'ust israel but also to iran. frank i just want _ israel but also to iran. frank i just want to — israel but also to iran. frank i just want to pause _ israel but also to iran. frank i just want to pause you - just want to pause you there, because i want to put up the sound to give our viewers a sense of what it is like there with these live pictures coming to us from tel aviv. just a few moments ago, we were hearing sirens, but those of paused, but i can also say the afp news agency is reporting that explosions have been heard overjerusalem, and of course we wait to see as frank was saying how many missiles have been fired the targets and how many get through the stop and frank, last time around, in talking about what happened in april, notjust the iron dome, but the us and the uk has israel to stop the size actually

penetrating and getting through and actually doing damage on the ground. it was a hastily convened consortium that did that, i am not sure they have a bone it is a place that can do this, though the us says it is a plain extra forces to the region to try and do this. israel says it has at its back the united states with warships partly designed to shoot on things like this, but also with the capability to hit back at iran, and there is a theory that many arab people —— people in the arab part of the middle east, i've thought that benjamin netanyahu wanted all along to start a war that would destroy all his enemies and pour the us in, which is not something anybody in the israeli government has said, and certainly governments of the region do not want to be part of this

regional war, they would want to stay out of this, and this has the capability to send oil prices rocketed, notjust at capability to send oil prices rocketed, not just at the capability to send oil prices rocketed, notjust at the pump them up rocketed, notjust at the pump them up but to destroy potentially oil facilities on the arab side of the growth and the earring inside of the gulf but stop there are all sorts of ways that this could be catastrophic. but we still don't know yet, as we calm, because we do not know how many missiles have been launched and from where and what damage they have cause. when you see explosions above cities, that is the intercepts. it is very unlikely that iran or hezbollah would launch a missile atjerusalem unless it was an extremely precision guided one aiming forwest an extremely precision guided one aiming for westjerusalem. why? because eastjerusalem is because east jerusalem is predominantly because eastjerusalem is predominantly arab. fix, because east jerusalem is predominantly arab. because east jerusalem is redominantl arab. ., predominantly arab. a good place to -ause predominantly arab. a good place to ause and predominantly arab. a good place to pause and had _ predominantly arab. a good place to pause and had live _ predominantly arab. a good place to pause and had live to _ predominantly arab. a good place to pause and had live to jerusalem and | pause and had live tojerusalem and speak to our correspondent from the bc persia. tell me a bit more about what is happening around you, because i read out one report from fp, there generally seen explosions

had been heard overjerusalem, and you just heard what frank had to say, but give me the latest from where you are. we say, but give me the latest from where you are.— say, but give me the latest from where ou are. ~ ., , ., where you are. we have been hearing air sirens going _ where you are. we have been hearing air sirens going off _ where you are. we have been hearing air sirens going off in _ where you are. we have been hearing air sirens going off in jerusalem - where you are. we have been hearing air sirens going off in jerusalem in - air sirens going off injerusalem in the last— air sirens going off injerusalem in the last 20 — air sirens going off injerusalem in the last 20 minutes or so. several times_ the last 20 minutes or so. several times they— the last 20 minutes or so. several times they went off. soon afterwards, we heard these missiles and apparently going over our heads overjerusalem, and we saw missiles from israet's — overjerusalem, and we saw missiles from israel's iron dome, so they are firing _ from israel's iron dome, so they are firing up. _ from israel's iron dome, so they are firing up, trying to pick these missiles, _ firing up, trying to pick these missiles, apparently. i do not see any explosions in the air, i don't know_ any explosions in the air, i don't know whether some of these have been hits over _ know whether some of these have been hits overjerusalem or any of these missiles _ hits overjerusalem or any of these missiles have actually hit the grouhd~ _ missiles have actually hit the grouhd~ i_ missiles have actually hit the ground. i have no information on that, _ ground. i have no information on that, itut— ground. i have no information on that, but obviously iran has fired these _

that, but obviously iran has fired these missiles towards israel, and they have — these missiles towards israel, and they have arrived here earlier. earlier— they have arrived here earlier. earlier there were suggestions that the israeti — earlier there were suggestions that the israeli army was seen that if iran the israeli army was seen that if irah fires— the israeli army was seen that if iran fires these ballistic missiles towards — iran fires these ballistic missiles towards israel, it would take about 12 minutes — towards israel, it would take about 12 minutes from iran to israel, sol suppose _ 12 minutes from iran to israel, sol suppose irah — 12 minutes from iran to israel, sol suppose iran hasjust fired 30 or 20 mins— suppose iran hasjust fired 30 or 20 mins ago. _ suppose iran hasjust fired 30 or 20 mins ago, something like that, lots of missiles, — mins ago, something like that, lots of missiles, and there are suggestions more than 100 missiles have been— suggestions more than 100 missiles have been fired at israel, but i have _ have been fired at israel, but i have no— have been fired at israel, but i have no way of confirming that at the moment. have no way of confirming that at the moment-— have no way of confirming that at the moment. and i suppose what eve one the moment. and i suppose what everyone is _ the moment. and i suppose what everyone is so — the moment. and i suppose what everyone is so concerned - the moment. and i suppose what everyone is so concerned about, | the moment. and i suppose what. everyone is so concerned about, and antonio guterres was talking about it a bit earlier today i'm a was the potential for all—out war, and we

see the region ratchets up yet again. see the region ratchets up yet aaain. , . �* , see the region ratchets up yet aaain. , ., �*, q see the region ratchets up yet aaain. , ., �*, a ., again. yes, that's right. as i am s-ueakin again. yes, that's right. as i am speaking to _ again. yes, that's right. as i am speaking to you. _ again. yes, that's right. as i am speaking to you, i _ again. yes, that's right. as i am speaking to you, i can _ again. yes, that's right. as i am speaking to you, i can hear- again. yes, that's right. as i am i speaking to you, i can hear another load of— speaking to you, i can hear another load of sirens going on over jerusalem, so this attack is ongoing at the _ jerusalem, so this attack is ongoing at the moments, and obviously it is very concerning to israel at the moments _ very concerning to israel at the moments. i heard that there were new5, _ moments. i heard that there were news, unconfirmed news, that the cabinet _ news, unconfirmed news, that the cabinet was — news, unconfirmed news, that the cabinet was going to meet, and in fact they— cabinet was going to meet, and in fact they have met here under my minister— fact they have met here under my minister in— fact they have met here under my minister in yahoo, and they met in a bunker— minister in yahoo, and they met in a bunker -- _ minister in yahoo, and they met in a bunker —— prime minister netanyahu -- the _ bunker —— prime minister netanyahu -- the mets— bunker —— prime minister netanyahu —— the mets under the defence ministry, — —— the mets under the defence ministry, and they are meeting about how they— ministry, and they are meeting about how they would react to all of this. all of— how they would react to all of this. all of this, — how they would react to all of this. all of this, as you say, ratchets up, all of this, as you say, ratchets up. raises _ all of this, as you say, ratchets up, raises the level of tension and

crisis _ up, raises the level of tension and crisis to— up, raises the level of tension and crisis to one — up, raises the level of tension and crisis to one unprecedented level, and we _ crisis to one unprecedented level, and we have to wait and see what israet's _ and we have to wait and see what israel's erection would be. —— reaction _ israel's erection would be. —— reaction. also earlier that they were _ reaction. also earlier that they were seeing the consequence for iran would _ were seeing the consequence for iran would be _ were seeing the consequence for iran would be huge stop c. we have to see how widespread this offensive is, how widespread this offensive is, how these — how widespread this offensive is, how these attacks are, and depending on that— how these attacks are, and depending on that we _ how these attacks are, and depending on that we would have to wait and see what — on that we would have to wait and see what kind of reaction israel will come — see what kind of reaction israel will come up with. by the fact that iran will come up with. by the fact that iran has— will come up with. by the fact that iran has fired these missiles is surprising _ iran has fired these missiles is surprising to me because iran, not politically— surprising to me because iran, not politically or economically, not militarily, _ politically or economically, not militarily, is in a position to provoke _ militarily, is in a position to provoke a _ militarily, is in a position to provoke a war with israel, a war

that— provoke a war with israel, a war that could — provoke a war with israel, a war that could lead to a wider regional war will— that could lead to a wider regional war will stop iran, economically is his knees— war will stop iran, economically is his knees because of dissensions put on iran— his knees because of dissensions put on iran for— his knees because of dissensions put on iran for years by the united states— on iran for years by the united states and europe. so, economically, it is a— states and europe. so, economically, it is a terrible — states and europe. so, economically, it is a terrible mess, and just doesn't — it is a terrible mess, and just doesn't have the economic background to withstand a war. militarily, irah's— to withstand a war. militarily, iran's airspace is quite open to israeli — iran's airspace is quite open to israeli aeroplanes. israel can i check— israeli aeroplanes. israel can i check iran's infrastructure almost at will— check iran's infrastructure almost at will and — check iran's infrastructure almost at will and iran's infrastructure is at will and iran's infrastructure is a very— at will and iran's infrastructure is a very vulnerable, particularly their— a very vulnerable, particularly their energy infrastructure. gas, electricity. — their energy infrastructure. gas, electricity, and petrol. refineries,

power— electricity, and petrol. refineries, power stations, are all going to be very vulnerable, iran will be vulnerable to that. i very vulnerable, iran will be vulnerable to that.— very vulnerable, iran will be vulnerable to that. i will come back to some of — vulnerable to that. i will come back to some of the _ vulnerable to that. i will come back to some of the consequences - vulnerable to that. i will come back to some of the consequences of. vulnerable to that. i will come back| to some of the consequences of the moments, but for any viewers joining us, you are looking at life pictures over tel aviv, with the israeli military scene iran has launched missile attacks on israel, and over the last 20 minutes or so, we have seen a series of flushes in this sky, a few explosions at ground level, and difficult to work out from all of that what is the iron dome and what is potentially something that is coming in, but let me tell you that in the last few minutes, president biden has said that the united states was prepared to help israel defend itself from the uranian missile attacks and protect american military in the region. we discussed how the us is prepared to defend israel against the attacks and protect personnel in the attacks and protect personnel in the vicinity. joe biden said that on

x after having that national security meeting together with vice president kamala harris. and let me also remind you that benjamin netanyahu was saying only if you does ago at the un general assembly, he had a warning for around, saying that if you hit us, we will hit you, and he added that there was no way in iran that they could not reach. let's get reaction and speak to the director with the international communities, famously one of israel's negotiators that has helped release israeli hostages, but welcome to the programme. i wonder if you can start by telling me where you are as you are talking to me. i am in westjerusalem, speaking ——

sitting in front of our house, they were playing warnings to go to bomb shelters about 50 minutes ago, and over the last two minutes we have heard nonstop blooming over had, and it's probably the rockets coming in from iran and basically the whole country of israel is in their bomb shelters right now. i must say, listening to the names of towns and cities getting warnings, we are here in the names of palestinian towns and cities in the occupied west bank, so the rockets do not this coming it between israel's and palestinians here, we are all no targets from iran.— targets from iran. there been warninus targets from iran. there been warnings for— targets from iran. there been warnings for the _ targets from iran. there been warnings for the last - targets from iran. there been warnings for the last three . targets from iran. there been i warnings for the last three hours targets from iran. there been - warnings for the last three hours or so after the briefings from the white house official, give me a sense of what ordinary people have made of that as increasingly, there were multiple briefings from the

idf, warning people to go to shelters and make preparations, to listen give me a sense of the public mood over over the last few hours. it is difficult to know, i was a train going to a meeting when i got a whatsapp message and saying the meeting was postponed, the home command office had given the order not to hold meetings, and i got up to the train and went tojerusalem and made it home in time for a zoom meeting. we are experiencing something different from the middle of april, when iran sent project is to israel, then our neighbours jordan and egypt and saudi arabia and by reading and other countries got together with the united states and put up a defensive shield that protected israel. right now, there are currently hundreds of incoming rockets and missiles from iran, the whole country is under attack. so

far, listening to the news before you called, i did not hear any, it bit and was hit but we do not hear about casualties. the israeli public is to dealing with the situation, and have their home polish —— bomb shelters are public bomb shelters to go to, and they know how to listen to the commands and protect themselves, but this is really traumatic, much more than before. you talk of hundreds of incoming missiles. benjamin netanyahu, when he was talking at the un, had a warning to iran, saying that if you hit us, we would hit you. this afternoon, the un generate such good to was warning of the danger of all—out war, and how close do you think we are to that point. it is difficult to know. hopefully iran would have this one night of sending rockets and feel is the appropriate response for the cessation of hassan

nasrallah. maybe we can see some de—escalation after, but if they are targeted. if there casualties. there will be an israeli response to those of his junk will be an israeli response to those of hisjunk quote will be an israeli response to those of his junk quote casualties and this could really get out of hand. this really calls for the security council to call for a cease—fire for the meta— states and their allies with israel to better know their risk in the destruction of iran and to run and this can easily spin out of control. i mentioned the secretary—general, and he has again in the last half an hour called and urged for a cease—fire. thank you forjoining us, we are coming to the end of this programme, about 30 seconds left for we joined the bbc six o'clock news, but you're looking at life pictures from israel, with iran launching an attack at israel.

and those are the pictures from tel aviv, reports from fb, the news agency, seen more explosions rocked jerusalem, and the americans promising their support in protecting israel. as i say, the 6pm news do you with the latest from the middle east. thank you for watching. it comes in response to israel's overnight invasion of southern lebanon. the israeli military says their ground operation against hezbollah is limited, localised and targeted. israeli air strikes continue to hit beirut — the lebanese prime minister says his country is facing one of its most dangerous phases. we'll be bringing you all the latest in this breaking news story.

good evening from beirut. israel has been attacked by iran. in the last half an hour iran has launched missiles in to israel. these are live pictures of sky looiven in tel aviv. we heard the sound of sirens. they have been sounding across the country in the last few minutes. we are going to keep you up—to—date. this came about in the last hour or so. us officials briefed that iran was preparing to launch an attack towards israel and

israel urged