into eastern scotland, parts of eastern england too, with rain across southwest england and much of wales up through northwest england and western scotland as we head through the latter part of the day. temperatures again 13—17c. now, that low pressure pushes further eastwards, it's going to introduce very unsettled conditions as we head into the start of next week. here's the outlook for our capital cities. bye—bye for now.

isa this i is a s bbc news, this is bbc news, the headlines: defiance from iran's supreme leader. in a rare speech — he praises his country's missile attack on israel — and hints there could be more to come. overnight — huge blasts in beirut close to the airport — reports suggest israel was targetting hezbollah�*s next leader. more air strikes today — israel says more than 2,000 sites have been hit during their military operations in southern lebanon. we have been looking at the road from beirut to damascus that was struck overnight. israel said it was being used to transport weapons. mps will get a vote on assisted dying in england and wales. we will talk to campaigners

on both sides of the argument. a major road out of lebanon was struck overnight, which the israeli military says was being used to transport weapons — the israeli military accused hezbollah of using the crossing to transport military equipment into lebanon. bbc verify has been looking at footage, and the importance of this route to thousands of people fleeing the fighting. richard irvine—brown has more. beirut�*s hospitals are said to be overwhelmed by the surge in casualties, as the conflict intensifies and more than a0 emergency personnel are reported to have been killed in recent days. lebanon's prime minister has urged the international community to pressure israel "to allow rescue and relief teams to reach bombed sites and allow them to move" casualties. the medical centre at the american university of beirut has played a central role in treating the wounded from israeli strikes in the city.

joining me is dr fadlo khuri, president of the american university of beirut. thanks forjoining us. give me an idea of the numbers you have had to deal with over the last week. �* ., ., ., week. better to frame it over the last couple _ week. better to frame it over the last couple weeks - week. better to frame it over the last couple weeks but. week. better to frame it over the last couple weeks but we| the last couple weeks but we have had several hundred casualties combined at our two hospitals, the major medical centre in beirut, and our newly added community medical centre, and many of those have been young people, young men and women, older people, we have seen a wide variety of trauma but well over 200 injured. h0??? but well over 200 in'ured. how are the hospitals _ but well over 200 injured. how are the hospitals coping with the numbers you are talking about? ., ., , the numbers you are talking about? ., ,, , ., about? lebanon has spirits to many crises _

about? lebanon has spirits to many crises -- _ about? lebanon has spirits to many crises -- experienced l about? lebanon has spirits to - many crises -- experienced many many crises —— experienced many crises since the civil war which was in 1975, especially in the last five years with the lebanese uprising, the pandemic, the beirut port explosion, and now this. there is a well integrated very cooperative health system for which the american university of beirut is the linchpin, we have the most sophisticated care and the most well trained staff and more surgeons and cardiologists and general surgeons and critical care physicians. he health system is coordinated so it tries to do what it can, such that no one hospital is overwhelmed. the administer of help right now is himself a surgeon and a physician and he has been

working with the coordination so it is a wealth coordinated health system but it is certainly having pressure put on it right now.— certainly having pressure put on it right now. what are your fears if this — on it right now. what are your fears if this becomes - on it right now. what are your fears if this becomes an - fears if this becomes an elongated conflict? we have heard from aid agencies about the difficulty of getting supplies in because of everything happening around you. tell me about those areas. there is of course right now only one way to get things in which is to the airport and the ports, and there will be a shortage of medical supplies the longer this lasts, and there is also the danger of wearing down the medical personnel. there are only so many world—class trauma surgeons and trauma nurses, eye surgeons, surgeons and trauma nurses, eye surgeons, and those come into play more the longer this takes. the longer this takes,

the more people are denied the type of care, especially at the american university of beirut, and the more people start to despair, that is the thing that we fears most, the shortage of supplies of life—saving treatments that leads to despair which is the one thing that we have to guard against. we have got to leave it there but thanks forjoining us. thank you for giving us an idea of what you are currently dealing with. director of the middle east and north africa bureau at the united nations high commissioner for refugees, rula amin, told us about the impact of the strike on refugees fleeing lebanon. it is a major problem. this is the major entry point to syria that most lebanese and syrians who fled

the bombings have been using. we have seen over the past ten days, thousands and thousands of lebanese and syrians crossing this point. and today, the air strike which has hit in the no man's land between syria and lebanon, between the border posts, has halted all kind of traffic but people were so desperate to get away from the bombings that we saw so many families with their children and belongings walking on foot around the damage, trying to get to syria, hoping for a safe spot, protection for their children, many of them arrived exhausted and traumatised. they have walked or driven for hours until they were able to reach the border. tell me more about the numbers of displaced you are dealing with and just how critical the situation currently is? it's a tragic humanitarian situation because according

to the lebanese government, more than almost a million people were forced to flee their homes in lebanon. most of those have led to areas inside lebanon so it is mostly an internal displacement but with israel expanding the areas they are targeting, that means the areas people feel safe to run to are shrinking, and so we have seen more and more people fleeing to syria, trying to protect their families. today, this movement was hindered but there are three other border crossings still operational, although as the reporterjust alluded, they are 100 kilometres away, it is a much longer route. this also affects our efforts to mobilise and bring more relief items like blankets and food items and so on,

so the trucks that usually bring these items, now the drivers feel unsafe to cross, so we had to off—load yesterday. today the trucks had to go on a lot longer route in order to get into lebanon. yesterday the who said regarding flights, so many had been cancelled in the region, they could not get medical teams into the region and that must be affecting you as well. in terms of getting enough supplies in, given the numbers you are talking about, do you have enough aid on the ground and give me your thoughts on the dangers to your team with all of this going on around them? you hit on so many critical points and i will try to address all of them. but basically, the needs are growing by the day with more people fleeing and so our current resources on the ground, my colleagues on the ground providing

all kinds of relief items, blankets, preparing shelters, even giving cash assistance. but that is not enough because there are a lot of people being displaced and we are trying to bring in more supplies, also anticipating another escalation that could even shut the borders. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

0n the 7th october last year, israels military — one of the most powerful in the world — was overwhelmed when thousands of hamas gunmen breached the security barrier between israel and gaza. just a kilometer from the border, the military base of nahal oz found itself on the frontline of the attack and in less than five hours was overrun. the bbc�*sjon donnison has been taking a look at how the base fell to hamas almost a year ago.

dawn on october the 7th, and hamas gunmen are already swarming nahal oz. one of israel's closest military bases to gaza, right on the front line. attacking on the ground and from the air. with drones, even paragliders. within hours, the base is overrun and over 60 israeli soldiers are dead. among those taken hostage was naama levy, then 19, and only in her second day in thejob. bloodied and pinned against the wall. "i have friends in palestine," she pleaded. she was taken to gaza, where she's been for 12 months. after i could take in

the wounds, the blood, the horror of those moments, i knew she was going to say something like that, being part of a peace youth organisation. you know, "i'm not the enemy. i have friends in palestine." that is my naama. naama was a soldier, but herjob was what's called a spotter. unarmed, she was one of dozens of mostly young women whose role was to monitor via surveillance cameras suspicious activity in gaza. they'd warned that hamas was planning something big for years. its fighters training in footage like this. the nahal 0z base is now completely destroyed and some of the women spotters who work there are asking why it wasn't better protected. sharon is one of the few who didn't die. she didn't want to give her real name and her words are re—enacted by a bbc producer. they told me, "get up. the terrorists are here,

outside the door." i thought it wasn't real. it didn't make sense that they would be here inside the military base. we tried to call for more support but i remember they said there is no one can come. and she's not the only person saying that if nahal 0z had been better reinforced the soldiers there could have helped stop hamas from going on to kill hundreds of israelis. if that post was stronger. and pushed back the hamas in that area, it could save a lot of life. - but even if nahal oz and other posts were standing bravely. stopping in different areas, it not prevent _ totally the takeover. but it could save i a lot of lives, yeah. hundreds of lives? most probably hundreds of lives, yes. _ and for the families of those who were killed or taken

hostage, they want answers. there should be, you know, protection, tanks, armed combat soldiers etc. it's painful to understand. one year on there are still so many questions. why wasn't intelligence acted on? how did one of the world's most powerful militaries suffer its biggest ever defeat to a much inferiorforce? the israeli army says it's still investigating what happened at nahal oz, a base that should have been the country's first line of defence. jon donnison, bbc news, jerusalem. that report from jon donnison looking back at how israel's military was overwhelmed in the attacks of october the 7th attacks by hamas almost a year ago. campaigners for assisted dying in the uk have welcomed the news that parliament is to get an opportunity to vote on a new law to make it legal. proposals will be introduced

later this month. mps rejected a bill on the issue in 2015. let's hearfrom dr henry marsh, a neurosurgeon and campaigner for assisted dying — who has written extensively about his advanced prostate cancer. and dr gillian wright, a former palliative care doctor who now campaigns against assisted dying. i'm currently in remission from stage three prostate cancer, which probably will recur and fail treatment eventually but nothing is certain. there's nothing special about that. i mean, i regard cancer at my age as part of growing up, and it's very common. i have always been a passionate advocate of legalising assisted dying, long before i became a patient myself. so tell me, in terms

of what we think is going to be put forward — the very fact that mps will be voting on this again. just give me your headline thoughts on that move, because we've not had a vote for quite a number of years. well, there are two ways of allowing assisted dying, which varies — many, many countries in the world where it is allowed. and i really can't emphasise strongly enough — the argument about assisted dying is now a question of evidence, because so many countries have allowed it, and there is clear evidence, in my opinion, that it does not lead to abuse or a diminution of palliative care, which is a hypothetical argument produced by its passionate opponents. at the moment, the bill going in front of parliament, i think, is advocating assisted dying only for people who have a terminal diagnosis of six months. in my opinion, and

the campaign group, i'm a patron of, my death my decision. this is cruel and perverse. in effect, you're saying if you're suffering for less than six months, you can have assisted dying, but if you're going to suffer for more than six months, you can't. and this is clearly absurd. and if you look at countries like canada who have legislated to allow assisted dying for a longer diagnosis than six months, there are very, very robust safeguards. you have a cooling off period of 90 days. active care is mandated. it's really very carefully thought out. there is no evidence this leads to abuse. let me pause you there and bring in dr wright. dr, tell me your position. you hear what is being put forward. give me an idea of why you think that is not a good direction of travel. well, thank you so much for having me.

i represent doctors and nurses across the uk who are hugely concerned about any move to introduce assisted suicide, particularly because of the effect on vulnerable groups, those who might have had previous chronic mental health problems, maybe a mild learning disability or who are homeless, and face a terminal diagnosis. we're really concerned, particularly for those who might feel pressure to take their own life, given those circumstances. and we're just so conscious that the nhs is in crisis and so many people lack the care that they should get at the end of life, and this is really the wrong intervention at the wrong time. and we must instead campaign for best palliative care. and i'll come back to that point in a moment. but in terms of people who support the sort of argument you're putting forward, i was listening to dame tanni grey—thompson. her fears were reflecting from the opposite end of what dr henry marsh was saying, talking about this six month dividing line. she thought in the end that

would just be the thin end of the wedge. is that your fear as well? absolutely. because actually, henry's right. it is unfair to say five months, four months, three months and you are eligible, but seven or eight, nine months, you're not. and so it is fundamentally discriminatory legislation, to say that some people are eligible in that sense and some aren't. and so actually, henry just demonstrated why the legislation so quickly extends. and so, for example, canada introduced legislation for those with a terminal diagnosis in 2016, but then that was extended because of challenge by someone with a chronic illness. in 2021. and then it's been extended again to those who have a chronic mental illness alone. but that's been challenged internationally. and so it's currently being paused.

so actually the slippery slope or thin end of the wedge is a logical cliff. and you can see how the legal premise is so quickly extended. we will play you more of that discussion in the next hour. here in the uk — the government has announced an investment of almost £22 billion in what it calls "ground—breaking" projects to capture and store carbon emissions from energy production. ministers say the new developments, in merseyside and teesside, will create thousands ofjobs and pave the way for a "clean energy revolution". but environmental groups say it is "a lot of money" to spend on projects which will allow oil and gas production to continue. our climate editor justin rowlatt reports. the government brought

out the big guns today, a top—level political trifecta of the prime minister, the chancellor of the exchequer and the energy secretary. it is evidence of how important the government thinks this announcement is. carbon capture is a race that we can win. the uk continental shelf holds a third of the exploitable carbon storage space in all of europe. just think about that. our geology, a third of everything that we have in europe. huge potential for our country, for the jobs of the future. he chose to announce the investment in a glass factory, the kind of hard—to—decarbonise industry that the government hopes will benefit from this new technology. carbon capture and storage does pretty much what it says on the tin — the co2 produced by industry or fossil fuels is captured and then pumped out to be permanently stored underground in depleted oil and gas wells. the £21.7 billion investment announced today will be in a cluster of projects here in the north west, and another around teesside on the north—east coast. it has been welcomed in these communities, but there is a more muted response from environmental groups. they fear carbon capture could just be used to extend the lifespan of the fossil fuel industries. justin rowlatt, bbc news, cheshire.

let's speak to professor of carbon capture & storage at university of edinburgh, stuart haszeldine. your reaction to what has been announced? it your reaction to what has been announced?— announced? it is extremely ositive announced? it is extremely positive and _ announced? it is extremely positive and i'm _ announced? it is extremely positive and i'm very - announced? it is extremely i positive and i'm very pleased indeed because the uk has been trying to get to this position since 2005, and this is the third competition, the fourth attempt overall, and as the report said, the seriousness is underlined by the fact that the government deployed the prime minister at the chance that the secretary of state for energy, this puts the uk very seriously at a cause for decarbonisation, to get to net zero by 2050 —— the prime minister and the chancellor and the secretary of state. we can do this by using our geological resources and skills of engineering, and also the method of funding and

underwriting this is... but is this technology _ underwriting this is... but is this technology that - underwriting this is... but is this technology that can - underwriting this is... but is l this technology that can really work in terms of the scale that is required?— work in terms of the scale that is required? the technology has been working — is required? the technology has been working in _ is required? the technology has been working in many _ is required? the technology has been working in many shapes i is required? the technology has i been working in many shapes and forms around the world since the early 1970s, and one of the key projects has been in the north sea, capture separating carbon dioxide and injecting that the storage a kilometre down in porous rock which has been storing 1 million tonnes a year, every yearfor the past 28 years. with no problems at all. another project has been separating carbon dioxide gas production, 7 million tonnes a yearin production, 7 million tonnes a year in the us, and that does not store the carbon dioxide because there is no market for that, no money incentive, but the technology of separating and transporting safely and securely clearly does work at these very large scales. in terms of _ these very large scales. in terms of the issue we are combating, and when you look it

is on the screen, £22 billion, is on the screen, £22 billion, is that the best use of money? yes, because the amount of fossil fuel use yes, because the amount of fossilfuel use in yes, because the amount of fossil fuel use in our economy is huge and in spite of the efforts we have made in building renewable energy from wind mills and tides and solar, thatis wind mills and tides and solar, that is still only partly to carbonised some of the electricity so we have about 85% of the economy still dependent on fossil fuels so this is why carbon capture and storage is important because it can handle large amounts of carbon dioxide and it can do that for activities which are really hard to change, no matter how many windows you build, you are not going to decarbonise cement —— windmills you build. irate decarbonise cement -- windmills ou build. ~ ., ., ., ., you build. we have got to leave it there but _ you build. we have got to leave it there but thanks _ you build. we have got to leave it there but thanks for - you build. we have got to leave it there but thanks forjoining . it there but thanks for joining us. we will be back with more after the break but now we have

the weather forecast. hello, there. good afternoon. well, we've seen some respite from all of the wet weather across the south of england over the last couple of days. and for the rest of this afternoon, the blue sky and the sunshine are just set to continue with high pressure dominating. it's slowly drifting a little further eastwards, but it's still helping to block these weather fronts approaching from the north and the west. but still more cloud, outbreaks of patchy rain across western scotland, northern ireland, as we head through the rest of the day. more cloud, too, increasing for eastern scotland. we'll see quite a fresh southerly to south—easterly wind blow, particularly across the western isles. rather windy here. but a lot of sunshine for england and wales, with some fairweather cloud at times. temperatures in the best of the sunny spells could get as high as perhaps 16—18c. of course, cooler underneath the cloud and the rain, but here it's going to be a milder night. as all of that cloud and outbreaks of patchy rain tend to push their way further eastwards into southern eastern areas of scotland, perhaps through northern england as well. so double figures underneath all of the cloud. but where we keep the clear

skies, further south and east, temperatures could dip back to mid single figures. so quite a chilly start locally here. and then this is saturday. low pressure approaches from the atlantic, sending these weather fronts further eastwards. but for most of us, it's still dry and bright on saturday, with a bit of rain out towards the west. turning heavier, and then that cloud pushes across the whole of the uk. so a much greyer day on sunday, with some patchy outbreaks of rain for most of us. so this is saturday, then. some of that rain heavy and persistent across northern ireland, pushing up through northwestern scotland as we head through the morning into the afternoon. more cloud developing across western wales and the southwest of england. but again, a lot of sunshine for most of us and for the vast majority it will be a dry day, but then it will turn wetter overnight on saturday into sunday. with these fronts gradually pushing further eastwards. it's a cloudier looking day on sunday, the clouds spreading into eastern scotland, parts of eastern england too, with rain across southwest

england and much of wales up through northwest england and western scotland as we head through the latter part of the day. temperatures again 13—17c. now, that low pressure pushes further eastwards, it's going to introduce very unsettled conditions as we head into the start of next week. here's the outlook for our capital cities. bye—bye for now.

live from london. this is bbc news. defiance from iran's supreme leader. in a rare speech, he praises his country's missile attack on israel — and hints there could be more to come. overnight — huge blasts in beirut close to the airport — reports suggest israel was targeting hezbollah�*s next leader. explosions, sirens. our correspondent lucy williamson reports on the exchanges today of fire between hezbollah and israeli forces. some small arms fire across the border. it seems the israeli army is pushing in to a location, and this was the response. our other main headline — mps will get a vote on assisted

dying in england and wales. some welcome the move, others express caution.