live from london. this is bbc news. more israeli strikes on beirut, while israel claims a mosque it targeted in southern lebanon contained a hezbollah command centre. a number of hospitals are now closed in lebanon because of the airstrikes — with the humanitarian situation worsening by the hour. more foreign nationals evacuate lebanon, as military transport planes and charted flights are still using beirut airport despite strikes in the vicinity. anti—war protesters are marching in london, cape town and paris — as the first anniversary of october 7th approaches. french officials say four migrants including a child have died attempting to cross the english channel. hello. welcome to bbc news. there have been fresh israeli

air strikes on southern beirut, as the humanitarian situation is worsening in the country and there are fears of an israeli attack on iran. these are live pictures overlooking beirut. lebanon health ministry says 25 people are killed and 127 wounded in israeli strikes in lebanon on friday. israeli military says it's killed two top hamas officials, in north and east lebanon. israel has bombed a mosque in the southern part of the country — it says was being used as a command centre by hezbollah fighters. the building was next to a hospital. at least four hospitals now closed in the south because of israeli airstrikes. the world health organisation says at least 37 healthcare facilities have closed since israel began its air bombardment of lebanon two weeks ago. the un says more than 200 thousand people have fled lebanon into neighbouring syria. hezbollah says it's fired rockets at the ramat david airbase near the city of haifa in northern israel.

sirens have sounded across northern israel this morning. and this new line came in today, amid growing international pressure on israel, french president emmanuel macron has said a political solution should be the priority, and that there should be a halt to the delivery of weapons used to fight in gaza. he also added that france is currently not sending any weapons to israel. he made the remarks during an interview with the french broadcaster france inter. nick beake has more on lebanon. israel is stepping up its strikes in lebanon. beirut rocked by more blasts overnight. and this morning, as the israeli army says it continues to hit hezbollah targets, including near the city's airport. but the expanded assault has forced more than a million lebanese from their homes in the past two weeks, many taking refuge in the capital. there may be glimpses of normality, but this is not the safe haven they hoped

it would be. translation: the lebanese people are used to this. - this is not the problem. the problem is with how we're living with the people who are sleeping in the streets. you need countries to start taking action. the situation is a disaster and we're living through it. what should we do? we cannot go anywhere. we cannot travel. all the country is at risk. and because of that, we have to live. what should we do? we have to live with it. israel also hit the northern lebanese city of tripoli in the early hours. this the damage after a commander — not from hezbollah, but from hamas was killed, reportedly along with his wife and two children. "the commander was killed by an israeli drone," this man says. explaining that others living here would follow the path to martyrdom. in the south of lebanon, israeli soldiers are trying

to consolidate their recent ground invasion. but hezbollah say there have been fierce clashes and claimed to have wounded advancing israeli troops over the border. israeli aircraft have been in constant action as hezbollah fires more rockets into israel and fights back. nick beake, bbc news, in northern israel. as this crisis continues and escalates, let's cross over to tel aviv to speak to... bbc persian�*s special correspondent kasra naji. as we are seeing the strikes, what we make of the situation on the ground? it what we make of the situation on the ground?— on the ground? it is pretty horrific actually, _ on the ground? it is pretty horrific actually, various i on the ground? it is pretty i horrific actually, various bits and pieces of news that we are getting out of lebanon, south of lebanon, northern israel, it

seems that there are quite a lot of fighting going on, particularly in southern lebanon, in confrontation with the hezbollah fighters out there. they are firing tens of rockets every day into israel. on average, this last few days, they have probably fired around hundred and 50 missiles a day into israel. beyond that, israel is ordering evacuations of even more areas in southern lebanon. there are bombing raids by israeli aircraft continuing. israel, so far, in the last three days at least, they have lost at least 13 soldiers in the fighting. that is quite high for israeli military to lose 13 people in

three days. we are getting indications that still, they are transferring the wounded from the north back to hospitals here in israel. things are heating up in the north. , ., ., , north. things are hotting up in the north- _ north. things are hotting up in the north. iran _ north. things are hotting up in the north. iran monitoring - north. things are hotting up in the north. iran monitoring alll the north. iran monitoring all of this. any reaction from them? ., ~ them? no, here in telaviv, it is auiet them? no, here in telaviv, it is quiet but— them? no, here in telaviv, it is quiet but suspiciously - is quiet but suspiciously quiet, in a sense that we are expecting israelis to respond to iran's missile attacks on tuesday night. any moment, any hour or any day, we know that israeli military and political leaders and intelligence people are constantly meeting here and discussing various options they

have for attacking in iran. the targets from israel's nuclear facilities to iran's infrastructure of gas, electricity power to add bases and military bases in iran. these are all part of the choices that israel is discussing. we are hearing also that the commander of the american forces in the region is going to be here in the next few hours to coordinate actions by iran and israel, israel and the americans rather, so far as the americans rather, so far as the attack is concerned on

iran. america seems against attacking infrastructure. iran has said if they attack their infrastructure, iran will attack the israeli infrastructure here. an hour or two, we had the israeli foreign minister visiting syria saying that response will be even stronger than the israeli response and attack, and they are warning israel against testing their resolve. £311" testing their resolve. our regional _ testing their resolve. our regional correspondent joining regional correspondentjoining us there. on our live page, we are monitoring the twists and turns of this situation. this all nearly a year after the start of the israel gaza war.

nearly a year after the start of the israel—gaza war, protests have taken place worldwide calling for an end to the ongoing conflict in the middle east. in cape town, protesters marched with palestinian flags and banners, ending at parliament where they delivered a memorandum. these were the scenes in dublin, where the march was organised by the ireland—palestine solidarity campaign. and some 5,000 people attended anti—war demonstration in rome and, in london, memorial events were held as protesters gathered at russell square and marched to whitehall, where speeches were delivered. our correspondent divya talwar is at the protest in central london. we can see people with palestinian flags, we can see people holding placards and banners holding things that say ceasefire now. when we were in the march, there were megaphone shouting, stop the war and stop the bombing now. there are people here of different ages, we saw children and pushchairs, elderly people, people from

different faiths and backgrounds and different parts of the country, all gear calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza. they are against escalating conflict in the middle east. when i spoke to people, there was a sense of anger and frustration, but really helplessness. one woman i spoke to had palestinian family who were killed in gaza. it took about a0 minutes as we walk two miles to whitehall. there is a large stage behind me were a number of people are giving speeches throughout the afternoon. we are expecting the former leader of labourjeremy corbyn here later this afternoon and other mps. there has been a significant police operation. as we were walking along, there were helicopters above us. on the ground, hundreds of officers. the demonstration has been largely peaceful. there was a slight

tense exchange at one point when there was a counter demonstration, people holding israeli flags and banners saying hamas are terrorists, but nothing significant. there have been a rest, including two on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker. the police have said they are monitoring the situation and if anybody does cross the line from political speech to hate, they will make further arrests. that was our correspondent - will make further arrests. that was our correspondent at - will make further arrests. that was our correspondent at their protest in london, numerous protests in various cities around the world taking place. much more on our website as we monitor the escalating situations in the middle east. officials in france say four people — including a child — have died while attempting to cross the channel, in two separate incidents. france's interior minister said the child was trampled to death on board a boat. he called it a �*terrible tragedy�*, and blamed people smugglers. officials held a press conference earlier. with more

from what we know so far, here is our correspondent. in from what we know so far, here is our correspondent.— is our correspondent. in that ress is our correspondent. in that press conference, _ is our correspondent. in that press conference, they - press conference, they confirmed that four people died today, in including a two—year—old child, born in germany to a somalian mother. they said that the child, as he said, was trampled to death in the boat and the french interior minister said it was a terrible travel to —— tragedy and the smugglers have blood on their hands. sir keir starmer said he was absolutely determined to tackle the smuggling gangs and those facilitating the crossing is, but has not yet agreed to a timetable and how that will be dealt with. these arrivals have come in the same day that the uk and other g7 nations have agreed an anti—smuggling action plan, and that is designed to boost cooperation on the issue and this follows talks in italy. the idea is to put pressure on social media

companies to stop the adverts going out which are generating the interest in the smuggling trade. that's one thing that coming into force today. the home office has confirmed that 395 migrants arrived by boat on friday, the first to arrive in five days because of bad weather in the english channel in the last week or so. on friday, 395 arrived, but again today, tragedy in the english channel and one of the most dangerous shipping lanes in the world. police in the pakistani capital islamabad have fired teargas at supporters of imran khan's, who were holding an anti—government rally in defiance of a ban on congregating in the city. security forces had sealed off main routes into the city, and blocked cellphone services in an attempt to prevent the gathering. the bbc�*s farhat javed was on the ground when the clashes took place. we are really close to the red zone of islamabad and imran khan's supporters have just reached this area and there is heavy tear gas

shelling by the police. to disperse the crowd here, there are a large number of people who have successfully reached here to despite the fact that all the major entry and exit points throughout the city were closed for more than 36 hours. there is a huge deployment of police and other security forces who are in control of the red zone, where all the important government buildings, including parliament house are located. they are in control and their safety has been handed over to pakistan army. the situation remains tense and islamabad and it is worsening now the supporters of imran khan have finally reached the red zone. imran khan had asked his party members and his supporters to reach the red zone to protest against his imprisonment and some constitutional amendments that the present government is trying to bring in. therefore, when imran khan

announced a new series of protests, the government closed all the entry and exit points in islamabad and there was a huge deployment of security forces. pakistan is in political chaos for quite a few years now. and this has impacted not only the life of the public year, but also the country's economic situation. our thanks there to our reporter in islamabad. now it's time for a look at today's sport. liverpool have extended their lead at the top of the english premier league — after a 1—0 win over crystal palace in saturday's early kick—off. that makes it nine wins out of ten for their new head coach liverpool have extended their lead at the top arne slot in all competitions — the best start of any liverpool boss in history — the winning goal coming from diogojota in the ninth minute, there should have been more but liverpool found themselves hanging on towards the end, with goalkeeper alisson forced

off with an injury. the win temporarily moved liverpool four points clear at the top of the table. when you play a lot of long balls, got some free kicks, some throw—ins, that was a difficult period. but before they got their chances in the second half, we had an open chance for a free kick from diogo and another so we should have scored the second one earlier. we would have gotten what we deserved. in the end, it was like you said, a tied game. the three o'clock kick—offs are underway — champions manchester city will be looking to close the gap back to one point — they host fulham at the etihad — arsenal have just equalised. southampton in front, but they

have just equalised. wolves for—2. west ham leading to against everton. in cricket — the england men's captain ben stokes is out of the first test against pakistan which starts on monday. the side will continue to be led by ollie pope, with durham fast bowler brydon carse making his debut stokes hasn't played since the beginning of august, and trained away from the rest of the squad before batting in the nets on saturday. he'll now try and get fit for the second test which is also in multan on the 15th october. england's women have got their t20 world cup campaign under way. they're taking on bangladesh in sharjah — they won the toss and chose to bat. they started well, danni wyatt—hodge setting the pace with a1 but they've lost a quick flurry of wickets in the middle of their innings, wyatt—hodge and captain heather knight among those to go and are currently 97 for 5 with around 2 overs to go. while defending champions australia cruised to a six—wicket victory over sri lanka in their opener —

beth mooney�*s unbeaten a3 leading australia to their target of 9a with five overs to spare. jannick sinner says he's "surprised" the world anti—doping agency is appealing the decision to clear him of blame after he twice tested positive for a steroid. an independent tribunalfound the world number one did nothing wrong but wada has recommended he's banned for between one to two years. on the court, the world number one beat taro daniel in the second round of the shanghai masters. carlos alcaraz also looking comfortable, beating china's shang juncheng for the loss ofjust two games. some magic moments. teenager shang became only the second chinese player to win an atp tour singles title last month, but had no answer to the world number two. alcaraz will next face another chinese player, wildcard wu yibing next. four—time shanghai champion novak djokovic is also

through, but he was given a tough test by america's alex michelsen, having to win two tiebreaks to eventually get the better of the world number a3 in his first match since his us open third round exit. world number six coco gauff is through to the china open final in beijing, coming from a set and break down to beat spain's paula badosa in three sets and she'll face karolina muchova in sunday's final, the czech world number a9 following up her quarter—final victory over aryna sabalenka by stunning home favourite zheng qinwen in straight sets, 6—3, 6—a. more reaction to that on the bbc sport website. that is all the sport for now. we'll be back with you a little later on. in the us, republican presidential nominee, donald trump, returns to the pennsylvanian city of butler today — where he was injured

in an assassination attempt at a rally injuly. our correspondent gary o'donoghue, was there at the time of the attack, and has gone back to the swing state to speak to people affected that day. they include the widow of a former volunteer fire—fighter who was killed by a bullet meant for mr trump. if you want to really see something... it's a moment that will go down in history... ..take a look at what happened... gunshots. ..a former president coming within inches of losing his life. there's frantic activity among the police... is he hit? a book bag next to him. give me a bleep hard line! ..as they look for other possible gunmen. this building, he was on top of this building! meanwhile, those closest to the stage are watching donald trump on the floor. this video, taken just moments later. while donald trump survived, corey comperatore did not. the former volunteer fire chief losing his life as he protected his wife and daughters. his widow, helen,

told me how they'd been childhood sweethearts. the day before he was killed, my youngest daughter pulled out his senior photo that he had given to me. and on the back he had written that i was his best... ..thanked me for being his best friend. and he actually teared up and looked at me and said, "thank you for being my best friend." so it was just kind of weird that we had that moment, you know, the day before. throughout the rally, corey had joked how he believed the former president would get him up on stage. less than a week later, corey's jacket was displayed on stage as donald trump accepted the republican nomination. ijust cried because, you know, i said, "he got his moment on stage with trump." so, you know, it was kind of like a nice moment, but it was a sad moment

at the same time. two people with an exceptional view that day were a mother and son, 11—year—old gino, dressed as the former president, just feet from the stage. i felt everything. i felt sad, scared, mad that someone would do this. there were police - were down there running round on the ground. and i was like, there's a guy up there with a rifle! - the police were like, what? they— the police were like, what? they didn't _ the police were like, what? they didn't know— the police were like, what? they didn't know what - the police were like, what? they didn't know what wasl the police were like, what? - they didn't know what was going on. just outside the rally, me and my team were talking to trump supporters about what they'd seen when one man told us an extraordinary story. his words would reverberate around the world. three months later, he has no regrets. i feel proud of it. i everything that i told you that| night has proven out to be true from everything that's come out since then. _ there's still no clear answer to the question why thomas crooks attempted

to assassinate donald trump. but we do now have a much clearer idea about the series of security blunders that allowed him to do so. he was able to fly a drone over the site undetected. police saw him using a rangefinder tojudge the distance to the stage, yet still he was able to climb onto a roof and fire eight shots. moments after that, crooks was dead, a single shot to the head from a secret service sniper. multiple inquiries are trying to establish who was to blame, with much of the focus now on the actions of the secret service. if you're the secret service, if you're homeland security, if you're the most elite of the elite, how could you have failed in almost every single thing that needed to be covered ? do you feel angry about losing him? yeah. very. i'm angry because...there were a lot of mistakes made that day. and it didn't have to happen. it didn't have to happen.

there are mixed feelings about donald trump's return to butler. some parents deciding to keep their children away. but in this staunchly pro—trump county, many believe they owe it to the former president to welcome him back. gary o'donoghue, bbc news, butler, pennsylvania. here in the uk — the government will unveil a major package of reforms to workers' rights next week. labour promised to introduce legislation for what it calls it's �*new deal for working people' in the first 100 days after winning the election. one of the changes we do know will be announced this week will be announced this week will be announced this week will be one of the reforms to sick pay. people will be entitled to safe delete that sick pay from day one of the

job. ratherthan sick pay from day one of the job. rather than the fourth. the rules will be changed for those receiving sick pay and a lower wage. they also wanted to give workers a other rights from day one of a job, such as maternity pay and protection from unfair dismissals instead of waiting until the end of probationary period. they also announced plans to exploitative zero—hour contracts and fire in higher progress —— processes. there will be expense delete extensive debate with unions and many will be subject to consultation. some will not be in the first draft of the bill but passed later by ministers as statutory instruments. thanks to harry, i am back at

the top of the hour. thank you for watching bbc news. hello there! a quiet start to the weekend of weather, and it looks likely that most of us will keep some dry weather throughout the day today. this was norwich earlier on. a little bit misty. first thing in the morning, that's lifted away. we've got sunny spells and we'll keep sunny spells — further north and west more in the way of thicker cloud. but even across northern ireland, portrush and along the causeway coast, here it's dry, the rain staying out towards western fringes. there's some rain pushing its way through scotland, that's drifting its way steadily northwards, easing from parts of aberdeenshire. you'll see some brightness to close out the day. for the bulk of england and wales, dry with light southerly winds and some sunny spells coming through even northern ireland. most of that rain should stay well out to the west. so in terms of the feel of the weather, not bad out there. 15 to 17 degrees quite widely across the country now through this evening and overnight, low pressure will start to push in from the atlantic. and this frontal system will bring further showery

outbreaks of rain with it. it is going to be pretty hit and miss as we go through the night, but with the cloud and the rain around, well, temperatures will hold up quite widely into double digits. so we'll start off tomorrow morning with certainly more cloud than we've seen today. and some of this rain down towards the south west and into wales could turn quite heavy and quite potent. sheltered central and eastern areas will keep the best of the drier weather. still the risk of an isolated shower, but they will be fairly isolated and temperatures pretty much similar to today. but this rain could be quite heavy and potent as it continues to push its way through the midlands up into the north of england to close out sunday. now, as we move into monday, low pressure is going to stay with us and we will see showers or longer spells of rain to start the week. by the middle part of the week, we'll need to keep a close eye on this area of low pressure. i'm sure you've heard us

mentioned it has the remnants of hurricane kirk in it. at the moment, it wants to move to the south of the uk, but there is a chance it could be further north. keep watching the forecast. once that low moves through, however, the wind direction changes to a northerly and it will turn colder as we head towards the weekend. so a pretty unsettled week ahead with showers or longer spells of rain. some of it could be quite heavy across southern england and then colder into next weekend.

this is bbc news — the headlines... israel continues striking beirut, with several sites hit across the lebanese capital over the past few hours. the idf claims a mosque it targeted in southern lebanon contained a hezbollah command centre. 1.2 million people have now been displaced as a consequence of the conflict — the un says more than 200,000 have fled into neighbouring syria. the border crossing between the two countries has been bombed by israel, forcing the stranded to make the journey on foot. more foreign nationals evacuate lebanon. these are picture from the airport in larnaca, where australian citizens were welcomed by officials there in the morning military transport planes and charted flights are still using beirut airport, despite strikes in the vicinity. and, us republican nominee donald trump returns to the city where he was shot injuly — with a month to go until the presidential election.