speak over speak ever the phone netanyahu speak over the phone in theirfirst direct in their first direct conversation for several weeks. the white house called the conversation direct and productive. we will get to that shortly. now for sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre. it's been a day to remember for england batter joe root — he's closing in on a double century — after becoming england's all—time leading test run scorer. on day three of the first test against pakistan in multan, root moved ahead of sir alistair cook's record with perfect on—drive for four, eventually going on to make an unbeaten 176, while harry brook will resume on 1m not out. the partnership helping england to reach 192—3 at the close of play — still trailing by 64 runs. scotland 5 faint hopes of

progressing to the semi—finals of the women s t20 world cup were extinguished after an 80—run defeat by south africa in dubai. katherine fraser top scored for scotland with m — she was one of only two players to reach double figures. they now take on england in their final pool match in sharjah on sunday, while south africa face bangladesh in dubai on saturday. meanwhile, india eliminated sri lanka with a much—needed 82—run victory to boost their hopes of a semi—final spot. jurgen klopp has a newjob — his first since leaving liverpool — having been appointed the global head of soccer at red bull. it's not a hands on coaching role for klopp, who left anfield after nearly nine years, saying he needed a break. he'll lead strategy for the likes of rb leipzig and salzburg — advising on playing philosophy, transfers and coaching development. the 57—year—old will begin the role injanuary, with reports in germany suggesting his contract includes an exit clause,

allowing him to take over the national team job if it becomes available. in the women's champions league, defending champions barcelona are beginning the defence of their title at manchester city. they've played around 30 minutes. it is currently 0—0. juventus have the lead valerenga. elsewhere bayern munich secured a big win in bavaria, beating arsenal 5—2. hammerby beat st polten 2—0. novak djokovic moved a step closer to a landmark 100th atp title with another dominant performance at the shanghai masters. the 37—year—old reached the quarter—finals with a 6—3, 6—1victory over russia's roman safiullin. the 24—time major champion is aiming to become only the third man — afterjimmy connors and roger federer — to clock up a century of tournament victories. djokovic will face czech

teenagerjakub mensik in the last eight. us duo coco gauff and jessica pegula are through to the last 16 of the wuhan open in china. but, their compatriot emma navarro was beaten, on a day that saw a number of seeded players fall. not the number one though. aryna sabalenka beat katerina siniakova in straight sets for her 50th victory this year. and her 16th out of her last 17 matches. she'll face yulia putintseva in the next round on thursday. and that's all the sport for now. paul, thank you very much. we turn to the situation in the middle east. we're still waiting for israel's response to the uranium missile attack last week, which prime minister netanyahu says will not go unanswered. the american came to know what that plan entails.

being described as direct and productive for the you will see here, mr netanyahu on that call surrounded by his close advisers the white house said vice president kamala harris was in the room during the conversation. comes as plenty of reporting of an extremely tense relationship between the two sides americans complaining they've been kept in the dark on decisions that affect us troops in the region. the white house saying it cannot and will not see lebanon turn into another gaza. notable that the visit to washington did not happen. defence secretary was due to meet officials in washington today mr netanyahu pulled out at the last minute was up us president said this week it does not want israelis hitting nuclear facilities in iran or the oil installations. internally the israeli prime ministers under pressure his predecessor says israel should ignore the us president he's been speaking

jeremy bowen. fast forward to 2007, israel took out syria's nuclear reactor. again, people don't like it. but we saved the world from a assad with nuclear weapons. we have the thankless job of taking out nuclear facilities of the worst regimes in the world. everyone likes to criticise us, but we're doing thatjob. and if they get that bomb, it's everyone's problem. it's not our problem. i want to see how londoners will feel when there's an intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear bomb. we cannot allow that to happen. he hasjust been he has just been speaking he hasjust been speaking on social media and he says without retaliation comes against iran the barrage they deliver will be deadly, precise and surprising.— and surprising. those who try to harm the _ and surprising. those who try to harm the state _ and surprising. those who try to harm the state of - and surprising. those who try to harm the state of israel, i and surprising. those who try| to harm the state of israel, he added will pay the price. lebanon is certainly paying the price was up the pace is increasing, 1100 strikes in the

last ten days for the rockets are coming back the other way. two israelis were killed today just over the border. the un says a quarter of the people living in lebanon have now been ordered to evacuate by the israeli military. in the south residents of more than 100 villages have been told to leave but many have nowhere to go. the southern city was bombed repeatedly in recent days for the our international correspondent. the view, israel's ever expanding war. then closer still. this strike has just come in then closer still. this strike

hasjust come in right behind our hotel. incredibly loud, incredibly close. we can hear sirens now. first aid rushing to the scenes. we could see civilians very close to the area of the blast. emerging from the smoke, a mother and child who had tried to escape the war with a trip to the beach. israel hit this building just off the strand, which houses a pro—iranian tv channel. there was one dead in the strike. hezbollah, too, keeps striking, firing rockets across the border, killing a man and a woman in israel today. all the air strikes have not put paid to this. neither has the ground invasion. this is the latest footage released by israel, said to show its troops on lebanese

soil in the south. here in tyre, a crisis unit is trying to keep the city alive, getting food and blankets to shelters and fuel to hospitals. this father appears with his children, desperate for help. the director, mortada mhanna, worries for his team, some of whom had to flee their homes. i think it's a critical and very dangerous situation for us because israel, our enemy, israel didn't take care for any civilian people. they haven't. .. no feelings? no feelings. but your decision is to remain, you will stay? i will stay. i will stay on my office,

on my home, on my land. others are staying, too, despite wrenching losses. here, a son's grief. he is brought to his knees and consoled by a grave—digger. his elderly mother, leila, was killed by an israeli air strike, the 18th person to be buried here. war has destroyed the rituals of life and of death in lebanon. while prayers are being said here now, this is a quick burial for one of those killed recently. a mass grave has been dug here. we've been told that people will be buried

here temporarily, and they'll be exhumed and reburied when the situation is safer. he rages at israel. "until our last breath, we won't leave our land," he says. "if we die, we will all be buried here." then he helps to lay her to rest — his last act for his mother. orla guerin, bbc news, tyre. the other side of the break will be back with her weekly security breed. we will pull apart what has happened in the last few days and what the next course of action may be. stay with us.

welcome back. it's time for the security brief. i mentioned

last may to eight weeks at the idea is a deeper understanding of the military decisions being discussed in jerusalem of the military decisions being discussed injerusalem and washington right now. with us in the studio form a seam or officer in the british, far in has salt helicopters for 20 years. he's done plenty of these briefings are senior officials we're going to run it as if it were an official briefing. thank you. we were talking last week, expecting last week israeli retaliation to the missile attacks was up we talked about the potential causes. the former prime minister hasjust said in causes. the former prime minister has just said in the last few minutes that it will come, it will be deadly, precise and surprising. he wants the prime minister to hit the nuclear facilities.— the nuclear facilities. what ou the nuclear facilities. what you make _ the nuclear facilities. what you make of _ the nuclear facilities. what you make of our? - the nuclear facilities. what you make of our? yes, - the nuclear facilities. what - you make of our? yes, certainly upscaling a bit from what we

spoke about last week. there are key critical targets that will be on the idea of targeting list was that we took a scale of these last week on last week security brief. most consequential i think that we spoke about our as you pointed out, the nuclearfacilities. by no means any stretch easy targets to hit. the most important ones that are enriching uranium, they are mostly underground. even if the idf get bombs on targets they are not necessarily guaranteed to be destroyed. key critical assets or targets inside that will be oil and petroleum infrastructure. that will degrade iran's oil capability. then you've got other targets which will really come onto their own over the next week or so, depending on the koa idf go for. such as surface—to—air missile systems, which will be

key for the idea to take out if they were to launch.- they were to launch. do the israelis have _ they were to launch. do the israelis have the _ they were to launch. do the israelis have the capabilityl they were to launch. do the l israelis have the capability to destroy those facilities entirely? what happens if they fall short of that? in entirely? what happens if they fall short of that?— fall short of that? in short answer. — fall short of that? in short answer, yes. _ fall short of that? in short answer, yes. the - fall short of that? in short answer, yes. the reason l fall short of that? in short l answer, yes. the reason for thatis answer, yes. the reason for that is that at the end of last month the idf actually can structure a fixed wing strike on yemen, which is over 1000 miles away. if we can go to a short video. we can see here the idf at 35. it's a stealth fighter. that is more likely to be used in a package for what is called suppression of enemy air defence. taking out the surface—to—air missile systems. it is stealth, it can getting closer. it's tells because it's got a reduced radar cross—section. the interesting bit... this is idf video

footage of an f 16 fighterjet being re—fueled by an idf of kc 135 refuelling tanker. that black thing you see on top of the screen, that's the boom that puts the fuel inside the jet and the jet will peel off and will be able to go on to its target. if we can bring up the slide of the airborne courses of action and the potential routes in. i don't know if we've got that. there were four we looked at last week. you can see from the longest range they could actually go south of yemen and all the way up into iran. the good bit about that is it will require less air space approval. the bad bit is it will require more tanks a more direct route across saudi arabia, they will have to get airspace approvalfrom arabia, they will have to get airspace approval from the salaries, which may or may not be complex. it is a shooter two shorter route which gives him less airborne time. you shorter route which gives him less airborne time.— less airborne time. you think it will be _ less airborne time. you think it will be fixed _ less airborne time. you think it will be fixed wing - less airborne time. you think it will be fixed wing and - less airborne time. you think it will be fixed wing and not l less airborne time. you thinkj it will be fixed wing and not a missile attack? in it will be fixed wing and not a missile attack?—

missile attack? in order to strike any _ missile attack? in order to strike any of— missile attack? in order to strike any of those - missile attack? in order to | strike any of those targets, especially the nuclear facilities you are going to have to put a significant bomb on the target. it's also likely going to have to have a penetrator that's effectively a steel tipped echoes on the end of the bomb or a standoff missile. they will have to use those, especially her nuclear targets in order to construct any form of damage. the good thing about the standoff missiles which are strapped to an aircraft such as in a 15 or 16 is that they can stay away as i potentially of what's called the missile engagement zone and they can launch it whilst reducing effectively the threat on the fixed wing package. threat on the fixed wing package-— threat on the fixed wing ackaue. ~ ., ., package. 0k. what are we heafina package. 0k. what are we hearing from _ package. 0k. what are we hearing from iran? - package. 0k. what are we i hearing from iran? obviously they are expecting this will be coming. how might they respond to that threat and the pressure hezbollah is already coming under in lebanon? tiara hezbollah is already coming under in lebanon? two trains of thou~ht under in lebanon? two trains of

thought there. _ under in lebanon? two trains of thought there. if _ under in lebanon? two trains of thought there. if you _ under in lebanon? two trains of thought there. if you go - under in lebanon? two trains of thought there. if you go to - under in lebanon? two trains of thought there. if you go to the i thought there. if you go to the regional map. the distances are huge. is israel were to release a fixed wing package what would come into its own from iran's perspective of the surface to air missile systems. it will be absolutely critical in taking out elements of the package. israelis will not want to put takers to near to that zone. i think more broadly the most likely colour as we call it in the military, the nl co. it will be a response along the lines of what we saw last week, which was just over a ballistic missiles that were launched from iran. that were far more that the idf assay they intercepted most of them. but they were far more effective using ballistic missiles than they were on the previous attack where they had a combination of ballistic missiles, uav, and cruise missile. so for me and i think the most likely course of action will be responsible that thatis

action will be responsible that that is depending on whether the iranians have the logistical resupply of all those ballistic missiles. it’s those ballistic missiles. it's also depending on the americans and the american response. it is also depended on the americans. this brings up an interest article from axioms, basically from an under disclosed source did allude to the fact that the americans do not want the israelis or netanyahu to go after nuclear facilities. if they did it would certainly bring into questions —— axios for the up and how any of the us was responded in a normal way. for example, using the stories in the mediterranee to help with iron dome and other layered defence systems at the idf have. ~ ~ defence systems at the idf have. ~ . , , defence systems at the idf have. . , , , defence systems at the idf have. ., , ., have. which brings us to that stark statement _ have. which brings us to that stark statement we - have. which brings us to that stark statement we had - have. which brings us to that stark statement we had last l stark statement we had last night which we brought you on the programme for benjamin netanyahu. let's play that. you have an opportunity _ netanyahu. let's play that. you have an opportunity that hasn't existed — have an opportunity that hasn't existed in— have an opportunity that hasn't existed in decades. an opportunity to take care of the

future — opportunity to take care of the future of — opportunity to take care of the future of your children and grandchildren. an opportunity to save — grandchildren. an opportunity to save lebanon before it falls into the — to save lebanon before it falls into the abyss that will lead to destruction and suffering like we _ to destruction and suffering like we see in gaza. | like we see in gaza. i mentioned on the programme last night, i've spent a lot of time in lebanon, it's a complex political, military situation, he stuck it to the lebanese people and politicians. it's not that easy to extract yourself from a situation where hezbollah controls the military and the south. it's a state within a state. it is elected to the parliament. it is part of the governments structure of the country. when you look at the country. when you look at the capability hezbollah has based on the fact that it's been supported by iran and the syrian army, it's almost impossible ask to look at the lebanese people to try and deal with this. �* , ., ., with this. and the potential catastrophic _ with this. and the potential catastrophic outcomes - with this. and the potential catastrophic outcomes of l with this. and the potential. catastrophic outcomes of what that means for self lebanon,

the infrastructure and more importantly the potential collateral when it comes to civilians is absolutely huge. what we can see their is in extremely large bomb being on gaza city. now, what the idf do haveis gaza city. now, what the idf do have is a capability like the gb 39 which is a much smaller precision guided musician. the idf also have the skill —— munition. collateral damage estimate, they can't look at pattern of life with drones to understand what collateral lies within that. most importantly, the rules of engagement. if we look at the slide on the left you can see the apartment building just on the right. there is the capability, i know this from experience, having been involved in that precision targeting process, if there were two snipers on the third floor of that building there is

the capability to put a much smaller precision guided munition onto that target with what's called a steel penetrator. the steel penetrator. the steel penetrator would allow the bomb to go through the first 20 floors for the you put a delayed fuse on it and itjust takes out the complete second floor and leaves the apartment... i floor and leaves the apartment. . .- floor and leaves the apartment. . . floor and leaves the aartment... ., apartment... i saw that in iran. apartment... i saw that in iraq- they _ apartment... i saw that in iraq. they were _ apartment... i saw that in iraq. they were dropping | iraq. they were dropping missiles through the roots of some of the palaces and taking out different floors. there is a capability for the —— through the roof. a capability for the -- through the roof. , ., ., , the roof. use of the holes in the roof. use of the holes in the roof— the roof. use of the holes in the roof and _ the roof. use of the holes in the roof and met _ the roof. use of the holes in the roof and met the - the roof. use of the holes in the roof and met the bomb. the roof and met the bomb came through. the roof and met the bomb came throu~h. , , ., , ., through. this is a question that has — through. this is a question that has puzzled _ through. this is a question that has puzzled me - through. this is a question that has puzzled me for i through. this is a question | that has puzzled me for the last few weeks. we will talk about two palyer refugee camp it in a second. if you collapsed buildings on top of tunnels, on top of underground control facilities, how complex does it become in pinning down the enemy?— the enemy? this is the nub of the enemy? this is the nub of the question. _ the enemy? this is the nub of the question. the _ the enemy? this is the nub of the question. the idf - the enemy? this is the nub of the question. the idf have i

the question. the idf have released graphic showing complex underground tunnel systems inside gaza. they basically destroyed them through weaponry. what's really interesting, this is video putting two footage and this is himself led masson which goes all the way through —— lebanon all the way through —— lebanon all the way to ten metres. up into the hezbollah special forces, effectively using this to stall it or take missiles, eye ids, any form of capability. kit bags there. as you go all the way through not only is there equipment in there but you can see from the footage that the eternal is very well made. it's been conducted over long period of time with many reinforcements. it is meant for use over long period of time. with this sort

of capability, yes the idf have targeted many of the tunnel systems inside gaza. but there are a significant amount of tunnel systems at the idf do not know about inside lebanon. if the idf take the same approach, which is to bomb those tunnels, to rendering them useless, if they take that approach in self lebanon... what we can see on the damage catastrophic as the days and week we . on. catastrophic as the days and week we on see on the damage map is the current situation what we can see on the damage map is the current situation inside self lebanon which are inside self lebanon which are israeli strikes in side. �*i�*i�*i'iiir israeli strikes in side. �*i�*i�*i'iiir israeli strikes in side. 1110 israeli strikes in side. 1110 da s. da s. israeli strikes in side. 1110 days- what _ israeli strikes in side. 1110 days. what has _ israeli strikes in side. 1110 days. what has taken i israeli strikes in side. 1110. israeli strikes in side. 1110 days- what _ israeli strikes in side. 1110 days. what has _ israeli strikes in side. 1110 days. what has taken i israeli strikes in side. 1110. days. what has taken place israeli strikes in side. 1110 i days. what has taken place in gaza. days. what has taken place in days. what has taken place israeli strikes in side. 1110 i days. what has taken place in gaza. days. what has taken place in gaza- it's _ gaza- it's _ days. what has taken place in gaza. it's happening - days. what has taken place in gaza. it's happening and i days. what has taken place in gaza. it's happening and no i days. what has taken place in l gaza. it's happening and no one is standing up to it. if you days. what has taken place in gaza. it's happening - days. what has taken place in gaza. it's happening and i days. what has taken place in gaza. it's happening and no i days. what has taken place in i gaza. it's happening and no one is standing up to it. if you imagine what that map is going imagine what that map is going to look like if the idf and to look like if the idf and take the approach that whatever take the approach that whatever tunnel systems they find inside tunnel systems they find inside self lebanon they are going to self lebanon they are going to put bombs on, that map is going put bombs on, that map is going to become significantly more to become significantly more

catastrophic as catastrophic as to become significantly more catastrophic as the days to become significantly more catastrophic as the days and weeks go on. to become significantly more catastrophic as the days to become significantly more catastrophic as the days and weeks go on. catastrophic as the days and weeks 90 om— weeks go on. we're talking about the _ weeks go on. we're talking about the idea _ weeks go on. we're talking about the idea of _ weeks go on. we're talking about the idea of getting i weeks go on. we're talking i about the idea of getting into another quagmire. there is evidence of that as we discussed plenty in gaza. they are back in the jabalia refugee camp which is north of gaza city. that is one of the first places they went to when the war started. they are back there for the fourth time. yes. i think there for the fourth time. yes. i think that _ there for the fourth time. yes. | think that is _ there for the fourth time. yes. i think that is significant i i think that is significant when it comes to the ability for the idf to fight

when it comes to the ability for the idf to figi the idf which is been set up by the idf which is been set up by the idf which is observational. the idf are monitoring who comes into northern gaza and who goes out of northern gaza. you've got hamas resurgent injabalya even though the idf... this hamas resurgent in jabalya even though the idf. . ._ though the idf. .. this is a controlled _ though the idf. .. this is a controlled zone. _ though the idf. .. this is a controlled zone. lebanon | though the idf. .. this is a l controlled zone. lebanon is very different to that. gaza is a controlled line across it. other totals going underneath that? other tunnels they've not got to in the north? we know it's extensive. it got to in the north? we know it's extensive.— it's extensive. it is. ithink the it's extensive. it is. i think the tunneling _ it's extensive. it is. ithink the tunneling system i it's extensive. it is. ithink the tunneling system is i the tunneling system is important. the most key point here before we sign off, effectively the idf and one contained enemy inside gaza. if we look at what is the most likely code of iran in terms of ground forces, proxy inside lebanon, you get the syrian army in syria, you get a these, if all of a sudden there is a lot of movement of those

militant group into self lebanon then the idf have multiple enemies, multiple fronts that are contained because obviously can disappear through syria. that's where it becomes a problem. battle damage map again. iran's most dangerous is putting those proxies back in again. it's also hezbollah's most dangerous and the i df. also hezbollah's most dangerous and the i dr— and the i df. fascinating. mike , and the i df. fascinating. mikey, really _ and the i df. fascinating. mikey, really good. i and the i df. fascinating. | mikey, really good. takes and the i df. fascinating. i mikey, really good. takes us around the whole middle east and the situation we're facing at the moment. we will do this the same time next week. thank you for watching. hello there. there's been a lot of cloud and some rain around again today, but over the next couple of days, things are going to look and feel a bit different because it will be turning drier, but it's

also getting colder. and we started to see that colder air arriving across northern areas as a northerly wind is picking up, and that northerly wind is going to blow down across the whole of the country and push this rain and drizzle southwards overnight. following that, there will be a few showers — they could be wintry over the tops of the scottish mountains. but with the clearer skies in scotland, we're more likely to have a frost. could be —2 or —3. further south, where there's more cloud, temperatures are going to be held a bit higher, and that cloud still producing some rainfirst thing. that'll move away, and then we're all in the same boat for tomorrow — sunny spells, many places dry. a few showers coming in anywhere exposed to that north to north—westerly wind, which will again be strongest around those north sea coasts. and here, it will feel particularly cold out there. temperatures maybe not changing too much in scotland and northern ireland, but for southern parts of england and wales, it's going to be much cooler than it's been so far this week. and that colder air is in place again as we head into friday. we lose the northerly wind. we pick up a westerly wind, actually, which will bring cloud and some showery rain into scotland, northern ireland. england and wales, it's looking generally dry.

the winds will be lighter here. could be a touch of frost, though, early on across england and wales. and with that cold air still in place, temperatures aren't changing too much — typically 11 or 12 degrees. so a chilly end to the week, and it's going to be quite cool, i think, into the weekend as well. this area of low pressure is going to continue to bring some rain into scotland, but we could see this rain pushing into northern ireland as well and eventually northern parts of england. to the south, there may be a bit of sunshine, but there could be some showers too. and following on from that rain, there could be a few wintry showers in northern scotland as that northerly wind briefly returns. so, cold again for northern scotland — 7 or 8 degrees here. further south, well, we could reach 13 or 1a degrees. that wetter weather will slide away, and in turn, we're going to find a ridge of high pressure building in for the second half of the weekend. that's really settling things down. it will be a chilly start again. the winds are going to be light on sunday. there should be quite a bit of sunshine around. it's going to be a dry day. a bit of mist and fog possible across some western areas

early in the morning. those temperatures not changing a great deal — again, typically a cool 11 or 12. hello, i'm christian fraser. you're watching the context on bbc news. i urge everyone in hurricane milton's path to follow all safety instructions

as we head into the next 2a hours. it's a literal matter of life or death. you need to prepare for catastrophic impacts. this is going to be a serious storm, one that could forever change communities that are still recovering from helene. we've never had one like this. i've been here 38 years- and have never had one that forced us to do this. never being able to find fuel, this is the only. place that has fuel. this is going to be deadly for those, specifically those low—lying areas and into those beachfront communities. and for some of them, the truth is if they haven't evacuated already, it could be too late.

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