thought he macedonia, it is thought he collapsed shortly after delivering a speech there earlier today. to the middle east now and the un peacekeeping mission in south lebanon, unifil, says another of its soldiers has been wounded, but says it doesn't yet know the origin of the fire. four un peacekeepers have been killed in previous incidents, which unifil blamed on israeli forces. the lebanese authorities say nine more people have been killed in israeli strikes on two villages north and south of beirut. the israeli army says hezbollah has again fired dozens of rockets into northern israel. the idf has declared another closed military zone in several towns along the border with lebanon. earlier, it issued a new evacuation order for residents in more than 20 villages in south lebanon. our correspondent anna foster is in beirut. unifil, which is the un peacekeeping mission in south lebanon, have once again issued a statement today. it's the third in three days because they are increasingly

concerned about their peacekeepers coming under attack from israeli forces. now, they say again, their headquarters at naqoura, which is a well—known base that has been there for many years, has again, it seems, come into the crossfire of some sort of fighting that was going on between hezbollah and the idf. we know that the us president, joe biden, said that he was asking israel not to hit peacekeepers, because it's important to know that the peacekeepers, in this case, they are not fighting israeli forces, and they are not defending the lebanese population. they are there to assist the lebanese army in maintaining that buffer zone in the south of lebanon. so there's been real international condemnation and concern that their safety might be at risk after five of them have been injured in just two days. and also, while there's so much focus in lebanon, of course, in gaza, the war there is continuing and the world food programme has said today that they are increasingly concerned about a fresh hunger crisis. they say they haven't been able to get food and supplies into the northern part of the strip since the beginning of this month. we know that 400,000

palestinians have been told again that they have to move from that area in northern gaza. and the hamas run health ministry says that 30 people were killed today in israeli air strikes injabalia. so again, real concern for the civilian population in gaza as that israeli military operation, it seems, starts to intensify once again there. two sri lankan soldiers injured, previously indonesian soldiers injured falling off a tower after an israeli tank fired towards it. for micro peacekeeping soldiers from unifil injured in previous days along with the latest incident. —— four peacekeeping soldiers.

israel has denied accusations it is deliberately targeting un buildings along the 2006 ceasefire line with lebanon, saying that the un mission should move to safer areas further north. meantime in northern gaza, there's warnings from the un world food programme that no food aid has been able to enter the area this month. 30 people were killed in air strikes injabalia on friday, according to the hamas—run health ministry. israel says the operation is aimed at preventing hamas from regrouping. up to 400,000 palestinians still living in northern gaza have been told to evacuate for their own safety. an "urgent" call for fuel was issued by local officials for the intensive care unit at the kamal adwan hospital in the area. israel has denied accusations it is deliberately targeting un buildings along the 2006 ceasefire line with lebanon, saying that the un mission should move to safer areas further north. it's been almost two weeks since israel invaded southern lebanon — with the aim, it said, of removing hezbollah weapons and infrastructure there. 7 to press that? message home, the israeli army has taken international journalists to?an undisclosed location?across the borderfor the first time.

0ur middle east correspondent lucy williamson and cameramanjoe phua were among?them. their access was restricted and the pictures — though not the editorial content — were checked for military security. we hugged the old ceasefire line dividing israel from lebanon. driving fast under the threat of hezbollah attack, israel's army broke through this border less than two weeks ago. now they're taking us in to show us one of the villages under their control. a couple of miles into lebanese territory. the army had taken control here just a day or two before. the area still not clear of hezbollah fighters. we are literally in an area which we still haven't been neutralised, right? it's a war zone with all the explosions you can hear in the background. there was hidden terrorists here in this village, face to face battles. it means that my troops are seeing in their eyes, terrorists, and fight them in the streets. israel says these are limited, targeted raids. limited geographically,

perhaps less so militarily. wow... wow. you can see the kind of fighting that has taken place herejust in the last couple of days or so. hezbollah were clearly well prepared and well armed. the army told us they'd found dozens of booby trapped houses here and demolished them. we only have their account of what happened here and were restricted in where we could go. this is 81mm mortars. this is what they wanted to show us. caches of weapons, including sophisticated anti—tank missiles, shoulder launched rockets and night scopes, some of them brand—new, still packed into boxes. anti—tank missile. 0ne anti—tank missile already semi—assembled. preparations for a cross—border attack into israel, the army said.

this is, i can say, two times more or three times more than gaza in the weapons that this village contains. this, the army says, is why it's here, not for occupation. we don't want to hold these places. we want to clean them out from all the weapons and ammunition. that's what we want. after that, we are expecting that the people will come back and understand that peace is better to them and terrorists controlling on them is a bad thing. but i leave it to the diplomat to solve. this is my guys fighting on the casbah. there's been bursts of small arms fire and artillery very close by. he says his forces are fighting hezbollah 500m away, despite israeli control on the ground here, this is still very much an active combat zone. the fighting gets closer.

we're told to leave fast. please, gentlemen, go faster, please. despite israel's small successes here, hezbollah has not disappeared from this fight. and israel's conflict with iran hangs over it. this is not a border war, but a regional one playing out along a border. lucy williamson, bbc news, southern lebanon. all the updates on the bbc news website and app.

eight matches in the nations league on saturday — three of them are finished. croatia beat scotland 2—1, in zagreb — the visitors thought they had equalised in the last few minutes, but their goal was ruled offside. it finished goaless between bulgaria and luxemborg. kosovo beat lithuania 2—1. another five matches are underway — you can keep up to date with the scores on the bbc sport website and app. chelsea have kept their perfect start to the defence of their women's superleague title with a 2—1 win player of the match colombia striker mayra ramirez opened the scoring in the fourth minute at the emirates with sandy baltimore doubling the champions lead with just over quarter of an hour gone. arsenal hit back through caitlin foord in the second half but couldn't find an equaliser, they remain sixth in the table with just one win in four matches.... proud of the heart shown. i give everything, the players give everything. new zealand are still in with a chance of making the women's t20 world cup semi—finals after they beat sri lanka.

sri lanka set a target of 116 to win with chamari athapatthu top—scoring with 35. georgia plimmer got her half—century and then sophie devine hit the winning runs as the kiwis chased the total with 15 balls to spare and won by 8 wickets. it means new zealand are still third in group a, but separated from second—placed india only by run rate. —— chamari atha paththu. meanwhile in the other game of the day — player of the match tazmin brits took the 2023 runners—up south africa to victory over bangladesh with a steady 42 off 41 balls.... ..the south african side winning by seven wickets to edge closer to booking their place in the semi—finals. novak djokovic is into the final of the shanghai masters, beating america's taylor fritz in straight sets. djokovic — who's 37 — was struggling with a hip problem towards the end. however, during the match, he played some of his best tennis of the season, winning6—1i,7—6. and awaiting him in the final will be jannick sinner.

he's the player at the bottom of your screen. the 23 year old beat tomas machatc in straight sets, becoming the first italian to reach the final in shanghai. it's his 64th win of the year to confirm his status as the year—end number one player in the world. it is amazing, something you dream of as a kid, reaching number one at the year—end. i am looking forward to the tournament. i know tomorrow is going to be an important day, finals are held. it means so much to me. the top seed aryna sabalenka is through to the final of the wuhan 0pen after beating coco gauff in three sets. world numberfour gauff, took the first set against her rival and fellow us open champion, but sabalenka dug in afterwards to take the next two. she'll play one of the home

favourites in the final — zheng qin—wen who beat wang xin—yu in their all chinese semifinal. and that's all the sport for now. more on the website and app. 0ur menus, the former scottish first minister and snp leader alex salmond has died at the age of 69 after being taken ill giving a speech in north macedonia at the conference. the live page is therefore the latest updates and tributes. today we've had some sunshine, some rain and the winds are picking up this evening as well. tomorrow, sunday, should be a quieter, drier day. could be a bit colder than today, but the winds will be lighter. we've got some wetter, windier weather around at the moment due to that area of low pressure.

that's going to move away — it'll be replaced by a ridge of high pressure for the second half of the weekend, hence things calming down a bit. some strong winds around though during this evening, could be touching gale force through the irish sea, the north channel. it's a north—westerly wind that's blowing in colder air and blowing in a lot of showers early on, but those showers will get pushed away into the north sea and eventually the winds will drop, skies will clear, that's all pointing to a colder night. we're looking at a frost across many inland parts of scotland. could be down to —3 celsius or so, and a risk of frost for northern england and northern ireland. it'll be a cold start wherever you are first thing on sunday. sunny to begin with, cloud will increase through the day from the west. a lot of it will be high cloud — it will turn the sunshine hazy, but in the afternoon the cloud will thicken to give a few spots of rain to northern ireland and the far west of scotland. the breeze may freshen a little here, but otherwise the winds will be lighter. but a chilly day — temperatures lower than on saturday, 9—ii celsius. into that colder air, we may well find this area

of low pressure moving in from the atlantic. that's going to bring some rain and push its way eastwards overnight, and into our monday morning we've still got some rain for eastern parts of england. that will move away fairly quickly and leave a lot of cloud for england and wales, with the sunnier skies further north in scotland, northern ireland, perhaps the far north of england. should be a dry day for many parts of the country on monday, and temperatures are beginning to rise — 12—15 celsius, but those temperatures are likely to get higher for tuesday. we'll have a stronger southerly wind that will lift the temperatures. it comes with a lot of cloud, mind you, limited amount of sunshine, but at least again it should be dry. those temperatures perhaps reaching 15 degrees in scotland and 17—18 in southern parts of england and wales. maybe on wednesday, across some eastern parts of england, temperatures could be briefly even higher. the week ahead is looking much milder. there will be some stronger winds at times and very unsettled, especially from the middle of the week with some rain from the atlantic.

this is bbc news, the headlines... alex salmond, the former first minister of scotland and one of the best—known scottish nationalists, has died aged 69. it is understood he collapsed after delivering a speech at an international conference in north macedonia. salmond was the first pro—independence politician

to hold the role of first minister, which he did from 2007 to 2014. he led the yes campaign during the scottish independence campaign and resigned after voters backed remaining in the uk. the un world food programme says no food aid has entered the north of gaza since the 1st of october. the humanitarian group says it's unclear how long the limited food supplies previously delivered can last. the un peacekeeping mission in south lebanon says another of its soldiers has been wounded but says it doesn't yet know the origin of the fire. four un peacekeepers have been killed in previous incidents. now on bbc news, newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. prime minister, welcome to the newscast studio. thank you for having me. you're very welcome. we'll talk loads about what you've been up to in some of the ups and downs

in the last 100 days, but first, i just wanted to give newscasters an insight