making this thing, why are um making this thing, why are the doin it? hundreds of thousands of people are still without power, after a huge storm tore through sao paulo two days ago. spacex successfully catches a rocket booster for first time ever — as it returns to earth after the launch of its starship craft. hello, i'm helena humphrey, good to have you with us. we begin with breaking news out of israel — where the idf says four israeli soldiers have been killed and seven others severely injured in a drone strike by his brother. they say an investigation is now under way. it follows earlier reports that around 60 people were injured in a drone attack by hezbollah. the armed group said it launched "a swarm of attack drones" at an israeli military training camp in binya—mina, just south of haifa. some reports say people had been eating in a canteen at the time of the strike.

hezbollah says it was retaliation for attacks by israel in lebanon — which killed more than 50 people on saturday alone. from beirut — anna foster has the latest on the strikes inside israel. this is what appears to have been as successful as hezbollah would call it, drone strike into northern israel. between tel aviv, the suggestion is that this happened at some sort of military facility in there's been pictures on social media that appeared to show a dining hall with a hole in the roof and will be questions asked about israel plus plus defence system which has missiles and rockets that hezbollah is firing across the border and will cause israel concern for people living there in those missile attacks and continuing today as they do every day and each day, missiles across the border from southern lebanon into israel. and that is why

we have district area were people have left their homes and have not been able to come back yet. the drone attack comes as the un peacekeeping mission in southern lebanon insists its flags will continue to fly — despite benjamin netanyahu telling uni—filto immediately evacuate its troops. the un accused israeli forces of forcibly entering one of its bases in southern lebanon, breaking down its main gate. israel says it was trying to rescue wounded soldiers. about ten thousand un peacekeepers from 50 countries are stationed in lebanon since 1978, they've patrolled the area between the litani river and the un—recognized boundary between lebanon and israel, known as the blue line. in recent days, a number of unifil troops have been injured in military action — israel has admitted responsibility forfiring toward un posts in some cases. israeli tanks today entered the un base in ramyah, as our correspondent hugo bachega reports from beirut: they're deployed to keep the peace in southern lebanon. but there's no peace left to keep.

now, they're caught up in this war. today, un peacekeepers came under israeli attack again. earlier this year, we joined them on a patrol along the border, when they were still able to leave their bases. israel's war against hezbollah is expanding, and even peacekeepers are not safe. today we had israeli forces entering inside one of our positions in the middle of the night. they stayed there for 45 minutes, damaging the entrance and leaving shortly after. it's the fourth time in as many days that you've come under attack, come under israeli attack. do you think this is deliberate? well, we have seen that the first one was injuring two peacekeepers inside our headquarters. inside one of the towers inside. so, that's a deliberate attack. these are all incidents that

are making us think, why are they doing it? the israeli military said a tank that was trying to evacuate injured today, the israeli prime minister had this message. mr secretary general, get the unifil forces out of harm's way. it should be done right now, immediately. the israeli prime minister is saying that you should leave those bases along the border. we decided just the other day that we are staying. there was a unanimous decision. we are here at the request of the security council. we cannot let one member state decide the fate of an international organisation, of a peacekeeping mission that is there because of the will of the international community. israel says it's targeting hezbollah in lebanon, but the entire country is under

attack, even the un. hugo bachega, bbc news, beirut. joining me live now is ray murphy, a professor at the irish centre for human rights at the university of galway. he also served with the irish contingent of uni—fil in lebanon in the 19805. prof murphy, you will have been following the situation at the un peacekeeper base in southern lebanon. how significant of an escalation do you think this is? it's hard to characterise but the overall evidence indicates that israeli forces are deliberately targeting un posts and reckless to the safety of the un personnel and i would remind viewers that un forces have been present in south lebanon since 1978. the mandate change

significantly in 2006 and the mission was envisaged to be something between peacekeeping and enforcement but these are there in the peacekeeping role and it's really important to emphasise that as such, all the peacekeepers are protected persons under international humanitarian law and all of them are protected objects and they may not be attacked under any circumstances. i think that the israelis are using the un posts and have done so as a form of human shields. and the tactics being adopted by the israelis clearly indicates that they want the un forces out of the area and that they are looking to adopt measures which, in my view, because it's a deliberate attack on un posts, constitutes a war crime and this is very serious because they are international forces and they are there at the behest of the security

council and they have an international recognised security council mandate in 1701 which it was passed, was supported by all of the members of the security council and it is significant and dangerous escalation that puts the peacekeepers in a very precarious position. peacekeepers in a very precarious osition. , , , , position. they say they were trying to evacuate — position. they say they were trying to evacuate wounded _ position. they say they were trying to evacuate wounded troops - position. they say they were trying to evacuate wounded troops in - position. they say they were trying to evacuate wounded troops in this particular incident but to that mandate, the peacekeepers have from the united nations with all of that in mind, how likely do you think it is that these peacekeepers would actually heed to that call from the israeli prime minister to leave? at israeli prime minister to leave? git the un has already said it is not going to move and at least in the short term, they will remain in the area and it tried to withdraw the whole force, 10,000 personnel at

this time would be extremely dangerous and very challenging. so, i think there is little choice but to have them remain on the ground but they continue despite being hunkered down in bunkers and they still maintain outposts nested during observation and reporting missions which are very important that they are the eyes and ears of the international community and getting objective reports and exactly what is happening on the ground notjust of the israeli forces are doing but also hezbollah and the other armed elements and it's still quite important and i also say that this conflict has to end at some stage and i realise there is little hope of that in the short term i would say that the un is in a position to play a pivotal role in a cease—fire agreements that may come about and un forces will be needed then it takes months to do

this and deploy un forces so to get troops on the ground has an important role right now and potentially has an even more significant role in trying to resolve the broader issues in bringing about the cessation of hostilities. �* ., ,., bringing about the cessation of hostilities. �* g, ., ~ , hostilities. and also to keep her free of weapons _ hostilities. and also to keep her free of weapons and _ hostilities. and also to keep her free of weapons and military - hostilities. and also to keep her i free of weapons and military forces if you look at hezbollah's actions, thatis if you look at hezbollah's actions, that is not happen. leaving the potential of these peacekeepers need something more to help them to be able to do that?— able to do that? yes, there is a very good _ able to do that? yes, there is a very good question _ able to do that? yes, there is a very good question and - able to do that? yes, there is a very good question and in - able to do that? yes, there is a l very good question and in reality, before this incursion by israeli defense forces, there are not able to fulfil the mandate, in particular, hezbollah did not cooperate with unifil, impeding the freedom of movement and the un cannot play a role in peace enforcement in the region such as this nor can it plate stabilisation role, it doesn't have to military

capacity, doesn't have the control structures and combat support and a dozen of the support of the international community to essentially go to war on behalf in this instance, of the israelis because since 2006, the united states and the israelis put an enormous amount of pressure on unifil to enormous amount of pressure on unifilto adopt enormous amount of pressure on unifil to adopt a more robust role in the hezbollah presence, continued presence in the area of operations. but the central plank of this mission, the fundamental construct was that it was to be there with the consent and cooperation of the parties and it's very limited what likely an international peace treaty can do when israeli forces or hezbollah and other groups refuse to cooperate and refuse to abide by a

un security council mandate. us presidentjoe biden has visited florida, as the state recovers from two back—to—back hurricanes, milton and helene. mr biden said more than half a billion dollars will be made available for restoring power grids damaged by the storms. more than three million homes and businesses are without power in the wake of the hurricanes, which together killed more than 250 people across the southeastern united states. mr biden praised the resilience of floridians, and the way they had come together, not as democrats or republicans, but as americans. iam i am proud to announce $612 million for six new cutting edge projects to support communities impacted by hurricane helene and milton. that includes $47 million for gainesville utilities and another $47 million for florida power & light. this

funding will not only restore power, it will make the region's power system more capable and resilient and increase the duration and extreme weather events becoming more frequent. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. the government has admitted it had to have a conversation with logistics firm, dp world, to secure a billion pound port investment — after one of its subsidiary companies was criticised by the transport secretary. louise haigh called for a boycott of p&0 ferries and criticised its record on workers' rights. business secretary, jonathan reynolds, said her comments didn't reflect the government's stance. the cost of borrowing money to buy a home is unlikely to return to the low levels seen over the past decade — according to the boss of the country's largest mortgage lender. charlie nunn, the chief executive of lloyds, said it did expect mortgage rates to come down though, but not to the near—zero rates

they were during the 20105. bbc news has found that a flagship programme to rebuild hundreds of old school buildings in england is far behind target. figures obtained using a freedom of information request show that by this summer, construction contracts had been awarded for only 12 percent of the schools involved in the rebuilding scheme. the department for education says the programme is on track though. you're live with bbc news. at least seven hundred thousand people in sao paulo are still without power, nearly 48 hours after a storm tore through the city — which is brazil's largest. the storm began on friday, bringing wind speeds of up to 100 kilometres an hour and torrential rain. at least eight people are reported to have been killed by falling trees and collapsing walls. the power outages initially affected 2.6 million people. 0ur latin america reporter, mimi swaby, is in our newsroom in london. what more do we know

about the extent of the damage? at least eight people died after heavy rains _ at least eight people died after heavy rains hit _ at least eight people died after heavy rains hit brazil— at least eight people died after heavy rains hit brazil in - at least eight people died —tt;e: heavy rains hit brazil in seven of those are in sao paulo brazil's moths popular state. —— most. those are in sao paulo brazil's moths popularstate. —— most. in some parts, ten cm of rain every day. in this damage included trees falling, buildings collapsing, infrastructure being damaged in brazil's residence in sao paulo have described this unexpected, sudden storm as brief but really intense. the storm has also caused major blackouts across sao paulo metropolitan area in the city on sunday afternoon more people have been reconnected to the grid and 700,000 homes without power and the

energy form largely responsible has said that there is a clear timescale to get everybody back or the customers back with electricity and power supply in that area really impacted by the storms and received a notice hoping that will be by monday at the latest how are people there doing — because weve seen protests due to blackouts but some have also appearing to have welcomed the rain? there've been many reactions, protests with the locals taking to the streets and pots and pans venting their frustrations at having no power, electricity. so much so that the national electricity agency has summoned an emergency meeting and eight other companies responsible for the electricity supply in sao paulo and metropolitan

area however on the flip side, we see many people really welcoming this rain as brazil is been grappling with its worst ever drought on record, brasilia locals rejoiced when rain came as they've had a record hundred 65 days without rain. and when the rain came, it was so intense the local media has reported officials in the chamber and the lower house of brazil's congress had umbrellas inside during the meeting as rain water was seeping through the roof into their office rooms and really, mixed reactions in people happy rain has finally come amid a really terrible drought and wildfire season however, they're frustrated that thousands and thousands of people and businesses are without power. sire businesses are without power. are the anxious _ businesses are without power. are the anxious about what is ahead and thatis the anxious about what is ahead and that is the latest extreme weather eventin that is the latest extreme weather event in recent months for brazil and also mentioning the wildfires as

well. , , , , ., , and also mentioning the wildfires as well. ,,, well. this is been the story over the ast well. this is been the story over the past few _ well. this is been the story over the past few months _ well. this is been the story over the past few months and - well. this is been the story over . the past few months and increasing between extreme drought in the wildfires and devastating flooding and this is been the worst drought in brazil and this is be