the the, this is dw news live from berlin, escalation in the middle east of israel, targets has below us meter and 11 on the inside. yes, as it hit the militant groups headquarters in b route southern suburbs. the attack came to kill hezbollah chief hoss on those problems. also coming up catastrophic flooding. as tropical storm helene slams the southern united states millions are without power across 6 states. as a result of now downgraded hurricane the

. i'm seeing there's a welcome to our program is real, has launched a fresh wave attacks on targets in b root is really military says that a striking has full of weapons storage and command centers. it comes after israel said it hit the headquarters of his blood in southern bay route. the target there was believed to be hoss on those corolla, the head of the ran back the militia group. the strikes flatten several buildings that a densely populated neighborhood in a suburb of the lebanese capital. lebanon's health ministry says at least 6 people were killed and dozens wounded as the the explosions will fail to spell as the teaching them. it has a way multiple buildings when level is this residential sub of southern they reach israel. rami quickly confirmed it was behind the strike moments ago.

these real defense forces carried out it precise strike on the central headquarter of if he's bought up here. we're going to zation that served is the epi center of police ballast there. please bala central headquarter was intentionally built under residential buildings in the heart of the gulf here in bay root. the israel defense forces released this listed showing defense minister, you'll have guidelines monitoring the strikes on the route from tel aviv is really media source is quoting officials, say they come out and was the target has. but i need to have fun as well as to let them destroy it came a day after israel rejected a 21 day truce plan proposed by the united states and its allies designed to prevents and without blue. in the middle east. it's feared further escalation could prompt, has pull us back to iran, to, into the conflict. is red and has bull. i have been exchanging 5 across these were

11 in buddha for rosewood 11 months. cclc say the 7 terre tank sony as well by his will as palestinian ally. hum us both so considered terry spriggs by multiple countries. but this week is mathematically intensified. it strikes soon, hezbollah targets in lebanon, shooting 700 people, according to lebanese officials, and promising more than a 100000 civilians to flee. on friday, it runs embassy in lebanon vowed punishment for is way of saying the strike quote changes the rules of the game, and that's just for international observe. it's the with these mal reported to his moods, thousands of troops towards the border in preparation for a potential ground invasion. the prospect. so the one idea will seem higher than ever we spoke earlier to drill is kareem as to why re in be roots about those

attacks? yeah, 1st, i mean i was walking, it's sunset hosting and 2nd slate that i switch explosion. it sounds like you can switch those if you really legally. so those, but because 15 minutes by car, a weight that we've exposed to the cation, how big this explosion on the diffusion really was. if we had, it's the fits a tech 2 of the southern subjects we've been since last friday, but this is by far the biggest that should not be struck. the stripe is a targeted attack slaton, a whole lot of these $6.00 to $7.00 houses completely slept and it's not clear really how many victims they are the area. it's basically a cut off by his opponent security. but i mean, if you look at the last sites that we know that there is

a lot of people that the civilians for sure positive. also people from this bullet in this alleged his phone, the headquarters on the ground. so the numbers for sure, really rise. dollars, cream alcohol, read their out of a root. i asked, are jerusalem correspond atanya cramer, how events had unfolded squire shortly after 11 clock in no time the is ready, military had published a map of the southern suburbs all for the southern part of a be rude. and they basically were telling people in those neighborhoods to leave the area and ever since you've seen waves of air strikes uh in this area. uh the um, any minute area code had struck thousands of targets of weapon store in these civilian buildings as the put it there also has carried out strikes in uh, southern i live in on over the past hour so. so we had uh some brokerage alerts. uh,

uh, from incoming bulk of pi, a uh, from 11 on towards a noise and a towns. now what we're seeing tonight here is uh, much, much largest choice strikes now on a b route, taking all the basically as we understand it, infrastructure until now, we seen targeted strikes against our husband. our compound is then also what happened, of course, earlier a tonight. but now this seems to intensify the conflict. there's a targeting also the infrastructure of husband law in a southern bay boot. as you said, telling you that 1st major strike appeared to be targeting as the leader non scholar. can we say if he's dead or alive? we don't know yet, they are a lot of speculations. a lot of reports out uh, also denials that he is healthy and allies. but she in israel that has been

a lot of reports based on senior officials or also an intelligence sources. they said this to like, on this scale would have only happened is intelligence here was enough to say that at least how send this relevant data postpone that was in the area was in this underground a headquarters. now we heard you heard it earlier, there from the shortly after. the strike happened then by route. only this official, a statement by the armies spokes person donny hook, are you saying that the idea asked for the military had carried out to strike on the center headquarters ever since? that is not yet a conformation where the house on this was indeed target. it was indeed the, at the location, so everybody's waiting to hear more about what we've been seeing before and must've strikes a on this underground. a structure also, of course with more moist to be and also casualties suspected expected in the area

. and of course, we also heard that a prime minister been, you mean to, to know he was at the united nations be giving his speech to and this happened shortly after this. probably his office said that he would cut you off his visit and come back to israel early as implant. you've mentioned that many of the strikes are hitting residential buildings extensively. many of our viewers are probably wondering how targeted such attacks can be. what does the is really military say about the strikes and the told at their taking on civilians as well. they always say uh basically they said that again uh tonight uh, when the carried out dislodge stripe. earlier this evening that they're targeting has fuller commanders or infrastructure in this case. um uh, later tonight now. and that actually has full uh, is uh, placing, uh theres uh you know, the headquarters

a weapon storage in civilian homes. this is for the military here says, and this is why the striking those houses or homes or, or areas they have said this also you've seen this also in gaza in the, in the war. they're striking those areas and always saying that basically this paula is using the civilian population, the human she is, but of course it comes at a cost and i think we only see now the casualty. numbers are coming in over the course of the evening and also no of course, from the slides of stripes, of course is what i would say. we have been warning a people that the strikes are coming. and of course, it's one of the most densely populated areas there. be 1000 us of, of, of a route. so we're expecting the, the desk told, and the injuries are coming from their to rise significantly. tanya kramer interest them, thank you. and let's have a look now,

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in any and to tony award for a cane, elaine has been downgraded to a tropical storm after leaving a trail of destruction in the southeast us should with historic ferocity ends being blamed for more than 30 dead storm swamps neighborhoods and left more than 3000000 homes without power meteorologist and journalist matthew could put use in orlando, florida, monitoring the store. i asked him earlier for the latest on the lane. well, the good news lane is no longer tropical storm or a hurricane. it is post tropical meaning it's fully locks, a truck with characteristics that said part of the process for doing so is just unloading all. let's drop the moisture. so we see more than half a meter of rainfall portion of the carolinas and its southern appalachians. the mountains helping to focus all of that drop them, which are getting prolific downforce. and unfortunately so far, 46 people confirmed dead. many of those deaths due to flooding at the coast. we have confirmation that 85 meters storm surge did in fact occur near engines,

north of keaton beach, destiny paint. and that's rather in the big bend to florida and wins likely guessing over about, i'd say, a 120 kilometers per hour, or rather a 170 kilometers per hour with the time. and so i mentioned for some periods, suffice to say it's been a very long couple of days. and fortunately this area is pretty much done. that said, the clean up process is just beginning and it's going to be a long process for a lot of people. a match and we spoke so much about lean making lands on florida. what was coming for florida. we knew that it was going to be bad for the southeast as well, but still somewhat surprising and many of the ads are in north carolina. other states outside of florida is that surprising, wasn't expected. you know, that's a really good point. we have something called the predecessor rain event, basically a predecessor rain event or a p r e is something that can happen up to about 800 kilometers away from a truck to cycling. in this case, the moisture from helene proceeded in and interacted with the cold front of the kind of stall across the mountains. so between that and the mountains actually

helped me to kind of gather that moisture. you've got heavy rains a day and a half, almost 2 days before who means arrival. so 1st you've got about 2025 centimeters worth of rainfall, saturated the ground cost flooding, then around $2.00 came in when the lead actually moved inland and dumps again, almost that much more through if not more. and so that's why you got the attack meter totals, but realistically, to get in salt on top of injury. and indeed, so many rivers and mountains and communities. it goes to show the power water even well removed from any oceans and far inland. we talks about the historic nature of this hurricane as it was approaching. did it live up to those expectations? we'll look at the wind speeds. we look at the rain, we look at everything. i think it's in united the one thing that is concerned when it comes to communicating shop is like the house or is, is a meter. all just is that so often people forget that these things do hold together inland, sometimes at the coast. people evacuated, but the wind damage across georgia, across inland portions of south carolina was significant millions of customers lost

power even far from the coast line. and so this wasn't just an example of a hurricane that hit the coast, then kind of died inland. this thing truck all the way up towards the middle land and even spawn tornadoes in rocky mountain, north carolina, near raleigh. and we're not done yet potentially. the hurricane season is still going on. can we see more of these before the years out? yeah, so generally speaking we're about 60, to 65 percent done, so to speak in terms of averages. so that means we still have more than a 3rd of the season left. and i do see at least one or 2 more storm impacts. and i do the caribbean or the gulf and mexico right now. the national arkansas enters monitoring new system in the north west caribbean that could enter the gulf in about 5 to 7 days time. there's a 30 percent chance getting eventually developed, but that's it. we see mystery before we've heard the story before and we know how sometimes it ends. so honestly, it's forecast where i got my fingers crossed. it doesn't develop. but that said, you know, conditions could fever problems towards middle of next week. all right,

that's mean urologist in general was matthew g. thank you very much and that's all we have for now, and we'll be back soon with more headlines in the meantime, find out more about these and other stories online at the w. com. we're also on youtube or the dw news channels i'm seeing here is the invalid. thanks for watching the october set of 2023. how much loan has a terror attack on is when it is the bloodiest stay in the history of the jewish states. and the beginning of the war and gaza one year and they say we examined the backgrounds of the attack. how could it happen? and what he thinks has the attack had on israel's posit capital, tel aviv focus on one year as well. how most will

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