the the, this is dw news live from berlin, escalation in the middle east as israel targets has blessed leader and 11 on the guardian says that hit the militant groups headquarters in bay roots southern suburbs. the attack came to kill hezbollah chief hoss on those rolla. also coming up the catastrophic flooding as tropical storm lean lands into the southern new united states. billions are without power across 6 states. as a result of a now del written hurricane, the

obviously you can do the invalid. welcome to our program is real, has launched a fresh wave of attacks on targets and they route is really military says that a striking has blow a weapon, storage, and command centers. it comes after israel said hit the headquarters of hezbollah and southern bay routes. the target there was believed to be how sudden those rolla, the head of the, i ran back militia group. the strikes flooded several buildings that a densely populated neighborhood in a suburb of the lebanese capital, announce health ministries as least 6 people were killed. and dozens wanted the, the explosions will fail to spell as the teaching them. it is a way multiple buildings when level is this residential sub of southern. they re, 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 the fees 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 jo, i've got lots monitoring the strikes on the route from tel aviv is really media source is quoting officials, say they come on was the target has but i need to have fun as well. so that's the strike came a day of to israel rejected a 21 day truce plan proposed by the united states and its allies designed to prevent a new lot boy in the middle east. it's feared further escalation could prompt, as well as back to iran, to into the conflict is red and has bull. i have been exchanging 5 across these were 11 in board for 11 months since the october 7th,

tara attacked sony as well by his will as palestinian ally. hum us both considered terry spriggs by multiple countries. but this week is mathematically intensified. it strikes on his beloved targets and you have been in 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 around 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 treats towards the border in preparation for a potential ground. invasion the prospect. so the why do seem higher than ever we spoke earlier to generalize kareem medical laurie and the roots about the attacks. yeah, 1st i mean i was walking, it's sunset posted by

digits and 2nd slate that i switch explosion. it sounds like it's, it's like supposedly really legal. so it does. but because 15 minutes by car, a way to expose the indication how big this explosive on the dictation really was. if we had it's the fits a tech 2 of the southern subjects since last friday. but this is by far the biggest it can not be struck. this flight is a targeted attack. the slaton, a whole lot of buildings, $6.00 to $7.00 houses completely slept. and it's not here really, how many victims they are. the area is basically a cut off by the 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 posted it. also the people from

this bullet in this alleged his phone, the headquarters on the ground. so the numbers for sure, really rise goes a green metal gloried there. and the roots, i asked, are jerusalem correspondence on your cramer, how events had unfolded way or shortly after 11 o'clock in no time the is ready, military had published a map of the southern suburbs of for southern part of a be rude. and they basically were telling people in those neighborhoods to leave the area and ever since the seen waves of air strikes in this area of the admitted terriers, those had struck thousands of targets of weapons stored beneath civilian buildings as to put it there also has carried out strikes in uh, southern or living on over the past hour so, so we had uh some brokerage alerts uh,

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

said this to right on this scale would have only happened is intelligence here was enough to say that at least how send this well as indeed or postpone that was in the area of was in this underground a headquarters. now we heard you heard it earlier, there from the a shortly after the strike happened then by route, only this official statement by the armies spokes person donny hook, are you saying that the idea for the military had carried out to strike on the center headquarters ever since that is not yet a confirmation where the assign, this file 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, or with more moist to be and also casualty suspected expected in the area.

and of course, we also heard that a permanent stability minute and you know, he was at the united nations be giving his speech to and this happened shortly after. and it's probably his office said that he would cut you off his visit and come back to israel. already have them planned. 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? well they always say uh basically and they said that again uh tonight uh when the carried out dislodge stripe. earlier this evening that they're targeting has bullet commanders or infrastructure in this case. um uh, later tonight now and that actually has paula is placing those uh, you know, the headquarters a weapon storage in civilian homes. this is for the military here says,

and this is why this tracking those houses or homes or, or areas they have said there's also you seen this also in gaza in the end, the war there 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 know of course, from the slides and strikes 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 a sort of of a root. so we're expecting the, the desk told, and the injuries are coming from their to rise significantly. tanya kramer interest them. thank you. let's have a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world. florida is

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a tropical storm after leaving a trail. destruction in the southeastern us storm hit with historic ferocity as being land for more than 30 depths swamps neighborhoods, and left more than 3000000 homes without power. a urologist and journalist matthew could put she is in orlando, florida, monitoring the storm. i asked him earlier for the latest on holly bell. the good news lead is no longer tropical storm or hurricane it is post tropical meaning it's fully lots of tropical characteristics that said, part of the process we're doing so it's just unloading all woods, drop the moisture, so we see more than half a meter of rainfall unfortunately, caroline has and its southern appalachians, the mountains helping to focus all that dropped the moisture, getting prolific downforce. and unfortunately so far, $46.00 people confirmed dead many of those depths 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 painted. that's rather in the big bend of florida. and winds likely

guessing over about, i'd say, a 120 kilometers per hour of or rather a $170.00 columbus for our office. i'm sorry, 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. matthew, 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. the meta tags are in north carolina, other states outside of florida. is that surprising? was it expected? a no, that's a really good point. we have something called the predecessor rain events, basically a predecessor rain event or a p r e is something that can happen up to about 800 kilometers away from a shop to cycling. in this case, the moisture from helene proceeded in and interacted with the cold front. those kind of stall across the mountains. so between that and the mountains actually helped me to kind of can gather that moisture. you've got heavy rains a day and a half, almost 2 days before who means arrival. so 1st you got about 2025 cent of years

worth of rainfall saturated the ground costs flooding then around to came in when to lead actually move dylan and dumps again, almost that much moisture if not more. and so that's why you got those top meter totals the realistically to get installed on top of injury. and in indeed so many rivers and mountains and communities. it goes to show the power water even well removed from the oceans and far inland. we talked about the historic nature of this hurricane as it was approaching. did it live up to those expectations? we look at the wind speeds. we look at the rain, we look at everything. i think it didn't, you know, i think one thing that is concerned when it comes to communicating shop is like one 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. what's 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 mid atlantic 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? yes, 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 stormy impacts. and i do the caribbean or the gulf of mexico right now. the national markets enters monitoring a 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 said, we see mystery before we've heard this 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 for now. we'll be back soon with more headlines

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