the, the, this is the, the, the news coming to live for berlin. smoke rises over southern bay route after intense new is really air strikes. media reports say the target was the presumed successor to hospitalized leader. us on those were all killed in a similar attack. last week, also coming up dozens. drone is an overcrowded very come sizes in the democratic republic of congo. rescue workers are still searching for bodies, the hello i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. a new series of massive

explosions as rock the lebanese capital bay route. eye witnesses say is really aircraft it targets in the cities southern suburbs. media reports say the attack targeted and underground bunker where a meeting was taking place between hezbollah officials, including a possible successor just lane leader, us on those rolla. this is the moment explosions designated right next to be room international airport. just minutes after a flight landed huge blasts were heard in the cities southern suburbs well into the night. since last week's killing of his ball, a leader of how sudden this roll up a route has been hit by multiple is really air strikes. early on thursday, plumes of smoke billowed across the city sky line after a night of heavy bombardment,

a lebanese prime minister. now g mccarthy denounced what he called the criminal aggression by israel, against the lebanese people on the eastern notice in the web. it is, here's to look forward to seeing is file, right? my message. stop fighting with all love with all the more destruction is. that's my, my, my, my, my, my message to told anyone i am calling. let the just my, my and i bought i bought this is 5. and another way why x i that i it is not accepting is he's 5 today. israel has stepped up. it's ariel assaults in recent days and sent troops on ground rates into southern 11 on it says it's carrying out targeted strikes to stop cross border attacks by hezbollah militants. and that's the who we are very determined to destroy this infrastructure and kill whoever is the. we will not allow his bullet to settling these places in the future and promote the severe damage to the cool areas and say roots example in the lebanon

valley and south letterman. we'll continue. the machine is real, says it has sent the 2nd military division into 11 on doubling down on its effort to push back his ball and to sign that this conflict is far from over of more on the situation. it is really in love at all and we're joined now by our colleagues, d w's, emily gord, dean, and jerusalem, and journalist style of mina in bay ridge. stella israel struck bay root again overnight. what more can you tell us? so we've witnessed yet another night, a very heavy heavy, the environment we've witnessed, the heaviest air strikes so far here in the, in the city of beverage. the id as s has used 11 palms to hit the southern suburbs. but it also continues to strike other parts of the country. we

hear, for example, that the audi, as hits the mazda of rock crossing that is a crossing to the neighbor country, syria that was used in the last couple of days by hundreds, hundreds of people were fleeing the fighting in the oven on. and we're trying to get the syrup to syria. availabilities. health ministry says that in the last 24 hours, the, the 37 people have been killed. and 150 has been wounded. we're hearing to that this strike on the root may have targeted the man presumed to be has bull as next leader. what. what do we know about that? still yes, um. how shooting the safe you dean is seen as a potential successor. the next 29 cost them we don't know yet. it's not confirmed yet whether he really was targeted or whether he's really killed in that strike. we

know that he's very influential and he has very close ties to iran. he is a cousin of north rolla who was killed in the strike last week, and he's the head of his fellows, executors of council. he has political ties with a one, but he also has privatized with iran, as his son is married to the daughter of cas them so that, i mean, yeah, emily, which is real saying about these new attacks on a route. so the last nice, the ideas issued a statement saying that he is there in the air force had been targeting quotes, intelligence operatives, intelligence collection means come on and come come on centers. and additional infrastructure in beverage did not confirm that they were targeting specifically assess the the, the, the, the next possible leader of hezbollah. so that i have yet to confirm that,

but it would be starting to be in line with what we've been seeing over the last 2 weeks, not least by the recent killing of as well as the, the house on those rolla. and it is in line with what they've been doing. it is part of their mission to we can has paula. but whether in this situation in this attack, i have some stuff i didn't. the potential next theater of hezbollah was really targeted and has yet to be confirmed. well is re, it is really do a troops and also continued with their ground defensive into lebanese territory. emily, how far had they advanced? do we know? so we know that heavy fighting continues and so 11 on we also know that a 3rd division on the user side, the 3rd division was set to join the troops, a pricing in lebanon, not together with new evacuation orders that have been issued to move villages

across southern lebanon, essentially telling them to evacuate approximately 60 kilometers away from the boat . as a way beyond, the latania river suggests that we're going to see this, the conflict widening. am now the idea as to some stuff have so highly videos of both have visited the troops yesterday in the north. he held a situational assessments with troops, a pricing and southern lebanon. i mean, basically a written to reiterated israel's goals and essentially destroying as well as capabilities and also pushing them back in order to remove the threats from the is rarely buddha, to stop his while uh, launching rockets into northern israel, which is i've been doing for the past year and continues to do, i need this morning again. we had a record alerts on, on everyone's phones, go off about the north. and this is something that happens every morning. the question is just whether this invasion will achieve

a israel's goal in removing those threats. and at the same time, of course, we'll have to keep in mind that this is also coming out of high cost for israel. and so fall 9 is where the soldiers had been killed in the fighting emily gordon in jerusalem, and stella and b ruge. thank you very much to you, but it's catch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world today. taiwan is cleaning up after ty, food and crap on broad, torrential rainfall to the island, felling trees, and causing lands, lines, businesses, schools and transport have resumed after a 3 day shut down. at least 2 people died during the storm. battle was forecasts to bring major destruction, but the loss of power after changing course sport workers in the us have reached a pay deal to end. major strike action shipping along the east coast had been shut down since tuesday and the biggest, striking decades. a burning major supply chain disruptions. the tentative deal

includes a 60 to pay percent pay increase over several years. also in the us form a republican congress woman lose cheney has joined democratic presidential candidate campbell of harris. on her election campaign. jenny has described the republican presidential candidate donald trump. as a threat to democracy. and mexican authorities have arrested several soldiers accused of opening fire on a truck and killing 6 migrants. please said the soldiers shot at the truck after it failed to stop at a check point. next goes new president, cloudy. a shane vall condemned the killings and pledge an investigation. invest be at least 78 passengers have been reported dead after a boat carrying scores of people capsized on lake keeper when the democratic republic of congo. officials say the vessel was severely crowded,

and they expect for more bodies from the war. footage captured from the shore shows the moment the sinking boat clicked over and lake people it. 2 the golf girls all go down. 0 all around the port of goma. there was a shock in greece, a boat that was pulling into the dock think a few 100 meters from shore. while its passengers desperately tried to make it to safety. many did not survive. in the aftermath, people who came to greet family members and friends, found themselves searching through bodies pulled from the lake, dreading what they might find. none would do um, i came to see my husband who had gone on a trip. he had told me that he was going to come back today that i arrived. and

they told me that the but he was in have capsized. you've called me before and told me that the baby was capsizing and that there was already a lot of horse and size. he asked me to pray for him to see if he would make you talk. i arrived and they told me he's dead because i don't see him among those was safe. the boat was only billed for 30 passengers. one witnesses say it was carrying around 10 times that many men but told me that i was stunned to see the boat maridy overturn and drowned every one of us. there were over 300 people on board and i am one of the survivors they knew. but we escapes the boat by the grace of god and it was god who saved me maybe. but many women and children drowned to, to, along with everything they had with some of the cargo, the money from goods. all of it is gone to stuff. it's the 4th time this year

that a boat accident and congress, these waters lead to a large number of drownings. like many issues and congo. it's connected to the decades long armed conflict between the government and insurgents. the maridy was traveling from the town at maneuver to goma when it's think the 2 towns are connected by a road. but rebels have overtaken it. forcing travelers to resort to overloaded and poorly maintained boats and fairies, sometimes with devastating consequences. the new head of nature has visited keith on his 1st official trip in the roll. mark ruth met with ukrainian president below him. is lensky promising? but the lions would continue to support ukraine is defense against russia's invasion. this comes a day after russian soldiers captured a key town in eastern ukraine, that could make it easier for russia to break through ukraine's defensive lines and

read aloud sounded in gifts as new need to t smarter to visited communion capital. after meeting you communion president the marriage zelinski due to stress, the agency of increased military assistance for ukraine and its fight against trust us invasion and so forth and to pray as replenishing our own storks means increasing industrial products. and that's going to be a priority for me to bring it closer to nato that ever before. and will continue on this pass until you become a member of our alliance. nato stands with your brain for your security. and for hours, president zelinski repeated his country. it's a specific need for defense and long range weapons. ok, you know what the brain needs to strengthen its position on the front line so that we can increase pressure on russia for the sake of justice. and we will for the

sake of real diplomacy. that is why we need sufficient quantity and quality of weapons. youngest boy, nato's new secretary general is 1st off. we shall visit to keep game of day after moscow announced its forces head. deacon complete control of fluid on of this eastern down in douglas region, had to resist addressing a source for more than 2 years. but this time you clean in military, come on, decided to put it back. it's troops to avoid becoming surrounded by russian soldiers and to preserve president and convict equipment. you're watching dw news from berlin. just reminder of the top story we're following for you this. our media reports say overnight strikes by israel, have targeted and underground bunker in bay roots southern suburbs. a meeting was said to be taking place there between hezbollah officials, including possible successor to slain leader, a pass on those problem of next we've got our travel program

check in for you going all the liking tour where the berlin wall wants to a terry market. thanks for watching the on the from lines under the watchful eyes of russian will star as he's just in the 1st year. the new cream john to this show on line. good reports of the from the russian occupied storm pass regions if they're still good. what else to do is to stop by tomorrow and he's got and you have to think about the ran just has a wild usually the next festival to weston.