bbc: a new phase of war in the middle east. israel announces the killing of hesla's commander as a result of a missile strike. what is known about the new aggravation and what consequences it will have, we will talk about it for the next 15 minutes on the bbc, in the studio of inna kosynska. the most intense blows in almost a year of war. this is how they are already talking about israel's large-scale air donation to southern lebanon. so, this night israel struck lebanon and, as it says, targeted weapons depots and more than 100 hezbollah rocket launchers, which, according to israeli intelligence military personnel were ready to launch missiles. on

israel, hezbollah struck northern israel in response and is reported to have fired 140 rockets. and today , israel struck beirut, as a result of which at least 12 people died and more than fifty were injured. and according to reports , one of the commanders of hezbollah, ibrahim akil, was killed. but exactly what role did he play in the organization, the bbc correspondent from beirut will tell. one of the...wounded from dahiya has just been brought to this hospital, and we cannot confirm whether it was a man or a the woman and in what condition, the atmosphere here is very tense because in this hospital there are dozens of hezbollah members injured after the pager attack, and although hezbollah has not yet confirmed officially, but my sources said that commander ibrahim akil, who is in charge of hezbollah's special operation, was killed we are waiting for the official statement of the group. i also learned that the building was. the new house where vakil lived

was hit by two missiles fired from an f-35 fighter over dahiya. other members of hezbollah were also there. search the operation is ongoing. we do not know how many people died. lebanese news agencies report that the death toll may rise. so who is ibrahim akil? the united states accused him of involvement in the attack on the american embassy in 1983, when 63 people were killed. mostly american citizens, the us also accused him of attacking us marines that same year. on july 13, another commander, shukur, was killed. as i learned from my sources, akil replaced the slain commander in hezbollah. israeli haaris newspaper reports that according to their information, akil was one of the patients, one of the injured in the pager blasts, and he only left this hospital this morning. this is very... as it became known from

their statement, they confirmed the death of the fighters of the units on the border with israel, their bodies still remain on the other side, and they could not take them away. apparently, this was an operation to infiltrate israel from the south, and the bodies are in the hands of the tzahal, the israeli army, as we understand from that statement. later the israel defense forces announced that it had launched a targeted attack on beirut, and the commander was the target. hezbollah ibrahim kiel. according to the israeli military, other high-ranking hezbollah officials were also killed in the strike. the previous strikes on lebanon began just as the hezbollah leader was delivering his speech. he spoke about the events of the last few days, when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded simultaneously in lebanon, killing 37 people and injuring 3 more. hesbol was immediately accused israel has declared that they crossed with deadly explosions. all red lines, then

called it a declaration of war and promised retaliation. israel has not confirmed that it is behind the explosions. but how lebanon reacted to the israeli shelling, the bbc correspondent will tell. israeli fighter jets fly low over beirut, dominating the sky and thus sending a message to hassan nasrallah. meanwhile, the hezbollah leader is speaking on television. this is what israel likes to do, this was preceded by a wave of israeli attacks on southern lebanon, perhaps the strongest ever the beginning of the war in the gas sector. the video is believed to be the aftermath of recent strikes israel says targeted missile launchers. hassan nasrallah said that with the attacks on tuesday and ... israel dealt a serious military

blow, the enemy, he said, crossed all red lines. first there were pager explosions. later, during the funeral, walkie-talkies exploded. a possible target was hezbollah's communications system, but a lebanese minister told us that the attacks, which many blame on israel, violate international law. minister, you say that these attacks are acts of war a crime? i think so, the whole world could see that these attacks happened in markets, they happened in hospitals, they happened to people driving their cars. these people did not fight on the battlefield. in southern beirut , hezbollah still mourns its dead, killed on and off the battlefield. now preparations are being made here for the funeral of another soldier. this week

suffered greatly, not only because of the large number of wounded and dead. the attack on her communication system was a great humiliation. there is anger and uncertainty. many are asking questions. what can be next? hajja mariam says anything can be expected of israel, but they are ready, both men and women. regarding the wounded, the woman says that they pray for them and ask god for their healing, and says: if she could, she would give her own eyes to those who have lost their sight. it seems that those killed in the attack were ordinary soldiers. an organization that great britain and the united states consider terrorist. hassan nasrela says that the enemy has declared war. and hezbollah will not stop until israel does.

so israel did not confirm what it stood for device explosions in lebanon. however , israel's defense minister. previously stated that his country is entering a new phase of war. there are significant opportunities in this new phase of warfare, as well as significant risks. hezbollah feels persecuted, the sequence of our military actions will continue. israel says it wants 60,000 israeli citizens to return to their homes near the border with lebanon. previously, they were evacuated from the north of the country from the border zone due to attacks by hezbollah. and bbc correspondent yolan danel will tell more about the situation in israel. no official details have yet been released about the large-scale movement of israeli soldiers north of the country to the border with lebanon, but from what we understand, an entire division that has recently been involved in

heavy fighting in the gaza strip is being moved to northern israel, where it may be involved in fighting with hezbollah, especially given the escalation of the situation. minister of israel once again reiterated that it considers this a new phase of the war. these statements were made this week. the israeli government has officially announced that the goal is the return of tens of thousands of displaced people israelis to their homes in the north of the country. this border fighting has been going on for the past 11 months, parallel to the war in the gas sector. and you know, the people who are still being bombarded in the north, during the latest escalation, were ordered to stay in or near bomb shelters... they had a very disturbing night, as it became known that the israeli bombardment of south lebanon for several hours was almost the heaviest from those that this region experienced during the last year of hostilities. and if you look at the israeli public opinion polls in recent weeks, they indicate growing

support for israel's increased attacks against hezbollah. of course, israel does not claim responsibility for the attack on the electronic devices used by hezbollah. but many say now is an opportune moment to capitalize on a blow to israel's longtime enemy. how can events develop further? this is the opinion of eyal mayrose, senior lecturer in peace and conflict studies at the university of sydney. now, both in society and among the military and political leadership israel seems to agree that this situation cannot continue. were forced to leave their homes a year ago and still have not been able to return. the far-right government led by netanyahu opposes any ceasefire in the gaza sector, which hezbollah says could lead to a ceasefire in lebanon. the israelis

say they have no alternative but to take decisive action, but how far will they or hezbollah go? this is an important question that is difficult to answer now. certainly, the command and... the board and the communications systems of the csbl have been hit very hard, so it is not clear whether they are ready to deal a bigger blow now. both parties have their own interests, which prevent them from entering the vela. war, but the situation is very dangerous, very shaky, and even the best intentions can change very quickly. clashes on the border between israel and ezbela escalated almost a year ago after hamas militants attacked israel and israel declared war on the group in the gaza strip. but why is hezbollah here? it a hamas ally based in southern lebanon. both hezbollah and hamas are recognized as terrorist organizations in a number of countries, and both of them. supported by iran. at the same time , fears are growing that the conflict could turn into a full-scale war. the un security council

will discuss the situation later today, and here's what the white house said. we are very concerned about the tension and potential escalation. we talked about this in the middle east very clearly , and we also talked about the fact that the way to solve the situation is a diplomatic settlement. we are sure that it is possible reach obviously, it's urgent, and what we 're going to continue to do is lead. diplomacy is a key tool when we talk about the potential escalation that we don't want to see. regarding the attack on beirut, white house national security adviser john kirby said that israel did not notify the us in advance and that the us was not involved in any way. he said that the white house seeks diplomatic means to avoid the escalation of the conflict on the israeli- lebanese border. and as the united states, israel's biggest ally, reacts to the actions israel? in lebanon. let's hear from an expert from the royal institute of defense studies next. hezbollah has made

it clear that the conflicts in south lebanon and gaza will not be separated from each other. hezbollah will continue its military operations against israel from southern lebanon until israel stops bombing the gaza strip. as for whether israel will be able to return its citizens to the north of the country, the question is how exactly they are going to do it. without a full-scale invasion of southern lebanon and the establishment buffer zone. the israelis tried to do it before, but they couldn't hang in there, and it was a bitter experience for them. for their part, israel's allies lack the will to use any leverage that exists beyond rhetoric. the united states has many levers of influence, such as political support in the un security council. financial and military support, they provide israel with offensive and defensive weapons. but none of that is questioned, but if they did, i think

we would see what the israelis would discuss other policies regarding the gas sector and southern lebanon. i think israel is convinced that no matter what red lines they cross, they will not be held responsible for it. the americans have made it very clear that they do not want an escalation in southern lebanon. they clearly said it was risky and that it was a bad idea, but israel did it anyway. they carried out an attack using pagers and walkie-talkies, which was strongly condemned by many western countries. unfortunately, escalation could plunge the region into a wider and more devastating war. this risk becomes increasingly possible due to a lack of accountability, and what we really need are steps to de-escalate, and not just in lebanon, but in the wider context. and read more about the situation in lebanon and israel's strikes on the lebanese capital on our website. bbc.ua in an article israel stated that it destroyed the leaders of hezbollah in beirut, what is happening. my colleagues

gathered all the most important things there. so israel today struck the capital of lebanon, says it was a targeted strike that killed the commander of the hezbollah operation ibrahim akil. according to the lebanese authorities, as a result of the shelling, 12 people were killed and more than fifty were injured. the day before, israel carried out a large-scale air strike on southern lebanon, he said. that hit more than 100 hezbollah rocket launchers and other what they say are terrorist facilities, including a weapons depot. lebanon also carried out strikes on military facilities in northern israel. since the beginning of this year, israel has struck the lebanese capital for the third time. so subscribe to our pages in social networks, so that you don't miss the most important news. we are on facebook, instagram and tiktok. you can watch our news release on youtube if you suddenly missed it. it's on the air, that's all for today, more stories on our website bbc.ua, see you on monday, all the best,

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as well as tv journalists and journalists who write and comment a lot. and in social networks, including on the esreso tv website, maryna danylyuk yarmalayeva and bohdan butkevich, maryno and bohdana, i congratulate you, i am glad to see you you are on the air, sincere congratulations, well, since we are asking our tv viewers whether they take the kremlin's nuclear threats seriously, let's try to answer this question in the format of a blitz poll, maryn, i don't take them seriously, let's put it this way, if they could, they would have already... uh, horrified, thank you, bohdan, well, i agree, and i think that, after all , given that for putin , the main task before him is simply to stay alive, that is, to stay in power, he perfectly understands that the use of nuclear weapons will greatly increase his physical death, that is i would say yes, i absolutely agree with you, and

i think that all these nuclear scaremongers, in principle, they are designed more for a western audience, not even for western politicians and for a domestic audience, but definitely not for a ukrainian audience, because it seems for 10 years of war and 2.5 years of the great invasion of russia into ukraine, they have already tested almost all weapons here, well, except for nuclear ones, so it seems to me that our audience also does not take it seriously, well, at least in the first part of our program, the results were 37 % on 63, i.e.... a third of tv viewers took the kremlin's nuclear threats seriously, two- thirds did not. well, but less so. september 26 in washington. the president will present the plan for the victory of ukraine, and this plan for the victory of ukraine has already been fully prepared, we saw this

information, this information support, that there is 90%, then 100%, that there is this plan for victory, we will listen to what zelensky says as a result, and today you can already to say that our victory plan is already fully prepared, all the points, all the key points, the necessary annexes with details to the plan are defined, everything worked out, the most important thing now is the determination to implement, there is and cannot be any alternative to peace, no freezing of the war or any other manipulations that will simply transfer russian aggression to another stage. bohdan, is it enough that the ukrainian authorities communicated about the victory plan, because the western audience learned about this plan from various international publications, which were fed

parts of this victory plan, in the ukrainian press there were only statements by president zelensky, but nothing more. well i would, you know, if honestly, first of all, i would be interested not even in the opinion of the western audience, but whether it is ukrainian. for i would like to ask all of us, and you, do we know anything about this plan of victory? i am ashamed to say that we have such a body called the verkhovna rada, i understand, of course, that everyone has already forgotten that it is a parliament in general, and we have a type of parliamentary-presidential republic, among the deputies of this so-called parliament, someone is aware of this plan victory, what is written in it and so on, that is, look, volodymyr zelenskyi, to be honest, me it is maddening that this person for some reason thinks that if he... became the president, it gives him the right to decide something without asking anyone, in such serious matters, unfortunately, we see, i think that there is no victory plan, there is,

let's say, the plan of some hotels, which vladimir oleksandrovich most likely will not get 100%, after which he will start negotiating with shouts that you see, the damned west is pouring out, because excuse me when i see that reuters yesterday, for example, reports about , as it turns out, ukraine has already agreed to the supply of azerbaijani gas from our country territory since the beginning of the 25th year, we understand that this is not about azerbaijani physical gas, but about russian gas, to put it mildly, when i saw how the ukrainian authorities signed some agreements, for example, on the supply of sanctioned russian oil through ukrainian territory for the hungarians, it's just that the hungarians will now formally purchase it on the border with belarus, where the southern branch of the friendship oil pipeline enters our territory, and you think so, where is the victory plan, what is it... it is, it has already begun victory plan, or when with the politician, everyone already agrees that these negotiations on behalf of zelenskyi with the russians are being conducted by timur mindich, an unknown character,

er, former business partner of kolomoiskyi, a person who er, as it were, was at one time a chain between the 95 block and kolomoiskyi, and now i understand that he is already finally working with volodymyr aleksandrovich, you see, that's why i'm just curious, and the most important thing is not even that, but what the hell could be the victory plan there, what can we hear about it... victory plan, give us a nuclear bomb, we moskve sharahnem or something, i just don’t understand what’s new, give us atacoms or a shadow storm to hit russian airfields, well, yes, i understand, but to think that this is a plan for victory, well somehow it would be quite strange to me, to demand , so that the sanctions are more, well, that is , look at what i am leading to, i do not expect anything new for the simple reason that after almost three years of war, it is difficult, in fact, impossible to create anything new, so i will say frankly, everything that volodymyr does zelenskyi, unfortunately, it's... about giving up, huh not to be, and i really don't like the trends that are going on right now around all these movements, so i'll be honest, i'm not just skeptical, i'm downright really

bad about what this is all for and what's going to happen next, because, excuse me, the story with russian gas, which right before our eyes is now developing so brazenly that even prime minister shmyhal says that i have no relationship with the ministry before negotiations, then who does, tell me who, well ... it's not the president's office, so you know, it's very interesting to go to tell america that we will bring a victory plan in time, prepare 100%, and we will win tomorrow, and with the other hand, it would be fine to negotiate about the prisoners, but again to build the same entanglements on which ukraine burned so many times in its history, well, i i don't know what it can be compared to, so sorry, i don't know what a victory plan is, but i know that if andryusha yermak is around, then we have to be very careful of such plans. that's all, i think that in this situation, it should probably be said that the plan for victory is without ourselves participants in ukraine's war against russia. no, well

, it is simply impossible to win this victory, and even more so when the people who are part of the great people's war of ukraine against russia are not initiated into this victory plan, well , many questions arise, and perhaps the main question is, in what way this victory plan will be implemented without ukrainians, that is, if they are not told anything, and zelenskyi says that what is most important there. for the united states of america to do its job, well the question, wait, well, the united states of america will do the job, but the united states of america obviously does not say that ukraine should defeat russia, but they say that ukraine should not lose, the question is, wait, how ukraine can win and whether it will be clear to joseph biden , maryna, well

, let's start with the fact that... not the american military, but rather our military, those people who were mobilized into the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine, will maintain the gigantic front line that we currently have with the russian federation, this once, secondly, you know, me the fantastic speed with which zelenskyi and his managers write all these peaceful plans for victory is always surprising, we remember that just last week , antony blinken, david lemia, the head of the british foreign ministry, and the head of the pentagon, lloyd austin, came to kyiv. and from what we read in the western press, they really asked zelensky if he had any realistic plan for victory, because we, well, we understand that this previous peace formula, where zelensky promised barbecues already in yalka, probably at the moment it is already unrealistic and irrelevant, and now let's go

count, in just... a week, zelenskyi tells us in the evening broadcasts how he wrote a new victory plan with attachments and information, and literally the day before yesterday he said that our plan is 90% ready, and now it is 100% ready, that is, excuse me, i write some script or article more carefully to make it look smart and interesting than zelenskyi and his team write peace plans for ukraine. and you know, pieces of these peace plans really began to appear in the western press, and here, for example, i i understand, the president's office was very upset and outraged by yuliyanke's article in the build publication, they traditionally have a disclaimer that pain is such a tabloid publication, this is a sarcastic publication, you don't have to believe it, it's all fakes, these are all authors who that's what they write, it's pure

russian ipso, but come on... let's remember that the previous plans for a full-scale invasion of the russian federation were just merged into the publication of the bill, so i won't be surprised if a part of it promises that we will freeze the line here front, combat actions on certain areas of the front, this is part of the type of peace plan that is being actively promoted now, but again, as a representative of ukrainian society, an active representative, i would very much like to hear what we are putting in... the combination of cessation combat operations in separate areas of the front. what does this mean? we are demining there, we are following the 2020-2021 scenario. they all remember, yes, how they demined gold in our country, how volodymyr zelenskyi personally went to the ukrainian military stationed there, convinced them that he was no longer a log, that he knows better that he is the supreme commander, as he addressed, by the way, to our civilian residents who lived in

that area. that there is nothing to worry about , what it turned into, that is why we wanted to talk about all these peace plans, and if zelensky himself is afraid, then look at him there are new promising communication advisers, he appointed such an adviser there, who in 200... advised ukrainians, by the way, to the ukrainian authorities, why it is worth disbanding the armed forces of ukraine, so obviously the adviser should not buy alcohol in goodwines, by the way, our colleagues often see him there, going out and talking a little bit, and what kind of peace plan did bankova prepare for us, so that society would prepare and so that society would understand, and what awaits us next with this

commander-in-chief, who wants to, tell us.