iran launched a missile attack on israel in response to a ground operation against the hezbollah group in south lebanon, the us warned tegirad. about the consequences, how will israel respond and is tehran ready for direct military confrontation? this is what jafer umerov will be talking about in the next 15 minutes of the bbc broadcast in the studio in london. the israeli army says that iran has fired missiles at israel. sirens sounded all over the country. the authorities urged israelis to hide in bomb shelters and follow the orders of the command. currently, it is not known for sure

what type of missiles it is, however, us authorities have previously warned that iran could launch a ballistic strike and pledged to defend israel. the us also warned iran that the missile attack would have serious consequences for tehran. according to various reports, hundreds of rockets were fired at israel. the islamic revolutionary guard corps says this is just the first wave of strikes and warns israel against any attempt to strike iran in response to these launches. rockets so what will be the consequences of this escalation, will it lead to a full-scale regional war, about that we are talking to the director of the center of middle eastern studies, ihor symbolosy, who is in contact with the studio from kyiv. congratulations, mr. igor, iran launched missiles at israel. many viewers said that the country will not take this step because it is not ready for a direct confrontation with israel. what has changed? congratulations, yes, this, this was the basic version, considering. account

was taken of iran's behavior, of pezeshkian's statements, of ali khaminiya's comments, but it seems that the pressure that was exerted by the islamic revolutionary guard corps after the start of the israeli invasion of southern lebanon, he should have succeeded, and it is obvious that the decision was made accordingly. taking into account these new circumstances, i would also take into account the arrival of mishuskin, the arrival of the russian prime minister in tehran the day before, and the negotiations that took place between the representatives of the iranian and russian authorities, i think that this was not least related , plus please note that russia also, putin also assembled his... security council, and actually after

the beginning of the israeli invasion in southern lebanon, well, obviously already having information or understanding that iran's response will be to attack russia and iran, we will talk a little later, but first about this attack on iran, how it will affect the situation in the middle east in general, what to expect next, well, if because of what. .. with such a message that can be received now, as of now, it can be said that the iranians hit the air force, military airfields and gas stations, yes, that is, the overwhelming number of strikes were on israeli military facilities, and here in fact, the minority of these blows hit residential buildings there and so similar. what's next, well, it's obvious that

now everyone expects a strike back, and israel is already talking about how it will do it and how serious it will be, and there is talk that among the very likely future israeli attacks may be gas, and oil fields, and, accordingly, oil processing, oil processing plants, well, plus me... that is, all this is now within the range of israeli missiles, although , well, in principle, according to the idea, israel was supposed to hit the military as well goals well, yes, and the army the defense of israel said that this attack will have consequences for iran, the israeli military, they showed, found in the tunnels, dropped ammunition with russian markings, although ...

the news, what conclusions and consequences will this partnership between moscow and tehran have, it is not new confirmation of their cooperation? i would say that the partnership between moscow and tel aviv is not news. ah... well, let them settle the big score among themselves, well , the fact that hezbollah has relations with the russian military in syria is also obvious, they there are allies, they jointly suppressed the arab spring in syria, the arab revolution, and so there is no problem at all here to exchange weapons or give allies their weapons, so this is ... definitely not news and definitely not sensational. thank you igor. director of the middle eastern studies center, ihor samevolos, was in touch with us from kyiv. thank you. so jiran fired missiles at targets in israel less than a day after israeli forces

entered southern lebanon, limited, localized and targeted. with such words israel's israel defense forces described the start of its ground invasion. the purpose of the operation is to destroy. positions of the hezbollah group in southern lebanon, the israel defense forces said in a statement that they would do everything necessary to protect civilians. the bbc's yolanda nel from jerusalem on how the day began in the middle east. under the cover of night, israeli troops are heading to the south of lebanon. official israel says it conducts limited localized and targeted raids along the border. their goal is to destroy the infastra. turukhs are sick, so that there are dozens thousands of israelis living in border towns could safely return home. hezbollah has turned lebanese villages next to israeli ones into military bases to attack israel. they were preparing to use these villages as staging grounds

for invading israeli homes like the one on october 7 last year. but israel also continues to carry out airstrikes elsewhere. this is the aftermath of the recent attack on the suburbs of beirut, smoke rising above the buildings. the strike hit the largest palestinian refugee camp in lebanon. now there are fears of a new humanitarian crisis. although israel is warning residents of more than 20 cities to evacuate, many lebanese are worried. if they want. let them go to batia, tir saida, every house has someone with a gun, a knife, a fork, that is, everyone has means of protection. and although hezbollah's firepower has diminished as a result of the recent heavy bombing of israel, today it demonstrated that

it still has the ability to attack. one of the rockets hit a highway east of tel aviv. after the vicious attacks on hezbollah and the assassination of its long-time leader, israel. feels emboldened, but launching a ground offensive carries new risks: hezbollah has battle-hardened fighters and will be fighting on its territory. this cycle of violence began almost a year ago. at the beginning of the war , israeli territory was shelled in the gazakhbela sector. currently, international tension around lebanon is growing, as its leaders warn that a ground offensive could be the beginning of a dangerous new phase of the conflict. at the moment there are reports of... in a direct clash between there are no israeli army and kgb fighters, but the group says they are ready to resist. bbc correspondent, hüchega from beirut further. hezbollah continues to behave defiantly. yesterday , the group's second-ranking leader, naim kassem

, said hezbollah fighters were ready to resist any israeli incursion. so this is a part of the country that is a hezbollah stronghold. of course, after two weeks of large-scale israeli strikes and high-profile killings, hezbollah is weakened, its leadership almost completely destroyed, but the group remains a very powerful force. it is believed that she has thousands of rockets, including rockets that can strike deep into israel, and has many thousands of experienced fighters. so the question is how hezbollah will respond to the operation, whether it will be able to mount a coordinated and significant response. in lebanon, it is more than a militia. it is a political and social movement with significant support, often referred to here as a state within a state. for nearly a year, people have expressed concern that by attacking israel, hezbollah is drawing lebanon into its conflict with israel. and it seems that this is the case now is happening the lebanese authorities said that since

the start of israeli operations in lebanon in the past two weeks, more than a thousand lebanese have died, and almost a million have been forced to leave their homes. on this map, you can see the number of air attacks over the past day, the red marks the attacks by israel, the purple marks the attacks by esbol groups. bbc correspondent orla guerin visited the city. sir after the israeli attack. you can see the effects of a super-powerful blow. trees are uprooted from the ground, cars are overturned, one, two, three on the side of the road. opposite we can see a huge gap, the building has been destroyed along with the foundation. at this very time, the israeli army is already. started a ground war in southern lebanon. we are in the city of tyre, a city that is now

completely empty. single cars pass by, people on the streets only here and there. we saw several ambulances, shop windows were boarded up, lots of broken glass. the city now resembles a war zone. at the same time, groups. hezbollah continues to attack israel, this video shows the consequences of a hezbollah rocket attack on the highway in kvar qasim near tel aviv. according to reports, one person was injured by shrapnel. lucy williamson, a bbc correspondent who is currently working in the north of israel, visited an israeli town near the border with lebanon, which was hit with rockets by the israel defense forces the day before. we are near the checkpoint near the border town of mytula. it. the closest point to the lebanese border where we were allowed. behind me, a group of soldiers

are preparing to enter lebanon. metula is one of the central points of the first day of this terrestrial intrusion. at night, several rocket volleys were fired at it. and the neighboring town of kiryachmon, which is ahead, is completely deserted. and a little further along the road - the fields, which yesterday were full of tanks. now they have emptied, and almost all the forces concentrated there are moving from there. further. israel calls it a limited, targeted deployment, but sending ground troops, even a short distance into lebanon, is a major step for the israeli military. but what is hazvula? it is a group that has two wings, political and military in the west and the arab countries of the persian gulf they were recognized as terrorists, and they became popular in the 1980s during the civil war, when israeli forces occupied southern lebanon. they also eat weapons. except early they are supported by syrian president bashar assad. according to the group, they have 100,000 fighters.

however, according to independent data, their number varies from 20 to 50 thousand. and they have from 120 to 200,000 missiles and shells and long-range weapons. gsbla has been in politics since 1992, but in the last elections in 2022, the group and its allies lost their majority in parliament. what support. among the lebanese population and what iran has to do with it, explains bbc correspondent frant garner. hezbollah does not represent the people of lebanon. it is an extremely powerful military-political force, in lebanon it is stronger than the lebanese army. it is mainly related to the ethnic part of the country's population, which in the past did not have proper political representation. however , it is by no means representative of the entire population of lebanon. there are enough people in lebanon. who passionately hate hezbollah and would prefer to see its influence undermined, these are the sunni communities and

christians despite this, the conflict that broke out and has been escalating for two weeks now has simply had dire consequences for the population of beirut and southern lebanon. on the other hand, israeli prime minister netanyahu really gives the impression of a man who defies all his enemies at once and does not listen to any calls for restraint. even from their allies. he is determined to overcome the so-called axis of resistance. this is a whole constellation of iran's allies who oppose israel. here are the hosites in yemen, and the forces of popular mobilization in iraq, groups in syria and hezbollah. so subscribe to our pages on social networks so as not to miss the most important news, we are on facebook, instagram and tiktok, you can watch ours on youtube. issue if you missed it on the air and that's all we have time to tell

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500 rockets fired, then edited out the whole thing. well, he said that there were 181 missiles flying there, but this was a massive enough shelling, biden has already ordered the military of the united states of america to shoot down the missiles launched by iran at israel, this is reported by the mass media with reference to the white house, and the iranian guard corps of the islamic revolution said that israel would face niche attacks if it responded to an iranian missile strike. so, vitaly, congratulations. thank you and thank you for quickly joining our broadcast. greetings, good evening. so, what is the possible course of events after this massive attack by iran on israel. well, we see that this attack did not lead to any serious consequences. practically, we can't talk about people who died

during this attack, only two people were slightly injured in tel aviv. but after another such situation connected with what happened with this massive shelling, so in that respect, of course, we can say that this attack ended the same way the previous one ended, although this attack was more intense, well, ballistically. we fired missiles before the previous attack, this is of course a rather serious strike, by the way, this strike was expected from the moment when the head of the hamas politburo, ismail haniyeh, was attacked and killed in tigaran, well, iran then promised to carry out an attack, but did not

carry it out, but it was possible understand that just the death of another... terrorist leader, the leader of the hezbollah organization, and secretary general hassan nasrallah, she could not remain without an answer. in principle, now another question arises. the first question is whether this is the last such attack, because we see that iran has a huge missile arsenal. everyone believed that iran had already used all its capabilities during the previous strike, but it was not used. the second point, which also needs to be understood, is how israel will respond to... now, of course, the allies will restrain israel from responding, but for this is an opportunity for israel to respond, because this is the second such massive strike on its territory, the question is how much longer it has to hold back, and whether it can use this new attack by iran to strike iranian military facilities, including

facilities that are suspected of being created for iran's nuclear program, so by and large'. we are again approaching this situation of a major war in the middle east, we will see how things will develop in the coming days. well, trump, candidate for the president of the united states of america from the republican party, has already declared that iran's attack on israel is a war, and he wrote about it on his social network, and clearly, trump in this situation said that it is expected that.. .this is a war that could have been avoided. trump is always like that, we know that all wars could have been avoided if trump was the president of the usa, it is not news, so to speak, to comment on what he says and writes here. trump is such a dubious pleasure, i would say, or maybe the current one will the situation develop into widespread hostilities

in the middle east? well, prime minister netanyahu now has a window of opportunity, i would say a month, because president biden will certainly not hold him back, because any harsh, any words or actions against the israeli government, against israel, especially when israel is attacked, they... affect the democratic candidate's electoral chances. moreover, it must be said that the first congressman who said that iran's nuclear reactors are now legal was not a republican, but a democrat. jared moskowitz is so completely clear. iran made a mistake, it put its nuclear facilities on the board. he wrote on twitter. that is, we heard trump's reaction here. who is a republican, and this is a democrat, that is , now the americans, they will support israel from both political camps, because this is the logic of the electoral struggle, and that's why

netanyahu understands all this perfectly, he can wonder if we strike, let's say, against hazbol , if we carry out strikes against iran, then when after november 5 the situation may be completely different, which means there is still time from october 1 to november 5, when it is possible to do some such actions, in which... another period is political, four years in a row, serhiy, it will not be possible to do. well, we will monitor the development of the situation in the middle east, and actually israel's reaction and israel's response. thanks to vitaly for the inclusion, it was vitaly portnikov, journalist, tv presenter of espresso channel. friends, we continue to work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. for those watching us live there now, please subscribe to our... inkas, well, take part in our poll, today it sounds like this: do you expect the united states of america to allow long-distance driving at the next reimstein, yes, no, it's

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aggression is presented to ukrainians without some closed parts. what is the president's office hiding and from whom? month of tax changes. from october 1, taxes should be increased in ukraine, the amount of which has not yet been determined verkhovna rada. what is the delay? we will talk about this today with the people's deputies of ukraine. i would like to introduce today's guest of our studio, this is yuliya klymenko, people's deputy of ukraine from the voice. first deputy of the parliamentary committee on transport and infrastructure. ms. yulia, i congratulate you, thank you for being with us today. good evening. volodymyr arriev, people's deputy of ukraine for european solidarity, member of the parliamentary committee on digital transformation. mr. volodymyr, i congratulate you, thank you for joining. to the air, good evening, and elizaveta yasko, a people's deputy of ukraine from the servant of the people, should join us, but that will happen a little later, well, since we, ladies and

gentlemen, are asking our tv viewers and viewers about whether they expect the united states america's permission for remote poverty at the next raimstein, which will be held on october 12, i will ask you in the format of a blitz survey, let's start with yulia. klymenko, mrs. yulia, do you think that such a decision, which has been waiting for a long time in ukraine, will be adopted at the four-way meeting of the leaders of germany, france, great britain and the united states of america. i hope that such a decision will be approved, but the question is that it will definitely not be public, at least until the end of the election campaign in america, that is, if we learn about it, it will be the end of november, december, or if we if we learn about it, then we will learn it from...

which, among other things, will depend a lot on whether ukraine will be able to overcome the management chaos that has arisen in recent days, specifically in the defense sphere. in principle, this chaos has been frustrating our partners for a long time, and they are not very decisive in their actions anyway, and this only adds to their motives for doubt. thank you, mr. volodymyr, and since we are wrapping up this great american tour. the tour of volodymyr zelensky, his team, a lot of different things were said, heard, unexpected meetings with trump, including because trump was not going to meet with zelensky, offended by his visit to the military plant in pennsylvania, but president zelensky said at the end of his visit to the united states of america, that during the next... according to

the results of his negotiations in the united states of america, ukraine expects specific things from partners to strengthen our strategy. let's listen to what zelensky said. this will be a special rammstein. and from our side, the partners receive all the details, all the arguments on how to ensure results in the coming months, both at the front and in diplomatic work. power. and the power of diplomacy always work effectively, only together, and this is how we calculate, this is how we must implement the victory plan. and to us yelyzaveta yasko, people's deputy of ukraine from servant of the people, member of the parliamentary committee on foreign policy and interparliamentary cooperation joined. mrs. elizaveta, i congratulate you and i am glad to see you on the air. i will remind you, i will remind you

that in ours. also yulia klymenko and volodymyr ariev, people's deputies of ukraine, ms. elizavetto, zelenskyi said that important decisions will be made at ramstein, and at the same time zelenskyi reminded of biden's words that ukraine will win this war, and the united states of america continues to stand next to us at every step, do you understand what cardinal decisions he is talking about. zelensky and about what this special ramstein will be on october 12 during the meeting of the four leaders of great britain, france, germany and the united states of america. the most important thing for us is that we have enough weapons so that we can not only defend ourselves, but also carry out the actions that we need to carry out on the territory of russia in order to finally carry out decolonization,

in essence. of russia, push russia to so that, finally, those processes that can take place in russia, so that they begin to take place. what this means, practically, is that it means military assistance for specific types of weapons, including long-range weapons, and it means permits for the use of these weapons, which we currently do not have. permission from those countries that we would like to receive, we only have a part, well, we sincerely hope that this decision will be made in ramstein. thank you, ms. elizaveta, mr. volodymyr, you mentioned, or rather, we all mentioned a rather difficult situation, well, during zelensky's visit to of the united states of america, about the bipartisan need for bipartisan support, is

it possible. to say at the end of this visit that finally the ukrainians and the ukrainian authorities understand the need for this bipartisan support, and that we will not give preference to one of the candidates, and the other candidate will be offended, and like the current ones, during the current election races in the united states of america , will and will the ukrainian card be played, the ukrainian question? ukrainian? question, it is generally one of the key ones in these pre-elections races, and here we must not forget that on november 5 in the usa there will be not only presidential elections, but also elections to the capitol, that is, to the american, to the american parliament, and to the lower one.