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problem hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy. hello, i'm geeta guru-mu thy. hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy.'re watching the context on bbc news. there was a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion earlier today in beirut after this new wave of attacks, and perhaps there is the expectation that there is more to come. it has been a nightmare. probably this is the worst day of my life as a physician. in my past 25 years in practice, i never removed as many eyes as i did yesterday. translation: the centre of gravity is moving - towards the north. this means that we are diverting forces, resources and energy towards the north. these events confirms that there is a serious risk of a dramatic escalation in lebanon, and everything must be done to avoid that escalation. hello and welcome. on the context in the next hour. after a second day of deadly explosions across lebanon, targeting hezbollah, we'll be live injerusalem, lebanon and washington. israeli leaders say they're "opening a new phase in the war", and the "centre of gravity is shifting to the north". we'll ask what does that mean? also on the pro

bye— bye. problem hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy. hello, i'm geeta guru-mu thy.there is the expectation that there is more to come. it has been a nightmare. probably this is the worst day of my life as a physician. in my past 25 years in practice, i never removed as many eyes as i did yesterday. translation: the centre of gravity is moving - towards the north. this means that we are diverting forces, resources and energy towards the north.

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy.start with the ongoing tensions in the middle east, 2a hours since the announcement of the death of the hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah. fears remain that nasrallah�*s killing could spark an all—out regional war. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, described the attack as a "historic turning point." he said israel had finally settled the score with a man responsible for the murder of countless israelis. hassan nasrallah had led the iranian—backed group, proscribed as a terrorist group by western and arab governments, for over 30 years. iran's supreme leader said his death would be "avenged" as the country called for an emergency meeting of the un security council. this is the scene live in beirut this morning — the israel defense forces say they have carried out dozens more air strikes on hezbollah targets overnight, killing another senior commander, nabil anuk. president biden said the hezbollah leader's death was a "measure ofjustice", as he reiterated calls for both sides

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy.ons in sudan. the war between the army and the paramilitary rapid support forces has triggered one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. thousands of people have been killed and millions forced from their homes. the un team said the violations by both sides since april last year may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy, thanks forjoining us. stoppage is a day after the israeli army says it has recovered the bodies of six hostages who were taken during the attacks of the 7th of october. that led to mass demonstrations injerusalem and tel aviv on sunday. organisers are calling on benjamin netanyahu to negotiate a deal with hamas to bring home the estimated 100 remaining hostages. sunday's protests were largely peaceful but some crowds broke through police lines, blocking a major highway in tel aviv. our correspondent is following the story. after the biggest protests in israel since the start of the war in gaza with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating across the country, today a general strike. so thousands of businesses will be closed, some schools, universities, government ministries, banks, some bus networks, so we are expecting a major hit on the economy today in israel. the outrage against hamas is a given but these protests are not about that, they are against the government of prime minister benjamin netany

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy. thanks for being with us.de unions and groups representing the families of israeli hostages are holding a general strike to press the government to reach a deal to free those still held by hamas. it's already affecting some flights at ben gurion airport in tel aviv, and business, schools, and other forms of transport have also been hit. the stoppage is a day after the israeli army said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages who were taken during the attacks of seventh 0ctober. that led to mass demonstrations injerusalem and tel aviv on sunday with the organisers calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to negotiate a deal with hamas to bring home the estimated 100 remaining hostages. sunday's protests were largely peaceful, but some crowds broke through police lines, blocking a major highway in tel aviv. 0ur correspondentjon donnison has been following the story. after the biggest protests in israel since the start of the war in gaza, with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating across the count

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy.edical source and security source told protesters as well as a statement confirming his death did not say when his funeral would be. and it appeared the cause of death was blunt trauma from the force of the blast. we can go to beirut and anna foster. we were speaking to our colleague who was saying the news has been reported on iranians media. that is right. it is an important moment. what i think will be a moment when you see a collective outpouring of grief in southern suburbs of beirut and the south of the country and the south of the country and bekaa valley is when we have the funeral. i have no indication when it will happen. it will happen reasonably quickly because these things always do. perhaps tomorrow. that will be a big moment. if you look back to just over a week ago when we had the attacks with pagers and walkie—talkies. people gathered at funerals and a second wave of attacks came then so when people go to a funeral they will remember what happened a week ago and be ner

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hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy. you're watching the context on bbc news.t's been revealed that keir starmer�*s top adviser, sue gray, now earns more than the prime minister. we've been told that she's now on a salary of £170,000. we will have more on that in the coming moments. more on uk politics and lebanon in the next few minutes, first let's catch up with all of the sport. from the bbc sport centre, will perry is here. hello from the bbc sport centre. six games to tell you about in the champions league taking place today. manchester city are opening their european campaign against inter milan, a repeat of the 2023 final which city won as they completed the treble. it's still goalless at the etihad. no goals in the game between last year's runners up borussia dortmud who are in belgium to play club brugge, but liam scales has put celtic 1—0 up against slovan bratislava. psg girona still 0—0. earlier sparta prague were 3—0 winners over rb salzburg and it was all square between bolgna and shaktar donesk. vivianne miedema scored on her manchester city debu

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy.n charged with two federal gun crimes. 58—year—old ryan wesley routh was charged with possession of a firearm as a convicted criminal, as well as possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. us authorities have confirmed that the suspect fired no shots on the golf course, where the republican presidential candidate was playing. mrtrump is blamed mr trump is blamed the incident on the rhetoric of his democratic writable, kamala harris. —— democratic writable. president biden has questioned whether the us secret service

. —— geeta guru—murthy.oking at the impact on patients, healthcare workers and the wider nhs. the hearings will also focus on issues such as the diagnosis and treatment of patients with long covid, protective equipment in hospitals, and the policy of shielding. more than 30,000 people in the uk have shared their personal stories from the pandemic ? as part of a report called every story matters, which will be published today. our health reporterjim reed is outside the inquiry in central london.

iam i am geeta guru—murthy and we will be bringing special coverage of the conservative party annualthe shadow chancellor of the exchequer jeremy hunt shortly. it's also a chance for the party's leadership candidates to audition for the topjob leadership candidates to audition for the top job with each of them due to give a speech on wednesday. we have been seeing pictures of robert jenrick and some of his supporters in the last few minutes and we are going to be hearing from jeremy hunt we think shortly. let's go now to the conference and hannah miller is there. you have a rather special guest with you? i have indeed. of course you have just seen the rally for robertjenrick, lots of those kind of things going on at this conference. there is lanyards and memorabilia associated with the different candidates. robertjenrick, kemi badenoch, tom tugendhat and james cleverly as they all attend this giant hustings. i'm here with professorjohn curtis who can talk about all about who is the most popular and what the conservative party should do, the election expert as you are. if we can rewin

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy. thank you for being with us. let's return to our top story this hour.overnment seeks to resolve overcrowding. those eligible will have served 40% of their sentences and will be allowed out on licence. meghan 0wen is outside wormwood scrubs. have you seen many people being let out, and of course, presumably, nobody knows who is being let out early or who is being let out early or who is being let out on their regular release date. we being let out on their regular release date.— being let out on their regular release date. we haven't seen any prisoners _ release date. we haven't seen any prisoners being _ release date. we haven't seen any prisoners being released l any prisoners being released early yet, although there has been a flurry of activity in the last hour or so.

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy.he man suspected of plotting to assassinate former us president donald trump has been charged with two federal gun crimes. 58—year—old ryan wesley routh was charged with possession of a firearm as a convicted criminal, as well as possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. us authorities have confirmed that the suspect fired no shots on the golf course, where the republican presidential candidate was playing. mrtrump is blamed mr trump is blamed the incident on the rhetoric of his democratic writable, kamala harris. —— democratic writable. president biden has questioned whether the us secret service have enough resources to protect senior american politicians. 56, from the us, from north carolina. this is ryan routh, now 58, speaking two years ago in ukraine where he had volunteered to fight against russia. he is now in custody in florida, after he alledgedly turned his sights on donald trump. —— with an attempted assassination of the former president. routh was detained

i'm geeta guru—murthy.ge's speech at the reform party conference. this is the scene in birmingham where the reform uk party conference in taking place. he supporters have been hearing from some of the mps that you can see there. and also from the reform uk chairman, who has just finished his speech, i think. many of the supporters are gathered in birmingham. nigel farage is due to take to the podium. david ball is going to be introducing nigel farage we believe. and, of course, this is the first time that nigel farage is actually has actually won a seat in the house of commons after the summer election. his eighth attempt, i think, summer election. his eighth attempt, ithink, and summer election. his eighth attempt, i think, and there aren't now five reform mps in the house of commons. the supporters are gathered for the conference in birmingham. it is the season of conference, we have had the greens end at the snp and labour gathering also this weekend. with the conservatives to come, we will be covering a

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy. thank you for being with us.w on our top story, trade unions and groups representing the families of israeli hostages are holding a general strike — to press the government to reach a deal to free those still held by hamas. it's affecting some flights at ben gurion airport in tel aviv — and business, schools, and other forms of transport have also been hit. the stoppage is a day after the israeli army said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages who were taken during the attacks of 7th october. alastair burt is a former conservative mp who served as minister of state for the middle east. he gave me his reaction to developments. the scale of protests is certainly unprecedented. there has been thousands of people demonstrating regularly against prime minister netanyahu firstly for internal political reasons, then post october the 7th lately in terms of his handling of the crisis, but the scale of the protest and the sense that the prime minister's strategy after october the 7th of seeking total victory of the e

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy.leader hassan nasrallah. fears remain that nasrallah's killing could spark an all—out regional war. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, described the attack as a "historic turning point." he said israel had finally settled the score with a man responsible for the murder of countless israelis. hassan nasrallah had led the iranian—backed group, proscribed as a terrorist group by western and arab governments, for over 30 years. iran's supreme leader said his death would be "avenged" as the country called for an emergency meeting of the un security council. this is the scene live in beirut this morning —

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy.d nations fact finding mission has uncovered what it described as harrowing human rights violations in sudan. the war between the army and the paramilitary rapid support forces has triggered one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. thousands of people have been killed and millions forced from their homes. the un team said the violations by both sides since april last year may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. there have been a lot of violations and there are reasonable grounds to think that of these violations and don't amount to international crimes. meanwhile the bbc has seen, first hand, the desperate conditions civilians are enduring in sudan. aid agencies are warning the hunger crisis is of historic proportions. our correspondent nawal al maghafi has gained rare access to the city of port sudan and a key border area in neighbouring chad where refugees are still flowing out as aid agencies desperately try to get aid in. the faces of a forgotten war. these are s

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy. thank you for being with us. let's return to our top story this hour. 1,750 prisoners are being released from jails in england and wales today as the government seeks to resolve overcrowding. those eligible will have served 40% of their sentences and will be allowed out on licence. meghan owen is outside wormwood scrubs. have you seen many people being let out, and of course, presumably, nobody knows who is being let out early or who is being let out early or who is being let out on their regular release date. we being let out on their regular release date.— being let out on their regular release date. we haven't seen any prisoners _ release date. we haven't seen any prisoners being _ release date. we haven't seen any prisoners being released l any prisoners being released early yet, although there has been a flurry of activity in the last hour or so. we have seen a couple of charity representatives waiting outside, presumably to help the former prisoners as they are released. we have also seen family members starting to gather, and friends of those for

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy. thanks for being with us.t's being reported that the body of the hezbollah lead, hassan nasrallah, has been recovered from the site of an air strike in beirut, in which he and several other people died. these pictures we believe show the aftermath of the strike in which nasrullah and other senior hezbollah commanders were killed. an entire block, completely reduced to rubble — with many surrounding buildings severely damaged. on saturday evening, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the outcome of that air strike as an "historic turning point". but iran, a close supporter of his hezbollah said his death would be avenged. israel has continued with its attacks against senior figures in hezbollah. the country's military posted on x that it has killed nabil anuk, who it says was a member of hezbollah�*s executive council. in what it says was a precise strike. hezbollah has not confirmed this. this is the scene live in beirut this morning — the prime minister of lebanon has called for a diplomatic soluti

. —— geeta guru—murthy.ase of the covid inquiry is about to get under way — with the public hearings looking at the impact on patients, healthcare workers and the wider nhs. the hearings will also focus on issues such as the diagnosis and treatment of patients with long covid, protective equipment in hospitals, and the policy of shielding. more than 30,000 people in the uk have shared their personal stories from the pandemic 7 as part of a report called every story matters, which will be published today. 0ur health reporterjim reed is outside the inquiry in central london. at the worst point, i didn't want to live any longer. i at the worst point, i didn't want to live any longer. i woke u . want to live any longer. i woke u- and want to live any longer. i woke up and couldn't _ want to live any longer. i woke up and couldn't remember- want to live any longer. i woke up and couldn't remember my| up and couldn't remember my children's_ up and couldn't remember my children's names. my up and couldn't remember

hello, i'm geeta guru—murthy. you're watching the context on bbc news.here was a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion earlier today in beirut after this new wave of attacks, and perhaps there is the expectation that there is more to come. it has been a nightmare. probably this is the worst day of my life as a physician. in my past 25 years in practice, i never removed as many eyes as i did yesterday. translation: the centre of gravity is moving - towards the north. this means that we are diverting forces, resources and energy towards the north. these events confirms that there is a serious risk of a dramatic escalation in lebanon, and everything must be done to avoid that escalation. joining me tonight are political strategist and commentator — rina shah and columnist for the i and former labour executive director of policy — andrew fisher first , the latest headlines. israel's defence minister has said the military is opening a new phase in the war, and will be diverting troops and resources northwards. yoav gallant was speaking to troops at an airbase near

hello, i'm geeta gurumurthy.ay he was a monster and sexual predator, whose behaviour was enabled by harrods, the luxury store he owned until 2010. harrods' current owners say they're appalled by the allegations and have a settlement process in place for alleged victims. tonight, a former manager of fulham fc�*s women's team has told us that female players weren't allowed to be left alone with the billonaire when he owned the club, because it was well known that he liked �*young, blonde girls'. it all comes after the bbc aired a documentary yesterday, which heard testimony from more than 20 survivors. since then, more people have approached the bbc and the metropolitan police with further allegations. here's helena wilkinson with today's developments. and a warning, this report contains descriptions of sexual violence. mohamed al fayed, the billionaire who was a powerful figure in british society. the former boss of harrods and one—time owner of fulham football club, he was also the father of dodi al fayed, who di

geeta, what do you think ? think? >> i think it's a really good idea.ecause eating is for talking and not for looking at your phone. >> okay, rebecca, i think it's odd when restaurants want to police how people enjoy their environment . environment. >> obviously i don't want somebody taking like a full face time at the table. but lots of people, particularly younger generations, really like take pictures of their food. and that's actually like a sign of appreciation. and also when i go out to eat, i always have i don't look at my phone, but i always have it on the table because if i'm out having dinner, i've got a baby sitter at home, and if something goes wrong to be contactable, i think that's a good point. >> i mean, i must confess, when i've been out and there's something important going on elsewhere, i do take my phone with me, but i do try to avoid it, and i think it's utterly depressing. you know, when you see families sitting around the table out in a restaurant all on their phones, mum, dad and two kids all staring at their phones, conversation