but who is ibrahim aqil?he usa of being behind operations against the us embassy in 1983, killing almost, more than 63 people, mainly americans, in 1983. and also he was one of those that the us is accusing of being behind an attack at the same time, in the same year, against us marines. the other commander that was killed in july 13 other commander that was killed injuly 13 and he was apparently, what i am hearing from my sources, he was replaced, the second person in hezbollah, and now israel's newspaper saying that they have information that ibrahim aqil was one of the patients, one of the injured people because of that pager blasts. he was, he left the hospitaljust that pager blasts. he was, he left the hospital just this morning. this is what we are hearing now. this is a very difficult day for hezbollah because they also threw a statement confirmed that two of their elite forces, which is hezbollah�*s delete young fighters, were killed on the border with israel. and their bodies are still on the other s

aqil had plenty of enemies.d put a $7 million bounty on his head, accusing him of involvement in the killing of americans in beirut in the 1980s. siren wails. day after day now, hezbollah is being hit and being weakened by warfare from a distance. we were repeatedly prevented from reaching the scene by locals and the lebanese army. siren wails. well, emergency vehicles have been coming and going. we've counted at least ten ambulances coming up and down the road, going to pick up casualties. the dead are still being counted. there's a lot of anger here, a lot of tension. this was another major strike on hezbollah here in its stronghold in south beirut. tonight, rescue workers still digging in the rubble for people who lived here. she giggles. among the missing — li—year—old naya ghazi, a threat to no—one. orla guerin, bbc news, beirut. our international editorjeremy bowen has more hezbollah�*s response, and the impact of israel's strike. first of all i can tell you that hezbollah in beirut have issued a statement

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that includes a top commander, ibrahim aqil. the u.s.eled him a specially designated global terrorist and had been offering a $7 million reward for any information leading to his arrest in connection with the terrorist attacks in 1983 that killed hundreds of americans in beirut. cbs's chris livesay leads us off tonight from tel aviv. chris, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. tensions are boiling here in israel and in lebanon. the u.s. is calling on both sides to de-escalate, but today's attacks following those exploding hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies this week are moving the conflict closer to a full-blown war. chaos and confusion tore through the heart of beirut's southern suburbs today, hezbollah's stronghold, following an israeli air strike. first responders desperately combed through the rubble of gutted apartments to find survivors, rushing them to the hospital. the target, hezbollah cmmander ibrahim aqil, wanted by the u.s. for his role in two bombings in 1983 that killed more than 300 people at the u.s. embassy

has been killed in —— that top hezbollah commander ibrahim aqil has been killed in that strike.killed in today's strike. we will have more on that story and the red of our headline stories here are just of our headline stories here arejust a on bbc news. welcome back to bbc news that will have plenty more from lebanon. the latest after the israeli strike, eight people dead, 59 injured. you have plenty more on that story in a moment or two. i was just turn away from the next few minutes for it to an important story because... bbc research has found the number of identified russian fighters killed on the frontline in ukraine has hit 70,000. while official statistics may be hard to come by, an investigation by bbc russia and the independent russian media outlet mediazona has been collating data and identifying dead russian soldiers since the beginning of the war with ukraine. our analysis reveals volunteers are increasingly older men with lower incomes, and are not surviving long in battle. 0lga ivshina reports. the faces of russian fighters killed in ukraine are changed. now, more

aqil was one of the most powerful people in hezbollah under hassan nasrallah.was also wanted by the u.s. for his role in the 1983 u.s. embassy and marine barracks bombing in beirut. offer a $7 million award for information on him, apparently no longer necessary. 12 people in total killed, 66 others injured in today's strike. this is israel's third strike on beirut since january but the first notably sandra since taking a hezbollah leader follow sh*shakr. massive air strikes last night. hezbollah responded with 120 watches from lebanon into israel and you see the iron dome hard at work. there are no reports of injuries from this. meanwhile lebanon's health minister is accusing israel of war crimes after israel caused hezbollah's communication devices to explode. >> a lot of these injuries are life-changing injuries, and that is why detonating these devices in civilian areas and among civilians is clearly a war cr crime. >> so hamas is responding to the air strike in beirut, calling that a "zionist crime" in an escalation by israel and it promises to continue wha

many have lined the streets here to say goodbye to ibrahim aqil. is a major loss for hezbollah at a time when the organisation is suffering blow after blow. there is anger here and grief, but also defiance. the message is hezbollah is not broken and will fight on. and it's been doing that today, firing missiles deeper into israel. hezbollah says its targets are military but this residential area in northern israel was hit. this, too, was a residential area in beirut, until friday's israeli strike which killed the hezbollah commander and 15 of his men as they met below ground. a lebanese government minister linked to hezbollah says israel is dragging the region to war. at the end, lebanon is not seeking the war. even the lebanese people. but israel is calling us, worldwide, "come to war. "come to war". and do you think it will happen? i don't know. we will see. around 30 civilians were killed here, too, including entire families. some of their relatives are still waiting at the scene today, hoping for remains to be found. orla guerin, bbc news, beir

was laid to rest at cemetery in the southern suburbs, known as aqil was assassinated along with comrades during an israeli aggression that targeted a residential building, it hasbullah member of parliament tells press tv that hazbullah is yet to retaliate for the assassination, but that hazbullah's focus is on support for ghazza and deterrance against israel. the kind of escalation and the kind of surgery butchery of the israelis against the civilians in the southern suburb would entail hizballah to respond in a way that to deeply entrench the formulas of the terrance against the israelis. how this going to unfold? this is something of wait and see situation. despite israeli threats of strikes against the capital beirot, the masses poured into the streets of the southern suburbs of beirot to take part in the funeral ceremony. israel is evil from the day it was established and it was always the aggressor and the brutal source of terrorism and it is always targeting us. as long as we remain next to such an entity, we will not surrender or weaken and we will not give up our arms or our supp

among the victims was hezbollah's military operations commander ibrahim aqil. having barely managed to leave the hospital, aqil went to meet with fighters from an elite unit. all of them died during the airstrike. aqil had long been hunted americans and even set a reward of $7 million, considering him involved in the explosions of the us embassy in beirut and the marine barracks in the 1980s. more than 200 us citizens were killed. the israel defense forces reports that other high-ranking hezbollah military officers were also killed in the attack. israel continues to launch missile strikes on lebanon today. the escalation in the middle east was discussed at the un security council the day before, with lebanon's acting foreign minister abdallah bouhabib calling the attacks using gadgets a dangerous precedent in the history of wars and publicly accused israel of organizing them. israel does not adhere to international humanitarian law, the security council resolution. it continues to ignore the law because it is never held accountable. israel's special representat

. the israeli, the israel's attacked beirut an airstrike when which the hasbala commander, ibrahim aqil was killed, you can see his coffin draped in the yellow. haspalath flag as a funeral ceremony is underway currently to lay the bodies of the commander to rest along with other martters of this attack in beirot. now to get more details about the... funeral procession and what this means for hazballah, we're joined by of course our correspondent maram saleh and guess that could be giving us some more details about this. mr. muhammad obaid, political commentator is joining us now from beirot. mr. obaid, tell us more about the ceremony that is currently. underway as we're receiving these images from beirot, what does hazbullah mean to the labanese people, where does it stand? of course it's these are sad moments that and the majority of the labanese feel because everybody has gratitude to... the those who founded the islamic resistance, i meaning in the beginning, the outset of... resistance in the year 1982 - the struggle that 40 years ended up with the goal defeated the goal of occupati

aqil was a top military leader of the iranian—backed armed group.d put a $7 million bounty on his head, accusing him of links to the killing of hundreds of american marines in lebanon in the 1980s. day after day now, hezbollah is being hit. it's been weakened and humiliated by a string of israeli attacks. we were prevented repeatedly from reaching the scene by locals and the lebanese army. well, emergency vehicles have been coming and going. it's been weakened and humiliated by a string of israeli attacks. we were prevented repeatedly from reaching the scene by locals and the lebanese army. well, emergency vehicles have been coming and going. we've counted at least ten ambulances coming up and down the road going to pick up casualties. the dead are still being counted. there's a lot of anger here, a lot of tension. this was another major strike on hezbollah, here in its stronghold in south beirut. this footage captures the moment of the attack. explosion. the skyline looks like a city at war. many lebanese fear that's where their country is headed.

hazballah was going to do this, in the case of the operation that targeted ibrahim aqil for example inther individuals from rudan forces, they also speak spoke in the same language, they said that aq and his comrades were preparing a kind of operation in the galili, so it's always frame within the context of preemptive action, trying to show that what israel is doing is an act of quote onqut defense against incoming threat, i think that maybe that's not maybe, i'm i'm most certain that this is attempt to show that israel isn't launching an aggression, they're trying to say, we're not launching aggression, we're trying to fend off an imminent threat which is going to come to - towards our borders, i think that that's likely the strategy which israel. is currently currently pursuing, in any case, i believe that um, the what's happening now is backfiring against israel, what is very noticeable is the short time frame hazballah, it only took a matter of few days before it responded to the pagre attacks, to the walky talky attacks, its attacks on sunday yesterday were revealed or these the

aqil had plenty of enemies., accusing him of involvement in the killing of americans in beirut in the 1980s. day after day now, hezbollah is being hit and being weakened by warfare from a distance. we were repeatedly prevented from reaching the scene by locals and the lebanese army. well, emergency vehicles have been coming and going. we've counted at least ten ambulances coming up and down the road, going to pick up casualties. the dead are still being counted. there's a lot of anger here, a lot of tension. this was another major strike on hezbollah here in its stronghold in south beirut. tonight, rescue workers still digging in the rubble for people who lived here. among the missing — four—year—old naya ghazi, a threat to no—one. 0rla guerin, bbc news, beirut. let's go tojeremy, who's injerusalem. jeremy, your thoughts tonight about the state of play at the end of another grim week?— the state of play at the end of another grim week? well, first of all, i can another grim week? well, first of all. i can tell—

he said that alongside aqil, the chain of command of the red one unit.argeted. and they were planning terrorist attacks. and so in the last few moments the israeli military is saying that this air strike for air strikes in beirut in the southern suburbs of beirut, has eliminated ibrahim aqil, who is the head of a specialist unit and has blew her back. he had been wanted for some time not just by israel but by the us, there was a $7 million bounty on his head from the us relating to bombings in the 19805. lawyers say they�*re representing 37 women who were raped or sexually assaulted by mohamed al fayed, the late owner of the harrods department store in london. they�*ve also revealed that more have come forward, after the allegations were made public in a bbc documentary yesterday. the legal team is now calling on the department store�*s new owners to help the survivors getjustice — they say staff members working for mr al fayed helped to enable and cover up his crimes. 0ur reporter frances read has the latest. the billionaire infamous in british society,

aqil had plenty of enemies.80s. day after day now, hezbollah is being hit and being weakened by warfare from a distance. we were repeatedly prevented from reaching the scene by locals and the lebanese army. well, emergency vehicles have been coming and going. we've counted at least ten ambulances coming up and down the road, going to pick up casualties. the dead are still being counted. there's a lot of anger here, a lot of tension. this was another major strike on hezbollah here in its stronghold in south beirut. tonight, rescue workers still digging in the rubble for people who lived here. among the missing — four—year—old naya ghazi, a threat to no—one. 0rla guerin, bbc news, beirut. from jerusalem, our international editorjeremy bowen has more on the state of play at the end of what's been a dramatic week in the region. after a week of, well, exploding pages and radios and now this raid pagers and radios and now this raid on a meeting that the hezbollah leadership clearly thought was secret in a basement in

as we were reporting one of them was ibrahim aqil. military is saying with in the last ten minutes that the idf is currently striking targets that are belonging to hezbollah. we had something similarjust after the air similar just after the air strikes. similar 'ust after the air strikes. , similar 'ust after the air strikes.— similar 'ust after the air strikes. , ., ., strikes. in terms of what israel is _ strikes. in terms of what israel is saying _ strikes. in terms of what israel is saying can - strikes. in terms of what israel is saying can you l strikes. in terms of what - israel is saying can you bring us up—to—date as to these later strikes? us up-to-date as to these later strikes? , ., , strikes? the statement i 'ust read out is i strikes? the statement i 'ust read out is their i strikes? the statement ijust read out is their statement i strikes? the statement ijust| read out is their statement on what is happening at the moment. they say they are striking targets in lebanon at the moment as we speak. in terms of what they sa

one of them ibrahim aqil. that's also been confirmed by hezbollah.in the last ten minutes have said the idf is currently striking targets belonging to hezbollah were back a terrorist organisation. we had similar something yesterday afternoon, a short statement from the idf and then we got a lot more detail later in the day. in terms of _ detail later in the day. in terms of what israel is saying, can you bring us up to date with any response to these later strikes?— with any response to these later strikes? the statement i 'ust read later strikes? the statement i just read is — later strikes? the statement i just read is their _ later strikes? the statement i just read is their statement i later strikes? the statement i | just read is their statement on what is happening at the moment. they say their striking targets in lebanon as we speak. in terms of what they say about the air strike yesterday. they obviously regard this as a major victory. they say they've taken out ibrahim aqil who has long been wanted by them and by the united states for his al

how the israeli army operates is the assassination of a high-ranking hezbollah commander, ibrahim aqil. four rockets were fired at the building where he was holding a meeting with twenty commanders. then, in addition to the soldiers, five children were killed and dozens of people were wounded. the aftermath of this operation is visible in the footage that appeared on one of the israeli tv channels. earlier today, the israeli army struck the commander of the hezbollah terrorist organization's operation, ibrahim aqil, and his elite command from radwan's special forces unit and eliminated him. they gathered underground under a residential building in the heart of the dahieh district. the main supplier of weapons for the israeli army remains the united states. thus, according to a report by the wall street journal, the states have again transferred bunker buster bombs to israel. this time, we are talking about the blu-109 with a warhead weighing over 900 kg. moreover, the us navy is once again demonstrating to lebanon its presence in the eastern mediterranean along with a missile cruiser a

among the dead is ibrahim aqil, a senior military commander.t a $7 million bounty on his head, accusing him of being involved in the killings of americans in beirut in the 1980s. this is another humiliation for hezbollah but it is also a blow to a country already exhausted by this conflict. translation: the israeli army, with all its continued crimes with the excuse of pursuing the hezbollah movement, has targeted a residential compound. it's committed a massacre in a residential building against unarmed children, women at home. how hezbolah is going to respond isn't clear. it doesn't want to spark a wider war with israel. and its supporters in iran don't want a major confrontation, either. but israel says this is just the beginning. hugo bachega, bbc news, beirut. in gaza, israel has struck a former school. hamas says at least 22 people were killed. the israel defense forces say the attack targeted a hamas command room at al—falah school, which had been serving as a shelter for displaced civilians. the army insists that steps were taken to mit

killed one of hezbollah's most senior commanders ibrahim aqil, the head of the little x1 elite force that is pretty much hezbollah special operations force. >> and in the past few hours, we've also heard hezbollah announced that's 15 other members of the group operatives were killed in that strike including another senior commanders. so the question right now, is, what happens next where is this all headed and, you know, the one thing that has is very clear about all of this is that we have of entered a very dangerous an unprecedented phase in this cycle of escalation that has been going on in the region for about a year and you have to look at the context of what has been happening in this conflict since october the eighth of last year is israel and hezbollah have been engaged in what? >> you could describe as a middle, a mid-level intensity conflict. >> these cross-border attacks very much or for the most part, really concentrated in the border area. of course, these have been deadly cross-border attacks, but they have tried to keep it confined to the border with the exception, of

to say that ibrahim aqil has significant american blood on his hands.ing him off the battlefield is a good thing. on the other hand, the collateral damage here appears to be significant. civilians, that is always terrible. part of the blame is for the way that hezbollah and hamas does as well, uses civilians and shields, effectively putting their command centers in populated civilian apartment buildings, under schools and in a moss. it is incumbent upon the israelis to do all they can to minimize that collateral damage. and it is always tragic when civilians die even in my view, the worthy objective of ending the reign of terror brought about by aqil for 40 years, with engagement. >> israel is calling this a new phase of the war. it is exploding pagers, exploding walkie-talkies and other electronic devices. to your point, the damage is extensive and includes civilians. do you think that this actually spurs the united states to get even more involved? i know president biden speaks about still achieving a cease- fire but does that seem to be an actual rea

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have the top military commander shukur he was also laid to rest there and we will see today ibrahim aqil who will also be later rest next to his brother in arms and we know that they were together for decades and since the early 80s and here we're talking about adolescences perhaps, they were very young, a very young age, these men were part of a bigger group, imad and said shukur and and others, ibrahim aqil and they were also joined with others that began very, very humble um resistance group that were ready to fight, they were there in the area of khali where the israelis just started to come into beirot in their first their actually the second long occupation and the... invasion of 1982 um they were able to stop despite their very very humble capabilities, they only had maybe individual rifles uh handmade grenades and that so it was very humble resistance still they were able to stop the israeli forces then and they were even able to confiscate uh israeli vehicles and tanks say was one of the men who even drove and before before learning perhaps how to drive a car he was able to driv

hezbollah ibrahim aqil and his elite command from the radwan special forces unit and eliminated him, they gathered underground, under a residential building in the heart of the dahiya district. the main supplier of weapons for the israeli army remains the united states. thus, according to a report by the wall street journal, the states have again transferred. bunker buster bomb, this time we are talking about the blu-109 with a warhead, weighing over 900 kg. moreover, the us navy is once again demonstrating its presence to lebanon in the eastern mediterranean, along with a missile cruiser and two destroyers of the carrier strike group, the nuclear aircraft carrier harry truman. stanislav vasilchenko, matvey popov, olga alvukhina. vesti. after a short advertisement, kiev bloggers decided that the russian language is more profitable for them. and in finland , the economy is in decline, there is not enough money even to keep pandas in the zoo. alpha investments are for money. we give up to 5,000 rubles. for everyone. open a free account for investments in alfa bank and get a gift. not j

military spokesperson saying that their target in this attack was primarily top military commander aqil and we can say that he is figure that is as significant as sayid shukur um and said in the statement that he was someone who aspired to murder them and he was someone who always had alqs in the back of his. throughout his path of sacrifice and injuries on the path of resistance always, he also said, hazbullah's statement also said that it will remain loyal to the path of and the endeavor of ibrahim aqil who is major of course leader in hazballah's resistance and so therefore this does confirm the assassination that israel has assassinated top military commander ibrahim and that he was one of the people who were in this building that was targeted, we know from the security source that the seven story building that was targeted primarily was completely demolished, but in addition to that israeli war planes also seemed to target the um a parking lot that was in common between two buildings which were the ones that were completely uh demolished and lebanese foreign minister abdullah bou h

among the dead is ibrahim aqil, a senior military commander. being involved in the killings of americans in beirut in the 1980s. this is another humiliation for hezbollah but it is also a blow to a country already exhausted by this conflict. translation: the israeli army, with all its continued crimes - with the excuse of pursuing the hezbollah movement, has targeted a residential compound. it�*s committed a massacre in a residential building against unarmed children, women at home. how hezbollah is going to respond isn�*t clear. it doesn�*t want to spark a wider war with israel, and its supporters in iran don�*t want a major confrontation, either. but israel says this is just the beginning. hugo bachega, bbc news, beirut. our senior international correspondent orla guerin is in beirut. she told me about the impact of these attacks on hezbollah. well, i think the organisation is very exposed and very much weakened after the attacks of the past few days, which really have been unprecedented, karin. first of all, we had the wave of explosions of

gaza. the lebanese resistance group has hel funeral ceremony for their late commander, murder ibrahim aqil and his companions were killed in an israeli air strike on friday. hazbillah's deputy secretary general sheikh naim qasim stressed that the resistance sent the israelis a downpayment with the latest strike on the remote david military base in haifa, but warned them to keep their eyes on the battlefield. you will see the results, threats will not stop us and we do not fear. in the most dangerous scenarios, you will die of fear, your economy will collapse and you will not achieve your goals. aqil was lateral zainab marters cemetery in the southern suburbs, known as haj abdul qadir was assassinated along with comrades during an israeli aggression that targeted a residential building. a hazbollah member of parliament tells press tv that hazbollah is yet to retaliate for the assassination, but that hazbullah's focus is on support for ghazza and deturn. against israel, the kind of escalation and the kind of surgery butchery of the israelies against the civilians in the southern suburb would

the movement itself confirmed the death of its representatives, including ibrahim aqil, the number threehe hazbala hierarchy. his death was also reported by the israeli army, while not a word was said about the dozens of civilian casualties. officially, tel aviv still has not commented on the explosions of communication devices throughout lebanon. which have already injured thousands of people. the simultaneous attacks on thousands of people, whether civilians or members of armed groups, without information about the ownership of the devices, their location and surroundings violates international law. after the cyberattack on the hazbalah communications system, electronics retailers in lebanon are counting their losses. shop owners say demand for gadgets has plummeted, with customers now looking warily at... smartphones and other electronics they've already purchased. i've received numerous calls from customers asking how to hide their devices and what precautions to take take action, remove the battery? you know, people are afraid of what they don't understand? now some even throw away

many have lined the streets here to say goodbye to ibrahim aqil.ss for hezbollah at a time when the organisation is suffering blow after blow. there is anger here, and grief, but also defiance. the message is, hezbollah is not broken and will fight on. and it's been doing that today, firing missiles deeper into israel. hezbollah says its targets are military. but this residential area in northern israel was hit. this too was a residential area in beirut, until friday's israeli strike, which killed the hezbollah commander and 15 of his men, as they met below ground. a lebanese government minister linked to hezbollah says israel is dragging the region to war. at the end, lebanon is not seeking the war. even the lebanese people. but israel is calling us, come to war, come to war. and do you think it will happen? i don't know. we will see. around 30 civilians were killed here too, including entire families. some of their relatives are still waiting at the scene today, hoping for remains to be found. orla guerin, bbc news, beirut. our international edit

13 senior members of the group were killed, including two top commanders, ahmed wahbi and ibrahim aqilnother major blow for hezbollah. this happens just days after those explosions targeting pagers, walkie—talkies used by the group in a major security breach for hezbollah. this is obviously humiliating to this group. they want to be seen as a powerful, sophisticated enemy by israel. so here in lebanon people are obviously waiting to see how hezbollah is going to respond. this is a major escalation in this conflict with israel but i think hezbollah doesn't have many options to give a strong response after these attacks because it has given repeated indications that it is not interested in a major war with israel. it is important for iran to have an really strong hezbollah here next to israel. iran doesn't seem to be interested in a major confrontation either but this is a group that is under pressure. it needs to be seen to be given a response after this wave of humiliating attacks and major setbacks after the israeli attacks. and, daniel, when it comes to the israeli attacks, a major s

destruction in southern beirut following a strike that killed a top hezbollah commander , ibrahim aqild for decades by the united states because he was linked with the embassy bombing in the marine barracks of 1983. hezbollah has confirmed he was killed in the strikes by israel. the idf is claiming that it also managed to eliminate 16 other senior hezbollah commanders. this has come at a very heavy price for what is a very densely populated civilian neighborhood in beirut. the lebanese authorities are saying that civilians were killed in the strikes, including women and children. mike mentioned jake sullivan and what he said about the cease-fire negotiations and he was asked about the killing of ibrahim aqil. one of the things that he said, and you mentioned, the bombings of the marine barracks and the embassy in 1983. the national security advisories says that individual has american blood on his hand and has a price on his head. he is someone who the united states promised long ago would do everything we could do to see him brought to justice. he seemed to be painting in a positive l

hezbollah has confirmed that its senior military commander, ibrahim aqil, was among those killed theaeli envoy at the un danny danon has not mentioned the attacks in lebanon but said his country would do whatever it took to defend itself. these are the latest pictures from beirut... as rescue workers continue to search through the rubble of the suburban building destroyed by israel. its military says it was targeting hezbollah�*s radwan forces. it was israel's third attack on the lebanese capital this year. we spoke to our correspondents in the region, daniel de simone who's injerusalem and hugo bachego who's in lebanon. hugo began by giving us the latest from beirut. emergency teams are still searching for people who are believed to be missing and could be under the rubble of this building that collapsed into here, which is the suburb here in beirut. that is hezbollah�*s stronghold. and again, this was a major attack. hezbollah now saying that at least 13 senior members of the group were killed, including two top commanders, ibrahim aqil and ahmed wahbi. these were top leaders in th

among the dead is ibrahim aqil, a senior military commander.is head, accusing him of being involved in the killings of americans in beirut in the 1980s. this is another humiliation for hezbollah but it is also a blow to a country already exhausted by this conflict. translation: the israeli army, with all its continued crimes - with the excuse of pursuing the hezbollah movement, has targeted a residential compound. it's committed a massacre in a residential building against unarmed children, women at home. how hezbollah is going to respond isn't clear. it doesn't want to spark a wider war with israel, and its supporters in iran don't want a major confrontation, either. but israel says this is just the beginning. hugo bachega, bbc news, beirut. a short while ago, israeli military spokesperson daniel hagari said their fighterjets were targeting hezbollah in southern lebanon translation: in the past hour, we have been striking _ extensively in southern lebanon following detection of hezbollah preparing to fire toward israeli territory. dozens of is

aqil was a top military leader of the iranian—backed armed group. american marines in lebanon in the 1980s. day after day now, hezbollah is being hit. it's been weakened and humiliated by a string of israeli attacks. we were prevented repeatedly from reaching the scene by locals and the lebanese army. well, emergency vehicles have been coming and going. we've counted at least ten ambulances coming up and down the road going to pick up casualties. the dead are still being counted. there's a lot of anger here, a lot of tension. this was another major strike on hezbollah, here in its stronghold in south beirut. this footage captures the moment of the attack. explosion. the skyline looks like a city at war. many lebanese fear that's where their country is headed. 0rla guerin, bbc news, beirut. the food standards agency has warned people with a peanut allergy to avoid eating foods which contain mustard — because they may be contaminated with peanuts. 0ur health editor hugh pym is with me. that is a pretty broad warning. that's right. yesterday the food s