hezbollah., they have been relatively unsophisticated, i suppose. but although hezbollah has lost a lot of its senior leadership, including hassan nasrallah, it still has a huge arsenal of missiles, some of which are much more deadly and it has got guided missiles capable of reaching all parts of israel, and if it chooses to use those, they are going to be much more damaging to israel. there will be a huge welcoming in israel that hassan nasrallah has been killed, the operation against hezbollah is much more popular, the country is much more united in the need for that than it is for the continued operation in gaza, where many people feel the government should have done more to get the hostages out. there is a huge backing for the operation against hezbollah. israel has vowed to get its citizens able to return to the north, 60,000 who have not been able to live in their homes for the past year. it will see this as a significant move towards beating hezbollah.— as a significant move towards beati

i want to ick what hezbollah will do. i want to pick uo _ what hezbollah will do.hezbollah will do. i want to pick up on one foot - what hezbollah will do. i want to pick up on one foot you - to pick up on one foot you mentioned. crucially, he pointed out that hezbollah as an organisation is intertwined with the fabric of the country, with the fabric of the country, with governance, politics there. give us a sense of how hassan nasrallah was viewed by the political establishment there and also ordinary people on the streets.— on the streets. that has been one key question _ on the streets. that has been one key question in _ on the streets. that has been one key question in 11 - on the streets. that has been l one key question in 11 nonsense the start of these attacks a year ago, the start of these attacks a yearago, because the start of these attacks a year ago, because a lot of people outside hezbollah's base of support because many were saying they were dragging lebanon into a war with israel and this country has been suffering for years from an severe economic

you point out ibrahim aqil was hezbollah? you point out ibrahim aqilwas a hezbollah? the group weakened?— leader. it is the group weakened? , . ~ weakened? very much so. i think the question _ weakened? very much so. i think the question is, _ weakened? very much so. i think the question is, is _ weakened? very much so. i think the question is, is it _ the question is, is it completely incapacitated? completely incapacitated ? hezbollah is completely incapacitated? hezbollah is no doubt a formidable military force, it is the most powerful nonstate actor in the world. it has over 150,000 rockets, it brought israel to a standstill after a month long war in 2006, it is much stronger today than it was them. but the kind of exceptional strikes that we see in the past three days have definitely left it reeling. i would argue hezbollah even before the events of the last three days, did not have the appetite for an all—out war with israel. it very much preferred a war of attrition, a border war that now has cost over 16,000 israelis to flee their homes. —— caused. after their

hezbollah targets. lina, thank vom there _ hezbollah targets.a, thank you. there is a growing - hezbollah targets. lina, thank you. there is a growing sense | you. there is a growing sense of crisis and also fear in northern israel and many people have also had to leave their homes. we have some pictures that have just come to us about what people in northern israel are going through, taking through someone �*s car and you can see a rocket coming through the sky and hitting a target there in israel. what i'll be hearing from the israeli leadership, from benjamin netanyahu, to try and reassure people? netanyahu, to try and reassure --eole? ~ ., netanyahu, to try and reassure ”eole?t ., netanyahu, to try and reassure --eole?~ . , people? what message is he aaivin ? i people? what message is he giving? i mean, _ people? what message is he giving? i mean, people- people? what message is he giving? i mean, people have| giving? i mean, people have been asked to show resilience in the coming days. there is broad public support in israel for an intensif

live with hezbollah on your border, and you have hezbollah attacking you. i don't think you can imagine what it is like to have this type of enemy actively hitting and targeting your population. and people fleeing from their homes. i know in the u.s. right now there's a power outage that has left millions of people without power and that, that is a horrible thing. the northern part of our country, these people don't have power. it's not that they've lost power. they've lost their entire homes therefore, any type of ceasefire from a military perspective that would not allow our people to go back to their homes and our country not to be under a constant barrage, including the interception that happened over our head is untenable but i don't think anyone in the world would even consider this. that is the position of the israeli army and are political leadership has also reflected the will of the people, which is are people just want to go home. we want peace in our country. we didn't start this war, but it has to end and the terms have to be that israel can li

— hezbollah with israel? thank ou for hezbollah with israel? having _ hezbollah with israel? thank you for having me. _ hezbollah with israel? thank you for having me. since - hezbollah with israel? thank you for having me. since day one and even since before the war in gaza broke out we had a problem with having a militia dictating war and peace on the lebanese people. the militia is called hezbollah, it operates outside the control of the lebanese government, the lebanese government, the lebanese parliament and it gets its orders, weapons and financing from iran, it acts as a proxy for iran so since day one we had a problem with this entity. so since the war between hamas and israel... (inaudible). we saw the total destruction in gaza, a total wipe—out of the population and infrastructure in gaza and no positive consequences. they opened without getting back to the lebanese people in the lebanese legitimate authorities. we have an issue with this scenario, with having our country gives us a platform to send messages between iran and israel an

hezbollah is the pride of the young islamic world hezbollah and the hezbollah group in lebanon are the pride of the islamic world. the martyrdom of some of hezbollah's effective and valuable elements was a loss for hezbollah, but it was not a loss that made hezbollah lose its strength. and hezbollah's humanity is much greater than this colleague, so even today this victory is due to god's blessing and god's power. the final victory in this battle belongs to the resistance front and the hezbollah front. peace be upon you , dear viewers. have a good night. stay with us with a special program. the news network that you have a look at the latest developments in the region, especially in lebanon, based on the latest news haifa has been the target of heavy missile attacks and several resistance missiles have hit their own targets . the warning sirens have sounded in many areas of the occupied territories, including haifa, kryot eka and nahariya. the radio of the zionist regime has heard the firing of ground-to-ground missiles from the direction of lebanon. informed haifa . the army of the zi

the spirit of hezbollah's forces , in my opinion, is the most important issue that helps hezbollah, god forbid , not to suffer its organization. it has not been 24 hours since seyyed hassan nasrallah's martyrdom the barqas operation has been carried out in the depth of the occupied territories. this shows the very strong and strong nature of hezbollah, mr. yazampna , let's keep it the same. and now that lebanon's hezbollah has lost its leader , in fact , it has lost its great mujahid commander, the intensity of the attacks may decrease, and besides, we are witnessing the assassination of some other commanders of the resistance axis in lebanon, but what mr. yazdan refrain from mentioning it even after the attack last night in zahiya district of beirut, we saw that the severity of the attacks and their responses always thought that resistance movements like hamas, hezbollah, and islamic jihad are a completely unique, limited, and important organization. it is closed and separated from the people, so they think that if we assume that one day mr. fathi shaghaqi, the secretary general of

hezbollah. we have seen senior hamas officials also killed back in february. we saw sala, hello, ruby, the political chief of hamas, killed in the suburb of beirut. and this is an area where we have been seeing repeated strikes now, overnight. but again, this would be a huge significant development. all lines would suddenly be on the potential response, not only from hezbollah in lebanon, but also of course from iran backed proxies. and of course, when we run itself of what that response would be. we've heard from iranian leaders. we've heard from her arms foreign minister as well, saying that israel has already crossed a red line in targeting beirut. and of course, there have been warnings that if israel did seek an escalation in the conflict, did at target deeper into lebanon that there would be a fierce response from iraq on and its regional proxies are remains to be seen. what respond to be seen. and again, remains to be seen whether we hear this conformation in the coming hours from hezboll

it's with hezbollah. for too long, hezbollah has been using you as human shields. this evening, israel was striking targets in the bekaa valley in the east. the idf is saying it has destroyed in one day what has taken hezbollah 20 years to build. this is the dilemma that israel faces, that even as it ups- the ante against hezbollah, it is encouraging or it is- inciting, if you like, hezbollah to attack| further into israel. and so far, no sign of those attacks diminishing. - if anything, - they are increasing. netanyahu's not an easy character at all, and he's not likely to do anything unless a cost is inflicted on him that the country can no longer fathom. the united states is sending more troops to the middle east as israel continues to pound targets across lebanon, including the capital, beirut. president biden says his team is working to de—escalate the crisis, not a strategy that to this point that has been very effective. how concerned should we be of a wider, regional conflagration? also tonight, labour's plans to bolster uk investment — we will explore whet

i distanced themselves from hezbollah-— distanced themselves from hezbollah. . , ., hezbollah. they have- -- _ hezbollah. i mean they have, they have... we _ hezbollah. i mean they have, they have... we are - hezbollah. i mean they have, they have... we are going - hezbollah. i mean they have, they have... we are going to | they have... we are going to back them if we have to because it is the only government we have, they don't represent the current move splitment movement in the parliament we have today. so we probably have no choice, but to back them, pending they do the right thing. this is the most thing right now, so this is why we, not only... the wider opposition, we have asked the speaker of the house so we the lebanese are represented in parliament, we together we design a way out from this war. we need the backing of the people to end this war, not the government cannot do it alone, hezbollah obviously cannot do it alone, we need to go back to the institution this is the right calling, the absolute right calling, the absolute right move to go back to the institution,

despite all these blows, the final decision-maker of hezbollah. hezbollah is not a small group. it is a highly advanced military force. a point that experts. they want to emphasize it. hezbollah is a very complex force. a complex group that has increased its strength 10 times since 2006 and the 33-day war. hezbollah in order to show simplicity cannot be ruled out, immediately after the assassination of rezvan's commanders, massive missile attacks were carried out on the occupied areas. after the assassination of his missile commander, for the first time since the beginning of the gaza war, he fires a missile into the heart of tel aviv to show his ability to recover. the attack on moqal mossad, the naval base, the haifa airport, the escape of the zionists that everyone wants to show, hezbollah's missiles do not stop with assassinations. hassan fazlullah, a member of the lebanese parliament, says that the same night that the commanders were beaten in zahiya, brothers assumed the new responsibility and immediately started their work to deal with the enemy started in none of the res

israeli military said it tarueted hezbollah hq. a, , targeted hezbollah hq.geted hezbollah hq. moments a . o the targeted hezbollah hq. moments ago the israeli _ targeted hezbollah hq. moments ago the israeli forces _ targeted hezbollah hq. moments ago the israeli forces carried - ago the israeli forces carried out a precise strike on the headquarters of the hezbollah terrorist organisation. the headquarters was intentionally built under residential areas as part of their strategy of using lebanese people as human shields. ., shields. some are reporting that the target _ shields. some are reporting that the target of _ shields. some are reporting that the target of the - shields. some are reporting that the target of the strike | that the target of the strike was the israeli leader —— hezbollah leader. several buildings have been brought down in beirut and hospitals are appealing for blood donors. earlier the un expressed alarm at the israeli attacks on lebanon. with leben on we are watching developments unfolding with great alarm. as soon as we have any reac

as has hezbollah. this is really been — this. as has hezbollah.ld happen. israel's mine that this would ha en. . israel's mine that this would hauen. ., , , ., happen. yeah, because that ended inconclusively. - happen. yeah, because that ended inconclusively. i - ended inconclusively. i remember my colleaguejeremy remember my colleague jeremy bowie remember my colleaguejeremy bowie in —— bow in covering it, i remember him saying this is unfinished business and it will indeed was —— jeremy bowen. at some stage, both sides know they will have to go back into they will have to go back into the wing together. but it did end with was the un resolution that stipulated that hezbollah was supposed her withdrawal is fighters north of the border. it didn't do that. it's fighters built up in arsenal. 0n fighters built up in arsenal. on october the 8th, the day after the massacre in southern israel, theyjoined in support of their brethren, as they put it, in gaza and started lobbying not huge amounts, but enough to annoy the israelis. and there's not been a l

hezbollah's work., the majority of lebanese people support the resistance and are with hezbollah. mr. shams, you mentioned that this war will probably be a long war. considering that the zionist regime is facing a long war with the proposal that you are making it has gone through a war of more than 11 months , and many of its equipments have been destroyed, and it has not been provided yet, but on the other hand, its people , the residents of the occupied territories , are no longer able to continue this path in terms of social security. there are gaps in the zionist regime and the occupied territories. according to your excellency , how much will the resilience of the zionist regime be under these conditions? in fact, the zionist regime, as you mentioned, means that internally there are many gaps between the likes and the extremists. they are famous among politicians and officials. eastern and the west and the opposition of the opposition and netanyahu have increased and every day we see the demonstra

hezbollah's falaq do rockets hit the military town of kiryat shmouneh and also defended it hezbollah'sce in the adlon area in the southwest of lebanon also fired several missiles at two zionist military fighters, which caused the zionist regime fighters to shoot down from the sky of the southwest of lebanon. retreat to the north of the occupied territories. according to the media of the zionist regime, the sound of danger was heard a few minutes ago in the miron region in the northwest of the occupied territories, as well as in the beit jan safed region in the upper galilee and asb al-jalil. even now, behind me, it seems that the zionist regime's fighters have opened an area in the south-east of lebanon. having attacks by the military the zionists continue to attack various areas in the south-west as well as in the south-east of lebanon, and these attacks have decreased in number compared to this morning and also compared to the morning, but these operations are still continuous in various areas in the south of lebanon and also in the east of lebanon. continues thank you for your news,

hezbollah was more than just a proxy of iran, hezbollah is a partner of iran.xy, has been severely wounded. what will iran do? that, plus what will the israelis do on the ground? that will determine if this becomes a bigger regional war or not. >> ambassador, tell me what israel needs to do right now. we heard from matt bradley and richard engel they want to de- escalate. that has not happened in the last 10 months. what do they need to do right now? >> what they need to do is continue these efforts in light of what we have heard but in particular focusing on the internal situation in lebanon. you have a shiite population that has been deeply wounded. it was allied with the roots of hezbollah. now they are angry and willing to do something. how do you keep lebanon itself from imploding along sectarian lines that tore lebanon apart in the civil war? >> irrespective of what just went on and what has been going on with israel the last few weeks, lebanon has been a failed state for quite some time. >> yes. hezbollah has played the double standard. it does not turn

we have looked at this from the hezbollah - this from the hezbollah perspective.think this leaves them toda ? , .,, ., 4' today? this losing was to kind ofto today? this losing was to kind of to calculate _ today? this losing was to kind of to calculate it _ today? this losing was to kind of to calculate it with - today? this losing was to kind of to calculate it with this. - of to calculate it with this. one, they obviously rack it it 0ne, they obviously rack it it is up to a very high level with this strategy of potentially escalated to de—escalate. can we put so much pressure on hezbollah that the due agreed to a deal to move back behind the river and keep that buffer zone between northern israel in southern lebanon on a free of rockets and attacks and whatnot. i don't think that is very likely an ice so, i think the other option for israel is again to prepare further operations which as we have been discussing, which could include a ground operation. i think israel has carried out his operation, carried out the strike to see how hezbollah will respond if hezbo

. pretty speedy response from hezbollah-— pretty speedy response from hezbollah. , ., , ., hezbollah.hezbollah. indeed, pleasure to be with you. it _ hezbollah. indeed, pleasure to be with you. it does _ hezbollah. indeed, pleasure to be with you. it does seem - hezbollah. indeed, pleasure to be with you. it does seem to i hezbollah. indeed, pleasure to| be with you. it does seem to be a rather prompt response from hezbollah which had waited several days when you look at the response previously but in this instance i'm not surprised. what israel may have been seeking to do is try to get hezbollah notjust to absorb the blow and return any north but to see if hezbollah might attempt to save face, do some escalation that might... and we have to assess the activity as well as the strike you mentioned on some of those artillery positions in the north, see if at least tactically they may... speaking of tactics and _ tactically they may... speaking of tactics and politics, - tactically they may... speaking of tactics and politics, we - tactically they may... speaking of tactics and politics,

the war has the upper hand, see hezbollah basically, it has a movement nature, hezbollah is a movement , and movement means being among the people, which means relying on the power of the people, that is why you are witnessing that when the zionist regime martyrs the defenseless people in southern lebanon. this is natural and we have chosen a goal and for this goal we have to pay these costs . they don't take prisoners, they don't tolerate a dead person, here is the difference between strategic culture that is, the strategic culture that exists in lebanon is among the resistance groups and supporters of hezbollah, and the strategic culture that prevails in the occupied territories is a culture that is basically for welfare , it is for comfort, it is for taking advantage of the pleasures of the world, but it is a strategic culture and there is also strategic in lebanon, which basically sees everything in the hereafter and is ready to sacrifice his own life, his property, and his children for his purpose. pirouze and we are here because of that we are talking about hizbullah's victory ,

he was involved l with hezbollah. he was involved with hezbollah.e was involved with the party from its very inception. he was the face of the party. they are a military organisation, a prescribed terrorist organisation by various governments around the world. hezbollah was and is a significant organisation. they have mps and the lebanese parliament. but they also have fighters, as we know, who have been targeting israel. it is the sort of huge organisation, with the ability to sort of lunch at these devastating attacks towards people in israel. but he is very much the figurehead of the party. he is the —— person who sits at the very top. below him, there are these commanders who have been looking after different elements of his blood's weaponry and strategy. but he is the face of it all, he is the one who sort of inspires the one who sort of inspires the party. he has not appeared in public for years. even when there are valleys, he appears on a big screen. his safety and security have been closely guarded for a very long time. i think that is why

hezbollah singh toda all what next? hezbollah singh today all over _ what next? to be defeated by military power alone. to be defeated by military ower alone. . , ., power alone. that is the end of our programme. _ power alone. that is the end of our programme. thank- power alone. that is the end of our programme. thank you i power alone. that is the end of our programme. thank you all| our programme. thank you all for being here with us to go through so many of those questions and answering them. thank you for being with us and giving us all of that analysis and context. to head to the bbc website where there is a live page constantly running in terms of the latest events on the ground. hello. the weather is continuing to cause some significant disruption out there. we've got some intense rainfall that is leading to flooding problems for some across parts of central and southern england in particular. here's the radar from the past few hours showing where we've had the heaviest of the rain already. it's been particularly persistent for parts of central and south

what does hezbollah _ from hezbollah. largely. what does hezbollah stand - from hezbollah. largely. l does hezbollah stand to gain here? , ., , ., does hezbollah stand to gain here? , .,, ., ,., ., here? the problem for hezbollah was hamas _ here? the problem for hezbollah was hamas demanded _ here? the problem for hezbollah was hamas demanded hezbollah| was hamas demanded hezbollah join them after 7 october, and sort of said rise and shine, it is your time tojoin sort of said rise and shine, it is your time to join the war. hezbollah did not want to do that for obvious reasons, hezbollah's role is to serve as a deterrent against tax on iran and iran's nuclearfacilities, and iran's nuclear facilities, thatis and iran's nuclearfacilities, that is what it is therefore. from iran's network in the arab world, it is not there to fight a war over gaza or hamas. we have two — a war over gaza or hamas. we have two leave _ a war over gaza or hamas. we have two leave it _ a war over gaza or hamas. we have two leave it there for now. , , . ., �* ., now. they felt they couldn't do nothinu. now.

lebanon is not gaza, and hezbollah is not hamas. hezbollah is not hamas. hezbollah is not hamas.han hamas. in lebanon has open fronts. you're going to have tens of thousands of fighters coming to lebanon from syria and iraq and probably iran, evenif and iraq and probably iran, even if it is not directly joining the fray. think about historical examples, how the american army was bogged down in afghanistan and iran because this is asymmetrical warfare, and sadly and tragically it seems that israel leaders have not really learned the lessons of history, what happened to their forces both in 1982 of history, what happened to theirforces both in 1982 and 2006. so benjamin netanyahu is really going for a forever war both in gaza and lebanon and sadly and tragically civilians, palestinians, lebanese and israelis will pay the cost of this particular great adventure and misadventure. you this particular great adventure and misadventure.— and misadventure. you talk about the — and misadventure. you talk about the strengths - and misadventure. you talk about the strengths of - about the st

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it weakens hezbollah. let me _ is down the drain. it weakens hezbollah.eas that obviously is causing immediate concern. what do you make of these new methods of warfare that have been used here? several analysts reporting real concern about the new norms perhaps for entering —— we are entering and perhaps creeping on the precipice of an all—out war, how much clues or your assessment is that we might be. we are definitely a lot closer. the methods... turning these insurance of munication into methods of —— weapons of mass destruction, because everyone carrying a communication device becomes a walking bomb in and of themselves and causing and notjust to the person standing there. this is indiscriminate, it does not distinguish between combatant and civilian, but we have already seen israel operating in this way in gaza, where we are looking at 240,000 dead already which isjust are looking at 240,000 dead already which is just the official figure with the unofficial one much officialfigure with the unofficial one much larger most likely and the less consumpt

hezbollah strategic _ strategy. but. hezbollah strategic ally _ strategy. but. but. hezbollah - strategic ally is run. iran has been humiliated but it can afford a war with israel. it can ill afford a war with israel. earlier, ispoke can ill afford a war with israel. earlier, i spoke to deputy representative of unicef and she told me what the most distant places. as hezbollah's power has been... air strikes on its web. it still possesses power powerful long—range missiles hidden underground. were they now aim to these as tel aviv or other cities in revenge? what is right sent troops into lebanon to find and destroy them? kind hezbollah, from all these blows? i hezbollah, from all these blows? ., , , , blows? i hope everything they will fiuht blows? i hope everything they will fight on — blows? i hope everything they will fight on and _ blows? i hope everything they will fight on and take - will fight on and take reorganised to command and control that has been utterly destroyed by very good israeli intelligence and incredible tactics but there is no strategy. ta

but what happened especially after 2000 and 206 regarding hezbollah of lebanon is that hezbollah of lebanon was also able to to reach a level of power that they can do some kind of intelligence and defense against the scientific regime. they thought that they could carry out a terrorist act in lebanon like in the past, by hitting some parts of lebanon, in a way, they would put them in the situation of the lebanese people in a dual situation of livelihood and resistance, and they would be able to remove them from they removed the resistance and with this pressure, hezbollah of lebanon surrendered, but what happened showed that hezbollah of lebanon has gained some strength. which can show strength against this strong enemy and the wonder of new instruments in the strategic field, and practically , the zionists may have achieved some achievements in some tactical processes , but in the strategic field, the lebanese hezbollah and, consequently, on the 7th of october, the hamas resistance groups were able to strike at this. the regime should introduce a few areas that we can point to. first, in

has a high power , while during the last year, hezbollah has all its capabilities. it did not work and only a part of the third zionist army in the north of the occupied territory was engaged with hezbollah because hezbollah's intention is to prevent further pressure from the zionist army on the people of gaza during the past year and if the war becomes serious. hizbollah will use all its power including human power and missile and anti-aircraft missile power, naturally considering that hezbollah has regional allies such as yemen's ansar allah and iraq's al-hashd sharbi , naturally, this war will have many axes and wide-ranging leaflets, and the zionist regime will suffer a major defeat in in recent days, we have seen that the zionists, especially netanyahu himself , are pursuing the issue of creating differences , creating division and distance between the lebanese people, the lebanese hezbollah and the axis of resistance. for lebanon's hezbollah, which is beyond even geography we must say that this popularity exists among the parties, groups, and sects within leba

the second issue is that hezbollah is still there. he has not revealed the direct fight and the war against himself at all. in my opinion, this is the biggest fear of the zionist regime from the current situation in its new conflict with hezbollah, and by the way, it is one of the reasons why it has targeted high-ranking commanders of hezbollah. this is the same issue, because in fact, the theory or theory of hitting the head has chosen that i hit the head of hezbollah's shrine, so there is someone to make a decision. no , but he is really unaware of those complex layers and he is in the command room, the operation room, the think tank and the support room of hezbollah. therefore, two issues are very painful for the zionist regime, one is how to produce this amount of weapons and how to get them. hizbullah is getting to his own strength, which weapons capabilities remain unknown to him, despite his claims that they are not intelligence services. such a domain his influence is so great, sometimes he shows a little of it, but his inabil

attacks by hezbollah and israel, hezbollah sending rockets and drones and israel attacking hezbollah with air strikes, and killed leading hezbollah figures in lebanon. just yesterday, overnight, the israeli security cabinet met on formally added the return of israeli citizens in the north to their homes as one of its war aims, one of only four war one of its war aims, one of onlyfourwaraims, one of its war aims, one of only four war aims, you are three relating to gaza, so it is formalizing the fact that this conflict is taking place in the north as well and that thousands of people, tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands of people on other side of the border between lebanon and israel have been displaced, and there is a debate in israel over whether they should expand their conflict with hezbollah into southern lebanon. dr andreas krieg, a senior lecturer at the school of security studies in king's college london says no other party than israel has the capacity to do such an operation. i mean, if you look from a cui bono sort of approach, there is no other party anywhere in

it was a loss for hezbollah, but it was not a loss for hezbollah hizbollah's organizational and human strength is much more than these words . yes, of course, the loss of a person, especially if he is a commander and has a history of jihad in the name of allah, is not a loss in this doubt. therefore , even to this day, this victory is due to god's success , with god's power, the final victory in this battle will belong to the resistance front and the hezbollah front , death in america, death in america , death in america, death on america, death on america. hazrat ayatollah khamenei devoted the last part of his speech to an important reminder about internal issues and emphasized that our fighters and mujahids sacrificed their lives and grieved their families to prevent the enemy's flag from being raised on the borders of the country. sacrifices the people of iran do not want the flags of the enemy's cultural influence and lifestyle and its hostile temptations to be raised by influential and deceived people in the country and various institutions. care must be taken. everyone is oblige

, the political leader of hezbollah, he was also the military leader of hezbollah. he had two roles the public figure and the military and security leader. so he was really the glue that connected the tissue that connected iran and the iranian revolutionary guards to the hezbollah leadership. today, the assassination of nasrallah didn't come out of nothing. he was assassinated yesterday during the strike. but what we have been witnessing for the past two weeks or ten days specifically, is the assassination of hezbollah itself by eliminating all its leadership military leadership per se, which is very important in terms of making decisions of war and peace. who is going to decide to launch missiles against tel aviv or not to escalate or not? so it's a question really for iran. it's not going to be very difficult to pick a successor there are two obvious successors in line which is his deputy, naim qassem or the head of the political bureau of the shura council. uh, hashem safieddine. these are usually talked about as the normal successors, but not only they are not,

, the nation of hezbollah that was able to keep hezbollah commanders. this nation, even though we had 3,000 wounded in just one week. in one of these strikes in which shahid aqeel was martyred and approximately 17 to 18 until hizbullah leader blandkaye was martyred, it was in this area, that is, the people were everywhere in the world, such an operation was carried out, the area would be completely empty of its people, but we see that the people are still living and still participating in this kind of exhumation, which is the method of israeli threats. he talks a lot. mr. qorbi, you mentioned the developments this morning. hezbollah fired 110 rockets into the north of the occupied territories, including the port city of haifa. 85 of these rockets were launched within a short period of half an hour. the zionist regime had tried very hard to prevent these rockets and their launches take it but a large number of them hit zionist settlements and occupied areas. your assessment and analysis about the rocket. what is hezbollah's rain today? i think that targe

well, the have response hezbollah now? well, they have still _ response hezbollah now?hey have still got _ response hezbollah now? well, they have still got weapons. - response hezbollah now? well, they have still got weapons. by| they have still got weapons. by all accounts, there arsenal was perhaps 150,000 weapons. while israel might have killed operatives and leaders and numinous arms dumps, they are going to have a box left. they are going to have to decide how to use those. it will be other commanders who come up. the old generation, people... hassan nasrallah was i think 64, so his generation of leaders born in the late 60s have pretty much all been assassinated or killed by israel. but there will be younger men coming up. hezbollah has been fighting for years for the assad regime in syria. they have a lot of experience people and they will want to know what to do. i think there will be communications of some sort with the iranians. but they have got their backs to the wall in a really massive way now. because while they have these weapons, they will have lost th

of hezbollah — they fund it. _ founder of hezbollah — they fund it, they supply its weapons.says it has — nasrallah, as israel says it has done, then that is going to challenge — has done, then that is going to challenge that theory that iran is not — challenge that theory that iran is not going to get directly involved, i think. is not going to get directly involved, ithink. i is not going to get directly involved, i think. i think the world — involved, i think. i think the world is— involved, i think. i think the world is going to be watching to see — world is going to be watching to see not only what hezbollah does _ to see not only what hezbollah does in — to see not only what hezbollah does in the coming hours and days, — does in the coming hours and days, but_ does in the coming hours and days, but also iran. in the immediate half an hour or so afier— immediate half an hour or so after we _ immediate half an hour or so after we had at the news that israel— after we had at the news that israel was cleaning hassan nasrallah had been killed, we heard — nasrallah had been k

the most important support of hezbollah is the lebanese people. only the shiites of lebanon, not only the sunnis, not only the christians, not only the maronites, but all the ethnic groups that are there. and this issue was fully proven after the explosion of pagers. i want to serve you, mrs. hajizadeh let me tell you that now some of the displaced people of southern lebanon are in hotels. homes are places that belong to christians, and this is a very big point, that is, in fact, hezbollah has been able to create public support from different ethnic groups and religions in lebanon for resistance, and this is very important. this is a great social capital that hezbollah has in during the past years, he was able to collect him bit by bit, as we said, until he reached here today. what happened after the pagers, the explosion of the pagers was because they thought that all the pagers had been explained, so the number of them is known to the zionist regime. it was as mr. seyyed hassan nasrallah said , they imagined that they could kill 5,000 lebanese p

>> hezbollah has them. so do the houthi houthis in yemen and there was a presumed houthi missile, not long ago within the last hour or so, i think the sirens were sounding. we could hear them from here, not in this district. right on the coast and tel aviv, but in the east of the city and further all around the central but israel, i think by my accounting from last sunday, so weak now there's this is the third ballistic missile has been fired from the houthis from yemen, trying to get very close to tel aviv in the center of israel and getting shot down each time. now it's a long distance for those missiles to come. but the home front command could be tested tonight. the houthis could fire to from the south. and hezbollah could fire seven from the north of variants like that. the houthis could put up drones as well. so it's that complex scenario that's going to test defenses are too overwhelm defenses so well, another night to watch the skies over tel aviv, celic, they with some trepidation, nic robertson, t

claims that the sole commander of hezbollah was targeted , but until this moment, i say that hezbollah has not issued an official statement and has not confirmed anything, such as the previous attacks of the zionist military, if hezbollah commanders were targeted, hezbollah would have issued a statement, the number of martyrs there, the last thing the two martyrs said was 15 wounded, and the condition of some of the injured there is also dire . the goal is to take the power of hezbollah, but just today we witnessed that the only drone of hezbollah , the shamshon base, one of the main support bases of the zionist military in the northern region and at a depth of 35 kilometers, was destroyed by its own drones exactly after this attack by the three military forces. . regarding the issue that the media of the zionist regime had mentioned, hezbollah has used its missile and drone power in the last few days to confront the regime and i will return to the point that the authorities of the zionist regime constantly point out that we are continuing the war. spread it on the soil of lebanon toda

hezbollah has not responded.issiles. so far, has been mad mac ever off—balance. israel has delivered heavy and killed many of its leaders. —— so far, hezbollah has been off—balance. as it regroups you are going to hit the mass attacks in the next few days and next few weeks. this war will most likely lost not only for weeks and months but for years. my take on it is that iran will not directly, basically, come and attack israel, but iran is already thinking of ways to help hezbollah. by helping hezbollah, you're going to see thousands of skilled fighters and advanced fighters from syria and iran and from iran migrating to lebanon over the next few months or so and trying to replenish hezbollah's arsenal and help hezbollah basically put its house in order. the big nature is that this is a long war. all of us kept warning in the past 12 months about a tipping point and eight spark. my fear, and again, i hope that i'm wrong, is that this is it. we have to think in terms of the cost and the consequences notjust for t

we don't yet have confirmation from hezbollah but if this confirmation from hezbollah but if this is hezbollah but if this is true, confirmation from hezbollah but if this is true, then confirmation from hezbollah but if this is true, then certainly he is a big loss for the militant group. he was a very senior militant commander, israel is saying they killed him along with his entire chain of command. we don't know if civilians have also been killed in the strike. we do know it took place in a densely populated residential area and that a residential block was basically reduced to ruins. this is an area i've been in, ben, this is always packed with people. it was very close to a mosque, it was a friday afternoon. we can be sure that lots of civilians were in this area. the authorities here in lebanon who are telling us that 60 people have been wounded and there were reports earlier this afternoon that five or six children were missing and unaccounted for. we don't have any further information about that. but all of this comes not just after the exploding pager attacks and the walkie—

i hezbollah into this morning. the group _ hezbollah into this morning.ing. the group hasn't yet - hezbollah into this morning. i the group hasn't yet deployed its most — the group hasn't yet deployed its most sophisticated - its most sophisticated missiles _ its most sophisticated missiles.— its most sophisticated missiles. ., ., missiles. hassan nasrallah has been killed _ missiles. hassan nasrallah has been killed and _ missiles. hassan nasrallah has been killed and this _ missiles. hassan nasrallah has been killed and this has - missiles. hassan nasrallah has been killed and this has the . been killed and this has the potential to spark war. some of the local authorities say they are making efforts to try and accommodate some of those people who have left their homes. people who some of them do not yet want to go back to those southern suburbs of beirut and we have shown you live pictures through the day here on bbc news of those fresh strikes and fresh plumes of smoke rising over the beirut skyline. 0ne smoke rising over the beirut skyline. one of th

they created hezbollah by doing so.her side, adversary, is extremely difficult, and frankly in each case, they don't like to use this word, in each case the lebanese defeated the israelis and force them to evacuate. but you need the united states on their side. and israel continues to say it is carrying out these operations to diminish hezbollah, in the wake of 7 october, we should say 8 october when we saw rockets coming from hezbollah. but washington and other western countries insist there has to be a diplomatic path towards deescalation here. do you realistically think that is on the table, particularly within the confines of the time president biden has left in office? not unless there is a dramatic change in politics in israel. the united states essentially has a very few choices, the israelis are not amenable to the sort of diplomatic pressure, the repeated visits by secretary blinken. essentially what you need is an american action that will in some ways maybe bring down the israeli government or get the attenti

, because the war with hezbollah is really not the same as the war with gaza, the war with hezbollahl be a new type of war in this region. the israelis really know it themselves and that american hokshtin who entered this area yesterday and today and yesterday publicly told the israelis themselves that the war with hezbollah is not a joke and a it's not like you think you can conquer lebanon because israel has said in the past few days that we want to enter lebanon by land so that we can completely eliminate the threat of hezbollah . these americans have told the israelis several times that this is never possible. operation is not possible and don't enter into operation. please join us in this conversation. as the legal deadline of the united states for the owner of tik tok to sell or transfer this network is approaching, the complaint file of this social network is being examined in court. the court of appeals for the district of columbia in the united states is reviewing malik tik's complaint tuck is from the us department of justice. the law that 4

this contract will tie hezbollah's hands and feet. when hezbollah's hands are tied, they will enter into the discussion about the control of gaza. they know that if we gather hezbollah , it will be easier to control gaza, they know that it will be easier to control yemen, all of these are in support of these actions that hezbollah actually took , as the secretary general of hezbollah in lebanon pointed out in their speeches. it was precisely to support the oppressed people of palestine and gaza, precisely that is, hezbollah's entry into this war arena was to support them, and the powerful weapons and military team that hezbollah has the power that hezbollah has, it is not our other three pillars. if israel continues this , sezbollah's plan will also see it, because hezbollah's missile power is more than what it is showing, because following the plan , this plan can trap israel . it is moving towards the border of lebanon, now there is no equipment left for israel, regime three, at all, considering these conditions and the huge expense

and can hezbollah recover from all of these blows? hezbollah�*s strategic ally is iran.what ayatollah khamenei decides. iran has been humiliated, but it can ill afford a war with israel. frank gardner, bbc news. our international editor, jeremy bowen, is injerusalem. i spoke to him about what this means for the future of his brother. hezbollah has to decide what it does. they have to reconstitute their command structure. they've lost all their top leaders, pretty much, as well as nasrallah. they have to try and find how they communicate with each other, and they have to decide what they do with the rest of their arsenal. and it seems pretty clear that they still have some very potent weapons, some of which are hidden away in mountains and in tunnels. so what do they do? the way that wars might spread or war might spread in the region depends on the responses of the parties involved in it. and if, for example, for example, hezbollah decided that they needed to use their weapons because they might lose them, then a fiercer onslaught on israel, killing civilians perhaps, is

the second is hezbollah and the 30s iran. 0ne second is hezbollah and the 30s iran. international committee wanted to use this opportunity to strengthen the government... you have so much indecision that in order to have a negotiation, need leaders who are prepared, who are in control, and were prepared to make decisions. ijust don't see has bowled backing down and i don't think the iranians are on the cusp, they don't want to escalate, they are also not interested in rolling over. $5 interested in rolling over. as our interested in rolling over. as your speaking we are looking at pictures of beirut, and we understand is really army is saying it has started targeted ground raids in southern lebanon. that is indeed what we heard from the us state department as well. given the way the previous conflict between israel and the hezbollah ended in 2006, or these release pulling out, what do you think has changed since then in terms of these two facing off against each other? i think what's been revealed is the incapacity of hezbollah. if they had precision guided missiles,

, to defend - hezbollah.- and lebanon hezbollah.with... and lebanon will... i beg your— hezbollah. with... and lebanon will... i beg your pardon, - hezbollah. with... and lebanon will... i beg your pardon, this i will... i beg your pardon, this dela is will... i beg your pardon, this delay is very _ will... i beg your pardon, this delay is very difficult. - will... i beg your pardon, this delay is very difficult. this - delay is very difficult. this means has need time to regroup —— this means hezbollah needs time to regroup. this gives the advantage to israel. how will israel use this time?- advantage to israel. how will israel use this time? israel, i think, threat _ israel use this time? israel, i think, threat to _ israel use this time? israel, i think, threat to make - israel use this time? israel, i think, threat to make a - israel use this time? israel, i think, threat to make a landl think, threat to make a land attack. i don't think they will go inside lebanon. hezbollah, to be clear, now losing two pillars. we have to say

hezbollah wasn't onl an with syria? hezbollah wasn't only an armed _ with syria?yria? hezbollah wasn't i only an armed group supported by iran. it was funded and supported by iran, but also the group became one of the biggest and strongest political parties which they have ministers allied to them or members of hezbollah became ministers in the cabinet, in mr mikati's cabinet, and other cabinets before that. also they have mps in the parliament, so they are politically also effective in this, this is the link between the state and the armed group because it is armed group and also political group. but relations with iran, it well, it was funded by and supported by iran, something that mr ness and will never denied this and also was always —— mr nissan has roller —— hassan nasrallah was supportive of this... they were following hassan nasrallah is a symbol and as a leader. this is how their relation is. they were considering hassan nasrallah their immediate leader in a rock as well. also, of course. _ leader in a rock as well. also, of course. you _ leader in a roc

hezbollah�*s strategic ally is iran.he middle east is what ayatollah khamenei decides. iran has been humiliated but can it ill afford a war with israel. frank gardner, bbc news. live from jerusalem is our international editor, jeremy bowen. i was just i wasjust reading i was just reading us we were coming to talk to you that syria, they are the latest country to condemn the despicable israeli killing of hassan nasrallah, as it puts it. israel isn't inclined to stop. it. israel isn't inclined to sto. ., , ., stop. no. they regard the criticism _ stop. no. they regard the criticism they _ stop. no. they regard the criticism they have - stop. no. they regard the criticism they have had i stop. no. they regard the i criticism they have had from iran, hamas, syria, is basically a parade of the usual suspects, countries, organisations that they would rather didn't exist, —— organisations that would rather israel didn't exist. they have killed the man who was seen for many years as possibly their most bitter enemy, certainly th