ohad tal injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. hello, stephen. thank you very much for having me.s a pleasure to have you on hardtalk. the world has just seen two carefully targeted assassinations — one of a hezbollah commander in beirut, the second of the political leader of hamas, in iran's capital, tehran. now, israel has confirmed it was responsible for the attack in beirut. no official word on the attack in iran, but it's widely assumed israeli responsibility for both. why? why do you think israel has done it now? well, maybe we should have done it before, already before. maybe that would have prevented october 7th. both of these people are responsible for the death of thousands of people. you know, just a couple of days ago, there was an attack of hezbollah with a rocket from iran, who came from iran, to a druze village in the northern area of israel, killed 12 children, injured so many more. that was under the responsibility of this hezbollah commander who, thank god, died yesterday, paid with his life. of course, these are terrorists who are not only that, this person also

all right, ohad tal, we have to end there, but i thank you for joining me on hardtalk.arting to see a thundery breakdown take place across england and wales, certainly after this recent hot spell. so, a thundery day on thursday, some good sunny spells around. yes, it will continue to feel very warm and humid. if you catch some of these torrential downpours, you really will know about it. we'll start thursday morning with torrential downpours through central, northern and eastern parts of england. then, into the afternoon as a sunshine comes out, we'll see further thunderstorms developing — east wales, the midlands, southern and eastern england. scotland and northern ireland not doing too badly — variable clouds, some sunshine and comfortable conditions there, ranging from 17—23 celsius, but another very warm one across england and wales, 25—29 celsius. as we head through thursday evening, those thunderstorms fade out across central and eastern england. it turns dry with clear spells, but the breeze picks up with more cloud developing across western scotland and northern