let's speak now to rami abukalam, a british—lebanese journalist living in beirut, who heard friday's pick up his cousin from the airport. thank you forjoining us on the programme. just talk us through what has been like over the past 2a hours in beirut. it what has been like over the past 24 hours in beirut. it has been really — past 24 hours in beirut. it has been really scary. _ past 24 hours in beirut. it has been really scary. i— past 24 hours in beirut. it has been really scary. i was - past 24 hours in beirut. it has been really scary. i was going j been really scary. i was going to pick up my cousin from the airport which is not far from where those strikes were. it was clearly the largest and loudest set of blasts i think we have heard, there has been a lot of explosions and sonic booms but this was clearly unprecedented in scale. band booms but this was clearly unprecedented in scale. and we are hearing _ unprecedented in scale. and we are hearing that _ unprecedented in scale. and we are hearing that the _ unprecedented in scale. and we are hearing that the airstrikes i are

let's speak now to rami abukalam, a british—lebanese journalist living in beirut.ou are now and what you have seen over the last few hours.— last few hours. the last few hours has — last few hours. the last few hours has been _ last few hours. the last few hours has been relatively i hours has been relatively quiet, but overnight they were quite a lot of strikes and you could heal them. obviously yesterday's strike was enormous. and only 15 minutes drive away from it, buildings and glass were shaking. we have heard explosions and sonic boom is a lot over the last few months, but this one just kept going. very scary. me months, but this one 'ust kept going. very scary-_ going. very scary. we seen overnight— going. very scary. we seen overnight and _ going. very scary. we seen overnight and this - going. very scary. we seen overnight and this morning| going. very scary. we seen i overnight and this morning as well those people who have had to move out of dahieh, they don't really have anywhere to go. you can really see the civilian impact of that this morning as well

rami abukalam is a british—lebanese journalist living in beirut who heard friday's explosions in beirutjust was about to drive through the area to pick up his cousin from the airport. it's been really scary. i mean, you know, iwas going to pick up my cousin from the airport, which is not far from where the strikes were. and, yeah, i mean, it was clearly the largest and loudest set of blasts that i think we've heard. you know, there's been a lot of explosions, a lot of sonic booms. but this was clearly, yeah, unprecedented in scale. there's a fear in the air here that i think i haven't seen personally since the 2006 war. you know, wherever you go, people are talking about, you know, where's the next place that's going to be hit? and, you know, a lot of people here are pretty resilient to war. you know, there's been a lot of conflict over the last couple of decades, but there is a lot of fear here. and, yeah, nobody knows what's going to happen next. the british government keeps telling us that, you know, nationals here should try and leave on the earliest available flight. most flights are c