matthew settle from the royal united services institute, thank you for the moment.res of beirut and an israeli security official saying that at the moment there have been no clashes despite the fact is really troops are in lebanon. you're watching bbc news. some other news we been staying across today. gas and electricity prices in england, scotland and wales are rising by 10% from tuesday, as the debate continues over the withdrawal of financial support such as the winter fuel payment. it means the average household bill will increase by £149. people are being encouraged to submit a meter reading as soon as they can to ensure their bill is as accurate as possible. our cost of living correspondent colletta smith has been finding out how the changes will affect people. now the weather's turning, the focus for many is finding ways to keep warm and dry. an energy price hike is the last thing anyone needs. i thought they were bringing it down, so it is — it's a big disappointment, you feel it inside. you'd be bigger and you'd be prouder and you'd say, "oh, i can manage,

let's speak to darya dolzikova, who is a nuclear policy research fellow at the royal united services institutenk you very much for joining us on bbc news and obviously we have already talked on the programme a little bit today about that concern about iran's nuclear facilities, about whether there could be a strike on that by israel. joe biden saying washington would not support an israeli strike on iran's nuclear facilities, israeli strike on iran's nuclearfacilities, urging israel to be proportionate. so israel to be proportionate. so i think it is going to be usefulfor i think it is going to be useful for everyone watching and listening, firstly, to understand what exactly the status is of iran's nuclear programme?— status is of iran's nuclear programme? status is of iran's nuclear rouramme? . . ., , programme? jaw. iran has a very advanced nuclear _ programme? jaw. iran has a very advanced nuclear programme. it| advanced nuclear programme. it doesn't have nuclear weapons at the moment as far as we can tell but it has a very advanced programme so it is able, it is currently enriching uraniu

let's speak now to natia seskuria, associate fellow at the royal united services institute. on bbc news. how serious are these claims of vote rigging in these elections?— claims of vote rigging in these elections? ., ~ , ., ., ., elections? thank you for having me on the _ elections? thank you for having me on the programme. - elections? thank you for having me on the programme. these l me on the programme. these claims are quite serious because we have been receiving the news about several violations from the polling stations from a ballot staffing to violence against the voters. it is yet to be investigated of course, but several opposition parties have already mentioned that they will not recognise the official result of the elections. we are still waiting for the final result of the elections what it is likely that the ruling party, the georgian dream, is leading the preliminary results. if georgian dream, is leading the preliminary results.— preliminary results. if there is a dispute _ preliminary results. if there is a dispute over— preliminary results. if there is a d

neil melvin, director of international i director of international security at the royal united services institutenow and the world s richest man, elon musk, has been getting a lot of attention after he announced that he would be giving away1 million dollars every day until the us election to people in swing states who sign his petition and register to vote. he has been on the campaign trailfor donald trump and invested a lot of time, money and resources in a bid to get the former president elected. from pennsylvania, nada tawfik reports it's not often that the world's richest man travels to small—town pennsylvania. in the final sprint of the election, elon musk has doubled down on his commitment to get donald trump elected, with town halls and giveaways in this swing state — a must—win for both candidates. it's inevitably led to two questions — will it work and why is he doing it? zander mundy went to elon musk�*s event at a school in folsom. the 21—year—old wasn't even planning on voting, but left the event now considering donald trump. someone like that tells you this is the election that's goi

matthew savill is the director of military sciences at the royal united services institute, he says muchvasion will depend on hezbollah�*s response. no. a lot of this depends on the hezbollah reaction. the fact that thus far we have seen only limited strikes back into israel, it's not clear if they have engaged anybody on the ground yet. it could be as a result of one of two things. first, they are basically still in disarray and they can't organise themselves. and that is part of that temptation for the idf to go further. the other might be that they are seeking to cut their losses. that in essence, if this is to be limited in the first instance, it's not worth escalating further, even for the opportunity of inflicting casualties on the israeli ground forces, if you think the israelis will only be there for a short while, destroy fixed positions and then withdraw because hezbollah needs time to regroup and rebuild. the downside for them there is that they will have seen, the downside for them there is that they will have been seen as having brought the israelis into lebanon and then fai

live now to ambassador mitchell reiss, who's a distinguished fellow at the royal united services instituteorts — who won in your view? i think the reports coming _ who won in your view? i think the reports coming out i who won in your view? i think the reports coming out of i who won in your view? i think the reports coming out of the j the reports coming out of the debate suggest thatjd vance won the debate but i think both candidates handled themselves pretty well and i think the civility was a welcome outcome of a debate where there hasn't been to much of that in american politics. been to much of that in american olitics. ~ . , ., american politics. what did you learn that you _ american politics. what did you learn that you didn't _ american politics. what did you learn that you didn't already i learn that you didn't already know? . , ., , ., know? that is a good question. what was _ know? that is a good question. what was most _ know? that is a good question. what was most surprising i know? that is a good question. what was most surprising was l what was most surprising was how litt

here with us is matthew savill, director of military sciences, at the royal united services institute formerly of the ministry of defence, and he is going to guide us through what might happen next. first, let's talk about today. israeli soldiers pushed further into southern lebanon? we israeli soldiers pushed further into southern lebanon?— israeli soldiers pushed further into southern lebanon? we saw the first re orts of southern lebanon? we saw the first reports of them _ southern lebanon? we saw the first reports of them taking _ southern lebanon? we saw the first reports of them taking casualties i reports of them taking casualties which were sadly inevitable given this is hezbollah�*s home turf and they have probably been preparing for a ground operation by israel like this for several years. as your report suggested strikes are still going on further north because it's well is looking to deal with hezbollah�*s longer range rockets and ballistic missiles. this operation onlyjust ballistic missiles. this operation only just over the ballistic missiles. this operation onlyjust ove

the carnegie endowment for international peace, and a senior associate fellow at the royal united services institute security studies. he joins me today from athens in greece. this is a chen thank you for joining us, described as an incursion limited in scope clearly taking advantage of the momentum the israelis have got since the successful targeting of key hezbollah leaders, including the former chief hassan nasrallah. this is an invasion. call it what you will. >> this is an invasion, but it is a stated goal of the israeli government. here that they will restore security on their northern border for these some 60,000 odd more or more israeli citizens who have been deplaned, displaced since october the eighth, what do you make of what you have seen to date in the last few hours well, thank you, becky, for having me on your program or always pleasure to be here it is an invasion i think it's very unhelpful to describe it as an incursion as we've seen, many people do over the last few hours. >> this is a ground invasion across the border from the north of israel, the stated aim, of course, as you me

carnegie endowment for international peace, and a senior associate fellow at the royal while the united services institute for defense and security studies. he joins me now from cairo, egypt. i want to thank you for joining us here to give us some perspective on all of this. i mean, given given the limited nature of these strikes, do you believe there was any real degradation done here and around iran's capabilities? >> thank you for having me on your program. >> so the truthful answer is, we don't know and we won't know because of course it on will not reveal the details of those attacks, will not reveal the details of what has happened in terms of impact on their capabilities and the israelis are likely to how should we say overinflate the impact? >> so we don't know how much it will degrade their capacities at all. what we do know is that the retaliation that israel promised would take place is now taken place the question will now be, because that end this particular cycle or does it start a new cycle and if you look at how the direct attacks between israel and iran have taken place over the beginning

natia seskuria, associate fellow at the royal united services institute, and executive director of thetudies, a tbilisi—based think tank. thank you forjoining us. how significant do you believe these reports of voter intimidation work? thank you very much — intimidation work? thank you very much for— intimidation work? thank you very much for having - intimidation work? thank you very much for having me. - intimidation work? thank you very much for having me. i i very much for having me. i think it is very important because we have been hearing about these allegations for the past, second day now, and as we know now, the official monitoring organisations have also mentioned that there were also mentioned that there were a number of serious violations. this included intimidation of voters, violence against voters, violence against voters, ballot stuffing and so on. we have seen also very disturbing videos from yesterday's election process, so think we should take these allegations seriously.- allegations seriously. what role, if allegations seriously. what role. if any. _ allegations se