The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made a direct appeal to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to remove UN peacekeepers from areas in south Lebanon where Israeli forces are fighting Hezbollah. Our reporter is with Israeli troops as they enter a Hezbollah-controlled village in southern Lebanon. We also hear from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Also on the programme: We revisit the 1920s jazz-scene in Berlin, before the Nazis; and we hear from the US campaign trail in Las Vegas. (Picture: Israeli military strike hits a commercial market in Nabatieh, Lebanon Credit: stringer/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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Hello, and welcome to NewsHour.
Live from the BBC World Service in London, I'm Rebecca Kesby.
And we head first to the Middle east, where, along with continued fighting in southern Lebanon between israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters and another major israeli airstrike overnight in northern Gaza, there is anticipation that Israel may be about to action its pledge to retaliate to the multiple missile strikes fired at Israel by Iran earlier this month.
Later in the program, well be hearing from our reporter whos been embedded with the israeli troops in southern Lebanon.
But first, lets cross live to Jerusalem to our correspondent there, Wirra Davis.
Wirra, thanks for coming on the program.
There are a number of threads to update us on today.
First, though, can you kind of give us an idea on the political mood there at the moment and these expectations that an israeli strike of some kind may be coming on Iran?
What are you hearing?
Yeah, look, the israeli cabinet, security cabinet will meet again tonight.
Obviously, things were fairly quiet in Israel over the weekend because of the Yom Kippur religious holiday, but things have picked up again as normal now.
And there's this expectation because there's been a promise from the israeli defense minister that Israel will strike hard in a lethal way and Iran won't know what will have hit it, to paraphrase Mister Gallant.