0:02 In the last hour, Israel has carried out
0:04 more large strikes on the Lebanese
0:12 >> They followed a series of overnight
0:15 attacks. Israeli forces say they are
0:17 targeting Hezbollah command centers. The
0:19 military has ordered new forced
0:22 evacuations for dozens of locations
0:24 across Lebanon. It comes a day after
0:26 Israel launched strikes it says were in
0:29 response to Hezbollah rocket fire. The
0:32 Iranbacked group says it has now sent
0:35 drones into northern Israel.
0:37 Israeli forces have also been carrying
0:39 out overnight strikes in Iran's capital,
0:42 Tehran. The Iranian state broadcaster
0:44 reported two explosions near its
0:46 headquarters there. More than 600
0:48 people, including civilians, have now
0:51 been killed in both Iran and Lebanon
0:55 since the start of the conflict.
0:57 Gulf states also remain on edge after
0:59 Iran targeted energy infrastructure in
1:01 the region on Monday, triggering a surge
1:05 in global gas and oil prices. Katar
1:07 state-owned petroleum company has halted
1:10 all production of liqufied natural gas
1:13 or LNG after attacks on two of its
1:16 facilities yesterday.
1:18 Okay, we have correspondence following
1:22 developments in Beirut here in Doha.
1:25 Let's go straight to Heidi Pet in the
1:28 Lebanese capital. So Heidi, more strikes
1:31 over the course of the last few hours in
1:33 Beirut. Uh talk us through what we've
1:41 Yeah, just as the sun rose over the
1:43 city, we saw two large air strikes
1:45 hitting the southern suburbs of Beirut.
1:47 Smoke drifting across the capital, which
1:49 in fact it has been doing all night. You
1:52 can smell it here in downtown. There's a
1:53 slight southerntherly breeze carrying
1:56 the smell of explosives and smoke across
1:58 the capital this morning. We've had an
2:00 Israeli drone, a surveillance drone
2:01 circling in the skies overhead all
2:03 night. And of course, the the sound and
2:05 the feel of those explosions rocking the
2:08 capital during at periodic intervals
2:10 over the last 12 or so hours of
2:13 darkness. So many many people here in
2:14 Beirut have had quite a rough night of
2:17 sleep, if indeed they have slept at all.
2:20 >> Yeah. tell us a little more about uh
2:23 what people in Lebanon are going
2:25 through. You mentioned uh many people
2:27 are displaced, many people staying
2:29 inside their cars. Uh what is the
2:37 >> The overwhelming feeling among people
2:39 that I have spoken to in the last 24
2:42 hours in the streets is one of fatigue.
2:43 You know, these are people who left
2:45 their homes sometimes with nothing more
2:46 than the clothes on their back. I saw
2:48 little kids in the street yesterday
2:49 morning at 5:00 in the morning. It was
2:51 cold. They didn't have jackets because
2:53 they and their family left in such a
2:56 panic and such a hurry uh in the face of
2:57 these Israeli air strikes. But it's not
2:59 just the direct bombing that people are
3:00 fleeing. It's also these forced
3:03 evacuation orders which the Israeli army
3:06 has been issuing on a rolling basis over
3:08 the last 24 hours telling thousands of
3:11 people not just in southern parts of
3:13 Beirut but across the country to leave
3:15 their homes under imminent threat of
3:18 bombing. And we know now that, you know,
3:20 there were 50 issued yesterday morning
3:22 for 50 locations and then overnight
3:24 another 30 locations were listed and
3:27 we've seen rolling rolling warnings
3:29 overnight for specific locations in the
3:31 southern southern suburbs of Dah as
3:33 well. And so you've got thousands of
3:35 people on the move across the country
3:37 searching for somewhere to go. Many of
3:39 the people here in Beirut, they will be
3:41 eventually housed in schools which are
3:43 opening up as shelters, but some of them
3:45 are already at capacity. And you've got
3:46 other civilians who have just kind of
3:47 landed in the streets. They don't quite
3:49 know what to do yet. And it all really
3:52 has this feeling of of deja vu. I was
3:54 here in Beirut in September and October
3:56 of 2024 and it was the same thing. You
3:58 had people camping out across the
4:00 capital for weeks on end. And so that is
4:02 the question for many of these people is
4:04 you know when will it be safe for them
4:05 to go back to their homes.
4:08 >> Okay, let's turn to Tehran now. Uh we
4:10 have Toid Assadi standing by for us
4:11 there. Toid, I want to talk to you about
4:13 the latest strikes on Iran, including on
4:15 the state broadcaster. But first, I want
4:17 to uh see if you can address these
4:19 comments that we're getting from Iran's
4:21 foreign minister, Baseli. He's uh
4:24 weighed in on uh US Secretary of State
4:28 Marco Rubio's comments overnight uh on
4:30 the Americans justification for
4:31 attacking Tehran. I'm just going to read
4:35 out this post uh that he has put on X.
4:38 Mr. Rubio admitted what we all knew. US
4:40 has entered a war of choice on behalf of
4:43 Israel. There never was any so-called
4:46 Iranian threat. Uh tell us a bit more
4:48 about those comments and and what we
4:51 make of them.
4:53 Uh well the recent statement by the
4:56 Iranian foreign minister Basarashi could
4:59 be interpreted as a sort of part of
5:02 Iran's rhetoric in that regard with the
5:03 with the claim that they are putting
5:06 forth about the securitization of Iran
5:08 related issues and a sense of
5:11 Iranophobia that is being created
5:14 globally from the United States and from
5:18 the Israelis on a uh Iran or Iranian or
5:20 Iran's threat in that regard. hard and
5:24 also we heard from from minister Bas
5:26 Rashi about the diplomatic engagement
5:29 also the same thing was similarly
5:31 mentioned by the Iranian secretary for
5:33 the national supreme security council
5:35 Ali Larijani right now they're saying
5:39 that uh we were trying to settle down
5:41 the issues related to the nuclear dosier
5:44 of the country through the trajectory of
5:46 diplomatic interaction not once but
5:50 twice in the past one year But all of a
5:53 sudden what we faced was not good face,
5:56 not table of negotiation but a sudden
5:59 initiation of strikes back in June when
6:01 the two countries were in the middle of
6:04 negotiation and the sixth round was
6:07 expected. they face strikes and also uh
6:10 for yesterday we were expecting a round
6:12 of technical talks between Iran and the
6:15 UN nuclear watchdog to settle down the
6:18 issues again another round of talks
6:20 politically speaking between Washington
6:22 and Iran which was expected to be taking
6:25 place in the days ahead but still what
6:28 we faced was a sort of campaign of
6:29 strikes that Iranians are right now
6:32 dealing so the claim under this
6:34 circumstance that they are trying to put
6:37 force is that it is not the Iran that is
6:39 threatening the region or that is being
6:42 perceived as a threat but instead it's
6:44 the United States that instead of uh
6:46 going through diplomatic engagement it
6:50 opens up the France of war to deal with
6:52 this situation
6:55 >> and let's go back to the topic of
6:58 strikes on Iran uh because they they've
7:01 gone well beyond just military targets
7:04 uh the state broadcast has been hit
7:06 civilians have been hit, even a school
7:09 has been hit.
7:12 >> Uh well, the truth of the matter is that
7:14 uh the scope as you said goes much
7:17 beyond the military headquarters or even
7:19 the political centers. This is now day
7:23 four of the initi from the initiation of
7:26 these strikes and from the very early
7:29 hours of these strikes we saw that this
7:32 is not limited uh in pastor square where
7:34 the office of supreme leader and where
7:37 the office of president were targeted.
7:40 We saw residential areas and this is
7:43 related to day one. Uh residential areas
7:46 were targeted. buildings belonging to
7:49 very ordinary citizens were targeted.
7:52 And of course, we've got the Minab story
7:55 which is very tragic, very dramatic in
7:58 which an elementary school was targeted, leaving
8:00 leaving
8:05 160 over 160 uh kids, school kids to be
8:08 killed. And of course, that doesn't even
8:11 stop there. And if you just uh go
8:12 through, I mean, different
8:14 neighborhoods. I had a chance last night
8:17 and the nights before uh and the days
8:19 before of course to go to the
8:20 neighborhoods, some of them in the
8:22 capital to take a look at what is going
8:25 on. And the truth reality on the ground
8:28 is that we can see that a lot of these
8:30 civilian infrastructure, civilian
8:33 buildings are being targeted very much
8:36 very much similar to the attacks that we
8:38 witnessed back in June. Also, we've got
8:42 reports from Niduare Square yesterday, a
8:44 residential area in which more than 20
8:46 people were killed. Uh, two three
8:49 hospitals are confirmed to be targeted
8:52 either directly or indirectly and they
8:56 are located in the vicinity of military
8:59 places or political headquarters or etc
9:02 etc. And this wave of strikes continue
9:05 up until the moment from time to time.
9:07 Specifically last night from mid
9:11 midnight on board, we heard multiple
9:15 after sounds of massive blast as well as
9:20 the spoke smoke uh um actually hanging
9:22 in the air indicating that this is just
9:26 very massive very intensified round of
9:28 strikes that we are witnessing at the
9:30 time being.
9:33 >> Okay, many thanks for that uh towi there
