Hello and welcome to Newshour it's live from the BBC World Service studios in

London I'm Tim Franks and we're beginning in Lebanon in a country still

reeling for the twin attacks this week targeting thousands of

members of Hezbollah its powerful militant group. The question which is

resonating around Lebanon, around Israel, indeed, across the Middle East and beyond, is

where now?

Where next?

There's been an overnight exchange of fire across the border between Northern Israel

and Southern Lebanon, but there've been pretty much daily exchanges of fire across that border for pretty much a year now.

There's a sense though that we could be the closest yet to an all-out war between the two sides,

which is one reason why a lot of people will be paying very close attention to a speech which the leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrala is due to give in just one hour.

Joining me live is Rami Ruhaim, our correspondent in Beirut.

Rami, first a sense of, you know, your expectations of that speech.

Well, Hezbollah has already issued several statements to

following these twin attacks, making very clear that it intends to begin with

to continue what it calls its support front for Gaza. It's Gaza support front by which it means the military

operations it launched on the 8th of October following the Hamas attack on

Israel, on Israeli positions along the border, the aim of which

is to get Israel to stop its attack on Gaza.

So that has already happened. Hezbollah yesterday resumed that front as you

said and today they also launched drones at Israeli positions in the morning these drones slipped through apparently undetected because the

sirens did not sound and they've been continuing these attacks and of course Israel

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