Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.

We're coming to live from London, I'm Rob Young.

We will spend much of this programme looking at the most dramatic and most dangerous moment of the escalating conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

It's been confirmed the longtime leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in a massive

airstrike on the group's headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday night. Hezbollah said he had been martyred. Israel said he was a terrorist.

He's Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

With the United Israel, I'm going to Israel to eat my

stream, Hassan-Assadizrallah yesterday.

The state of Israel killed the master murderer Hassan-Nizrala yesterday.

We settled accounts with who is responsible for the murder of countless Israelis and many citizens of other countries,

including hundreds of Americans and dozens of French citizens.

In Lebanon displaced people in one district of the capital Beirut were distraught when they heard the news.

You can hear their one woman crying out the name of the Hezbollah leader.

Another woman says she wishes that all of us, as she puts it, had been killed instead of Nasrala.

And across the Middle East there have been scenes of mourning and of outrage.

Here are some protesters in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. issued video addresses of recorded speeches denouncing Israel and the United States.

On September 19th in what turned out to be one of his last video addresses

he warned Israel of serious consequences after dozens of people were killed,

and 3,000 injured when Hezbollah pages and walkie-talkies exploded. There is no doubt that the

there is no doubt that the aggression that took place is a major one and as I said in my

speech is unprecedented and will be met with tough

retribution and just retribution and just punishment where they expect it and where they

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