Alex Thomson , Chief Correspondent

Airstrikes have continued to bombard this city throughout today – one apparently hitting Hezbollah’s media department in the south of Beirut.

The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the country is in the midst of a “tough war against Iran’s axis of evil which seeks to destroy us”, but he insisted “we will win, together”.

Israel is invading Lebanon and Iran is attacking Israel. Every one of these countries now at war, with tens of millions of people braced for what comes next. 

Israel’s military has declared areas of northern Israel a closed military zone, as it steps up preparations for a ground invasion of Lebanon.

Hassan Nasrallah became one of the most influential figures in the Middle East, during more than three decades leading Hezbollah, he transformed it into a powerful military and political force – with Iran’s backing.

That means pylons – across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. And the battle lines are  forming. To bury or not to bury, that is the question. Nobody wants to look out on pylons.

The UK seabed could annually capture almost three times the carbon soaked up by UK forests, according to new research. It is a staggering peer-reviewed data breakthrough.

The humble seagrass. Its underwater meadows are unseen and underestimated but they are one of the world’s most important and threatened habitats. In the UK alone, ninety percent of the underwater meadows have been lost.

New monitoring data given exclusively to Channel 4 News shows we are now in real danger of losing some of our bird species altogether, with five more added to the at danger ‘Red List.’

Fourteen people were detained, aged between 11 and 43, during early morning raids. They included a mother and her son. Nationally over 1100 have now been arrested with more than 700 charged following riots across the country.

We’ve lost around 90% of UK seagrass groves in just the last thirty years. Human encroachment and dredging have played a part, but the biggest cause appears to have been sewage pollution on the watch of the privatised water monopolies. Now though the fightback is underway.

Once a place where the fossil fuel Klondike brought pioneering energy change generations ago, now Orkney pushes the green energy revolution.

King Charles has praised the “community spirit” which countered the past week of riots – and called for national unity around shared values of mutual respect and understanding.

6,000 riot officers are being deployed this weekend – as police chiefs said they would be on high alert to prevent any repeat of the disorder.

There’s a familiar chorus of criticism when it comes to renewable energy – what happens if the sun doesn’t shine or the wind is calm?