The World Tonight

As MPs pepare to debate whether to legalise assisted dying, the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in England and Wales has made a rare political intervention to urge people to oppose the change. Cardinal Vincent Nichols has been speaking to The World Tonight. Also on the programme:The Prime Minister has tonight rebuked his Transport Secretary after she called for a boycott of a ferry company that was poised to increase investment in the UK. We have the latest.As the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to a group of survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan - we hear what message one hopes it will send. And 100 years after Sandy Irvine vanished alongside his climbing companion George Mallory as they attempted the conquest of Everest, a solitary boot belonging to him has been found. We hear from one of the mountaineers who found it - and from Irvine's great niece who's been told what's in it.

Twenty-two people have been killed and 117 injured in Israeli air strikes on central Beirut, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. BBC reporters heard loud explosions echoing from the site of a strike in Bachoura, a small Shia area in the Lebanese capital.A trail of destruction has been left in Florida after Hurricane Milton struck. The aftermath includes political barbs between the two US Presidential candidates.And the Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang, who explores themes including grief, violence and patriarchy.

US officials are warning Hurricane Milton, which is scheduled to make landfall on Florida's western coast within hours, could be "deadly and catastrophic". Millions of citizens have fled those areas in the storm's path, but others have decided to stay. We spoke to one man preparing to bunker down with his girlfriend and dog.US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken on the phone. The pair discussed Israel's response to an Iranian missile attack last week and pledged to remain in "close contact" in the coming days. The BBC's International Editor Jeremy Bowen has spoken to former Israeli leader Naftali Bennett, who believes Israel should target Iran's nuclear programme.And a much maligned south coast town has inspired a piece of classical music. The Bognor Regis Suite was composed by local jeweller and musician Roger Clayden, inspired by his daily routine in the town.

The Israeli prime minister calls on the Lebanese people to reject Hezbollah. Benjamin Netanyahu used his appeal to claim that Israel had killed the man who would have been Hezbollah's next leader. We get reaction from a Lebanese MP allied with Hezbollah's political wing.We speak to a Florida woman fleeing from Hurricane Milton, a fortnight after Hurricane Helene flooded her home. And has it been a good evening for meteor gazing?

As Israel has been mourning the mass killings and abductions by Hamas exactly a year ago, the conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon has been escalating. We hear from an Israeli who survived the assault and from a Palestinian who's spent the last year in Gaza and get the latest on the fighting in Gaza and Lebanon. We also discuss the impact on British Jews with Booker Prize winning novelist Howard Jacobson. Plus, we hear an urgent call for the government to improve care for people with ME - or chronic fatigue syndrome - and we speak to one of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine.