Viciously over the last 20 years, in the last year, completely unprovoked. A day after the Hamas Massacre in October 7th, hezbollah began attacks against israel which forced more than 60,000 israelis on our northern border to leave their homes. Becoming refugees in their own land. Hezbollah turned vibrant towns in the north of israel, to ghost towns. Think about this in equivalent terms. Just imagine if terrorists turned toes in San Diego into ghost towns. How long would the american government tolerate that . A day . A week . A month . I doubt they would tolerate it even for a single day. Yet israel has been tolerating this intolerable situation for nearly a year. Well, ive come here today to say enough is enough. [ applause ] we wont are rest until our citizens can return safely to their homes. We will not accept a Terrorist Army on our northern border in order to perpetrate an October 7th style massacre. For 18 years, Hezbollah Brazenly refused to implement u. N. Security Council Re
Borders our international recognised borders. This is necessary. These violations have exceeded, there have been more than 35,000 violations since 2006. Mr president, has israel not had enough of the endless war since 1948? when will it be time for israel to give an opportunity for peace? will israel not embrace the path of peace? when will this happen instead of using the language of fire and steel, lebanon and arab countries have clearly without any ambiguity categorically embrace these through the arab peace initiative which was the fruit of the beirut arab summit in 2002. The option of a two state solution, for the demand of arab states for the implementation of united states resolutions which unfortunately have become remained dead. It is now incumbent upon israel, the government and the pete ball, if they want peace to embrace and choose peace, to want peace instead of war and to go beyond their obsession and security related anxiety, break the cycle of violence in the region,
In the second half. I don t know whether it was delay to the game or whatever, but it s no excuse. Wejust, you know, we kind of shot ourselves to the foot and unfortunately, unfortunately radu and lucas paid the ultimate price for it. But you know, as a team, we just we didn t start the game the way we wanted to and the way we needed to, and made the game sort of challenging for us. Response was great. Absolutely. But yeah, disappointed we had to be in that position. Elsewhere, scottish side rangers earned a first ever victory on swedish soil. They ran out 2 0 winners against malmo. Albania midfielder nedim bajrami scored his first goal for the ibrox club in less than a minute, and then sub ross mccausland sealed the victory“; minutes from time with a low strike. So a look at the other results. There was a big victory for ajax. Four goals for them at home to besiktas, two of them scored by mika gotze. Roma were held to a 1 1 draw by athletic bilbao after conceding a late equaliser. Y
First time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Israels intensifying Military Assault on lebanon has involved everything from Booby Trapped electronic devices to bunker busting bombs. As the Death Toll mounts, prime Minister Netanyahu says the target isnt the people of lebanon, its the armed militant group hezbollah, which continues to fire rockets into israel. So what, if anything, can the lebanese Government do to stave off a Gaza Style Catastrophe . My guest is lebanons economy minister, Amin Salam. Is his Government the very definition of powerless . Minister Amin Salam in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. Pleasure being with you. Thank you forjoining me. War is happening to lebanon, war is happening to lebanon, minister, and yet war minister, and yet war is the last thing that is the last thing that lebanon wants. Lebanon wants. How does that make how does that make you feel right now . You feel right now . You said it, stephen. You said it, stephen
Minister amin salam in beirut, minister amin salam in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. In gaza, through diplomatic thank you, stephen. Thank you, stephen. Pleasure being with you. Pleasure being with you. Thank you forjoining me. Thank you forjoining me. War is happening to lebanon, war is happening to lebanon, minister, and yet war minister, and yet war is the last thing that is the last thing that lebanon wants. Lebanon wants. How does that make how does that make you feel right now? you feel right now? you said it, stephen. You said it, stephen. It s the last thing we need. It s the last thing we need. It s the last thing we would it s the last thing we would have wanted to happen have wanted to happen and we were hoping and praying and we were hoping and praying and doing our best for the past and doing our best for the past year, since the war started year, since the war started in gaza, through diplomatic channels, through every channel possible, to avoid going i