Ongoing challenge. For discussion from george Amanda Bennett is ceo of gt the u. S. Agency for global media. She talks about the importance of a free and independent press and highlights the rise of global disinformation as an ongoing challenge. This discussion is from George Washington university. [background noises] [background noises] good afternoon everyone. Good afternoon, everyone. Im joel fishman, president of the Public Diplomacy council of america. It is my privilege, on behalf of the George Washington University Institute for Public Diplomacy and global communication, the university of Southern California Annenberg Center on communication, leadership and policy. I did that without reason. And the pdc a to welcome you to the first monday of september 2023. Nevermind that this is the second monday. It always is in september. Today is september 11th, 9 11. Many of us in this room will always remember with clarity where we were and what we were doing on that day 22 years ago and
Lets show you live pictures from gaza now. The israeli army has asked residents of several different areas across the gaza strip to leave their homes. Move to the city centres or take refuge in shelters in preparation for Launching Attacks against hamas targets. Witnesses told the bbc that dozens of families had started leaving their homes and were sheltering in un schools. This comes as israeli troops are still going house to house to clear communities after the saturday assault. We are hearing there is still fighting ongoing in Southern Israel at this hour. Lets get some reaction now from washington. Us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken spoke with several of his european counterparts. State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller says they discussed and condemned the hamas attacks and underlined the us support for israels right to defend itself. Live now to elliot abrams, who served in the George W Bush and trump administrations. Welcome to you. Thank you for joining us. The Biden Adm
Lets show you live pictures from gaza now. This comes as israeli troops are still going house to house to clear communities after the saturday assault thats according to an Israel Defense forces spokesman. The latest developments come as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his Security Cabinet has approved plans to destroy the military and governmental capabilities of hamas and islamichhad. Netanyahu has said israel is at war after a surprise and unprecedented raid by Palestinian Militants on israel territory early saturday morning. On israel territory early saturday morning. Israels government says hamas launched more than 2000 rockets into the country, killing more than 250 people and wounding over 1100 others. Officials in the gaza strip say over 230 people have been killed and over 1700 were injured in retaliatory strikes. The Un Security Council plans to meet about the violence in the region tomorrow. The Early Morning assault began with a barrage of rocket fire from gaza just
Is what that area of southern israel looked like today. Just look at all that smoke coming from burning buildings. If we zoom in you can see the heat spots that weve enhanced so you can see them. Now, all these cross border infiltrations by Palestinian Militants taken together with the thousands of rockets fired at israel represent a massive Intelligence Failure from israel. It should have seen this coming because they had regular military patrols going along that border. This is footage taken some years earlier. But they had cameras, sensors, informants inside the militant groups. And yet hamas was able to charge through that border, crossing it with things like this bulldozer, paragliders, by land, sea and air, and all the while, hamas has been sending more missiles into places like this, tel aviv, this office and residential block here, hitting buildings while the israeli airforce hits gaza. However this ends, it will go down as one of the worst failures of Israeli Intelligence in 5
Nothing like a few days ago. We have clouds around and you might be able to detect a couple sprinkles and showers making it across the state of pennsylvania and some of these might cruise through during the morning commute but probably done by about 7, 8 oclock this morning and after that no problems at all. 43 degrees is your current temperature in philadelphia and 42 even up in allentown where there have been some mornings where youve been below freezing so were really looking good. Mild out there. 41 degrees in trenton. 43 degrees in wilmington. 39 degrees in millville. And 45 currently in cape may. As we roll into the afternoon, this is going object mild one this week. Weve got 41 degrees by 7 oclock but by noon some sun mixing with clouds 52 degrees and by 3 oclock probably a fair amount of sunshine and a few clouds and a high of 56 and even as late as 5 oclock were probably still in the low 50s. By 7 oclock, clear skies and 48 degrees. Not too shabby out there as we go through th