Hezbollah is part of the political game here in lebanon. It is almost the only party that is, you know, armed and lebanon and also has representation in the parliament. But has engaged in fights and conflict with israel since it started in 19805 until this latest confrontation that we are living these days. Frank, a lot of people i think certainly after the attack we saw a couple of nights ago, that unprecedented attack in terms of Scale And Size that iran launched on israel. One question which people are asking is why did iran Attack Israel and will israel now Attack Iran . Ok, so this really goes back to april the 1st, when the israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike on Irans Consulate in damascus, killing a number of Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers, including allegedly the man who was coordinating the flow of arms from iran through syria to hezbollah in lebanon. And that was an attack on a diplomatic premise, the international outrage was pretty muted. Iran said it would re
iowa caucuses and instead of being in iowa, the front-runner, donald trump was in court. using the civil fraud case to grandstand before the judge sent him fresh off the cnn debate and income i haley and ron desantis debated in iowa as he tries to sway any possible votes their way. joining us now republican presidential candidate asa hutchinson, the former governor of arkansas. thanks for joining us. i want to get your response to something donald trump just said outside the courtroom in his civil fraud trial against him. take a listen. my legal issues, every one of them, every one, civil and the criminal ones are all set up by joe biden, crooked joe biden. this is something that s never happened in this country. even the civil ones, this civil and they re set up by biden. every single, just about case that i m involved in they re doing it for election interference. obviously, there is zero evidence that president biden had anything to do with the civil suits or the prose
Welcome to the programme, im lewis vaughanjones. You join us as Significant Development have been taking place, in the last hour or so, we heard from the idf, a spokesperson, saying backGround Forces are expanding their operations tonight. And we have seen an intensification of airstrikes on gaza. First thing we are going to do is show you the live pictures we have, these are the feeds coming in, this is gaza which over the last few has reported increasing bombardment and an intensification of airstrikes. The other thing to tell you about gaza tonight is that communications have been cut, the internet seems to be down, telecommunications down, potentially as a result there was airstrikes but we do not know for certain why. But we do not know for certain why. But we have now got numerous reports that the communications within gaza are down. We also have another live feed from gaza to show you as well. We are keeping across these two live feeds for you as the airstrikes from israel into
Significant development this evening. We heard from the Israel Defence forces spokesperson making a significant announcement, twofold, first, that the Ground Forces are expanding their operations tonight. Secondly Erica Intensification Of Airstrikes from israel into gaza. We have a number of live feeds, live cameras, pictures coming into us here at the building, there are three of them, lets start with this one. The darkness of gaza, you will know that fuel is in such short suppty, know that fuel is in such short supply, electricity, power, the light effectively there coming from the explosions of the strikes. Over the explosions of the strikes. Over the last couple of hours we have seen a real intensification of these airstrikes. With that comes things like a lack of communications in gaza. Weve heard from the head of the World Health Organization saying he has lost touch with his team, communications are down there in gaza. Next, lets go to the United Nations in new york, a significa