Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to Bbc News. Lets continue with rolling coverage of the rapidly evolving Security Situation in lebanon, where over the last few hours, fresh ways of exploding electronic devices have caused new casualties. The Health Ministry, quoted by afp, says nine people have been killed in more than 300 injured. Let me show you some images found by reuters in beirut. They show the plumes of smoke to the Middle And Right of the screen at several different locations across the city, and not altogether clear whether this was the start, but as we mentioned, the lebanese authority saying Walkie Talkies targeted in the attacks and the iranian backed Hezbollah Group bought the radios around five months ago, around the same time as the pagers that exploded yesterday. Lets start this hour in washington. Joining me now from washington is tom bateman. Antony blinken saying only a few hours ago that washington knew nothing about these impending Attacks Yesterday. Well, ye
The rafah Border Crossing between egypt and gaza, the southern tip of gaza opening briefly and allowing 20 aid trucks into gaza. And after hamas releases two american hostages, more families are awaiting answers. Were talking to a mom and dad pleading for the release of their son, a harrowing tale as Israel Security officials are signaling readiness for a Ground Offensive. Trey yinst begins the hour. He is in our israel. David, good morning. Israelis continue to strike targets along the gaza strip as 15 days into this conflict, hamas are firing into central israel. I want to move away so the cameraman can pan the sunset. You can see thats gaza in the distance, you can see the smoke rising in the area and the sun is about to go down. This is coming as were getting new images from the southern Border Crossing between gaza and egypt. The rafah crossing. I want to show you the aid trucks entering the strip, 20 of them, according to officials, this was all part of a deal that was negotiated
Look at that. Mike tobin taking cover on the israel gaza border as Missile Attacks continue. Israel is still promising a Ground Assault into gaza is imminent. This is a special 2 hour addition of the fox report. We have Team Coverage of war in israel. Alexandria hoff with more as President Biden pledges to remain focused on american still held captive by Hamas Terrorists in gaza. Steve harrigan live in lebanon where there are growing fears of escalation by hezbollah and roger wicker on the other chambers response to this. Mike tobin live in the southern israel with the latest. Reporter for 14 tonight we watched rocket fire and watched the ground to see if the israeli invasion of gaza begins. Forces staging up and down the gaza strip some 300,000 strong, with reservist called up to combat duty, they are training while they wait for their orders. 188th brigades, getting ready to do what the Defense Minister called the long and painful processable donating hamas. Strikes go into the gaza
of the negotiating team that got the iran nuke lehr deal done. until politico wrote this piece i had never even heard of this program. you know the politico story, this narrative in it is just false. and there s no evidence in this story to back up their allegations. they quote a couple of low level ideological sources who clearly don t like the iran deal, but everything i know just doesn t back up this narrative. in 2016, for example, the obama administration d.e.a. did take action against hezbollah s drug and laundering operation. so, this story is a hit job, honestly with no truth behind it, brian. brian: it would be one of the first hit jobs ever that the politico put out on the obama administration it would make history. we are making history this morning. brian: make history here. in its determination to secure an iranian deal with iran, the obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug enforcement of the iranian backed hezbollah group even
block within the lebanese government had no idea what was going on. speculation has been going around since the announcement of that resignation. hariri announced his resignation while he was out of lebanon. he made that announcement from saudi arabia which fueled some of the speculation around his announceme announcement. basically that saudi arabia had forced him to resign and that he was possibly under house arrest. these, of course, allegations denied ve denied by riyadh and saying they was forced and under house arrest are baseless. yesterday, the leader of the iranian backed hezbollah came out and reiterated and said the same things about the