It comes in the hours after the israeli military carried out what it called extensive strikes on hezbollah targets in southern lebanon. Israeli aircraft destroyed thousands of hezbollah rocket launch barrels in southern lebanon, according to israeli officials. Also tonight, the us state department is urging american citizens to leave lebanon, with fears growing of an all out war. Meanwhile, the death toll from israel s strike on a densely populated area of southern beirut on friday has risen to 37. Hezbollah says 16 of its members were killed in the attack, including senior military commander ibrahim aqil. He was wanted by the us government for years and was designated a global terrorist for his involvement in the 1983 bombing of the us embassy in beirut. Friday s bombing also killed civilians, including three children, with more feared trapped in the rubble. Our middle east correspondent orla guerin reports from the scene in beirut. A beirut suburb turned into a battlefield. They are
Never knew you had. Those peripheral relationships we are missing in the time of lockdown. Hello, im Laura Trevelyan in new york city, Christian Fraser is in london. Its almost four weeks since supporters of President Trump stormed capitol hill, claiming the election was stolen and today, House Democrats laid out their case for convicting mr trump of inciting that insurrection accusing him of being singularly responsible for the events of january the sixth. The Impeachment Trial will be in the senate next week. In the memo they submitted, the nine Impeachment Managers say the president incited the attack but had laid the groundwork for what they describe as the big lie, well before the election in november. They say the speech he delivered onjanuary 6th whipped his supporters into a violent frenzy. And quoting directly from the constitution and its framers they say the senate has the jurisdiction to impeach a former official. In the last few hours mr trumps lawyers have responded claim
61 year old lu jianwang, pictured on the right and 59 year old chenjinping, pictured on the left are both new york city residents and face charges of conspiring to act as agents for china and obstruction ofjustice as us department ofjustice officials said in a conference this afternoon. these actions under the direction of the chinese government of flagrant violations of american sovereignty and thanks to our investigation and the rest today, with the fbi, the defendants will be held accountable and the body is on notice that we will not tolerate similar threats to our national sovereignty. the secret station is believed to be a part of a network of at least 100 operating across the globe in 53 countries, including the uk and the netherlands. last month, canada s federal police announced an investigation into two montreal area sites thought to be police outposts. the fbi s director christopher wray said in november:. our new york correspondent nada tawfik went to the justice
on the right and 59 year old chenjinping, pictured on the left are both new york city residents and face charges of conspiring to act as agents for china and obstruction ofjustice as us officials said in a conference this afternoon. the defendants actions under the direction of the chinese government are flagrant violations of american sovereignty and thanks to our investigation and arest today, with the fbi, the defendants will be held accountable and the mp5 is on notice that we will not tolerate similar threats to our national sovereignty. let s look at what we know. the secret station is believed to be a a part of a network of at least 100 operating across the globe( in 53 countries, including the uk and the netherlands.and last month, canada s federal police announced an investigation into two sites in montreal thought to be police outposts. the fbi s director christopher wray spoke about this in november, saying to me, it is outrageous to think that the chinese police