Nears 5800, tension is escalating on the israellebanon border. Tens of thousands of residents have evacuated their homes as israel and Hezbollah Exchange fire on a daily basis. We will get the latest and look at how israels endgame in gaza is to push palestinians into egypt. And we will look at how u. S. Policy toward latin america has fueled historic numbers of asylum seekers. Over the weekend, mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met with other latin american leaders calling for the u. S. To end its blockade of cuba. One of the agreements of yesterdays meeting was to promote Bilateral Dialogue between the United States and cuba, to resolve issues, especially those related to the blockade of cuba which greatly affect the population. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Health officials in gaza state israels unrelenting bombardment of the besieged palestinian territory has killed another 700 p
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Party ends with a 16 yearold dead and 3 other people injured. Now police are trying to piece together what happened. And one of napa valleys most famous wineries is reopening for the First Time Since the glass fire shut it down 3 years ago. Station. Hes calling 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 to im justine waltman and we start with the pilot who was riding in the cockpit of a horizon air passenger jet thats now charged with trying to shut down the engines in midflight. This happened on sunday from a flight going from everett, washington to San Francisco. That plane diverted to portland where it was met by Law Enforcement officers. Kron Charles Clifford joins us now live from San Francisco International Airport with more on this very bizarre story. Thanks for joining us. Good afternoon. Yeah, the good news here is that no one was injured as a result of this incident. But now the fbi, the Portland Police department are investigating and one man is in custody facing 167 charge
Israel. Two more hostages have been released. Two older women were told, the family of yohevid confirms that she has been let go. They confirmed this just a couple of minutes ago. Lipsitd was one of the founders of the kibbutz. A Peace Activist who the paper says regularly transported patients from gaza for medical treatment in israel. She is somebody thats been talked about a lot in the news over the past two weeks. Joining us now from tel aviv is nbc news correspondent hala gorani. A lot is up in the air. Walk us through what we are able to report right now . Reporter we heard from the brigade spokesperson, the military ring of hamas, announcing the release of two hostages, a source briefed on the talks confirmed to me as well about ten minutes ago that these two hostages were released. They were chosen for release because they were elderly, without confirming the names of the hostages, but you mentioned elderly women. One of the families confirming their release. This comes a couple
This is not just israels problem. Now its in israel but this is a whole world problem. We expect theres a likelihood of escalation, escalation by iranian proxies directed against our forces. We step up and deal with this axis of evil, china, russia, iran. Because its an immediate threat to the United States. Sandra a warning from Mitch Mcconnell about a new axis of evil as we get word of a brandnew drone strike or attacks against a u. S. Base housing american troops in syria. So far no injuries have been reported, meanwhile we are awaiting two briefings at this hour. One from the white house, where john kirby will be joining karine jeanpierre, the press secretary, and another happening a few minutes later from the State Department and a big hello and welcome to you as we begin a new week in new york. Bill im bill hemmer in for john roberts, making his way back to the u. S. Of a. , and from israel. Good afternoon to you where you are. Things stand at this hour, israel says its forces st