and for desantis, this does have the make or break feel about it. were he to finish third behind haley after spending something in the region of $150 million on this campaign then he d be in serious trouble, heading into two states, new hampshire and south carolina, where he is already polling behind her. south carolina don t forget is her home state. that perhaps explains why, on wednesday, at that final head to head debate, they seemed more intent on attacking each other, than the front runner donald trump. ..bureaucrats. .. that s not true. you talk about putting americans last, that is wrong. you ve supported all that money going over there so we ll put our own people first. you re so desperate, you re just so desperate. senator haley, let him speak. you need someone standing to fight for you, don t look for nikki haley. you won t be able to find her if you had a search warrant. but every time he lies, drake university, don t turn this into a drinking game because you
just ahead, u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin is on his way to israel as washington faces calls to press for an end to the heavy bombardment of gaza. and we will speak to a man whose father is still being held hostage by hamas. why he says israel should be doing more to bring his father and the other hostages home. plus, donald trump is doubling down on his anti-immigrant rhetoric. we will look at what he s vowing to do if re-elected. thanks for joining us. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin will be sitting down with israeli officials in the hours ahead on his second trip to the country since the october 7th attack by hamas. austin s visit comes after a stop in bahrain, and once in israel, a u.s. official says he will get updates on the war but he s also expected to press israeli officials to define specific operational milestones in the ongoing battle. meantime, the israel defense forces says it s uncovered the biggest hamas tunnel in gaza. that tunnel, which the idf
he is reacting against what he feels inside, which is the steady loss of his power as a man. the faster that power recedes, the more frantically he asserts it. he is raging against the dying of the light. these last embarrassing decisions are in fact his death throes. it is sad, really. unfortunately what happens to men also tends to happen to the systems they create. for the last 80 years our world has been covered by a system formed in the final months of world war ii. it s features define our life. free and open global trade routes guaranteed by the u.s. navy, a universal currency called the dollar and overseein it all one supreme power, the worlds largest economy, the united states of america. it s been a great system in mos ways. but for many reasons, including the passage of time, that syste is dying. what comes next is not entirely clear but how to influence it t america s greatest advantage is the most important task that faces any u.s. government. nothing else comes
to hit the area in over a century. the epicenter in the high atlas mountains near marrakesh is a yunesco world heritage site. equipment and manpower are limited in this region. patients are waiting outside hospitals, and residents are sleeping on the streets, fearing intense aftershocks. more than 700 people are in critical condition. officials believe the death toll will steadily rise. i want to bring in ben wedeman for more on all this. ben, you ve been to the area. set the scene for our viewers, what the topography is like, who lives there, why it s a tourist attraction and how an effarthque of this magnitude is cause so much damage. this earthquake happened just a few minutes after 11:00 p.m. friday evening. from the video we ve seen of cctv for instance, there was a small jolt followed by this massive earthquake. you see buildings just collapse in one cctv video. a block of buildings just falls into the street, sending tens of thousands of people sleeping outside last
Middle East News: US and British forces, backed by Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands, launched precision strikes against multiple Houthi sites in Yemen. The strikes targeted underground storage, missile, and surveillance systems, aiming to de-escalate tensions and protect global trade routes.