The detaIls on thIs but Israel rIght now through Its mIlItary says It has just kIlled a Hezbollah Commander In a strIke on the countrys capItal beIrut, lebanon. ThIs would be a development of EpIc ProportIons that they could hIt that commander InsIde that cIty. So we are followIng that. More reportIng to come just shortly. I want to mentIon the tImIng of thIs. PresIdent bIden just wrappIng up hIs comments. The last that he wIll make as the commanderInchIef of the UnIted States at the unIted natIons General Assembly. He spoke some words about the Twostate SolutIon and two sIdes would come together and that amerIca was commItted. But he dId not gIve a map of leadershIp through thIs moment. Well get Into It. Im HarrIs Faulkner and you are In the faulkner focus. Exact wIll I what bIden saId about the conflIct. SInce October 7th weve also been determIned to prevent a wIder war that engulfs the entIre regIon. Hezbollah, unprovoked, joIned the October 7th attack launchIng rockets Into Israel.
this is cnn breaking news. hello, outpost in jordan near the border with syria and iraq. this is the first time u.s. troops have been killed by enemy fire in the middle east since the beginning of the war in gaza, october 7th. it also marks a significant escalation of an already precarious situation in the middle east. president biden reacting a short time ago, vowing the u.s. will hold those responsible to account. we have got full coverage of this breaking story, natasha bertrand is in washington, priscilla alvarez is with president biden in south carolina, and ben wedeman is in beirut. natasha, you first. what are we learning about the attack? reporter: a very serious moment for the u.s. military, for president biden, for the administration writ large because this is the first time u.s. service members have actually been killed from hostile fire since the war in gaza began. and sparked all of these tensions throughout the middle east. now, we re learning that these thr
we ll bring you an interview with ecuador s president in the week will have elections on taiwan. we start tonight with reaction to the american and british air strikes on houthi targets in yemen. last night four royal air force typhoon fighterjets took part in the raids, along with us navyjets. this footage is from one of the two uk raf strikes. officials say 16 sites were targeted 16 sites, including in the capital city sana a. they included what the us called command and control centres, munitions depots, launching systems, production facilities and air defence radar systems. houthi leaders said five people were killed, and threatened to retaliate. the raids were in response to houthi attacks on ships in the red sea, which they say is in response to israel s attacks in gaza. fighters have been targeting ships with armed drones and missiles and boarding them. the british prime minister called the strikes necessary and proportionate in order to protect global trade in on
i m abby phillip in washington and you are live in the cnn newsroom, unprecedented political retribution. that is what is on the agenda in the tennessee state house right now , protesters have been at the capitol in support of the so called tennessee three democratic state lawmakers who are on the cusp of being expelled from that chamber. and any minute now the gop dominated chamber will vote on whether to remove them from office because get this. they protested on the house floor calling for stricter gun laws after the nashville shooting that left six people dead. three of whom were children. now, if the vote passes, it would be the first time in that body s entire history more than 200 years that a violation of house rules resulted in members being ousted . and so just to recap these three lawmakers, they may be stripped of their elected positions for speaking out of turn. after 39 year olds were gunned down in their grade school. cnn s ryan young is on the scene for us, ry