Not yet. [cheers and applause] 47 days. Yes. Its from my mouth to gods ear. Dana it was all part of a livestream that was high on Star Power and short on details. Good morning, im Dana Perino and bill is off today and so i have i have martha maccallum. Martha Great To Be With You this morning. This is americas newsroom. I think she will nominated for an Academy Award for that performance. Were 46 days from the election. Vice president harris is turning to hollywood. Oprah was the moderator of this event and despite the very friendly line of questioning, the Vice President did at times struggle to give a straight answer and she is getting some pushback for what many would call Word Salad on this answer when she was asked a direct question about how she would deal with rising prices and inflation. Yours is a story i hear around the country as i travel. And in terms of both rightly having the right to have aspirations and dreams, and ambitions for your family, and working hard and finding
Using sabotaged pagers and Walkie Talkies a campaign widely believed to have been carried about by israels spy agency, mossad. 12 people were killed and nearly 3,000 injured On Tuesday. Yesterday, 25 people were killed and 600 people injured in a second wave of blasts. Hezbollah, which is backed by iran and is proscribed as a terrorist group, by the us and uk and western governments, has promised to retaliate. Fears of an all out warare mounting, israel announced yesterday that they have moved to a new phase in the war, the stakes could not be much higher. 0n todays programme, well hear exactly how the Hezbollah Leader responds. 0ur Teams in the Bbc Newsroom are monitoring that. 0ur Specialist correspondents will provide context and analysis. Frank gardner, our Security Correspondent, is with me. So is our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. Daniel de simone is our correspondent injerusalem. Bronwen maddox from Chatham House is with us. Shes just back from israels northern border.
And conflict. And we speak to a professor of japanese history about how accurate the hit series shogun is. We start this hour in the middle east, where at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a new wave of attacks in lebanon this time it s walkie talkies that have been detonated. The latest blasts come just 2a hours after pagers used by the armed group hezbollah exploded simultaneously across the country killing at least 12 people and leaving more than 3,000 in hospital. Iran which backs hezbollah has described the attacks as mass murder. Hezbollah is blaming israel and has vowed to retaliate. Israeli defence minister yoav gallant says the country is opening a new phase in the gaza war and the centre of gravity is shifting to the north. 0ur senior international correspondent 0rla guerin sent this report from beirut. Hezbollah, coming to bury its dead in south beirut today. Casualties of a new chapter in middle east warfare. Killed not by air strikes, but by explo
Welcome to Business Today live from new york. Shares are inching higher on Wall Street ahead of the most closely watched meeting of the Us Federal Reserve in years. In just underfive federal reserve in years. In just under five hours time the fed is expected to finally start cutting the cost of borrowing from its two decade high. But how deep are the first could be and with concerns in some quarters about a rapidly weakening us economy, has the fed left it too late . Let s get more from the chief fixed Income Strategist at janney montgomery scott. The big debate here, 25 or a 50 Basis Point Cut. What are you expecting . Basis point cut. What are you petting . Expecting . Its a close call. I think there expecting . Its a close call. I think there is expecting . Its a close call. I think there is relatively think there is relatively little economic impact from one or the other depending on how that decision is made. 0ur Expectation is that the federal reserve will reduce overnight Intere
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