music. and flavour of the year indie rock band the last dinner party are named the bbc s sound of 202a. hello, i m ben thompson. welcome to the programme. hezbollah has repeated its warning of a fierce response to the killing of a hamas leader, saleh al arouri, in beirut on tuesday. they say that lebanon will be exposed to more israeli operations if they don t react. it comes as lebanon lodged a complaint with the un about the incident. the complaint says israel used six missiles in the attack that targeted him. tensions are still high in his hometown in the occupied west bank following the killing, as shaimaa khalil reports. the town of al arura in the west bank, saleh al arouri s hometown, is in a state of mourning. but there s also deep fury and rage at his killing. protesters have come out after the friday prayers protesting, chanting his name, chanting for continuation of resistance and condemning the war. saleh al arouri s killing may have taken a significant name off
new pulling shows most voters on the left say they are comfortable with her taking over for biden. among voters across the political spectrum, you re going to need everybody, the vice president s approval rating is tanking. staying stubborning lower than the president s for months. voters give the vp nearly 37% approval and 56% disapproval. that s according to a new 538 average of recent polling. britt hume says this problem is real. people had a dose of kamala harris and had not been impressed. nikki haley said a vote for joe biden is a vote for kamala harris. people look and say as old as he is, he can go any time. she might be president. harris: apparently top democrats on the hill don t want to talk about it. do you think he has the stamina to finish the second term? yes, i do. are you worried that president biden s health his age may be finally catching up to him? no. do you think president biden s age catching up to him? i m proud of the job president
you re in the faulkner focus. after his speech at the air force academy commencement, it took minutes for his near face plant to go viral and make worldwide headlines. an air force officer and two members of his secret service detail had to help him get up. you can see him at some point after this point to something on the ground. nothing is confirmed about that, but he says it was a sand bag. this is far from the first time the president has struggled with his balance. he is now 80 years old. he would be 86 at the end of a second term if he were reelected. president biden laughing off the fall when he got back to the white house. we were showing you other times he had fallen. others see it as a really serious issue. i think just the image of that splicing together with the other ones you mentioned only deep ensome of the concerns and misgivings some voters have. it is humiliating for him and for the country because not only is this man the current president, he actuall
conspiracy. now president biden s own energy department finding evidence covid likely leaked from that lab in china. i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus. presoutlets reporting that the energy department is joining with the fbi in supporting that lab leak origin, based on classified intelligence. the intelligence agency reportedly shared with both the white house and key members of congress. republican lawmakers want answers. we need hearings on this. the chinese used their coercive economic activities to shut people up. we need to extensive hearings. i hope our democrat colleagues in the congress can support that. i know the republicans in the house are certainly supportive of that. they didn t just shut them up. they shut them down. they discredited. even journalists asking questions. i was stickered all over the place for asking the question, along with dr. segal on our team here at fox news. the subselect committee on the pandemic in the hands of house
hastely-arranged statement yesterday about objects the biden administration spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to shoot down. president biden: our intelligence community is assessing all three incidents and reporting to me daily and will continue the urgent efforts to do so and i will communicate that to the congress. we don t yet know exactly what these three objects were. but nothing right now suggests they were related to china s spy balloon program. make no mistake. if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people i will take it down. harris: so they were a threat? i mean if you just pay attention to what he said. well, critics say this is familiar. better late than never. this administration has a tendency, in my judgment, to ignore problems. i mean, certainly ignore solutions. but if you won t talk about the problem it s hard to talk about a solution. harris: the president says he expects to speak with china s preside