here in uvalde. they are heroes. they did heroic things yesterday, and they are always very humble, but they are truly humbled heroes. yesterday we lost two teachers. these two teachers i would say are the corner stone of that campus to some great degree. they were two beautiful souls. they had taught on that campus for many years. they have kids in our district, and they poured their heart and soul into what they did in educating our kids in uvalde. 19 students, 19 precious students who came to school yesterday to enjoy the day, to enjoy the awards assembly, and as i look at their pictures, you can just tell by their angelic smile that they were loved, that they loved coming to school, and they were just precious individuals. this is a difficult time for everybody. we are hurting. we have been cut deep here in our community. we will move forward. it s going to take some time moving forward. our faith has been shaken. we ask you to continue to pray for these families, these k
Its tuesday, october the 24th. Our main story. Two israeli women, who were taken from their homes more than two weeks ago, have been released from captivity. Yocheved lifshitz and nurit cooper were among more than 200 people abducted by hamas fighters in the attacks of october 7th, and brought to gaza. Hamas, which is designated a Terrorist Group by the uk, said the release was for humanitarian reasons. The women, whose husbands are still being held, were handed over at the rafah Border Crossing between gaza and egypt at around 10 oclock local time last night. Our middle east correspondent Yolande Knell has the details. Freed after more than two weeks in captivity. In a video released by hamas, nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz were handed over to representatives of the International Committee of the red cross. Not before 85 year old Yocheved Lifshitz turns to a masked hamas gunman, shakes his hand and says, shalom, hebrew for peace. Hamas is designated a Terrorist Group by many weste
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region say no, there is no boots on the ground, if you will, for the russian volunteer corps. of course, as you can see those images there, they can simply not deny the fact that there is very heavy artillery shelling, mortar shelling on these border towns and villages, particularly an area where thousands have been evacuated, hundreds of families are huddled in shelters provided by the government. officials are scrambling to give a sense of reassurance to residents to try to get the situation under control. look, if you take a step back, what you re looking at here is essentially a shift in strategy for ukraine. you have these two groups, and yet again we re saying ukraine does not claim responsibility for attacks in russia, but the groups carrying out what is in ukraine s interest. they are destabilizing, if you will, the situation inside russia, unnerving russian officials, president putin himself calling them saboteurs with the intention of, again,
100 miles from the capitol kyiv. too close for comfort. nightmare scenario we could actually have bombs and rockets fired on kyiv. which is why secretary of state blinken continues his rounds of desperate diplomacy. today in berlin meeting and german and european officials trying to put a global spin on the growing tension in the region. it s bigger than a conflict between two countries. it s bigger than russia and nato. it s a crisis with global consequences. the u.s. continues to apply pressure. sanctioning four ukrainians for waging a russian influence effort inside the country. okaying baltic countries to send weaponry to the ukrainian military. for its part russia denies it has any intention of. menacing global problems. we are convinced that the goal of this campaign is to create a cover for their own large scale provocation which may have tragic consequences for global security. as ukrainian troops continue to clash with russian-backed