Inspection colleague, three three leaf filter today, more physically filtered. Com adrenaline just like every tur n urine the cnn newsroom, im wolf blitzer in washington, and we begin with a Major Development are 2024 president ial race here in the United States. President joe biden and donald trump have just accepted cnns invitation to host, to hold a debate on june 20. Thats just in a few weeks thats months earlier than traditional faceoffs take place between, between two president ial candidates the announcement comes after a heated backandforth earlier this morning between the two, the president Challenge Trump to two debates and then trolled him over his hush money trial. Listen to this shop laws, two debates to me in 2020, it sends said he hadnt shown up for debate. Now hes acting like he wants to debate me again or make my day pal, ill even do a twice so lets pick the dates down. I hear youre free on wednesdays former president responded quickly calling on biden to quote, get re
Well, good evening, everyone. This is laura coates live. It has been 24 hours since that stark warning from israels military. The warning for more than a Million People living in Northern Gaza to leave their homes. Essentially get out or else. Well, we dont actually know how the people can really get out and we dont actually exactly know what the what else or or else will really mean but that means 24 hours now of desperation, of terror, of fear. People who are caught in the middle with nowhere else to go and then to complicate and confuse this even further, hamas is telling the people to stay where they are, so how do the people in the region even know who to listen to . Well, heres what we do know right now, gaza is bracing for a potential largescale Ground Operation against hamas in the wake of the deadly Terror Attacks in israel just last week. Now, its not clear, sitting here today, how many hostages may be held captive in gaza. President joe biden said this about the missing amer
To Irans Nuclear facilities. In a social media post, the agencys director general, Rafael Mariano grossi, continued to call for extreme restraint from everybody and said Nuclear Facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. Irans semi official tasnim news agency, which is close to the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps, posted a video with a caption saying, isfahan s nuclear site is completely safe. In the video, a man near the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre is seen showing his watch to the camera to indicate the time and date. We can then see several troops standing around what looks like an air defence battery. Reuters news agency is reporting that an unnamed iranian source has said there is no immediate plan for retaliation. As well as these explosions in iran, they were reported too in Southern Syria apparently from missiles targeting radar sites. And there were also blasts in iraq in both the Capital Baghdad and babil province to the south. Israel had promised to re
In military conflicts. Lets speak to our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale whos injerusalem. Talk is through the events so far, and what the reaction tells us about how this is viewed in the region . Remember, we are still in that stage where the full facts are not known, and that those people who are commenting and talking about what has happened, and many of them have agendas to try and talk up or play down what has happened, but in terms of the basic facts, we know that Iranian State media are reporting there have been explosions near a Military Base in isfahan in central iran. Basically if you find tehran on a map and go due south it is there. Essentially there have been reports of air defence explosions taking off, a Senior Iranian commanders have said they have shut down some drones. Again, we still dont know exactly what was part of this air strike. The iranians at the moment are saying there has been no damage. The israelis are officially not saying anything, so there has
Confirm the details togetherwithout allies. We have condemned irans reckless and dangerous barrage of missiles against israel on saturday and israel absolutely has the right to self defence but as i said to Prime Minister netanyahu last week, significant escalation is not in any ones interest, we want calm heads to prevail across the region. The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed there is no damage to irans nuclearfacilities. In a social media post, the agencys director general, Rafael Mariano grossi, continued to call for extreme restraint from everybody and said Nuclear Facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. Lets speak to our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale whos injerusalem. James, give us a flavour of the reaction that there has been so far to this attack . To this attack . Well, internationally, to this attack . Well, internationally, there has to this attack . Well, internationally, there has been actually a fairly muted response of various