Thank you for having me again, stephen. Ambassador Danny Danon in new york, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me again, stephen. Its a pleasure to have you on hardtalk. Now, israel is currently fighting a multi front war. How much pressure, both military and diplomatic, would you say israel is under right now . Stephen, a year after October 7th and israel is still under attack, not only from hamas In Gaza, but also from lebanon, yemen, iraq, iran. We have seven fronts, and unfortunately we have casualties. Israelis are dying from those rockets, but we are determined, we are determined to win this war. We realise we dont have any other choice, and that is why we have seen that we moved forward both In Gaza and with hezbollah. You know, we are a peaceful nation. If you would have asked me a year before that what we are doing now will happen, i will tell you, no way, because we have no desire to be in any conflict, not with hamas, not with iran, not with hezbollah. And all those a
Plus, the mayor of new York City. Eric adams. Refusing to step down despite indicted and charged with bribery, Wire Fraud and seeking favors from foreign governments. The former Deputy Chief who served in the same office that charged the mayor will join us to explain what it could mean for him and the city he leads. And Vice President harris sits down with my dear Colleague Stephanie Ruhle to flush out her economic proposals. What she promised to do if she is elected. But we start with Hurricane Helene. Expected to grow into at least a major category 4 storm possibly a 4. Who knows. Before It Collides with floridas Big Bend a few hours from now. The hurricane could be strongest in recorded history to hit the city of tallahassee. Local Paper Tallahassee Democrat calling it a nightmare scenario, the worst Hurricane Impact in living memory for many. This is video from Tampa Shot earlier today, and the epicenter is still hundreds of miles away. The national Weather Center is warning of dam
collides with the high pressure, so the rain as it comes in to england, wales and northern ireland will tend to be patchy in nature, that will brighten up across northern scotland and parts of eastern england as we go through the day. but temperatures will be that little bit lower, but in glasgow, they will be higherfor you, at 17 celsius. carol, thank you. this time next week voters in england, scotland and wales will head to the polls to take part in local elections, with assembly elections in northern ireland. our political correspondent alex forsyth has been to southampton, where the conservatives took control of the council last year, to ask what will be affecting people s decision there. the political race is on. with elections around the corner, parties are trying to grab votes, and at the southampton planning centre, people are pretty clear what is on their minds. ., ., , ., ., minds. inflation is going mad. especially minds. inflation is going mad. especially fuel minds. i
secretary-general is going to offer additional air defense assets to ukraine, which is put to good use, the stingers that we gave them, which as you showed earlier, the bringing down of a russian aircraft. and it apparently brought down quite a few. and they ve used the man portable tank systems to good effect as well. put on your cia hat and let me ask you this. how did we have five straight presidents and i m going to go back to bill clinton, who all thought you could rationally deal with putin? i say this and maybe we should exhaust 23 years of this with him, but it feels as if a lot of presidents went down this road thinking putin will be a rational actor at some point and he seems to always prove those presidents wrong and has he done it again? well, i think we are by nature an optimistic people. hope sometimes triumphs over reality until it collides with