caroline davies. a missile attack by iran on its neighbour, pakistan, would be near unprecedented. now, in the early hours here in pakistan, the country s foreign ministry has said that there has been an explosion after an air attack that it has blamed on iran. now, this would make pakistan the third country in a matter of days to be hit by an attack from iran after it s also hit syria and iraq. now, the explosion happened in a pakistani village that is located in the border regions of pakistan and iran, and that is an area known as balochistan. it is pakistan s largest but least populated region in the south west of the country. now, earlier on, state media from iran said that the military had used drones and missiles to hit militant groups in the area. those reports were subsequently removed without explanation, according to the news agency ap. now, the group have said that they were targeting at the time the news agencies had said that they were targeting a militant group
toward a multi front war? it depends on the united states. the united states could have stopped this genocide from day one. they chose not to do so. and now the united states seems to be giving a green light to the israeli regime to expand the war. and the united states itself is carrying out assassinations in iraq as well as missile strikes on yemen. so instead of stopping the problem, the genocide in gaza, we are moving in the opposite direction. well, in that first answer you ve given me an awful lot to unpick, and we ll try and do it bit by bit. i asked you about the expansion, escalation, of the conflict. you chose to put all responsibility on the united states and on israel. i would put it to you that if one looks at what is happening right now across the region the greatest fear, immediate fear, of expansion is to be found in the red sea and in the fact that the houthis, supported by and armed by iran, are firing their missiles, pretty much as we speak, toward commerci
new york city in the path tonight. rob marciano on this and the record heat. he s tracking it all. new reporting tonight on former president trump s handling of highly classified documents, abc news learning donald trump s lawyers were unable to find the sensitive document trump was allegedly recorded discussing about a potential u.s. attack on iran during the trump years. pierre thomas reporting. also a word coming into night that the cia director, william burns, has made a secret trip to china for the biden administration. martha raddatz standing by with late reporting. the senate passing the debt deal overnight, and president biden a short time ago addressing this from the oval office, on the bipartisan nature of the agreement, arguing neither side got everything they wanted. mary bruce in washington. also, major news on the economy tonight, the u.s. adding 339,000 new jobs last month, nearly doubling predictions. the stock market soaring today on the news. in california,