this is bbc news, the headlines: america s top diplomat visits the middle east for talks after the latest round of us strikes on iran linked targets in the region. a deadly combination of war and drought leaves ethiopia s tigray region facing famine we have a special report. taylor swift! and taylor swift makes history at the grammy awards becoming the first artist ever to win best album four times. becoming the first artist ever to win best album four times. an update from the metropolitan police who are investigating the chemical attack in south london from last wednesday, they have said early this morning a 22 year old man was arrested for assisting an offender and the police are searching for abdo is a:d., the man in the picture, after the attack in clapham last week abdul ezedi. a22 year old man has been arrested and was taken to a police station where he was interviewed before being arrested on bail. they have also given an update on the woman who was injured in
problems, and it s causing me to shoot up the school. trevor ault outside the courthouse. also tonight, the defense secretary lloyd austin saying, i should have told the president. i did not handle this right. what he said today in front of the cameras for the first time since being hospitalized after complications from prostate cancer surgery. terry moran on what the defense secretary said today. the new missile and drone attacks on commercial ships, and tonight, martha raddatz standing by with new reporting on the u.s. retaliation now coming for the deadly attack on u.s. troops and the internal debate over how to respond. martha is in jordan. here in the u.s. tonight, tracking two major back-to-back storms. flash flooding, damaging winds. san francisco to los angeles. now moving from texas to florida. and this second storm set to hit could be even worse. rob marciano with the forecast. tonight, sending a message. president biden sanctioning four israeli settlers
today on inside politics, we shall respond. a regional reeling from work is ready for president biden s next move as he promises to retaliate against those responsible for a drone attack that killed three u.s. soldiers. tanking the deal. the donald trump is pushing republicans to abandon a bipartisan bill that they have been working on for months and he hasn t seen the plan, but his goal is to deny president biden and election-year win. man up. that is nikki haley s message to the republican nominee and trying to taunt trump into debating her while planning more than a dozen fundraisers to bring campaign cash in for a needed fight. i m dana bash. let s go over the headlines of inside politics. a major escalation in the middle east. president biden is weighing options for how to respond to this we can steadily drone attack on a small u.s. outpost in jordan. iranian backed militant groups and regime in tehran and denies any involvement. to do so in a way that avoids any r
we will take all necessary actions to defend the u.s. and our troops. neil: defense secretary lloyd austin s first day back promising action after three americans were killed. intelligence officialings are blaming the drone strike on iran backed rebels. iran says not so. but mike turner here to say not so fast. he s not the only one saying that iran is at war with us, so we better wake up to the reality that like it or not, we re at war with iran. first, fox team coverage of jennifer griffin at the pentagon where a briefing just wrapped up. jacqui heinrich at the white house of where the pressure is now building up. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. let s go first to the pentagon. that s where we ll find jennifer griffin with the latest. jennifer? neil, we now know the identities of the three american army reserve soldiers killed in jordan. specialingist kennedy laden sanders of georgia, a soldier with the 718th engineering company, a u.s. army reserve unit. she was 24
designed to create diverse student bodies at our countries colleges and universities. we re going to talk about why that ruling is so much better than just a college admission process. plus, the conservative-leaning court also presided president biden s debt forgiveness plan was unlawful, which means payments will default again soon. we are talking to biden s domestic policy chief about what the president can do to still give americans some form of relief for their student loan debt and much more. and when it comes to this idea of color blindness the conservatives want you to believe is their way of not seeing race as a factor in legislation or policymaking. well, i say they are lying. i ll explain why later this hour. i am symone sanders-townsend, folks, live from new orleans, today. hey essence. and i have got something to say. elections have consequences, and supreme court rulings have ramifications. millions of americans will soon feel the consequences of this n