With Victor Blackwell, smerconish, the chris wallace show, the Amanpour Hour the weeks biggest stories the weekends hottest topics. Starting today at 8 00 on cnn this morning, im Victor Blackwell and im still feeling that bbe here. We got it. That big vacation ends two weeks away. The, new Victor Blackwell, let me introduce you to him. Big smile, lots of energy two weeks so relaxed and so happy. Well, its good to have you back to leave. Hope weve its great mood last another Hour Everyone here is whats happening today. Former President Donald Trump will be back in butler, Pennsylvania Yeah at the same spot where he survived an Assassination Attempt this summer as Vice President Kamala Harris takes her campaign to North Carolina. The work both campaigns are doing to shore up their support in those critical swing states a month before the election flexion, The Middle East is on edge this morning. The region is waiting for possible retaliatory attack on iran. What President Biden had to sa
This is bbc news. Lets go straight back to that breaking news of the last few minutes. We will you knew the live scenes In Beirut. A massive explosion in the last little while from beirut. There you see the seconds after the explosion. We are hearing that there have been multiple explosions. That is coming to us from our correspondents on the ground in terms of the pictures you can see. Hugo bachegais pictures you can see. Hugo bachega is In Beirut for us, telling us this explosion is in one of the strongholds in the south of beirut. The Israeli Military also updating in the last few minutes, saying that they are currently striking Terror Targets, that is how they describe it, currently striking Terror Targets belong to hezbollah in the southern lebanon. This happened about five or seven minutes ago. You can see just the skyline, beirut, and the size of that explosion. Of course that fits entirely with what we have seen in terms of tactics from israel since monday, the sort of strikes.
Investigation is continuing just now, that has been difficult for the snp, hard for people to move past that. There was a lack of progress, of course, on independence. A number of people who have criticised a strategy that Nicola Sturgeon pursued, that Hamza Yusuf pursued as well, her successor, and of course Nicola Sturgeon was such a successful politician. She resigned quite suddenly and was replaced by Hamza Yusuf as her predecessor, who had a short time as First Minister and of course, he did not have the support at holyrood in the chamber i do not have enough mps to get things through. So there were a minority government, they had lost their Partnership Support so he had to go. John swinney is now coming in, trying to address a lot of those problems, a lot of those problems beyond their control, such as the police investigation. 0ther control, such as the police investigation. Other problems, when it comes to delivering, for example, Government Advisers here quite candid, say, yes
when the may sunshine comes out from the word go in the west will feel pleasantly warm with temperatures widely in the high teens, low 20s, could be make it 22 in northern ireland, the warmest day of the year so far. second half of the week in, a cold front moving in across the north west of the uk dropping rain and temperatures. the rain milking into wales and north west england but ahead of that we are into the warm air across central and eastern england with temperatures reaching the low 20s but much cooler for scotland and northern ireland across the second half of the weekend. before i go i wanted to show you this, a dangerous looking cyclone set make landfall around myanmar, bangladesh border region, and this is home to hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees and the weather looks pretty atrocious over the next few days with some very serious weather impacts potentially. thanks, chris. could the us government really run out of money in less than three weeks? if congr