The United States is sending more troops to the Middle East as israel continues to pound targets across lebanon, including the capital, beirut. President biden says his team is working to de escalate the crisis, not a strategy that to this point that has been very effective. How concerned should we be of a wider, regional conflagration . Also tonight, labours plans to bolster Uk Investment we will explore whether the chancellor really can find the space for extra government spending. And Coming To America President Zelensky begins a week long tour of the states that will end with his plan to defeat russia. We will see if We Can fix the gremlins with our sound along the way. Welcome to the programme. For 11 months now, Israel And Hezbollah have been locked in an escalating War Of Attrition that many had warned could one Day Lead to all out conflict. Maybe this was the day. The israelis have been pounding targets. The idf says it has hit around 1100 hezbollah positions in Southern Lebano
Israels name bringing back 60,006 placed rail to the northern border, how do you do that . Northern border, how do you do that . Displaced residents. Theyve been trying to set up Buffer Zones to minimise direct Market Fire on northern israel. But i dont think telling people theyve taken away the immediate threat of anti tank missiles being fired at the border. Theres still a very well armed militant group with thousands of rockets. I dont think that will convince people to come back to the northern border. An aerial campaign, if it goes out for days or weeks, and can damage the capability of hezbollah to fire rockets and missiles, but they will stop to have 150,000 of those. It will take a very big, very long israeli campaign to damage the artisanal s to the point where it was no longer able to regularly fire projectiles. What is israel going to do that will give residents of the north the confidence that they would need to go back . It wasnt clear from Daniel Hagaris statements or th