Hi there, Everyone. 4 00 in the New York, a little more than halfway through the historic and unprecedented sprint that is the 2024 president ial election. 60 days since Vice President Kamala Harris launched her campaign. 47 days to go until Election Day in america. And voters are reacting to the contrast they see between the two candidates. A candidate of change, an unapologetically joyful warrior with a positive message about what she would do for everyday americans should we win in november she win in november. Squaring off against a deeply unpopular, frequently incoherent expresident who has pledged to, in his own words, quote, be a dictator on day one. A batch of new polls show Vice President harris in the strongest position of the race so far. The New York times poll showing her tied nationally with the expresident but leading in pennsylvania. Maris poll showing Vice President harris ahead in michigan and wisconsin. Thats within the margin of error. A Fox News Poll shows Vice Pre
You look so wonderful in that dress i love your hair like that. Serenaded by Sheeran The Moment The Star surprised a school teacher, who was out for a jog after work. Im coming up, it is a repeat of the 2023 Champions League final as Manchester City get their European Campaign under way against Inter Milan later. Good afternoon. The United Nations says the timed explosion of pagers used by hezbollah in lebanon marks an extremely concerning escalation in tensions in the middle east. Health officials say at least 12 people are now known to have been killed, and nearly 3000 wounded. Hezbollah has blamed israel and vowed to retaliate. 0ur middle East Correspondent Yolande Knell is following developments from jerusalem. Lebanon is still reeling from the shock. Across the country, Hundreds Of Pagers carried by hezbollah members exploded simultaneously wherever they happened to be. The iran backed Armed Group had been using the low tech devices to try to make it harderfor its messages to be i
Just coming in right now. The Federal Reserve has announced a half a point. That was not the most expected. Most of what i read was a Quarter Point expected. It was a toss up, and really heres the thing, the Federal Reserve raised Interest Rates to get inflation down. The more recent readings we have gotten on the economy the last six weeks since the last time they announced decision is pointing to a weakness in the labor department. To cut into unemployment and make more people get out of jobs or increase unemployment further, well, thats the reason why they wanted to dramatically cut Interest Rates. They decided to do so by half a Percentage Point. Economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. Job gains have slowed. Well have to see what Fed Chair Jerome powell says to explain cutting Interest Rates by a Half Point. Im going to ask the Control Room if we can get a ticker and keep an eye on whats going on with the stock market. Its going wild . There we go. Ran insana, th
That there have been new explosions rocking the country. One day after a massive coordinated attack causing pagers to explode across all lebanon. Right now, the Death Toll after Yesterdays Attacks on pagers stands at 12, including two children. More than 2700 people were injured, including the iranian ambassador, according to lebanese authorities. Joining us now, Raf Sanchez from Tel Aviv and clint watts, Nbc News National Security analyst. What do we know about the new round of explosions . Reporter jose, in the last couple of minutes, lebanese State Media is reporting what appears to be a second wave of explosions, all across lebanon. Were seeing reports of blasts in beirut, the capital, and in the south, near the lebanese border and in the valley, a hezbollah stronghold. Lebanese State Media is saying the devices that exploded today are twoway radios as opposed to pagers. It is a very fluid situation. It is not clear if all of the devices that blew up are radios, walkie talkies, as
Through friday and in the weekend as an area of low pressure comes from the south it will introduce the threat of rain or thundery showers but it looks like scotland and Northern Ireland should keep the dry weather into the weekend. Into the weekend. And thats Bbc News at six. You can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. Now its time to join our colleagues for the news hello, and welcome to sportsday. Old foes in a New Look Champions League Liverpool open their campaign in italy against ac milan. The Champions League might be bigger, but what about Player Burn out . Manchester citys rodri says they could go on strike. In my humble opinion, i think theres much we have to take care of ourselves. Someone has to take care of ourselves. Glasgow gets the Go Ahead to host a scaled back 2026 commonwealth games. Also coming up on sportsday. Working his way back to the Top Anthonyjoshua tells us about his two yearjourney to set up another World Title Shot on Saturday Night. G