By a court in germany. And in the uk, conservative mps prepare to eliminate another candidate from the party Leadership Contest. Hello, im annita mcveigh, and welcome to Bbc News now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. We start in the Middle East where israel says it has killed the commander of hezbollah S Headquarters in an Air Strike on the lebanese capital, beirut. It comes after Benjamin Netanyahu described his Countrys Year long Military Campaign as a sacred mission which he said will continue so long as israel S Existence is threatened. In a moment, we ll go to southern israel for the latest from our chief international Correspondent Lyse Doucet. But first, let S Briefly Recap the latest events including, as we ve been reporting in the last few hours, that claim from israel that it has killed the leader of the proscribed terrorist organisation, hezbollah. It follows a Televised address by israel s Prime Minister who said the operations in gaza, lebanon an
The embassy of the Islamic Republic of afghanistan in washington. My colleague and director will be moderating the conversation but its my great pleasure and honor to ask the ambassador to provide welcoming remarks. Your excellency. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are right now in joining us for the session. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the second event of the embassy of afghanistan. We are glad to be hosting the event on lebanons agreement and partnership with the Atlantic Council a wonderful partner of the embassy in washington. I want to offer a warm thank you to the Atlantic Council further help in organizing this important discussion and all the great work they are continuously doing. Furthermore i would like to express my gratitude for taking the time to share their knowledge and insight with us today. Ambassador i thank you and not just for joining us today that for all the great work that youve done in afghanistan over the y
Opportunity for the nation to imagine itself otherwise. Where the country had an opportunity to leave behind the realitycynd how to organize our society and that each of those moments the country double down. And we saw was some call a backlash. We saw instead was an ongoing betrayal. What we think about the post reconstruction. And a lost cause and that anglosaxon and what it meant for the United States and the world as a betrayal. Think the mid 20th century the black freedom movement, law and order and the tax revolt in california, we need double down on our ugliness and here we are facing a chance to we imagine ourselves. If our history is any indicatio indication. Has there been an arc of progress . Of course. My life is not what my fathers life was and his life is not his fatherss. So what does it mean to suggest we live in the afterlife of jim crow is to suggest there has been and indication of change and i think one way is look at American History ofan democracy in the believe t
A federal judge and also significant because of the extremely scathing language he used. He likened the trump appeal to a frankenstein monster which had been put together. Have hazard lee. He made very clear that he believed there was no grounds for the trump claim whatsoever. And this makes it very unlikely that it can go on an appeal given that there are no grounds. Nevertheless, trumps lawyer says personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who argued the case before the judge says he wants to take it to the next level, the 3rd district and from there to the supreme court. But very difficult to see how he is going to achieve that. And very significantly to the senate for pennsylvania. Pat toomey has issued a statement saying that the judge in this particular case, matthew brand, is a lifelong republican, with no legal bias whatsoever. He considers the whole matter. Now closed the legal position over and he congratulated president elect joe biden, and his administration looking forward. He says,
Of about 14000 votes. Now it is possible that that lead could be reduced even further because there has been some reporting that there were some uncounted votes that were discovered in georgia. But the just general consensus has been that this still wont overturn the narrow lead. The joe biden has over donald trump, that it may reduce it from 14212800. So still not enough to undo the result that has been projected, as donald trump has claimed. So were watching for that very carefully in time is of the essence for the truck campaign. If it was to try and challenge these results because once released, if it is very close, they could and do have the opportunity to request one more recount unclear if theyre going to do that or not. But the votes are to be certified in that state. The u. S. State of georgia on friday, so its a very tight timeline for any sort of recourse should the trunk campaign choose to do so. My palm bay has become the 1st us section of state to visit an illegal israeli