Welcome to our viewers, joining us from around The World. Im Becky Anderson in Tel Aviv, where israel is vowing that iran will pay for launching a barrage of roughly 200 missiles into israeli territory. And Im Rosemary Church In Atlanta breaking down the key takeaways from the first and only us Vice President ial Debate Fighting between the Israeli Military and the iranbacked militant group, hezbollah. Less than a day after tehran launched its largest ever aerial attack against israel. These are live pictures from beirut, lebanon where smoke is hanging over the sky worthy new strikes launched overnight by the idf against hezbollah targets in beiruts Southern Suburbs after issuing Evacuation Orders for several neighborhoods, Sand Hezbollah have claimed to have Hit Bag were a Rocket Attack on an Israeli Military barracks along the lebanese israeli border. And well get to that in a moment. Meanwhile, both Israel And Iran are trying to control the narrative over the impact of tech runs unp
Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
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Member from Jd Vances campaign did fact check the statement about ohio before it sparked the controversy. And are sean combs days as a free Man Over . His last Ditch Effort to get out of prison while he waits trial on charges that could put him behind bars the rest of his life. We begin with the Chaos And Confusion inside lebanon right now where for a second straight day more devices are exploing across the country including walkietalkies more than nine people are dead and 300 injured from the latest blast. Yesterday electronic devices used by the members of hezbollah exploded across lebanon killing at least 12 people and injuring up to 2,800. Two u. S. Officials confirm to Nbc News that israel was behind the attack. The new york times is sharing new details on yesterdays highly sophisticated Attack Reporting that israel planted, quote, small amounts of explosives in beepers that hezbollah ordered from a company based in taiwan. According to american and other officials briefed on the
Year may amount to War Crimes and crimes against humanity. There have been a lot of violations and there are reasonable grounds to think that of these violations and dont amount to international crimes. Meanwhile the bbc has seen, first hand, the desperate conditions civilians are enduring in sudan. Aid agencies are warning the Hunger Crisis is of historic proportions. Our correspondent Nawal Al Maghafi has gained rare access to the city of Port Sudan and a key Border Area in neighbouring chad where refugees are still flowing out as Aid Agencies desperately try to get aid in. The faces of a forgotten war. These are some of the family scoffed at the centre of what is being called one of the worlds worst humanitarian crisis. Here in sudan, 26 Million people are facing acute hunger. We only get one meal a day, this woman says. In this Displacement Camp in Port Sudan, they are safe from the front lines of the conflict, but life is hard. In another camp nearby People Queue for water. Our mo