Thereve been fresh explosions in the lebanese capital, beirut, and elsewhere in the country. The Health Ministry says nine people have been killed and more than Three Hundred injured. The lebanese News Agency says that todays explosions involved Walkie Talkies made by The Japanese company icom. As for Yesterdays Wave of blasts, iran has blamed israel for them. And hezbollah, has vowed to retaliate, and the Un Secretary General has warned of a serious risk of a dramatic escalation in the region. While the region waits for hezbollah and Irans Response to this extraordinary development what are the recent events that led to this . The day after hamas gunmen crossed Into israel from gaza on October 8th last Year Hezbollah fired at israeli positions to show solidarity with the palestinians. 8,000 rockets according to israeli officials, have since been launched at northern israel and israeli positions on the golan heights. Israel retaliated with repeated strikes at hezbollah positions in leb
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change his vote . Are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote . If not, the yeas are 52, the nays are 44, and the nomination is confirmed. Under the evious order, the motion to reconsider is consideredade and laid upon e table and the president will be immediately notified of the senas actions. A senator madam president. I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call wit respect to the shelt nomination be waived. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk clotu motion, we, the undersigned setors, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22, hereby bring to a close debate on the nomation of judy slton, of califora, to be a member of t board of governors of the Federal Reserve system, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is,
Volunteers, election officials, worked last night, most of today already, to open process and count ballots. Their work is not easy, and i want to say thank you to everybody in all 67 counties who have been working so hard and so diligently. I know this is something we do every election and is part of the election process, but they. Ave really worked hard the eyes of the world are on pennsylvania, so it is especially important. An important thing we all do is protect our democracy, and that is to make sure we have an accurate and full count for our vote, and that is exactly what pennsylvania is doing right now. It is not surprising, as ive said before, that this election, returns are taking a little longer than we are used to, but that is actually a good sign. Part of the reason for that is because so many people have voted, and it does mean that votes in pennsylvania are being counted. We are taking the time to make thatin this new system went into place last year that all the votes a
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United Lebanon Special concert special consulate. Hours correspondent joins us from paris. \ thank you for joining us. Lets go straight to the concert hall here in paris. The whole program performing to raise money and boost awareness of the plight of the people of lebanon struggling to rebuild in the wake of the huge explosion that destroyed the court on august 4. Lets listen. [speaking forereign language] [speaking foreign language] that was a Favorite French artist. We will get more t throughout te program. 192 people lost their lives in the explosion in beirut. Those responsible perhaps not held to account. For the victims, its an all go ash ongoing ordeal. There was already chaos caused by corruption and poverty. 300 million is a conservative estimate of former government inside beirut who spoke earlier to france 24. Lets go to our reporter who is outside the concert hall. She was there for all of the buildup backstage. You have had to come out of the venue because of covid19 rere