Hello. Im sally bundock. The United States says its involved in intensive diplomatic efforts to prevent a further escalation in the conflict between Israel And Hezbollah in lebanon. The national Security Spokesman John Kirby said the White House didnt believe the crisis could be solved by additional military operations. He was speaking after a second day of explosions across lebanon triggered in Walkie Talkies used by hezbollah. More than 32 People have been killed, thousands have been left injured. Israel hasnt confirmed it was behind the blasts. But the Defence Minister Yoav gallant said it was opening a new phase in its year long war, with the centre of gravity shifting to the North. Our reporter simonjones has more. A Simon Jones has more. A simonjones has more. Funeral in Southern Lebano is a funeral in Southern Lebanon is about to be interrupted. An explosion injuring a hezbollah soldier, causing panic and fear. In beirut, another blast caused by a walkie talkie. A new form of te
Hamas denies it was there. Tte mac the Hamas Civil defence. We have at least 13 confirmed dead that have arrived at the hospital in and that will arise. The israeli defense forces say they were defending their targeting significant hamas terrorists and they have released the names of three people who describe as commanders or senior commanders of hamas who are intimately involved in the october seven assault on israel. For the civilians living here is a different story. They tell a story of huge explosions coming after midnight and ripping through this city. , tent city. Thousands of families are sheltering here, living under Canvas And None of that would have provided any shelter at all from heavy munitions coming from the sky. Lets turn to the us because Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are preparing to go head to head in their first president ial debate later tonight. With the latest polls showing the race as still too close to call the primetime Television Event is being seen as cruc
Results of the 2020 president ial election. Unlike his three previous indictments, this, time the former president will have to make a trip to jail, or he will be booked ahead of his arraignment, which is scheduled for the week of september 5th. Trump is now facing a total of 91 criminal charges in four separate cases across different jurisdictions. Yet, for criminal indictments and the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, has not humble the former president in the least. He remains unrepentant and unapologetic for his actions, and, if anything, hes grown more defiant. Nearly three years later, he still denies the result of the 2020 president ial election, even though he hasnt offered up a shred of proof of the sort that has been able to withstand the slightest scrutiny. On top of that, he continues to attack anyone remotely connected to the cases against him, except the one judge that he appointed who will oversee the maralago documents case. Despite receiving multi
speeches in each precinct before the caucus goers vote for their candidate of choice. in a secret ballot. no early voting. no absentee voting. no veil in voting in this instance. the process can take a little while, but this, year could be the coldest iowa caucus ever. current forecast for monday night include record sub-zero temperatures, which, of course, could affect turnout. at this point, a force of nature might be the only thing that could prevent donald trump from winning the state. the latest poll of iowa conducted by suffolk university earlier this month shows the former president leading the pack with 54% of likely republican caucus goers saying they plan to support him. his closest rival, nikki haley, is 34 points behind. a 20%. if these numbers hold, trump has the opportunity to smash the record for the largest margin of victory in iowa gop history for a non incumbents. that s a record currently held by bob dole, who won the 1988 caucuses by 13 points. over pat ro
plus, israel is barring refugee camps as part of new efforts to find hostages. the head of the idf insists the war will go on for months but some critics think that will not be enough time to wipe out hamas. and jack smith calling on the d.c. court to do something that sounds almost unthinkable. stop donald trump from injecting politics into his election interference trial. we re going to start with secretary of state blinken. all right. we re going to start with blinken and dhs secretary set to meet with mexico s president as we speak. the two countries grappling with what the u.s. is calling quote unprecedented levels of migration as well as security challenges on both sides of the southern border. now, these discussions taking on even more urgency as a massive new caravan of roughly 8,000 mie migrants or more are making their way to the united states. the u.s. is already struggling to deal with a record number of migrants. nearly 50,000 arriving last week alone, overwhel