Battery to geothermal to advanced nuclear are not just invented but built here in america by american workers. And we will invest in the industry that, for example, made pittsburgh the Steel City by offering Tax Credits for standing good unions, jobs, steel, iron, manufacturing communities like here in Mon Valley and across all these industries of the future we will prioritize investments for strengthening Factory Towns, which is so important. For strengthening Factory Towns. Retooling existing factories. Hiring locally and working with unions because No One who grows up in americas greatest industrial or agricultural center should be abandoned. And understand what that means for real people, people we know, people we care about. The we dont have to abandon a Strength Weve known to achieve a strength that we plan. And heres what else we will do. We will double the number of registered apprenticeships by The End of my first term. Because i almost made it a goal of mine, i think i am goi
The powerful lebanese militant Group Hezbollah says it has attacked Military Targets in a series of Rocket Salvos into northern israel, following israeli Air Strikes in lebanon on monday which lebanon says killed 558 people. The Israeli Military said more than 20 rockets were launched from lebanon, some of which were intercepted by air defences. Sirens have sounded over northern israel this morning, and distant booms were heard in the galilee region. Yesterday, the military said A Million people in and around the northern city of haifa took refuge in shelters because of Hezbollah Rockets. Overnight, residents fleeing the israeli bombardment in Southern Lebanon crammed roads to reach temporary shelters in beirut. The israeli strikes made monday the deadliest day in lebanon in decades the idf says It Hit around 1,600 targets which it described as Hezbollah Cruise missiles, rockets and drones. Washington is sending a small number of additional troops to the region, as the Sense Of crisis
Good afternoon. In the last hour, Rachel Reeves has used her fIrst Labour Conference Speech as chancellor to promIse that therell be no return to austerIty. After weeks of warnIngs about the dIre state of the publIc fInances, she trIed to convey a brIghter message, sayIng she Is optImIstIc about the uks economIc future. She was brIefly heckled by one protestor at the start of her speech. Our polItIcal correspondent Helen Catt reports. As you can see behInd me, people are stIll fIlIng out from the Conference Hall where Rachel Reeves gave her speech In the last hour or so. A much traIled speech, very antIcIpated because, as we know, there has been crItIcIsm about the gloomy outlook that the chancellor and the PrIme MInIster have been talkIng about. So durIng her speech today, we had the Chancellor Attempt today, we had the Chancellor Attempt to Inject some optImIsm, talkIng about the brItaIn that she hoped to buIld for the future. There were some focus on what labour had already done In
And coming up on sportsday later in the hourt on Bbc News. A new era beckons for everton as an American Billionaire agrees a deal to become the new Majority Owner of the club. Good evening. In whats become the bloodiest day in lebanon, since hezbollah fired rockets into israel following last years October 7th attacks, the lebanese government says more than 270 people, including 21 children, have been killed in heavy israeli bombardments. The Israel Defense Force says it was targeting hundreds of hezbollah positions, while the iranian backed group, which is a proscribed terror organisation, says it fired dozens of rockets at israel. America says it is sending additional troops to the area. Orla guerin, is the in the lebanese Capital Beirut for us now. A massive bombardment began this morning at about 7am local time. Initially it was targets in Southern Lebanon that were being pounded, but by this Evening Israel was striking targets in the Bekaa Valley in the east. The idf is saying it h