that lebanon needs. live now to our correspondent hugo bachega in beirut. we should say that israel and hezbollah have been trading fire, haven t they, over the borderfor the last three months now. but this is a significant increase, isn t it? yes, lucy, this morning, hezbollah said it had carried out a massive rocket attack targeting an israeli military base in northern israel and the group said this was its initial response after the assassination here in beirut of a deputy hamas leader on tuesday in a suspected israeli attacks, and this is an attack that happened in an area of beirut that is hezbollah stronghold, so we heard yesterday from the influential hezbollah leader who
going to speak this morning now? it s not so clear. if he will. what are you seeing and hearing on the ground? well we have heard nothing from the prime minister. so far and meantime, the country has come to a screeching halt. and instead, as you can see here, people are coming out into the streets once again to protest right outside of the supreme court, where protesters have just been streaming in all morning, england. i ve never seen this country like this. i ve never seen such a huge massive strike affecting every possible business. as you noted, even the mcdonalds here are shutting down. the major ports are shutting down and as elliott is experiencing right now in the airport, there are no take off. planes are still landing. but there are no takeoffs. the last time the airport was shut down during the war in 2021, when the israeli military was trading fire with gaza with militants, hamas militants in gaza rockets were near. that s usually what she has done the airport but instead
mike: u.s. intelligence officials that russia and iran to finalize a deal to manufacture iranian drones on russian soil. this news comes after the u.s. announces sanctions on entities involves the production and transfer of iranian drones to russia. fox news senior foreign affairs correspondent greg alcott has the story from kyiv, hello gregory. l.a. mike moore on the dangers drones in a moment. but first the danger down south. twelve blasts were heard overnight at that huge nuclear power plants. hit both sides are blaming the other. it s occupied by russia, the un s iaea agencies seeing someone it s been critical of moscow, is playing with fire. in the city of kherson russians had an oil depot. they were pushed just a few miles away the two sides have been trading fire. as russia continues to target ukraine with a deadly and deceptive weapon, take a look.
this is not the new mexico i grew up in, love and cherish. so to that end hate will not win, evil not in we will defeat evil and hate together. from there, we go to the middle east. where for a third straight day it is israeli forces and islamic militants are trading fire in the gaza strip. the death toll is climbing. rocket explosions reported on the outskirts of jerusalem, just this morning israel said they killed a second militant youth leader since the start of the military offensive. the violence has killed 20 and gaza, and wounded hudson s more according to the gaza health ministry. let s bring in nbc, s matt bradley, to talk about it in london. matt, talk us through this. take us back to a few days ago and how it started. it all started back on friday, when the israeli government announced that they were going to launch what was a preeminent attack to what they said was going to avert an
the problem is it goes back to the people that are most vaccine hesitant in this country are republican men and followers of the president. this shows you the level of challenge that biden and really former president trump have to deal with as they try to convince people to get vaccinated and it was a tough moment for him. you can see he was uncomfortable but also that he in someways wanted to be clear. it would be more uncomfortable if he didn t have the booster, however he got it. operation warp speed, they got it done. he can take credit for that. now tell people to do it. thank you-all so much. you definitely made us smarter in the last few minutes. coming up, president biden and senator joe manchin who from trading fire to a phone call. what is the path forward for the biden agenda and the investigation into the january 6th insurrection reaches a new phase. the first sitting members of congress, the select committee wants to interview. congress, the select committee wants tont