The iranian backed Group Hezbollah has confirmed that its senior military commander, Ibrahim Aqil, was among those killed in the attack on a building in the southern suburbs of beirut. Addressing the un security council, the israeli envoy Danny Danon didnt mention the attacks in lebanon but said his country would do whatever it took to defend itself. These are some of the latest pictures from beirut where Rescue Workers are continuing to search through the rubble of the suburban building destroyed by israel. Its military says it was targeting hezbollah s elite radwan forces. It was israels third attack on the lebanese capital this year. Live to our correspondent injerusalem, daniel de simone. Bring us up to date with what we know on that Recovery Operation in beirut. The lebanese operation in beirut. The lebanese authorities i operation in beirut. Tue lebanese authorities say theyve been working through theyve been working through the rubble of this southern suburb of beirut to try and
Devices somehow set to detonate at the same time, the people wearing those pagers were members of the iranian back backed Group Hezbollah, which the u. S. Considers to be a Terrorist Group. Hezbollah now blames israel for the attack we have Reporting And Analysis on all the latest developments from Tel Aviv to washington. First, we go to cnns Jeremy Diamond Standing by for us in israel. Jeremy, were learning more about how hezbollah communicates, opting for pagers over smartphones why and where are these pagers being well, jake, this appears to have been a low effort to avoid israels high tech surveillance, but it appears to have backfired on hezbollah becoming a vulnerability as a hundreds of these pagers to have exploded simultaneously. Today, you can see in the video from multiple security cameras, including an a free store for example where these pagers appear to have exploded. One of them in a bag that was being carried by a man. The result of this is that we now see that a 2,800
Sense. Wel welcome, this is early start. Im christine romans. It is 5 00 a. M. In new york. Laura has the day off. We again with a residential Building Collapse theyre miami beach, dozens of rescue units are on the scene. Were heading there right now, this happened just in the past few hours. We know Something Like 100 units from miami rescue are on the scene there trying to dig through this partial Building Collapse. If you know miami, this is 88th and collins, the village is called surfside. Again, well bring you live details as we get them this morning. Next 24 hours hugely critical to the biden agenda, senators will heat with the president today after shake hands on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, they are also staring at a fast approaching deadline on Police Reform. And democrats under pressure to actafter Voting Rights failed in the senate. Daniella diaz is live for us. What are they doing as the clock ticks down . Reporter it is pretty critical that they actually reached a dea
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