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Here in the United States its canada and around The World, im Kim Brunhuber. This is Cnn Newsroom. The United States issues a warning as Hezbollah And Israel Trade Attacks across the lebanese border a Mass Shooting in a us city leaves at least four dead and dozens wounded will have the latest. And Kamala Harris says yes to another debate with Donald Trump. Why her opponent is saying, no thanks atlanta. This is Cnn Newsroom with Kim Brunhuber the u. S. Is urging its citizens to leave lebanon as soon as they can as fighting between Israel And Hezbollah only seems to go from bad to worse. Israel said its been conducting new strikes against the iranbacked group in lebanon today. Thats after hezbollah launched more than 100 projectiles i was into israel overnight. Thats according to the idf. The statement says, some of them were shot down, but there was at least one direct hit and falling debris caused fires and injured at least four people. Idf has announced new restrictions on public activities in Northern Israel and parts of the occupied Golan Heights and an israeli official says prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is delaying his trip to the Un General Assembly until friday for now. Now it all happened after this saturday, israel conducted some of its most intense strikes in lebanon since the war in gaza broke out the idf says It Hit about 180 targets, including Hezbollah Rocket launchers ready to fire on israel us officials are warning that the possibility of even more escalation is real all right. For more Elliott Gotkine joins us from London Elliott take us through the latest made. It does seem that the allout war that no one, not israel, not hezbollah not the United States and the international community wanted, may be about to break out, as you say, tensions higher than they had been at any point . In the past 11 months. Israel saying that it targeted almost 400 rocket launches belonging to hezbollah, that were primed to fire towards israel in perhaps the largest barrage that weve seen since tensions began, since hezbollah started firing on israel in support of the hamasled Terrorist Attacks of october seventh hezbollah for its part, has penetrated deeper into israel that any point in the last 11 months or firing, as you say, more than 100 projectiles towards israel. Some of them were intercepted, some of them fell harmlessly to the ground, but there were a couple of direct hits including in nazareth and also Kiryat Bialik, which is close to haifa the north of israel. And weve seen images and videos of buildings and cars being set On Fire on top of that, the Home Front Command has now issued new guidelines, meaning that people in haifa and communities north of there, well find their schools and beaches are closed and that there are restrictions on gatherings youve also got the Rumble Hospital in haifa, which is in now evacuating patients to its underground wards. So big concerns that things are about to not just get back to what happened in 2006, the last time there was an allout war between Israel And Hezbollah. But perhaps potentially be even worse indeed, one resident in Kiryat Bialik telling cnn that it does now feel like it was back in 2006, kim right. And then elliott, israel raided and closed Al Jazeera is westbank office. What more can you tell us about that . Now the relationship between israel and Al Jazeera has always been a little bit tense. Things obviously got worse in May 2022 when it killed one of its correspondent, Shireen Abu Akleh during a, during tensions or conflict between fighting between israel and militants in jenin raided and close down the Jerusalem Office in may hope to aljazeera broadcasting in israel. Now it has raided the offices in the occupied West Bank in ramallah. From the video that aljazeera itself broadcast, i counted around about 25 troops going into the actual bureau, though there could well have been more. They handed a letter to the bureau chief. There saying that the aljazeera is office. There was being closed down for 45 days. Now, the reason for this is from israels perspective, is it accuses aljazeera of effectively being a mouthpiece of Propaganda Arm for hamas and other militant groups that israel is fighting. And that is why there was almost unanimity from Israels Government and parliament there too close the broadcaster down. So those scenes that youre seeing were broadcast live by aljazeera when israeli forces raided. Their office, there in a move that has already been criticized in the past for amounting to a restriction on Press Freedom in israel. Kim, alright, appreciate that Elliott Gotkine in london. Thanks so much. And turning now to gaza, where the Health Ministry says and israeli attack on a School Compound saturday killed at least 22 people, most of them women and children the school in Central Gaza Shelters Thousands of displaced palestinians. The idf Claims Hamas was using it as a Command Center and precautions had been taken to avoid civilian casualties, despite evidence that there were many civilians killed and wounded ill Cnn Isnt able to verify whether hamas operatives were present at the compound. Some of the people living there told cnn that there was no warning before the attack, and suddenly missiles started raining down on them what have we the children done to wake up and go to sleep in fear, at least stop the bombing of schools. We have no schools, no homes. Where should we go . Yes. I was there when the school was hit. I wish people had only been injured, but everyone was martyred. All of them were martyred, torn into pieces those sitting on their drones, afraid for their positions. Me to rise and find a solution. We want to live our lives like the u. S. Two, or even better meanwhile, another wave of demonstrations swept across israel On Saturday in tel aviv. Protesters call for israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down and make way for someone and who can secure a hostage release deal. They held up posters of the hostages and chanted, we will not give up the hostages and Families Forum says, Israels Government failed miserably on October 7 and continues to fail to free their Loved Ones all right. Developing now a Mass Shooting in birmingham, alabama, police say at least four people were killed and dozens more were injured Saturday Night in a popular Entertainment Area two men and a woman were pronounced dead at the scene and other died hospital the university of alabama at Birmingham Hospital says, its treating 11 victims. Blue state multiple shooters fired numerous shots on a group of people who were on the sidewalk or street. Detectives are working to determine whether the shooters walked up to the victims or drove by in a Vehicle Police Havent made any arrests rest assured. We are going to do everything we possibly can to make sure that we uncover identify, and hunt down who was ever responsible for preying on our people this morning according to the gun violence archive, there have been more than 400 Mass Shootings in the u. S. This year, it defines a Mass Shooting as an incident with at least four victims shot including the shooter Kamala Harris says shes ready for another showdown with Donald Trump. The democratic president ial nominee has accepted Cnns Invitation to debate her republican opponent. Again on october 23, but Donald Trump says he isnt interested as he continues to complain about the moderators from the abc News Debate nearly two weeks ago. Now says, abc should be investigated the former president dismissed his Rivals Challenge On Saturday while campaigning in North Carolina and Refresh Cloud of controversy. Cnns Steve Contorno has more Donald Trump arrived in North Carolina On Saturday with the State Gop in crisis over their nominee for governor, Mark Robinson. After a Cnn Kfile Report showed that he posted to a pornography websites several years ago claiming that he was, quote, A Black Nazi Mark Robinson has appeared in the past at trump events. However, he was not invited, did not show up and was not mentioned at all during trumps remarks. However, trump did mention the debate invitation. He received On Saturday from cnn and he said thanks, but no thanks. Although good entertainment value, a lot of people do it, its great entertainment ive already done to the problem with another debate is that its just too late. Voting has already started. Shes had her chance to do it with fox. No, fox invited us on and i waited and waited they turned it down. They turned it down, but now she wants to do a debate right before the election with cnn because shes losing badly. Its too late to do another Id Love to in many ways, but its too late. The voting is Cast Worth noting, Donald Trump did participate in October Debates in 2016 and in 2020 as well. Donald trump On Saturday also tried to speak directly to the women in his audience and across the country telling them they were quote poorer, less healthy, less safe, more depressed, and less optimistic than they were four years ago when he was president. And he specifically tried to talk to them about the issue of abortion you will no longer be thinking about abortion because it is now where it always had to be with the states and with the vote of the people, with its fastgrowing suburbs around charlotte, the issue of abortion and the Womens Vote will be critical come this election. And if you look at the polling, Kamala Harris is doing better than Donald Trump with women beating him. But by 60, the 37 that is a larger margin than it was four years ago. Steve contorno, cnn, wilmington, North Carolina and joining me now is natasha lindstaedt, professor of government at the north of essex good to see you again. So listen, lets start with Donald Trump Turning Down cnn debates. Are you surprised . No, im not surprised at all because the first debate he had with Kamala Harris was a complete disaster for him in fact, the major headlines were about how he went off on tangents talking about immigrants, eating cats and dogs. And you seem generally unhinged and about the fact that it was just so easy for her to stoke him for her to get him to take the bait and it was pretty decisive in terms of the way the public felt that the debate went so theres really nothing for him to gain unless he could be somehow much more disciplined. In a second debate, and thats why he does i dont want to debate her again, of course, she says she wants to, but this is him saying, you know, i had a perfect debate and i dont need to do it again. So hes contradicting himself all over the place. Yeah. So at the same time though, if he is down in the polls, isnt it sort of risky that hes leaving his his Running Mate, j. D. Vance, to be the last word on the debate stage, because a late stage debate, it couldnt swing the last sort of undecided voters, right . Right . So im sure trumps team would want him to debate again, if he could remain discipline but because he cant do that, this could make things worse for him. He could say things that sound even crazier. People who are watching the bag also commented there were questions about his mental fitness, where he seemed very sharp and on top of things compared to the debate he had with biden, once he had to debate harris, he really seemed out of his death so it may make things worse for him if he were to debate again. But of course theres a lot of pressure on Vance Vance has had a very troubled start to joining Donald Trumps ticket. Hes been accused of all different kinds of things. Everything he says seems to really irked people more than draw people. And that will really end up being the last debate that people see. And i dont think thats particularly great for republicans yeah. All right. So Donald Trump was in North Carolina, so on. Mark robinson controversy, maybe not surprising that trump didnt address it or mentioned him. Do you think he should have with the Harris Campaign now, Airing Ads in the state linking the two of them together. So i dont know if theres any way that trump could address the Mark Robinson scandal. And be able to look good doing so would just be attracting attention to the fact that in march he had forcefully Endorsed Robinson and called him Martin Luther King On Steroids so hes going to want to distance himself from this because it could affect the outcome. The way i think it will affect the outcome is it might just depress republican Voter Turnout to that state. It wont affect the Senate Election because theres no senate race. It probably wont affect the House Races because theyre so heavily gerrymandered, but it will affect those State Level races. And trump won the state by just over a 0. 4 years ago. So it was tight then its incredibly tight now and harris is team has capitalized on this putting together ads about how close trump and robinsons views really are, and what thats going to do, as i mentioned, is probably going to depressed republican turnout. And thats critical in a state that is so hotly contested. All right. So we can have a hotly contested race up pennsylvania. Harris Running Mate tim walz, was in pennsylvania and in a Swing County specifically, democrats are hoping that his sort of, that he might have a working class appeal, that it might help them in these crucial swing states, are you getting any sense from the numbers that theyre breaking through . So one of the things that weve noticed about the democrats campaign in pennsylvania is theyre not just going to areas where they would normally when the Day Isnt going deep into areas where trump had won by a lot in pennsylvania. So there really expanding the map of where theyre willing to go. And i think its a good strategy putting tim waltz there. He does have a mass appeal. Appeals better to male voters, and thats one of t