Victoria state and announces fines as high as 14000. 00 to stop people breaking coronavirus isolation orders. And intense speculation over the whereabouts of spains former king after he announces hes leaving the country. And i would begin with our breaking news out of lebanon where a massive explosion has shaken the capital beirut 27 people have been confirmed dead and the Lebanese Health Ministry Says around 2500 people have been injured Security Officials say the blast happened in an area of the citys port which housed highly explosive material that had been confiscated. Shock waves are felt for several kilometers and buildings within a large radius of the site have been severely damaged the red cross warns many others are still trapped in their homes the cause of the blast isnt known lebanons president has called for urgent defense counsel talks israel has issued a statement denying any involvement and france and iran both say theyre ready to help lebanon in any way. People who were
Prevent antigovernment protests. We begin the program in israel where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned it is quote playing with fire hes accuse the Lebanese Armed group of launching an infiltration attempt in the border region of shed our farms hizbollah denies that its fighters tried to penetrate the border or engage in any confrontation the United Nations is origen both sides to show restraint is going out to harry for citizens of west jerusalem for a so harry there are very different accounts are in there coming from israel and hezbollah about will presumably happened or didnt happen. Indeed there are in for context we have to remember the fact that israel has been awaiting some kind of response from hezbollah for a week now ever since and airstrike inside syria killed a fighter theres been a long standing promise from hezbollah that any such event would lead to a response from lebanon against israel and so these are the militarys been on a heightened state of alert alon
Prevent antigovernment protests and on nearing a civil rights leader john lewis lies in state in the u. S. Capital. And in sport cats are has officially expressed an interest in staging a future Olympic Games the 2022 world cup hosts hope to bring the olympics to the middle east for the 1st time. We begin the news hour in israel where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned it is quote playing with fire hes accuse the Lebanese Armed group of launching an infiltration attempt in the border region of shane bauer farms has denies its fighters tried to penetrate the border or engaged in any confrontation the United Nations is urging both sides to show restraint harry full set has more. Smoke plumes over southern lebanon after what the Israeli Military referred to as a security incident it said a cell of hezbollah fighters trying to infiltrate israeli controlled territory Israeli Soldiers tracked them and repelled them with machine gun tank and artillery fire in tel aviv where theyd ru
A wider political push perhaps for all of this to happen. Im beginning to wonder whether all hell is going to break loose because while drone power who is speaking the markets just tanked and you know donald trump. Is quite concerned about the markets the reason why the buckets times initially was how seem to be saying at the beginning of his press conference this is not the beginning of a the start of a long cycle of Interest Rate cuts which is what the markets were sort of hoping for we should have donald trump would have been hoping for but then only about 2030 minutes after he started speaking he made a clarification saying look im not saying its the beginning of a long cycle of cuts by more ruling out easy distressed further cuts so there was that kind of confusion which was sense rather the rather sensitive folks in the markets going nuts basically because they were hoping that this would be a long start of the several calls he wasnt ruling that out it turns out after all you kno
Also for issues such as security in the strait of hormuz that those are the 2 key topics that have really been occupying international leaders. Separate topics but definitely connected on the one hand the Nuclear Negotiations and the nuclear deal was somewhat debt after the United States unilaterally pulled out of the iran deal last year and the other hand it trumpet ministration as been trying to reach out sort of hand out this god knows what sort of other problems by saying well were open that box and so on and so forth its a matter of saving face for the Iranian Regime private harmony and for his sort of foreign spokesman jots or if who is the ministry of Foreign Affairs to come back to a negotiating table at which they had sat for a couple years and had reached an agreement and so its embarrassing its beyond the can save face and i had to lami had to repeat it several times that dealing with the us were talking to us and i quote is so not amiss what poison so you have a problem the