This is the live scene in beirut, as bbc teams report hearing explosions in the capital s southern suburbs israel has ordered the evacuation of three areas. Meanwhile the uk government has chartered a flight to help british nationals leave lebanon, scheduled to leave beirut on wednesday. It s as israeli tanks were seen gathering at the border on monday. Israel s defense minister yoav gallant said the military is prepared to use forces from the air, land and sea to allow thousands of displaced israelis to return to their homes in the north. Meanwhile, the deputy chief of hezbollah, naim qaissem, said the groups fighters are ready to confront an invasion. He acknowledged the assassination of leader, hassan nasrallah, was a big blow but said all fallen commanders would soon be replaced. Let s get the latest now from our correspondent on the border between israel and lebanon, lucy williamson. We ve been hearing helicopters overhead for a while now and also the sound of artillery, som
against president biden s student loan bailout plan on friday but its allies are vowing that the fight is not over. rachel: that s right. defiant democrats are also face something tough questions. after the supreme court quoted nancy pelosi s own words in their decision. joey: our very own martin meredith is live at the white house and he s got more on this story. martin. reporter: joey, rachel and steve good morning to all three of you. president biden said he s disappointed in last week s supreme court ruling which nullified his efforts to cancel some student loan debt but the administration says it s working on a plan b. it s really important, first of all, borrowers hear loud and clearly we re not stopping the fight that we recognize how important this is. within hours of the supreme court decision, which we totally disagree with, i think is wrong, we announced that we are moving forward with another pathway to debt relief. reporter: that other pathway includes
i mean, joe biden said clearly he was trying to do something to motivate his base and he said, i m going to forgive i m going to do everything i can, going to pull out all the stops, use the heroes act to forgive a bunch of debt, half a trillion dollars. the heroes act was passed so people who served our military proudly or 9/11, the first responders, so that they could essentially have their debt forgiven. it wasn t across the board. so, you know what? a majority of of the justices on the supreme court agreed with nancy pelosi when she said that the president does not have the power to do that. if you want to do it, you ve got to do it in congress. joey: and that s what s so seemingly nefarious about it. they do this, make this promise almost in the sense that they know they can t fulfill it and it s almost a win win for them. steve: look good, look, we re trying. joey: they can look good in the meantime but if the supreme court and republicans attack it or stop them from doin
tapped by president trump s 2016 campaign harvested from more than 50 million facebook profiles to influence voters without the knowledge of those users joining us from the guardian, carol catwalder, a reporter who revealed how the data was exploited for millions of facebook users, and she profiles the whistle-blower at the heart of the controversy. what s the lead? is the it the trump campaign angle or the facebook angle? i think the facebook angle because they ve been trying to deny responsibility. they knew about the data breach two years ago that 50 million people s personal information
yeah, we have. so we will move along. right. i ll move along. alaska senator mark begich is feeling as much pressure as anybody. he is facing a tsunami of outside money and he is working hard to distance himself from president obama. in a new the washington post article, he brands himself as a nag to the white house. this could be an interesting campaign angle. the paper reports, quote, when begich talks about his role in american politics he describes himself as a sharp object sent to washington to jab at president obama. i ll be a thorn in his hhmm begich said in an interview. there is a time i m a total thorn and he doesn t appreciate it. i know a couple of other candidates who could capitalize on actually having been a real thorn, but actually done something productive. joe? yeah. it s an interesting approach.