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. We have corresponded around the world reporting on this developing story. Anna foster is in beirut, lucy williams is in israel, and joe photo is in jerusalem and tom bateman is in washington. Firstly let s hear from lucy. We ve been hearing helicopters overhead for a while now and also the sound of artillery, some distance away, earlier, a series of loud explosions that we heard here close to the border as israel confirmed that it had launched what it s calling limited and targeted ground raids terrorist targets in the area. It s not clear at this stage what sort of scale form those raids are taking but we have witnessed a buildup of troops and tanks here at the border over the last few days, we saw a couple of
Its ahead of a planned Ground Offensive in the Southern City of rafah, where about 1. 5 Million People are sheltering. It is being reported this morning, not a huge amount of detail what those humanitarian islands would look like. It is right at the very southern end of the gaza strip, where more than half of the population is now sheltering and is a place where israel has said it needs to carry out a military Ground Offensive because it says in order to achieve its aim of fully removing hamas run gaza, the only way to do thatis hamas run gaza, the only way to do that is target hamas s remaining leadership when they are believed to be in and among civilians sheltering in rafa. Of course this remains an operation which has questions attached, certainly the word ireland is interesting because a central part of the gaza strip has been left severely damaged by months of Israeli Ground and air attacks. People who live there have left their homes, been going back to those areas but of course
welcome to this special edition of jesse waters on a friday on a fr night.s i m pete hegseth. and we start tonight with a fox news alert. the u.s. military has just ag launched retaliatory attacksd against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria. u.s. central command says over 85 targets were struck.st these strikes come just days the after three american soldiers were killed in a deadly droneon attack the b on the border in j. for the latest, let s bringet in international correspondent mike tobin. mike, what do we know? well, we know that we ve got the first images coming out of irathe f comq. you just had them up a second ago, al.com, iraq. this is the very western part of iraq on the border, with syria, very near some of of the other locationthes. erent as you mentioned, some 85 targets were hitlo in seven different locations, both in iraq and syria, hit by 125 munitions. thos sevene seven locationsia are divided up to four inside of syria., three of them inside
foreign policy principle, putting business first, not military power, was suddenly, it looked like weakness. chancellor olof shulz promised dramatic change. my guest is the state secretary for cooperation niels annen. so has germany got a new strategic vision? niels annen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. it is great to be here. let s start with the war in ukraine. i think there is no doubt that putin s invasion of ukraine shocked germany. would it be fair to say it has also destabilised germany? no, i don tthink destabilised germany? no, i don t think so destabilised germany? no, i don t think so but destabilised germany? no, i don t think so but it - destabilised germany? no, ll don t think so but it certainly shocked germany because a lot of our economic model was based on the assumption that we would continue using cheap russian natural gas and it was also based in a kind of historic, i want to say historic experience that although russia was a competitor an