this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome, i am lynda kinkade. after unleashing u.s. military on iranian backed targets and syria and iraq, president joe biden is making it clear, this is just the start of the retaliation in the deaths of three americans. this video from what appears to be one of those strikes early, saturday morning local time. the mayor of this town says the strikes hit houses used for weapons storage. the pentagon says u.s. bombers hit 85 individual targets in iraq and syria. the u.s. says the locations were used by iran s revolutionary guard and by iranian backed militia. the pentagon says each was used by iran backed groups, the video you just saw comes from iraq on the border with syria. an iraqi military spokesman says the attacks violated iraq s 70. the white house says iraq was notified before the attacks. u.s. president joe biden issued the statement, our response began today and will continue at times and places of our choosing. the united sta
russell brand, comedian, actor, political commentator accused of multiple sexual assaults and the rape of a woman that the programme dispatches called nadia. he s grabbing at my, my underwear, pulling it to the side. i m telling him to get off me, he won t get off. i was distraught, trying to get out of the house with him being so much taller than me, like, holding me up against the wall. further details have now been published about nadia reporting the incident to a rape crisis centre and also a series of text messages that the investigators say russell brand sent to nadia. the exchange begins with him saying, i m sorry, i will make this up to you . and then he goes on to ask, will you everforgive me? it was just as these allegations first began to emerge that he arrived for a performance in london. on stage he was met by fans with cheers and a standing ovation. he has these days, millions of followers on social media. this is anti establishment, anti authoritarian. .. wh
it is now more than a decade since you wrote sapiens. it was a worldwide hit, and in essence, it was a very sort of positive explanation of how we humans have come to sort of dominate this planet. it was about our ability to cooperate, to tell shared stories, to give ourselves common purpose. i just wonder whether in the last decade, you ve lost some of that optimism. i think our shared stories and our ability to cooperate, both as a species, but also on the national level, is collapsing in more and more places. i see it now in my home country of israel, which is really on the verge maybe of a constitutional crisis or even a civil war. maybe what we need to understand specifically about democracies is that democracy, in essence, is a conversation. you know, dictatorship, there is one person dictates everything. democracy is trying to reach some agreement through conversation, and conversation is not always possible. for most of history, large scale conversation was just techn
jeremy hunt or the current prime minister. i imagine rishi sunak will not react directly to his predecessor. but he will probably think being behind in the opinion polls to the labour opposition that this would be a brave or bold time to tell people they would have to work longer and potentially have public services to some extent reduced in terms of the cash available. it s quite a difficult political sell but what liz truss said she took personal responsibility for trying to rush through her agenda. she had a rather strange metaphor, not one to think about of your lunch, she did not just try to fatten a pig on market day, she tried to rear end and slaughter it all on the same day so she did rush her agenda but she said change had been urgent and what happened in the end wasn t so much the policies she was pursuing, they were not wrong, she argued the political and economic establishment including part of the conservative party turned against her and there was not enough con
efforts will be seen today. lyse doucet, our efforts will be seen today. lyse so russia and ukraine lawyers doucet, our chief efforts will be seen today. lyse doucet, our chief international in court, side by side, correspondent, thank you very much. arguing their cases. we re hearing, first of all, from russia. so how did we get here? well, a few days after russian tanks rolled across the border, more women have come forward with allegations ukraine brought this case about russell brand. the times newspaper says several women have to the international court contacted its journalists since saturday, when it published the accounts of four women ofjustice, claiming that russia who accused the comedian of raping or sexually assaulting them. was abusing the genocide convention mr brand has denied those claims by claiming falsely genocide and insisted all his relationships were consensual. was being committed in eastern david silitto reports. ukraine, in order to try to just