According to hungarys prime minister viktor orban, suggest that hes not going to give any more money towards ukraine. Its really him potentially that decides kievs fake moving forwards. And so a very fraught Week Volodymyr Z zelensky in the u. S. Now he really needs to see us Assistance And Progress fast to bring results in by november. Yeah, huge stakes for zelenskyy and all of ukraine and in the u. S. Election, nick paton walsh, thank you very much. Brand new hour of cnn, new central starts right now all right new this morning, the close Selection Weve ever seen, at least for now, new polling from three key Battleground States shows just how tight the race is at least 100 people have been killed by israeli strikes in lebanon as the idf says, it is launching what it calls extensive for precise strikes against hezbollah. And after more than 100 jordan, 80 days in space and 3,000 orbits of earth. A us astronaut heading back home, it is not. Kate baldwin know she is out today. Im John Be
Hello and welcome, everyone. Im Michael Holmes with the latest on the israelhamas war. And Israeli Forces stepping up air strikes in gaza, ahead of what theyre calling the next stage of israels war on hamas, the idea of targeted and carried out dozens of air strikes in the last few hours. It appears to be the most sustained bombardment in Northern Gaza since the start of the conflict. An official telling cnn there will be no Ceasefire Talks amid the hostage crisis, saying humanitarian efforts cant interfere with the mission to dismantle hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with the nations War Cabinet On Sunday to discuss security, among other things. Saying it is likely the invasion of gaza needs to be israels last moves inside the region, vowing hamas wont be around for long. This needs to be the last maneuvering inside gaza due to the simple reason that hamas will cease to exist. It might take a month, two, but eventually, there will be no hamas. Journalist Ellio
Deescalation. That is the message from the us Secretary Of State, tony blinken just now, after israel launched the retaliatory strike against iran, overnight. Now blinken was just speaking from a g7 summit in italy, telling reporters pointedly that the United States was not involved in any Offensive Operations. As he also said, the focus for the United States and g7 remains deescalation you saw israel on the Receiving End of an unprecedented attack. But our focus has been on, of course, making sure that israel can effectively defend itself, but also so deescalating tensions avoiding conflict. And that remains our focus so israels strikes were in response to the missile and drone attack that iran launched last weekend. The early read this morning seems to be the israel in its response overnight was trying to avoid further escalation. A source in the region saying that the strikes are over around so far downplaying the hit coming at them. John. All right. Us officials confirm that israel
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for coming on today as this strike happened overnight, kim, i m going to begin with you, how significant is the strike by israel inside of iran? well significant in the self-control that the security cabinet showed. the war cabinet in that it could have gone for something much larger, something that had to be attributed to israel. but the way it did t quadcopters apparently, which it s used before, and attacks that iran blamed on israel, attacks that assassinated various nuclear scientists and hit various nuclear bases this was done targeting military bases. so iran could hide any damage from the public. so it was a strike. yes. but very deniable by both sides. and face-saving. it s a recipe for tamping down the