Hello, im mathew amroliwala. The israeli military says, its expanding its Ground Offensive against hezbollah by moving into a new zone, in south western lebanon. It says it now has some 15,000 soldiers deployed in the south of the country. Hezbollah has fired more than 100 rockets at northern israeli cities and while israel says it shot most of them down, there has been some damage in the Port City of haifa. Amid the fighting, the Deputy Leader of hezbollah has said he supports a call from lebanons parliament, for a ceasefire with israel. Its thought to be the first time hezbollah has called for a ceasefire without tying it to a truce in gaza. 0ur chief international Correspondent Lyse Doucet is in tel aviv. Clear Signs Today of an escalation in israeli military operations in southern lebanon, with forces moving away from the South East where they have been focusing their actions to the south west, giving evacuation Orders Yesterday for people to move out of that area. It said from the
In cutting the cost of borrowing for the first time in overfour years. The Federal Reserve have dropped the main Interest Rate in the worlds biggest economy by half a percentage point, bringing it down to between 4. 75 and 5 . A drop larger than many expected, with some wondering now if this reflects the scale of the problems facing the american economy or the success in getting the pace of price rises, inflation, close to the banks targets. The governor of the fed, Jerome Powell says the us economy is in good shape and they intend to keep it that way. Our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupta has the details. The Federal Reserve has delivered a super sized Interest Rate cut aimed at bolstering the us Labour Market. The 0. 5 percentage cut, the first in over four years, brings its key Interest Rate, the federal funds rate, down to between 4. 75 and 5 . It comes amid Signs Inflation in america is continuing to fall, while the Job Market remains strong, even as unemployment h
conviction. why so many voters know the ex president did something criminal but still plan to vote for him anyway. for the most part even if he was found guilty i would still vote for him. she s here on that. just hours after the colorado supreme court kick to trump off the ballot, the threats started pouring in. ryan riley has the latest. plus language meant to divide us. it is language that i think people have rightly found similar to the language of hitler. the biden campaign now explicitly calling out what donald trump is doing. i never read mein kampf. and rudy giuliani declares bankruptcy rather than pay out millions in lawsuits. just who he owes money to when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. are very polarized country where it s hard to achieve consensus on just about anything, a strong majority of americans believe that donald trump is a crook. this comes from new polling by the new york times which found that 58%
conviction. why so many voters know the ex president did something criminal but still plan to vote for him anyway. for the most part even if he was found guilty i would still vote for him. she s here on that. just hours after the colorado supreme court kicked trump off the ballot, the threats started pouring in. ryan riley has the latest. plus it is language meant to divide us. it is language that i think people have rightly found similar to the language of hitler. the biden campaign now explicitly calling out what donald trump is doing. i never read mein kampf. and rudy giuliani declares bankruptcy rather than pay out millions in lawsuits. just who he owes money to when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. are very polarized country where it s hard to achieve consensus on just about anything, a strong majority of americans believe that donald trump is a crook. this comes from new polling by the new york times which found that
streets of san francisco. this time a former fire commissioner was allegedly attacked by a homeless man with a metal pipe. but the suspect s attorney claims it was the fire commissioner who was the aggressor, after he sprayed the homeless man with bear spray. we re going to go deeper into this story to see what it says about the homeless situation in san francisco. plus, teachers union president, randi weingarten is here after a contentious hearing on capitol hill afbout whether teachers unions stayed closed too long after the pandemic. and steven spielberg said he made a mistake in this rerelease of his classic film et , and he ll never do it again. et phone home? et phone home. okay. we ll talk about that. but we begin tonight with that attack on the streets of san francisco. we warn you, this video is disturbing to watch. prosecutors say former san francisco fire department commissioner was seriously injured after being attacked on april 5th by a suspect with