[sirens wailing] John Thats whats been happening in israel over the last couple hours. Air raid sirens, alerts blinking red all across the country. As iran throws the full might of its ballistic Missile Arsenal of israel. You see a couple impacts. They look like they might have gone down into the Mediterranean Sea just to the west of Tel Aviv. No significant casualties, no significant damage that we know of and for all intents and purposes this appears to be over. At least for the moment because Air Spaces have reopened. People have been told they can depart the Bomb Shelters that theyve been in. To wait out what iran had to throw at israel. Here we go again. Last time this happened was back on april 13th. Didnt result in any significant casualties or damage and that appears to be the case tonight. Sandra this is coming from iran. Still reporting what we are seeing. Per a senior iranian official to reuters, the u. S. Was alerted by iran through diplomatic channels shortly before these
Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
Greetings to everyone, this is Svoboda Ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and we are starting the information week together with you, and on this broadcast we are talking about the following topics capture. Until may 9. This is the task of the russian army set by the higher military leadership said the head of the armed forces oleksandr syrsky, what is the situation in the city, do the Ukrainian Forces have enough strength and resources to defend the temporary ravine. Russia may be preparing for a largescale offensive in late spring or summer writes the Financial Times. Ukrainian and western officials of the publications source believe that the goal is to capture most of the four regions, and possibly. An attack on kharkiv, is moscow really preparing for this . The sound of shakhet drones should be a wakeup call for the free world, zelenskyi said. How the world reacted to the expected irans attack on israel, why did tehran attack from its territory for the first time, and will there
Ayes have it. Hello, the jordanian pilot held captive bety Islamic State of iraq has reportedly been killed. Isils that released a video which showed the pilot being burned to death. He was captured when his f 16 came down in isil held territory in syria in december. He was on a mission to support the u. S. Led antiisil coalition. The government vows to do all it could to secure the release including handing over an iraqi prisoner. She was that killed 60 people. She was to be handed over in return for the pilot and the japanese journalist he was killed a month ago on january the third. Speak to al jazeera and they will start by telling us how this news has been received in the jordan. Firstly, we have received government reaction as well as reaction from the Jordanian Army. In a statement by the spokesperson of the Jordanian Army he said that the Jordanian Armed forces is announcing his killing and warning that his blood will not be shed in vain and that the response will be as grave a
House ways and Means Committee chairman, paul ryan, hosted treasury secretary jack lew in a discussion on the prospects of tax reform. First, we have breaking news a major rally in equities and in oil. Its go to the breaking news desk and our chief markets correspondent, scarlet fu. Lets head into the bloomberg terminal where i can show you what is going on. The Dow Jones Industrial average in the yellow and the s p 500 and white, reach new highs for the day. The nasdaq is in green. The dow jones has added more than 150 point and is now headed for a sixth straight day of closing up or down by at least 190 points. There is that volatility summary people warned we would see in 2015. You can credit the rise in oil for the strength in equities. Youve got rent crude set to close more than 20 above its january 13 close. That would meet the technical definition of a bull market. Brent crude in a bull market if you can believe it. Scarlet, thank you. Back to the u. S. Budget. Treasury secretar