Be a dry start to the weekend. Tomorrow starts dry and ChIlly Chubut there wIll be some wet and WIndy Weather later In the day. Dry and chIlly too. Fresh attacks have contInued on the lebanese CapItal BeIrut overnIght. It comes after Israels MIlItary carrIed out a StrIke South of the CIty Yesterday targetIng Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah. It has not been confIrmed If he was In the buIldIngs when It was struck. Lebanons Health MInIstry say sIx people were kIlled and 91 Injured. Our reporter SImon Jones has the latest. ExplosIons, screamIng new strIkes overnIght on Southern BeIrut. Israels mIlItary saId It was targetIng buIldIngs storIng hezbollah weapons underneath them. Hezbollah denIed they were arms depots. ExplosIons. EarlIer, a serIes of massIve explosIons. It Is thought the target here was the Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah. It Is unclear whether he was any of the buIldIngs that were hIt. Iran, whIch backs hezbollah, has called the attack a dangerous, game changIng escalatI
of united states to taint a political foe and confident that no one could hold him back. two of our reporters join me now. when the president came out and essentially confirmed about what your paper and others reported about the phone call with the ukrainian president? it was heartening to have the president confirm the reporting, there are other times he denied the reporting that turned out to be true. that was a plus. i also think that the president s admission about what he saw in that phone call kind of puts us on a nice, level footing now where we can all start discussing the facts, which are was the president pressuring a president to do something in a foreign leader in order to get something from him, which was a personal benefit? was he using a government, was he using his office with an official government act or
and north korean officials on level footing. and it says the images of the six u.s. and six north korean flags will undoubtedly be used by north korean propaganda to suggest that the u.s. and north korea are on level footing. what do you say to that, carl bernstein? i think that s true. i think they can use it for propaganda purposes. but at the same time, i think we have to look at this as an extraordinary development that donald trump has been partly respsible for bringing about. the one thing we know about donald trump is that he does drama, he does spectacle, and that s what this is, as was what occurred in canada over the weekend. a horrible spectacle. trump at his worst, dishonest, lying and now we see the kind of spectacle that he wants, that elevates him, that brings him the adulation he hopes that he believes he deserves. there s a long way to go.
first campaign promise. he signs an executive order today to support domestic products and workers. essentially there s two main problems to the executive order, one is about loopholes around federal procurement, hoping to make the level footing for american companies when it comes to bidding for u.s. government contracts, when it comes to competing with their foreign competitors. the other is the h-1b visa, the three-year to six-year visa for workers. typically it s for skilled, highly educated workers. he s trying to tighten the enforcement of restrictions on how well paid, qualified those applicants are. planning to meet with the deputy prime minister of japan. that follows in the wake to pull out of the pacific rim trade pact. netflix is earning better than
do is continue austerity to an extent although a lot of unfunded promises were thrown around in the last desperate few days of the campaign. but continued get what he says the economy back on a really solid level footing. plus he has acknowledged that there was a problem with scotland. and that is in part because britain, all its major parties did not follow through again with all these promises they threw around to the scots in order to try to keep them from voting for independence which they successfully did. they kept the union whole, but they haven t delivered so-called devo max, devolving power to scotland. that s what the scots say they want. we re going to use our power to make sure britain keeps the promises they made to keep us in the union. again, as i said britain has to figure out how much of a role it s going to play going forward in foreign policy. because as we d like to say it is always punched above its way