This is gps, the Global Public Square welcome to all of you in the united states and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you, live from new York Today on the program, i bring you interviews with irans new president , Masoud Pezeshkian and with the former british Prime Minister Tony Blair will skip the take this week. Theres simply too much breaking news. Will get straight to it. The crisis in the middle east, it is in uncharted territory. On friday, israel killed a long hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah in a massive strike in the southern suburb forbes of beirut. The attack is part of a recent major escalation of israeli Air Strikes against the iranian Proxy Group in lebanon. More than 1,000 people have been killed since the uptick last week, and Hundreds Of Thousands of lebanese have been displaced the attack on nasrallah was a triumph for israeli intelligence, but it also raises many questions joining me now from Tel Aviv as ronen bergman, Staff Writer for the New York tim
Pete muntean at reagan israel airport. This is cnn gps, the global public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you live from new York Today on the program, i bring you interviews with irans new president , Masoud Pezeshkian, and with the former british Prime Minister Tony Blair well skip the take this week. Theres simply too much breaking news. Well get straight to it. The crisis in the middle east, it is in uncharted territory. On Friday Israel killed a long hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah in a massive strike in the southern suburbs of beirut the attack is part of a recent major escalation israeli airstrikes against the iranian Proxy Group in lebanon. More than 1,000 people have been killed since the uptick last week and hundreds of thousands of lebanese have been displaced the attack on nasrallah was a triumph for israeli intelligence but it also raises many questions. Joining me now from Tel Aviv as ronen bergman, St
Benjamin netanyahu saying the killing of nasrallah was quote necessary, and that israel will keep fighting we sit up accounts with these responsible for the murder of countless israelis and many citizens of other countries, including hundreds of americans in dozens of freshman, israel is on the move. We win. We are determined to continue to strike at our enemies return our residents to their homes and returned all of our hostages tonight, the u. S. State department is ordering nonemergency employees and their Family Members to leave lebanon at once. And we are covering every angle of this Breaking News. Ben wedeman is on the ground in the lebanese capital of beirut. Kevin liptack has more on the response from President Biden, the White House but lets start first with Nic Robertson, who is live in tel aviv. Nic talk about what could be next in this conflict for israel it does concern that tonight well it could launch a large salvo of its heavier, longerdistance ballistic missiles into t
Longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and strikes last night on Apartment Complex In Beirut. Israel claims that hezbollah was using the complex as in underground headquarters. This represents a major escalation of the backand forth between Israel And Hezbollah, which israel has intensified in the last couple weeks. The strikes killed several other Highranking Hezbollah officials and the iranian State News that says in revolutionary Guard General was killed in the same strike. Lebanon lawns and more than 100 wounded in the strikes. That number is expected to rise. Nasrallah is a travertine cleric, who has led the group since 1992 and has grown the group in most powerful Running Back and forth and the reason both militarily and political terry. It is what is called a state within a state. He also led the group through decades of conflict with israel, participate in the Syrian Civil War On Behalf of of the regime and help back others in the region including the houthis in yemen. The national
Breaking news from The Middle East, new and growing tension following confirmation from lebanon, the leader of hezbollah was killed friday in an israeli airstrike on an apartment complex. We dont have that sound. We will get that for you. You can see the effect of the airstrikes that continue today and plumes of smoke can be seen rising over Southern Lebanon. Protesters have gathered on The Streets Of Tehran today. Officials in iran say one of its military generals was also killed friday adding they expect to soon deploy troops to lebanon. The biden administration says it has no advanced warning of the israeli strikes. President biden in a statement moments ago said hassan Nasrallahs Death is a measure of justice for his many victims including thousands of americans, israelis and lebanese civilians. We have reporters and analysts in place across the world ready to go over these developments for us. We will go to Matt Bradley who joined us from beirut. Welcome. I know you heard a lot of