And, israel announced that the us Secretary Of State, Antony Blinken, and the israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to meet in person On Monday. The un has described a deadly attack by israeli settlers on a village in the occupied West Bank as horrific. The settlers set cars and houses ablaze as they descended on the Village Ofjit armed with batons, rocks and Molotov Cocktails. At least one palestinian was killed and others seriously injured. Thousands gathered injit for the funeral of the man killed in the settler attack. David lammy condemned the violence as abhorrent. The scenes overnight, of the burning and the torching of buildings, of the Molotov Cocktails thrown at cars, of the widespread Rampage And Chasing of people from their homes, is abhorrent. And i condemn it in the strongest of terms. The un has recorded hundreds of Settler Attacks since the Hamas Assault on israel last october. Bbc verify s Merlyn Thomas has been looking at this was the scene in the V
In battleground, wisconsin, where we expect to see former president donald trump in person at this convention this evening as republicans are celebrating there now official 2024 presidential ticket prompts new running mate senator jd vance of ohio made a surprise appearance earlier capping his formal nomination provides president. We have an extraordinary view of it all high above the arena for our special coverage of this history making convention i m jake tapper along with anderson cooper and anderson, we re standing by to see donald trump at some point this evening yeah, we re told former president is eager to attend the convention to meet with his support there isn t allies after the attempt on his life tonight, the gop is putting forward some of its most powerful and polarizing figures spread trump s maga message along with a slew of everyday americans tamped to speak to bread and butter issues jake, we re standing by to hear from the top speakers of the night and carry their rema
The president three weeks ago, says, he s not the man he once was, and the party will who s unless biden drops out and an obama white house for union, john fabra and his former boss david axelrod will join me with their blunted vice for the white house. And the president that they love they say feels is quote, dangerously out of touch. I m dana bash. Let s go behind the headlines and inside politics first up a lot of anxiety, very little action. Many democrats we talked to are panicking. They think that their candidate is going to lose and is going to lose big and while just a handful are actually calling for joe biden to drop out publicly, they re nonanswers. In many cases are incredibly telling. Here s former speaker, nancy pelosi, earlier today on msnbc when she was asked if she supports joe biden at the top of the ticket still it s up to the president to subside if he is going to run we re all encouraging him to make that decision. He has said he has made the decision. He has said
Is always the lead with jake tapper starts right now the white house this afternoon would not explain why a parkinson s specialist met with president biden stock the lead starts right now a shouting match inside the white house briefing room just moments ago as the press secretary faced blistering questions over president it s been a biden s health. This as president biden gets back at critics in a letter to congressional democrats, some of the very voices calling for the president to step aside in the 2024 ways i m going to be joined by one of those house democrats. And just moments plus beryl s bashing from the texas coast, two major cities such as houston, the onetime hurricane roars ashore with deadly consequences. And now millions are without power our and the flood threat is far from over and political paralysis in france and abrupt turn to the far left there. That after the country seemed to be headed to the bar right. But the election surprise still leaves major questions as to
Countries taking part. And tributes to the rolling stones drummer charlie watts who s died at the age of 80. It s eight in the morning in singapore, and 8pm in washington where president biden has made clear that he intends to stick to next tuesday s deadline for the us to complete its evacuation mission in afghanistan. In a televised address from the white house, he said the longer us troops remained at kabul airport, there was growing risk of an attack by a terrorist group known as isis k. The taliban has made it clear though, the deadline stays. Here s president biden: here s president biden. We are currently on a pace to finish by august the 31st. The sooner we can finish, the better. Each day of operations brings added risk to our troops, but the completion by august 31 depends upon the taliban continuing to cooperate and allow access to the airport to those who are transported out and no disruptions to our operations. We ll have more on that in a moment but first our chie