Military leader for many years. This report from the bbc s quentin sommerville. Israels response came just before sunset a drone attack, three strikes on a building in beirut s southern suburb of dahiyeh. Explosions could be heard across the city, an attack that lebanon has been bracing itself against the days. The target, a Hezbollah Commander Israel blames for the attack on Majdal Shams, in the occupied golan heights. Emergency services here are still working to rescue the injured at least one woman died and dozens have been left wounded. Its not known if the commander was killed. This is the building that was struck by an israeli drone. We believe, three rockets hit the building. As you can see, this is a heavily built up civilian area, but israel says it had a Hezbollah Commander it holds responsible for the majdal Shams Attack on its sites. There are mixed reports about whether he actually made it out alive, but we know theres been at least one woman killed and a number of people
Their first chance to hold the administrations feet to the fire over what went wrong. As with the secretary said in his Opening Statement. Its time to end americas longest war. There is no evidence that staying longer would have me the Afghan Security Forces or the afghan government and a more resilient selfsustaining. 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars of support in Equipment And Training would not suffice, why not another year, another five, another ten . We expect the taliban to make good on its commitment. To uphold the basic rights of afghan people. B1 republicans are pressing the secretary and one whether any were blocked from leaving. To the state at any Point The Process Black American Citizens from leaving afghanistan . No we did not. So your testimony is the state did not block any american citizens . On the contrary. My officer is men and women ran from around the world. Yes or no, i just want to clarify. You didnt block anybody . We lived there to help americans g
Still there in the, quote, thousands. And the nun of unknown, unknown number of afghan allies who helped the u. S. In the War But Havent gotten out yet. Secretary of State Antoni Olympicen telling lawmakers the State Department is working on that last number, trying to estimate it. But experts familiar with the situation put that number in the tens of thousands. Yet, Secretary Blinken insisted today the u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan was an extraordinary success. Blinken was grilled by republicans on the house foreign Affairs Committee this afternoon. That grilling has continued late into the day. Congressional Correspondent Aishah Hasnie starts us off tonight live from Capitol Hill. Good evening, aishah. Bret, good evening to you. Democrats tore into republican Questioning Tonight as republicans tore into blinkens decisionmaking calling for him to resign at one point and even questioning why he didnt show up to this hearing in person. Can you tell us where you are today . Yes, im a
Freedomloving americans rejoice the changing guidelines and then there were people on the other chapels let me see what they were saying im sure they were happy. Frankly, i was shocked by this announcement. I think they went from one extreme to the other. The mainly step thats missing here is how do we know that people are telling the truth . This is not a free for all that everybody you know, but i agree with dr. Wen it is going to be very tenuous. I understand, you know, a right to privacy and right to freedom but i dont have a right to go my workplace unvaccinated i dont have a right to send my kids to go to school without becoming a vector for disease. Has the debate gone too far. How sure are you because this sounds like a very big change. Were sure. Brian what planet are we on . She says she is sure. The news as i understand investigating republican lawmakers who ho have been right all along, right, that you have been vaccinated you dont need to wear a mask each if democrats give