Four becomes three tory mps eliminate Tom Tugendhat from the race to be the next leader of their party. Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Presiden biden has warned Hurricane Milton could be the worst to hit the state of florida in a century. The category four storm will make landfAll in the next 48 hours. 51 florida counties are under a state of emergency, residents have been told to get out, fast. On monday, the mayor of the city of tampa said those who remained in areas subject to Evacuation Orders would die. As well as sustained winds of about 260 kilometres an hour, the hurricane is predicted to bring Storm Surges of up to 3. 5 metres to western florida. In the last Hour President biden spoke to the white house. My biden spoke to the white house. My trip to germany and africa, try to work those out later, i just dont think i can get out of the country at this time. Number One, numbertwo, we, we are going to stay focused with whats hitting us right now. Ive been briefed by senior leader
Involved in either. There are so many layers of complexity to what is going on in seven lebanon at the moment. As hezbollah sends those missiles towards israel for that and the idf tries to push for that you heard Antonio Guterres defending the palestinian refugees and the work that they are doing for the place talking about the number of people displaced, 60,000 In Northern Israel for the more than1 million here in lebanon for the people who had to flee their homes because of the fighting. You listen to what is being said and you listen to whats going on, hes talking about diplomatic solutions, ways to try and solve theirs. None of those seem to be getting any closerjust yet. And he had some pretty blunt things to say also about israel is conducting the campaign in gaza. He said there is something fundamentally wrong with the way israels war in gaza is being conducted. He also said they are ordering civilians to evacuate does not keep them safe if there is no safe place to go. That wi
Is this the launch of a wider War In the Middle East . Iran fired some 180 ballistic Cruise Missiles at israel last night. Revenge, it says, the strikes on lebanon. For strikes on Lebanon And Israels killing of leaders of Armed Groups it supports. Translation if they remove their evil from this region, without a doubt these conflicts, these wars, these clashes will disappear completely. While most missiles were brought down by israels sophisticated air defence system, the entire population was told to stay in bomb shelters. Afterwards, inspecting the damage, many agreed with the prime minister that iran must pay the price. My feeling is that it was an attack, but we are very strong, we trust our army, that it will do and complete itsjob, and it will do whatever it takes to finish whatever it needs to finish what they started. Today, instead of getting ready for the upcoming jewish new year holiday, many israelis are cleaning up. Emergency restrictions have been eased, life looks largel
Attack. This is coming from the white House Official. A direct Military Attack from iran against israel would carry severe consequences for iran. Also in the last couple of minutes, an Israeli Military Spokesman has said we have not yet identified an aerial threat from iran and he goes on to say that at aerial defence systems are fully prepared. With just repeating what we are hearing from the white house, the united states has Indications Iran is preparing to imminently launch ballistic Missile Attack against israel. Of course it all follows the start of Israel Plasma Ground invasion of Southern Lebanon which happened overnight. Lets get up to date. We will speak to our correspondent in washington in just a moment or two. Joining me now are our Correspondents Jon Donnison injerusalem, Tom Bateman in Washington And Anna foster In Beirut. Everyone clearly there is a high alert. Everyone clearly there is a high Alert Everyone clearly there is a hiuhalert. , ~. , high alert. Absolutely. W
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