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
Welcome to the World Today an hour of international news from the bbc. In another Body Blow for hezbollah, one of the groups top commanders in lebanon has been killed in an israeli airstrike. Ibrahim aqil was hezbollah s second in command, and the United States had labelled him a Global Terrorist putting a multi million Dollar Bounty on his head because of his links to the bombing of Us Marines in lebanon in 1983. He died in an Attack Today in beirut s Southern Suburbs that israel has called a targeted strike. In total, its left 12 people dead and 66 injured, according to the lebanese authorities. It is another humiliation for hezbollah, coming at The End of a week in which thousands of the groups fighters were killed or injured by Exploding Pagers and Walkie Talkies. It also follows Israels Assassination of hezbollah s military leader, fuad shukr, injuly in the same area of south beirut. Todays strike is the latest and most of the dating this right. We dont yet have confirmation from
You a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 800 a31, 37 Hundred go . One hour from now, it is expected to announce its first Rate Cut in four years. Its a move that could seriously helped the economy and jobs just weeks before election they and behind bars and fighting to be released on bail. Sean Diddy Combs will be back in court today, appealing a Judges Decision to hold him in custody as jail where he could await trial is known for poor conditions and new explosions across lebanon. This time the target is Walkie Talkies as we learn more about israels complex operation to detonate pagers, Injuring Thousands of people. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. The Cnn News central federal reserve is on the brink of doing something that it hasnt done for years, and that is cutting Interest Rates. Thats an announcement that were expecting here. Just in now about an hour from now. The Big Question is how low a
hi, it s 4:00 in new york. president joe biden is set tonight to weigh in on the issue that is foundational to every other issue and debate we have in this country, democracy and the threats that loom over our democracy more than a year and a half after the ex-president tried to halt the peaceful transfer of power. it s an issue that would not be an issue if it were not for the fact that one of our country s political parties turned its back on democracy and decided to harness the terms of auto considerates. we are talking about the republicans. days before what could be the most important midterm election in history, president biden is putting concerns front and center with a speech just steps away from the u.s. capitol. nbc news can report, while the topic has been on the president s mind for quite some time, a number of developments have added to the urgency, including the growing suggestion by some republican officials that they may not accept the election results an
live fire drill in central japan and at this point the cadet fired upon some of his colleagues. we understand as you say two have lost their lives, a 25-year-old servicemen and a 52-year-old servicemen. and another 25-year-old is injured. so what they are trying to find out is exactly how this happened. we ve heard from the chief of staff of the sdf, and he said an investigation has been launched to make sure this never happens again. he has also said this kind of incident should never happen in an organization that handles weapons. gun crime is extremely rare in japan because gun ownership laws are so stringent and there is such a strict vetting process to be able to get hold of a gun. last year for example there were just nine firearms incidents for the entire year including the high profile assassination of