Live from atlanta. This is Cnn Newsroom with Michael Holmes. Hello and welcome, everyone. Im Michael Holmes. Appreciate your company. It is now 6 a. M. In beirut where the possibility of a Ground Invasion by israel into lebanon is fueling fears of an even wider conflict across the region. Us officials say israeli troops have mobilized and are Clearing Areas in what could be preparation for Ground Troops to move across the border. Israel saying a Ground Offensive is only one option, being considered. The idf continuing their air offensive. Meanwhile, On Saturday, with blasts hitting close to beiruts airport. Saturdays strikes in lebanon reportedly killing more than 30 people, wounding close to 200. Overall, nearly A Thousand lebanese have been killed since this latest escalation, according to health officials. Hezbollah firing back, saying it launched missiles towards jerusalem, prompting a response from israeli Air Defenses police say pieces of an intercepted missile crashed in the sub
Hour, huge clouds of smoke has been seen rising from beirut after a series of explosions. Huge plumes of smoke 2530 minutes ago. The israeli defense forces have claimed to attack hezbollah s central headquarters in beirut saying the headquarters is under residential buildings in the suburb of the cities south. It would not stop until its objectives were met. Air strikes have continued throughout the course of the day with thousands of people being killed in lebanon. Hezbollah has been Firing Rockets into israeli cities including. Just in the last Half Hour, as i was saying, these huge blasts in beirut with the israelis giving details about their operations. More about that in a moment. Anna foster is there for us. Shes been describing what it actually felt like when those blasts went off, notjust seeing those plumes of smoke, but physically what that felt like that so many different people describing these as the since the beginning of this conflict. I will speak to anna in a moment, b
And lebanon could agreed to a pause in the Cross Border strikes in a way to try to de escalate what is becoming increasingly tense conflict here. The israeli Prime Minister, benjamin and yahoos official office issued a statement which called that Cease Fire in american and french proposal said that he was yet to respond to officially but did say that the fighting would continue in their words at full force. Theyve said there will be no Cease Fire until they achieve victory over hezbollah. An israeli brigade that is based near the lebanese border at the moment has been carried out as you see here. These are exercises that are designed to train the troops and simulate a manoeuvre talked about by the head of the Israeli Armyjust 24 head of the israeli Armyjust 2a hours ago. There has also been this afternoon another explosion here in the southern suburbs of beirut. An area which is a hezbollah stronghold area, one which the Israeli Military have targeted several times in the last week whe
Say theyre looking to see if anyone else can be pursued for criminal offences relating to the sexual Assault And Rape claims made against the former harrods owner, mohamed al fayed, who died last year. Around 200 former employees have come forward with accusations about him following a bbc documentary. New York City mayor Eric Adams is facing five criminal charges, including wire fraud, bribery and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. Prosecutors allege that he received over 100,000 in illegal personal benefits, dating back to 2018. Mr adams says he follows The Law and is looking forward to defending himself. In the past half hour, ukraines president Volodymyr Zelensky has held a Press Conference in washington with Vice President kamala harris. She told him her support for the people of ukraine was unwavering. Earlier president biden announced a new package of Military Aid for ukraine, worth nearly Eight Billion dollars. If You Arejustjoining us welcome to the programme. The
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