Bill thats a scene a short time ago as Israel And Hezbollah are on the brink of an allout War Prompting the u. S. To send more troops to the Middle East and casting a shadow over President Bidens final u. N. Address scheduled in an hour. Big doings here. Im bill hemmer. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. I imagine this is not at all the speech that biden thought he would be giving at this point. Well track that for you. Were also tracking an eruption of intense fighting across the israeli lebanon border. Idf is going on the defensive. The worst Fighting Lebanon has seen in decades and could plunge the entire region into chaos. Bill the black drop of the bloodshed for the u. N. General assembly. It was supposed to be a Victory Lap for President Biden. Now addressing a failure of u. S. Foreign policy. Rich edson reports from the u. N. Nate foye from Tel Aviv and lets begin in israel with the conflict there. Nate, hello. Good morning. Breaking into within the past hour wer
do you think some of the new ways of building alliances that we are seeing at the right approach chris mccann thinking specifically of the deal that the uk and the us and australia did, aukus, to help australia build nuclear submarines, and for a lot of people that is seen as quite a departure in the way things have been done, whether it is the west focusing on energy through nato or the intelligence sharing deal. what you make of the aukus deal? i am a fan and i think. it is a strategically canny move, and an important piece of long term thinking. - and the reason i think- that is i suppose a lesson i do have from life that i have learned in my career- is you should worry- about the things you can change, not - the things you can t. china may rise, it may falter, it may not rise smoothly. - who knows? but that is out . with our control. what we control is us and our value system and the things that make us strong. i do you miss it? i do, it is a very, - it is an extraordinary
things are shifting? i think it is the acute versus the chronic. i russia remains the millwall of international relations i and is to some extent invested. in having a fractious and difficult relationship with the west . because that in turn justifies the measures that the russian| government take to keep itself in power as a sort of self serving oligarchy, so it needs to keep the pot boiling. but it is going to continue to do |that, but it is dangerous and it| could get out of control. do you think some of the new ways of building alliances that we are seeing at the right approach chris mccann thinking specifically of the deal that the uk and the us and australia did, aukus, to help australia build nuclear submarines, and for a lot of people that is seen as quite a departure in the way things have been done, whether it is the west focusing on energy through nato or the intelligence sharing deal.
don t have the refugee crisis on the same scale, isis being able to recruit on the same scale and take territory on the same scale. russia doesn t see it that way. they see the regime as an ally because they re the only one with forces on the ground to move in and fight isis on the ground. it s not happening. the regime is not fighting isis. they re still bombing the moderate so-called moderate areas held by the rebels. yesterday, chris, we learned that russia announces that they have an intelligence sharing deal between syria, russia, iran and iraq. no u.s. in that deal. and the u.s. didn t know about it. and what we heard today from the deputy national security adviser ben rhodes is, well, this isn t operational we him saying this is what we have going on. but again, it is just another part of this incredible chess game that vladimir putin has come in and done and let s look at a little bit of history. he s done this before. you know? when this all first started,