the 2024 road show has begun. the lead starts right now. president biden leaving the beltway. taking the state of the union message to voters in some key battleground states. will he get cheers or jeers from the american people? then, more than 12,000 people now have been killed. the death toll from the earthquake in turkey and syria continuing to rise to staggering heights as hope fades of finding survivors left in the rubble. and a passenger s battery catching on fire mid flight, forcing a plane to make an emergency landing and sending four people to the hospital. what you need to know about flying with potentially dangerous electronic devices. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the scene after the state of the union address looks like the campaign trail. president biden is in the crucial swing state of wisconsin, where he is talk ja jobs and the economy. echoing the themes of last night. kamala harris is in georgia, another key battleground state, that you mig
yak, yak. happy tuesday, everybody. yeah. i all right, let s do it. the secret service is stumped by this baggie of bump. there you go. e? remember when somebody left a bag of cocaine in the white house an how t d? remember how the secret service evacuated the west wing and closed up the streetand clos surrounding the white house? initially, everybody thoughtlly joe had once again left a floater in the men s room. then rememberthen how oneess of president biden s precious children was staying in that taxpayerching in facility at the because joe wanted to keep the impressionable youngster awa away from bad influences or at the very least, hide hims or from process servers.e and remember h how karine jean-pierre gotimangr really, really angry that the press kept even asking about, jus even though she didn t want to talk about it. i m just saying once and foyr whether or not the cocaine belonged to, the biden family, you know, there has been some a response similar repo
i m jonathan hunt, live in jerusalem. qatar has reportedly mediated an agreement between egypt, israel and the u.s. to allow foreign passport holders and some critically injured civilians out of gaza. this is significant since it would presumably allow some who ve been stuck inside gaza for weeks to leave. and it s been a deadly week for israeli troops as they battle hamas fighters inside gaza. the idf now says an additional nine soldiers have died. they were hit by an anti-tank missile while operating in the northern part of the strip. that s in addition to the deaths of two other soldiers reported earlier on tuesday. meantime, a barrage of israeli airstrikes targets in jabalia, just north of gaza city. israel claims the strikes destroyed a hamas command center set up civilian homes, as well as part of a network of underground tunnels. the idf says the strikes killed ibrahim bari, who commanded some of the attacks in israel on october 7th. it s not clear how many civilians w
can hurt people, do they never reach out? let s take an extreme example. not what you were talking about. dr. smith says the cure for covid is to drink bleach. should they not voice a concern? i mean, the question is, where do you draw the line, right? one of the charts that one of the tweets that was censured by twitter and i showed it in a hearing, was a chart from the cdc, with real information from the government. and that user had 18,000 followers. and that was shadow banned. these are real researchers, epidemiologists. if doctors told you to inject bleach, i m sure the state he would lose his medical license because that s outrageous and radical. this is not what we re talking about. we re talking about doctors and researchers who were violenced and using our own government data, according to twitter standards, is accurate. that s where i think that, we take a closer look and why it s important to have the conversation. and it shouldn t be a partisan
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About 80 Afghan interpreters and their families have arrived in Australia on commercial flights after being granted a safe haven for their work alongside Australian troops in Afghanistan.
According to the Guardian Australia, this comes after 41 interpreters wrote to the government twice earlier this year pleading for urgent help.
It is understood most of the people listed on the letter are among those who have been able to escape the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
One interpreter, Tariq Zia, who is in hotel quarantine in Melbourne said: “I am safe now [and] I am feeling well,” he told the Guardian.