the, the right spot, otherwise sponsor with the strategic downstream industry. on the clock. in the news, your better tomorrow the, [000:00:00;00] the pennsylvania is good to have you with us. this is the news, our life from bill coming up in the program. the cell communication devices explode and coordinated attacks across 11 on 14 people including has pulled out members and been killed and hundreds more have been injured. to death toll from

tuesday's pedro attacks and 11 on rises to 12000 is our interest from those attacks . the hundreds are in critical condition, the united nations general assembly adults a resolution demanding that israel and its illegal occupation of the policy and territories within 12 months and is really forces continue to target displace palestinians this time in the gaza city. the is $1800.00 gmc, we're bringing you continuous coverage of that breaking news out of lebanon, where more communication devices have exploded in multiple parts of the country. we now know that at least 14 people have been killed and the more than 450 has been injured. that number has just been revised up among the our civilians and has belong members. the,

this is one of the scenes of played out 11 on on wednesday. this blast occurring during the funerals of hezbollah members died and tuesdays teachers, seventies media are reporting that wednesdays explosions happened in phones and laptops and handheld radios. solar energy systems are also reportedly reported to had exploded and quite fine. lebanese army has quotes to the public to stay away from blast zones has belies. leadership says the group is facing quote, a new phase. and the punishment is certainly coming. a socialist who was out of the house and joins us from 711 on leave. we're going to try and wrap up what happened today. can you, can you take us through step by step, how it and folder you know how you learned of what was going on and, and where we stand this evening. at least can you hear me?

this is sarah lindo. we'll go back to ellie as soon as we can get those communications up and running again at let's bringing home the so who it was with us live from the jordanian capital. i'm on again, this is because these really government has banned alpha 0 from reporting inside israel. i'm the you had developments you've had statements from these really prime minister, the is really defense minister just in the last few moments our so where do we stand right now? what do they say as well, these really prime minister benjamin netanyahu statement, perhaps the most shocking of them all because it was just around a 10 2nd video statement in which he said, quote, we will return the residents to the north, safely. and that is exactly what we will do is really media is reading into this statement as sort of abrupt with a lot of unanswered questions. but the statements from the defense minister in the army, chief of staff, or a little bit more interesting, you know, of kalonde saying that there is

a new phase of this war that the center of gravity has shifted in that israel is prepared for what's next. similarly, the army chief of staff has said that israel has a lot of different types of capabilities, but they have not yet used and are prepared to do so. so all of this is say, doing that is early is entering a new phase indeed, dealing with the problem on it's northern border in a different way. and it comes just 48 hours after these really prime minister has added a new goal of the war. a new objective and that is to return evacuated, is rarely used to those towns and settlements in northern israel previously over the last year. since these cross border fire exchanges began, there hasn't really been any sort of plan with how israel is going to deal with this. and that's because of the war on gaza. these really military is so far overstretched there. but now the army is moving even more assets to the north. but

it's also worth mentioning that in the last several months old, the rhetoric we've heard from is really officials has been that they are entering this new phase previously in july, when his butler had released drone footage near 10 minute videos of sensitive sites in israel. we heard similar statements from is really officials, but it was important to know that it wasn't necessarily a change in policy that they were ready to the highest possible level, but they weren't implementing any sort of new security measures to. but this time a israel is reading into this a little bit differently enough because nets and yahoo has stated a forced goal to the war, a new objective. so there are a lot of moving parts here. and of course, israel's not going to let anyone know what their new plans are security wise, but certainly the statements from is really officials are leaning towards that. there is something new that is boiling within these is really security room. how

can i ask that question that i, that i just raised, but we didn't have really time to address it earlier this afternoon. what does the far right in israel want to do? we know and, and do they have a say in, in the decisions that are being made as well, let's talk about 1st the decision making ultimately that lies with these really prime minister, the defense minister and the chief of the military. but mainly it's enough in yahoo, the countries prime minister who is going to ultimately be making the decisions here. and those decisions are going to be carried out by the top security and defense brass of the country when it comes to the far right. remember that mentioned y'all who came back to power a couple of years ago in this far right coalition. and they've actually been quite outspoken about what they want to see when it comes with webinar. they want a full out work. they think the only way to solve this is through a war with web and on. and you've even had ministers from the far right. like you

to me, our vend, we're a known, alter nationalist as well as benson and smelt. rich, who call for an occupation of southern lebanon. you have this school of thought in israel, that the only way to deter his bullet is to occupy that area. that is the south of low non sovereign lebanese territory. so there are a lot of different schools of thought among these really political realm when it comes to how to deal with the conflict on israel's northern border. but there isn't really a plan. this is something that has been talked about for nearly a year. now the war is in its 12 month and israel has not had a sufficient plan for dogs up. and there of course, hasn't been that similar type of thinking for the north when all of the attention and military capabilities are still focused on gaza. military capabilities focused on continuous raids across the occupied west bank on a near daily basis. and now we're,

they're always moving military battalions to the north to deal with what's next. so when it comes to nathan, yahoo is government. there are a lot of different schools of thought, but you have jo, i've gone just a couple of days ago in a talk with american officials. he said that the time for a diplomatic settlement with his butler has run out. this has actually been to his commentary, his rhetoric for several months, so it's nothing new. and while israel is signaling that they are turning a new page and how to deal with his bola, again, they've said this for months. and the rhetoric firm is really officials, whether it was that they would bond living on back to the stone age. they would turn b, do it into another gauze, up, but the consequences of a full scale war with lebanon, with his butler would spill over into the region. and it's something that the united states has been but privately and publicly urging these rarely not to do homeless how, who is reporting out of amman? jordan, thank you very much on this. we can go back to the hush and who is in 711 on alley

i'm. i'm glad we've got comes running again with you. you're in um your entire in the southern part of the country. can you start by sharing with our viewers, just how ordinary lebanese people feel this evening? i mean, they're famously very resilient, right? they've been through, over generations. they've been through civil war war, a targeted attacks occupation by israel and a year of cross border attacks. i mean, they've been through a lot how has the last 2 days impacted them? do you have a feel for that? well, it's 7. this is a very, very complicated is given the fact that what's been happening over the past 2 days is on precedent. as you said, discount you went through launch 7 was, is ready was well things are facts, huge explosions are never for,

for a situation where people and cause just exploding one off of each other, assuming seamlessly in different areas. but the context also makes this complicated as i spotted because there is a water already here in the south just behind. this is south level where we are, there is a water between has one line is it's probably a war of a different find is different. uh, it may be upticks, it's not this died, exports on a symmetric war with us has below, we'll attack these varies what respond this rate is without fact because the law would retaliate. but now there is a new layer. this a get a zone populations with us is read is trying its best to give has the law kind of the look of what could be in case of a. it'd be good to know for the people on search and see is don't mean

a things in life because they have big questions with respect to the day after the day after these attacks. is it going to be a big escalation, whereas they are going to witness a war of similar to the one in gaza? or at least the one that's similar to the 2006 war between has what law? and is a lot more than 1000 or 300 liberties people. the kids and cities were destroyed in the heart of the big wood, southern suburb was completely destroyed. these are the questions that people are asking. and actually, these are facts in the past couple of days. and of course, these facts are not isolated. that'll read several access to nations says that it's drawing that socks that we've been seeing into the many steps. now, when it comes to the board, that when it comes to the board of the line behind me, this is now becoming normally the people that have have normalize the lives with

the daily skirmishes. but when it comes to is really at facts in the heart of the cities that have been east cities in the be called or made with southern. so above all here. and so i or the surroundings of dia, the assistant ations, that go ahead, that's all going on. what is called the, in turn, the front is kind of shaking right now. and that's why it probably tomorrow has on the front left will address the people who will address the supporters don't address also as part of the country because not everyone in this country is supporting customer fuller and has beloved. some people are against the decision to engage in this war, and some people are with the decision to engage in this war. so the 1st things, the nice people are looking for on says there's no sorry fees, right? no, no, that is a diffracted as a government care if they could have government, there is no president. the problem is that people do not have anyone to go through and look at all. okay, well we'll be talking to these people because honestly,

he is the fact to war. a commander he's, he's leaving this war and he wouldn't be in a place to give answer. no, no, i think the big question here is that it's not that says willowwood revenge or not . the big question would be, what is going on with has the law, what is going on inside the law? i think this is the big question. everyone is asking, you know, in the of the hash, i'm reporting from southern lebanon, specifically entire thank you very much. all the us secretary of state anthony blinking, who is in egypt a further efforts towards the ceasefire and gaza was asked about israel's attacks on levon on. this is what he said, that we're still gathering the facts. i can't tell you in this moment what, what impact this will have. i certainly can speak to what impact it might have on, as well uh, and its operations that would demand other expertise. and again,

it's also necessary to fully understand what's happened in verse. so in the process of, of doing that, let's talk to alpha 0 is white house correspondent. kimberly how get in washington dc. kimberly, sorry to use a tired phrase, but we're interested in knowing what the us new and when they knew it regarding israel's attacks on 11 on what are they saying and what are we found out about that is yeah, well, what we are learning at least is being reported here in the united states is the u . s. may have known a little bit more about at least this 2nd attack then initially let on and, and here's what we're learning, is that the pentagon did admit on tuesday that there was a telephone call. that took place between the defense minister here in the united states and was captured, pardon israel lloyd austin, the secretary,

and you have the lot in israel. and what we were told then is that they had discussed the need for a cease fire to deal to release captives and reduce tensions via diplomacy. but now what is also being reported is that in addition, there was also a discussion and that to the is really defense minister, in fact, notified the us secretaries defense that there would be another attack inside lab and on. but the details of what kind of attack that might be, how it would be implemented, none of that was made clear to the united states. and so when the united states says that there is no us involvement, that it had no knowledge of the specifics of that attack. that is true. but in terms of whether or not it knew about this, it is starting to become clear that there may have been some advance knowledge. kimberly, you said that the, the bite administration is still hoping for

a ceasefire. and certainly biden's teams are still working on the possibility of a ceasefire for garza. what's the latest on that and what's the thinking in in the, by the ministration on whether those talks are now torpedoed because of what just happened in lebanon as well. there is some frustration here at the white house, and in fact we're going to be hearing from we believe the national security council spokesperson john kirby. there was to be a white house press briefing at a 17 g m t. it's been pushed back almost 2 hours. it's now set to take place at 19 gmc, so we're hoping to get an update on that. but the bottom line is there's frustration because what we know is that joe, by the, in the us president had dispatched to special

n boy. i'm as hochstein just one day before the 1st attack inside leaven on. because the united states have been watching uh with concern, the escalation in preparation of these really military uh, in terms of the fact that there may be something immune as it was being planned. and so as a result, he was set to meet with the prime minister of the president, and the is really defense minister to persuade them against a military operation in the north, into lab, a non obviously, uh that was not effective. and so as the united states maintains, they still want to see a diplomatic resolution. there is concern because on the 1st part there is this is a big flap of the face to the united states. and the 2nd part, it makes it even harder for them to try and push forward the 6 week proposals that they're trying to negotiate in egypt for the secretary state in conjunction with

kata and egypt to try and exchange the captives for palestinian prisoners in his really jails and to bring an end to israel's war on gaza instead of that there now have a wide mint in conflict with it yet another front. kimberly thank you for all that reporting now thousands years white house correspondent kimberly helped get there. thank you very much. i paul rogers is an emeritus professor of peace studies at the university of bradford. you're also the author of the book, the insecurity trap, and you're joining us live from bradford that pull. i don't see any long term vision being carried out implemented or even formulated, whether it's by has belie 11 on by these really leadership in israel or by the us for that matter. and i wanted to take on while i think it is complicated as one would expect a sense paul paul, hold on for a 2nd. pause for

a 2nd. we can't hear you. i think you've muted your mike. maybe you can just tweet that. me. let's see. let's, let's give it another try. now, all right, i'm, i'm being told we've lost audio with you paul. so we're gonna fix that. we'll let you fix that and we'll come back to you. okay, thank you very much for rogers there, emeritus professor of peace studies. the for the guys and now where 8 people have been killed and it is really attack on a school housing displaced palestinians in northern garza. the strike happened to mr. jaya neighborhood have got the city 5 children and 2 women among the dead. the injured have been taken to a lot of the hospital offices here historic up wizard and sent us this report from darrow bella in the central part of the gulf stream. warehouse pension is increasing 11 on these by the always are still on the goal is

a strip where they have reading the fleet, intensification. so it's really a tax on the you know, the parts of the strip when bank tunnel in town, a residential house has been targeted. one, palestinian at least has been killed and also an evacuation. since i can assist you in april who has been completely targeted without any food, when included, ty, witnesses, now we continue to hear from, from medical sources. that 8 palestinians have been killed, including 5 children. and 2 women in dire tugs have left behind the great deal of destruction. wine here in the central area of the situation is getting much more going as well in terms of security levels. it shows that there is really repeated attacks for residential areas to the cities have been targeted in the past couple of hours, including as a wider as a rod refugee camp, which has witnessed a clean destruction of a residential house. one palestinian that has been confirmed too,

while also by witnesses told us that there has been ongoing continuation of got a gun fight exchange which from last flight to us on the east ready occupation forces in the city of the in the font cells of the parents we went to kind of city is at least have been killed in the central areas on the rough law that have been also killed without any sort of a 3 warning and a very active military. what we're so sure, because as of out just a rough dairy, but i had to sign and good news. we've been able to fix a sound with full rogers emeritus professor of peace studies at the university of bradford pull. thank you very much. thanks for your patience. we got it fixed. okay, tell us your analysis of the last 48 hours and the attacks large scale attacks 11 on a little bit from a different perspective for the united states. it wants some sort of seas fox, the united states, the position to call this war holt, within days, if it decided to do so. for various reasons connected within total us politics is

not about to do that. so now in that sense, it is trying to get some sort of easing of the car in tensions and maybe a see saw on behalf of the side. they've been expecting something like this has some space that it would never show. and what has happened, i think has been quite a shock to them in the short term, but, and also in the longer term. as far as the israel is concerned, i don't think it's, it's a pretty clear nothing out of who does not to want to seize father of any form at the present time setting not before the next election. so it goes, it goes or may, may well have donald trump in the white house then which would put a very different complexion on things come january. other thing, what we're seeing now is rate is trying to damage the, what was the side coming through. it has for the, uh, by what they're doing, but the thing on it has to remember as of israel, it's highly unlikely to try to occupied something happened. and i haven't, i think it was how they own from the, from the i'm on my mind was sitting, but essentially what they want to,

they want to pay for something to live with them. but you know, tonight, so that was the role of just to jump out was the why right? specifically, right. i asked her what the far right i want to because of the last year is one of them. and then yeah, who's side with them several times that were you're quite right. this is the question well, specifically to or about the file, right? but there are elements within is ready society. we probably extend a bit beyond them who would like to see something about compassion. but that's it's huge difficult when these read is occupied. 7 level number 3. and what was it? a 2292. that was when has been, i was actually phoned as an opposition policy and over those ideas. and so these ranges of 500 of the troops, uh, 2 different sorts of raids. i just sent you. they got out and in 2000 as 6, which was the last major war. these writers have shoes, problems in trying to do even schultz and alter patient the get north sides. and they lost a lot of the key troops. so $11.00 has remembers what everything is, right? is it going to do?

it is highly on logic to enroll any kind of grounding caution above a very short probing attack. which means in tons is just when the hand doctrine comes in. you actually have to probably try and publish and publish the wider community. and that's what some ways, what i didn't, i didn't hear you there. what dr. sorry, it was the hand doctrine. it basically is named off to the district just south and central group. this is where you cannot win a war. i'll come for the searches. if you like, then you have to try and publish the population. so the support for the insurgents extra diminishes. it's not solely good true of israel. other countries have done it in different groups circumstances. no, typically the russians or the time is a gross, me was but essentially what is really there to say that doctrine has been at play in the gaza strip to the last year. absolutely. it's being very clear and in many ways if you look at, well, some of the is rated strategic outlets to say they also have to be open to this.

but this in fact, serial takes us in the next point. and in a sense that more in cause it's failing to get funds is right and is a concern. so it cannot actually get rid of the have us and any kind of agreements which allows us any kind of presence in browser. and even just to exist, that has to be on examples of so they are in a major bind. but it may well be the fundamental reason why i mentioned yahoo is going for this phase of a more and less than a is a gigantic device should at least until the american elections. i think a lot has been pinned on the results of those particular elections. which doesn't mean i'm not actually hinges all of them as far as the middle east is concerned. okay, when you say the reason that yahoo is going for this phase of the war, what does that mean? what do you expect that to actually look like? because you also said you don't expect to see a major ground vision of 11 non. so what do you think is gonna look like? i think it will be much more as strikes

a basically the may well be all the disruptions they may be capable of doing of disruptions. the assessment was happening in the last 48000. makes life a lot more difficult for hezbollah is leadership in his communications. but one suspects that has found a way was always prepared for something like this, even if it could not be specific. and if it was they want to be prepared to do is to gain the individual groups. the individual petune is almost certainly a lower level on they have to go outside freedom of action. and there will be some sort of pre planning which may not even requirements in the rear communications. the very conscious of the ability to do this. one has to remember that seems to be an extraordinary achievement for these right is almost a year ago. they were absolutely shocked when they lost control of gauze that so one has to always look into it in the round. and it may well be that has product itself is going to be more resilient than we would expect. it could be wrong on that,

but i think that's highly likely for rogers emeritus professor fee studies at the university of bradford were thankful for your time this our thank you for joining us now as we continue to watch what's happening and 11 on, we're also keeping an eye on what has happened in new york at the united nations general assembly. the general assembly adopted a resolution demanding that israel and what the assembly calls quote, it's unlawful presence in the occupied palestinian surgery. and the resolution is calling on israel to ended within 12 months. israel has denounced the resolution as close cynical houses here as christian silly me as live from the united nations christian. can you, can you just remind us of the broader arc of this story? this all started if i'm not mistaken, some 2 years ago when the un general assembly demanded or asked in the international court of justice to rule on the legality of israel's occupation.

right? absolutely. the resolution that was voted on today and the general assembly was based on the ruling of the international court of justice released just in july 124 member states of the united nations voted in favor of that, the palestinians who put forward the resolution describe it as the next step of that i, c, j decision of a means to holding is real accountable. and uh, implementing the resolution. it's a pretty detailed resolution and very specific uh, especially considering how much support it got in demands that is real, withdraw its troops and its settlers within 12 months. it calls on member states not to do business with israel that would support their illegal occupation of palestinian territory. so it is quite

a statement. it doesn't have the same weight as a security council resolution. what a security council resolution would be binding under international law general assembly resolutions have moral authority, but they, they clearly show the weight of world opinion and the fact that the palestinians have $124.00 nations in favor of such a specific and detailed resolution i think is a substantial interesting it's, it's very interesting. it is, i would concur that it is substantial christine salute. me. thank you very much. they are reporting they're out of un headquarters in new york. how substantial is it? we will be asking that question throughout the our, the spring and hummed us out, who's with us live from the jordanian capital? i'm on honda, a israel has been on failing. we critical of pretty much everything the un has said

and done over the last year. how they responding to this as well, you can imagine what these really statements coming out has been saying, because they are nothing new, accusing the un of operating and a distorted and disconnected reality. the ministry of foreign affairs went on to say that the palestinian authority is one of the obstacles to be saying that it is continuously radicalized. and that the decisions like this will radicalize it even further. the statement also talked at length about the october 7th attack, but didn't talk at all about israel's occupation of the occupied westbank occupied east jerusalem. and now the military war in gaza. it didn't speak about that at all . and that's because israel doesn't even acknowledge the fact that it occupies palestinians, that there is a brutal military occupation in which millions of palestinians live under each and every single day and have been for the last 76 years. but it's also important to

mention some comments from these really finance minister better than small rich. he is a member of nathan, y'all, whose cabinet he holds quite an important position in the government. and he has said that this is nothing new calling the un, quote biased, an anti semitic, saying that israel will continue to work against the establishment of a palestinian state in a general sense. so the comments coming out of israel or nothing new, and you can be assured that there will be no sort of implementation of any un resolution that goes against israel on the ground because it doesn't even acknowledge them is anything that is credible is real, operates in its own reality saying that it does what's best for israel and that does not include you in resolutions. the houses are as homeless, so who is reporting on this from amman? jordan, thank you very much for that home though. we're continuing this conversation by bringing him on the shower. you're allergens, you're a senior political analyst, more one. i'm very curious to know how you're looking at this because i think you heard kristin saying this is substantial. this is significant. 2 thirds of the

world, 2 thirds a $124.00 countries voted for a resolution that calls on israel to leave the palestinian occupied territories. and to do so within 12 months. yes, i would argue that this actually even more than that more substantial going back there are number of countries just basically don't have the decisions in their hands. they are fall. ready as of the united states, they've been black, committed by the united states. some of them are protective in the states. must a, for example, up to 14000 to 14 countries that proposed resolution. i have the list here in front of me. take the fire micro countries like, uh, not rule, but out on develop developers. the combined population is about the system, 40000 people. these are the countries we're talking about. a combined population of 3 countries is less than $40000.00 people. these are not countries doc protective united states,

you get when you add the don't go on because mike renews. yeah. again, 100000 beach. these are the protectors of the united states. they both exactly. i think united states that so it's not even 14 companies, i propose that and those will obtain some cash stay and because they actually would want to vote for. but they are afraid to do that because the united states, what punched them for. if you remember when, when you a non bachelor said, we wouldn't be taking these, we would be taking down names. i mean, it's actually like, i'm a fios operation. i. so you're not the admissions run by the united states shifting down countries that propose the window, the announcement to. and yet, i think the bigger question spirit is not about the company called countries. that's what the gaze, it's about the united states, right? because that would take us to all the subjects we were discussing today. so the united states says that there is an occupation, and it says that it is for 2 situations which fixes the question, why does it continue to block the way to to state solution?

why the united states will not recognize the system satisfied? how does that hot or anything? there is no peace process. there is no negotiations. if indeed it believes in 2 state solution. why doesn't know cause just about a single state. and the zip is that there is occupation to, it says it was a ceasefire and gaza, but continues to block or undermine the possibility of ceasefire. guys are by always incorporating nothing. the always the conditions. it says it's concerned about the situation in south and nothing on but continues to support the reserves with arms money and, and diplomatic sheets and saying it's uh. busy the aircraft carrier so that you should be getting into support is right in a florida 11 also support. so i just thought i'd booked this this. uh, this, this contradiction if you were between what supposed to be that back and position in theory. but what it is in practice, which is a very, very tragic position on the part of

a presumed liberal democracy that would not stand for the base of human rights of the people who bid occupied them, dispossess for over 75 years. so what we end up with, um, by the way, i'm not gonna waste time asking, you know, whether this will be whether israel will follow through on this draft resolution. they won't, nobody expects that they will. uh, so we can show that. but what we end up with is the situation where the world's top court, the i, c, j, has said israel's occupation of policy and territories, that means the occupied westbank, that means east jerusalem. and that means gaza the i c j and said that's all unlawful. the un general assembly has taken a step, which i think is a logical saying, well, if we have this opinion that it is unlawful, then it should stop. so we're all voting on this resolution calling on israel to stop, right, and to remove uh, its people and soldiers and settlers from the occupied territories. and there's

this reality which is supported by the vast majority of the populations in the countries in the world. and then there are essentially 2 countries, the us and israel, you mentioned the other countries. there's also hungry in the list, the countries the voted against this. um, and then there's this tiny group of 14 countries that says no, no, we disagree and therefore nothing changes a lot. but this is the thing, right? if the united states decides and better, i say for example, how does administration or bite it comes to his senses, right? and they say what, at the end of my pin, i'm just gonna go ahead under good, nice by this time or vote yes for the not commission or is an issue. i just want to, you know, find that out and my, that we and, and, and the czech republic and, and, uh, and uh, hungry. they won't hold for the united states. there's actually no doubt about that . i mean, a christian. so let me just read us the statement from the czech republic. it's comical, the shift to the public cares about the peace process about. but basically what

piece there is no peace process. the, the government can adjust the piece process rejection negotiations with the palestinians would not negotiate with the policy and or product. the answer i'm legislates that it's then decided on against a single state. so why is the check republic again opposed to this? it's because of the united states, and why is the united states doing this? what it's for jew political reasons is writers on our lives united states and is ready to be continued to dictate that relationship with the united states to the by that research that has committed itself on the very beginning that i think these assignments administration, that it was started on condition that he behind was read, it was, she did it for apartment, it were finances. and if there's looking at that question, is there a kind of sign at least this year? but secondly, before that, and you political terms and terms, all, it's going to put the world power to stand the regional powers on notice restaurant

. you want to try and i have to pay attention that the united states will support is or through the end, whether it's general side, whether it is mass that or against the news, whether it's best, wireless is human rights in the west, then the united states will continue to stand behind this highlight. so china is on put on notice in the question of taiwan. you queen, of course, the same thing in terms of russia and the golf in terms of your on and so on, so forth. so put thing is the sign in a jew, political complex for the united states means it would continue to support these. there are even if it says that it is for it, as i started on, i'm going to emphasize that it is 4 to set solution. it is for a ceasefire, and it is concerned about the discussion i'm living on. it continues to support is i was government in it's general side and it's for crimes. and it states that our acts and oven on marijuana. and i'd like you to pivot to you mentioned the

lebanese and attacks and 11 on can you can i get you to pivot to that for one last question. before i turn to our next guest, who is a c i a analyst? how are you looking at this? after 2 days of these large scale mass casualty events? we had almost $3000.00 injuries in level and across the country yesterday is almost 300 today, 9 people killed. how are you looking at this right now? just in one words, i'm horrified, i'm horrified, not because i just came to the understanding that there's a war between is right and has been a lot more and that is the article. so there's has been like federal standards organizations or the case but not considers his right as etc state or most of the out of world because it. ready is not to be a thursday, i am not hold of 5 by that. i'm heart of 5 by the idea that we just introduced in the last 24 hours 48 hours. and you met people who are not set are through cyber

hacking and rigging all mass communication, all of devices on so and so forth that will end up hurting the videos and comparisons and whoever indiscriminately that this is a new stage in warfare in terrorism that everyone especially in washington, capitals, especially in western capitals, need to understand that this would come to bite them because if they're gonna allow this to happen, is they gonna legit so much? is the mass that are attached against lebanese. and that includes has by laws, function that is and party members and actors, and ministers, and so on. so for then there is a zip code for the members and orders to reserve the army. and it's, it's active duty soldiers, which account to $700000.00 people would only be in the judgment bargain if every $111.00 on a, such as

a legitimate thought that the same thing will apply to any western power. this is a very dangerous and reckless estimation on the part of is there a, it's a roll. government that is getting mass better. that would come to reflect on the future of security in the middle east and beyond. so it has to be from pain. it has to be able to stream, it has to be condemned by the united states and others will continue to provide unconditional support through the now government. right now on the shower options, there are senior political analysts. thank you very much. now if you're just joining us, we're continuing with our breaking news out of 11 and more. communication devices have exploded in several parts of the country. at least 14 people have been killed . more than 450, have been injured among them civilians and has belong members. lebanese media are reporting that today's explosions happened in phones, laptops and handheld radios. solar energy systems have also reportedly exploded and

caught fire. the lebanese army is now calling on the public to stay away from blas zones. and run con is outside the american hospital in b. ruth and census this report at around 16 g m t. uh, there was a controlled explosion of a explosive device that was found on an ambulance belonging to the american university hospital. this is where the explosion took place this construction going on. so this was where the lebanese army engine is decided. it would be safest to make that controlled explosion. the sound was very loud. likely because of the explosion explosive. they used to designate that particular device. now, like i said, this was found on a hospital throughout last 24 hours. we've been hearing medical stuff say we use these pages because that convenient for us there in i'm balances the walkie talkies,

all in ambulances. the pages are being used by medical stuff. now the health retrieve also been speaking, they've given us the numbers of the dead. and injured that took place on tuesday at 12 people that including 2 children. now, 300 people are in critical condition with the injuries. the total amount of injuries from tuesday alone is 27522800. as of recording miss that have been 9 confirmed dead and 300 feet high casualties. that have happened as a result of what they call in the walkie talkie attack. now, at this american hospital, he still has people in it that came over night, some 140 people. i've been watching people talking to each other. they've been slightly joking with each other in a very dark,

humorous way of looking at their phones. going. i wonder if there's an explosive in my phone, but that document and depends something new for the 11 these people. they feel that this is an incredibly scary tactics that these riley's, according to the lebanese government and his bullet are doing. and that very, very, very afraid and wrong con, how does it varies as talk to glenn carla, a national security analyst, and a former deputy national intelligence officer at the ca, when you're in boston, thanks for your time today with your intelligence background. what would you say is happening right now at the caea and within the intelligence community after 2 days a visa is really a tax and the bill and i wasn't expecting to talk about what happens inside the old office, but that's a very good question. well, if the task of the ca and of any intelligence office agency is to know what's

happening on the other side of the horizon and not now but to tomorrow, and for the next to months and years. so either in the united states and to see i was surprised by this or not. if it was, then they will be upset and there will be scrambling to determine how it was that the c i a was not aware or if it was so, and even if it weren't the and other aspect of the work, critical part of the work is to assess the why and the consequences of what, uh and, and there you, there are some very interesting discussions in the previous 15 minutes or so on your network to, to try and make sense of, of why israel would do this one at all. and to now the tactically, obviously it was a brilliant success and but strategically, um, there are

a lot of questions and the only the strategic sense i can make of it really isn't so much to put feasible on his heels. and to make it afraid that i don't think that is a particular objective, but rather to effect as one of the earlier, the commentators says to affect what happens in washington and then the american election, meaning meaning what, as well, nothing yahoo seems to place his survival as a prime minister in the summer and not possibly going to jail above even his nation security. and he seems to be the principal off the call to reaching a ceasefire with some us uh, and is quite clear. she has favored the donald trump or favors donald trump and

in the past and in the current election. so if there is turmoil in the lab and on and his real between his blog and this really is to the point of a, a war that will cause this not k. i certainly disrupt the current course of the us selection and the disruption could upset the, the trends which are progressively less favorable to a trump. and that would be a good thing for and that, and yahoo he is, he might be able to continue in office. i have no idea, i mean, i do not obviously, you know, if that's the case. but if other than that strategic objective, i have trouble making sense of what these really is or she can to accomplish. that would make this kind of operation the worthwhile. yeah, you're, you're not the 1st speaker today who is kind of asked that question of what's the wider point of this? the reason i ask you that question about the c i a and the intelligence community

at the top is, i'm just really wondering. um, but it wouldn't be a much am i right that it would be part of a c. i is job to see something like this coming right. that the us intelligence community would want to know if is realize planning something like this either they would want to be told or if they're not being told right there. if there isn't that transparency, then it would be part of their job. to find out that this is about that yes, it is in the general a statement that the, the mission of the television service of the c, i a is to have knowledge of anything that affects the national interest of the united states. and not just to understand what are the current circumstances, but in particular, because i said to look over the horizon, that's the term that we often use. but it's, it's plans and intentions that are, is the, the ultimate objective of an intelligence service. but not the expectation of

events. so this is the s c i a and every other intelligence service with some interest in the middle east would hope to know in advance of something like this. certainly. okay. all right, well thank you very much for that explanation in that context. and i asked you, i wanted to put that on our viewers radar because the us so, so far said that they didn't have for warning of the, of these attacks. so, and yet it is part of their mission to, to look at something like this and see it coming. and so for the moment we're just putting that on the radar. glenn, carl national security analyst and former deputy national intelligence officer. thank you so much. anytime. so the u. s. federal reserve has cut interest rates by half a point. the 1st reduction in 4 years. the rate influence is borrowing costs for all sorts of debts, including mortgages, credit cards, car loans, home loans, the new rate cut is higher than expected,

and it marks the end of this central bank policy of hiking borrowing costs to deal with inflation options here. as mike had a joins us now live from washington, dc. mike and will be honest with you. best spent the last 3 hours on 11 on my attention has been clearly focused on that. so go easy on me. just just tell us, tell us what's going on and what it means. the route of means that the federal reserve is deeply confident in the state of the us economy. as this uh, this rates caught his moles and was expected, and it shows that the fed is confident that it is now got inflation under control. it believes that the job market remain strong despite the fact that unemployment continues to increase. so it sees the us economy in a very good position. this is the 1st rates caught in some full years. and once again, the fed meeting into this rather than the 25 basis points because of what's expected

. it's in fact doubled that to 50 basis points. now this, as i said, within the terms of the federal reserve is a very aggressive mood. however, the head of the federal reserve, jerome, paula making clear that they have not yet established a pattern of what is to come the saying that basically that will be decided from meeting to meeting. so no indication of the cuts to come in. it's meetings late to the end of the next year. however, all indications are that while this economy remain stable, they will be further rate cuts in the months ahead. mike, is there a political reading of this? i mean, obviously it selection season in the us, americans we know are unhappy advise in the harris over installation and now they are getting good news with respect to their pocket book, which we know is a strong, you know, a strong basis for their political choices as well as your side selection, yeah, that's a political basis to everything. and in fact,

the republican contended for the presidency. donald trump has criticized this rates, kept saying that it creates a political bonus for the democrats in the months leading into the election. and certainly, any administration that is in charge when there's a rates cut such as this, when the inflation rate is being pulled down to just above 2 percent of the stage, that is going to be of benefit to the administration. donald trump going all the way and saying that this was politically motivated on the fits be hot, but one must make very clear here that the federal reserve has always been actually independent of the directions or all the position of any administration of the day . this is a fundamental basis of the way it will accept the decision it takes is taken by the federal, the federal reserve board itself with no political input whatsoever. it's mike hannah, reporting from washington dc. thank you very much for walking us through all of

that. let's return to that breaking news out of 11 on where more communication devices have exploded in several parts of the country. at least 14 people has been killed. more than 450, have been injured among them civilians and has belong members. let's take a look at more international reaction to tuesday and now to today's attacks across 11 on the use. high representative of foreign affairs, joseph burrell says, even if the attacks seem to have been targeted, they had heavy indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians. i consider the situation extremely worrying. i can only condemn these attacks that endanger the security and stability of lebanon, and increase the risk of escalation in the region. islands prime minister assignment harris says, what happened at 11 on is extraordinarily concerning. what the middle east needs to see is the escalation, not escalation. as un secretary general, antonio gutierrez has warrant of a serious risk of dramatic escalation in the region following those attacks. and

let them know what those episodes is, particularly city, is not only because of the number of victims that it's caused because of the indications that they exist, that these was 3 goods i would say in advance of the normal way to 3. who are these things? because that was the risk of these being discovered. because obviously, the logic of making all these devices explodes is to do it as a preemptive strike before a major military operation. so as important as the events in itself is the indication that these events confirms that there is a serious risk of that emetic escalation the lebanon. and everything must be done

to avoid that escalation. abbas us lunney is a senior research fellow at the center for mentally strategic studies. he joined just from there on earlier. and here's what he had to say. or hey, ron has described these incidents, you know, as i talked to, or as well as mass motor, subject to, you know, in the national punishment as well as, you know, uh, persecution. uh, you know, the series of, uh, complex and extensive explosions in lebanon is taking the kansas between these relying 11 on each, a new phase. a level is really. so i've been using assume and infrastructure not only target, think members of hezbollah, but also civilian people in lebanon, and also those medical staff, those who are using those pages, or walkie talkies as well as those communication uh, you know, equipment. this could provoke a reaction from a live in the side,

and that could be, you know, a reaction against maybe civilians in israel, or maybe something could happen to those prisoners is really prisoned. everything goes as well. um, this could be, you know, bringing you escalation in that front as well. it seems that with these, you know, a sabotage operations is released have been trying to cripple or at least on their mind, the communication and that's work of his bullet. and consequently it's and it's combined that control in the northern front. and that's why i think in the days to come tel aviv will be assessing that the impact of these operations on his will on it's operation capabilities. we saw that his beloved try to, uh, you know, launch some rock of attacks against israel in order to say that these kind of up prices will not impact it's uh, you know, come and then control in the electric field. you know,

uh specifically when we have a new government into ron sale, the seems that israel has been trying to provoke you wrong or has well line order to, ah, reach the a, bring this collision into a level that there could be original laws that the united states could be involved helping israel because to ron believes that israel has been suffering a strategy failure in the cause of war, not being able to meet. it's, you know, declared goals in the field. that's why it's wants to bring the united states directly involved in the war uh through the assassination of a smile. how do you get into wrong or through assassinating? see, never has bullet commanders in love and on that does it for me. so then yeah, if it's a day to stay with office or continuing coverage of breaking news at 11 on a 2nd day of large scale attacks across the country walkie talkies laptops and held radios,

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