the, the, this, the dw news line from berlin has bullet confirms the desk of a senior commander and it is rarely strikes. group says, one of its great leaders was killed to be rude, error strike, dudley's arrow attack onto lebanon's capital and decades. also coming up several us states have started early in person voting for the presidential election in november for months of political turmoil. the milestone marks the start of the 6 week sprint to election day. and the european union is located in ukraine.

35000000000 yours has no restrictions on how it's to use your commission president for slough on the line made the announcement during the visit to keep the i'm aaron tilting berlin. thank you very much for joining us. lebanon's hezbollah has confirmed that one of its top commanders was killed in his really error strike on the route. the militia said you bring him a cue, a leader in its elite rad one unit, and died. it's one of those heirs, frankly, for the dental is attacks and loving these capital and decades. authorities, they are say at least 14 people were killed with dozens more wounded. the tax came after israel was the airstrikes against what it says was as far as infrastructure in southern lebanon. earlier on friday, the run back militia group fired dozens of projectiles. northern israel will tell

you, nation for the device explosions this week, which killed more than 30 people. i'm now joined by them. been tell a blue who is a senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies in washington dc. thank you for joining us. pleasure. thank you for having me. so the you ins high commissioner for human rights has condemned 11 on devise, blast as a violation of international law. what's your take? well, it's an interesting take by the un high commissioner because there's been relative silence from united nations both personally and professionally. when you look at high like you, i right, thank you and personnel as well as from different uh organs of the un body. since october 8th, which is when a lebanese has a lot, became the 1st of the many iran bakshi and malicious in the region to enter and make what we're facing in the least. a lighter mold is called more info, as well. uh, so with immense respect to the high commission and i find that to be

a somewhat politicized. they can also see there's one that looks at the conflict through a series of snapshot rather than a story of the or a video that is, i changing over time. talking well, i might be able to size interpretation, but some analysts have been saying that is real, is playing russian roulette and dramatically risk an escalation with iran and it's proxies. do you agree? well actually i think there has been a change in is really national security doctrine, perhaps not officially, but philosophically some stopped over 70. whereas when you looked at the way is real dealt with many of these groups and even dealt with their patrons, womic republic of around, it was more about managing the situation now i think post october 7 given issues your faces are many funds. now. i think it's quite keen to solve some of these problems. and militarily is really, is indeed doubling down it's added, for example, to it's more aims by the more cabinets, either bringing back of the 628-0000, internally displaced persons which requires

a measure of peace and calm and quiet on the border. and israel appears united in the sense of achieving that means using the military option more frequently and with greater rigor and trying to got as many mid to high level hezbollah commanders as possible. so israel is indeed engaging in some short term escorts. orange steps with the hopes of restoring insurance for a longer period of time. because you were saying there is real, does appear to be focusing its military campaign on high ranking, has blood figures and as well as now confirmed at the desk or the death of one of their top king commanders in this recent attack can be rude. so after this week's events, how seriously would you say it has blown his command structures have been weekend as well. uh, not to the extent that home off in the south uh, in the gaza strip, has been a weekend where i, there has been a systematic gutting of the homeless political and military infrastructure inside the gaza strip as well as trans nationally. and some of the strikes that we saw at 11 on as well as any run over the past 11 months, as well as a little bit of a different story. but they've had different elements of their command structure,

such as one of their air defense leaders. for example, taken out this individual, mister ab able that you mentioned was tied to their lead ground forces that red one forces. these are the people that would engage in across the border operation if the higher ups ever green lighted did. so they've gone after different elements of the command and control in the, in liberties has was infrastructure to that extent. they don't believe politically . they have cripples that the organization yet. but when it comes to both a ron and has belie, they have promised some type of response to these latest attacks. what do you think are the options that they have available to them? are very interesting less so iran then has the light in this instance and even as we get more perspective and distance from it, it's been about a month and a half. now, since these a lot of the public promised the highest revenge and indeed talked about quote unquote, beloved locks response to the killing. does a mouse cheat? it's melanie and to run by these rallies in late july,

yet no official over its kinetic operation has commenced from the earnings at least like we saw on april 13 in april 14. and i think the reason is the closer that we get to the one year anniversary of the october 7 terrace attack these monica public is unfortunately it's sitting pretty, is looking back at the regional chessboard. things are going it's way regional normalisation between these rallies and the saudis is delayed, or at least pushed back. there is greater tension between the arab street and the arab states. and indeed there's greater political tension between arab states and israel over at lee and heritage states that even the united states of america. so while the ron's proxy network is more dependent on, if anyone is getting more great power, patronage is real is indeed being politically isolated from some of its western counterparts as well as losing some of the bridges that it had built or tried to build earlier. so that may explain why the iranians are not responding and therefore i fear it's more of a sense of success than fear that is explaining the short term strange with as well . i think it's still very march of the art of the possible. they know that if they

try to face, say phase too much, or they could end up losing their head. so they're quite keen to continue to attend for patent escalated ever so slightly to stay below. some of these riddles threshold. all right, that was been and been tell of of a senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies in washington dc. thank you very much for joining us. thank you. let's have a brief look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. the home gary and capital is preparing for potential flooding around parliament. parts included as waterfront are already inundated with water. the region is experiencing the most severe flooding in over a decade. the river, daniel is expected to peak on saturday. troops, emergency services in prison. inmates are feeling sand bags and constructing, make shift dams. nearby areas the us house of representatives has passed a bill to boost secret service protection for presidential candidates. the measure of follows any parent, 2nd, assassination attempt and former us president donald trump. it requires the service

to provide the same protection to major election candidates, a city in us presidents. the bill also requires sending approval and staying in the us. now several us states have started in early in person voting for this year's presidential election, kicking off the final 6 weeks print in the race for the white house pulling stations in the states of minnesota, south dakota and virginia open their doors friday morning with many more will to follow in the coming weeks owing station directors are also increasing security to protect their staff and burn the ballot box temporary, valid workers have been increasingly targeted for harassment after donald trump's 2020 was let's cross over now to leave shore. cheese a was political scientist and joint us from washington d. c. welcome to the program. thank you. so list voting is technically underway.

the us can you give us an idea of where the 2 candidates stand? absolutely so sense the. c big switch that happened in the summer. we've seen kyra version the pulse and receive pamela harris, continuing to rise. she's been saver to win the popular vote for weeks now. and if you remember, us has a very special system where we built by the electoral college, which really brings us down to just a couple of important what we call sweeten states. and you know, sweet state city is incredibly tight and exact for many weeks. trump was still favored to win the electoral college, even though she's the head and the popular vote we're seeing is switching the, the likelihood happening. she's leading in pennsylvania in michigan and wisconsin, so it is still and absolutely me a lighter now, when it comes to early voting, mailing voting republican seem to have changed their tune in both cases, moving away from trying to restrict voting,

a voter turnout to actually embracing this why do you think they are changing their 10 so far? that's a good question. i, i believe it was a tactic to suppress the votes. c from the party that they don't support in the past, and when is it very effective? they have to switch their to on early voting. savers campaigns with around gave folks that actually have fuel offices that have staff out there, knocking on doors, getting people to the polls, which he has traditionally and so far, still favors democrats. so perhaps the republicans are booking and key states like pennsylvania and actually getting staff out there to get that round game going in there. for now, they're ready to embrace early voting as a way to get their folks to the fall. now when it comes to that ground game with only 6 weeks left into the election, how exactly are both harrison from position themselves to voters? or i think you're gonna see

a come down to kind of the same lies we've been seeing. trump is a very us versus them, he's going to sell a lot of fear about what the other side will do to his supporters due to his us and say if you're not with us, the very future of our countries of state. there's also already a lot of conversation around is the selection even going to be fair? harris is banking on the economy. she's backing on continuing seeing improvements in the job market and in the inflation. and so she will continue doing that as well as driving home mistakes. what would happen with the 2nd trump administration? now you mentioned the fear that's been so and in the last several years and of course the last presidential election shot so trumps. came spreading. bass was claims that the election was stolen. broadly speaking to americans generally still have faith in the countries election system. i was just reading

a poll. the majority of americans still have faith in our election system. but what you're talking about is incredibly relevant. it gets at the very foundation of do we trust free and fair elections? and when the conversation starts even before voting about how one site might be cheating, the other side is say, well, even if we, when the other side won't, won't accept it. and there might be violence like last time, and it absolutely under mine's the foundation of democracy in america. but voters, i think you can see from the very strong turn out on the 1st day of early voting and are still confident in the process and trust that this will be a fair election. and hopefully we'll just see the same thing after the upcoming election day. that was lead show us political scientist. thank you very much for your analysis. and yeah, this, the, your opinion is loading ukraine up to 35000000000 euros to use as it sees fit as it

fights against russian. your being commission president ursula funder line, made the announcement friday during a visit with your cleaning presidents lensky in keys, ukraine's deputy foreign minister. you have him pet of genus gifts horse left on the line, a warm welcome on her latest visit. the representative from the you, one of ukraine's most important allies. there's good news, rushes we lent attacks me for the support is necessary us. and this is why i am happy to announce that today. the commission has adopted proposals that will enable the european union to lend 35000000000 euros from the g 7 pledge. this is a huge step forward part of a 45000000000 euro loan package announced by the g 7 earlier this year. much of the funds are likely to go to ukraine's front line defenders. president photo to me is

a lensky says he has a quote plan for victory against russia. that will begin unfolding soon. waste line . another pulling in the entire plan depends on quick decisions from our partners. the plan is predicated upon decisions which should take place from october to december and not delaying these processes. we really want to see this and we would then consider that the plan has worked with you more about how much the plans buy to fund a line went on to meet ukrainian 1st responders for dealing with increasing russian attacks on power stations. ukraine says russia has been targeting its energy supply and has disabled, around 80 percent of its thermal plants. the e u is providing a 160000000 euros to help repair those plans and build shelters and heating units of that 100000000 euro come from windfall profits from frozen brush and assets. and you are up to date, but to stick around coming up next to youtube or ava back shows us some of the

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