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president joe biden addresses jobs numbers. the world health organization proves first diagnostic test for mpox in its efforts to ease the crisis in africa. ♪ anchor: hello and welcome to "world news america." israeli forces have bombed a road near the main border crossing from lebanon into syria. the overnight rate cut off the access to a passage used by more than 100,000 people in recent days fleeing lebanon. israel said it struck crossing because it says the route was being used by hezbollah to transport weapons. people are now trying to cross the area on foot carrying their belongings in plastic bags and suitcases. on friday joe biden made his

first ever appearance at wte house press briefing room and took questions on the middle east. he stood behind israel saying they israelis have every right to respond to the vicious attacks on them from the iranians and everyone but the fact is they have to be very much more careful he said about dealing with civilian casualties. iran's supreme leader delivered a rare public sermon in tehran on friday three days after iran launched missiles at israel. he told supporters that the attack was minimum punishment and that lebanon and gaza were acting in self-defense. >> nobody, based on any international laws has the right to objecto the nation of lebanon and lebanon's hezbollah and asked why they are supporting gaza and the uprising of the palestinian people as they have carried out their duty. it is a islamic ruling and a

logical law and an international and global logic. palestinians are defending their land. their defiance is legitimate and helping them is also legitimate. anchor: the israeli military has published figures about its campaign in lebanon saying that in the last four days it has killed 250 hezboll members and that includes 21 commanders including the head of the communications network. overall the idf says it is struck more than 2000 hezbollah targets in the last four days. the bbc cannot independently verify those figures. the israeli army also announced that two of its soldiers had been killed in combat as a result of a drone attack launched from iraq. lucy williamson was gathering

reports when she and her crew came close to cross-border fire. they sent us this report. reporter: hezbollah rockets are no longer in rponse to israeli troops in gaza but at home. moving through lebanon's heart of border villages. we are seeing more resistance to israeli forces on the others of the border. inlligence operations and grades have not destroyed hezbollah's ability to fight back just a few miles in here we just heard some bursts of small arms fire and what sounded like some grenades from the israeli army and now you can hear the sirens are going off telling us to get out of the area. [explosions] [sirens]

reporter: we just heard a series of loud explosions, they seem to be rockets landing nearby and some small arms fire across the border. it seems the israeli army is pushing into a location and this was the response. go! come on, time to go! [explosions] >> lebanon says -- [inaudible] we have one year of a fight. i don't know how to save but we

have been fearful for a long time. we don't know when or how, how it will finish. reporter: lucy williamson, bbc news, the israel and lebanon border. anchor: a situation report from the u.n. agency and gaza has revealed a worsening crisis. the u.n. relief agency said 1.4 million gazans did not get food rations in september and that number is up from one million in august and is a 40% increase. nearly 70% of the crops have been destroyed and when it comes to schools, 86% of the schools have been damaged or destroyed since seven october. israel's bombing has continued. these are the latest scenes coming from central gaza where multiple homes were destroyed

and body bs were seen being taken away on horse wagons. palestinian medics say 29 people have been killed across gaza today. humanitarian agencies have been trying to evacuate oddly injured children in gaza that have been injured in the israeli strikes. some of them have been brought to jordan for treatment. i've been speaking about the process with the head of mission at doctors without borders in jordan. talk to me a little about the journey out of gaza. how do those so badly wounded take it from there to you? >> today, we speak abo 100,000 wounded in gaza according to the who figures. around 14,000 of them are in need of evacuation. the evacuation process is very difficult. each case in general that needs

to go out of the gaza strip needs to be approved by the israeli authorities and the criteria is ambiguous, unclear with a lot of gray area rejections. the children we have received, they have made it out in the last months to egypt and some of them prior to the rafah offensive in may. it has since become more difficult for cases to be evacuated. we fly the cases from egypt after they have been there for some time. anchor: could you help more than the number that have already arrived to you? >> we have the capacity -- we have a good capacity in jordan to treat complex and big numbers of cases. the problem is the ability of the evacuation of the cases.

it has been much more difficult in the last month. we have a high rejection rate. in august we applied for additional children we would like to evacuate and only three of them have been approved. for capacity, we are ready to treat but i'm afraid the situation is not helping the access of those cases out of gaza. anchor: and what kind of help do the children need that make it to you and your colleagues? >> we talk about advanced and complex injuries that require long rehabilitation that extends to months. and the psychological impact is quite advanced and a in the sense that they are all suffering from posttraumatic stress disorders. they are suffering flashbacks.

they are suffering nightmares. and this is exacerbated by the news of losing a family member. it is complex reconstructive surgery. the need is for rehabilitation, physical and much more than that. anchor: a long and difficult road to those you manage to help but you mentioned the high rejection rate. what becomes of those children? >> that is the question. let's remember that this war has been going on for months with 41,000 killed and almost 100,000 wounded. we know very well that the system is collapsing there, the alth system and a lot of them are in need of specialized care that i'm afraid cannot be provided today in gaza. we know very well that those cases might not have a chance

for treatment. anchor: the u.s. presidential election is just one month away and presidential candidates kamala harris and donald trump went on the home stretch. harris is leading donald trump in national polling averages. that is as of october 2. the election will likely come down to who can win the most electoral college roads in seven key swing states which sometimes vote republican and sometimes democrat. so far, they are not and not -- neck and neck in those races. kamala harris made a stop in flint. in georgia donald trump spoke about the devastation that hurricane helene had wrought on communities there and on saturday he returns to butler,

pennsylvania, the location where a gunman made an attempt on his life in july. gary o'donoghue who was in butler at the time of the attack has returned to speak to residents that were there on that day including the widow of a former volunteer firefighter who was killed by a bullet that was aimed at former president donald trump. >> my youngest daughter pulled out his senior photo he had given to me and on the back he had written that i was -- he thanked me for being his bes friend. and he actually cured up and looked at me and said, thank you for being my best friend. -- and he actually teared up and looked at me and said, thank you for being my best friend. it is kind of weird that we had that moment before. reporter: throughout the rally cory joked that he believed the former president get him up on the stage. instead, a week later his jacket

was displayed on the stage as donald trump accepted the nomination. >> when donald trump told me he was going to do that, we were sitting here and watching it and i just cried because, i said, he got his moment on stage with donald trump. it was kind of like a nice moment but it was a sad moment at the same time. reporter: two people with an exceptional view that day were a mother and son come of the 11-year-old dressed as the former president. just feet from the stage. >> i felt everything, sad, scared, mad that someone would do this. >> angry that there is political violence, violence at all. we have to respect our political leaders. we may not always agree with everyone on the other site but there is no need for violence. >> and he had a gun? >> a rifle.

reporter: just outside the rally me and my team were talking to trump supporters about what they had seen. one man told us an extraordinary story d his words would reverberate around the world. he has no regrets. >> i feel proud of it. everything i told you that night has proven to be true from everything that has come out since then. anchor: staying in the u.s., the u.s. department of labor is reporting that employment has surged unexpectedly in the last month. more than 250 thousand new jobs were filled in september, a sign that the u.s. economy could achieve a soft landing that economists had hoped for. the job figures are higher than the roughly 150,000 that many analysts had forecast. health industries saw the most hires.

during a surprise appearance, president biden praised the report. >> when i came to office i was determined to end trickle-down economics and grow the economy. that was the policy and remains so. the middle class grows and the nation is stronger. the nation is stronger when there is a strong union movement as well. unemployment is down 4.1 percent. and every month of ice -- that the vice president and i have been in office, we have created jobs. anchor: for more on this reporter i've been speaking to the acting u.s. secretary of labor, judy soon. a higher-than-expected number of jobs in september, what is the reason for that do you think? >> one thing is we have seen an absolutely unprecedented economic recovery.

254,000 jobs created last month brings the total since president biden and vice president harris have come to office 216 million jobs. data -- to 16 million jobs. unemployment is historically low. it has been at near where below 4% since armstrong stepped on the moon. many people predicted we would not be able to get that kind of job creation or to that low level of unemployment for years really. if you think about where we came from, four years ago today it was october 2020, this was the prior administration and covid was raging with no national strategy to get it under control. we had kids going back to school and it was really back to zoom. halloween was canceled. kids were told they could not go

trick-or-treating. we are in a different place right now because our economy is strong, the biden administration made investments to make that happen and we said that an economy that puts workers first is the strongest economy that we can build. anchor: jobs are rising broadly speaking but not the same for all sectors. if we look at manufacturing, that is an area in decline. and you factoring jobs were lost again in september. can that trend be reversed? >> yes, and since this administration has come in 700,000 manufacturing jobs have been created and that is because the administration said, we want to make things in america again. we want to bring jobs offshore from the prior administration act home and i've seen it. in ohio there is an electric vehicle battery plant in the

same place where a plant had shut down in 2018. now folks can come back home. what you are right, we are not done yet. -- but, you are right, we are not done yet. we are trying to reverse decades of decline. the investments we are making are moving the needle. we have to build the facilities where people are going to be hired to do manufacturing before we hire the people they do it. it is not showing up yet and the same numbers that we will eventually see in the jobs numbers. but we are seeing them in construction so that is the building of manufacturing facilities and the jobs are going to come if we keep doing what we are doing. anchor: and speaking of helping workers, and the last 24 hours, the tentative deal to get the striking port workers act to work. how is that the old doing? >> it is such a great example of

how collective bargaining work. when voices have -- when workers have a voice at the table and unions are strong d when we believe in the parties coming to the table to negotiate, they can get to a win win solution. the parties reached a wage agreement that brought them both ck to the table. there are still issues to negotiate. it reopened our ports. i was with the longshoreman yesterday. these are men and women that do really hard jobs that are difficult and dangerous. they have been -- they make a good and honest living and it is a good job. that is what this agreement allows to happen. the workers are ready to go back to work. they wanted to go back last night but we did not kneel down the deal until a little later. this morning the courts are humming again -- the ports are

humming again. anchor: there is a fear that the jobs will be replaced by automation. how do you strike a balance between technology that is beneficial and that that can wipe out jobs? >> technology implemented in the right way can make jobs safer. every worker wants their job to be as safe as possible. the best way to do that is to allow her parties to talk to each other and figure out how to make it happen. workers can be the most important voice in how to integrate innovation and increase productivity and become more efficient. i trust the parties will talk through that issue and will come to a good soluti. the picket signs say things like the machines don't have families. that is true and that is why we know how important a good job is. it has to be something where

people can support themselves and raise their families and that is what the tentative agreement has demonstrated is possible with a good union contract. anchor: the first rapid diagnostic test has been approved by the world health organization for mpox. this could be a turning point. the cdc and africa said on thursday that the situation there was not under control. they said mpox has killed 800 people this year. in august the world health and -- the wor health organization declared a public health emergency. vaccine operations are underway. and soon with just a skin lesion swab a new test will detect if there is any mpox dna present. the director of the pan-american health organization told me more abt the international efforts being made to prevent a further outfit -- outbreak. >> the countries of africa are

trying to deal with mpox. we need does support the countries in africa. this is the best option. in countries and the americas we have provided technical guidance about how to handle contact to prevent the spread of mpox and we are also offering vaccines to our member states with the mechanism that we have in the americas. anchor: let's return to our top story and check in on the latest from the middle east. we go to beirut to our correspondent, anna foster. what is the latest there tonight as we've seen further strikes today?

reporter: as you join me here in beirut live, it is the early hours of the morning which is when we tend to see and tense airstrikes. early this morning there was a huge strike and people reported feeling it and that it was as large as the one that killed the hezbollah leader work a week ago. there have been strikes on a hospital and to the south of the country we believe a number of hospitals are out of action because of the continued israeli airstrikes in the capital and in the south and east. anchor: are people bracing themselves for a possible israeli retaliation to the iranian strikes? reporter: yes, there is a real concern because israel has said it is weighing out its restaurants and you heard president biden give a hint at

the conversations and he is having with israel and the advice he is giving. ultimately, i think they will choose their own response that we saw. people across the middle east are concerned as this continues to escalate as further attacks haveeen promised and no side seems to be on the verge of backing down. anchor: and we are still seeing the displacement crisis with so many people on the move. reporter: that is right. more than a fifth of the country are out of their homes. 1.2 million people overall. u.n. says all the government shelters in lebanon, 900 of them are full. and syrians left their civil war and came to lebanon for safety are now going back home to flee the bombing here. and one of those key routes has been hit and closed.

adds to the problem that lebanon has trying to keep everyone here safe and look after. anchor: anna foster in beirut, thank you for bringing us up to date. and of course you can keep on track with everything going on in the middle east and everywhere else in the world on our website. you can also check us out on your favorite social media platform at any time and you can follow our work there and keep up-to-date. that is it for today for "world news america." i am katrina perry. thank you for watching. do stay with us here on bbc news. take announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... financial services firm, raymond james. announcer: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation,

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