the, the breaking news, israel announces a new phase of war as it moves trips to its northern border with levon on while plunging to return at this place, city and citizens to their homes. there that's as a new wave of mobile device. the explosions kills at least 20 and wounds over 450, more and 11 on just a day after 12 died and 2800 were injured there and a mass page or bombing strikes the time when these company and its own gary and business partner both deny producing the deadly pages the devices were allegedly that needed remotely by israel. i want to thank meta and i hope our committees interest in this subject helping move you

yesterday. you guys decided to take down our cheat and related russian influence operations and delights in the us. senate we're members, welcome meadows decision to censor and remove all our t. it accounts from its platforms, as senators, claim, the government continues to protect and free speech the from our headquarters in moscow. i'm rachel ruble. this is r t international. we start with breaking news as well as defense minister says the country is launching a new phase of war. he has ordered some big troops to divert from gaza to the border with love and on. this comes shortly after that country was struck by 2 days of wide spread mobile device explosions, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 3000 a sheet. no,

it goes over the center of gravity is moving north, meaning that we are allocating forces resources and energy for the northern arena. we have not forgotten the hostages, and then we have not forgotten our mission in the south. we are committed to our duties and we are carrying them out simultaneously online for the just spreading that allegedly shows israel moving their kava tanks to the border with 11 on the ideas earlier announced preparations for a possible escalation of the conflict with hezbollah on the wednesday also saw continuing an exchange of fire between israel and has the lot as is really just the targeted buildings across southern 11 on the idea of says it was in response to the 40 rockets that the militant forces launched into israel. the lebanese paramilitary group says it has lost 5 members and is really a tax from the pedro bombings and other airstrikes. this comes and made accusations from has the law in iran that israel is responsible for the electronic detonations

in loveland, on uranian envoy to the un says to ron, sees the attacks as an act of terror and vows. retaliation is in bass that are to 11 on was wounded by an explosion. r t correspondent, joelle maroon, isn't they root? and brings us the latest details a non beside or some, i'm not long ago, explosions were heard across various regions of southern lebanon. we've received information that at least one person has confirmed it, although more are believe to have been killed. this new wave of explosions affected wireless devices. and today we're not only talking about pagers, but also radios like walkie talkies. that's according to 11 east security source speaking with r t 11 east ministry of health. also announced a short while ago that there are hundreds of wounded citizens and calls are going out from hospitals to donate blood. right now we're in front of a hospital emergency room in the former area. they route, we can see the lebanese army and security forces are setting up the security cordon around the hospitals where the wounded have begun to arrive. there are also members

of the victims, families who have arrived here to find out about their relatives. the liberties for administer a short while ago called this new attack. a blatant violation of the country sovereignty had the, the also called on the international community to stop israel from violating the lebanese sovereignty in such a manner. give me a reminder that this is the 2nd day in a row that these explosions have occurred. just half an hour after these attacks the liberties health ministry announced that they were more than a 100 injuries throughout the country. hundreds of injured or receiving care. and again, hospitals are calling for blood donations and the mid dependent caused by the exploding devices. there are also funerals taking place for lebanon citizens, 11 days red cross has responded to multiple explosions and different regions of the country. reports have indicated has the members are using the handheld of radios and video footage appears to show the aftermath of explosions on the streets and

inside apartments, the walkie talkies that that made it on wednesday are said to have been made by a japanese firm. our team correspondence use of july in the us and i can have an update for starters, as well as issued a statement suggesting that this new wave of a tax is not going to go on punished. they say that they face a new challenge, of course, how his beloved plans on dealing with the wave of attacks targeting electronical as well as communications device is going to be a matter of interest moving forward, particularly because after 24 hours after the 1st wave of the tax is belies, essentially suffered a very similar scenario. but the important thing here is of course, to note that the only people that have been targeted are, of course, and not hezbollah members or, but the most importantly, that civilians have been caught in the crossfire. which really big the question just about how to disrupt, go about doing this. are so many theories out there, of course, the theory that there was a site supply chain attack is picking up the most traction. the church president

reached out to the lebanese prime minister, expressing his sympathies, but also his condolence, and so those that were killed and injured as a result of these attacks. this was early on wednesday, moments before the 2nd wave of attacks page 11 on. but of course, what we're looking at right now is a different approach, or at least a difference in, in this kind of attack. because on tuesday, when the attack initially took place of the devices that were targeted were pages. but today were receiving reports suggesting that the devices also include radios, whether their home radios, the car vehicles, us or our car radios, laptops fingerprint scanners, essentially anything with an electrical circuit board has also been effected as a result of this attack. and what we do know at this point, these rarely is of course have been silence and the general theory is that israel is quiet because of operational security. but then that also makes the question then what is real planning moving forward? because we understand this type of warfare, this hybrid warfare uses asymmetrical methods to ensure that it carries out attacks

against it's an amazing this case that is hezbollah, but also does so in a strategic sense. we understand that to the tactic that is being used is being essentially issued for one very specific reason. and that is to of course, border well lebanon's health system. this typically happens uh, in advance of a larger campaign. of course, this would require months of planning. we understand that is where it was, have been planning this for months. i'm just this past week they have decided and essentially agreed to include 11 on southern borders, least at southern territories as part of it's a scope and it's vision moving forward. of course, what that's going to look like at this very moment is ok, but the one thing that is clear is of course, as well that has about to react and retaliate against these attacks. we can expect is we all to do the same. and this perpetual cycle will continue, which will, of course, lead to further unrest on many leaders within the region suggests that there is this wave of violence that we cannot seem to get our heads around. we can't seem to walk away from these back and forth. and tit for tat attacks will continue unless

something is done. this will lead into something much, much broader, which will put more lives at risk. criticism is mounting and you're wrong with the fearful. it's pointing fingers that is relevant that many labeling the recent explosions that as a waiting act of terrorism, president muscle position can also wait in today placing much of the blame on the west. it was possible support for israel in a cabinet of meetings today. he describes that situation as a disgrace for as well as the western allies, particularly of the west, accusing them of abandoning their principles in favor of what he calls an inhumane agenda, which he sees as a prime example of a decline in humanity within the west. using tools normally meant to enhance the welfare of humans as a means of tara and destruction, against those whose views do not. a line with us is proof of the decline of humanity and of the dominance of savagery and criminality. this event,

once again showed that although the western states and americans claim they want to cease fire in practice, they offer full support for blind crimes killings and assassinations. they are wanting president task for us the, the urgent need for muslim nations to you night to guess what he termed the ongoing atrocities committed by his routes. response to the incident has been really swept, especially with eyes on tip on following a reset, as a nation of former, how much chief as might honey a to around the country has also played a big role and of course providing relief to those injured and the needs attack, in fact, everyone was among the 1st 2 dispatch medical relief teams to live in on the one in red cross and has already arrived on the scene to assess victims. i know we've learned that the several injured individuals will be transported to iran for, for their medical care. later today we had hoped to report from a metro by the airport to speak with some of those effected and getting

a clear image of what happened in live in on. however, the red cross and informed us that due to security concerns, we cannot film anything, anything there, of course, because many of the injured are reportedly as well. members of this incident has struck in nerve into one of the rhetoric. yeah. rhetoric into one has increased significantly as we see different iranian officials are talking about a serious revenge. many are now asking the iranian government, here is the wrong people are asking, still wanting government to not say i opened the face of the ongoing publications on the part of as well, especially when it comes to the fact that the, one of the iranian officials, they're wanting and bassett or to have been on much trouble. amani i was. 1 as one of those who were affected by these, that to a following the page or that nations on tuesday, the taiwan based company that owns the brand,

announced it didn't produce the devices a claims, a sub contractor based and hungry made them. but that business also has denied any involvement, was still no official word from israel, despite much speculation that it carried out the sophisticated attack. budapest has issued a statement clarifying that the devices in question have never even been in hungary . the authorities have confirmed that the company in question is a trading intermediary with no manufacturing or operational starting hungry. it has one manager, registered edits declared address, and the reference devices have never been in hungry well over 24 hours since the pager explosions and 11 on still no official response from a 0. this fights direct accusations from his beloved as well as the lebanese government israel, and has remained dead silence and having claims responsibility for the attacks. the government press office, which typically sends out multiple updates to for and during this age day has been quiet on the, on his social media channels. there is coverage on the idea of routine activities

in dallas. i'm and how long the lebanese border in the countries knows what the pager bloss on dimensions and just recently. and you post appeared on prime ministers telegram channel, where he express condolences for the daft of for is really military personnel in gauze. um. but as for the beepers, no mention. meanwhile, the attention is slowly shifting from who is behind to, how does this attack happened at oh, it was additionally considered as cyber warfare, as you remember, but now asperger's suggest the pagers were fated with the remote reactivate of explosive devices. citing a senior 11 a security source and another unnamed source, reuters claims, but israel's foreign intelligence agency allegedly planned to the explosives inside 5000 pagers imported by his bulk of 5 months before tuesdays designations. these operations are serious. rachel, his goal of security. we have to say was months in preparation. the media says all

eyes on our own gold, the poland, taiwan based company that has been a lot all the pagers from the company. c o stated that the device is used in the 11 on bloss, were manufactured by its sister company, located in hungary. we didn't design it, we didn't manufacture it. the company just bought a license logo from us. it has nothing to do with me. well, in see or we explosives could have been placed inside the device is often they were manufactured or even after arriving and lab and on, investigator is all considering all possibilities, but the manufacturer has been under a significant scrutiny. of course, in response to those on one to the pension they hadn't gary and cabinets, stated that the company in question is private and has never received government orders. these roles, major ally in old time supported the u. s. keeps insisting it had no knowledge of the attacking lab on, on. we heard that previously from pen to go in and white house officials and now

secretary of state, blinking county in cairo. egypt has rates are rated that america neither knew about not participated in the operation. the pager explosions occurred just a day after the reading. president said tyrone might engage in direct talks with the us potentially if washington shows in practice that it is not the whole style towards these. let me play public, the potential reconciliation that israel is clearly not interested in. the united states did not know about uh, nor was it involved of these incidents and we're still gathering the information and gathering the facts. and we remain very clear about the importance of o r. s. avoiding any steps that could further escalate the conflict that we're trying to resolve in gaza spread to other friends. it's clearly not in the interest of anyone involved to see that happening. we're focused on getting this cease fire over the finish line. uh that would also,

i think the material in terms of the prospects of actually defusing, the situation in northern israel, in southern lebanon. it's imperative that everyone avoid taking steps that could further escalator spread the conflict. the u. s. has long claims to be a peacemaker. in the region, but with little success as tension is have only worse and worse and worse into times to help prevent and allow tour between tell of even his bulk. americas special envoy visited israel on monday, but left empty handed as his rose defense ministers gallons insisted and military operation is necessary to safely return northern residents to their homes. some argue that america acts as a mediator, but with a clear bias toward one side and runs fingerprints are all over. all the buildings are going on in this region and around these to edit support for these proxies. they need to do it now, and we need to more work for de escalation of this conflict as parents of paramount

importance. right now. i don't know what you're talking america, secretary of defense. austin is expected and he's real next week. again unclear what will a change. meanwhile, his bullet promises to retaliate with no clear indication of when exactly might happen. which leaves the situation very tense. the army, these really arman says no changes to the home phones commands directives, but we hear unconfirmed reports, but the idea has re deployed. it's a lead 90 a's division from the gathers trip to the northern command in preparation for a possible escalation. and we have to understand that, remember that if his bullet answer is israel will retaliate to this retaliation, and that would put the entire region in danger. so we discussed this in depth with global policy institute senior fellow george w. l. a. who spoke to us from the sites of b, a. c, consulting in budapest, the hon, gary and firm it linked to the devices. the lights as um,

as you can see the from behind me. this is a very much a residential neighborhood. um, that could be office spaces here, but uh, it's essentially a residential or a family's living here. there is no way a tool that anything could be manufactured here. big questions us about this company. now, one thing to keep in mind is that was the website was taking down. the link in the page for the company is still up. and you could look at the links in page it is spelled a to play and that this company does anything for oh, is the, is the familiar corporate doubled the go um, absolutely meaningless. and gives you no indication that tool of what it is that this company does. so it looks like a rather of a phony uh, company set up in order to be upfront for some kind of transactions.

but there's no, no sense. it's all that this is anything other than a front for something, a folding company or shell company, whatever. but it doesn't look, it's a little like a, it's a company that does any kind of a business. performs any kind of a service or us media are now reporting israel informed washington on tuesday about his plans for the 11 on operation without providing details. united states now appears to be distancing itself from israel, stressing washington was not involved in the explosions. and i can tell you, is we were not involved in yesterday's incidents or today's in any way, and i don't have anything more share, nothing more to add on these incidents. i, i, i understand the question about getting gauge and hypothetical was or speculate about what did or didn't happen or, or who might be response. is there any for intelligence assessment as to

i'm not going to get into intelligence as estimates and assessments from here either. are they are we spoke to is really journalist and the activist, emily schrader who disagrees with that position. is there. i'll never claimed any formal responsibility in the past, even from major operations said we know weren't confirmed until sometime decade later. i don't think that israel is the only possibility. however, there are, there is a possibility that it could be the united states or perhaps other actors, or perhaps a joint operation. we don't know all of the details yet. so i would hesitate to say yes for sure. it's israel or yes for sure. it's someone else, of course, this is an escalation, however, it's an escalation in response to over $8000.00 projectiles being fired over the syrian and lebanese border bias has the law at the direction of the islamic republic. that is really communities. and so to say that israel is the one who started this, or israel is the one who's initiating this into a wider regional war,

is just completely inaccurate. this is actually a very targeted strike, not indiscriminate at all. the fact that there are civilian injuries or casualties in any military conflict there, unfortunately, a fact of life that's very, very sad, but to say that this was indiscriminate is just simply inaccurate. i mean, we're talking about one of the most precise attacks in modern warfare. we're talking about thousands of the actual active is the actual operatives terrorist operators of has the 11 on the targeted on their personal devices, these pages that they're using. i mean, this is really unprecedented. in fact, in a positive way, when it comes to dealing with modern warfare, there is, there is no shortage of criticism from the, as early public at, towards the government of course. and of course,

even towards the military and intelligence establishment regarding october 7th. this is something that needs to be investigated thoroughly. that being said, of course, they are more awake paying more attention, acting preemptively, if necessary, in order to protect as rarely civilians as much as humanly possible. uh so at the same time it is a little bit of a head scratcher. it's also somewhat logical. we are in a state of war. we weren't october 6th. so the reality today is a little bit different. of course, the officials in washington to claim the integrity of upcoming presidential elections is once again in danger. and the threat is coming from moscow. the us senate hearing dedicated to one covering the looming foreign influence praise of the band of r t accounts on metal platforms. as well as publicly acknowledging that metal was sharing information with american government. american officials have welcome to meadows decisions, a sensor and remove our 2 accounts from meadows platforms all while loudly praising

the importance of free speech. clearly understands if he wants to try to undermine support american support for ukraine, weighing in and, and frankly, putting up take information can help him in that matter. we've seen a ran dramatically increase their efforts to stoke social, this court discordant us all again potentially seeking to shape elections. i do want to acknowledge that in, in these recent efforts you all have played a positive role. i want to thank meta and i hope our committees of interest on this subject helped move you yesterday when you guys decided to take down our tea and related russian influence operations. that also turns out our t, as in the only media target that washington is focused on, meta has removed more than 20 sites that offer voices from china and to ron,

among others, and through the gratitude of us officials. according to wednesday's us senate hearing there are many countries eager to interfere and america's november elections of china, russia rance, had been north. 3 others have been designated as corn adversaries. the trophies were 48 days away from the watch. and the final point i want to make clear is that we need to do all we can before the election. but i also think it's not like at the end of the election night, particularly assuming how close this election will be and that this will be over. earlier this week, us tech company meta removed our tea from its platforms, while parenting the us government selection interference accusations. meta is owned by mark sucker berg, who notably admitted to previous slate of censoring content on his platforms at the request of us officials and just a 2 week period. the us is sanctioned r t and accused of interfering an upcoming american elections. our teeth brushed off the claims we're calling the many times. the russian media outlet has been

accused of interference and always been proven. not guilty. the state department even blamed r t for lack of world support for ukraine. we spoke with human and labor rights lawyer doesn't provide like, who says american officials are afraid of the truth coming out the us narratives on issues like ukraine, guys are falling apart and not because of russian alleged russian propaganda. but because, because the facts on the ground contradict what the u. s. is claiming about those conflicts. what they're worried about is the truth getting out and the pay show americans buying large don't agree with the us state department is saying about these complex 80 percent of them. democrats, 80 percent, oppose the war. and guys, majority of the people in america, when you 2 republicans still oppose the one guys that and the majority of americans,

paul, to pose sending more money to you, right. what the us government is upset about is people just start believing them. they're not believing their lives anymore all while praising the restriction of r t accounts. the senators are also somehow praising the importance of free speech . there's a clip i want to play 1st. let's take a lesson. we take seriously the importance of protecting free expression and access to a range of view points while also maintaining and enforcing responsible policy frameworks . a critical aspect of that responsibility is doing our part to protect the integrity of democratic processes around the world. so i'll paraphrase to protect free spirits. we have to limit for his pain, so the big contradict or a what, what are your thoughts? well, i mean, yeah, it's a joe, get in for them to talk about the us preserving democracy in the around the world. the u. s. is the biggest interfere in other countries, political systems than any other country on or the u. s. over throws other governments by force,

by she can read and often installs authoritarian governments in the place of democratic government. so, you know, again, i think the board just saying the truth, these are lies that are being promulgated the west and its allies have condemned to the russian operation against georgia in 2008 for 16 years. but the georgia in prime minister has now revealed that the country's leading political party at the time was responsible for the drastic escalation in that direction came from abroad or test. but the, but the city give us sort of, it was not an issue of starting a war, but an issue of mutual forgiveness and reconciliation that enraged the radical opposition, as it contradicts the reason why the socket should be in the regime, followed an assignment from abroad and began the war in 2008. it is exactly the reconciliation subject that is tragic for the radical opposition. it once again

confirms why the georgia dream party should have a constitutional majority in 2008 the government and took place. they announced the military operation to repatriate the break away republics of, of kazi and se, se, se a. after the soviet union, dissolved russian forces, declared a peacekeeping operation against the georgian assault. on august 8th, 5 days later hostilities ended george left the region in moscow recognized the independence of both frank away republic. the western media was quick to denounce russian climb. it was responsible. despite moscow, st. georgia attacked a surprising you back from ford, appeared after the war's 1st anniversary that lamed georgia for starting that 5 day war with russia was kept promoting its narrative even interrupting witnesses of that war during a live broadcast. i just want to say that i was running from georgia inserts

bombing, our city, not russian troops. i wanna say thank you to the russian troops that were helping us out. i want to to know to who to blame, fall under huge conflict. and that's it. and mr. sutka really, who's stopped at the floor, and mr. suckers really? who's aggressive? and who, who, who? 2 days my, my people will say to young people with shield and where on there and to thousands, people appealed to me one day. that's what i am a guest. i would never tell you that unfortunately a commercial break will take us there in 4 seconds whether we want the kids to healthy. right? yeah. with you, we spoke with timmy or my sure raj, a farmer, georgia in front of that member who says the western us in particular, who instigates conflicts around the world to undermine it's adversaries. a little bit less new. for many years, western countries have been developing and fueling hatred between georgia of kazi,

between georgia o c to so that we would never think to restore old friendly relations. we have been living in friendship for hundreds of years. we are brothers, one might say with neighboring of kazi, but someone managed to break us up. and this of course, was the way we understand this perfectly. well, maybe someone didn't understand this earlier, but everything is open now and transparent to everyone. if we talk specifically about who is to blame for the conflict in discord now, it was the united states of america. they are acting through their european colleagues through the 5th column, which was present in our country and is present in europe. by the way, the war and ukraine was played out with the same hands. the task of the united states of america is to play out a war somewhere because it undermines the plans for the development of the bricks block. you know, bricks will be a very serious threat to the collapse of the american economic models to stock

exchanges. therefore, striking at the united states dollar, which is a very big problem for them. and when something does not work out for them that they play out of warranty. so this is happening in the middle east in georgia, and they are trying to do the same and armenian, this is all the work of one hand. and in my opinion is obvious and understandable to anyone. it's not that they want to use georgia to help ukraine. they just want to play out some kind of war on this territory. now georgia has an opportunity to embark on a new pass, so new opportunities are also emerging that we should take seriously and approach correctly. all right, well that's a look at the news for now. as always, be sure to visit our website r t dot com for the very latest breaking news and updates by the .