translation: if the territorial integrity of our country is - threatened, then to defend russia and our people, we shall of course use all means at our disposal. i am not bluffing. in the past hour, russia has released 10 prisoners of war captured in ukraine in a deal brokered by saudi arabia. half are britons. also in the programme, new york s attorney general files a civil suit against donald trump and three of his children, accusing them of fraud. donald trump has condemned the lawsuit as a witch hunt . also this hour, the us federal reserve is expected to announce in the next few minutes another hike in interest rates, in a bid to bring down high inflation. we begin with the conflict in ukraine. russia s president, vladimir putin, has announced a partial military mobilisation, making an additional 300,000 personnel available to fight in ukraine from today. he said the call up was necessary to protect russian territory, including occupied areas that moscow is preparing
as god s work. some high profile us firms have already offered to fund travel expenses for employees seeking out of state abortions. protests have been held outside the supreme court in washington and in other cities. there s renewed pressure on borisjohnson after the conservatives suffered a double defeat in parliamentary by elections. the liberal democrats overturned a big tory majority in tiverton and honiton in devon, while labour regained the west yorkshire seat of wakefield. the party co chairman oliver dowden has resigned, and the former leader, lord howard, has said it s time the country had new leadership. boris johnson conceded the results were not brilliant but vowed to keep going . here s our deputy political editor vicki young. liberal democrats are getting used to toppling tories in by elections. but this victory broke all records. the winning candidate said voters have sent a message. your behaviour, mrjohnson, makes a mockery of leadership. by any measure
The attack marks the first time iran had ever launched a direct Military Assault on israel. We will be live injerusalem shortly. But first, lets bring you up to date with the latest. Take a look at this video. Air raid sirens wail what you can hear is the air raid sirens injerusalem. What you can see is israels air defence system, the iron dome, in Operation Flashes in Thejerusalem Sky as drones and missiles are shot down. A coalition of israels allies, including the us and uk, has helped bring down some iranian drones and misiles before they reached israeli territory. This is footage of that happening overjordan. Similarly, this video is from the Skies Over Damascus in syria. You can see objects being hit in the sky. And, again, in the skies over iraq, more drones and missiles being intercepted as they travelled towards israel. So heres what we know so far. Iran has attacked israel with around 300 drones and missiles. There were significant Explosions In The Sky over israel, caused by
for targeting american troops. is tehran getting the message? is the message from us strong enough as we say good morning. a big two hours coming your way. i m bill hemmer in new york. dana: can you hear me now, iran? i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we have a big show for you today. united states bombing a weapons warehouse in eastern syria last night. the second time the u.s. struck iranian proxies in the past two weeks. here is what john kirby said just this morning. we are sending a strong signal to the revolutionary guard corps and tehran. we ll do what we have to do to protect our troops and forces. bill: the strike was in response to a flurry of attacks on u.s. bases over the past 2 1/2 weeks. the bombings have injured more than 40 americans stationed overseas. sources say it is dumb luck that no one has been killed yet. dana: those attacks started after the bombing of a gaza hospital october 17th. israel denied responsibility for that deadly b
gowdy. israeli defense forces continue to pound hamas encircling gaza strip and rejecting calls from president biden and others for a so-called humanitarian pause. israel says if you want to pause, release the hostages, otherwise israel is reluctant to pause and allow hamas to regroup and the world should be reluctant to take the word of a terrorist group that beheads children. alex hogan is live in southern israel and joins us now. alex. we ve started to hear artillery pick up, loudest blasts in the entire time here in israel, where you can feel the pressure and hear that echo ripple off into the distance. there is gunfire tonight, what appears to be machine gunfire in the distance in the direction of gaza strip. there were soldiers earlier tonight who asked us to cross the street to be closer to armed police officers. day 31, entering the early hours of the morning, idf spokesperson says what remains the main focus is rescuing those hostages. hamas terrorist organization