Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
central lancashire. thank you for being with us on the programme, and we say that condemnation from many countries around the world, posing real security risk for the region, how worried should the region and the rest of us really be? 50. worried should the region and the rest of us really be? rest of us really be? so, as you said, rest of us really be? so, as you said. there rest of us really be? so, as you said, there are rest of us really be? so, as you said, there are quite rest of us really be? so, as you said, there are quite many - rest of us really be? so, as you i said, there are quite many worries by the experts around north korea s current situation was to my view is slightly different, though, because kimjeong in slightly different, though, because kim jeong in essentially had a meeting with putin as we well know before the ukrainian russian or and kimjong un managed to before the ukrainian russian or and kim jong un managed to sell lots of weapons to russi
university poll find 10% of americans think the country is on the right track and 42% say they are struggling financially. doug luzader has more, good morning. doug: the president will be talking about a huge bail out for pension plans today while traveling to ohio. we re seeing administration targeting all levels of gas and oil industry for high gas prices, going after small gas station owners. the putin price hike message, just last week, he claimed russia, russia, russia. how does the president go from blaming putin to small business owners now? when you look at crude oil and wholesale oil prices, as well, they have declined about 15%. retail gas prices have only declined 3% over the same time period. doug: secretary of transportation took it a step further saying oil companies are happy about high prices. when it comes to high gas prices, i m mad about it, the president is mad, oil company executives are thrilled, we ve seen them saying they will not increase pr
down. good morning from southampton, where northern ireland and england face each other in their final group game at the euros. england look to continue their winning form as they head to the quarterfinals, while northern ireland want to finish their first major women s tournament on a high. sunny in the southern half of the country at the moment but a cloudy and damp start in the north. it will brighten up. news of exceptional heat coming our way into next week. it s friday, 15thjuly. our main story. thousands of rail workers are to go on strike again as the leader of one of britain s biggest union warns of a summer of discontent . the rmt union has announced its members will strike on thursday the 18th and saturday the 20th august in their ongoing row over pay, jobs and conditions. the union had already announced a day of action on the 27thjuly. yesterday, the aslef union also said train drivers at eight rail companies would stage a walk out on saturday 30th july. sharon g
tonight a debate situation for the first time between those who remain. that is right. there will be a debate this evening and another on sunday. mps will watch that closely. because what they will be looking for is notjust the policy platforms which we have got, which are mostly tax cuts now versus rishi sunak s tax cuts now versus rishi sunak s tax cuts now versus rishi sunak s tax cuts later, they will look for help someone is coming across to the public, do they look like an election winner? and also they will be making calculations on who to support if they have not declared already. although liz truss is in third place, there seems to be a concerted effort to give her momentum. suella braverman said she will back liz truss, the former brexit negotiator lauder frost is backing her. inoculating herfrom the charge that she is remain after