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0n the democratic side, is tim walz, kamala harris*s running mate. Hes the governor of minnesota. Before that, he spent 12 years as a congressman. Before entering politics, he was a high school teacher for 16 years, serving as an assistant coach on his schools football team. He spent 2a years in the army reserves, reaching the highest noncommissioned rank, command sergeant major. Hes 60 years old, just six months older than his runningmate, kamala harris. Joining me now form the spin room floor ...

Iam i am margaret brennan. In order to have a thoughtful and civil debate, these are the rules that both campaigns have agreed. Questions will be that both campaigns have agreed. Questions will he do a directed at one candidate who will have two minutes to respond. The other candidate will be allowed two minutes for a the bottle. Each candidate will get another minute to make further points, with an additional minute each at the discretion of the moderator. for a rebuttal. We will enforce the r...

Until election day, the first and only meeting between the two men who hope to become vice president of the united states. Democratic governor tim walz of minnesota and republican senator jd vance of ohio. Now this is likely the final debate of this election cycle, and voting is already underway in 20 states. Cbs news polling shows this remains a race either presidential candidate could win. The cbs news vice presidential debate starts now. Fight for every single vote and we are going to take th...

And what would you do with a spare 25 Billion Euros . Thats the question facing the irish Government Today as it delivers its budget following a huge Tax Windfall from Tech Firms. Live from london, this is business today. Im lukwesa burak. We start in the us where in the last 30 minutes tens of thousands of East And Gulf Coast Port workers have started striking for the first time in nearly 50 years. This comes after the international longshoremen s association and the us Maritime Alliance were u...

The two major sticking points between the international longshoremen S Association and us Maritime Alliance are wages and automation. Workers are unhappy with the current contract, which spanned the pandemic, when Dock Workers stayed on the job and endured months of soaring inflation on automation, the Union Boss has been warning Dock Workers that their jobs could be replaced by machines. In response, the us Maritime Alliance has said its offering to keep the current ban on fully automated equip...

Sunshine, particularly in the north and west. Some Rain In the forecast across areas that are already saturated in central and eastern england. All of the details shortly. Its tuesday, the first of ocTober. Israeli Ground Forces have crossed inTo Southern Lebanon, marking an important new escalation of their offensive against hezbollah. The incursion follows weeks of heavy blows by israel against the lebanese armed group, including the killing of its long time leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Israel sa...

0ur Correspondent Michelle Fleury is at the Port Of Newark in newjersey. Tell us what s going on there and all along the coast. We know the strike is about wages and automation, what s going on with the talks . Right now theres not much going on on on the docks, normally you might see some of the grains over their moving, containers being loaded, and off loaded from giant containerships, but all of that stopped at midnight last night. That is when the Master Contract between the union workers an...

Areas that threaten is really targeting the north of that country. In response we have seen hezbollah Firing Missiles again today towards israel into central israel, Hitting Highway and also again the sound of sirens in Tel Aviv sending people running to shelters. Hezbollah s response and how it will look at how sustained and the scope of it will be something we will see over the next few days, whether they still have the infrastructure to strike back at israel as they have said they would do. I...

ISrael SayS they are now carrying out limited, localiSed and targeted raidS acroSS the border. The aim, it SayS, iS to deStroy hezbollah infraStructure So that tenS of thouSandS of iSraeliS living in Border TownS can return home Safely. Hezbollah turned lebaneSe villageS next to iSraeli villageS into military baSeS, all ready for an attack on iSrael. Hezbollah had prepared to uSe thoSe villageS aS Staging GroundS for an October 7th Style InvaSion into iSraeli homeS. But iSrael iS continuing itS ...

United states where ports all across the East And Gulf coasts including here in baltimore have virtually ground to a halt. It means goods ranging from cars to machinery and fresh fruit and vegtables are going to find a lot tougher to get into or out of the worlds biggest economy. An estimated 16,000 workers have stopped working over demands for more pay and less automation. The stoppages could cost the us economy as much as 5bn a day according to the Investment Bankjp Morgan but other experts sa...