Hello, im azadeh moshiri. As fears grow about an escalation of the Middle East conflict, saturday has seen a string of Cross Border attacks between israel and the iranian backed lebanese group, hezbollah. And the iranian backed lebanese these are live pictures from the region. Israel says it has Hit Thousands of Rocket Launchers in lebanon. Hezbollah says it has fired new waves of rockets into Northern Israel. Reuters video shows rockets coming from Southern Lebanon being intercepted by the Israeli Military. The Health Ministry has said that 37 people were killed in yesterdays israeli attack on beirut. Those are new numbers. Israel said it was targeting a top Hezbollah Commander who also died during the attack will stop it says it killed, in their words, 16 terrorists. The us national Security Adviser said he was worried about escalation between israel and lebanon. When he was asked about the israli Strike Targetting Hezbollah Commanders. He said its a good outcome when people are brou
Day. With the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well welcome to the weekly an R T International a tense wait this seems to have finally chosen its next leader joe biden is on course to become the 46. 00 president of the United States after Media Projections say he secured 290. 00 Electoral College votes thats well above the vital figure of 270. 00 but donald trump appears out of the election was rigged readying lawsuits in the coming week r. T. America has been sworn breakstone came to be. Joe biden has officially become the president elect for the United States it was saturday when that announcement was made by a number of media organizations after biden secured more than 270 electoral votes enough to put him over the top he spoke in wilmington delaware tonight alongside the 1st Vice President of the United States come all the harris 1st woman ever to ascend to the position of Vice President heres what harry had to say in introducing the new p
Also i had on the program the u. S. Intelligence chief claims china russia are all trying to meddle in novembers president ial election going underground is the difficult choice facing us voters with a lot of medical lot of us are no. Good no were. Just mass incarceration system the modern world. Disaster. In germany. A Primary School after their daughter was punished by teachers for speaking her native turkish in the playground. Just approaching 2 minutes past 8 pm here in moscow this saturday august here my names you know welcome to our international can lets start with some developing news lebanese Prime Minister a. Call for an early election amid must rest following choose these deadly explosion live pictures right now from the lebanese capital he has also admitted that corruption was partially to blame for the tragedy and so you can see here massive street protests gripping central routes in the wake of choose these devastating explosion at least 154 people lost their lives in the
Youre watching are 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program 1st the Russian Ministry of defense has confirmed that turkish troops were among the militants fired on by Syrian Government troops and it looked province on thursday also insists there were no airstrikes from the russian side and 33 turkish soldiers were killed in the province it responded by hitting Syrian Army Positions from the air for all the details were joined live in the studio by quarter now what has been happening talk us through it well jacki the Syrian Arab Army has been fighting for months now to defeat the last millett militant stronghold in the province of syria and now according to moscow the turkish troops that were killed on thursday were among a large scale offensive by terrorist groups in the province of idlib. On february 27th near the settlement of b. Whom turkish soldiers who were embedded with terrorists came on to the Syrian Army Fired at the
The markets are clearly telling us that the markets are not pricing in the worstcase scenario when it comes to iran, or at least Portfolio Managers not. Stoxx europe 600 gaining some 0. 6 . On bloomberg surveillance, we will be speaking to the president of euler hermes, Wilfried Verstraete. That discussion is up very shortly. Lets get straight to the blumberg first word news. In new york city, heres Viviana Hurtado. We begin with the first stage of the u. S. China trade deal, set to be signed next week. China says its top negotiator is visiting washington, d. C. It is the latest move towards a detente. Contradictory reports this morning are emerging about what caused the ukrainian boeing 737 to crash and iran. Initially blaming a technical issue, then an engine fire. Ukrainian embassy running out terrorism, but then it amended its statement to offer no comment on the cause. All those aboard the plane were killed in the crash. Hong kong preparing a bold plan to boost its economy, accord