Of money to be let out. and then the paper goes on to allege that that money was paid, but then it was reimbursed, the paper claims, using otherfunds that had been raised for political purposes. so that is what the times newspaper alleged on wednesday night. there have been some repercussions from those reports. what is difficult for the bbc is that we have approached mark menzies for comment. he has not said anything to us, but he did speak to the times newspaper on wednesday, when they were putting these allegations and claims to him and, chris, he, mark menzies strenuously denied them. yeah, that s right. and you summarise neatly there, adam, where we are. i think there s another expression we can sort of throw into the mix. i was working last night, wednesday night, when the investigative journalistic powerhouse that is billy kimber of the times s piece appeared online, and a polite version of the words that tumbled from my lips would be,
It is plain that his attorneys have no control over what he is posting on social media and there are real repercussions to the witnesses and how they may testify. i think what they are doing is completely appropriate under the circumstances. do you know what happened to juror number two? that was the oncology nurse who was dismissed after complaining that news reports outed here to friends and family? can the judge protect any juror from doxing in this digital landscape? . yeah, some of that came out on day number three where that second juror told the court, hey, people have identified me based on just how much information has come out. she raised krnz about that. show had been criticized on fox news. she was excused. the judge expressed frustration saying she would have been a good juror and then ordered the
Back and forth in the question now is the escalation from there because if this is a three sided war you are talking about hamas in the south hezbollah the north and iran you take out the mediterranean sea and you are surrounded. at which point the u.s. will have to step up and support its ally if it is a full on three sided war, that is what every administration since the beginning has worried about is everyone trying to take out and illuminate and erase israel and hezbollah deployed everything had obviously the repercussions for them in lebanon would be massive but also it would trigger a response from the u.s. one would think that they would defend it directly. lastly very quickly is president biden on the phone
The iranian foreign minister today in new york at the united nations, he had warned just hours ago about repercussions if israel did indeed retaliate. let s listen. translation: in case of any use of force by let s listen. translation: i i case of any use of force by the israeli regime, and violating our sovereignty, the islamic republic of iran will not hesitate to assert its inherent rights to give a decisive and proper response to it to make the regime regret its actions. i want to bring back michael singh, with us tonight as we continue following the breaking news, planning director of the washington institute, former senior director of middle east affairs at the white house. i want to talk about where these strikes and explosions are happening, this is isfahan, a city outside tehran and we heard about some of the assets that are there including military, we believe there are
They give the u.s. military, they tend to give them a heads up, if nothing else, for the ng deconfliction. that is to make sure that there is no miscalculation when you n have militaries operating in close proximity and also to make sure that there is nothing that the u.s. has operating in the airspace that could get accidentally, get in the way of any kind of israeli strike one of the things that we heard after the april 1st strike by the israelis in damascus was that the u.s. did not get much of a heads up, it was sort of once the planes were in the s air, the israelis said oh, we are about to carry out a strike inside syria. that does not seem to be the case here. today they get more of a heads up what we often see is when israel is planning some sort of a mission or operation that could have a repercussions for u.s. personnel in the region, they will give the u.s. a heads up so that if there is any need to harden defenses or shore up any kind of defenses in the