this news is funded by viewers like you please support our work at democracynow. org welcome to democracy Now democracynow. org The War and Peace report I'm Amy Goodman Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to retaliate after Iran fired at least 180 ballistic missiles at Israel in response to repeated Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the assassination of several Hezbollah leaders including Hassan Nala video posted online shows some of the missiles striking at or near the neim airbase which houses Israel's us-made F35 fighter jets Israel says the only death from the attacks was a Palestinian man who was killed by Falling debris in the occupied West Bank in Jericho at the White House President Biden responded by saying the United States will help Israel quote exact severe consequences unquote on Tuesday a pentagon spokesperson said US forces had aided Israel in thwarting Iran's attack during the attack the US military coordinated closely with the Israeli Defense Forces to help defend Israel US Navy destroyers deployed to the Middle East region supported the defense of Israel by firing approximately a dozen interceptors against the incoming Iranian missiles in Tel Aviv Israeli police said at least seven people died in a shooting and stabbing attack on Tuesday Israeli authorities claimed the attack was carried out by two people from the occupied West Bank one was shot dead the other seriously wounded in Lebanon hasbullah says its Fighters have repelled incursions by Israeli forces attempting to invade Southern Lebanon Israeli media reports at least two Israeli soldiers were killed 18 others wounded near the Lebanese Border Town of Odessa meanwhile Israel's military ordered more residents of beirut's Southern suburb to evacuate their homes the UN says more than a million people across Lebanon have been uprooted by Israel's assault in the Gaza Strip Palestinian Health officials say Israeli attacks have killed more than 79 Palestinians wounding 82 others over the past 24 hours in one strike Israeli fighter jets bombed a school turned shelter in Gaza City's tfah neighborhood killing at least 13 people including children Israeli forces also bombed the alal orphanage west of Gaza City killing six Palestinians and wounding many others here in New York vice presidential nominees Tim Walls and JD Vance faced off in their first and only debate ahead of November's election the two clashed on walls questioned vents about Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen still saying he didn't lose the election I would just ask that did he lose the 2020 election t I'm focused on the future did kamla Harris censor Americans from speaking their mind in the wake of the 2020 covid situation that is a daming that is a damning non-answer senator Vance took aim at Democratic presidential candidate kamla Harris's record on border security while walls condemn Donald Trump over abortion rights their sparring over abortion came as a new law took effect in Louisiana that reclassifies the abortion medications metha pistone and miss a prol listing them as controlled dangerous substances the first of its kind law in the country makes it a crime punishable by up to 5 years in prison to possess the medications without a prescription in Ukraine authorities have declared a day of mourning in the southern city of Kon where a Russian attack on a market killed six people and wounded more than 10 others elsewhere at least one person was killed and 32 injured when Russia bombed residential buildings and infrastructure in the southern zapara region in eastern Ukraine Russian forces have taken control of the city of vladar along with two more Frontline Villages meanwhile Ukraine's top prosecutor says he's investigating the murder of 16 Ukrainian prisoners of War alleging they were summarily executed after they were surrendered to Russian forces on the Eastern front in Brussels Belgium the former Dutch prime minister Mark Ruto was sworn in as Secretary General of NATO Tuesday in his inaugural speech he pledged to shore up Western support of Ukraine and warn China over its growing ties with Russia through its support for Russia's military industry China has become a decisive enabler of Russia's war in Ukraine China cannot continue to fuel the largest conflict in Europe since the second world war without this impact its interests and reputation the White House has approved an additional $567 million in US military aid to Taiwan the largest such Aid package ever its approval came as Chinese authorities LED celebration marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China Chinese leader XI Jin ping spoke from Beijing hiwan taiwwan is a sacred territory of China and the people on both sides of the Taiwan straight are connected by Blood which is thicker than water president shei warned against separatist activities as he put it in Taiwan and said its reunification with China is inevitable Claudia Shane Bam was sworn in as Mexico's first female president Tuesday pledging her six-year term will be a time for transformation Shane Bal has vowed to strengthen women's rights in Mexico which is one of the highest rates of femicide to expand access to public Healthcare and education and other social reforms that have been bolstered by the ruling Marina party Shane Bam received the Baton of power from indigenous and afrom Mexican women who joined her on stage as she addressed thousands of supporters gathered in Mexico City's Soo Square I am certain that power is honesty and humility that our thinking is Mexican humanism that our nation and people are great and I am certain we are the only option that represents well-being and progress with Justice here in the United States the death toll from Hurricane Helen has surpassed 166 people across Six States with hundreds still missing more than 5 days after the storm triggered devastating floods and landslides massive power outages continue to impact over 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3 million customers in Eastern Tennessee at least six plastic factory workers are missing and presumed dead after flood water swelled around their workplace trapping the group of predominantly latinx workers who for hours clung to the back of a semi-truck before they were Swept Away by the Deluge some family members report the employer impact Plastics told the workers not to evacuate and threaten to fire anyone who left ahead of the storm this is Robert Jarvis one of the survivors what would you say to the company why'd you make us work that day why we shouldn't have worked we shouldn't have been there none of us should have been there and that's what I should said to him hurricane Helen has become the second deadliest hurricane after Katrina the state of Texas has put another prisoner to death on Tuesday 61-year-old Garcia Glenn White was strapped to a gurnie in the state penitentiary in Huntsville and injected with a single lethal dose of the drug pentobarbitol it was the six execution carried out in the United States in the last 11 days an investigation by the US Department of Justice has found violence and sexual assault are rif in prisons across Georgia constituting cruel and unusual punishment for the state's estimated 50,000 incarcerated people the scathing report by the doj Civil Rights division found Georgia fails to protect people in custody from extreme violence inside 34 state prisons as well as four prisons run by for-profit corporate contractors it also found an unconstitutional risk of harm from sexual violence at these prisons including widespread sexual assaults of lgbtq plus people Assistant Attorney General Christen Clark leads the Justice Department Civil Rights division in America time in prison should not be a sentence to death torture or rape we can't turn a blind eye to The Wretched conditions and wanting violence unfolding in these institutions the people incarcerated in these jails and prisons are our neighbors siblings children parents family members and friends and the justice department has announced a federal investigation in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre after Oklahoma Supreme Court in June dismissed a lawsuit brought by two elderly survivors no one's ever been charged over the murders of an estimated 300 black people who are killed a white mob burned down what was known as Black Wall Street the thriving African-American neighborhood of Greenwood the justice department will probe the killings under the emit Hill unsolved civil rights crime act which gives the federal government the power to reopen civil rights related cold cases and those are some of the headlines this is democracy Now democracynow. org The War and Peace report I'm Amy Goodman democracy Now is funded by viewers like you please give today at democracynow.
