Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
The air attacks on Iran are continuing at this hour, flames were rising above an oil
“storage facility in Tehran Saturday following a strike by Israeli forces.”
President Trump says the fighting is going well, and the administration is ahead of its goals. Speaking with reporters on board Air Force One, Trump said most of Iran's leadership has now been killed.
"So, we got rid of the one leadership, and we got rid of the second level of leadership.
Now, they're on their third or fourth level of leadership. And they have leaders right now that nobody even knows who they are." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, says there will be many surprises for the next phase of the week-old war. The Lebanese government says it wants to crack down on the Iran-backed militant group
Hezbollah and restore power back to its own army. Israel began a ramp-up military campaign against Hezbollah in South Lebanon. After it launched rockets into northern Israel last week. Lebanese officials say about 300 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since the war
“in Iran began, and says more than 100,000 displaced people are living in shelters.”
Emperors Hadil El-Shalci reports from bay roots. In a rare move, Justice Minister Hadil Nasad has proposed to charge the leader of the militant group Hezbollah with "dragging Lebanon into war and tampering with security." That's according to a Lebanese government official who was not authorized to speak to the media. While the Lebanese cabinet did not take any action, this is the sharpest review.
A Lebanese member of government has made against Hezbollah. Last week, the government banned all Hezbollah military activity and issued arrest warrants for the members who launched rockets into Israel. Lebanon's leaders say they're trying to reign in Hezbollah and make clear that the government speaks for the country.
Hadil El-Shalci NPR News, bay root. New high-level trade talks between the U.S. and Canada took place this week.
They're the first such talks since negotiations were called off an October by President
Trump.
“As Dan Carpunchak reports, Ottawa's minister for U.S. Canada trade was in Washington on Friday”
for a meeting with administration officials. When Canada's trade minister Dominic Leblanc emerged from the meeting with the U.S. trade representative, Jamison Greer, his only comment was "have a good weekend". Leblanc's office, however, described the talks as constructive and substantive. The U.S. Mexico-Canada Agreement is up for renegotiation and harsh U.S. tariffs on Canadian
steel, aluminum, auto, softwood lumber, and copper will likely be dealt with in the agreements review. But Greer has said that any new deal with Canada will include tariffs. Analysts say that the face-to-face talks are a positive step since Washington must now say exactly what it wants from new trade negotiations.
While Ottawa will likely want to preserve as much of the old free trade agreement as possible, since it's shielded Canada for most of Trump's broader tariffs. For NPR News, I'm Dan Carpunchak in Toronto. I'm Dale Willman and you're listening to NPR News. The Broadway League says nearly 20% of theatre tickets are being snapped up by people attending
musicals and plays on their own. That's double what it was a couple of years ago. As NPR's Chloe Veltman reports, a theatre operator is now taking steps to actively encourage audience members to fly solo. 60 people signed up for live theatre operator ATG Entertainment's inaugural solo seats event in San Francisco recently.
The tickets included a discounted orchestra seat for the Broadway musical The Notebook on tour, a pre-show mixer with other solo seatsters, and a free drink.
There to go, Maria Saccada says this is her first time seeing a live show on her own.
"I kind of love the idea of going to a show like how you would see a movie by yourself." Social psychologist, Bella DiPauleau, says solo leisure is booming, allowing to rising economic independence and longer life-expectancies. ATG says it plans to expand solo seats nationwide. Chloe Veltman MP on news. At least 10 people, including two children, were killed Saturday in a Russian missile attack
that hit a five-story building in the Ukrainian City of Harkiv, official 16 other people were injured. Emergency workers are continuing to move through the rubble, looking for any possible survivors. Ukraine's president says Russia used 29 missiles and 480 drones in their latest attack.
At least 25 people are dead after heavy rains caused massive flooding and Nairobi Kenya this week, and the military was used to rescue motorists who were stranded for hours because of flooding, the downpours submerged some vehicles and forced drivers to wait through higher water to reach high ground. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.
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