Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
The attacks on Iran are continuing this weekend in Tehran of fuel oil storage facility
“was set on fire by a strike by Israel's military, and Pierre's carry-con is in Tel Aviv.”
Israel's military says it has dealt serious blows to Iran's air missile and drone system. They say they've been hitting targets throughout the country, and particularly in the capital Tehran. We have seen a decrease in the number of air-rate sirens in Israel, signaling, incoming missiles
or drones from Iran, but I have to tell you overnight and throughout the day, there was still more than a handful of sirens sending residents into the bomb shelter, and that's where I am right now. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Saturday promised what he called many surprises for the next phase of the war, which has now been underway for a week.
Officials in Lebanon say dozens of people were killed and dozens of others injured during
and Israeli command array this weekend, news reports from Lebanon say the commandos fought with Hezbollah troops and Lebanese soldiers. China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, says the U.S. is really war with Iran, should not have happened, and that it does no one any good. He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an annual political meeting, and Pierre's
Jennifer Pack was there and reports from Beijing. Foreign Minister Wang says armed conflict in the Middle East will only breed hatred. "What do I know, Li?" "Chun Poli" "Might does not make right," he says. The law of the jungle must not return and rule the world.
He called for a ceasefire. China has offered to mediate in the conflict, but it is not impartial. The Chinese are more closely aligned with Iran than with either the U.S. or Israel. That has raised questions, over whether President Donald Trump will still meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a few weeks.
The Chinese Foreign Minister did not confirm the dates, but says China is open to dialogue. Jennifer Pack and PR News, Beijing. "Tens of thousands of TSA employees are still working without pay, as the Department of Homeland Security remains shut down over a funding dispute in Congress. So as NPRs wins your Johnston reports, a number of communities across the nation are
stepping up to help." In Boise, Idaho, people are collecting food donations to help struggling workers and their families. Cameron Co-Chums, a TSA employee and union leader, says Moral is plummeting among his co-workers right now.
"People are struggling because they're worried about when their next paycheck is going to be. They know during the last shutdown that we were kind of forefront to everything, but now there's so many more different things going on in the world. So people are having to drive Uber after work."
Airport screeners have already received a partial paycheck and are preparing to miss their next one entirely. Democrats and the White House remain divided on DHS funding and how to reform its immigration enforcement practices, Windsor-Johnston and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News.
The story of gentlemen Jack, the 19th century English country woman whose lifestyle and
“posthumously published secret diaries made her an early gay icon has been turned into a ballet,”
Vicky Barker reports from London. Many listener nicknamed gentlemen Jack, wore masculine attire and would a series of women in her lifetime seduction. She described in coded diaries, which she hid behind a wooden panel in her Yorkshire home. Cory Agra for Attabel Lopez Ochoa says it was a challenge training female ballerinas to
dance like the masculine Annie. "You know, walk on your heels instead of walking on your toes, take to space instead
of always the wary that you're going to hit someone, but that was really interesting for
me as a crowd for but also to guide the dancers." After its world premiere in Leeds, the northern ballet production of gentlemen Jack will tour the UK. For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker in London. A Palestinian man was shot and killed Saturday on the occupied West Bank.
The 28 year old and his brother was shot by an Israeli reservist. His brother is in critical condition. The Israeli military says it was responding to reports of a violent confrontation between settlers and Palestinians when the reservist opened fire. It's the third killing of a Palestinian in the West Bank this week.
Hopefully, on the 14th, his name to veteran Vatican Diplomatis is next ambassador to the US.
“Archbishop Gabriel Caccia will be tasked with managing one of the Holy Seas most important”
by lateral relationships. Caccia is currently the Vatican's ambassador to the UN. He became an ordained priest in 1983. I'm Dale Wilman and PR News.
