"Li from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skirvone, drones and missiles cri...
much of the Middle East today, as the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran entered its second
week.
“Israeli fighter jets pounded targets in Iran's capital, and also in Lebanon, where the Iran”
backed, has below a militant group is based, meanwhile Iran continues to fire drones and missiles into multiple Gulf states, and PR's carry-con has the latest from 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, after telling 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.
And PR's carry-con reporting from Tel Aviv, attacks by Iran and its paramilitary proxies have intensified in Iraq and the country's Kurdistan region, a missile strike
“on the U.S.-based at Airbeals International Airport, killed a Kurdish security member”
while rockets hit the U.S. embassy in Baghdad yesterday, and PR's Jain Iraq reports. Iran and the Iraqi militias at Bax hit a hotel used by the U.N. in the city of Salim and the U.S. as well as a brigade of Kurdish fighters, and then Iranian opposition-based
near the Kurdistan region's second city.
Kamala, an Iranian armed opposition group, said its base near Salim and the U.S. was hit by a missile Saturday, killing one of its fighters and wounding another. In the regional capital, Erbil, grown attacks at the airport compound where U.S. forces are based, killed a member of the region's internal security forces, the provincial governor told in PR. The Iraqi government pledged to arrest militia members at Bland for rocket
attacks on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad Saturday. Security sources said one of the rockets hit the embassy's helicopter landing pad, Jain Arath and PR News, Erbil.
“A federal judge has struck down Trump administration official Carrie Legues' actions to dismantle”
voice of America, saying she did not have legal authority to do so, and PR's David Folk and Fleck reports she plans to appeal. Lake sought to lay off more than a thousand journalists from the U.S. own global network and its sister networks serving Cuba, and she tried to kill federal funding for radio free Asia and radio free Europe radio liberty.
And PR first reported on the legality of Lake Stadis last August.
For example, we repeatedly asked for any evidence. She had been named acting CEO of the agency by President Trump, as required for that job. None arrived. U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth wrote that Lake Quote satisfies the requirements of neither the statute nor the Constitution.
Lake tells NPR that Lamberth is an activist judge trying to stand in the way of Trump's agenda. This is NPR News in Washington. President Trump is currently slated to visit Beijing at the end of this month, and today China's Foreign Minister told reporters that there are hopes that this will be a landmark
year for relations between China and the United States. Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke on the sidelines of an annual meeting of China's ceremonial legislator, Wang also called for an end to military actions in Iran. In Selma, Alabama, the annual re-enactment of the 1965 Bloody Sunday March for voting rights will be held today.
Troy Public Radio's Kyle Gassett reports that a special service will be held to honor civil rights leader, Reverend Jesse Jackson. Today's bridge crossing will be one of the few that Jackson will not physically be present, but as contributions to the civil rights movement and the many times he participated in the march will be remembered.
Jackson, who died last month, was moved to join the movement in 1965. When he heard reports of fellow black protesters being beaten in Selma by Alabama State Troopers as they marched for the right to vote. Friends to honor Jackson will be held before and after the bridge crossing re-enactments, as organizers attempt to draw attention to what they say are threats to voting rights.
From PR News, I'm Kyle Gassett in Montgomery, Alabama. By the end of this month, Indonesia will ban social media for children under age 16. A government regulation has been signed their blocking access to these young people on what's considered high-risk digital platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. I'm Louise Skivone and PR News, Washington.
