"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivoni.
The Israeli military targeted a hotel in Central Bay Route today, killing at least four
“people, according to Lebanese health officials.”
The strike is part of Israel's intensified bombing campaign in Lebanon against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group. Strikes have killed nearly 300 people and displaced tens of thousands, according to the Lebanese government. MPR's Hadil Al-Shashik has tales from Bay Route.
A video shared online showed black smoke billowing from the window of a hotel room in the Ramada Plaza in Central Bay Route.
The Israeli military says it killed five Iranian commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary
Guard based in Lebanon. It said in a statement that it would quote "not allow Iranian terrorist elements to establish themselves in Lebanese territory." Israeli strikes have been mainly focused in South Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Bay Route, which are considered Hezbollah strongholds.
“This is the first time it has struck the heart of the capitals since the war with Iran”
began. Hotels like the Ramada in Bay Route are full of displaced families fleeing the Israeli bombing in the South. Hadil Al-Shashik and PR News Bay Route. President Trump says he expects more U.S. service members will be killed in the war with
Iran. As NPR's Tamar Keith reports, Trump also says the U.S. is winning the war. Trump spoke with reporters on Air Force One shortly after attending the dignified transfer of 6 U.S. soldiers killed in the war. He said he would only accept unconditional surrender from Iran.
"It's where the Korean war, where they can't find any longer, and this nobody around the Korean war. That could happen to.
“We've wiped out their leadership numerous times already.”
So if they surrender, or if there is nobody around, to surrender." Asked about sending in ground troops, Trump said it wasn't an appropriate question. But that if it happened, it would have to be for a very good reason. Tamar Keith and PR News. In Iran, Israeli jets bombed an oil storage facility in Tehran and semen on fire.
Health officials are urging people there to limit their exposure to the toxic substances and now fill the air. Six people are in custody in New York City after a smoke-generating device was thrown during a protest yesterday at the residents of Mayors, or in Mom Downey. Police say about 20 anti-Muslim protesters were met with counter-protesters.
The city's police commissioner, Jessica Tish, says the bomb squad, is determining if the device was a functioning explosive. "The devices, which were a bit smaller than a football, appear to be a jar, wrapped in black tape, importantly, with nuts, bolts and screws along with a hobby fuse that could be lit."
Second device was also found by police.
This is NPR News in Washington. Despite global concerns about energy supplies and rising prices, President Trump this weekend is downplaying the idea of turning to the nation's strategic petroleum reserve. Daylight saving time starts today, and last for another eight months until we turn the clocks back an hour in the fall.
But one Canadian province has turned their clocks permanently, starting a new era of permanent daylight saving. And PR's Radio Chatterjee reports. The change means darker mornings and brighter evenings throughout the year in British Columbia. Public health researchers say daylight saving time is linked to more car accidents, more
strokes, hotstacks, and obesity cases each year. As a later start to the day means more people waking up in the dark and going to bed later, which affects our biological clocks, and our overall health. Researchers say a permanent shift to daylight saving would also be bad for health. But David E.B., the premier of British Columbia says the clock shift is supported by the vast
majority of residents. In British Columbia, we tend to wake up in the dark, take our kids to school in the dark in the winter. We're on the very western edge of the time zone, and so we have dark mornings anyway. People really want that hour at the end of the day.
Read the strategy and peer news. Photos go to the polls in Columbia today, as citizens there choose elected representatives and presidential candidates for the country's three major political coalitions. There are 285 legislative positions to be filled, and more than 3,000 candidates for
office, 41 million citizens are eligible to vote.
I'm Louise Skivone and PR News, Washington.
