Hi, my name is Sandy Baird and I am a citizen activist in Burlington And we're here today to talk to Kurt Mehta who is an attorney in town and also a scholar and a commentator What's going on in our nation sometimes in our city a lot? So here we are to talk about the current state of our city and also our nation And I guess so we should begin Kurt if you don't mind with what recently happened I believe in the house today with the announcement that the house and the republicans in the house have stopped Aid going to Vladimir Zelensky. Is that what's happening or what's going on here? Yeah, which means what for the Ukraine war? Well, it puts Ukraine in a dire situation. I think the What happened the the government of Ukraine the leadership in Ukraine were expecting a flow of aid that would Allow them to continue fighting against Russia. Mm-hmm, and it appears that that aid Depending on how you want to term it is essentially being held hostage by Leadership in the Republican Party that are placing conditions on this aid They're not outright saying no to mr. Zelensky, but they're saying that there's a domestic matter That's of greater importance than the Russia-Ukraine war, which is Security on the southern border of the United States There's still a tremendous amount of migration taking place without adequate Review and scrutiny at the southern border namely Mexico, of course we're talking about here And there are thousands of individuals and families that are coming over the border and the southern states that are border states are at a point where they are Expressing that they're at crisis levels of migration coming through and The Republican leadership has clearly stated that they will not Continue to give billions of dollars of aid to other countries and in this case We're talking about you, you know Ukraine funding Ukraine if no deal is worked out that will at least address border security And that just happened today. Is that correct? And although Zelensky is here in this country But he might very well go home empty-handed. That's very possible. Zelensky's been here several times And has been successful in the past. He's even addressed Congress hasn't he? That is correct. Yeah He has been successful securing money and aid and weapons From the United States different classes of weapons some of which have been controversial But he has gotten mostly what he's asked for Mostly not everything But this time it looks like possibly he may not be successful Does the Republicans stand strong on this one issue of border security at the southern States border, okay, so without this aid Zelensky is also saying What that Ukraine will lose this war, right? Yeah, I think a lot of military experts have said it's already lost Well, they judge that there was a there was a big to-do made starting this early the summer about a counteroffensive right that Ukraine was going to Spearhead Against the Russian army and they it appeared in the beginning that there was a bit of a stalemate That they were able to achieve remember f-16s also have now been added to the arsenal of the Ukraine How about F-35s? I don't think F-35s have yeah, yeah, you know, there's been talk and then they much to Much pressure was applied on the Germans to provide certain types of tanks Which the the new Chancellor of Germany knew for a year anyway Schultz was against initially transferring that weapons Technology to Ukraine, but there was a significant amount of pressure that we as the Americans We put on on the Germans and they provided that new class of tank. So it diversified Ukraine's Arsenal the the counteroffensive though is running out of ammunition literally and figuratively speaking right and It's at a point right now between the attention of the world being focused on the Israeli Gaza Conflict and and the fact that border security is being Placed as a priority over foreign aid military aid it appears that you the Ukrainians are going to be in a difficult situation it's going to be a tough winter and I think it's essentially what President Putin of Russia has Skillfully planned I'm gonna say Planned planned. Do you think he really planned that the US would stop aid to Ukraine? I don't think so. I think the you know maybe took that into consideration I think that that was probably put into taking into consideration largely for one thing if you look at several conflicts In the past 40-50 years that the United States has been involved in whether we look at the Taliban we look at Syria Syria, but Iraq especially especially the the Afghan War because because it started in 2003 and we're 20 years. I I I think Mr. Putin's calculation was that at some point, you know, this is going to be a war of attrition The Russians are always going to be there Physically because they're physically they're geographically located there at some point America is going to tire of The number one there's going to be fatigue in terms of the stories about Ukraine There was a lot of excitement in the beginning and a lot of empathy and sympathy for the Ukrainian people in the United States but at some point that the United States is going to tire because it's not on our shores and Similar to Afghanistan after about you know 18 19 years, you know, we basically gave it back to the Taliban said you can have it That's true. Yeah, you know again much to the chagrin of you know many humanitarian groups women in that country as well as different minorities but I think Mr. Putin has a similar calculation and that he thinks he that at some point that the West is going to get tired of Continuously providing this aid and there have been also a lot of allegations about corruption in Ukraine before the before the conflict With respect to Europe Ukraine was considered one of the more one of the countries that had extremely alarming levels of corruption The case You have a situation then where you know billions of dollars all of a sudden are coming in in a country that They're biggest source of income prior to the Prior to the conflict was a gas pipe that that went from Russia to Western Europe I think they earned about four billion dollars in leasing fees for this pipeline And now you have billions of dollars of aid coming from different sources the biggest of which is the United States that Leap that you know in an environment where there's a high amount of corruption that can have you know some very interesting results and I think that is a concern also with respect to this flow of aid that's gone there Republicans in the house have brought up this issue You know so I think In part because of the conflict in Gaza and Israel and in part the southern border and in part the the issue of Of corruption in Ukraine There are questions being asked now that weren't asked before Right, but there's also something else that I've always suspected is that The both parties want this war in the Ukraine both parties want the war I'm sorry by parties you mean I mean both the Democrats and the Republicans have a similar Foreign policy there are many people who argue that there is one party, which is called the war party Yeah, there is not much those are the political parties and in fact I believe that's the establishment of the two political parties not the people on the ground I've always suspected that the people like you and me normal people if you had a vote on whether to send all this Money to Zelensky or even if you had a vote on the current war Between Israel and the Palestinians. I don't think many Americans are interested And putting in putting our national treasure into these endless wars And I believe that from the bottom of my heart The Americans are real sick of the war in Ukraine Yeah, and they never were that much into it certain certain Consensualities were yeah, well the the support for the war has dwindled. I think again, you know If it ever was really there when the invasion first took place There's no in March of no, there was no vote, but in March of at least March of I believe it was 21 22. I can't yeah Yeah, I think it was 22 I think there was a lot of you know I mean fanfare may not be the right word, but you know, there was a lot of interest at least on the part of the American public with respect to the invasion, I think the There was a lot of talk at the time that you know, it's the old Hitler argument Whether it applied to Saddam Hussein or you know anyone else or Milosevic We don't stop them. They're gonna take all of Europe or they're gonna take all the middle over all the Middle East So, you know, we can't be placed in the Neville Chamberlain Position so, you know, that always gets people riled up, but I think his time has gone on and you know They were and I'm quoting this from a television show. So don't anyone write and say that I stole something but What was sold as World War three initially Or the start of World War three has with the way the fighting has taken place It's been more like World War one and that we're talking about French warfare No clear No clear progress on either side and in a society that we live in and much of the world lives and now in terms of Wanting quick results and something packaged and given to the public as a victory or a loss That's not really that that's not really interesting a War that's at a stalemate for a couple of years and I think there is a certain level of fatigue With respect to news from the Ukraine Absolutely, but I know I mean the money that goes along with it. I always thought I Guess the way that Tucker Carlson put out always was they asked it We asked a different question and he did too. Maybe that's why he was fired He would ask the question is this war in the interest of our country the United States of America I think most people if they were asked that question. I think we'd be in a lot fewer wars And if we're really looking out for our own country our own citizens But I think what happens is you know, we always fall into you know, the other side that's when I say side I'm not blaming Republicans or Democrats.  Yeah. Well, that's a bigger power Yeah, but I mean some of these other countries that you know when you know, we compared Noriega to Adolf Hitler, you know I mean, let's get real or even Saddam Hussein. Yeah, right Saddam had a little more fire power, but not as much as we were saying that he was right So it's often a pretty you get a certain base riled up and say that okay Well, you know, we don't want to be looked at as Neville Chamberlain Maybe we do need to take it out Take the war over there before it comes here and that's been a very successful argument for the pro-war You know industry in this country as well as politicians, right? But I okay being said look our country, you know Nearly bankrupt. We have a lot of problems here if anyone lives in any, you know anything resembling an urban environment We see that you know, we have lots of problems and when and cleaning Burlington Which is sort of our lovely town of Burlington. Yeah, which we were going to talk about all sure I mean, but when you put out numbers like hundred billion and fifty billion and forty billion You know, these are numbers that can take care of a lot of social issues and injustices in our own country on our own shores and You know, we write these checks and we hear these numbers as if they're nothing and they're going overseas and I think after a while there's a certain level of fatigue You know on the part of the American public When they see when they go outside, you know, and they see that there's a homeless problem There's a drug problem. There are people Americans that are not being taken care of and then we're writing these essentially these blank checks you know with 12 digits in some cases, right, you know if I have that right Without a whole lot of accountability none and then the results are Lousy lousy. Yeah, right. Yeah, I mean it seems like the war is over in a lot of ways the Russians have occupied that Territory of Ukraine. They're even gonna hold elections. I've heard in the Russian speaking areas that they have Apparently taken over Don boss They've already succeeded in taking the Crimea. Yeah, so I probably think They won right if if mr. Zelensky goes back to Kiev without a aid deal from he's going to apparently Yeah, but if that does indeed happen, you know, and at the last minute there isn't some kind of Arrangement that is arrived at I think I think they're gonna I think the Ukrainians are gonna have to start Recalculating their goals. Yeah as to what But they can get they can get there have been claims on the left that Mr. Putin Sees that a Trump possible Trump Re-administration in January of 2025 will frame the conflict differently and that the Trump administration would take part in Negotiate yes, he said so Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, now the only yeah, the only thing standing in between isn't a an election Which is correct, but if you look at the polls, they're not helpful to buy now They're not and and I think that's and mr. Putin is studying the that and What it seems like right now are like prevailing wins Very carefully, and I think that's in his calculations. Trump has always been a Negotiator with Putin always Yes, I mean even in his first administration, right. He's never wanted war with Russia He's always wanted to business with Russia, right? Well, I mean, they're two sides, right I'm trying to be objective. No, no, no, I'm not saying what's right or wrong, please I don't know what's right or wrong. Yeah, but I do know that based on his record He has always thought we should deal with Russia and that and in his mind that will avoid Russia sliding over into an alliance with China, which is really not a great thing for the world opponents of Mr. Trump, yeah, or would probably say that he's not a negotiator, but a puppet of Putin So those are the two those but those are the two sides But that those are the two, you know narratives that are out there that either he's a negotiator or that he's a puppet of Vladimir yeah, but that that under it underestimates the intelligence Because Trump is not a moron and neither is Putin what Trump wants is always in his entire life He wants to do business That I'm not gonna disagree with yeah, right, and that's what he wants with Russia Anyway, he also wants to avoid an alliance with between Russia and China, which is not such a dopey idea Yeah, but anyway seems to be happy. Let's go on because you said an interesting thing that while all this money goes to Ukraine all this money goes to foreign wars. Yeah, what's happening in our city? Yeah, our city is experiencing not unlike a lot of other Larger cities in our country. We're experiencing a uptick a significant uptick in violent crime theft There's rampant drug use If you don't believe me on that just you don't even have you can close your eyes and listen to all the sirens Yes, unfortunately the people you know overdosing on on illegal narcotics and We have not been immune to these problems that a lot of much bigger cities like San Francisco like Portland West Coast like Seattle and you know, New York that a lot of these cities have Unfortunately been facing and it's come to our little neck of the woods And it can be seen. It's it's very visible in a small town so we are having you know these same problems and Lack of funding lack of adequate law enforcement all all these issues that you know bigger cities Are facing all of which increased it seemed during the lockdowns, but I want to talk specifically For a minute about the problems with the police that I've seen. Yeah, because to me They're inaccessible. I Try on numerous occasions to to call the police department. You can't get through that a person Yeah, you get tick tick click here click there click everywhere and at the end you don't talk to a person When is that ever happened to a city that you cannot call the police? I mean you're told in an emergency to call 911, but that's not the police No, it's not and it's only for emergencies So I had a tip the other day on a crime and I was asked by the person who gave me the tip to call The police station and try to talk to a detective or the chief. I couldn't get through You know, you know as I said click here click here at the end nothing It wasn't an emergency.  It wasn't something you're gonna solve yourself Investigators of a crime right right, okay another and my clients both of us are lawyers We have clients who need the cops on occasion of course they confirm that there's no way How can you have a city where you can't call the police? Yeah, I was this is the most When I really became awake to this I was told informed that one of my clients A new American without any language skills. Okay was being held in the police station This is 11 o'clock on Friday night. Okay, and that she was being questioned by them Right, I wanted to call her and say look at you don't you have the right right to remain silent You are in the United States of America. Yeah, and you have a right to talk to me a lawyer. Yeah, I Couldn't get through I will and this is 11 30 on a Friday evening. I went down there and sat in the parking lot Circled the police station to see if there was an open door a dispatcher nothing nothing Can you believe this? So one of my colleagues joined me in the parking lot? We're looking at what we're gonna do here out comes a cop and I said I am who I am I'm Sandy Barrett. I'm a lawyer and I want to talk to my client. This was the quote. He said lawyers are not permitted Wow, can you believe that I was tall-shocked so the Thought that was Friday on Monday the chief was being confirmed. I went to city hall to confirm the chief, right? He's a man that I have At least mostly Trusted I wanted him to become the permanent chief. So I went down and I told that story nevertheless I said I am voting to confirm the police chief Okay, and then I left he came out and apologized to me and said this won't happen again You still cannot get anyone on the phone. So how do you have I understand the problem and you know Look, I had my car broken into you know this point about five months ago And you know contacted the police and I didn't there wasn't any real a large I think I lost a pair of you know, nice glasses. That's about it So those are expensive for many people. Yeah. Yeah, no, they weren't they weren't cheap, but but that being said I I You know exercise self-help and had to just deal with my own problem, you know got my card, you know lock fixed But there's there was it wasn't even worth Reporting, you know, I was told to report something online So I mean but but let's I guess you know We can probably go on and on about stories that you know you and I have experienced as well as some of our friends and loved ones, but Where did this? Problem, when did this start? You know, you've been in the city here I also was a state's attorney. I was your prosecutor for a while Never yeah, never have I seen that until recently I've been you know, three o'clock in the morning had to be called to the police station to get one of my DWI clients out of jail and take them home drunk, right, but always Always was able to access so what changed what changed I don't know exactly well I mean they will say yes, it's due to in fact that is what the phone message says due to staff shortages There should be never staff shortages Which would amount to police? Station closures, right nuts, right, and I really don't sad I don't happen during COVID right. Yeah a lot of people at least you know Again, we're talking about Burlington Vermont specifically a lot of people were talking about a fateful city council vote a few years ago to Cap to do the police right and essentially yeah to ride You know a popular wave at the time of defund the police, but they placed a cap on the number of police officers and Others are blaming that Decisive vote in the predicament of the city Do you think that you know holds water is that a valid yes? I do and in fact I think that heavily influenced the Democratic caucus the other day Which selected Joan Shannon as the main Candidate for the mayoral the Democratic candidate for the mayor seat in so I understand her her claim is Against defunding that has strengthened her position, right, but yes, that's what happened That's when it happened that the police experienced Dimmunition in its numbers. I think and this problem of nodding and having enough police in the city Maybe maybe that's the case even so. Why isn't one of the most important? Positions that should have been maintained to answer the damn phone at the cop at the police station, right? What is it okay?  She's supposed to go yeah, what about a new American who doesn't know anything about 9-11, right, right? What are they gonna do? Yeah, not just new Americans old Americans. Yeah. Yeah, so what are people going to do? So do you think please so I mean you know one of the things we always do on the show You know even when we're talking about world affairs. We start we try to talk about solutions not just pointing out problems and deficiencies do you think aside from that vote and and capping the number of police officers during a Precarious time in our country's history, you know that with the influx of you know new types of drugs that came from the West Coast that have had you know an adverse impact on our population Do you think other things could have been done differently? Privates, you know, I've heard everything in this town from hiring private security until the numbers of police could be beefed up I've even heard of people talk about having citizen Militias because of the gun was that this is this is real a real problem, too Yeah, okay, so I go often to talk with the mayor on Wednesdays at the bagel bakery He now doesn't do them anymore because he's gonna be up for election anyway Okay, so and there's always a huge amount of people there because as they get to talk to the mayor Which is a very good thing that Maro did so I go often Yeah, but I listen more than I do anything the dangerous thing is that Maro sits there He doesn't have control over this situation Obviously no mayor does because it's a national situation the rise of drugs the rise of abusive People in the streets because they're all many of them are drug abusers. Yeah, the rise of crime He doesn't have control fully over that. I don't blame him honestly. Well, I'm not saying that wait a minute Wait a minute, but the thing that bothers me the most is what the citizens are then asking about They are so disturbed by this as you might guess sure that they are asking basically for a police day They would like the Constitution to be broken and put people in jail I think these you know Extreme measures yeah are coming from a population that's desperate, but yeah largely this was a largely Crime-free town. I know violent crime. Yes, you know, you could get your bicycle stolen, but there wasn't not much No, but not much more than that and that has changed into a nightmare a large city type right, right, but Any time we only have a little bit of time left It is the most serious issue facing this city and I do not see What's gonna make it better because what the citizens are asking for essentially is that the Constitution in some ways be merely scrapped I mean they want long sentences for what for people yelling in City Hall Park. They would love it. Yeah, but it's not Constitutional. Yeah, well, I think people's you know people are concerned about their safety more Okay, I want to say something and the safety, you know look if people are trying to raise children. Yes, I don't blame anybody I do not blame anybody.  Yeah, on the flip side. Yeah, I mean since you're quoting great people. I'll quote You know the German writer and philosopher go to yeah, you know on Wolfgang von Goethe and he said You know if I had to make a choice and I'm paraphrasing between Justice and order I'll select order. Yeah, but he was your German Okay, maybe we can add not yeah, so let's do that. Okay. Thank you. See you in a couple in a month sure


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Hi, my name is Thalys and it's now time we talk about pizza delivery, serverless and efficiency. As a developer I have, like most of you, spent many late nights staring at the screen feeling both unproductive and hungry. I would like to propose based on some personal experience that serverless can help reduce the development and delivery inefficiencies like pizza delivery did to the homemade pizza meals. I'd like to take you back to the early 2000s when my development troubles started. Before a release I needed to get the basic ingredients required to verify my application's functionality and performance in a near realistic environment. Back then I had to run my own mock services, database, messaging and security components just so I can achieve this. So what did I do in order to get the ingredients to cook a new release? Well, I ordered them. I opened tickets for a database server. I may even have to make calls for the procurement of software and hardware since they came in CDs and boxes back then. Well, they almost though never arrived on time. After many years of inefficiently building and releasing applications, we tried containerization and look all these beautiful containers I could fit now into my MacBook Pro. I no longer needed servers and it improved the time of testing and releasing hot into production. No more late nights needed. Well, not for a couple of nights at least because as developers, apart from baking images with our machines, we also need to run tests and have the latest and greatest features from IDs to almost anything. And let's not forget, the corporate security team also needs to ensure there are no leaks whilst we try these new cool features. Result? More delays. After a while, we learned about resource managers, Kubernetes, which were promising solutions to have an instant development environment. We could run as many components as we needed within minutes. And best of all, it was all free. Only it was not at all free and we had to explain CPU and RAM overutilization as well as the hefty Amazon Web Services build that followed. Once more, getting a development environment became complicated and we were back on for some more late nights. I recall once that incident where after creating and tuning our own development environment, its performance was so poor which meant I had to stay developing in the office past 8pm most evenings. Incidentally, this was the time when the lights changed to motion detection mode and I had to do a bit of a dance every now and then just to keep them on. Now the lights, although annoying, they were quite efficient I thought. So why couldn't my development environment be the same? This is when I learned about serverless with Knative, which in summary offers the ability to spin a service and only keeps it available for the period it receives calls. Knative will remove it when it becomes idle. On a new development on top of Kubernetes, I had the opportunity to test these efficiencies changing my services to serverless. With Knative serving, I could have three microservices, a database and a security service only available when a call came through. So normal explanations about CPU or RAM utilization and normal late nights waving arms frantically. But what happens when you want one of your serverless components to always be available, like a database, which takes time to initialize, while calls have to be answered immediately. Also, it's shared nature means that you need to tune for concurrency. So I looked it up and serverless offers annotations for the definition of concurrency and auto scaling during serving. Also with serverless, once I had a version of my components delivered, I could work on new revisions of them and then choose if I wanted to send requests to all available ones or simply drain and remove the old ones. Serverless routing even allowed me once I chewed on a not very nice revision slice to revert back to an early one. It made me even more efficient when I decoupled the services, which originally were integrated by direct risk calls. Transforming to serverless events meant that the source and sync did not need to know about each other's details. And so messaging slices would arrive magically at the correct destination. Serverless had made me a more efficient developer like pizza delivery had done to the late night pizza meals. So could try serverless at gate native.dev. It's efficient. Thank you.


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Israel and the West Bank, while Israel continuing with the military operation in the Gaza Strip that began on Friday afternoon, with multiple strikes on targets of Palestinian Islamic jihad. And just this morning, rockets intercepted over Jerusalem, P.I.J., claiming responsibility for those and Israeli strike killing Khaled Mansour, the head of the Islamic jihad's military wing in the southern Strip. While also killing P.I.J. official Tessir Al-Jabari, head of the organization's military wing in the northern part of the Strip on Friday in their initial airstrike, an IDF official saying last night that all top Islamic jihad security officials in the Gaza Strip have been assassinated. Also developing this morning clashes between IDF forces and Palestinians in two villages near Jinnin in the northern West Bank where Israeli raids are ongoing to arrest members of Islamic jihad. The IDF arresting 20 Palestinian Islamic jihad operatives in the West Bank on top of the 20 it had arrested the night before. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza saying so far the strikes have killed 29 people, several of which are children. The strikes also leaving hundreds injured. Jihad responding to the Israeli strikes with nearly 580 rockets so far, majority of which were intercepted by the Iron Dome. Now Egyptian mediators carrying out talks for a potential ceasefire, but continued escalation would largely depend on whether Hamas chooses to join the fighting. Let's head to Jerusalem now where our I-24 News senior correspondent Bianca Zanini is live for us there. Bianca good morning to you, the municipality confirming rocket sirens and interceptions near Jerusalem. Talk to us about the latest security situation there. Good morning. Well what I can tell you from the ground here is that so far things have been rather calm this morning. Of course we are seeing a large presence of security forces, police officers everywhere. We're seeing less people on the streets than usual but as you can see behind me there's still quite a lot of movement here at the entrance. Already more than a thousand Jews have visited the Temple Mount this morning including far right politician Itamar Ben-Greer. Now of course his visit there was a lot of worry about that and what could potentially happen because this area as many of us as is clear is such a key flash point. This particular place so far things have been calm but there is an acute awareness that anything can change in just a second. In just a second we know that there have been rockets fired towards Jerusalem earlier today for the first time since the beginning of this round of violence last Friday. But there's also the question of what can happen here on the ground. For the last year if you remember clashes that were happening on the Temple Mount in and around the Temple Mount at the Al Aqsa Mosque were a key factor on the ignition for the 11 day conflict between Israel and Hamas and this is essentially what the major worry on the ground here is for today that any escalation could potentially switch being a turning point in this conflict right now. Hamas seen as the protector of the Al Aqsa Mosque if there is at any point a larger amount of violence that breaks out here they could decide to join forces to enter this conflict and of course then the scenario would be completely different. Bianca Zanini live for us in Jerusalem this morning thank you. Also developing last night a strike on the northern city of Jabali it has left five Palestinians dead including three children Israel though denying the strike on the Gaza refugee camp saying it was quote failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad Israel releasing a video showing the short trajectory of the rocket launched in Gaza and landing nearby and an Israeli security source actually telling I-24 news that the IDF was not carrying out raids in Gaza at the time and we're now hearing reports and update for you of another strike on Jabali Israel is saying that it was another failed rocket attempt rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad and so far reports of two Palestinians killed let's take a listen tonight Islamic Jihad terrorists fired a rocket towards Israel which fell short inside Gaza hitting a Palestinian home in the Jabali neighborhood and tragically killing at least four children there is video documenting the entire thing there was no Israeli activity in the Gaza Strip in that area or at that time Islamic Jihad is killing Palestinian children in Gaza one in four rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel lands inside the Gaza Strip Iran's proxies including Islamic Jihad have a long history of hiding behind civilians to target Israeli civilians the world should be outraged at this terrorist group targeting innocent Israelis and killing innocent Gazans Israel will continue to stand up to this vicious terrorist organization which threatens Israelis and Palestinians alike let's bring in our panel now Rafael you to show me a former senior intelligence officer for the IDF and Owen Alterman I-24 news senior correspondent gentlemen good morning thank you for joining us Owen I want to start with you Prime Minister Yair Lapid meeting with opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu today for an update on the security situation but what can we expect to come out of a meeting like this not probably too much immediately Hamda but over time this may be a meeting that we will hear something about on the election campaign to be a fly on the wall in this meeting right again the background to viewers who haven't been keeping up yet Yair Lapid as Prime Minister is obligated and his predecessor of Tali Bennett was obligated to brief the opposition leader under Israel under Israeli law and appear regularly and Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited to these meetings over the course of time and has refused to take them again not wanting to be seen as being in a sense subservient to the person currently sitting in the Prime Minister's chair when he Netanyahu himself Israel's longest-serving Prime Minister wants to get back into that chair himself given the events of the last few days there various stories reportedly and who exactly initiated this meeting but at any event Netanyahu agreed to come and get this briefing from Yair Lapid we'll see if there are actually pictures that come out something it's now may not want to see but at any event this may be an attempt by Netanyahu to in a sense set a marker right to be able in the day after this operation when no matter what the result is there will be part of the Israeli public that will be unsatisfied because again as we often see as we always see in these conflicts in Israel and groups in the Gaza Strip the groups are left standing in one way or another after the operation is done right which could give Netanyahu a political opening to attack the government not during the campaign which wouldn't go over well politically but on the day after once the ceasefire is in effect and for the rest of the election campaign and having a meeting like this one one would imagine could be part of Netanyahu's arsenal he'll be able to say I said this to Mr. Prime Minister Lapid I told him what to do I warned him I said so at the time and here is what did not happen or what did happen against my advice and here are the consequences so in for Netanyahu's perspective maybe a way of setting himself up for the remainder of the campaign from Lapid's perspective this has something he's obligated to do under law you're looking at live images now of Gaza City there is where Palestinian Islamic jihad continues to launch rockets into Israel majority of which are intercepted by the iron dome Rafael we've only got about a minute left but very quickly I want to ask you the IDF saying last night that all top Islamic jihad security officials in the strip have been assassinated I want to ask you how long it takes a group like Islamic jihad to announce another top commander how do they now replace these officials there will be almost immediately the assistance of these commanders will take over but really some of those have been it's always like a junior it will be a junior level the problem is that now the Islamic jihad is in total disarray and this is very dangerous because they are improvising they do not have any operational instructions anymore they have just the general political message from 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Israel that touch the US those across the region with the impact far beyond its border catch the run down to the Middle East meets the world hey it's you again ready let's go one show a whole lot of perspective he is part of the problem you want to talk about deep platforming people are losing their lives not just what happened but why does it matter I'd like to finish my point you're the you could be a fantastic CNN reporter join us every night a CME stern on global on the global conversation starts here welcome back to this special breaking news edition of the broadcast from the I-24 news desk well atop Islamic jihad commander in the resisted Khaled Mansour was assassinated on Saturday in a targeted strike by the IDF our Hanna Rifkin looks at who he was and what his influence was in PIJ just one day after the Gaza Strip's northern region commander of the Palestinian Islamic jihad Taistir Jabari was assassinated the Israeli Air Force takes out another PIJ leader Khaled Mansour on Saturday night by precision strike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafa I can tell you we carried out another elimination of the commander of the southern area of the PIJ this is a very important achievement and according to all the data I have at the moment we hit him and he was eliminated along with others and in fact the entire military arm of the Palestinian Islamic jihad in the Gaza Strip was thwarted but who is Khaled Mansour and why was he assassinated by the IDF Mansour was the terror organization's commander of the Gaza Strip's southern region and over the last few days he planned anti-tank guided missile and high altitude missile attacks on the Israeli border but over the last couple of decades Mansour had a heavy hand in numerous attacks on Israel in July 2004 he was responsible for moderately injuring an IDF southern brigade commander of the Gaza Division then in 2010 while serving as head of the PIJ's rocket unit he claimed responsibility for the death of famed IDF combat major Ali Raaz Parrott then in 2015 he became commander of the PIJ's northern region of the Gaza Strip from mortar bomb to advanced rockets IDF intelligence says that Mansour led hundreds of rocket attacks on Israel during this time he was heavily involved in building tunnels and in May 2021 during operation guardian of the walls launched barrages of rockets at Israel and attempted massive plots against IDF troops and Israeli civilians as Israel continues its operation breaking dawn so far the IDF sees it as a success as they eliminate Palestinian Islamic jihad's top leadership for now let's go now to I-24 news correspondent Pia Steckelback live for us in Sturot in southern Israel Pia we understand there were some rocket interceptions earlier there you were sheltering talk to us about the latest security situation there yes you're right we heard the rocket alert and we saw a barrage of rockets being fired towards southern Israel and being intercepted by the iron domicile defense system about an hour ago at about quarter to nine now the situation since then has been calm we see a few people walking around but the situation here still is very tense and a lot of people prefer to stay in their homes near they save rooms or to walk closely to the shelter our cameraman ego will show you here in Sturot and in general in communities and southern Israel there are a lot of shelters dispersed among the streets because Gaza city is about 12 kilometers away from here and when you hear a rocket alert Hamda you have about 15 seconds to make your way to a shelter and this is what we have experienced about an hour ago when we heard the barrage of rockets fire being fired at us and the iron dome rocket missile interception system intercepting these rockets you hear a boom and even if these rockets are not directly sent towards us you hear detonations sometimes around us in the neighboring areas and earlier on amid these barrage being fired at us there was a shrapnel of the iron dome missile defense system being fired or landed on one of the local residents cars and we got the chance to speak to him and to see the shrapnel that was being landed on his car so let's take a listen to what he had to say I heard an air raid siren I stopped on the side of the road this part fell on my car as you can see this is part of an iron dome we are strong here in Sturot we are not afraid we are strengthening the army the army will do what it has to do and we have the iron dome to protect us and stay strong and Pia can you talk to us a little bit about the security situation inside Gaza we understand that the civilian population there does not have anywhere to run or hide in the event of an Israeli airstrike talk to us about that exactly Hamd I was talking about the shelter but of course this is a privilege that Israeli citizens have that gas and civilian population does not have so whenever there is an airstrike there is usually not even a warning so people just remain inside their buildings and hope that nothing will happen to them and Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas in the world and although Israel says that it conducts targeted precise targeting operations in an area that is such densely populated is very very difficult to prevent civilian casualties and also this is what we have probably seen yesterday night when the Palestinian Islamic jihad launched rockets towards Israel and the rockets landed in the Gaza envelope itself this actually happens to a lot of rockets that they are firing civilian population also might have gotten hurt this is at least what Israel says that has happened so civilian population Gaza has nowhere to go also nowhere to flee really here in Israel we hear that there are airlines who offering cheaper prices for flights to bring people from the south out of this area here we even hear that hotels offer special packages for southern residents to bring them out of this imminent danger here this is something of course that the gas and civilian population does not have P.S. Stackleback live for us in Steroot in southern Israel thank you let's bring back in our panel Raphael Yerushalmi and Owen Alterman let's talk about Jerusalem for a second right wing politician Ben Veer going on this day Tisha Beav we've already seen images of some settlers performing prayer rituals there what can we expect in Jerusalem in terms of escalation we also know Hamas has called on their supporters to ascend upon Al Aqsa and rockets also in the vicinity of Jerusalem we'll speak about Hamas' involvement in this escalation in a little but talk to us about the escalation in Jerusalem first well so far the escalation that hasn't happened it's the dog that hasn't barked right now we should say that if there were people who Jews who prayed on the Temple Mount that is against the rules that is against the law that is against the status quo that is something that the Israeli police the Israeli authorities are supposed to stop so it is not something that should have happened as for the visits themselves obviously they have a very explosive potential this is a resonant day on the Jewish calendar especially on the Temple Mount right this is the anniversary of the destruction of the two temples and a day when many Jews or some Jews should say have a tradition of visiting the Temple Mount and ascending onto the Mount an old tradition that in some sense has been revived in recent years but obviously at a sensitive point in time like this let alone someone like Itamar Ben Veer who likes to draw attention to himself into what he's doing I mean many politicians do but he doesn't in a very provocative way especially at a time like this is something that has an explosive potential so far again sitting here as we do at this hour on live TV it's an escalation that hasn't happened but again it's we're still in the morning of this day there's still an explosive potential for something to happen further our Bianca Zemini is on the ground in case something does I think the hope in Israel is that this will pass and maybe people are cautiously optimistic at this point in the morning that it will pass without further incident but certainly a sensitive issue in the Muslim world these visits are and this has been a flashpoint as we well know in recent years there's intense disagreement in Israel and Jordan which has a role in the governance of the site but exactly how these visits should be conducted and if they should be conducted and so again an escalation that hasn't happened so far dog that hasn't parked but everyone certainly is on edge waiting to see what happens and Rafael Hamas calling on its supporters to ascend to the al-Aqsa mosque today what will it take for them to join in on this escalation with Palestinian Islamic jihad we know Israel does not want that we're not quite sure what Hamas wants at this time however they have given Islamic jihad the green light to continue on with their operation so what do we think could push them towards the direction of joining right now Hamas is very happy to let the Islamic jihad to the dirty work for them so they don't need to intervene because they already have this faction that's doing the job they can just stand by the side now if I would be a leader of the Hamas right now I would think twice about joining the list of people who are eliminated because would they want to join now to enter the game then their fate will be similar to those of the leaders of the Islamic jihad I think the Israeli side has made it quite clear that this run is a bit different from the preceding rounds of course it will not change the future we will be back to square one at the end of this operation as well and after a few months we will probably face another round but right now there is such a determination I think also the meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid was showing this determination this kind of unity that the political divide is there for sure but there was a show of unity of cohesion on the Israeli part which we do not see on the Palestinian part we don't see the PLO being in such disarray at the Islamic jihad being hit by the Israelis so really right now I think the Palestinians are just letting the Islamic jihad take the fall take the hits and I do not see what interest they would have into now joining in let's just remind that and so far the Hamas calls to embrace the region about Al-Aqsa and the Temple Mount have failed there was no uprising of the Palestinian people there was no uprising of the faithful against the Zionist enemy it didn't work so to try it now again in this particular context it's bound to fail even more we'll certainly see what happens as we await escalations or calm in Jerusalem Owen Alterman and Raphael Yurushalmi joining me live in studio this morning thank you let's go now to Danny Rahamim a resident on the Israel Gaza border live for us on the phone Danny good morning to you talk to us about what the last 72 hours have been like for you okay we had lots of records and rockets in our kibbutz now it's a little bit quiet the night was very very quiet and but now we organize the family with the little children to leave the kibbutz and we send them to another kibbutz in the north okay and talk to us a little bit about the the safety measures put in place the safety guidelines you've been instructed by Israeli police to take in the event of a missile launch sorry I didn't hear you talk to us a little bit about what the Israeli authorities tell you to do in these situations when the rocket sirens are sounding okay so we get the message messages to stay at home most of the day we have to stay in the kibbutz we can't go outside but sometimes there is windows that the army tell us in these windows to leave the kibbutz anybody that wants to leave the kibbutz or go inside the kibbutz there is this for few minutes windows to go out and come to the kibbutz and we understand that daily life now has been disrupted there any idea or a sense from authorities when you'll be able to kind of get back to normal no I wish I wish we knew they can't tell us we hope that it won't take a long time but we can't know the authorities couldn't tell us when it will stop Danny Rahmima resident on the Israel Gaza border thank you so much thank you thank you very much that's it for this breaking news edition of the broadcast from the I-24 news desk for more breaking news updates be sure to follow I-24 news online at I-24 news dot TV on Facebook Twitter and Instagram we want to leave you now with some live images of Gaza City where Palestinian Islamic jihad continues to fire retaliatory rockets at Israel after the initial airstrike on Friday be sure to keep it right here on I-24 news 24-7 for continued updates on operation breaking dawn I'm Hamza Sanhout in Tel Aviv thanks for watching I-24 news team of talented correspondents are working hard for you they're in the markets on the streets in the battlefields getting the pulse of the story 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While gunmen have killed two officers of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps in Anambra state, their rifles were stolen and the operational vehicle was set ablaze after a gun duel. NSCDC Public Relations Officer in the state, Okadibo Edwin, said the incident happened in Nei, Umweiri in the Anambra East local government area of the state. He said the state commandant, David Beale, was collaborating with sister security agencies to unravel the circumstances surrounding the incident.