Blinken In Israel, Hezbollah Leader Breaks Silence, FTX Founder Guilty
13:33 Share

Secretary state antony blank and talks of seeing a palestinian child's pole from the rubble .

that hits me in the gut. As much as seeing a child is real or anywhere else, what does the U. S. One is real to do?

I mean, r, tina is with Steve in skip. This is a first, or M, P, R news. Allies of homos include hezb law, the lebanese delicia, israel's north today, for the first time since israel's war on homes began, the groups leader gives a speech.

Also, the founder of the crypto currency company F T X, faces up to one hundred and ten years in prison. What is the verdict for some bank man fried, say, ecliptic, l frost's.

Those folks should think again and cut IT out. And if they don't, I promise, will have enough hankos for all of them.

Stay with us. We ve got the news. You need to start your day.

The indicator is a podcast where daily economic news is about what matters to you.

Workers have been feeling the steam of inflation.

so as a new administration promises action on the cost of living, taxes and home Prices, S, M, P, five hundred biggest post election day Spike ever. Follow all the big changes and what they mean for you.

Make amErica affordable again.

Listen to the indicator, the daily economics podcast for M P R.

You care about what's happening in the world. Let's stay of the world from N, P, R. Keep you informed each day we transport you to a different point on the globe and introduce you to the people living world events.

We don't just tell you world news. We d take you there and you can make this journey while you're doing the dishes or driving your car. State of the world podcast from N P R vital international stories every day.

N P R brings you the updates you need on the day's biggest headlines.

The senate narrowly passed the dead sea bill that will prevent the country .

from loans stories from across the world knowing how to forage and to live with the land is integral to a new culture. And down your block from C.

P. R. News, this is matters.

and you can find all of that and more in your pocket. Download the M. P. R. APP today.

Our team is in jerusalem today, just down the street from the old city and the holy sites of three major religions, Christianity, judaism at islam. Those sites sometimes become flash points in this region's long running conflict over land. In recent weeks, israeli authorities have made arrests in this city and well beyond as part of their response to the israel homos war.

The main focus of the war is a little west of here in gaza, where israel has struck a refuge area for a third deg. Israeli forces who say they are responding to the homes attack on israel damaged a united nations run school. IT had become a shelter for palestinians. Secretary of state tony blinken is in his real today and says he's working on ways to protect innocent civilians.

When ica palestinian child, a boy, a girl, pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building that hits me in the gut as much as seeing a child, israel or anywhere else. So this is something that we have an obligation to respond to, and we will. The us.

Is calling for a humAnitarian pause in the fighting rather than a full ceasefire. Epr diplomatic correspondent Michelle kelman covers the secretary Michelle.

hi Steve.

Why call for a temporary pause? Yeah, I mean.

he's not pushing for ceasefires. Many would like him to because he says the israelis have a right to defend itself against tomos, which Carried out that unprecedented attack on israel october seven. Thomas is still holding more than two hundred hostages and IT is still firing rockets in the israel, but blinkin is working on ways to find safe areas for palestinians.

Arrange for these temporary pauses in the fight so that you can get more aid into gaza and get americans out. But you know, these are things that he's been pushing for, for nearly a month now, and aid has been moving very slowly, and there has been a lot of death and destruction. Palestinian officials say thousands of civilians have been killed, blinkin says homos uses palestinians as human child. Well.

are americans getting out? Will U. N.

Officials say hundreds of foreign passport holders have managed to leave through the rough gate to egypt the past couple of days, including nearly eighty americans, but the state department has been in touch with about four hundred americans and their family members, a total of about a thousand people who want to leave gaza. And again, lincoln has been working on this since his last trip to the region, which was in mid of october.

If this has taken much longer than the state department had hoped, why there are a lot of players with a lot of different interests. Egypt didn't want to rush of people coming across the border. Homos was making its own demands.

Cutt has been playing a role in this diplomacy. And now there's this kind of complicated system in place where you have the us. Israel in egypt and authorities and gaza swapping list of people who are able to leave. The state department sends out emails telling americans when they can go. And the state department is hoping all the people who want to leave, we will be able to, over the next couple of days, in through this weekend.

A Michelle is helpful that you mention a bunch of countries there, because IT reminds us how many countries have some stake in this conflict. What is blinking doing to prevent this war from spreading?

But one big concern is to try to maintain stability in the west bank. He's been really concerned about israeli sever attacks on palestinians. They are andy's worried about other groups in the region back by iran that could get involved in this fight, and he's warning them .

to stay out. And thanks so much.

Thank you.

And let's continue on that theme, because early this week, our team had a chance to visit israel els northern border, and we listened in the darkness as israeli troops and hezbollah traded fire. What an israeli officer called a slow motion war has continued all week, and today the leader of his blaws giving a speech and piers ruth sherlock covers leverton hathe roof.

Hey, Steve.

how is the fighting change since I was there the other day?

Well, you know, yesterday we saw a pretty significant escalation. Has bar struck israeli army post with two suicide drones? And IT says it's the first time they would ve used this kind of weaponry in this conflict.

And then a branch of hamas, the palestinian militant group, of course, says IT fired about a dozen rockets from lebanon on towards carriage chema in northern radio town. Hundreds of thousands of israelis like, you know, they have already been evacuated from these areas. Uh, but we're also seeing reports in lebanon of smaller iranian back to palestinian fecal also gathering on the southern border to try to launch a tax from there. And israel is retaliating with air strikes and artillery.

meaningful the sheer number of groups who just named there who have weapons and could do something, but of course, hesba as the big one, the one that controls the ground. So what does that mean that their leader is talking today?

Well, you you're writing, of course, you know this is the first time that has on a stranger that hezbollah ader has spoken since the october seven attack on israel by hamas and hezbollah allied with hamas. They're both backed by iran. So there's this huge anticipation to know what is hesba strategy, what are they going to do? I put this two ickle as blandford. He's a lebanon on based expert on the group.

The statements a few statements from hesba officials uh, and uranian officials, particularly farming minister, suggest to me that, yes, we're going to especially we going to put pressure on israelis from the north. We're going to do up IT for the palestinian calls to help our brothers and I must, but we are not willing to go into a full ball at this page with a caveat that we cause for in a very, very, uh, dangerous situation at one this is potentially right so this .

calculation you see I think the silent point here is that iran has its a strategic calculation, hezbollah thousands of missiles and iran has used the group as a powerful deterrent or if anyone who wants to attack iran nuclear program will try to d stables, the regime knows they have to deal with hezbollah, lebanon so the question is, if harass looks like they're about to be defeated, will iran commit, has bullet to the war and, you know, invites this wide origin onal conflict?

Ruth, here on the israeli side, i've gotten a sent to the human cost of all this. I've been in a hotel full of people who were evacuated from the north. I've been up north and talk to people who aren't evacuated and stressed out by the constant gunfire. What is the human cost on the lebanese side?

Well, as you know, over twenty five thousand people already displaced in lebanon. Some of the ving with relatives or an university hall turned into shelters. I spoke with one woman.

She's a public official from a southern israeli, excuse me, a southern lebanese town. And SHE talked about how she's already been displaced twice by the fighting by the israel strikes, SHE saying. And she's especially cautious about staying any dangers because he remembers the two thousand and six war with israel and not the case for many lebanon. They were member conflict, and they want to do everything they can to avoid getting dragged into another one.

bias. Ruth relock, thanks for your insights.

Thanks so much.

Now israel is, depending on extra USA, to fight the war. And yesterday, the republican LED house of representative acted, but in a certain way, the house passed a bill that would provide fourteen point three billion dollars for israel. IT finds that money by cutting funds from the irs. And the measure did not include money for the war in ukraine, as democrats and many republicans want. The measure next goes to the senate, where the democratic leader .

is chuck humor. The senate will not be considering this deeply flood proposal from the house top, and instead we will work together on our own bypass san emergency aid package that includes to israel, ukraine, competition with the chinese government and humAnitary arian aid for gaza.

which is something closer to the White house proposal on these issues.

Before making of crypto is going to prison, a jury in new york found sam bank man free guilty of seven criminal counts, including security fraud and money launder ing. M, P, R. David, grow up.

Cover the trial. David. This trial seems to have had a very brisk pace. yeah.

And from the very start, you know, right after sam bank and free was arrested in the bahamas, federal prosecutors claimed this was an open and shut case. So yes, sam band freed was this new kind of crypto celebrity. He had to travelled hair.

He wore shorts and t shirts. I think i'll agree with me. He didn't look like any other billionaire o, but the U. S.

Government said none of that mattered, prosecutor said a Foster is a Foster and they pushed back hard against batman freed's defense that he was just trying to figure out how to navigate this new kind of finance and industry in its infancy. Prosecutors told the jury this was not a case about the inns and outs of crypto currency. Last night, damian Williams made some brief comments.

He's the U. S. Attorney for the southern n district of new york and Williams said he had his colleagues have seen schemes like this one over and over again. The cypher .

currency industry might be new, the players like sam bank man fried might be new. But this kind of fraud, this kind of corruption, is as all this time, and we have no patients for IT.

Damien Wilson said he wants bank man freeze conviction to send a message to other frage stories as he put in a message to people who think they are untouched.

those people think again and cut IT out. And if they don't, I promise, will have enough handcuff s for all of them. The us.

Government put this case together so fast. That trial a was long, but not as long as everyone expected, and the jury didn't waste time. IT took just five hours to make this decision.

That sounds like this outcome was a huge surprise.

Now the prosecution had a very solid case here with a lot of documentary evidence, but the government also had three key witnesses. These were sam bankin freeze, co conspirator, or is a group of his deputies and close friends. IT included his x gro friend who ran alem to research the trading firm.

And one by one, these CoOperating witnesses told the jury that bank and freed directed them to commit crimes. And their testimony was so compelling that betton free decided to throw a hail mary. He took the stand themselves so that jurors could hear from him directly here to say that backfired.

But patton freed faced a wieringen ross examination lasted for almost eight hours, and prosecutors used bacon freeze own words a against him. They poked holes in a story, made IT clear the jury that the scheme was his idea, and he knew that ecrite pto currency Prices plumaged last year, and man did they, that his company's s explosion was unavoidable when he get judge list. Cabin has scheduled a sense in hearing that'll be on march the twenty eight.

Now bank man fried is just thirty one years old, and the maximum penalty he faces a is one hundred and ten years in prison. His lawyer gave us a statement. He said bentz free maintains his innocence and plans to quote, continued to vigorously fight the charges against him.

So he's gona appeal, but bank freed faces other legal chAllenges. The U. S. Government has been planning to try bank man freed on several other criminal counts.

It's unclear prosecutors are going to go ahead with that because this one turned out the way that I did. The judge wants to know that by february that there are civil suits and battery ed parents are also fighting. A lawsuit filed by ftc is debts are trying to claw back billions of dollars that disappeared when they crypto empire collapsed.

Mp r. David. Girl.

David thinks thank you.

And that's at first for this friday, november er, third, i'm Steve and scape in jerusalem and Martina.

Today's episode of a burst was edited by Michael Sullivan. Hal D. C.

Was produced by july debbra lokins and cat cambell. We get engineering support from sty abbott and our technical director. Is that common? As always, start your day here with us .

tomorrow for a deep dive into one story. Consider, consider this in the, consider this feed right now, the trump brothers, take the stand, erick, an Donald, june, or in a civil fraud case in new york, what's mistake for them and for their dad? Listen, consider this. Where ever get your broadcasts?

This message comes from Better help working to make therapy more convenient, flexible and affordable. Better committed to helping people manage their well being and mental health through therapy visit, Better helped that come slash N P R for ten percent off your first month. This message comes to M P R sponsor, the N P R one club, a place to explore the exciting world of wine, including lines inspired by popular N P R shows like weekend addition cb a. Whether buying a few bottles or joining the club, all purchases help support N P R programing and fund quality reporting develop to connect people to their communities and the world they live in. More at N P R one club, ador slash podcast must be twenty one or older to purchase.