PPN World News Headlines - 12 Sep 2024
• Israel strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon • Russian Naval drills
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00:00One strike after another, huge explosions heard across southern Lebanon.
00:24The Israeli army said fighter jets hit about 30 rocket launchers and other military infrastructure
00:29belonging to Hezbollah.
00:32These attacks are becoming more frequent as Israeli officials increase their rhetoric
00:36of threat against the armed group.
00:38Israel's strikes appear to be part of a strategy to prevent the armed group from building its
00:42military capabilities, particularly close to the border.
00:55At least 25 people have been killed in recent Israeli strikes on Palestinian territories.
01:01Authorities in Gaza on Wednesday said about 20 of the victims, including 16 women and
01:06children, were killed in the Gaza Strip.
01:09According to Gaza's health ministry, the strike on a tent camp in an Israeli-designated humanitarian
01:15zone claimed at least 19 lives, while another person was killed in airstrikes targeting
01:21the Beirut refugee camp in central Gaza.
01:25At least five others were killed in strikes in the occupied West Bank.
01:37North Korea on Thursday morning fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the
01:42EC.
01:43South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said they are analyzing the types and range of the missiles
01:48launched for the Pyongyang area.
01:50It added that the missiles flew approximately 360 kilometers before landing in the EC.
01:56The last time the North fired ballistic missiles was on July 1st, which Pyongyang said were
02:00successful test launches of a new type of tactical ballistic missile.
02:04The Joint Chiefs of Staff emphasized that North Korea's missile launch is a clear provocative
02:08act that seriously threatens the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula.
02:21Russia is holding naval drills in areas of the Pacific Ocean, as well as in the Baltic
02:25and Caspian Seas, at a scale that has not been seen since the end of the Soviet era.
02:31The war games are scheduled to last through to the end of the week, with over 400 warships,
02:36submarines and auxiliary vessels, about 120 aircraft and 90,000 personnel.
02:43China's forces are also taking part in the maneuvers.
02:46Russian President Vladimir Putin says the drill will incorporate lessons learned from
02:50Russia's, quote, special military operation in Ukraine, and warned the United States against
02:55trying to outgun Moscow in Asia.
03:06Nigeria's Maiduguri is in the grip of fear and confusion after 200 prisoners escaped
03:11a prison facility ravaged by massive flooding.
03:14Among those who escaped are commanders of the terrorist group Boko Haram, who were directly
03:19responsible for deadly violence in the country's northeast.
03:23Nigeria's correctional center in Maiduguri says torrential rains caused massive flooding,
03:29which affected the facility.
03:31A part of the wall of the Maiduguri prison collapsed, giving inmates an escape route.
03:36Close to 200 prisoners are said to have escaped.
03:39Kosovo indicted 45 suspects on terrorism charges a year after 80 gunmen stormed a village
03:54in its north, engaging in a gunfight with security forces.
03:58The gunmen are said to have originated in Serbia, whom Kosovo maintains is responsible
04:04for the attack.
04:05The attack on the village of Banske saw the death of three gunmen and a Kosovo police
04:11officer, following which the rest of the group fled back to Serbian territory, leaving abandoned
04:17vehicles, ammunition and explosives in their wake.
04:21One of the four bridges crossing the Elbe River has partially collapsed in the German
04:36city of Dresden.
04:38Traffic, as well as the city's tram system, were severely disrupted by the emergency closure
04:45of the 100-meter-long bridge.
04:47No one was injured, but city officials warn that there is still a risk of collapse.
05:01This is runway security camera video at the world's busiest airport showing this accident
05:06in real time.
05:07Both planes belong to Delta Airlines, and it's the large plane coming towards the camera
05:12that doesn't see how the tip of its wing is about to break off the tail of the smaller
05:16jet.
05:17We just hit something on the taxiway.
05:20Could you tell us what it was?
05:22That was the pilot of the larger plane with more than 200 passengers heading to Japan,
05:26telling airport control that something just went really wrong on the taxiway.
05:30More than 50 people were on the smaller regional jet headed to Louisiana, and they could hear
05:35the loud sounds of twisting metal.