00:00Kashmita, I want to come to you first to get a sense of what you're picking up from the ground.
00:06Needless to say, Israel is on an all-out offensive because they are saying that they will not back down.
00:11They have to take it to its logical conclusion.
00:13But the civilians also who are being given that warning again and again to stay safe, to stay in the
00:20bunkers, what do you see?
00:24Suwesha, I'm yet to enter Israel because it being a Saturday, I was trying to cross in from the land
00:31border.
00:32But there is big news coming in from Jordan because not just that, Jordan has actually spoken up against what
00:41Iran has tried to do.
00:43Iran has targeted not just U.S. locations in Jordan, but also locations that have been entirely Jordanian as it
00:52was put forth by the Brigadier General here.
00:55They've made it a point to say that they've had civilians who've had sharpening injuries and they're not very happy
01:03with what Iran is doing.
01:05At the same time, the big news coming from here is what U.S. was denying or rather not saying
01:10anything since day one of the war.
01:12On the first day and the second day of the conflict, Iran had shot its missiles towards various U.S.
01:19bases.
01:20And one of the bases is here in Jordan.
01:24And finally, the U.S. has accepted that there was damage to the THAAD radar system.
01:31Now, that completely means that if the radar system of the THAAD air defense battery is damaged, they have to
01:40switch to the Patriot ones, the missiles of which are already in short supply.
01:45So, Iran is not just firing away and not reaching its targets, but it is indeed inflicting pain to its
01:57adversaries.
01:58And that is the big reason why, despite the fact that Donald Trump says that they are having advances, there
02:06are minor issues, which means that the objective, the stated objective with which they started has still not been met.
02:15And nobody knows how long all this could go on, Suwesha.
02:20Suwesha, I request you to stay on.
02:22Ashravani and Ashutosh also joining us on the broadcast.
02:25Ashutosh, quickly coming to you because some in Dubai are also saying that are the authorities playing down the sort
02:32of attack that happened at the airport,
02:35although the authorities saying that it was only the debris that had fallen and largely everything is all right.
02:40But what is it that you're picking up from the ground?
02:47But there is also a data that was issued by the Ministry of Defense of UAE, where it says that
02:52today itself, on the seventh day, there were around 121 drones were intercepted.
02:57Now, for them, 119 were intercepted.
03:00Two, somehow, you know, there was impact and they landed on the UAE territory.
03:05At the same time, 16 ballistic missiles were also intercepted that was fired by Iran.
03:10So, at least the number of siren alert, alarm that were issued by the government.
03:15Of course, in such situation, any government would turn down the number because potentially it could be chaotic and it
03:22could also lead to a fear.
03:23And now, as we know, the UAE, not just across Middle East, but across the global terrain, remains one of
03:29the most safest cities.
03:30And for a nation like this, they have ever hardly seen this kind of escalation.
03:35Missiles falling in their territory, drones are being attacked.
03:37So, when you have never seen this kind of history in the recent past, and that's a more preventive step
03:42that why the government is taking.
03:44It is not that they are not issuing advisory.
03:46They are always putting on the alert whenever, look at the traffic right behind me.
03:50This is Aldera.
03:50They're not exactly Dubai.
03:52We're in Aldera, the part of old Dubai, a certain distance from the new Dubai town that what it is
03:57iconically known for.
03:58But in Aldera, you see the traffic moving on the road.
04:01So, clearly, people, despite the apprehension, the business goes as it is.
04:05The offices are open.
04:06Of course, relevant traffic in certain areas is quite limited because the apprehension continues.
04:11But the people are united, fighting against this.
04:14And that's where the government role comes play.
04:16There are certain sanctions have been imposed.
04:18Certain restrictions have been imposed with regards to sharing the photograph, videos.
04:21And that's only because of what the government is saying, that if it goes in the public, it will be
04:25chaotic.
04:26And it will bring the morale down at the same time.
04:30It will be harmful for the business of UAE that it is known for including tourism, including business, including arrival
04:37of passengers, arrival of the people.
04:41The airport authorities are quite active.
04:43Every time there is an airspace violated by the projectiles, they are immediately shutting down the operations.
04:48But minutes there is anticipation and assessment about the security, they are yet again resuming.
04:53The airlines are cooperating with the passengers.
04:56The passengers are cooperating with the airline authorities.
04:59So, somehow, the operations on and off is continued.
05:01Situation is quite apprehensive.
05:04There is concern.
05:05But at the same time, life is just moving on here across part of UAE, perhaps, including Aldera, where I
05:11am reporting from.
05:12So, yes, at some extent, it is right to say that the government is exactly doubting the data.
05:16But it is for a cause that government realizes that it will be chaotic.
05:21And they do not want public life to be disturbed.
05:25So, Isha.
05:27Oh, yes.
05:27And even those on the ground, civilians especially, lauding the authorities there for the way it is being managed.
05:33I want to go to Ashraf Pani now joining us on the broadcast.
05:36Ashraf, you've got us reports from South Beirut especially, where everything has been raised to the ground.
05:42It's like nothing exists.
05:43It's a civilian population that has also taken a hit, despite the mass warnings from the IDF to evacuate.
05:51But the IDF making it very clear that they had to go for the Hezbollah strongholds, I beg your pardon.
06:00They had to destroy them and they are achieving their targets.
06:06Yes, absolutely, Svesha.
06:07But we are now seeing another turn in this ongoing war.
06:11As we do know that during the last one and a half year, there was a ceasefire between the Hezbollah
06:18and the IDF.
06:18But after the killing of the supreme leader of Iran, Hezbollah has started again attacks on Israel and also to
06:27the northern Israel.
06:28And is inflicting some kind of damage there.
06:30That is why Israel wants us to get rid of this threat, which is roaming there on the border in
06:37the northern Israel, so that they have assured the warnings, not only in the northern South Beirut, but also in
06:46the south Lebanon.
06:4750 villages had been already asked to move towards the south of the Latine River.
06:52That means 8% of the area, they want the Lebanon to vacate.
06:58And also same is the scenario with the capital where I am currently standing in Beirut, where the most populated
07:03south suburb of the Beirut has been asked by the IDF to the people to move away from their homes
07:10in the thousands of numbers.
07:12And that has created a panic here in the Lebanon, where those people should go.
07:17They are just facing hardships.
07:21Some of them are moving towards Syria for their safety.
07:25And some who could not manage these things, they are just taking shelter on the roads, in the parks, in
07:31the schools.
07:32Even the shelters are getting lesser and lesser.
07:35That is why now the stadium has been opened.
07:37That is the football stadium here in Beirut for the displaced people.
07:41And also today, what we reported exclusively on India today was a new turn in the operations of IDF.
07:48One of the operations launched today was invasion with the helicopters inside the Beka Valley, where the four helicopters carrying
07:57the special forces of IDF landed, in fact.
08:00But they could not succeed in achieving their goal and left from there.
08:05But 41 people also killed in that operation and the strikes by the IDF.
08:11The death count is mounting.
08:12The number has now touched it.
08:14More than 290 and 800 are injured.
08:17So very chaotic condition in the Lebanon after the Iran in the recent eight days of war.
08:24All right, Shweta, I want to come back to you.
08:27Given the fact that Donald Trump is still reiterating and justifying why these strikes were important,
08:36to say that Iran would have been a nuclear power had they not struck,
08:40but also claiming that they have literally crushed the Navy and the Air Force of Iran,
08:48while Iran says that we will not surrender, we will not back down,
08:51and we will continue to fight this.
08:54But is the version of the US and what you're picking up from sources in the IDF
09:01also believable to the fact that they may have crippled Iran to a great extent?
09:07They have decimated Iran.
09:10But since we talk about the naval power of Iran and we look at the combat boats and other such
09:17assets,
09:17it amounts to around 120 to 140 of what is available in the public domain.
09:25Now, if Donald Trump about two days ago says that 20-odd ships,
09:3020-odd combat ships have been destroyed of the Iranian Navy
09:33and now he puts the figure at 45 plus, I mean, it's a huge figure.
09:38A country who lose half their Navy in such a war would come down to their knees.
09:44But that's not the case.
09:46Now, the other thing is that when he talks about the nuclear capacity,
09:49the same thing was said last year during the 12-day ward.
09:53But that was not the case and a later assessment pointed out.
09:56So this time when the US is saying this and the IDF in fact right now is busy tackling the
10:05Hezbollah,
10:06they've increased their military presence across the Israeli northern borders with Lebanon.
10:13And they're also doing that.
10:15But the US is completely concentrating on Iran.
10:18And as far as the press conferences go, so far they've spoken about the nuclear facility being completely decimated,
10:25about the Navy, half of it being finished.
10:29Air Force, I don't know how many times we've heard that the Air Force, the combat Air Force assets have
10:38been destroyed.
10:38So I think then all of us and especially Donald Trump's domestic audience wants answers then why the war is
10:46still going on
10:47and why is an assessment saying that it would take at least 100 days to finish this war.
10:54So I think, Subhajah, all of us, what we can do is listen to these press conferences and wait.
10:59Because on ground you've either got visuals like Lebanon, which Ashraf Wani is showing,
11:04or of Iran that the US and the IDF in Israel are releasing bit by bit.
11:11Because in all the other countries we've at least got either interceptions, mid-air,
11:16or a few missiles or rockets or drones which managed to make their way.
11:23And every country right now is concerned with the civilian casualties or injuries that they are facing, Subhajah.
11:31Oh yes, absolutely, Shweta.
11:32And let me take that point to Ashraf Wani who continues to say with us,
11:34especially Ashraf, given the fact that Israel has been very straight up with Lebanon,
11:38to say that there is no animosity there, but they cannot afford any proxy activation.
11:42Having said that, the people in Lebanon, the governments are having to damage control to safeguard their people.
11:51And in a bid to take on the Hezbollah, the IDF has been largely targeting massive areas in Lebanon.
12:01Now, with regards to how many days this will last,
12:04what is the position as far as Hezbollah strongholds are concerned,
12:09how exactly are the Hezbollah groups now strategizing in terms of counter-strikes?
12:16What do you see on the ground?
12:23And we can say the kind of animity between the Hezbollah and Israel is not hidden.
12:31There was a decade-old war which started earlier in the 90s
12:35when Hassan Nasrullah formed this strongest militia for Iran in Lebanon.
12:42And it was the militia and we can say some proxies of Iran
12:46which compelled then the idea to move away.
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