Fast and Factual LIVE: Netanyahu Accused of Ignoring Security Warnings Before Hamas' Oct 7 Attack

[Music] [Music] hello and welcome to fast and factual my name isaf parik and here are the top stories of the day Israel has agreed to 3-day humanitarian pause in Gaza starting Sunday according to the World Health Organization Israel has agreed to pause the war for a polio vaccination Drive in the won strip the wh aims to vaccinate 640,000 children in this drive the pause in the Israel Hamas War follows the first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years after agreeing to pause the fighting in Gaza for the polio vaccination Drive Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the series of three-day pauses were not a ceasefire he also refuted media reports that said that Israel Was preparing for a generalized humanitarian truce Israel's opposition leader and former prime minister Yar lapid has accused Netanyahu of ignoring the warning signs of the October 7th Hamas attack laid said that netanyahu's military secretary had warned him about things heating up on various fronts in August last year lapid made this accusation while appearing before an inquiry Commission in Tel Aviv netanyahu's liquid party has denied lapid's claims meanwhile the Israeli Army has continued its raids in the OCC occupied West Bank City of jenin smoke could be seen rising in the sky this morning the Israeli military's operation started on Wednesday hundreds of troops backed by helicopters and drones have been raiding the occupied West Bank since it's one of the largest assaults in the territory in months the US Democratic party's presidential candidate Kamala Harris gave her first interview since winning her nomination it was a joint interview with her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz Harris vowed uh to crack down on illegal immigration she also voiced support for oil and gas fracking Harris had called for a ban on fracking in the year [Music] 2019 during the interview US vice president Kamala Harris also criticized her main opponent Donald Trump Harris said that Americans are ready to move Beyond Trump she accused Trump of weakening America's character and dividing the nation meanwhile the US Republican party's presidential candidate Donald Trump slammed kamla Harris's interview he called the interview boring and called Harris the greatest flip-flopper he also mocked Harris for not doing the interview alone Donald Trump has promised to cover invitro fertilization or IVF treatment costs if he's reelected as president Trump said that the US government or insurance companies will pay for IVF treatments Trump said that he would also push for tax reductions for new parents over major newborn expenses currently insurance companies in the US are not obliged to fund IVF treatments which can cost up thousands of dollars telegram CEO pavl durov is reportedly facing an investigation for alleged acts of violence against his son the probe focuses on incidents involving durov's youngest son who's currently living in Switzerland with his mother enen bolgar durov's former partner bolgar filed a case against him in Geneva last year alleging multiple instances of violence the the latest accusation follows telegram CEO the telegram CEO's arrest in France last week for failing to curb illegal content on his app New Zealand's Mari king totia passed away at the age of 69 he was in a hospital recovering from a heart surgery the news of his death comes just days after his 18th coronation anniversary in New Zealand monarchs have no judicial or legal Authority their role is largely ceremonial Pakistan has formerly invited India's prime minister Narendra Modi to the Shanghai cooperation organization or SEO meeting in Islamabad the SEO member states head of governments are heads of government are scheduled to meet in October India is yet to respond to the invitation as tensions between the two Nations over crossborder terrorism remain fraud India has repeatedly stated that Terror and talks cannot go handin hand the Taiwanese defense Ministry said that it detected 25 Chinese military aircraft around its territory in the last 24 hours Taiwan also tracked nine Chinese naval ships operating around the territory the Taiwanese Ministry says that 17 Chinese aircraft crossed the median line in the Taiwan straight in response Taiwan mobilized its Jets Naval vessels and Coastal missile systems to counter any Potential Threat in climate news incessant rainfall has led to severe floods in the Indian state of Gujarat at least 32 people have died nearly 24,000 people have been shifted to shelter camps weather authorities have predicted more heavy rain in guat Kut and sashtra regions in the Pakistani city of Karachi weather officials have predicted heavy rainfall for the next few days the city's mayor mtasa wahab warned citizens against unnecessary movement he made the warning via social media he added that heavy rain has been forecast with strong winds in the region according to weather officials the rain in Karachi is expected to continue till at least August 31st typhoon shanan has hit the southwest regions of Japan at least six people have died and several others have sustained injuries after battering cusu Island the storm is expected to approach the Central and Eastern regions of Japan at least 200 houses have been damaged in the coastal city of Miyazaki authorities have issued evacuation orders for over 4 million people the severe weather conditions also led to the cancellation of flights and trains in Japan's capital Tokyo in the West African country of Nigeria at least 179 people have died so far due to floods according to government officials nearly 200,000 people have been displaced from various parts of the country Nigeria's northern region is the worst hit the floods also Al washed away over 25,000 hectares of Farmland a major forest fire broke out in the loha province of Southern Ecuador the Raging Fire burnt nearly 4,000 hectares of Pine Forest local authorities have uh made the made it public that at least three people sustained injuries and 14 families were evacuated effort to douse the Raging Fire are underway a massive Wildfire has broken out once again near the Croatian city of split at least 300 firefighters have been deployed to contain the fire the forest fire has torched about 700 hectares of land the Wildfire was earlier contained but it flared up again due to strong winds wildfires continue to rage near the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz this year the nation has recorded the largest number of wildfires in 14 years so far the country has registered nearly 37,000 wildfires that have torched at least 3 million hectares of land a Dutch tourist has been found dead on the Greek island of s she died due to a severe heat wave the woman was has been missing since August 22nd so far at least seven tourists have died due to Soaring temperatures meanwhile Greek Health authorities have advised people to avoid stepping out of their homes on to business and Tech news the US economy expanded at a faster Pace in the second quarter than earlier estimates had suggested the revised gross domestic product data shows that the US economy grew by 3% between April and June this year the US government had earlier estimated that the economy grew by 2.8% Washington says that the update primarily reflects stronger consumer spending however the latest data shows that both private investment and government spending slowed down in the second quarter the Indian stock market opened at a record high today the sensex rose by over 300 points to reach 82,6 37 at the opening bell meanwhile Nifty crossed 25,200 for the first time during intraday trade both indices were trading at over 0.2% the standoff between Brazil Supreme court and the American billionaire Elon Musk has intensified the court has ordered the freezing of the Brazilian assets of musk satellite firm starlink starlink says that this has halted all of its Financial transactions there this new move comes after Brazil's Supreme Court had threatened to suspend musk's social media firm X meanwhile a US court has dismissed a case against Elon Musk and his electric vehicle firm Tesla the case was related to the cryptocurrency Dogecoin investors had alleged that musk praised Dogecoin publicly to drive up its price and then he let it crash they claimed that musk's actions led to billions of dollars in losses however the Court ruled that musk's posts and statements on Dogecoin were aspirational and not factual automaker General Motors could face a class action lawsuit in the US this comes after a Court ruled that the firm violated the laws of 26 American states General Motors has been accused of deliberately selling cars with faulty Transmissions car models like uh the Cadillac Chevrolet and GMC use these faulty Transmissions apparently according to a report a US government agency funded research for over a th000 patents by Chinese inventors the report sites data from the US patent and trademark office it shows that since 2010 the US has granted research funds for 1, 120 patents that had at least one Chinese inventor the grants came from agencies like the Department of Defense and the department of energy and NASA Indian quick Commerce platform zepto has raised over $1 billion in the last 2 months the 3-year-old startup secured $665 million from investors in June the firm raised about $340 million in August fundraisers were led by investors like General Catalyst Dragon fund and stepstone zepto was valued at $5 billion in the latest round of funding American personal computer maker Dell has reported a 9% jump in its second quarter Revenue The Firm earned over $22.9 billion between April and June this year the strong earnings were led by a sharp rise in the serice sales during the quarter Dell makes servers that can handle artificial intelligence workloads these servers are powered by Nvidia chips meanwhile Nvidia and apple are reportedly in talks to invest in artificial intelligence startup open AI this comes after it was reported that the firm is looking to raise funds the latest funding round is expected to push open ai's market value to over a hundred billion meanwhile open ai's chatbot Chad GPT has achieved a new Milestone The Firm says that Chad GPT now has over 200 million weekly active users Chad gbt has doubled its active users in just 9 months in November last year chat GPT had over 100 million weekly active users moving to sports news we'll start with Cricket the hosts England closed at 358 for7 on day one of their second test against Sri Lanka Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to field first in England struggled early on and lost four wickets for 130 runs the momentum shifted with former Captain Joe Root's performance he scored an impressive 143 runs of 206 bowls England already led the uh lead the three Match test Series against Sri Lanka 1 nil Joe rot ma matched English Cricket Legend Alistair Cook's record of 33 test centuries he reached the Milestone after scoring 100 of 162 bowls including 134s against Sri Lanka rot secured his Century with a boundary of Sri Lankan fast bowler lahiru kumara the achievement occurred on the first day of the second test against Sri Lanka at LS Rashid Khan has been sidelined from Afghanistan's preliminary squad for the one-off test against New Zealand this is due to a back injury the injury occurred while Khan was playing for Afghanistan's domestic cricket league last month the leg spinner last played test Cricket in March 2021 Afghanistan have started training in India's greater Noida for the test match against New Zealand that's coming up in football Cristiano Ronaldo was honored at the UEFA Champions League 2024 25 draw ceremony in Monaco Ronaldo received an award for being the all-time top scorer in the the Champions League with 141 goals his goals came during stints with Manchester United Real Madrid and Juventus UEFA uh uefa's president presented the award acknowledging Ronaldo's extraordinary Legacy Liverpool will face Champions Real Madrid in the expanded 36 Team Champions League format the draw also includes a rematch of last year's final between B rushia Dortmund and Real Madrid and Manchester City against Paris San the teams will play eight fixtures in the new league phase replacing the traditional group stage the fixture dates and times will be announced on August 31st Manchester United's Mason Mount is out for a few games due to a minor muscle injury other injured players also include Rasmus hland Luke Shaw and Victor Lindelof Mount got injured during last weekend's 2-1 loss against Brighton in tennis men's World number one Yanik sinner is through to the third round at the US Open the Italian downed American Alex mitchelson 64 60 62 in straight sets up next for cner is the Australian Christopher oconnell meanwhile the tennis men's World number three Carlos alarz has suffered a shocked defeat at the US Open the Spaniard was stunned by BK F dujan hope of the Netherlands alcaras lost against the Dutchman 16 56 46 this is also alcaraz's earliest loss at any major tournament since the 2021 Wimbledon in the men's doubles Indo Australian pair Rohan bana and Matthew ebden snapped a three- match losing streak at the US Open they defeated the Dutchman sander arens and Robin H 6375 in just 64 minutes the win secured their spot in the second round bana and abden will next face the Austrian Dutch Duo Alexander erer and matway midp Zakia kadadi became the first Refugee par Olympic team athlete to win a medal at the Paris par Olympics she won bronze in the women's 47 kg Taekwondo category by defeating her Turkish counterpart kadi was born without one forearm and began taond secretly at the age of 11 in Afghanistan she was blocked from competing by the Taliban rise and was later evacu uated in entertainment news Marvel Studios are celebrating 85 years of its Legacy to Mark the occasion the studio shared glimpses from its upcoming projects they released a video which shows a sneak peek of the film's uh Thunderbolt Captain America Brave New World and Daredevil born again it also featured the voice of the late Stan leye the first look of the most awaited film Jurassic world rebirth has been released it stars scholar Johanson Jonathan Bailey and Mahar Shala Ali in lead roles Johansson takes on a mission to extract the DNA of the three dinosaur species alive on Earth the film will hit theaters on the 2nd of July next year Barry Keon has been added to the cost of pey blind of the pey blinders film under development at Netflix he will star oppos Killian Murphy and Rebecca Ferguson Netflix green lighter film in June this year the makers of wizards Beyond Waverly Place have set its premier date the series will Premiere uh the first two episodes on the 29th of October this year the eight episode series will then go live the next day on the Disney Channel and Disney plus Selena Gomez and David H Henry are reprising their roles from the 2007 series a docu series on the former CEO of WWE Vince mmon will stream on Netflix it'll be it'll debut on the 25th of September the series will have six one hour episodes the uh show will take viewers through MC McMahon's journey of turning WWE from Regional business into a global entertainment phenomenon Hollywood star Angelina Jolie says that she feels terribly nervous about playing the role of Maria kalas in the singer's biopic she revealed that she practiced for almost 7 months to sing opera for the film the movie reimagines The Story of the opera singer callus during her final days in the 1970s in Paris Euphoria star barie Ferrera will lead the upcoming romantic comedy film Mile and kicks the uh film's production is currently underway in the Canadian city of Montreal the story follows the life of a music critic who moves to Montreal to write a book the release dat is yet to be announced the rock band Oasis have decided to perform extra shows in the in the UK during their reunion tour they have added three dates to their Global tour the additional shows will be held in Manchester London and Edinburgh the tickets are not up for sale yet though American singer and actor Becky G will release her album nqn Tross in October this year it'll be the artist's fourth studio album she's also pumped up about her upcoming concert tour Across America which starts in Chicago actor Julian Orga has passed away at the age of 41 according to reports the actor died after collapsing at the beach he reportedly went into cardiac arrest the actor survived by his parents that's all for this episode of fast and factual thank you for watching and stay tuned to first post he's started again unbelievable oh straight into the roof of the net nice one strike down the middle so a good performance from both teams here today hello and welcome to first sports I'm RUP let's get started right on the show today Indian cricketer k r