Richard Arnold: US Correspondent says President Biden has called for a ceasefire in the Middle East as Israel and Hezbollah trade strikes

Israel and militant group Hezbollah are continuing to trade strikes.  

Israel's Defence Force says its mission is to stop the Iranian-backed Hezbollah firing rockets into Israel's north, and to push it back from the border.  

Lebanon's health ministry says more than 500 people have been killed in air strikes.  

US correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that President Biden has called for a ceasefire in the Middle East, speaking at the UN General Assembly.  

He says his comments focused on Israeli and American hostages who remain alive after the Hamas raid last October. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's go to the States, Richard Donald morning, one more
time for Joe in New York.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Last time, Yeah, had not the foreign policy farewells that
President Biden would have preferred me, thinks. The US President,
delivering his fourth and final speech to the United Nations
General Assembly at a point when he hoped there might
be what we were just talking about, kind of ceasefire
between Israel and Gaza. Instead, the war has moved on
to Lebanon with waves of missile strikes. As we've been

(00:26):
hearing about, Israel and Haswell are firing these missiles. Thousands
of people fleeing from the border zone mid fears. This
is all shaping as a full scale regional war. So
the Biden theme was to paraphrase, give peace a chance. Biden,
noting that some other seemingly intractable conflicts ended like Vietnam
back in the day, he went through the history of

(00:47):
his period in political leadership, and he voiced optimism for
the future, saying, it.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Always seems impossible until it's done. I follow leaders, there's
nothing that's beyond it capacity if we work together well.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
President Biden is calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East,
focusing his comments on. However, many Israelian American hostages remain
alive in the bloody aftermath of the Himas raid eleven
months back. He said this in relation to that situation.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
They're going through hell. Innocent civilians in Gaza are also
going through hell. Now is the time for the parties
to finalize his terms. Bring the hostages home.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
In this war, he told his fellow lawmakers. Still, the
facts of this day certainly don't show events moving in
that way, do they. President Biden also saying this in
relation to Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
The good news is Prune's war has failed. He set
out to destroy Ukraine, but Ukraine is still free. He
set out the week in NATO, but NATO is bigger, stronger,
more united than ever before.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
You know, Ukraine's leader Lolyas Lensky will meet with Biden
later this week. Again at the time when slen he
is urging the US, Britain and France to let Ukraine
make deeper military strikes into Russia. So this is a
very contentious question. Would that be effective or would it
push the Russian nuclear power into order a confrontation with
the West, says Zelensky in relation to his thinking.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Only in the strong position.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
We can push, we can push Puchin to stop the war. So,
in this farewell address to the UN, President Biden making
the point that he often makes that this is a
key moment of transition. But transition to what.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Right Brett fav So he invested in a company, he's
tied up in Congress, and then we get the big revelation.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, I think the revelation is the headline here because
father has been one of the greats. Played for twenty seasons,
mostly with the Green Bay Packers. As you know, he
won a Super Bowl against the Patriots in ninety seven,
Super Bowl thirty one. He was a three time MVP. Latterly, Yeah,
he was in broiled in controversy of the misusers and
funds in his home state in Mississippi. Says he was

(02:58):
trying to support a health effort, but money where to
Ryan Ways. He claims he had nothing to do with that. Aside,
there was this bombshell today during the hearing on welfare
reform where fav revealed this.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Too late for me because I've recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, that is the first time Brett Favre has revealed this.
He is aged fifty four, so he's ngish Man. Parkinson's
course causes tremors, bounce and speech problems. Also can combine
with the CTE, which a lot of footballers develop after
the concussions. It is a degenerative brain disease which can
combine with the Parkinson, says doctor Timothy Quinn.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
This Parkinson's disease diagnosis combined with the potential CTE, which
is the funny traumatic acephalopathy, can be devastating. He even
noted that he can't remember his daughter playing you soccer,
which is very important to him, which he's expressed over
the years.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, dementia, a lack of anger control, a depression, suicidal feelings.
These are some of the elements of this thing. In
the past. Half has said he suffered several obvious concussions
during his football time, but he said, if you want
to talk about other heads to his head, there might
be a thousand plus. Since this has become an issue
a few years back, only researchers say about one third

(04:15):
of former NFL players surveyed believe they have CTE. So
this is putting a spotlight right back on the game.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
It's amazing, mate. See in a couple of days, appreciate it.
Richard Arnold stateside, Trump is out in Georgia today, made
us for yesterday. I'll come to that in a second.
But unfortunately in Georgia today he had a chart with them.
You know my all time favorite chart in history, right,
I have a chart that is my all time favorite.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Is it around?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Is it around?

Speaker 4 (04:58):
I love that chart. I sleep with that chart every night.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
I kiss it.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
I love it because that chart saved my life. I
looked at the right.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
If I didn't look to the right, I wouldn't be
here with you today.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
I guarantee you that.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yesterday, he said, John d you're thinking of moving some
of their production to Mexico. He said of John Dea
moved to Mexico, and I put a two hundred percent
tariffon just like that, instant policy. But the funny thing was,
yesterday I was reading some analysis, and here's what makes
this race so interesting CNN no Less said, when he's
cogent and he argues on the economy, which that wasn't

(05:36):
an example of. But when he's cogent and he argues
on the economy, he's winning. And when c and N
can see that a lot more people.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Today he said he was going to ban sale steel
sales to Japan, whereas yesterday he was saying he's going
to revitalize US, the US steel industry.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Which is it when I quote seeing in the words
were when he's cogent, he cuts through.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
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