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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. The air attacks on Iran are continuing at this hour. Flames were rising above an oil storage facility in Tehran Saturday following a strike by Israeli forces. President Trump says the fighting is going well and the administration is ahead of its goals. Speaking with reporters on board Air Force One, Trump said most of Iran's leadership has now been killed.
So we got rid of the one leadership and we got rid of the second level of leadership. Now they're on their third or fourth level of leadership. And they have leaders right now that nobody even knows who they are.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, says there will be many surprises for the next phase of the weak old war. The Lebanese government says it wants to crack down on the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and restore power back to its own army. Israel began a ramped-up military campaign against Hezbollah in south Lebanon after it launched rockets into northern Israel last week. Lebanese officials say about 300 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since the war in Iran began and says more than 100,000 displaced people are living in shelters. Empire's Hadil El-Shalchi reports from Beirut.
In a rare move, Justice Minister Adel Nassar has proposed to charge the leader of the militant group Hezbollah with, quote, dragging Lebanon into war and tampering with security. That's according to a Lebanese government official who was not authorized to speak to the media. While the Lebanese cabinet did not take any action, this is the sharpest rebuke a Lebanese member of government has made against Hezbollah. Last week, the government banned all Hezbollah military activity and issued arrest warrants for the members who launched rockets into Israel. Lebanon's leaders say they're trying to rein in Hezbollah and make clear that the government speaks for the country. Hadil Al-Shalchi, NPR News, Beirut.
New high-level trade talks between the U.S. and Canada took place this week. They're the first such talk since negotiations were called off in October by President Trump. As Dan Karpinchuk reports, Ottawa's minister for U.S.-Canada trade was in Washington on Friday for a meeting with administration officials.
When Canada's Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc emerged from the meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer, his only comment was, quote, LeBlanc's office, however, described the talks as constructive and substantive. The U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement is up for renegotiation, and harsh U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, auto, softwood lumber, and copper will likely be dealt with in the agreement's review. But Greer has said that any new deal with Canada will include tariffs. Analysts say that the face-to-face talks are a positive step, since Washington must now say exactly what it wants from new trade negotiations, while Ottawa will likely want to preserve as much of the old free trade agreement as possible, since it's shielded Canada from most of Trump's broader tariffs.
For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpenchuk in Toronto.
I'm Dale Willman, and you're listening to NPR News. The Broadway League says nearly 20% of theater tickets are being snapped up by people attending musicals and plays on their own. That's double what it was a couple of years ago. As NPR's Chloe Veltman reports, a theater operator is now taking steps to actively encourage audience members to fly solo.
60 people signed up for live theater operator ATG Entertainment's inaugural Solo Seats event in San Francisco recently. The tickets included a discounted orchestra seat for the Broadway musical The Notebook on tour, a pre-show mixer with other solo seatsters and a free drink. Theatregoer Maria Sacada says this is her first time seeing a live show on her own.
I kind of love the idea of going to a show, like how you would see a movie by yourself.
Social psychologist Bella DiPaolo says solo leisure is booming owing to rising economic independence and longer life expectancies. ATG says it plans to expand solo seats nationwide.
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