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Chapter 1: What recent statements has President Trump made about Iran?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump says Iran is intent on making a deal to end the war.
They want very much to make a deal. So far, they haven't gotten there. We're not satisfied with it. We will be. We will be either that or we'll have to just finish the job.
The president speaking about prospects for an agreement with Iran during Wednesday's cabinet meeting at the White House. He said Iran is negotiating on fumes. The ceasefire that's been in place since last month is being tested for the second time in three days. The U.S. military has launched strikes against Iranian targets. A U.S. official says the military shot down four Iranian drones.
around the Strait of Hormuz and hit an Iranian ground control station that was to launch a fifth. Iran says it targeted a U.S. airbase after the strikes near the port city of Bandar Abbas. Israeli forces have been carrying out strikes in southern Lebanon, especially around the city of Tyre. The Israeli military had warned residents to leave, as MPR's Jane Araf reports.
Israeli forces have pushed further into Lebanon and escalated their attacks since Tuesday, killing dozens of people, including women and children. The Israeli prime minister says they intend to crush Iran-backed Hezbollah. In a new warning, Israel told residents of Tyre, the second biggest city in southern Lebanon, to evacuate immediately or risk being killed.
The warning covers tens of thousands of residents, including in Palestinian refugee camps. More than 1.2 million people have already been displaced by fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, leaving many families with nowhere to go. Jaina Raff, NPR News, Beirut.
The Homeland Security Department expanding its capacity to scan the irises of people it detains. The iris is like a fingerprint with patterns unique to each person, as NPR's Meg Anderson reports.
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Chapter 2: How is the U.S. military responding to tensions with Iran?
DHS awarded a $25 million contract last week to a company called BI2 Technologies, which did not respond to NPR's request for comment. The agency plans to deploy hundreds of the company's iris scanners to ICE officers across the country. DHS has an arsenal of tech tools now, thanks to an influx of federal funding.
Hooper Quinton with the Electronic Frontier Foundation says these tools broaden the agency's surveillance web.
Could I start doing iris scannings of everybody they detained and then add that to their database and use that for their surveillance? Yeah, absolutely.
DHS declined an interview but told NPR in a statement that it is using, quote, every tool available in its efforts to detain more people who are in the country illegally. Meg Anderson, NPR News.
A recovery operation aimed at finding the nine employees who remain missing following Wednesday's chemical tank implosion in Washington state is ongoing. Authorities said Wednesday there is no hope for survivors. The presumed death toll now 11 after one of the critically injured died at a hospital. This is NPR News.
The Australian government says it's seeking damages of almost $1.5 billion from 3M, accusing the company of failing to disclose the use of forever chemicals in its firefighting foam used on Australian defense bases. From Sydney, the BBC's Katie Watson reports.
This is the largest legal claim ever brought by the Australian government, which argues that foam containing chemicals that don't naturally break down was used in 28 defense bases across the country. the government seeking to recover what it called significant costs of investigating, managing and fixing the contamination.
3M has said that the company would defend itself against the claims, adding that the Department of Defence kept using the firefighting foam in question for two decades after it stopped selling the product in Australia.
The BBC's Katie Watson reporting to Laos now where the effort to rescue seven people trapped in a cave is ongoing. The seven entered the cave last week, but according to the state-run news agency, a landslide triggered by heavy rain blocked their exit. Officials say at least five people have been found alive so far, but none have been brought out of the cave.
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Chapter 3: What updates are there on the Israeli military actions in Lebanon?
I'm Giles Snyder, NPR News.
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