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Breaking news tonight that Donald Trump ceasefire has collapsed after Iran fired missiles into Israel. President Trump is set to speak any moment, will cross live to the United States when that happens. We're also waiting this hour to hear from the Israeli Prime Minister Benjaminette and Yahoo and right
now the Kitari Prime Minister is addressing the media. This after Iran fired missiles into the major US military base in Qatar, and after news just moments ago that the ceasefire has collapsed, and just hours after the ceasefire was announced. This morning, Sky News reporter Sophie Ellsworth was running for a bomb shelter and yet another missile from Iran. She'll join us a bit later on. Plus, Albanzi continues to
prove he's out of his depth on Iran. His week leadership is risking our place in the world.
We'll cover all of this.
And more with tonight's huge guests. Form Israeli government spokesman Elon Levy, former IDF Lieutenant Colonel Morris Hirsch, former Australia Ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma, plus Andrew Carswell, and Cameron Milna.
Now, as we.
Go to air tonight, the ceasefire in the Middle East is set to collapse after a shocking violation by Iran. Just hours after agreeing to a ceasefire, Iran fired missiles into residential areas in northern Israel. This occurred at five point thirty five pm Our time, just two and a half hours ago, and it was Tuesday morning in Israel. Israeli's were just beginning to relax with the ceasefire supposedly taking effect when sirens sounded across the north. As you
can see, this is inexcusable. It's a clear violation of the ceasefire and Iran won't be allowed to get away with this. The IDF's Chief of the General Staff, e L Zamir said in a statement tonight, in light of the severe violation of the ceasefire carried out by the Uranian regime, we will respond with force, and Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz says Jerusalem will respond forcefully in the heart of Tehran. He said, this is a ceasefire violation.
So all this is unfolding right now. As we're going to air, We'll keep bringing you the developments as they happen, and President Donald Trump might address the media as he boards his flight to NATO.
He's scheduled to do so this.
Hour, and when he does, we'll bring that straight to you live now. Thankfully, both of the missiles fired into northern Israel that we're in breach of the ceasefire were intercepted. But earlier today Tehran targeted the residential area of BeSheva yet again with a series of missiles that have now killed four Israelis. Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles in quick succession. Two were fired toward a residential building.
One was intercepted, but the other reportedly hit the sixth floor of the apartment, and it directly hit two safe routs, killing the four people inside and injuring another twenty two. Now, three of those killed were members of a single family. It's said to be a man and a woman, a woman in their bodies and another man in his twenties, and there were many other people extracted alive from beneath the rubble. Now, this is shocking footage. This is the
moment that it hit. Now, the same area of Beshev was impacted just last Thursday, when the Sorocca Medical Center was struck by another Iranian missile. Now the Israeli Air Force is investigating why the air defenses, including the Iron Dome, didn't manage to intercept the missile this morning.
But tonight it does look like.
Israel will punish Iran for those cruel civilian deaths and for breaching the agreement. Early today we had the welcome news that America had broken a tentative ceasefire, and President Trump declared, perhaps too optimistically on truth social congratulations to everyone.
It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately six hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress final missions for twelve hours, at which point the war will be considered ended. And in that post, Trump, when I to say this should be called the twelve day War, well, sadly, it looks like that.
Name will have to be updated.
And let's hope it's only the thirteen and the fourteen day war, and that this doesn't go on any longer than necessary.
But hasn't it been a mass a few days?
And it explains why many are reaching for the famous Lenin quote about the Russian Revolution that there are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen. And isn't that true of the past week, I mean just the past few days. And many were skeptical that the ceasefire announced by Trump wouldn't hold after Iran's foreign minister said Abbas Aragachi, posted on social media that as of now, there is no agreement on any ceasefire or
cessation of military operations. However, provided that these radio regimes stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than four a m t Run time, we have no intention to continue our response afterwards. And yet they did firing two missiles, as we know in Northern Israelrael, in breach of the ceasefire agreement that Donald Trump, by the way, claimed would hold forever, would last forever, and it hasn't
lasted a matter of hours now. In total, over the past two weeks or so, Iran has fired about nine hundred and fifty missiles nine hundred and fifty all at Israeli civilians. Eight thousand, one hundred and ninety civilians have had to be evacuated from their homes. Twenty seven were murdered and one two hundred and seventeen Israelis have been injured. Iran's actions in breaching the ceasefire. It's just further proof, not that you need it, that its only goal is
to cause death and destruction to Israel. Israelis had been breathing a sigh of relief at the prospect of the ceasefire, no more rushing to bomb shelters at all hours, fearing for their lives. And so many families have been impacted by the terror, the exhaustion, the destruction of homes, businesses, even hospitals in suburban areas because the IIGC was only
targeting civilians in a reflection of its murderous intent. Now Israel went into a run initially to dismantle its nuclear sites, and it said it expected the operation would last around two weeks now. Benjaminette Yaho sat on Sunday that he felt these war goals were close to being achieved, so this was where he was expecting it to go. He said, when we achieve the goals, we will not continue with actions beyond what is necessary, but we will not finish
too early. When the goals are achieved, the operation will stop. Even after America's strikes on the nuclear site for Dough, Israel then went in again and hit that underground nuclear site with more missiles to completely destroy it or as much as is possible from the air. In total, Israel has bombed more than one thousand, one hundred military and nuclear targets in Iran. That's the estimation, and this includes missile production facilities, air defense batteries, and command centers, not
civilian areas. It has also hit IIGC headquarters, missile factories, air bases, and even just since we went to air last night, the gates of the Evan Prison. This prison is a site of torture where Iranian Canadian photojournalist Zara Kazemi was murdered in two thousand and three. Many other dissidents faced the same fate. Israel blowing up its gate its doors is a symbolic move designed to encourage Iranians to take back control of their country. And thanks to Israel and the US, the IIGC.
Has been crippled.
It is defeated, and yet as we're seeing tonight, it refuses to surrender. The International Atomic Energy Agency has also raised questions over the four hundred kilogram of enriched uranium, but it says it verified just a few days before Israel's military action began. Now, we had on the show last night former idepificial Jonathan Conricus, and he addressed this, and he said, it's hardly something that Israel would have forgotten.
I think assess that Israel has pretty good intel when it comes to Iran. Israel has been collecting, assessing intel, and preparing itself for this moment for quite a few years. And I think, you know, I don't think that is what would you know, forget to deal with such an important and critical piece of ascid.
So Iran has been thoroughly defeated, its airspace surrendered to Israel, its nuclear sites hit over and over again, yet it's still breached. The ceasefire broken by the President of the United States in a move that will only bring pain onto its leadership. It was an idiotic strategic move. Israel had raised the possibility of taking out the Supreme leader Ayatola Ali Kamani, in the past few days, but it wouldn't have done this after agreeing to the ceasefire. Israel
would have abided by the terms. Yet now that the ceasefire is off, this action, along with any other, is presumably back on the table. And this came after Iran targeted the major US military air basing Qatar overnight in retaliatory attacks for the American strike on its nuclear facilities. Now it seemed like Iran was acting somewhat sensibly, wanting to avoid ongoing war, and so it gave advance warning to Katar. The airbase was evacuated, most of the missiles
were intercepted, and there were no casualties. But Katar, one of Iran's only friends in the region, is now deeply unimpressed. It summoned the Iranian ambassador as I said, the Katar Prime minister is speaking right now as we got to air and its foreign minister has said that it does retain the right to respond to this egregious violation. Now Week two have been those who came out in support of the Iranian regime as America weighed strikes on its
nuclear facilities, and the chief cheerleader was Tucker Carlson. His predictions of mass American deaths and the start of World War III were entirely unfounded, and it turns out that he phoned Donald Trump to apologize a few days ago.
Tucker's aska he called an apologized the other day because he thought he said thanks that were only too strong and I appreciated that. And Ted Cruz is an x gay. I mean, he's been with me for a long time. M'd say once the race was over, he's been with me ever since.
But Taker should also apologize to his sixteen million followers for stirring up hatred based on false propositions. And Albanize could too apologize to Australians for letting us down so severely, because that is exactly what he's done. Scott Morrison told me last night that Albaneze should have called a national security meeting on Sunday and come out immediately to support
America and Israel. There's no question that's what Morrison would have done, and he believes other former prime ministers on both sides as well, including Howard Rudd and Gillard, says they had the same instincts to support the US Alliance. This is your message to the alban Easy government. Now you're saying, stop being ambiguous when it comes to foreign policy, Support our allies.
That's what you're saying. Isn't it.
Of course, I mean the United States for those who want to live in the fairyland that thinks that without an alliance with the United States we somehow have a defense arrangement, that somehow Australia would be the only country other than the United States that would be able to resist the type of potential offense that would be leveled at Australia and do it in isolation.
This is absolute la la land. The United States is our most important ally.
And whether it was the Howard government or was with my government, whether it was during times of the rug government, the Gillad government, there was an instinctive, an instinctive alignment with the United States. And I can't tell you why he waited until today before saying something.
I don't know the answer to that question.
If you're the United States and you take an action like this, and it wouldn't.
Have been an easy call for the president.
This is not something he would have been rushing to do, itching to do, but you'd want to know your allies were with you, and how hard is it to go?
Well done, mister President.
I'm taking out the nu killer capabilities of a despotic authoritarian regime that you know, imposes all sorts of extinguishment of liberties on their own people.
Now you're seeing at the bottom of your screen live shots from the Andrews Airbase in Marylands. We're waiting for the President of the United States, Donald Trump to turn up.
He's going to take that flight to NATO. He may speak to the media.
If he does, we'll go straight to the President the United States.
But just to explain, that is the shot you're looking at there.
We're waiting for Donald Trump to turn up and to see if he does comment on the news that the ceasefire that he announced just hours ago has now collapsed. But back to Scott Morrison, I mean, it shouldn't be so refreshing to hear that kind of moral clarity.
In fact, this should be the bare minimum we.
Expect up from our Prime minister and our foreign minister. But they've made their bed, they've damaged the relationship with America and they're going to have to live with the consequences.
Now what we're.
Experiencing now, you just have to say, there are days in life that will be entirely forgotten. No record in the history books, nothing of note to jog our memories and then there are days like these ones, deeply consequential that could never be erased from memory. And we've all just lived through one of the most momentous periods in modern history, where heroes emerged and those lacking in curry
and conviction were exposed. The Trump ded in Yahoo partnership has shown the world what peace through strength can look like, yet again, what American deterrence looks like. If the likes of Albernezi and Tucker Carlson are remembered in the historical retelling of this story at all, and they probably won't be, it will be for sitting on the wrong side of history. Okay, for more on the situation. Now, let's cross live to Israel with farm Israeli government spokesperson Elon Levy. Elon, great
to see you again. Yet another difficult day. So reports that Iran has broken the ceasefire two missiles sent into northern Israel. We've heard in the past hour from Defense Minister Israel katz He says the IDF will respond forcefully. Elon, what are we expecting to see from here?
Indeed, the Iranian regime violated the ceasefire this morning with missile fire at northern Israel, just hours after a deadly barrowge that killed four people in an apartment block in Beershemba, and Israel is now saying it will respond fortully. And I want to explain why, because there are going to be people around the world who are going to tell Israel just turn a blind eye. It was only one or two ballistic missiles. There's no need to respond to Iran.
Just let it go by in this walk and disappear. I want to explain why Israel is not going back to the world that existed on October sixth, before this war started, when the Iranian regime tried one provocation after the next until tensions reached a boiling point. The Iranian regime strategy is to try to boil Israel like a frog. Do you know what happens to a frog when you
put it in boiling water? If you put it in water and then slowly turn up the heat, it doesn't realize that the water is getting hotter and hotter until eventually it dies. That's what the Rae regime wants to do to keep pushing boundaries. It'll be one missile from here,
another missile from there. We've had this before when it was claimed that Hamas didn't really shoot a missile, that was just lightning that set it off accidentally, until we reach a point where Israel finds itself confronting a massive threat.
From the Iranian regime.
So this is Israel saying we are not going to tolerate any violations of the ceasefire or else you're just paving the way to the next war. It's important we have a de escalation. It's important the Israel Iran war end, but it cannot end with the Iranian regime pushing the boundaries to see how far it can go and how much it can get away within attacking Israel.
And of course we should know that Iran has denied sending those two missiles into northern Israel. There's no other legitimate explanation for where those missiles came from, however, and presumably Israel has tracked them to Tehran. But elin you know, the question is, why would Iran have done this? Why would it have agreed to a cease fire with the president and then broken it just a few hours later. You know, you say it's testing the boundaries, but it
is already thoroughly crippled. The regimes hanging on by a thread. What possible self interest is there?
The Iranian regime has comprehensively lost this war with Israel. It's impossible to exaggerate Israel's achievements.
In twelve days, the.
Iranian regime managed to bomb a hospital, a cancer research clinic, a treatment clinic for disabled children, and people's homes. Israel managed to cripple its ballistic missile industry, decapitate its military leadership, and together with the United States, totally destroy.
Its nuclear program.
The Iranian regime was not in a position to respond with Israeli jets controlling the skies of Tehran, and.
It had to agree to a cease fire.
But the Iranian regime has been humiliated, and that means that it is still dangerous. Israel has managed to eliminate the existential threats of a nuclear Iran and Iran with ballistic missiles, and the world should say thank you. But Iran is still dangerous. And you know, I know your show has really bravely platformed so many Iranian expats who are hoping this would lead to the fall of the regime.
And I think the exiled Crown Prince Raza Pahlavi put it so well yesterday, warning that the Iranian regime is going to lash out. It's not going to go without a fight because it's been humiliated. And as long as Iran is controlled by a fundamentalistic, totalitarian, despotic regime whose policy is death to Israel and death to the United States, it will continue to try to establish chaos to try to gain control of the Middle East, and no one.
Will be truly safe.
So the Uranian regime not an exist central threat anymore, but still a ticking time, Bob.
Just finally quickly, Elinor. You're very prominent on x and on social media. There's a cry, there's a lot of claims that Israel hasn't done the job Americas and done the job in completely destroying the nuclear sites. This speculation is rife. What would you say to that.
Look, Israel and the United States are going to be performing the final analysis of the damage from those devastating air strikes, But right now it looks like Natans and Istahanzak were completely destroyed and four Doux has either been completely destroyed or massively degraded with Israel bombing the access room. The current estimation according to US intelligence is that Iran's four hundred kilos of highly enriched uranium are buried underneath
the mountain and are completely inaccessible. So we're way for the final assessment. But the Iranian nuclear program has either been set back by years or completely destroyed. And it looks like if Iran wants a Newclaire program, it's going to have to build one from scratch.
All right, Elan Lee, the appreciate your time as always, Thank you so much.
Now let's bring it now.
Former Liberal senator, sorry, current Liberal Senator and former Australian Ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma.
Dave, great to see you again.
Now, this news tonight very concerning that Iran has breached the ceasefire agreement broken by Donald Trump just this morning our time.
What's your response to this news.
Look, you know we've had mixed signals from Iran. We've had some suggestion that if dayas stopped, if Israel's cease is attacking them, they will stop responding in kind, but they haven't explicitly agreed to a cease fire. You also need to bear in mind that we don't know how well command and control arrangements are working in Aram. I've
lost a number of the senior military leaders. I think the Supreme Leader is in hiding somewhere, so it's not necessarily the case that they can give an order and everyone will follow it. And there's the possibility that there's been a breakdown internally in Irani too, where the leadership wanted to observe a cease fire, but elements of the IIGC did not. But it's very hard to know at this stage.
That's a really interesting point that I haven't heard made yet, but that is fascinating that it might have been a different group or different officials, military officials not under the control of the IIGC. I just want to ask you about the significance overnight of Israel destroying the gates of Evan prison and also the destruction of the so called Israel Clock in Tehran.
Well, I think what this is intended to do is send a signal to Iran that if they don't cease their responses, then the next set of Israeli targets a political or institutional in nature, no longer going to be just limited to military installations, and Evan prisoners are particularly potent symbol. I mean Evan prisoners where political detainees and hostages are held and mistreated. An Australian citizen, Kylie Moore Gilbert,
was held there for a number of years. And I know this is you know, it's a place that has resonance with human rights activists and people who fight for
freedom around the world. So I think this was intended to send a message by a Israel to Iran that if they don't cease their continued missile attacks against civilian areas, it should be make clear they are targeting civilian areas in Israel, including mosques and synagogues, then Israel will accelerate, if you like, or escalate the sort of tut things they're targeting.
Just in terms of the broader vision for the region that we've heard expressed over for many years by the he's ready Prime Minister in Adinyahu. You know he's keen to have an expansion of the Abraham Accords, work in partnership with Donald Trump to achieve that.
Does it give you.
Hope that during this war with the Run that some of the other Arab nations did assist Israel in downing Iranian missiles in their airspace, either they helped in intercepting them or allowed Israel to.
Do so in their airspace. What do you think about that?
Well, I think, look, one of these unspoken truths in the Middle East is that most or all in fact, of Iran's neighbors are concerned about its nuclear weapons program. It's ballistic missile activities that support to terrorist groups, often in their own countries, and the fact that it's you know, destabilizing activities have hurt their own countries and their own people. So many Arab golf states, while they will not say this publicly, will be quietly pleased that Iran's ambitions have
been humbled. And I think they were like a future where they can focus on the governance of their country the development of their people, but also have open diplomatic relations with Israel. But if you look at the history of the region, I mean, the single most destabilizing a negative force in the region over the last two decades has been Iran. It's armed proxies. I mean, Iran has made Lebanon and Yemen ungovernable. It's made democratic Iraq struggle.
It propped up Asad in Syria for ten years beyond his expiring day, and of course armed and funded and trained Hamas and HEZBLA, which directly attacked Israel. None of those things would have been happening without Iran, and it's very aggressive regional policy, it's ambition to be the regional hedgemon. And with an Iran that is at least weak and the rest of the region can breathe a sigh of relief.
Indeed, all right, Dave Sharma, really appreciate your time once again on this very newsy night.
Thank you so much for joining me.
Now.
There's been a lot of discussion about this new partnership or not too much new, but a formidable partnership that has been forged between Trump and Nette and Yahoo and professor of American politics at the University of Melbourne Timothy Lynch has written about it and he says the pair actually have much in common with Thatcher and Reagan, and tim Lynch joins me now, thank you very much for
your time. So tell me about why you think Trump and Nette and Yah who are forming a similarly strong partnership, and how significant is it in our age.
Great to be here, Sherry, I think there's a even though Trump is regarded as something of an a moralist, somebody that's taken positions against the more moral positions of someone like George W.
Bush.
What brings him together with bb Nette Yahoo is a very clear notion of right and wrong, of good and evil, and perhaps more than that, and this puts him in the Thatcher Reagan puts them both in the Thatcher Reagan mold a willingness to deploy hard military power to shift
that balance. Now, I'm not saying it's a perfect historical analogy, but one of the most successful features of the relationship between those two leaders in the nineteen eighties was the end of the Soviet Union, a remarkable political geostrategic feat that nobody in nineteen eighty nobody in nineteen eighty eight saw coming, and that victory was won by taking some fairly simple maxim maxims that capitalism works, democracy is good and popular, and that their opposites a communism in the
Soviet Union, don't. And a willingness to actually deploy military force. First in the Falklands, where Thatcher was instrumental in bringing down a fascist regime, and in Reagan's is certainly in his first term containment of communism. It weakened those regimes in a way that all the sophisticated approaches of political scientists and leftist philosophers.
Didn't do.
And I think Trump and let Nyahu are recycling though, that simple approach to world affairs.
A return to the values that underpin our Western civilization, if you like, which have become so confused in recent times. I've even heard some commentators compare Trump's move to strike Iran's nuclear sites with this famous moment.
Mister Gorbatschoff teared down this war.
Tim do you think there are similarities here with the significance of the statements.
Yes, I think Reagan, it's the great force of light, the great ringing endorsement. I think of America's Cold War strategy, tear down this wall.
And it was.
It was given in Berlin in the face of all sorts of opposition his from American diplomats and his advisors. But Reagan took the decision to paint the conflict in moral terms, in black and white terms. And I think Trump, even though he's tempted away from this moral approach to global affairs, is also a bit of a sucker for it. I don't think he's a great student of history, but he would recognize the great communicator in Ronald Reagan. He styles himself, of course, as a man that's mastered the
medium of television. He knows how to look strong in front of a camera. Look at how he reacted to the attempted assassination in Pennsylvania last summer, northern summer. He's got a theatrical style, which I think his opponents, certainly in the United States, haven't given him enough credit for politics. And war is about theater. If you want another example, and it's not Thatcher, look at Winston Churchill. He understood that war is a populist activity. It's about geeing up
the troops and the people. And Trump seems to have a bit of a knack when it comes to this. The great internationalists like Barack Obama and Joe Biden got terribly confused and ended up skid daddling from conflicts speaking the language of diplomacy in negotiation, and had much less impact on the bad guys than Donald Trump with his gut instinct and very televisual understanding of diplomacy.
No, indeed, and I loved your analysis there. My only hope was that Trump was going to come out with something poetic or significant, some profound words, and his press conference on Sunday, which he didn't do. Perhaps he needs a new speech.
He's not a poet, of course, is he. But I thought that was a very effective five minutes. It was residential speech.
You're buying, No, it was indeed, it was indeed all right, Timothy Lynch, appreciate your time.
Love that segment. Thank you so much. Now still to.
Came ol lies on Air Force One as President Trump prepares to take off for NATO as the ceasefire collapses, Classive alban Easy hadn't already shredded our international standing, his bungled handling of the American strikes has certainly done it. Now Camra Milner and Andrew Caswell will assess the damage next.
Welcome back if you're just joining us.
Now.
The ceasefire between Israel and Iran looks to have collapsed. Iran has fired two missiles into northern Israel, and Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz has vowed to respond forcefully in the heart of Tehran. So this ceasefire, announced just this morning our time by the President of the United States, which he predicted would last forever, hasn't lasted a matter of hours. With Iran firing a missile into northern Israel. Now, the Albenzi government has been rightly criticized for being too
slow to endorse America's strikes on Iran. I mean Albanezi and Penny one could barely endorse that action. They did so through gritted teeth. Now, Morrison last night and this show said it was a departure from previous Labor governments.
Whether it was during times of the Rug government, the Gillad government, there was an instinctive, an instinctive alignment with the United States.
All right, and let's bring our panel our Bill Shotten's former chief of staff, Camer Milner and Scott Morrison's former media advisor Andrew Carswell. Well, Cameron, you're also a former Labor State secretary.
Do you think Morrison's right?
Well, I think Scott's nailed it. I mean, there is a very big difference between hawk Keating Rad Gillard and this appalling, appalling foreign policy that we're seeing from Wong and then enunciated by a weak elbow. And that's the problem Labor's got is that is that Wong is an ideologue and Albow is weak, and that combination is toxic, toxic for our foreign affairs and also incredibly damaging for
our allies in the US and the UK. How can we not how can we not reward the US and Israel for that matter, for actually eliminating a nuclear capacity in that Islamist regime Iran. I mean, these guys are extremists and they're about to have a nuclear war a nuclear warhead available to them. That is the mission that Israel and the US signed up for. And we should
have been incredibly grateful as a nation. Instead we look in simpate and weak, and it's incredibly embarrassing I think for Australia under Albernese and under labor as it currently stands.
Yeah, completely agree, I mean, andrew this government, it's bizarre that it's so hesitant to support our closest ally.
It will Shari.
We've become irrelevant on the on the world stage under this government, and it's such a crucial hour as well to become irrelevant. And we've become irrelevant not only because of the lack of actions that we're taking in supporting our partners and our allies, which we should be doing. It's not only because of the timidity in the way that we approach these issues. But it's because of the language that we employ to respond to these kind of moments.
As we saw yesterday, this timidity, this insipid language that's directly from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade song sheet. It's not you know, Albanezi and Wang stood up yesterday and said what was not in their heart they just read from a sheet that was in front of them, is not what they think, it's not what they believe,
and it shows in the outcome. And we've had a steady stream of Prime ministers of all stripes in this country that have stood up for this country, that have stepped forward, that have elbows elbow their way to the front of the queue of Wealth Affairs and sat at that table. And they've done it because they've showed up for their allies. They've showed up in those moments, and we're not seeing this with this administration. They love the safety of the sidelines.
No, it's well put, the safety of the sidelines, but in fact it's not so safe because now Orcus might even be at risk because Albanizi refuses to increase defense spending, something that the rest of the world is doing. I mean, Cameron Milner, you've written about this in your column in The Nightly, So you know, do you agree that Albinizi is in fact threatening orcus.
Well?
I do, and my article tonight says that if you look at Labour's actions under Albanese, which are weak and to your point, Andrew insipid and timid, they're not what you would expect of an ally who wants to have three Virginia class nuclear submarines as part of an orcus alliance. I mean, what if Albo had those three subs in perthin decided that diplomacy with Tehran was more important than deploying them to bomb the living daylights the nuclear capacity
of a run that's what's at risk. And elbow is so weak and so not an ally at the moment, and you're right, not spinning nearly enough on defense as a nation that you wonder why the US and the UK would continue to carry a weak elbow and a labor government that's not doing enough as an ally.
Andrew, do you think the Coalition has been strong enough in this area as well under Susan Lee. I mean, we know Peter Dutton his instincts were spot on, but some of the Coalition statements have been quite weak.
What do you think, Well.
I think, as Scott said last night, the instinct of the coalition is usually right in this regards, and I think the le opposition is just feeling their way a little bit on these issues. They need to get on board very quickly and get the language settings right to showcase that they understand these issues, that they're aggressively pursuing those alliance partnerships from a position of opposition. So I
think yes, they need to tighten that language. They need to lift up the language a bit to really convey what's sitting behind them.
Do you agree with that, Cameron? I mean I think they need to toughen up a lot. You know, I have Dave Sharma on the show all the time, but he's not even in a shadow ministry. Susan Lee didn't even give him a role. And not to put down the others that are in those positions, but they need to be tough. They need to be more forthcoming because
this is the biggest story in the world. The Albanezy government is nowhere and the opposition should be hammering this hard, not just for their own political interests, but for our national security, but for our standing in the world.
Cameron, I couldn't agree more, couldn't agree more, Shari couldn't agree more. But I think Andrew Hasty, to his credit, has actually stood up over the last severy two hours and said what need to be said in terms of the Liberal Party position. But it's the role of government, Shari. Governments are expect to lead their nations governments. Australians are calling out for their political leadership the person they voted in only as recently as May the second to actually
show some global leadership. And to your point, Andrew, he's dealed himself out of the game. Albert wants to be irrelevant. I mean, you know, hiding on the sidelines, you know, being dumped by Trump. That's what he actually wants to do, rather than stepping up as a solid ally of the superpowers like the UK and the US, where we've always been as a nation and we're stronger together.
And now we're seeing the news at Albanezi so vindictive. Apparently he wants to cut the number of staff allocated to the Liberal Party.
Andrew, what do you think about this move?
Well, it's just poor Foreman and it's just unnecessary as well. I mean, the oppositions is in a world to paint at the moment. They need to get their their things moving and this will not help them in that cause. And look, the government doesn't need to necessarily help them. They need to do the right thing. And they've got form on the board in these kind of regards as well in the way that they approach the cross bench in the last term as well, where they cut back
the numbers. I know how hard those cross benches work. I don't necessarily agree with what they say and what the positions they stand for, but they work hard and they deserve the proper staff to be able to do their jobs properly as the opposition does as well, to be an effective opposition to hold the government to account.
All right, Andrew Carswell, Karra Milner, love having you on as always on a Tuesday, and we are still standing by to hear from the President of the United States.
He has not appeared to board that flight yet. We will bring you the news when he does. We'll bring it to you live straight away.
Now after the break, I'm joined by the former Directory of the Military Prosecution for Judea and Sumaria or the West Bank if you like, for the for the latest on the collapsing ceasefire plus Sovie Ellsworth with the news in the Middle East, as reports merge of.
Iran firing missiles. That's all coming up.
Welcome back with This is a live shot of Air Force one at the Andrews Airbase in Maryland. We're waiting for the President of the United States, Donald Trump to board. He was due to depart around forty five minutes ago at six am local time for a flight to NATO,
but he hasn't left yet. We can speculate, pure speculation, he's having crisis talks after he announced a cease fire this morning our time, which has now collapsed or appears to have completely collapsed, with Israel vowing retaliation, forcefully, forceful retaliation in the heart of Tehran after Iran fired two missiles at northern Israel. So we're standing by to potentially hear from the President of the United States. But now
let's bring in an impressive guest. Maurice Hirsh is the former Director of Military Prosecution for Judea and Samaria, what Israel calls the West Bank. He's also the current director of the Initiative for Palestinian Authority, Accountability and Reform in the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Murrays, Welcome to the show. Now, just as the ceasefire began, we see that around fired missiles into Israel.
It is denying it did this. Do you have any doubt at all?
There's absolutely no doubt whatsoever that Iran fired those missiles, whether directly or indirectly.
There aren't missiles just.
Falling out of the sky suddenly targeting Israel's civilian population as they have done for the last really two weeks.
This is a blatant breach by the Iranians, their attempt to have the last say, no matter what, and to try and save a little bit of face after their entire military operation crumbled before Israel and the US, and now they're trying to really ensure that they can present what they have defined as a victory to the Iranian people as a justification for carrying on their genocidal emission to destroyers.
Now, over the past twelve days, Israel has reportedly hit over one thousand military and nuclear sites in Iran. Israel Cats tonight has pledged falstful response to Iran's breach of the ceasefire agreement.
So you are there sites.
That Israel has held back or where do you expect that this response will be.
Unfortunately, there are still scores, if not more, of military targets in Iran. Their apparatus for creating the ballistic missiles alone was extensive and spread over really hundreds of different sites.
If you then add on all of the nuclear sites and the development of nuclear capabilities, the sites that were spread all the way around Iran as well all the different components that are needed in order to put together that technology with the know how the enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb, it is quite an extent of apparatus and there are still many targets for Israel to strike.
It's a shame really that the Iranian regime has brought itself to the situation and has brought Israel to the situation where it must respond, and respond it must if we ignore this wasn't a small breach of the ceasefire. This was a fundamental breach of the ceasefire.
And if we.
Don't hold Iran accountable and soon then they will understand that they have permission to continue, possibly breaching the ceasefire with our consequences, and that would be a bad message for the entire region.
Now, Israel did agree to the ceasefire. Are you confident that Natanya who wouldn't have done so unless Iran's nuclear capability had been completely obliterated.
I think, as Rossel's government said, that the achievements that we have made over the last twelve days really exceeded all of our expectations. I think that if there was still an opportunity that Iran could turn around tomorrow, that the Iranian regime, sorry not Iran, that Iranian regime could turn around tomorrow and return to rebuilding its nuclear capabilities, then I don't think that Prime Minister Nitanial would have
agreed to any type of ceasefire. The goal was to put that threat off the table for decades to come, and I think that at least Israel's understanding of the situation of the bomb assessment bomb damage assessment as it's called BDA, has led us to understand that those goals have been achieved and we can now at least for the moment, cease our fire.
M All right, that's good to know that bomb damage assessment. Maurice Hirsh, fantastic to have on the show, and I hope to have you on once again, thank you very much.
Now after the.
Break, we'll go live to Israel yet again with the very latest on the ceasefire deal with our Sky News reporter Sophie Elsworth. Welcome back with the world is waiting to hear from the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who is due to take off any moment from Maryland Air Force One. A helicopter has arrived at the air Force base in.
The past few minutes.
It might be Marine one, so Donald Trump might be arriving on that helicopter, set to board the plane to head to NATO. If he appears, we're going to hear from him straight away. He did announce this ceasefire that has now utterly collapsed tonight, with Iran breaching it by firing missiles into northern Israel.
You'd assume the President would be furious at this.
He had wanted to be in and out and have a peaceful outcome.
Here out of this war.
Iran has now breached the ceasefire deal, and you can't blame Israel for vowing to retaliate forcefully to this. All right, as we're discussing this, let's bring in our news cop correspondence Sky News contributer Sophie Elsworth, who's been in the Middle East for the past week. Sophie, thank you so much for joining us now. Now this has been a massive past twelve hours or so. We were hoping to have this lasting cease fire that now looks to have collapsed.
It has.
Indeed, Shari, when I was just in a car a few hours ago, we had to pull over because I received missile alerts on my phone, you know, telling you.
I'm just going to interrupt you now because we do have some breaking news. Donald Trump has just tweeted or posted on his truth Social He has said, Israel, do not drop those bombs. If you do, it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home now.
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.
So this is Donald Trump taking to truth Social to warn Israel not to drop bombs. He's saying Israel would be in breach of the ceasefire. This is despite the fact that Iran has fired those missiles of northern Israel. This is absolutely extraordinary. Donald Trump could pick up the phone to Ned and Yahoo they are close friends. But instead he has taken to truth social to post this and we could just see a shot of him there through the helicopter, the chopper that's arriving at Andrew's airbase
at Maryland's. Now he's going to transfer from that shopper into air Force one his other aircraft to take him to NATO. But Donald Trump, that's not a live shot. By the way of him walking, that is not a live shot. So Donald Trump, so if he's taking to social media to warn Israel his ally not to drop bombs on Iran, let's take.
Now rocket that I guess was fired overboard, it was after the time limit and it missed its target, and now Israel is going out. These guys got to calm down ridiculously.
I didn't like plenty of things I saw yesterday. I didn't like the fact that is you unloaded right after we made the deal. They didn't have to unload. And I didn't like the fact that the retaliation was very strong. But an old fairness is you unloaded a lot. And now I hear is you just went out because they felt it was violated by one.
Rocket that didn't land anywhere.
That's not what we want, I'll tell you, and I'm telling you I'm not happy about that. Israel either, You like it was played both sides. I'm going now, as you know, Tornado. Some of you are going with me, and I think it's going to be uh successful.
We'll see.
I'll let you up.
And you got into immens. You managed to achieve different plans, all right.
That was moments earlier, Donald Trump speaking before he got this chopper flight to the Andrews Air Base at Maryland's.
This is live.
Donald Trump has just stepped off this chopper flight after posting to truth Social warning Israel not to drop bombs on Iran.
This is extraordinary.
Donald Trump should be backing in Israel here his ally, It's not Israel that breached the ceasefire. It's Iran in first killing four Israeli civilians and then sending two missiles into northern Israel after the ceasefire had been agreed to, after arms had been laid down.
It was Iran who breached it.
And now the President of the United States, in a move that's going to certainly unimpress Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ettnyahu, has taken to his truth Social to warn Israel not to drop the bombs.
He says it would be a major violation.
We can see here now boarding air Force one heading to NATO. We were expecting he might stop to speak to the media. He hasn't done that, giving his famous fist pump there as he boards the flight to NATO. The NATO talks will now be, of course, dominated by the fact the ceasefire has been broken and Israel Netiya,
who now has a big decision to make. Will it pick a fight with Donald Trump and retaliate for those missiles that breach the ceasefire deal, as Israel has vowed to do, or will it go along with the President of the United States and lay down arms. All right, I'm going to cross over now to Paul Murray, who'll continue this live coverage.