From the Southeast Asian capital city of the Philippines, Manila, I greet you and welcome to yet another weekend across all these time zones in the world.

What is it? 23, 24, 24 and a half, something like that.

I'm Art Bell, and this is coast-to-coast AM.

Well, what a week it's been?

It's been an amazing week.

The news, of course, has shifted back from what happened in the air to the war between Israel and Hezbollah.

And the news there is not good. More Israeli troops surged

into southern Lebanon on Saturday, reaching the Latani River and engaging in some of the

heaviest combat of the month-long war now, just hours after the UN Security Council, adopted

that ceasefire plan. Everybody knew was coming. Israel lost 19 soldiers, its highest one-day death toll.

The leader of the Islamic militant group has to law grudgingly joined Lebanon's government in accepting the UN resolution,

but they vowed to keep fighting until Israeli troops leave and hand over territory to a muscular UN peacekeeping force intended to

separate the two.

Now, it seems to me that Hesbila, if they have grudgingly or otherwise accepted this,

means that Israel, to me it means that Israel is probably having some measure of success in attaining

its goals of pushing them back.

The investigation into a plot to blow up jetliners kept me busy for a lot of the latter

part of the week.

I'm sure many of you awoke as we did on the morning of 9-11, saw the continuous 24-hour coverage on all the

news networks of what was going on and went, oh my God, not again.

They were going to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic.

They zeroed in Saturday on some brothers arrested in Pakistan and in Britain, one named

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