In the coming week, Israel and Iran spurred concerns of a wider war.

Vice President Harris and former President Trump speak to Hispanic voters,

and President Biden travels to Germany to shore up support for Ukraine.

It's October 3rd, 2024 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carl Ann Robbins.

Bob, good to see you.

Let's begin with everything going on in the Middle East.

In the past several days, Israel has killed a large number

of Hezbollah's leaders, including top leader, Hassan Nasrallah. And that, of course, follows

the late July assassination of Hamas' leader, Ismail Hania in Tehran during the inauguration of Iran's

new president. And soon after Israel began what it's calling a limited ground invasion, although it seems

to be growing by the hour in southern Lebanon, Iran launched nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel,

causing only limited damage thanks to Israeli and U.S. defense systems. Prime Minister Benjian Netanyahu

has vowed to retaliate, and officials are saying they should have hit back harder last April after Iran's last ballistic missile barrage.

How far do you think this is going to go?

That is the question of the moment, Carla.

And there's a lot of grave concern that this has got much further to play out.

By playing out, that means full-on Iran, Israeli

back and forth. I mean, the latest set of media reports that are getting a lot of attention

is the indications that Israel is ready to hit Iranian targets, whether it's first, you know,

let's say gas and oil refineries and then moving to known nuclear targets.

And that's certainly a degree of escalation that would prompt a further response.

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