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🗓️ 1 June 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there from CNN. I'm David Rind with the five things do you need to know for Monday, June 1st. |
| 0:07.6 | Iran has suspended talks with the U.S. over Israel's actions in Lebanon. That's according to the |
| 0:12.9 | semi-official Tasneem News Agency. Earlier today, Israel instructed its military to strike |
| 0:18.2 | Beirut's Dahi district, which is considered a Hezbollah stronghold. An Israeli source says, Israeli plans to strike Beirut's Dahié district, which is considered a Hezbollah stronghold. |
| 0:21.6 | An Israeli source says, Israeli plans to strike Beirut are coordinated with the U.S. |
| 0:26.6 | CNN's Nick Robertson is in London. |
| 0:28.6 | Iran is saying that as a part of the broader ceasefire deal with the United States, it was absolutely conditional that there should be a ceasefire between Israel |
| 0:39.8 | and Hezbollah in Lebanon. That was something President Trump several weeks ago put a huge |
| 0:43.8 | amount of pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to achieve that. It was in place. |
| 0:48.5 | But over the past few days and hours, Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided to reach deeper at Hezbollah targets |
| 0:57.2 | into Lebanon, going closer to the capital Beirut. So the reaction from Iran is to say no more |
| 1:02.8 | talks. They're also saying that they're going to completely close down the strait of |
| 1:07.2 | Homo. It seemed pretty closed by their accounts anyway, but they're adding |
| 1:11.8 | further emphasis on that. Does this lead to a military escalation? It's a lot more tenuous than it was |
| 1:17.4 | before. This all comes as the U.S. and Iran traded new strikes over the weekend. U.S. Central |
| 1:22.4 | Command says it carried out overnight defensive strikes on Iranian military sites, |
| 1:26.7 | while also saying it, quote, |
| 1:28.0 | successfully intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles targeting American forces based in Kuwait. |
| 1:34.1 | It added no American personnel were harmed. |
| 1:36.3 | Meanwhile, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have struck U.S. air base used |
| 1:41.6 | to launch an attack on a telecommunications tower. |
| 1:44.4 | That's according to a statement carried by several Iranian state-run news outlets. |
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