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We told them to enter the building before us.

If there are any booby traps, they will explode and not us.

Israeli soldiers admit forcing Palestinian prisoners to act as human shields in Gaza.

An exclusive report from correspondent Jeremy Diamond.

Then, as mainstream Republicans react to reports of Trump's extremism,

the former EU ambassador Gordon Sandlin swings from supporting Trump to opposing him and back again.

And the fights that we're in can be overwhelming and we lose the thread.

Music lets us find it again.

In louder, the soundtrack of change,

rocker, Melissa Etheridge, and activist Stacey Abrams

show the power of music to spread a message.

Also, there's no other country in the world that wouldn't rather have our growth rate, our inflation rate, our unemployment rate, everything we have right now.

Walter Isaacson talks to former Obama advisor Jason Furman about politics and the economy. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm

Christina Montpur in New York. In Lebanon and in Gaza the human toll of

Israel's war grows more shocking. O, at least one person was killed and 5 injured in a series of airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburbs.

The Lebanese Health Ministry calls them the most violent since fighting began

as well as reporting hospitals being targeted and Gaza is at the breaking point.

That's according to a UN report which warns that Israel is bombing measurements for life expectancy,

education, standard of living back to 1955 levels.

The IDF justifies its attacks claiming Hamas and Hezbollah are deeply embedded amongst civilians,

which makes an exclusive new report particularly horrifying.

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