Russia’s Wagner Group Plans to Send Hezbollah Air Defenses

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

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P.M. Edition for Nov. 2. U.S. intelligence shows Russia’s Wagner Group is planning to send air defenses to Hezbollah. Meanwhile, Israel moves to separate Gaza into two. Correspondent Dov Lieber explains. Plus, fake nudes of real students cause an uproar at a New Jersey high school. Family & Tech columnist Julie Jargon has more. And newly unredacted portions of the FTC’s lawsuit against Amazon allege company executives talked about how the company’s policies hurt sellers. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.0	The US says Russia's Wagner Group plans to send air defenses to Hezbollah,
0:49.0	and Israel moves to cut Gaza in two to eradicate Hamas.
0:54.0	Israel has said they're going to wipe Hamas out. If they don't win this war, they know it's over.
0:58.0	So these two sides are now engaged in an existential war with each other.
1:03.0	Plus, how fake nodes of real students caused an uproar at a New Jersey high school. It's Thursday, November 2.
1:10.0	I'm Ann Marie for Totally for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM edition of What's News,
1:15.0	the top headlines and business stories that moved the world today.
1:25.0	US intelligence shows that Russia's paramilitary Wagner Group is planning to send an air defense system to the Lebanese militia Hezbollah.
1:33.0	That's according to US officials. One US official said that Washington hasn't confirmed that the system has been sent.
1:40.0	This comes as there are broader concerns about Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, opening up a northern front against Israel.
1:47.0	The US has positioned an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean to try to deter both Hezbollah and Iran.
1:54.0	Meanwhile, US officials say an armed drone laid in with explosives crashed into the upper floor of a US barracks at a base in Iraq,
2:02.0	but failed to detonate in an incident at the Urbiel Air Base on October 25.
2:07.0	There were no reports of injuries. Officials say the drone is believed to have been launched by an Iranian-backed militia,
2:13.0	underscoring the risks to US forces in the Middle East during the Israel-Hamas war.
2:17.0	The strike has raised fears of a potential deadly attack among forces on the ground,
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