Hands out long sentences to more than 150 citizens for illegal logging. Im Andrew Simmonds at the home of Barack Obamas grandmother, and shes been telling me about his first president ial visit to kenya first, u. S. Defense secretary ash carter made an unannounced trip to iraq, meeting u. S. Commanders and the Prime Minister. M imran khan has more from baghdad. Its been a bloody week. I. S. I. L. Taking responsibility for several car bomb attacks. The defense secretary will beet with Haider Alabadi and senior generals, but not leaders of the Popular Mobilization forces and shia militias. One of the things theyll discuss with the Prime Minister and senior generals is the delivery of the f16 aircraft that the iraqis are using to great effect. I have four of the f16s making a total consign. Of 36. It may be a schedule for the rest of these to be discussed, looking at regional powers. The one thing that will not be discussed is syria, theres a lot of people that have begun to criticise the
Im Andrew Simmonds at the home of Barack Obamas grandmother, and shes been telling me about his first visit to kenya. The u. S. Defence secretary ash carter made an unannounced visit to iraq meeting u. S. Commanders and haider alabadi. Hes been it israel jordan and saudi arabia. And his visit coming as i. S. I. L. Claims responsibility for several car bombs, one of many attacks in shia neighbourhoods on wednesday. 17 died in those explosions targetting marketplaces. Well talk to imran khan who is in baghdad. A timely visit then by ash carter. What are the iraqis likely to say. The iraqis will be looking at assurances, especially when it comes to speeding up weapon Delivery Systems that they have long been acting for. There has been an aircraft platform sold to them. They have been delayed for a number of years, theres four in iraq, four in total. 36. Theyll be looking at speeding up deliveries of those aircraft and hell look at what is going on generally. Hell meet with the iraqi gener
Bring you the latest of president obamas first visit of kenya. A skyscraper once full of squatters. We take a look after the infamous power faded hello there. First, turkeys government says its launched air strikes against Islamic State of iraq and levant. Four i. S. I. L. Fighters hit. U. S. Defense say turkey allowed coalition to use a major air base on its soil to launch air strikes against i. S. I. L. Turkey has been reluctant to let washington use the airways in the past. Its about 160km from the Syrian Border making it easier to reach the crucial i. S. I. L. Targets. Thursday the Turkish Military and i. S. I. L. Fighters exchanged crossborder fire to the southeast. One turkish soldiers and one i. S. I. L. Fighter was killed. Turkey responded by moving tanks into the area, we have more from the turkish town near the border with syria. Reporter tensions on the rise of turkishs border with syria. I. S. I. L. s fighters fired into turkey hitting a convoy. One noncommissioned officer
Trapped in a law the fight to save some of islams oldest sites runs into an obstacle. Critics point fingers at the saudi government antibiotic infections kill 20,000 in the u. S. What doctors do when drugs dont work. President obama has wrapped up his first full day in kenya. Its the first time a sitting president visited an african country. Its at times divisive. President obama cohosted a seminar onentrepreneurialship in nairobi, praised them for advancements and announced 1 billion for new businesses. During a News Conference he criticized criticized president kenyatta over gay rights. Another concern is the fight against extremism. Others against kenya, the u. S. And other countries cut the influence of alshabab in somali. Andrew simmonds has the details. President obama started in relaxed style, at the Global Entrepreneurship without notes or a teleprompter. He did it as lib and used kenyanswahili slang and praised them for the way they were doing business, encouraging entrepreneu
The president raising eyebrows when he addressed corruption and gay rights. Andrew simmonds has the details. President obama started his day in relaxed style, addressing the summit without a teleprompter notes or a speech. He did it ad lib and used kenyanswahili slang, and praised them for the way they were doing business, encouraging entrepreneurs to do more, and to help them, and said that africa was open for business. The economy was doing so much better. He had these words. When i was here in nairobi 10 years ago, it looked different than it does today, and the incredible progress that has been made imagine what could happen if more and more of our Global Business leaders, and Global Capital paid a visit. And actually had a conversation as opposed to just being blinded by some of the stereotypes promoted. It could move faster. Later it was on to state house and talks with kenyatta, the kenyan president. They want more help in the war against terror meaning cash for security and tra