Days after an article from the New York Times alleged russia was paying bounties to the taleban to kill american soldiers theres now a fallout over that over the information from the Intelligence Community as far as what they knew as top lawmakers call for action while President Trump calls the entire story another hoax Rachel Blevins is joining me live in studio to break down all the latest details here so rachel what if we heard from within the Intel Community well the director of the cia released a statement and she actually didnt mention russia or afghanistan but she said that the Intelligence Community is constantly getting reports about possible threats to u. S. Troops on the ground and working to decide if those reports are legitimate now we did see another report which cited an anonymous. Fishel in which he specifically said that while intelligence on this subject was received it only reached a low levels of the community and never moved out because they determined it was uncor
Turkey has launched another military offensive against armed kurdish separatists in Northern Iraq. Deployed troops to the 100000 in the region near the border to fight the p. K. K. Warplanes have also targeted the groups positions around 3000 fighters are believed to be in Northern Iraq turkey the u. S. And the e. U. All lists the p. K. K. As a terrorist group. A correspondence in turkey and iraq a monitoring developments faultiness in baghdad but 1st lets go to city of course yahoo who is in istanbul for a sit in so this is the 2nd to cross border operation within a week. Well the a fact of the turkish mother of 3 has on an awful peroration is to the region especially since the 2018 in the military intensified operation and the reason is not only the presence in Northern Iraq but the link between the Syrian Kurdish functional group. In syria basically the idea of the sofa ration by the Turkish Military it is actually to cut the logistics line between the p. K. K. And the y. P. G. In s
Weve been going for school and the coronavirus rates and the simple steroids treatment that is slashing the rate confidantes. Low welcome to the program in the past few minutes north koreas military has announced it would resume exercises near the border with south korea and send soldiers into the Industrial Zone of the border town of case song and follows pyongyangs blowing up of a Liaison Office in case all the u. N. Secretary general says north and south korea must resume dialogue south korea says it will respond strongly if the north does not dial down its actions and rhetoric in a moment well be speaking live with a fright in seoul 1st though this is his report on the escalating situation the complete destruction of a building created at the height of improving into korean relations and with it in the immediate hope of reconciliation. The north has become enraged by defectors who make calls human scum releasing propaganda balloons into its territory kim jong the increasingly influ
Ina in a moment, time for sportsday, but first a look at what else is coming up first a look at what else is coming up this evening. At 7pm, we talk to jo twyman about whether Boris Johnsons rose to number ten is unstoppable. At 8 30pm, we talk to monarchy worth about dutch and cabanas decision to extend their range up cabanas decision to extend their range up to size 22. Then well look at tomorrows papers at 10 30pm and 11 30pm. Thats all coming up on bbc news. Now, time for sportsday. Hello, and welcome to a very busy sportsday. Our main headlines this evening. Once again, scotland are left feeling aggrieved after they lost to japan, two defeats from two at the womens world cup. A different story for england who are aiming to make it two winds from two against argentina later. He is no ordinaryjo, another the west indies. Also coming up, justin rose stays in front at pebble beach, we will have the latest from the us open for mac second round. And they have been dancing on the streets