Still defiant nostrum remnants of the Syrian Revolution in a province as turkey and russia reaching new agreement on a Demilitarized Zone. And a multibillion dollar export industry has been blamed for the month long blanketing Southeast Asia. We got some more weather pushing into western parts of your private the next couple of days but still on the cool side the breezy side wall autumnal should we say scandinavia eastern areas if you are pushing over towards that western side of russia this piece is a cloud here showing up quite nicely and you got this march weather front running right down across the black sea through the balkans into the adriatic into italy some sharp showers all miss some heavy downpours as well sliding further southwards in east was it picking up the northwest even the cool direction of course with the temperatures around 14 celsius in warsaw just 90 degrees there for most meanwhile i was told the western side if you want to 20 in london not see bad 22 in paris ge
Aljazeera couple tunisias former president seen anybody ben ali has died at the age of 83 he was in saudi arabia where hes lived in exile since the 29 revolution which kickstarted the socalled arab spring share as odd for texana back to his legacy. Thats when he was swept from power by a wave of popular protest fleeing tunisia saudi arabia a former military man and diplomat zene ben ali took the presidency in 1907 with a bloodless coup unseating the countrys 1st post colonial president in every election since he was returned to power with enormous majorities his opponents said the votes were rigged human Rights Groups described his government as authoritarian and undemocratic cracking down on any attempts at press freedom and handing out jobs and favors to a select band of supporters. Ultimately protests over unemployment brought the people out of the streets demanding change. To me just economy looked relatively strong when the uprising began it was ranked 1st in africa the competitiv
Those plants wants to lead this news hour including a political showdown birds in the us as a whistleblower complaint of portably involving donald trump s block from congress. On violence in afghanistan just mine days before the president ial election. And supports the world number 2 rory mcilroy has a day to forget at the p. G. A. Championship will have all the details in our sport ground up. Now the leader of israels opposition blue and White Party Benny Gantz he should be the nations next Prime Minister he appears to have rejected the current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is offer of a power sharing Unity Coalition making a 3rd election in less than a year more likely. Went to the polls on tuesday with 1009 percent of the votes counted ganss center right party has 33 seats thats just ahead of netanyahu is conservative look good party which has 31 seats but both are well short of the 61 seats needed for a majority in Israels Parliament president groovin rivlin has now has to deci
Office has said there was a drone strike on a nice old hideout killing a number of men. But these people say they were villagers. Who had gone into the mountains to collect pine nuts when you were. All of those killed were civilians each of these houses has lost 2 or 3 men. Their grief is mixed with and go all the Security Services all of the government should listen to us show these men stop this cruel to. Others join in with the chant death to america. While most of the bodies have been brought back for burial the villagers say some people are still missing. But the most that i got my message the government to stop it you shouldnt kill civilians anymore for gods sake stop killing ordinary people. In a statement the u. S. Military has said it carried out a drone strike on the Islamic State target and that it was investigating claims that civilians have been killed whats clear is that in another violent 24 hour period there have been attacks by both the taliban and the u. S. Military a
The chair of the House Intelligence Committee is a possibility thank you very much mike hanna in washington Claire Finkelstein is professor of law and flaws of the at the university of Pennsylvania Law School and joins says on skype from philadelphia great to have you on the program thank you very much now i want to ask just in the grand scheme of things how significant are these allegations and what kind of repercussions could we see from this or is it something thats likely to be swept under the rug as weve seen so many times at the at trumps white house. This is an enormous story possibly the biggest story of this presidency because 1st of all its arguably the 1st time that a whistle blower action has been filed against the president if indeed thats what this action is as we now are coming to understand. And there are extensive protections that are required by law for whistleblowers to enable them to bring Important Information of corruption to light so 2nd of all there would be as