Just after 11 pm here in moscow this. We have a lot to get through welcome to our to the international our top story several rocket attacks have hit a rock including in close vicinity to the American Embassy in baghdad on a military base near the capital there are no reports as well of a strike on a base in the Northern City of mosul for more on todays developments im joined in the studio by igor off equal we could tensions turning to violence again today what are we learning whats known well something is definitely up in the and we do not know for sure exactly what have been the targets what exactly those mortar strikes targeted but we do know the approximate locations and well within with all the context around that people can rule conclusions out of the situations so so far 3 confirmed strikes. In the vicinity of baghdad the iraqi capital some mortar shells landed not far from a base where american troops are stationed outside of the iraqi capital and some shells landed within the v
A show strength by female supporters of the rocky cleric looked at all saddam others to fire his calls to stop testing alongside. China is stepping up its war on the coronavirus is the number of deaths rises to the only 1400 the Chinese Government says the people returning to beijing bus quarantine themselves for 14 days or face punishment. President xi jinping is vying to boost virus prevention measures and fix problems exposed by the crisis luke woodham is in the National Health commission is very concerned about this with issue technical guidelines for the prevention and control of corona virus infections within medical institutions and weve given a special notice on virus control for key areas and the fever departments of the hospitals through these documents we have imposed special requirements on heart sing the personal protection of medical workers hundreds more military medics of started work at hospitals in will hand the epicenter of the epidemic but theres growing concern abo
It is just past 7 00 p. M. Sunday. Janet yellen defending her time in office as the race narrows to three. Messagenistration has a to those who trade with iran, you do so at your own risk. No surprises. We tend to think japanese elections are a snooze fest, but marketse year and the get it right this time. Pretty much what we would expect. The yen weakening, down. 3 , continuing on with easy Monetary Policy through abenomics. We will take a look at the knock on effect for the next 34 years. Time to bringect in our next guest. She is a former boj policy board member and voted against the negative Interest Rate policy back in 2016. Thank you so much. Your initial reaction to this election . Some were saying this was a victory by default. A lot of divisive issues leading up to sunday. Was this election about nothing . It was already anticipated and no surprise, but this abeumption tax hike, decided to do it has scheduled, but will change the allocation to children and education. This timi
The predominantly kurdish areas that have diverted this rural mountainous combat into the urban setting. Which means that now we have a setting in which theres more civilian involvement and also more potential civilian casualties as well. What about the pkk . In 1990s, pkk was pretty much a monolithic topdown entity with very compact Decision Making. Turkeys argument and position throughout the 1990s was very clear. Get rid of pkks leadership and the organization is going to collapse. In 2015, we have a much different pkk which has decided to engage in splintering strategy, especially valid after the arrests and capture of its founding leader in 1999. The 2015 pkk is much more different than the 1990s pkk in the sense that Decision Making is more localized, clashes and command is also more localized, even though the central executive body is quite influential as well. Main difference is the emergence of localized leadership that younger cohort used to be the bridge between the pkk and
With the United States and the fact of, you know, turkey opening injured there after and probably persuaded them that that indeed was what this was all about. And i think the pkk is on the one hand saying to the turkish government, if you continue to try to undermine us, this is what well do. And on the other hand, its also saying that if you continue to undermine the Kurdish Movement inside turkey, if you continue to try to marginalize the hdp thats sort of where we disagree im going to make turkey ungovernable for you. This is sort of a way of saying, if youre going to play hardball with me, im going to play hardball with you. And very few of us actually predicted this, because we all seemed to believe that when the pkk was bogged down in this fight against the Islamic State it could hardly afford to open up a second front against turkey, but in a very eironic twist in a certain sense, its america that enabled it to do so, because america rode to the rescue with its air support, whic