Office has issued arrest warrant for Opposition Leader juan gaido accusing him of treason and money laundering. Office says it will ask for interpols help in his apprehension. Guido is living in the us in exile, he proclaimed himself venezuelas president in 2019. Ukraine says Russian Missile strike is left 51 people dead. In the northeast, the Officials Say people gather for a wake when the strike took place in the village of groza in the region of karkiv. President Vladimir Zelenski is called it inhumane terror attack, still no reaction out of russia. The democratic peoples republic of korea condemns frances plan to deploy a patrol aircraft in waters near the korean peninsula. Pyong yang describes frances move as outdated gun boat diplomacy, calling on paris to stop dangerous actions that threat. In regional peace. Saudi arabia and the zionist entity are moving towards the outline of a historic us broker deal to normalized relations. This is what the white house declared last week. So
Gravitated more towards countries like russia and china rather than western ones like france or even the us. First let me introduce our guests. Tunda usazuwa, african team member at black alliance for peace joins us from atlanta. Also joining us is fidel amake whos an International Relations and security analyst who joined us from akra. Welcome to you both. Uh, ill first start with you uh. Tunda usa, im hoping im pronouncing that correctly, looking at the announcement that france has uh made, which has been in the works for for a little bit of time here, even though they resisted it, but uh, they announced that theyre going to begin withdrawing this troops from niger, the key word there of course being uh begin, we dont know whether its going to be extended, but its a start, but overall if it happens, does that mean that frances engagement with niger is over . Yes, well we. That france has around 1,500 troops in niger uh as well as uh multiple military bases uh bases that are used righ
Pacific. Right now former President Trump is in a courtroom in New York City as the Civil Fraud Trial against him begins. His Business Empire on the line. On capitol hill, a Government Shutdown has been averted for now. But theres a new crisis for House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy. Well talk to congressman Steven Horsford about that, and get his reaction. At the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence thomas has recused himself from a january 6th case for the very first time. Well explain why. And this weekend, large groups of migrants, mostly from venezuela made their way across the border navigating through razor wire to get to shore. Well speak about why they are fleeing their homes in my sitdown interview with the former interim president juan gaido, who is now living in exile in the United States. We begin in New York City where right now former President Trump is inside a courtroom where his massive Business Empire is on the line. Just moments ago nbc news got a look inside that very courtroo
Headquarters from washington. Im Kristin Fisher and leland, we can finally say it, the shutdown is over. Leland i was getting ready for deja vu all over again. Im Leland Vittert on a saturday. The president saying the real brokered with congress to reopen the government after 35 days is in no way a concession to democrats. The democrats are spinning it differently, shall we say. Either way, no money for a border wall in this deal. David spunt is joining us for that side and what it means for the workers. Its a big deal that the president signed that continuing resolution late last Night Opening up the government until february 15th, but those 800,000 employees that missed a paycheck for the second time yesterday are finally somewhat breathing a sigh of relief. They will be paid as soon as possible according to President Trump, but its not going to happen overnight. Many of these agencies have been shut down since december 21st and they need a day or two to process everything. Democrati
Good evening, im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to meet the press daily. Buckle up. Here comes the Mueller Report, we think. Moments ago the Justice Department announced that bill barr will hold a press conference at 9 30 tomorrow morning on the release of the special counsels report. Separately, the president just said he might hold a press conference too. We actually heard about this first, i believe, from the president. As washington braces for this historic report, there are Major Concerns that muellers findings have already been, in a word, corrupted and its hard to see how more barr and more trump for the next 24 hours are somehow going to help things on that score. The president s attacks on the investigation have corrupted his Supporters Trust of mueller. And the attorney generals actions these past few weeks have corrupted a lot of other Peoples Trust in the public version of muellers report that barr will be charged with releasing. Barr is essentially the gate keeper