General election in israel can voters break months of political deadlock this time. Coronavirus continues to disrupt global sport as its now for the opening few races of the major g. P. Season has been called off in canada and thailand. Welcome to the news our turkeys president says attacks against Syrian Government forces will continue if they dont reverse their advance and province turkeys military operations ratcheted up after dozens of turkish troops were killed in an attack in the region last week but reza thurber door also says hes hoping to secure a cease fire when he meets with russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in moscow on thursday. Or to go back as you know by going to moscow on thursday we will evaluate the latest developments with mr putin there i hope to whether the cease fire is achieved or not the other necessary steps will be taken and we will come to a rapid conclusion on this matter. Our correspondent is in hatay on the turkish syria border how how should the turkish
Ambassador in baghdad have been evacuated suggesting that this protest which is out science has reached the walls all the u. S. Embassy in baghdad years officials taking that very seriously indeed lets cross back to some more of fault scene she is in baghdad just hundreds of meters away from the u. S. Embassy someone what have you been hearing about the Embassy Staff in baghdad and the state of the protests outside that embassy. Well i cannot confirm whether or not that or has been evacuated. 9 d can say that i have not seen any helicopters leave the u. S. Embassy compound at least from the position where i am located of course the u. S. Embassy compound is extremely low 9 and im not aware of the creation d a little its possible that they could have the gate on the other. 9 28 9 by car but a of course you know this is unprecedented where you have hundreds perhaps thousands of members of the p. M. S. Lets be very clear these are not. Not the same protesters that have been demonstrating
American hand posters some of the groups before us are chanting america is the biggest satan so there are very strong antiamerican sentiments here and as we speak right now were actually marching across the Hanging Bridge to warn the greens on the left side over there is where the American Embassy is located and thats where these people are headed the message that theyre trying to pass here is that the Popular Mobilization forces including the hezbollah brigades are a legitimate force they form part of the Iraqi Security force about the presence of the u. S. Here in iraq is that as a matter of course there has been a brigade as well as the pm have vowed to retaliate and they also want to a table a bill in parliament to expel foreign troops now the question is how will the government react to rewards for this show of force here and how will the iraqi streets react of course the months of antigovernment protests that we have seen one of the hallmarks is a big anti in rainy and sentiment
And bringing in the new year that is australia and before that museum and leading the way in our showing in 2020 were taking a look back as well at some of the stories that made headlines in 2019. And porous with the sport including the disappearance of a football is father colombias world cup made failed it demands answers from the new head of the countrys army. So were going to start with those unprecedented scenes of anger at the largest u. S. Diplomatic post in the world members of an iranian backed group and their supporters marched into the heavily fortified green zone in the iraqi capital baghdad and surrounded the u. S. Embassy some even managed to break into part of the compound a security post at the entrance of the building was set on fire they were risp. On doing to those u. S. Airstrikes in iraq and syria on sunday where camps belonging to the iranian backed Group Hezbollah brigades were struck violence erupted on the same day funerals are being held for the fighters who w
Thousands in the southeast surrounded by bushfires forcing many to take refuge on the beaches. Jonah hall in london with the top stories from europe including 20 years after putin came to power we look back on 2 decades of russias strongman leader. Pole race with the sport including disappearance of a football this fall that colombias world cup made failed it demands from the new head of the countrys. United states is deploying additional troops to secure its embassy in baghdad after members and supporters of an iranian backed group marched into the green zone and surrounded the heavily fortified compound some managed to break into part of the facility a security post at the entrance to the building was set on fire as well they were responding to us and strikes in iraq and syria on sunday when camps belonging to the iranian backed group has been abrogated. Were targeted the violence all erupted on the same day funerals were being held for the fighters whove been killed in the u. S. Air