War choose the most appalling humanitarian disasters. Are watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. The pentagon insists its been honest after washingtons own watchdog for afghan reconstruction accuse the military leadership of routine lies over progress in americas longest war. Has more. Common cynicism aside most people would prefer that those responsible for leading the country tell the truth and this is most especially true when it comes to situations like war where the lives of the men and women in the armed forces are on the line well according to the special inspector for afghan reconstruction the pentagon has been lying for years the problem is theres a disincentive really to tell the truth we have created an incentive to almost require or for people to la theres an odor of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity and who b
And russia marks 77 years since the breaking of the siege of leningrad one of world war 2 is a most appalling humanitarian crisis its. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. The pentagon insists its been honest after washingtons own watchdog for afghan reconstruction accuse the military leadership of routine lies over progress and americas longest war. Has more. Common cynicism aside most people would prefer that those responsible for leading the country tell the truth and this is most especially true when it comes to situations like war where the lives of the men and women in the armed forces are on the line well according to the special inspector for afghan reconstruction the pentagon has been lying for years the problem is theres a disincentive really to tell the truth we have created an incentive to almost require or for people to law there is an odor of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue and i know c
A strong show of support for exiled president morales. A new wave of israeli air strikes in gaza has killed 10 people air raid sirens have also sounded in southern israel 20 palestinians have died since sunday i mean tuesday pardon me when israel killed a Senior Commander of the armed Group Islamic jihad fighters in gaza have responded by firing around 220 rockets towards israel egypt and other International Officials are working to mediate a ceasefire between israel hamas and Islamic Jihad joins us live from near the israel gaza border so what is what is the latest right now gary. Well the things seem to have come down to a certain extent there was another alert in the area around gaza just 10 minutes or so ago but not the kind of virus that we saw earlier this morning however the israeli airstrikes have been continuing certainly throughout the morning and we heard some of them from here a couple of hours ago and the numbers of deaths have increased quite substantially inside gaza as
Homes like many others in the slums of dhaka mohammad for he is a migrant from another part of bangladesh. Where displaced the river rose and we dont own any lengthy rounds any government homes we very poor we live day to day if we get some help then we may rebuild in make a living Authorities Say they have made arrangements so that the slum dwellers left homeless by the fire can stay in schools in the neighborhood for now john are a big and says she has nowhere to go and not much to eat. C money to get there was a fire here and we had to flee with no time to take anything with us if anyone gives astute then we can eat we just live in the street now its not clear how many people are homeless according to the government about 750 shanties were burned down and 450 damaged. And one where a big loss to life savings modeler barrel i had 12 and everything was burned i barely escaped with what im wearing now i had some gold and around 3500. 00 in cash but i couldnt bring anything with me i ju
See, am in the centre of your lens and it is raining quite hard at the moment. What we are experiencing is southern downpours of rain. Forecasters are warning the rain will become more persistent. That is what they are really worried about. The conditions that preceded this storm meant that the Mississippi River was very high, swollen to flooding levels already, and forecasters are predicting there could be up to two feet of rain to fall in the next 48 hours. It is going to land on already saturated ground. The street behind me was flooded three days ago. As i said, the Mississippi River is already high. So they are worried there could still be some flooding in new o rlea ns. Could still be some flooding in new orleans. We had some good news today. This storm was downgraded from a hurricane as it made landfall toa from a hurricane as it made landfall to a Tropical Storm again. But parts of the coast in particular, are still experiencing very strong winds of up to 70 mph and some floodi