And lives in australia the military is on standby as lightning starts even more bushfires. Protesting on into 2020 of the defiance is set to continue in hong kong. And the city of lights and lock this is right now the latest city cheering a new day. Iraqi protesters have taken their rage against u. S. Airstrikes on a shia group to americas Embassy Hundreds of people marched into the heavily fortified green zone and surrounded the embassy in the iraqi capital baghdad some of them managed to storm the compound and set a security post on fire they were angry over some. These u. S. Airstrikes in iraq and syria targeting a powerful iranian backed group the hezbollah brigades on iraqi soil the incident at the embassy happened as funerals were being held for the fighters killed in the u. S. Air strikes the u. S. Is deploying additional troops to reinforce the Diplomatic Mission its blamed iran for the unrest on tuesday but tehran denies it had anything to do with it simona fulton begins our c
Of emergency in southeastern australia where catastrophic bushfire conditions back. So that we begin in iraq where thousands have been attending a procession for those killed in fridays u. S. Airstrikes targeting Major General cause some sort of money the formal funeral has been underway for the top iranian commander as well as. The Deputy Commander of the around by Popular Mobilization forces behind us will later be buried in not just in iraq so the monies body meanwhile will be flown to iran lets go straight to baghdad where zone pinch of aid is standing by and is ahmed just take us through the days events have things gone. Well dick in this warning we got the funeral procession under way from just the outskirts of the green zone in baghdad moving to words meant shyam and then towards karbala and then another for it would be the final resting place of 100 the 2nd in command of the Popular Mobilization forces along with class into the money the leader of the force the mood here has be
Ith private sector partners. We have managed to support 15,000 Women Farmers to grow strategic crops fruits and vegetables them to market. As commented on, we have supported distancelearning programs that have provided some access to education for afghan girls and weve managed to work in the Healthcare Industry particularly training women doctors and midwives to be able to meet those needs as well. It is challenging. It is not easy and it requires all of our creativity and all the creativity of our partners but we are doing our best to make sure even under these circumstances come afghan women and girls are not left behind. I have 20 more questions but my time is expired so i will, yield back to make room for my colleagues. Thank you very much, Ranking Member manning. And of course i look forward to your questions being submitted at a later time which is part of the rules that we will be very happy to provide them. As we proceed i recognize myself and in my Opening Statement i mention
Norway conducted by norwegians it was obvious to partner up with the Norwegian Embassy soar to say a few words to our friends specifically to the minister counselor for communication and Cultural Affairs and education at the Norwegian Embassy he served in washington for about 10 months and previously in the immediately preceding was in at the Foreign Ministry but also in good diplomatic fashioning countries as well as in the kansas to land and morocco and the entire Region Embassy are good friends who have a number of interesting evens with them were delighted to work with them and have them here so perhaps a few words from our norwegian friends . [applause] good evening. Were glad to work with best buy museum. Thank you for this program to hear about the events to hear about the history of my own country and it does not take a bigger part to reshape the worlds history because that might have been devastating so just a few days ago in norway celebrated the 71st anniversary of the surre
Inventors entrepreneurs and high Tech Professionals talk about their vision successes and day to day business to present. It in history in the everyone. Seems to. Be pushing. Digital africa starts december twelfth w. Subir is pushing ahead with moves to join the European Union but brussels is so far unimpressed with its reforms my guest this week visiting violin is the serbian Prime Minister and not burn a bridge why so little progress on so many key issues. Prime
minister anna boden of which welcome to conflict zone thank you very much thank you for inviting one of the conditions for serbia joining the e. U. Is that you signed a Legally Binding Agreement on peaceful relations with kosovo which declared its independence in Two Thousand And Eight youve never recognized that these talks come and go sometimes their own sometimes theyre off why should the e. U. Bother with all this feuding and bilateral disputes that you have with cost of oil have too much trouble for the launch. I think a