Announces an end to the lockdown will not be an end to restrictions. U. N. Member states will take part in a call to end up stalemate on the budget. The United States has announced plans to reduce troop levels in afghanistan and iraq. They will go from 2500 4500 to 2500 in afghanistan. Allies had warned against a quick withdrawal of troops. A chief said a hasty pullout could be a platform for international terrorists. Our correspondent has more from washington. We have very Little Information because the new acting defense secretary gave very few details about this announcement of reduction of troops. He did not answer any questions. What he said was the troops staying there would be doing counterterrorism as well as protecting the u. S. Embassies in both countries. Also protecting local government facilities. There is a question that he did not specify or go into detail about. The fact that there is also a lot of very important equipment in those two countries and a question of whether that will be staying or coming back to the United States. Many have criticized the defense secretary for not giving details upon this announcement of troop reduction. There is also the fact that he insisted this was not changing any of the policies or the goals of the United States in the country. That it was simply going along with the promise that donald trump had made. A promise he made in 2016 and that he made over and over again throughout his four years in office and as he was campaigning this year, saying that he would put in and to the endless wars and bringing the troops back. He has fallen short of that, because there are a few thousand troops who will be staying there. It is a symbolic reduction as donald trump is set to be leaving office. The date is important, the troop reduction happening january 15 which is five days before the inauguration. Iraqs military says that for rockets struck baghdads green zone tonight. That signals the end of an informal truce last month. The rockets landed 600 meters from the u. S. Embassy. France has become the first european country to record more than 2 million coronavirus cases. It has been under lockdown since october 29. That has led to a decline in new daily cases. A Prime Minister said how france would put an end to the walk down. He said it would not be a return to the freedom the people saw last summer. All of our energy must go into making this face successful. In order to be well prepared for the next one. The faster or the better we see progress on a Public Health level during this current phase of lockdown, the more changes we can make and move to the next stage. It will not be a return to what we saw after the first lockdown. That means there will be more restrictions in place. Now to the race for coronavirus vaccine. The government has preordered 90 million doses of a vaccine. The distrust tort of potential vaccine is very high and many are worried it will hinder the effectiveness once it becomes available. Officials have indicated they are in favor of making the vaccination mandatory. Excitement or skepticism, the french have reacted to the prospect of a vaccine with mixed feelings. In a recent survey, 54 said they would agree to take the jab while nearly two thirds are against making it obligatory. Many have spoken in favor of such a move. Can france forced people to be vaccinated . The short answer is yes. Lawmakers are Public Health and combat the spread of an epidemic or a serious disease make vaccine mandatory for the french people. I believe we are in a situation like that. As stipulated by the law, Frances National Health Authority is in charge of making recommendations about a vaccine. Eventually, it is up to the Health Ministry to decide. In 2018, the government made 12 vaccinations compulsory for schoolage children. For the time being, when it comes to a vid19 vaccine, the National Health authority has already opposed a national shot. In light of the uncertainty surrounding the delivery of the first doses of the vaccine and the fact we dont know enough about a potential vaccine and its ability to limit the spread of the virus, making it mandatory would be just unjustified. Adding that doing so could be counterproductive. Sparking a backlash from the french public. France is already among the countries with the lowest acceptance rate of a covid19 vaccine. Germany is urging eu Member States to put their differences aside in order to adopt the 1. 8 trillion euro budget. It includes 750 billion euro covid rick covid fund. The veto was not unexpected. The veracity of the reaction was very intense and the rhetoric on this doesnt seem to be dissipating. It is getting more and more tense. Today, we had reactions in credulity from politicians and European Business leaders. The president of euro chambers, the Umbrella Organization of the chambers of Congress Commerce said it was shocking that hungary and poland would block these muchneeded funds. The dutch Prime Minister said that if this rule of law mechanism that they object to is taken out of the budget, the netherlands may veto the budget because they will insist that it remains in. Positions are getting more entrenched. The majority of eu countries who want this mechanism, they say this is the only time to do it. The power of the purse, the ability to prevent funds from going to countries who violate the rule of law is one of the only effective tools the eu has to deal with this authoritarian drift in eastern europe. Setting these budget rules only happens once every seven years. If they dont do it now, they wont get another chance for seven years. Poland and hungary say that the eu is blackmailing them into what they see as curtailing their sovereignty to make their own decisions about how they run the country. Todays meeting of ministers did not seem to settle this. We will have more meetings by foreign ministers, Prime Ministers, and president s. The arguments are going to go on all week. At least 41 people have been hurt in bangkok after clashes between protesters and police. Demonstrators are calling for more accountability from the royal family and for the Prime Minister to settle down. The prodemocracy movement has been staging mass rallies for months and they are becoming more determined. A throng of protesters is held back from the Thai Parliament building but not for long as the police retreat and the demonstrators breakthrough. They are demanding changes to the constitution, which was enacted during military rule and grants powers to elected officials. They are calling for the Prime Minister to resign. He won last year due to the support of the unelected senate. Most controversially, they want the monarchy reformed with more accountability and less control over the royal fortune. The last demand is unprecedented in a country where defaming the king is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. They turned out for a counterprotests leading to clashes between the two camps. [speaking foreign language] with all that going on outside, mps have begun discussing how to rewrite the constitution. With months of debates ahead, the government considers the monarchy untouchable and is almost certain to reject any attempt to change its status. Iota may have been downgraded , but it continues to eak havoc across central america. It slammed into nicaragua as a category four hurricane. The region is still reeling from the effects of another hurricane databank which affected the same region. Two storms hitting the same area in such close succession is unprecedented. This was the eye of hurricane iota. It almost looked serene. On the ground, it caused nothing but chaos. It weakened to a Tropical Storm as it made landfall but it left a trail of destruction in its wake. For authorities, it was a race against the clock to save 40,000 people. It will go down as the strongest storm to hit nicaragua on record. [speaking foreign language] before making landfall in nicaragua, it had already devastated a cluster of islands in the caribbean province. It destroyed 90 of infrastructure on one of the islands. The archipelago was cut off for more than 14 hours as a result. Now, all hands are on deck to get the islands back on their feet. [speaking foreiglanguage] the region is still reeling from the last hurricane that killed 74 people. Scientists say Climate Change is to blame for the frequency of the storms battling central america. In peru, the countrys president has been sworn in. This comes after a tumultuous past few days on sunday. The interim president resigned after just five days in power following massive protests. Those demonstrations began after a popular leader was impeached on corruption grounds. Two people were killed in the protest. The Trump Administration plans to withdraw dozens of troops from afghanistan and iraq u. S. Military officials and nato allies say its a bad idea. France becomes the first european country to record more than 2 million coronavirus cases. This comes as the Prime Minister warns an end to the lockdown will not mean an end to restrictions. Eu Member States will take part in a video call this thursday to try to end the stalemate on the blocks budget. They are calling on poland and hungary to lift their veto on the deal. Its time for business with a socially distant kate. The online giant, amazon, has seen a surge in popularity during the pandemic. Now there is an effort to push back against it in the lead up to christmas. A petition has been launched by a number of activist groups and the mayor ofaris and lobbying groups that support small business. It calls for a christmas without amazon. It is addressed to santa claus but it is really shoppers who are being asked to boycott the behemoth. Even if there is less in person shopping, they ask more and more independent retailers are setting up websites and Pickup Services and this is the time to support them. This is part of a growing movement of businesses to kick back against the second loc down. They feel that they have been penalized by the restrictions and that amazon and big chains are reaping the benefits. The headline date is november the 27th. That is black friday. The day after the u. S. Holiday of thanksgiving when stores around the world again to slash their prices to draw in shoppers and kick off the holiday season. The french lockdown is due to end on the first of december but there has been a push for nonessential stores to be able to open a few days early to benefit from the shopping rush which might otherwise be done online. The french government resisting those calls sing that these restrictions need to stay in place through the end of the lockdown, december 1 to try to control the virus. Pushed back against amazon, but the country is company is pushing into New Territory in the u. S. There has been lots of criticism about amazon including its working conditions, how much tax it pays, but it continues to expand. It is said it will hire 100,000 Seasonal Workers for the christmas time and on tuesday, it confirmed it will be opening an Online Pharmacy in the u. S. Customers will be able to fill prescriptions and have it shipped directly to their homes. It will accept most u. S. Insurance plans and it could offer savings for people who dont have Health Insurance when compared to traditional pharmacies. Established rivals like walgreens and write a saw there stock drop after this news. As more more people get used to having products delivered to their front doors, amazons dominance in the ecommerce sector could mean danger for them. Global stock markets have been volatile in recent weeks. How are they doing today . With some major rallies on monday over optimism about a potential vaccine. Today closed mixed. The dow jones was down about 150 points on the closing bell. The nasdaq also gave up earlier modest gains. Investors are responding to the retail sales in the u. S. That grew less than expected last month. That paints a picture of a challenging few months ahead because Consumer Spending is the backbone of the u. S. Economy and it will be key for economic recovery. Tesla shares closed higher after it was confirmed that they will be able to start training trading on the s p 500 as of december. Tesla would be the top 10 most valuable companies to trade on the index. The surge in shareprice has added 15 billion to the personal wealth of elon musk. He has now taken on Mark Zuckerberg as the third richest person in the world. We will leave back with poor news in minute. We will be back with more news and a minute. Much of city remains in ruin. Despite this, covid19 has been a major driver in motivating tents thousands who have arrived home in recent months. This man and his family were among them. [speaking foreign language] coronavirus had affected so many peoples lives. There are some people who work here and their families live in camps somewhere else. Some were afraid that the checkpoints might close again and movement would not be allowed between provinces which would stop them from seeing their families so they brought their families back here. s home was destroyed by isis. It has been damaged by the bombing of the neighboring houses. They are renovating the place and they are doing a good job and i think they will finish their work in a week. Nrc said they face many challenges. There are a lot of shelter needs and also job opportunities. Lack of basic services such as electrical, drinking water. In addition, there are isis may be gone, but it has been replaced by competing forces. Some affiliated with iran, others with the pkk. A Group Fighting against turkey but also occupies territory in iraq. I dont know who to point to. There are so many forces, so Many Political tensions here. The security situation is not good enough these days because of the forces that are here now. People are scared because of the tensions between the forces. In october, an agreement to return control of security in the iraqi state was returned. This is the advisor to the kdp government. The aim with disagreement resistance to the forces which are outlawed organizations. They are outlaws they came from other countries. The fact they are recruiting others in the area is not mean they are an official force. Complicating matters further was the fact that many groups are part of the Popular Mobilization forces, a collection of paramilitary considered to be state forces. Under escort, we traveled to meet with one such faction. The Resistance Unit a group closely affiliated with the pkk. Its commander has rejected the curtis dan agreement that would obligate them to leave. Where would we go . How come they signed such an offensive agreement . It is in favor of the kdp. It looks like a massacre just. It looks like a man massacre to us. Affiliation with the pkk makes them unpopular with the at the same time, many resent the kdp which they consider to have abandoned them to isis in 2014. While the pkk cam to their aid. We cant forget about the help that they gave us back in that time when our elders, mothers, and fathers and people who could not say themselves. The pkk came and they carried them on their backs and they brought them up the mountain to scue them. [speaking foreign language] with such a complex web of rivalries making the armed groups, there is little consensus over who should take control. While many displaced people are just returning to their homeland, the rejection of the new agreement threatens to destabilize the region again. Appointed by the dictator next in line to the spanish throne. The first was the democratic transition. Today, he may turn out to be the cause of the monarchies downfall. The scandals never seem to stop. Heelinquished the throne and went into exile in the uae. Discredited and vulnerable, the monarchy is now supported only by a minority. For whatever reason, it doesnt seem unduly lurid worried. Is it possible to visit a third republic in spain . Revisited. 11 17 20 11 17 20 [captioning made possible by democracy now ] amy from new york, this is democracy now this is not the time for complacency. While we continue to receive encouraging news about covid19 vaccines, we are extremely concerned by the surging cases we are saying in some countries, particularly in europe and the americas. Amy as the u. S. Covid19 death
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