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
Gave an interview tuesday evening to c. B. S. News new United States he basically called the protests outside the embassy a very serious situation but said at no time was the u. S. Ever considering evacuating the embassy in his words he said that iran was directly responsible he said again in his words this is all for stems from irans state sponsored terrorism that according to the secretary of state and if thats not enough tuesday evening as well the president of the United States donald trump sent out a tweet where he again pointed the finger directly at iran i want to read you exactly what the president said in a tweet tweet he said iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost or damage incurred at any of our facilities they will pay a very big price this is not a warning this is a threat before finishing the tweet with happy new year so what youre hearing here is basically pompei on one side saying our embassy is now safe its under control but on another hand potentially more
Earthquake in the southern philippines at least 4 people have been killed. And im planning how much with sport arsenals and mr turtle angers the china with his comments on treatment of we go muslims beijing says hes been deceived by faith news. Where we begin in lebanon where the president has been planning to hold consultations with Political Parties to decide on a new Prime Minister now thats been postponed until thursday lebanon of course to see months of protests against corruption and sectarianism that it eventually led see the resignation of Prime Minister saad hariri but there is a possibility he will return to see the job if hes appointed by president michel aoun while many people are unhappy with fast in the past 2 nights of protests in the capital beirut have ends is in violence lets get more now form our correspondent in beirut saying the harder it stands. By frizzy that we were expecting a Prime Minister to be. House of course being delayed. Well guess just minutes before l
Days sporting including china says arsenals mesut ozil has been deceived by fake news over his comments about week or mostly. Their warm welcome to this hour the u. N. Security council is meeting to discuss peace and security in west africa just days after fighting. 7. From the sheriffs army near the border with mali earlier leaders in the sun halo region also hold an emergency meeting in asia to discuss the escalating attacks well go live to kristen salumi at the United Nations for the latest on those talks shortly well also be live in malis capital bamako where but address is standing by for us but 1st he has this report. These are desperate times to africa have we jim armed groups are inflicting heavy losses to armies and forcing thousands of civilians from their homes. Leaders of the countries affected nor does g 5 scrambled this meeting in yemi to urgently find a solution almost president mohamed use of force says the frequency of sophistication of recent attacks is wars of. The s
And we will meet a yemeni entrepreneur defying all the odds to keep the countrys famed jewelry traditions alive. So were looking at lebanon where the president had been planning to hold consultations with Political Parties to decide on a new Prime Minister but that has been postponed until thursday of course lebanon seen months of protests against corruption and sectarianism which eventually led to the resignation of Prime Minister hariri but there is a possibility he will return to the job if hes appointed by the president michel aoun thats my demonstrators angry protests over the last 2 nights have ended in violence of course one as any father is in beirut she has more now on those Political Consultations that have been put off. The constitutional process to appoint a Prime Minister and form a new government was supposed to begin now the president s palace issued a statement saying that those parliamentary consultations have been postponed until thursday in that statement it mentions