Waiting 20 kilograms heavier than his title rival and just what saudi arabia is getting ready to host the middle east and the heavyweight championship fight. Ok we begin in iraq where theres been a dramatic escalation of violence in whats already been a chaotic 2 months of antigovernment unrest an attack by unidentified gunmen on protesters in baghdad killed at least 23. 00 people raising new security concerns they stormed one of the main protest sites in Killarney Square on friday night less than 24 hours after that attack gunfire has again been heard in the capital on saturday sending people running for cover and what appears to be a related event sources close to the prominent shia cleric. Say a drone has dropped a bomb on his home in jaffa his party says he wasnt there at the time he has been a backer of the antigovernment protests which have swept across the country. Lets get more now from correspondent dosage of body he joins us from baghdad door so as to what happened to those h
Rock and less than 24 hours after protesters were gunned down there has been more violence in the streets of the capital. And fire was again heard in parts of baghdad people running for cover on friday night a group of armed men attacked a group of protesters near Kalani Square killing at least 20 people more than 70 others were wounded and in what seems to be a related escalation sources close to a prominent shia cleric. Say his home has been hit by a drone strike it happened in the city of new jobs were still getting details but his party says all saddam was not in the country at the time of the attack or more in the reports of the attack aimed at one of the most powerful figures in iraq. Weve just heard from various sources from the largest Political Blog within parliament that there has been an attempt on the life of the cleric shia cleric coveralls souther his compound in the holy city of najaf was apparently attacked by an armed drone overnight in that city you know we dont know
In iraq there has been a dramatic escalation of violence in what has already been such a chaotic 2 months of antigovernment protest there was an attack by an identified gunman on protesters in baghdad that killed at least 23 people and raise new security concerns they stormed one of the main protest sites in Killarney Square on friday night and 24 hours after that gunfire was again heard in baghdad sending people running for cover and in what looks like a related event there are reports one home was hit by a drone strike but the Influential Shiite cleric is said to have been away at the time is in baghdad and says the violence is likely to continue if no action is taken by the government. It certainly complicates things in an already very complicated country we heard from the president who has called this attack a cowardly act by criminals and we also know that there has been a call for parliament to hold an emergency session on sunday with various heads of security apparatuses in the
A step back and see to believe them people cannot believe like this. Live from moscow thanks for joining us in r. T. International. 11 am here in the capital welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump chose to spend his thanksgiving taking part in the perfect photo opportunity paying his 1st ever visit to afghanistan and greeting american troops based there and he had a message for them in another apparent u. Turn he told them that talks with the taliban declared dead 2 months ago are back on. To get some more updates on this maria what exactly is behind this visit well while they call it a surprise visit to afghanistan the motives behind it are rather clear ending the war in afghanistan almost decade long bloody conflict that america was. That took so Many American lives and so Many American dollars has always been a focus for mr trump and he came to afghanistan on thanksgiving to demonstrate he is in charge hes controlling everything and everything is according to his plan a
Launched an antitrust probe against google using it of unfair practices. Welcome to the program britains briggs it crisis remains in a deadlock with parliament again throwing out the Prime Ministers call for a general election its Boris Johnson 6 parliamentary lost in 6 days and means hell be compelled to go to brussels in october to either strike a new brigs deal or ask for an extension something which he says hes not going to do m. P. s voted to force the government to publish its assessment of how a no deal brags it would affect the country they also want private communications on the decision to suspend parliament to be made public and those votes are the last significant move parliament will make for almost 5 weeks against intense protests from the house of commons its now been shut down critics say this is johnsons tactic to stop more parliamentary interference in his plans well Andrew Symonds reports now on the days events. The ice of the rights 293. 00 notice the length 46. 00