After Spains Supreme Court jails nine separatists over cataolnias failed bid for independence. And englands euro 2020 qualifier with bulgaria in sofia was temporarily halted twice in the first half, with fans warned about racist behaviour. The escalating consequences of Donald Trumps decision to pull us troops out of Northern Syria are profound and multi faceted. First, after years of fighting each other, kurdish fighters and the Syrian Military are now on the same side. Syrias army is helping the kurds resist the turkish offensive which began when america in effect gave it the green light. Syrian Government Forces have arrived in key kurdish held towns in the north including ain issa and manbij. For now, they are not being deployed to tal ab yad and ras al ain, where turkeys attacks have focused. Even so, this new alliance is remarkable, and it has changed the state of play in syria. Orla guerin is there. Well in less than a week, president erdogan has created a dangerous new reality
في a 2 30 pm capital tahiwan, this is press tv news, thanks for joining us, no end inside to this israely massacre of palestinians as the regime pushes its bombing of the besiege gaza strip for the 17th consecutive day. The latest air strikes sent plums of smoke spiring over northern gaza strip. Thats after the regime killed 70 palestinians in its attack overnight on sunday. Hundreds of thousands of gazans have already moved south to take refuge in temporary shelters. However, israel is also hitting the areas that they have fled to. The un agency for palestinian refugees, known as annarwa, also says it has lost at least 29 of its staff in israeli bombings. More than 4700 palestinians have been killed since the regime launched its onslot on gaza over two weeks ago. More than 16,000 people have also been wounded. Israel says one of his troops was killed and three others were injured during raid into the gaza strip. The Israeli Military Spokesman Says the raid was carried out as part of
Offensive into the strip if necessary. Minister and i have told the army to prepare to widen significantly the ground operations. The cabinet has already approved that option. Mikeperation launched last comes after israel accepted the egyptian ceasefire proposal and humanitarian truce. In both cases, hamas kept firing. We launched it because otherwise we would have had to pay a much heavier price. Joining us now live from israel is the spokesman for the israeli Prime Minister benjamin not who benjamin netanyahu. Thank you for being with us this friday. After 10 days of bombardment from both sides, have been two israeli casualties, one a soldier, and over 260 palestinians. This offensive into the gaza strip appears to be punishing all palestinians. , not just militants how can israel justify such force . First of all, im not going to apologize for the low level of israeli casualties. We have made a major effort to protect our people in bomb shelters, sirens, early warning, and the antim
Guidance that has led us down a path where we now have 5 million folks with security clearances and access to the nations most Sensitive Information and facilities. Would you like to think about it, brian . Go ahead. I do not mean to interrupt. I just wanted to clarify we are very sensitive to what you say about that number. As a 5 million number that you are referring to covers both people with security clearances as well as people eligible for access. And being sensitive to that number as you mentioned 5 million of anything is a lot. Is. Spin and because of that, recently and speak of the devil as you mentioned, on halloween, the dni signed an executive correspondence going out to all of the Government Agencies stating that they need to they are required to go through their clearance list and validate the numbers and come back to the people that are being decreased from the clearances and get back with us with that information. When will they get back to you . They were given 90 days
So thank you. So we are at 1 30, so im going to draw us to a close. I want to thank my panelists here today. Thank all of you for being here and for your contributions today and for, most importantly, for the work that provides the basis for you to comment today. I want to thank don graves for being with us and setting the stage so nicely. Thank the annie e. Casey foundation for their support for this event. I want to note a couple things. One is that the papers and not just the microenterprise ones, but there is a web site, big ideas for jobs. Org, and you can find all of the papers there. We are the second event here at aspen focusing on a couple other papers for the series. Theyre not focused specifically on the opportunities and policies that could support the work that social enterprises do, that anchor institutions like hospitals and educational institutions and others can do to create jobs, again, specifically focused on individuals and communities that have the largest challeng