About free speech and sport the biggest ever edition of the Southeast Asian games that is efficiently underway developing the host nation for the regions largest multisport and that. Fellow iraqs cabinet has met to discuss the Prime Ministers Office of resignation meeting was called to find a political solution after 2 months of antigovernment protest demand he says the government has done everything to meet the protesters demands but demonstrators disagree and say they wont back down they vowed to continue protesting until theres a complete political overall more than 400 people have been killed across the country since the protests began in october. Good morning now from see mona fulton who is live for us in baghdad so simona what is the latest there thats happening. Well the violence appears to have gone down after 2 very violent days that claimed a lot of lives but the aftermath of what has happened still very much reverberates not just here for her square but the entire nation for
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R c s army says its killed a senior rebel leader while a mall busy reported to have launched 2 people suspected of being from the same militia. Including the draw for the euro 2020 foreigners has taken place with france germany and portugal all drawn together. Hello welcome to the news our top story iraqs Prime Minister has officially handed in his resignation to parliament. He held an emergency meeting with his cabinet and asked the lower house to debate his resignation he said he had no choice but to leave his post. I suppose my resignation was essential to this the crisis and calm the situation in the country i hope the parliament choose a quick alternative for the country because the situation in the country cant handle a caretaker government for a long. But matty submitting his resignation has done little to calm the protesters around the country after weeks of unrest demonstrators clashed with Security Forces after trying to block the road in baghdad medical Officials Say 3 prote
A journalists. Making themselves heard protestors across latin america hold simultaneous demonstrations. The white house says it will not take part in the next step of the impeachment inquiry into u. S. President donald trump he had been given a sunday deadline to say whether he would send legal representation to a hearing on wednesday well the white house says it will respond separately regarding a 2nd hearing which has a friday deadline the u. S. President is under scrutiny for asking ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son in exchange for military aid. So lets take a look at what will be a big week ahead in the impeachment inquiry into the us president will members of the House Intelligence Committee receive a copy of the impeachment report and will outline the findings of its investigation into trumps dealings with ukraine theyll have 24 hours to review the report they will then be a vote on tuesday afternoon to move it forward to the next stage that being proceedings in the H
Government has approved a law to dismantle the regime of former president Omar Al Bashir the countrys Prime Minister says the decision was not a matter of of the news but aimed at preserving the dignity of the sudanese people bashir was removed from office in april after months of antigovernment protests. Iraqi Security Forces have opened fire on crowds in a Southern City as antigovernment protests worsen at least 33 people are reported dead after the protest in nasiriyah and another 11 deaths in the jeff. On wednesday the iranian consulate in the job was set on fire. Death. In at uk a dramatic escalation hundreds of antigovernment protesters storming the compound of the iranian consulate Late Wednesday in the Southern City of najaf setting parts of the Diplomatic Mission on fire replacing an iranian flag with people instead of how to go when the consulate was set on file all the broad police in the job and the Security Forces started firing and as if we were burning a rock as a whole