Challenges that australia is facing with the wildfires that are impacting australia in such a dramatic and negative way. And they are in our thoughts and in our prayers. As well, we also are focused on the passenger list of the aircraft that was lost in iran two days ago. All of those souls are in our thoughts and in our prayers today. Im john allen. Im the president of the brookings institution. And were very honored to have you with us. Happy new year. Were very pleased this morning to welcome the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy, who is our distinguished guest and our great ally in helping to study the future of the United States army, the defense department, and the challenges that we face in the security environment. Secretary mccarthy was confirmed last year by the u. S. Senate, and after having served in that capacity as an acting secretary for a number of months, he has now assumed the full responsibilities on all the matters relating to our great United States army, to inc
Since the beginning of the year. Im actually i guess the chief Law Enforcement officer of the country a group of us federal judges condemn a President Trumpet using him up overstepping his legal boundaries. Began in libya where efforts to bring peace have suffered yet another setback internationally recognized government has suspended involvement and talks in geneva after war Khalifa Haftar forces attacked the capital sport at least 3 people were killed in that assault that port is a main entry point by sea for supplies to libya after its forces say their target was an arms depot has been trying to capture the capital since april cheerful his government is now insisting the peace talks cannot continue until the world firmly responds to what it calls violations of diplomatic editor james bays reports. The port in the libyan capital tripoli under attack general half his forces carried out the rocket strikes about the same time the talks were resuming in geneva and immediately put the fat
His country will not be able to cope with the influx warning of consequences for europe too also coming up afghanistans president to a struct county appears to have been reelected by a narrow margin in the long delayed results from septembers election but his rival of below below warns he wont concede. Plus firefighters in australia hope of tracon scorching weather will help them battle the massive bushfires raging across vast stretches the country at least 6 people have done and more than 100 homes have been destroyed. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us Syrian Government forces backed by russia and other allies are pushing to retake the it liberates in the last major bit of rebel held territory in syria and hope. Home to 3000000 people tens of thousands are fleeing the violence heading towards turkey turkeys president edge of time fears they could eventually enter turkey which is already home to nearly 3700000 syrians the largest refugee population in the world everyone ha
How illegal guns from the u. S. Of fueling violence in mexico. And in sport the professional Footballers Association calls on the government to stop the racism in the English Premier League comes after Chelsea Player antonio riggers says he was racially abused during his sides win at talk now. It warm welcome to this hour of news well we begin with breaking news saudi arabias Public Prosecutor says 5 people have been sentenced to death and 3 sentenced to 24 years in prison for the murder of saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi the closed door trial was held at the criminal court in the capital riyadh the identities of the convicted havent been released because she was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul last year the crime Prince Mohammed bin solomon said he had no prior knowledge of the operation well mohamed has 0 is live for us and hi there mohamed so lets talk 1st of all about the verdict will do we know. What we know is that far ive been sentenced to death 3 would get prison s
Leaders of ukraine and russia meet for the 1st time theyll be in paris for a summit that aims to put an end to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine so will the 2 leaders find a solution and charge of a way forward and whats at stake this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im home here in ukraine elected a president in april whose top priority was to end the conflicts in the east more than 13000 people have been killed during the fighting there between the Ukrainian Army and russian backed separatists and i for the 1st time since he came into office lot of years are in ski is meeting russian president Vladimir Putin where french and german leaders are mediating the talks taking place in paris on monday the socalled Normandy Group last met to discuss ways to end the fighting more than 3 years ago but president selenski is optimistic he can bring peace to Eastern Ukraine but his critics see him as a political novice and fear he might give away too much in his quest for peace as