Financial and social disaster. A region already destabilised by war, where another humanitarian crisis is unfolding. The worst Case Scenario is that people who werent killed by the earthquake are killed by the failure to get aid to them after the earthquake. Across turkey and syria, families were woken by a massive earthquake. This ten storey Apartment Block collapsed, the rubble trapping residents. My colleague, selin gerit, went to meet a woman who lived on the third floor. Dilek s father and brother also died. The earthquake s epicentre was close to the turkish syrian border. It was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks. 13 year old rola was at home injindires, North West Syria, when it happened. This happened at a depth of around 15 to 20 kilometres. What this means is its shallow enough that those first waves are really powerful, and if they reach the surface quickly, they still have a lot of energy and they can cause a huge amount of damage. In iskenderun, Southern Turkey,
Middle east was between saudi arabia and iran and it looked like they would come up against each other but instead they fought proxy wars in yemen especially. Theres been a rapprochement between them recently and the military itself, it is huge, but if you look back, things have changed and look at the Iran Iraq War in the 805, although they had a massive advantage in terms of the people in the army, they were not able to defeat iraq, 5o people in the army, they were not able to defeat iraq, so i dont think at the moment we are looking at an Iranian Military entering into at an Iranian Military entering into a major conflict. This will be, for now, unless they go to an extraordinary situation which will be a major issue for everyone across the globe. They will look to be using pressure as weve seen with hamas and hezbollah, weve seen an incremental rise in skirmishes on the border between israel and laverton but we are not seeing any major escalation where the Rules Of Engagement have
A very bizarre interview. On the move 51 million americans traveling to thanksgiving week. Airlines bracing for record numbers. Will you be one of them . We have all you need to know before you hit the road. A giant media merger blocked. Baby on board. An officer intervenes. One hand and son in the other. Why did the elfapt cross the road . Well tell you the story behind this astonishing sight. Today is tuesday, november 21st, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Everybody, welcome to today. Its a tuesday morning. We find ourselves with more breaking news. We have a top story this morning. Another prominent media figure waking up to find himself embroiled in a Sexual Harassment scandal. This morning its veteran journalist charlie rose who is now facing accusations from more than a dozen women over allegations of misconduct ranging from crude sexual advances to groping. As a result, he has been pu
Hello. After four and a half years of fighting in syria, its the president s first real admission that Government Forces are struggling. In a speech to the nation assad said his army is tired and lacks numbers. In order to claim victory admitted that his forces may have to concede some territory to their enemies. We have the report. Reporter for the First Time Since the war began in syria, president Bashar Al Assad admits Government Forces have a problem, and theyve been forced to abandon some areas. Translator we do have new recruits every day. The military is caring out the mission, but the syrian army is sometimes required to give up areas in order to hold on in more important areas. We are in a fateful period and there are no compromise solutions. Reporter assad tried to put up a brave face. Translator in order to win and succeed in anything, everybody gets tired. It is quite normal that the state, the army gets tired, but the word defeat doesnt exist in our dictionary or the langu
And countering the flow of foreign fighters and countering messages and we can build on current or local efforts being taken to counter daesh affiliates locally around the world. We must not forget that daeshs lit frp ledge legitimaty is tied to a caliphate with specific geography. This means our overarching objective must not be just countering daesh around the world but bearing down hard encore daesh in iraq and syria and squeezing and degrading and daesh there in its core makes it much more difficult for an affiliation to stand alone beyond the boundaries of the iraqsyria region. So as a coalition we cannot eliminate every rivalry, whether between nations or different faiths or those who hold power and historical grievances, one against another. But in coordinating the global effort to counter daesh, in championing muteure interest and respect over our many differences, we can and we have changed assumptions about how nations can come together to fight one of the great challenges of