Hello, im terry martin. Good to have you with us. The United States says its sharply reducing its troop numbers in afghanistan and iraq. By mid january, the deployment will be cut to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers in each country. President made the Campaign Promise to end what he called for ever wars, but the move has triggered opposition, both from leading republicans and nato allies. The sun could be setting on the us presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting here since 2001, helping stabilize the country after overthrowing taliban rule, but suffering over 2000 deaths over time. Troop numbers have winked. Now, outgoing president , donald trump will further reduce the number of soldiers here and in iraq. In light of these tremendous sacrifices and with great humility and gratitude to those who came before us, i am formally announcing that we will implement president trumps orders to continue our repositioning of forces from those 2 countries by january 15th, 2021. Our
A decision be made on which to take and what data to trusts also this hour a hong kong prodemocracy activist and media mogul jimmy lie is denied bail as he faces charges of fraud and a different type of exam season half a 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in their academic calendar. And on peoples temple the school says n. B. A. Players get back to training the Houston Rockets trade old stalled home gold Russell Westbrook to the Washington Wizards. Thank you very much for joining as we begin this hour with the coronavirus pandemic in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start of the pandemic theyve been more than sea. 34000000 confirmed cases and nearly 1500000 deaths iran is now the hardest hit country in the middle east and has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed almost 50000 people there but the Health Minister
Movement. To begin with the Coronavirus Crisis and the global death toll has now passed one and a half 1000000 with a 3rd of them in just the last 2 months many countries are reporting soaring infection rates and deaths as governments struggle to contain a new wave of cases in the worst affected country the United States 2804 deaths were recorded on wednesday america is close to passing 14000000 cases in total italy has hit a new record with 993 deaths in one day thats higher than the peak of fatalities in the 1st wave in the middle east infections of suppost 1000000 in iran the country has reported almost 50000 deaths as governments race to approve vaccines the United Nations and Global Health officials have warned against. Fast tracking the process this after the u. K. Or through eyes use of the pfizer biotech vaccine on wednesday and as fears of vaccine misinformation grow social media giants facebook and instagram say theyll start removing posts with false claims United States cont
Antigovernment protesters ahead and Elementary Schools under such a bad light in paris where shocking video is fueling deflates about Police Violence. Now a prominent scientist at the center of Irans Nuclear program has been assassinated. Gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying most in fact is that day. And his bodyguards, top military commanders, have now found to retaliate against the attack. They say israel is behind as a bag reports from tehran, the aftermath of the killing hold in a car and blood on the floor injured in the attack must in fact, result there was taken to hospital, but later died. He had been one of irans most Senior Nuclear scientists and had already survived a previous assassination attempt. As i wanted. Based on the report made by the guard 1st, they opened fire to his car enough to 10 to 15 seconds. A truck carrying explosive materials exploded against car gunfire, continued after the explosion. Officials admit his death is a blow to the countrys defense program. Far
About covert 19 vaccines. Fears for reading the refugees who are being moved to an island that aid groups say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of widescale abuse which the army turn on is. A National Sport as a bron james signs an 85000000. 00 deal with the l. A. Lakers and finally one driver raymond version or a chance in the bahrain sakit scene of his horrifying crash just 4 days ago. But we begin with the corona virus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture as you can see is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches and since the start of the pandemic there. The more than 64000000 confirmed cases coming quite close to 65000000 there and nearly one and a half 1000000 people have died from the fire as well the United Nations is currently holding a special session of the General Assembly on covert 19 in his Opening Statements the secretary general antonio caet