Life in the Arts International world you sense a very good afternoon money as kevin owen welcome to this latest half hour update 1st off right now into iran millions of mourners have turned out for the funeral of the money the countrys most powerful general was assassinated in a u. S. Air raid outside Baghdad Airport in iraq on friday theres been a huge outpouring of grief across the middle east and beyond irans Supreme Leader ali a wept as he said prayers over the slain commanders coffin so mourners carried red flags associated with just bloodshed and revenge one of the 1st repercussions for the United States has come from iraqi am peace of voted sunday to expel Foreign Forces from the country for conducting the killing on their soil but donald trump then warned iraq to brace itself for heavy sanctions if it kicks troops out. We have a very extraordinarily expensive ear piece thats there it costs billions of dollars to build long before my time were not living unless they pay us back
By their lifestyle to internationals World News Center very good evening from a man im kevin now and welcome to this latest half hour update the focus on whats happening in iran in tehran millions of mourners have turned out today for the funeral of kasim selim money the countrys most powerful general was assassinated in a u. S. Air raid outside Baghdad Airport in iraq on friday theres been a huge outpouring of grief across the middle east and beyond the ran Supreme Leader earlier wept says he said prayers over the slain commanders coffin so mourners carried red flags associated with unjust bloodshed and revenge one of the 1st repercussions for the United States has come from iraqi m. P. s who voted yesterday to expel Foreign Forces from their country for conducting the killing on their soil but donald trump then warned iraq to brace itself for heavy sanctions if it does kick true. We have a very extraordinarily expensive ear piece thats there it costs billions of dollars to built long
His men were apparently members of elite units loyal to the head of state in belarus that is Alexander Lukashenko their official mission combating organized crime. But the units were it also seems tasked with liquidating political opponents in order to bolster the author of tearing regime the president lukashenko still today rules with an iron fist one man whose name is your to get up ski was a Senior Member of such a special unit and in conversations with our reporters hes provided some telling testimony. Eureka says he was involved in the murder of belorussian opposition figures over 20 years ago now he wants to come clean hes currently applying for asylum where we cannot disclose. The belorussian secret service might come after him. I received information that they either wanted to arrest me or put me in jail. But i dont want to be locked up or give testimony or me and hues of something i did not even do. With a rough ski broke his hip in a car accident. He was operated on in the co
Scrutiny of all of this. The guardian, christmas is barely over and thoughts are turning to the new year and and thoughts are turning to the new yearand an and thoughts are turning to the new year and an interesting story in the guardian about what will happen in edinburgh at this new year, if you wa nt to edinburgh at this new year, if you want to start . What will happen is if you live in certain parts you will struggle to get your own home so will struggle to get your own home so the big hogmanay celebrations coming up and an Entertainment Company is dealing with that, 70,000 expected and if you live in the streets where this is going on, you must apply for permission to actually get into your own home. Should you wish to hold a party yourself, you then can only get up to six tickets for guests because it is already going ahead in the area. Not unreasonably, residents are up in arms i predict a rumpus the city council says she will not need passes but the Company Running this insist
Denounced saudi arabias handling of the Jamal Khashoggi murder case saying it makes a mockery of justice 5 people have been sentenced to death for killing the journalist and 3 others have been given prison terms but a un appointed rights investigator believes that the people actually behind the assassination have been left on touched while a spokesperson for the un secretary general has also stressed the need for a further probe. The secretary general continues to stress the need for an independent and impartial investigation into the murder to ensure full examination of any accountability for Human Rights Violations committed in the case. Jamal khashoggi it was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul in turkey in october 2018 where he was murdered a un report said his death was almost certainly a state planned execution but the saudis insist it was the result of a rogue operation arties came up and has more because the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi shocked the world and