This is a withdrawal that says America won t leave without 1st being paid for its military investments in Iraq solder Magni at the White House Iraq s Iraq s prime minister has met with the United States Ambassador to say cooperation is key to prevent what he called sliding toward an open war with the United States and Iran you can find more on this and other stories on our website v.o.a. News dot com from Washington d.c. This is. Australia continues to battle wildfires that have scorched millions of hectares across 3 states Reuters Libby Hogan has more there s been no rest as officials seize the moment to step up evacuations some roads that were once blocked along the coast of New South Wales were reopened helping people stranded for days to escape my family my cousins my daughter my dogs think everybody going in the right it s to be. Only after receiving flack that being slow to act Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a further $2000000000.00 astray dollars to help rebuild its wr
That there are there s been this consistent desire to take them off of the active playing field for quite some time Mr Trump s critics say the action was reckless Iran has vowed revenge is on passage the United Nations says Tehran reserves the right to self-defense under international law. $3000.00 troops are to be deployed to help tackle raging bushfires across Australia temperatures are set to increase further today the country s Prime Minister Scott Morrison says it is as it is a disaster that s escalated to an entirely new level that we can m.p. Lisa Nandy has joined the contest to become the next labor leader she says she ll win back the trust of voters in former Labor Harlan s our political our political correspondent Nick Berg least sets out who should be up against the bombing on May be Jess Phillips The cleared yesterday to saying there needs to be more honesty in politics and she was ready to take the fight to Boris Johnson the shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and J
I am sure that was history of course you had other writings Rick in 2019 the border was a very much back in fashion and instead of crowds cheering as walls come tumbling down the now chair for them to be built was it s not just President Trump promising his supporters a war as well as construction of a wall along the southern us Mexico border also being imagined planned and built across the world between India and Bangladesh China and North Korea Billie s and Guatemala Norway and Russia the list goes on and on but if we re building all these other walls does it really make sense to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall in particular and why are we building all these new walls now is it really about the people we want to keep out terrorists or smugglers or migrants or refugees or is it really more often about those on the inside in this program I m going to try to answer those questions by exploring the modern history of border walls. Arms running through Berlin become a permanent war
Any Australians 9 people have died since the fires began hundreds of houses have been lost and about 5000000 hectares of land left scorched film a set of v.o.a. News Sydney the South China Morning Post says China s vice premier is traveling to Washington this week to sign a phase one trade deal with the United States neither side has released many specific details of the agreement from Washington you re listening to v.o.a. News. U.s. President Donald Trump will start the New Year kneedeep in foreign policy challenges he Shelley Adler reports of those challenges is North Korea as the u.s. Awaits what Kim Jong un called a Christmas gift national security adviser Robert O Bryant told A.B.C. s This Week what will be done if it s a long range missile or nuclear test will reserve judgment but the United States will take action as we do in these situations and will and that s that say if Kim Jong un takes that approach will be extraordinarily disappointed and wallah will demonstrate that dis
Britain was stubbornly violating their basic human rights Israel s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared a huge victory after winning a leadership contest in the ruling that could party Mr Netanyahu who faces a corruption indictment easily defeated his rival Gideon saw the win gives him a boost ahead of the country s 3rd general election in 12 months but could prolong the political uncertainty reporting from Jerusalem our correspondent Barbara Platt Atia Benjamin Netanyahu declared his win to be a giant victory barely an hour after the polls closed the vote confirms his convincing control of the look could party despite his indictment on corruption charges last month his opponent the veteran politician Gideon Sar said he and his colleagues would stand behind Mr Netanyahu in the campaign for the next general election about half of the party s members showed up to cast ballots which commentators said was fairly typical for the could leadership votes the prime minister has a str