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Gets a lot of direct from our studios in moscow this is our national im john thomas with us. Syrian militants have backed by Turkish Forces have launched an offensive against the syrian army in the province but they were pushed back by russian airstrikes has more on the developments. Basically what happened terrorist factions launched an offensive on the Syrian Forces who were holding one of the villages a village in that Northeastern Province a very large scale offensive supported by artillery strikes by the turkish army so that offensive or that was of such scale that the troops the syrian troops on the ground could not withstand it on their own so the ask the Russian Air Force to help out so it did but again that offensive that terrorist offensive was supported by turkish artillery so moscow had to intervene and reach out directly to ankara and ask them to stop the support to prevent militants from moving deeper into syria into the 24 aircraft of the Russian Air Force at the request
Japans decision to isolate thousands of infected with coronavirus. Im wolf blitzer, and you are in im wolf blitzer, and you are in the situation room. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com we are following the democratic president ial campaign in a new dynamic that is beginning tonight. All eyes on Michael Bloomberg as the former new york mayor takes the debate stage for first time amid increased sparring with the frontrunner Bernie Sanders. We are also following the public rift between President Trump and attorney general william barr over the president s continued tweets about the Justice Department. Tonight, a source is telling cnn that the two are cooling off after barr sent signals that he was considering resigning. We will talk about that and more with the cochairman of the Bernie Sanders campaign ro khan, and also standing by are our correspondents and analysts who will be joining us along with congressman chris coons. And now, tonight, Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg are reall
Assads pardon to vindicate russia thats thats what you saw thats what the headlines were except that wasnt mags really quite the whole story at least not according to the previously mentioned witness yes former u. S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher who told yahoo news on thursday that quote i spoke to julian of songe and told him if he would provide evidence about who gave wiki leaks the emails i would petition the president to give him a pardon now that doesnt that certainly doesnt sound like donald trump offering a pardon that sounds more like rohrabacher saying give me the goods and ill try to get you a pardon thats the difference big difference there anyway we can put sides my friends at the end of the day we all know that it takes at least 50 grand to get a pardon from donald trump these days youre going to make to get big the payoff c. But that wasnt the own. Goes from russia games past to make headlines this week roger stone yes he was sentenced to 3 years or 40 months in prison th
And salyut a shoe wow this week is shaping up to be a blast from russia gates past my hawk watchers you see in the span of a few short days the names of roger stone julian assan John Brennan Donald trump and of course russian acting have once again banned on the tips of pundit tongues across all of cable news lending retro russia gay we kicked off across the pond in London England at the Westminster Magistrates Court on wednesday when one of a songes legal team declared to the court that according to witness testimony u. S. President donald trump offered to pardon wiki leaks founder Julian Assange if he said that russia had nothing to do with wiki leaks publication of Democratic Party emails in 2016 at least thats how the story was reported trump offers assads pardon to vindicate russia thats thats what you saw thats what the headlines were except that wasnt mags really quite the whole story at least not according to the previously mentioned witness yes former u. S. Congressman Dana Ro