Spanning as far east as madagascar and a large number is believed to be due to slash and burn practices by farmers has been compounded by shorter rainy seasons why its orange dinahs Data Scientists and drought specialists who focuses on african agricultural trends he says the lack of rain in the past 3 years is having a huge impact the real issue is that the impact of these brush fires is getting worse if you look at a lot of parts of sani abacha parts of the african continent particularly the west african said hello this used to be a regular occurrence during the dry season and when the rains would come around. There would allow for grasslands to grow again but unfortunately we are seeing a very significant increase in variability of rainfall its making the rainy seasons very volatile and less predictable. Still ahead this half hour israel sends tanks and troops to its borders with lebanon and syria after carrying out acts strikes in both countries. And the u. S. Congress you to call
, quote ouro tweet excellent guest, and enjoy the event. We look forward to a timely, great conversation with our guest. And youcarry this live are welcome, if you are not here and you are watching us, you are also welcome to tweet using the aciraq. Here is the format. We will get brief remarks after i finish and then i will ask some questions, then we open it to the audience for some questions. That is how we are going to proceed today. Membereemed guest is a of the Iraqi Council of representatives. Of the future fundamental group, deputy chairman of the Civil Society committee, a very Important Committee and the Civil Society of iraq and he is a member of the iraq, United States friendship committee. He was a cofounder of the new Generation Movement and he washingtonworked in as the bureau chief for nrt and u. S. Tv. He worked as a political and cultural advisor. Mr. Shamsulddin thank you. Good afternoon. Im honored to be here with you today to discuss the current state of affairs in
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Responses on thursday morning prices spiked after u. S. President donald trump responded to the incident on twitter brant crude prices surged as much as 3. 9 percent while west texas intermediate jump by 6 percent before falling back to the mid pfizer around noon iranian officials claim the drone was in their air space when it was down while the u. S. Armed forces directorate for the region Central Command insisted that the drone was attacked over International Waters now joining us deeper into the dilemma are david mack ommaney the c. E. O. Of mckelvey Wealth Management and former pentagon official Michael Maloof thank you both for being here so michael lets start off with the geopolitical aspects of everything going on here we know the importance of the strait of hormuz when it came to congress can you tell us how this has been a soft spot for iran in the past its been a contentious period contentious area for quite some time you can go back to. To the socalled tanker war during the