like the killing of sarah ron. that obviously caused quite a great deal of concern. like i say, a 20 year old man is being searched for by the police in connection with this case. jimmy, thank you. at least four people have been killed and, two dozen others injured after a car hit a carnival crowd in belgium. media reports said that the deaths occurred after the vehicle hit people who had gathered at dawn on sunday for the start of the celebrations, in the small town of 13 miles, south of brussels. some media were reporting that four people had died. the number was not to be six. those in the vehicle had been detained. a fourth covid vaccine is on the cards for millions of vulnerable people. spring booster jabs will be available to care home
this is a building in which there are civilians nearby. so when the u.s. got the intelligence that this was a major cash facility where isis was collecting and storing cash and then disbursing it to fund their operations, they began watching from overhead, airplanes and drones, to see when the civilians were most likely in the neighborhood. what they learned, we are told, is that isis was there at night, civilians in the neighborhood in the daytime, so they made the decision to go ahead and strike it at dawn on sunday. they were willing, we are told, to risk up to 50 civilian casualties. why would the u.s. take the risk? because this was a site that was storing, we are told, millions in isis controlled cash. this is the cash that isis uses to pay its troops, to fund its operations. this is now a shift that we should expect to see that they will go after targets like financial targets like this. and that they will potentially risk more civilian casualties in order to really strike at th
daytime. so when to strike. they made the decision to go ahead and strike it at dawn on sunday. they believe there may have been a small number of civilian casualties, but consider this. they were willing, we are told, to go as high as 50 civilian casualties. they thought the target was worth it. this essentially is an expansion of the isis target list for the u.s. to go after these major financial targets and try and wipe out isis cash supply. if they can do that, isis may find it much more difficult to operate, jake. barbara, of course part of the context is the obama administration has been criticized by former members of the military and others for being too cautious when it comes to okaying strikes in this war against isis. do you think we re going to hear of more air strikes like this one in the future? well, in fact the chairman of the joint chiefs appears to have laid the ground work for that a couple of weeks ago on capitol
she s gotten support from many people. in 2012 j he was the first ever u.s. president to go to myanmar. the bid to push the country toward democracy and a way for military rule, a pillar of his foreign policy. ivan watson is there and has our report on the historic days for that nation emerging from isolation into the democratic fold. reporter: the people are singing and dancing in the streets. celebrating as myanmar s largest opposition party claims to have won a landslide victory in sunday s parliamentary elections. the official results are just trickling in still, but the military-backed ruling party has conceded defeat, and for once, people here feel like their voices have been heard. they lined up before dawn on
allowing these people to move through as swiftly as possible to move them on to their next destination. most of the people we have spoken with began their international journey by boat, by small unsafe over-crowded smugglers, dingies traveling from the turkish coast to greek islands. that s where tragedy struck before dawn on sunday when one of the vessels overturned. at least 34 people drowned. among the victims, 15 children, 4 of them were infants. now, for those who have made it here to macedonia, the next leg of the journey will likely be aboard a train that will travel the length of macedonia to the next country on the migrant trail and that is serbia. a challenge will now be posed as some european countries have announced they re going to tighten restrictions on their borders. and we re getting warnings that as those policies get put into