Abortions. And as the world rushes in a new decade well look at the stories that have defined the 2090. Iraqi protesters have stormed the compound of americas largest embassy smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area of people whove been rallying in baghdads green zone angry at u. S. Airstrikes that targeted a powerful iranian backed group on iraqi soil the u. S. Says it was only responding to iranian aggression and has also blamed iran for tuesdays unrest but tehran denies it had anything to do with it the pentagon now says its deploying more troops to baghdad to secure the embassy will be live in washington in a moment but 1st this report from so moment simona fulton. It was supposed to be a funeral procession commemorating the 27. 00 fighters killed in the latest u. S. Air strike but in. That turned into an unequivocal message to the. Hundreds perhaps thousands of people are taking part in this procession currently theyre marching across the Hanging Bridge towards th
Mobilization forces and their supporters surrounded the compound of the u. S. Embassy to deliver a stern warning to get out of santa ana this is a message to trump and to the American Embassy and consulate in baghdad. Watch out you have touched our soldiers and our brothers they set fires at the outer gates as they tried to get inside the Embassy Grounds the situation appears to be escalating now with hundreds perhaps thousands of members of the Popular Mobilization forces having the means to the close of the u. S. Embassy there filming stones there burning ceased the trying to climb the wall to reach the u. S. Embassy compound and theyre chanting antiamerican slogans theyre demanding the weve told all american troops from iraq. The action is in response to u. S. Airstrikes that killed dozens of fighters from the hezbollah brigades which form part of the Popular Mobilization of forces it all began as a funeral procession to honor those killed crowds pay their respects as the bodies pas
to the military. when the military says you can t just throw something out on twitter, there need to be orders. there need to be a legal check on these things, a deployment protocol, we have to put it into existing planning. you don t turn around something as big as the united states military based on 140 characters. it doesn t work that way. he said he consulted with the leaders. the generals are saying we don t know how to implement it. they didn t expect him to go this far. a lot of americans don t agree with paying for sex change. that was the issue. they didn t want to have to pay for military personnel. you know the cost. it s between $2 million and $8 million. it s an unpopular decision. he took it the other direction to get rid of them in general. it s not the direction mattis wanted them to go in.