That exclusive g. W. News footage of an airstrike in ethiopias tiger. Ive profits. The rebellious region has ignored a government ultimatum to surrender. You feel good as defense minister tells us he expects the military offensive on to drive to be over within a week. Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show. The United States has announced it will be, bringing some troops home from iraq and afghanistan by mid january. U. S. , President Donald Trump had earlier suggested he want to trade, celebrate the troop withdrawal from both countries, by the end of his charm in office. The pentagon says just 2500 troops will remain in each nation respectively. Now these conflicts have lasted through 3 american presidencies, with u. S. Troops stationed in afghanistan since 2001. And in iraq since 2003, u. S. National security adviser, Robert Obrian says, the troop drawdown fulfills an election pledge importance to the outgoing president s. Before years ago, while President Trump read our promise
Major drug maker reports encouraging findings for a covid vaccine. We will speak to dr. Saad omer, the director of the Yale Institute for Global Health. Then nine months into the pandemic, we look at how many hospitals are failing to provide adequate ppe to doctors and nurses. We will talk to jean ross, copresident of National Nurses united. We have been calling for this protection for Health Care Workers, not just for many months now, but also, if you recall, since the ebola crisis hit our shores. And sad to say, we are still very lacking. Amy plus, Central America has been devastated by backtoback Climate Changefueled hurricanes over the past two weeks. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States recorded nearly 167,000 new coronavirus cases on monday, the third highest daily toll of the pandemic. The official u. S. Death toll, already the highest in the world, is rapidly approaching 250,000 with
Made him to surrender. Ethiopias defense minister tells us the military offensive on t. V. Will be completed within a week. Plus germany soccers team suffers its worst defeat in almost 90 years. Its 6, no loss to spain in the Nations League has some questioning the future of coach you walking with us. And good to have you with us. The United States says its sharply reducing its troop numbers in afghanistan and iraq. By mid january, the deployment will be cut to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers in each country. President made a Campaign Promise to end what he called for ever wars, but the move has triggered opposition both from a leading republicans and nato allies. The sun could be setting on the us presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting here since 2001, helping stabilize the country after overthrowing taliban rule, but suffering over 2000 deaths over time. Troop numbers have linked. Now outgoing president , donald trump will further reduce the number of soldiers here
S p by 11, nasdaq up by about 42 there were a few areas of the market yesterday that continued to outperform including the small caps russell 2000 coming off an alltime intra day high. And then there is the khodow trs trading at a record high and right now it looks like the ten year is yielding just about 0. 8 the transports a lot of times, they are an early indicator of what is to come, but maybe more difficult to glean what is happening this time given the overall virus situation. Yeah, it is and it is really not things Like Airlines so much driving the transports actually fedex and u. P. S. Are arguably kind of stayathome plays and they are also big components of the transports so really just kind of gone sideways in the last day or so, not much of a pullback just yet. So well very to see how that develops and in this context especially with the White House Task force painting a bleak picture on the near term outlook. The most recent report warns that there is, quote, now aggressive
Consecutive day. They say the country is still far from ending its lockdown. U. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo is in israel for a three day visit. It comes as the countrys Prime Minister in bahrains foreign minister held talks, the first since normalizing relations earlier this year. The talks supported by the Trump Administration has angered palestinians. A visit to an israeli settlement, the first ever by a u. S. Sectary of state. Reporter stepping off a plane in israel in what is his last International Tour as u. S. Secretary of state, mike pompeo reasserting changes to many of the longstanding policies under Donald Trumps fouryear term, including the recognition of jerusalem as israels capital. It is great to be back in jerusalem. Reporter standing alongside the Prime Minister of israel and the foreign minister of bahrain, he held a series of accords between israel and a number of nations. This agreement tells malign actors like iran that their influence in the region is waning.