They will be doing what they say theyre going to be doing they will be killing terrorists they will be killing some very bad people that will keep that fight going weve. Had tremendous success in afghanistan and the killing of terrorists but its time after d all these years to go and to bring our people back home Gabriel Alexander is in washington explains that president trumps plans for withdrawing troops from afghanistan. Trump did confirm what we believed all along that that he in the near future will be lowering the amount of u. S. Troops in afghanistan to about 8 to 8500 he gave 2 different numbers and spoke so we think its between 88008500 in that range right now the u. S. Has about 12000 troops in afghanistan and then he went on to say that while he hopes that this moves forward successfully and he expects that it will he said that if in his words bad things happen we will go back to afghanistan if we need to this was really the president kind of the sense i got from him is that
Confrontation marked in u. S. Collation in the conflict between turkey and syria. Turkeys defense minister warns the troops will retaliate against and if that it. Also announced Operation Spring shilled and your campaign aimed at pushing Syrian Government troops out of the socalled buffer zone near the border. We do not aim to face off with russia our only aim is to stop syrian regimes most ekers radical groups the displacement of civilians. Turkey has stepped up its military campaign in italy province in response to the deaths of 34 soldiers in strikes on thursday a. Funeral processions in turkey for that that soldiers have turned into rallies calling for revenge in rebel held it live people took to the streets showing support for turkeys Bitter Campaign in northwestern syria in recent fighting in southern it province turkey backed rebel groups recaptured villages they lost a few weeks ago including. Further south Syrian Government forces have launched an offensive to capture asuna ma
So weve had very good luck. White house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more in terms of why the administration is holding this press conference now there was there were a lot of hits as the president talked as the officials talked you noted that they all seem to praise the president s leadership a lot of this seems to have to do with the fact that the president well he was traveling in india was getting a lot of criticism about his handling of the crisis so far that perhaps there were a lot of people that felt they were in the dark in terms of Public Health information that they werent sure that the results had been allocated so every speaker that went up continue to try to talk about and praise the president while also talking about the sort of necessary Public Health information. Meanwhile countries in the middle east are bringing in strict new measures to combat the spread of the virus saudi arabia has temporarily halting visas for the pilgrimage known as the omeara for tourists
The coast guard early on sunday morning roughly 360 people crossing over from the Turkish Coast to 3 greek islands most of those boats arriving here on lesbos 360 people doesnt amount to the threatened flood. The president. Announced on thursday night 72 hours ago but more boats are expected today so we shall see how it goes this is early hours and early days in this new phase of the refugee crisis some of the people weve spoken to at 2 sites where boats arrived have told us that they were not asked for any money they were simply put on boats for free by the turkish smugglers and they were told that they were being sent to greece at no charge which suggests that smugglers have been coopted by the turkish government although they are a private sector interest and an illicit interest theyve been coopted in this visual now turkish government policy to leverage refugees against europe in order to presumably make political and Foreign Policy gains a deal signed between the u. S. And the Afg
Tables and we turn lemons into lemonade more nada. After a campaign that plumb the depths of negativity and dirty tricks and you know whos closing message was that he was just short of victory and needed his supporters to finish the job personally ringing voters from a roll of supporters who hadnt yet gone to the polls for now though he appears to be just short of a Majority Coalition within his party hes not going to have any people that are detracting from him or challenging him and now yes to try and see to Work Together and they could be and ive said the 1st election also that a National Unity government between likud and blue and white would be a very real possibility except this time im not so sure whos going to be heading blow it wide at blue and white headquarters theyre being dogged whispers throughout the day that things were looking bleak after a campaign which had seen benny gantz shift slightly to the right but failed to match the energy of his opponent. I will tell you ho