Most of us went through school and learned about the revolution. This is quite problematic. If you look at the advantages of they had every advantage. They had a modern professional army that had been bottle battle tested. Had a smalls Continental Army that could not really be counted on. The british of the greatest navy in the world. The americans did not have a navy to speak of. We have privateers. Pirates, essentially, we gave the ability to steal and pillage for their pay. Most americans did not support independence. Less than half of continental support independence. Thousands fought for the british. Others wanted to be left alone. Thats not to mention the british soldiers in the native americans. The british have be worlds greatest economy. We had no central bank. We had a very hard time raising money. So, how did we win . Its not that after he got his masters, he served in the United States marine corps and then joined the cia. Today hes a cia Operations Officer. From 1969 to 20
Outside however when i went there there was also not money turns out there was money but it finished while still ahead on aljazeera russian opposition politician alexina valley is among hundreds of protesters arrested during an Anti Corruption rally in moscow. And another setback for palestinian fisherman as israel closes the waters. Sponsored by qatar. Hello again welcome back we have seen plenty of rain here across parts of china and taiwan over the last few days and flooding has a big bend a big problem across much of this area the thunderstorms are visible here on the satellite image and the map here on thursday not much of a change from what we have seen were seeing some new rain though is out here towards the east anywhere from shanghai all the way down here to fool joe where the rain is going to be quite heavy over the next 24 hours the good news is 24 hours is pretty much it there because we are going to sing a break in the rain but not necessarily down here along the coast so
And i think also if you take a snapshot of whats going on right now in the area you would see an increased naval presence without this being organized less convoys for example but if you go back in history back in the late eightys when iran and iraq were fighting a war and attacking each other shipping we saw that quite moisten close escorting up was indeed being and it carried out i think also British Naval vessels so it is a potential scenario and im that of course if that is jason is. Will worsen even more than what we see now thats certainly something that the shipping would appreciate in if the situation does worse and one of the scenarios is of course that the strait of hormuz is closed entirely whats it implications would that be if that happened. To close the strait of hormuz entirely is impossible for for example a country like iran and that would be my assessment but i think it would be difficult to keep it closed for a sustained period of time if its would immediately be tak
Yemen has its own internal sources of of conflict in tension you know if you run hypothetically wouldnt exist there would still be a problem within yemen with respect to the who these their demands for recognition representation and distribution of resources to who things are making those demands increasingly clear whether theyre firing iranian made weapons or not they are i ming at saudi infrastructure shelob ellis. Plenty more ahead on the news hour including why many people in iraq are worried about the energy supply. We look at how an outbreak of hiv is spreading to hundreds of children in southern pakistan. And its border shot for argentina at the hands of colombia and the couple american son of the detail. The wife of israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been ordered to pay 15000. 00 to being found guilty of misusing state funds Sarah Netanyahu admitted to the charges under a plea bargain she was charged with fraud last year after allegedly spending 100000. 00 of state m
Hes already met with irans highest authorities the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei this morning we received word that the meeting has ended that to discuss various issues we are still waiting to get a communique of what was said between them he is now a wrapped up all the Major Business that hes had and he will leave tehran on friday we believe that he really wanted to be a key part in mediating the differences that exist between iran and the United States course the iranians say that they are under economic war imposed by the americans and the trumpet ministration is trying to put extreme pressure to get the iranians to the negotiating table but that is something the iranians say will never happen. So thanks for that dosage bar in rome. Still ahead on aljazeera russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is among hundreds of protesters arrested during an antique corruption rally in moscow. Hello here to welcome back to your International Weather forecasts were here across europ