An atomic bomb. So there have been rocket attacks in and around baghdad after those u. S. Drone strikes which killed irans top military command the qassam salomone in iraq 48 hours ago no one exploded in the heavily fortified green zone near the American Embassy also the brigades that pro Iran Military group is warning iraqi forces to stay away from u. S. Bases also grief and rage have filled the streets of baghdad and the shia holy cities of karbala and najaf weve seen these sorts of funeral processions taking place for sort of money and the Iraqi Militia leader dont forget the band mohan this who was killed alongside him diplomats and leaders meanwhile are scrambling to ease the crisis between iran and the u. S. This is the Qatari Foreign minister who has been dispatched to me irans leaders youve also got france the u. K. And saudi arabia all calling for calm ok that sort of coverage with some a bit of a reporting from baghdad. Multiple attacks have been reported in and around iraqs
Good monday morning, welcome to squawk alley, im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt. We will start with uber. They lose their license to operate in london. Regulators citing a pattern of failures from uber that place passenger safety and security at risk cnbc contributor kara swisher joins us to talk about this. How are you doing. Not too bad we will see how the appeals process goes, the big question is whether other cities follow suit. Its a troublesome thing. Uber has been struggling for a long time in these cities and actually the first thing that the new ceo who came in after Travis Kalanick did was go to londer to assuage the critics there. It was one of his First International trips and it was very soon into his becoming ceo. So its really problematic if they dont get these cities straight, especially london which i think is its biggest revenue generator after the United States. The thing is it comes after a couple of really big stumbles including daras unfortunat
Known as the jasmine revolution. Well t today june is in the middle of a democratic selection of a new president people have not y yet seen perhaps the reward stay hopeful but there is a clear belief that unity is on the right track for a Better Future for all. We take a look back at the life and times of dictator ben ali in tunisia. For r more than twtwty years h he was an only presesent but untntouchable lea. Until the jasmine revolution of january two thousand eleven. Zine Al Abidine Ben ali was almost inescapable in tunisia. Hes rise began in the military. After training in france been on the rose to the rank of general in the tunisian army. He founded and ran to his his military Security Force for ten years before turning to politics. Finally reached the highest echelons of power w with breaknececk s speed in nineteen eighty six he became interior minister. Just onene youre wrog he moved on up the ladder to become Prime Minister benjamin tracing the frail pleased in florida. Littl
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I suppose, what do you think . You understand its a fiction, its a drama, so you might think they might be taking some liberties, but you do assume it is very mu. Very. Its sticking to the truth. And when we were talking about it last week and we were planning that section of the programme, of course we invited netflix to take part, and it chose not to put a guest into the programme. So the only time weve actually heard from someone at netflix talking about this was to a parliamentary committee, which is where we get to the latest developments of the story. Exactly right. Because, as you say, the only time netflix has commented since the furore around this programme was when a netflix executive from the uk, benjamin king, gave evidence to the culture, media and Sport Committee and he talked about the show in this way. He said it was obviously a true story of the horrific abuse that the writer and Protagonist Richard Gadd suffered at the hands of a convicted stalker, and that is key con