Iraqs president says he would rather quit the name and you pride minister rejected by protesters. Refusing to designate the nominee of an iran backed parliamentary bloc in a letter to parliament barm seles said out of my team just to avoid bloodshed and protect civil peace i will not name. Dani as a candidate for the next Prime Minister. In baghdad she explains what might happen next. Its clear that the president is not willing to carry out what has been laid out as his duties in the constitution the constitution is very clear the largest ruling bloc in parliament has so nominate a name and that person becomes the caretaker Prime Minister until the country is ready to hold elections but since the ruling bloc is the group which is a group thats known to be allied with iran their candidates have all been rejected and this is the 3rd one that has been rejected by not only the president but various other Coalition Groups in parliament as well as the people on the streets they say that they
Well as sections of trails closed. They didnt really say much. This says something happened in the forest and. The loss life. On christmas eve, the park service says 3 visitors for hiking on a trail when a tree fell without warning. One man escaped without injury. A woman was injured by falling debris and the 3rd man died is always danger is yet to look out for when youre in the really unfortunate the marine county coroner has identified the man who died as 28 yearold sue bro deep due to of minnesota. His linked in page put some working at a tech Company Based in cupertino the park Service Called what happened an isolated incident writing in a statement, the tree fell of natural unknown causes following a persistent series of winter storms over the last week and a half prior to this incident. The hillside trail and part of the main trail will remain closed until crews removed the rest of the fallen tree after the holiday weekend. In marin county Justine Waldman kron 4 news. Tonight, a
Of a new citizenship law. And hit by Corruption Cases and to repeat election failures israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a primary challenger from his own party. And im were harding with sports it was a basketball battle in l. A. With le brons lakers falling short against the clippers we have that and more christmas in the action coming up this hour. Itll be with us here on the news hour we begin with breaking news in turkeys president recipe the one says that he will be sending troops to libya after a request from the internationally recognized government turkey says it wants to support the tripoli based administration which has been under a months long defensive by forces loyal to the warlord Khalifa Haftar president and also says that hell present a bill on the deployment to parliament when it reconvenes in january. From the beginning we have objected to the coup perpetrated by the retired general against the lawful government we provided and are still providing assista
Tropical forest under sea and yelling in my town but also where members of an Indigenous Group believe they also have the right to get into the. Business. Welcome to the program iraqs president says he would rather quit the name a new Prime Minister rejected by protesters but is refusing to designate the nominee of an iranian backed parliamentary bloc now there have been mass protests across the country for the past 3 months demonstrators have been calling for an overhaul of iraqs political system well in a letter to parliament back home seller said out of my keenness to avoid bloodshed and protect civil peace i will not name. Danny as a candidate for the next Prime Minister lets get more on this from live in baghdad also a very short statement but it says so much about the state of Political Affairs in iraq right now. It certainly does it shows that this president has taken a step to really put himself in a powerful position meaning that the parliament will not likely accept this resi
Further and deeper into this conflict so tensions have only risen since this whole thing is began despite the fact that both the u. S. And the saudis say they are in a defensive posture at least until the end of the investigation into exactly where those attacks originated john hendren live for us in washington d. C. Thank you jon well for more on this we can speak to ronnie corey has a nonresident fellow at Harvard Kennedy school and he joins us now on skype from boston mr corey having listened to it we didnt hear anything today that we havent had before necessarily. Thats right and that little bit on the saudi government have a couple of problems here d he has very little credibility because he for 23 weeks he was lying and repeating lying when he was killed and turkey about a year ago now and involved in a big inefficient cover up which was later dropped because the saudis admitted that he died and they kept lying about how it all happened 2nd of all the saudis dont have any credibi