Forces, their size in afghanistan, will be 2,500 troops. Our force size in iraq will also be 2,500 by that same date. The announcement was made by acting u. S. Defense secretary chris miller. He replaced mark esper, who was fired by President Trump after joe biden won the electioner in this month. Troops have been gradually reduced as part of a peace deal struck earlier this year. U. S. Media reports say 4,500 soldiers are now believed to be deployed in afghanistan, and 3,000 in iraq. Republican Senate Leader Mitch Mcconnell is raising concerns about the timing of the latest move, and warned against any earth shaking changes to defense or Foreign Policy in the coming months. The planned reduction comes amid a recent resurgence of violence in afghanistan. The government and the taliban are engaged in ongoing peace talks, but they have yet to achieve a breakthrough. Turning to the latest on the coronavirus here in japan. Infections continue to spike across many parts of the country. Its
The 3 trillion weve spent plus a trillion dollars more. Thats about 20 of gdp. Thats absolutely historic, and were prepared to put more money on the table softbank returns to profit with a 12 rides se investor shares soared towards the top. Sales grew by 67 in the Second Quarter. Stock markets here in europe have been trading for about an hour so far, and the direction of trade has been very firm. Weve seen a very decent rally play out after initial gains thats now translated to a pop of 1. 7 on the benchmark index, a fair amount of green at a stock level sector level and by industries you can see how the core markets are faring today we did see some early gains in the german stock market, and that is now actually outpaced by italian stocks taking the charge french and german stocks slight underperformance again by the uks stock market, just 1 3 4 of a percent yesterday. It was curious we saw the german stock market, one of the laggards which is typically not the case, but certainly re
Of while building a war mexicos president meets donald trump at the white house. Thank you for joining us we begin the program with some breaking news the Prime Minister of ivory coast amadou gone coulibaly has died at the age of 61 the president says the nation is in mourning bally was taken to hospital after he fainted during a Cabinet Meeting he had to return to ivory coast last week after a prolonged stay in france for a heart exam lets speak to nicholas talk to now who is in senegal a force as some of us 1st of all what else do we know of around what happened. Well the death was Just Announced moments ago but it happened around midday today he was just before he went into the company bidding he went on twitter to say that hes back into the country and hes back in action and on twitter hes working for the decades to come and for the future generation really setting the tone that he will be the next president ial candidate for the upcoming election in the vendor in iraq. Coast just
Conflict foreign interference has reached on precedented levels and building relations while building war us president tales what he describes as a tremendous relationship between his country and mexico. And the thank you for joining us the Prime Minister of ivory coast am a dual gone coulibaly has died at the age of 61 the president says the nation is in mourning bally was taken to hospital after he fainted during a Cabinet Meeting he had returned to ivory coast last week after a prolonged stay in france for a heart exam because more now from dakar in senegal. This is a big blow for the president because with this comes a political crisis a political void the question is now who will replace coulibaly who was the chosen successor to want to or are expected to run in the next upcoming president ial election in october and whoever will come next will have to defeat the candidates which are only going to be a former president of ivory coast a heavyweight of the opposition and the young n
President confronts china donald trump strips Hong Kong Office of special trading Status Holding china accountable for its clampdown on human rights to. South africa reopens its schools despite a rise in cases of 1920 schools lack basic facilities will they become breeding grounds for the coronavirus. Plus flooding in Bangladesh Forces more than a 1000000 people from their homes a further of the country is under water after some of the heaviest monsoon rains in decades and rivers are said to rise even further. Welcome to the program we begin with breaking news the Irish Government and apple have won their appeal against a 26 the e. U. Decision that sat apple had to pay the i was government 13000000000 euros in back taxes money that ireland didnt even want so ill instruct the case to you have so. Dublin has long denied that its tax arrangements with apple about so illegal state Aid European Commission is expected to appeal the ruling to the European Court of justice. Earlier this year t