Richelle carey this is al jazeera life and oha also coming up scaling down the u. S. Pulls its Patriot Missile system out of saudi arabia met a growing dispute over oil prices. And libyan war lyrically for half tars forces attacked tripoli with rockets landing close to the turkish and italian embassies. That began in russia which is rapidly becoming a new hotspot in the global fight against corona virus but more than 187000 cases russia now has the 5th highest number of infections in the world as accorded more than 1700 deaths and for 6 days in a row new cases of gone up by more than 10000 a day and moscows mares warning the number of infections is actually far was far higher than official figures Charlie Ellis has more. Russian police and Fire Fighters patrolled the streets with instructions observes a korean teen take care of yourself and stay home as countries around the wound start to open up much of russia is closing down case numbers have to put it in the top 5 of the wu with mor
Crude Oil Last Week which hit the highest interday wti up to 63. 72 an barrel ice brent crude is up to 69. 49. Gold hit a nearly fourmonth high last week posting its eighth straight positive session on friday. Longest daily winning streak since june of 2019 right now gold price is up another 1. 75 to 1,579. 60 an ounce. Our top story, tensions with iran escalating over the weekend. Eamon javers has the latest from washington good morning. Good morning, joe the iranians were vowing revenge over the weekend the administration took to television to explain its decision to kill that iranian general who was in iraq last week and to offer an explanation for what its plan is Going Forward. Mike pompeo said the administration is prepared and ready to handle anything that the iranians respond with. Heres what he said. If the American People should know that we have prepared for this, that we are ready well talk cultural that our responses are lawful and the president will take every action nece
So that the people of kurdistan have made their decision and enter the new phase different from anything in the past. But yet nobody blame us for this they took advantage of the situation and broke the bounds of the constitution and a form that afford them more than what i dont want is a sign that they will use force. But of the barzani and the Northern Iraq administration will go down in history bearing the shame of pushing our region into an endless sectarian war so version that iraq after two thousand and three was established by american and Coalition Forces america has to mediate to save the blood of iraqis and avoid civil war between kurds and arabs. Also on the show the founder of playboy hugh hefners died at the age of ninety one ill speak to a for. Editorial director a flyboy magazine about the man and his legacy coming up but first iraqs kurdish minority has said yes to independence but the vote is having major consequences for the entire region baghdad doesnt want the region
Out its new plan, but for now we can tell you it looks like this second crack at this white house at this immigration executive order is going to focus on six countries, not the seven they initially focused on. Theyll take iraq off the list. This white house very much believes that its first crack at the immigration executive order was legal and proper and well handled. That said, the courts stepped in to block some of it so theyre taking another chance at it today. Well wait until 11 30 to get the details. One focus will be on whether or not the white house can do this without provoking the chaos and confusion we saw at airports around the country as officials struggled to figure out who was allowed in the countries and who was not. Theyve had time now to process this and get the information to all the people at the airport so we expect theyll be giving us the full details in half an hour. Dont go too far. Well come back to you for more on that. The impact and risks to the rally as th
One trillion dollars in tax increases, more regulation, more of the same 1 trillion in tax increases, more regulation, more of the same war on coal. Hillary clinton and tim kaine want to build on obamacare and make it a singlepayer program. Hillary clinton thinks obamacare is a good start. We have a plan to get Health Care Working again by lowering taxes across the board for working families, Small Businesses, and family farms, ending the war on coal that is hurting jobs, repealing obamacare lock. Stock, and repealing all of the executive orders obama has signed that are startling economic stifling Economic Growth in this country. On top of that, the trade deals that have put the American Worker first, you have got a prescription for real growth. When you get the economy growing, elaine, that is when you can deal with the national debt. When we get back to 3. 5 to 4 growth, then we are going to have the resources to meet our nations needs at home, abroad, and the ability to bring down