Hello, thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt part in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, we begin with breaking news. President biden has been briefed on the raid which injured seven u. S. Troops and killed 15 members of the radical group isis. The raid happened thursday in iraq two of the seven u. S. Troops were evacuated from the area for further treatment, u. S. Central command manages operations in the middle east. They said that the operation targeted i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan further attacks from where we have cnn s chief international purity correspondent, nick paton walsh, joining us from london. Nick, what do we know about this american operation yeah, alex more details from the iraqi military he referred to the two months that was spent gathering intelligence ahead of this operation. And the four hideouts were targeted that appeared to be consumed camouflage of some description which would suggest yes a sort of camp of some desc
Back the National Defense authorization act as the defense policy bill seen on the hill is the best passed bill especially this is how much we will pay members of the military how many planes, ships, guns will buy, buy, and includes policies with overseas exercises. Its the pool that sets the next five years of military planning is something that is seen that they need to get done every year is a big enterprise every year and that prize the congressional leadership this year might be a little bit tricky we will see what happens there is confidence every year this is a bill at the end of the day they will come together to make sure it goes tough. Host there are two different versions how far apart are they quick. We just went through the conferencing process so essentially now we know there is one version that they came together to make agreements. With a Republican Senate and Democratic House there were issues of contention but the leadershipe of the house and Senate Armed Services com
And italy was the 1st country in europe to be hit by the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death tolls. Now the country is struggling to cope again with the 2nd way. Plus germany is soccer team saw 1st, its worst defeat in almost 90 years. Its 6 nil loss to spain in the u. S. , our nations. Theyve asked some questions to the future of culture. Often look, im going to Office Welcome to the program. The United States says its sharply reducing troop numbers in afghanistan and iraq. By mid january, the deployment will be cut to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers in each country present on all trump is making good on a companion promise to end what he called for as a wars. But theres opposition, both from leading republicans and from nato allies. The sun could be setting on the us presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting here since 2001, helping stabilize the country after overthrowing taliban rule, but suffering over 2000 deaths over time. Troop numbers have winked. Now o
Nice and i know i say it a lot, but it was, it designed wardrobes was designed from day one to disrupt and destroy minority and activist community. And for anyone whose brain is functioning so poorly, that you now think to yourself, well, back to this, the minority didnt do drugs, then they would be locked up. But the numbers show that those groups partake in drugs at the same percentages as almost every other group of people and a lot less than investment bankers. The problem is that our police choose to enforce ridiculous drug laws, specifically against certain groups of people. Its like jay walking or driving over the speed limit. Everyone does it only some of the time you know of your year later youre borrowing a friends car and you want to see how fast it can go. Or you, you have somebody tied up in the trunk and you want to see if you, if you go over the speed bump at 75 miles an hour, whether you can get it had to bang on the inside of the trunk and then hell yell out in that wh
But i am here to report the count is finished we believe we will be the winners every vote must be counted no ones going to take our democracy away from us not now not ever america has come too far americas far too many battles americas endured too much to ever let that happen we the people will not be silenced we the people will not be bullied we the people will not surrender my friends im confident well emerge victorious. The u. S. President has repeated unsubstantiated claims that there were major issues with voting and ballot county georgia is one of several states where republicans are filing legal challenges over the election. Or trumps claims of voting irregularities this protest in arizona and in other places Police Offices in phoenix could be seen preparing inside a counting center where crowds would govern outside in other news as swearing in ceremony is taking place in tanzania for president john mica food secured a 2nd term in last weeks elections michael fairly was declare