On the brink of war but iraq is the battlefield so what lies ahead for a country. With a string of problems. Irans targeting of 2 Iraqi Military bases hosting u. S. Troops has put the world on edge with fears that irans revenge attacks the u. S. Killing of its most important military leader who would escalate but its a rock thats in the firing line and it already has enough problems thousands of people across iraq have borne seem solemn ali and an Iraqi Militia commander killed in a u. S. Drone on tack on friday iraqis she apartment ariens have foreign troops to leave iraq a call the u. S. Has rebuffed but iraqs politicians are still under pressure at home as demonstrators continue their push for Major Political and economic reform for more were joined from the northern iraqi city of erbil by he were awesome and hes a journalist and analyst also on the phone in baghdad we have ayman he has been part of the protests seeking government reform since october and we are discussing his ident
York times is now reporting my friends that when it came to the justification for the late december airstrikes that killed 25 members of an Iraqi Militia group in the assassination of reign in military leader general case im still the mahdi the United States may have gotten it wrong. Remember when we were originally told by the u. S. Military Industrial Complex u. S. President donald trump u. S. Secretary of state might and most of our lovely u. S. Mainstream news media that the original rocket attack on the k. One military base in iraq that wounded 6 and killed one u. S. Contractor back in december was conducted by an evil Iraqi Militia group with strong ties to iran you remember right all right well now according to the times a rocky military and intelligence officials have raised doubts about who fired the rockets that started that spiral of events saying that they believe its unlikely that the militia of the United States blamed for the attack by hezbollah carried it out because th
500 infotech index up 48 , and the energy index was the least best performer. It still was up, though, which tells you how much these markets were looking for good news. The second best performer, Consumer Discretionary in the s p 500. That includes home depot to amazon, ebay, even general motors, so really across the board, it was a good year. For more on the markets more broadly, we are joined by ing head ofvey, global debt and rate strategy. We widened the curve with a bit of steepening going on. To what do you attribute that . Been a really interesting move. We were inverted six months ago. Happened is the fed has cut 75 basis points. Theyve injected a mountain of liquidity into the system, and theres been a real change in sentiment in the sense that six months ago, we were genuinely concerned about a recession in the u. S. Next year. Have beenerns significantly downsized. Theres still trimming this uncertainty, and we so have a very flat curve. If you look at the twostens, it is n
Paris chanting death to america by strikes against that country. Welcome to the program. Theres certainly a city of sydney has welcomed the new year and a new decade with a massive fireworks display despite this and many other parts of the country are not celebrating there are growing fears for residents and tourists in several coastal towns who are now trapped by raging fires people have sought shelter on the waterfront and are preparing for a possible evacuation by sea its an unprecedented situation and worst affected have been australias 2 most populous states a New South Wales and victoria. The town of them on a cool over there on the coast that is where 4000 people gathered on the beach to escape the flames the blazes voce of claimed 2 more lives a father and son trying to protect their home several others still missing. Stranded by the sea side. Of tourists and locals being held hostage by raging wildfire in the town. Its too late to leave so they can do is wait along the beach f
Is only solidifying the president s support. Joining me now is syndicated columnist and Fox News Contributor and also the author of divided era. Good to see you both. Thank you for being here. Julian castro out, so much for Ethnic Diversity in the Democrat Party; right . I think i describe this as hashtag democrats so white. David thats rough. These people are all about diversity and people of color and all of that. I guess andrew yang is still there. You look at the debates and you see a lot of essentially old white people and mayor pete is an exception to that. Focused on this and that aspect of their effort is going nowhere. Even more fundamental than that, they thought they would be able to get President Trump and bring him down and have people screaming to get him out of the white house. Before they started the impeachment hearings, there was a margin of people saying lets impeach the man, thats now down to zero. As his popularity goes up, the fund raising coming in, the economy i