Military aid about 4 100000000. 00 to ukraine and apparently that caused some confusion among u. S. Diplomats ambassador bill taylor who was of the embassador to ukraine said are we now saying that sect that Security Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigation he wrote that in a text the answer came from ambassador to the e. U. Gordon sunderland who is a trump supporter and was a donor prior to his appointment he said call me bill taylor pressed forward a few days later saying i think its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a Political Campaign then suddenly and immediately responded bill i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions the president has been Crystal Clear no quid pro quo of any kind so as you see that last statement is what trump has been pointing to in these Text Messages changes as. His own defense but its notable kemal that when ambassador sunland sent that and sent that text it was just as whistleblower report w
And washington has said they could withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in money thats meant for the puerto rican government and thats for the puerto rican people in till this political crisis is resolved in a lot of people on the streets here said this was about someone that they viewed as a corrupt governor that was. Hard to receive you know whos now out of office but they also said this was about health and Education Services that they want and now Many Puerto Rican cyr on the streets are saying that they took to the streets by the hundreds of thousands of people to call for a new governor and they got one now too since the one before is out of office they called for change theyre now asking is this the change they really wanted still ahead on the u. S. President s visit to a city scott by Mass Shootings but protest to say who isnt welcome and why another day and breaks it could be. What severe food shortages. Hello there watching very closely typhoon kima now this storm system
Much. Ok lots more ground still to cover for you here on aljazeera including venezuelan government supporters are on the streets also ahead. The u. N. Raises the alarmist gun battles break out in the yemeni city of aden between separatist fighters and proGovernment Forces. Have a very unsettled picture across much of europe still got some very strong thunderstorms out times a huge amounts of cash coming in as you can see and in particular have seen some very heavy rain across the line of the alps but also into northern italy and in just. Reports of a landslide with flooding to the northern lombardi region. This morning the 4 calls as we head on it through thursday should be clearing. Into 0 going to warm day 27. 00 but youll notice there is another system here just waiting in the wings out of the atlantic already beginning to kick those northern coastal areas of portugal heading across eventually cross into spain but at the moment but a reprieve for london and paris and then weve got m
The Atlantic Council in washington, d. C. Posted this discussion. Hello, and welcome to the Atlantic Council. I am the resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the director of the Iraqi Initiative. This is an Iraqi Initiative event. It is on record. Feel free to tweet, quote our excellent guest, and enjoy the event. We look forward to a timely, great conversation with our guest. And we will carry this live and you are welcome, if you are not here and you are watching us, you are also welcome to tweet ashtag aciraq. This is to the ac middle east center here, acmideast. Here is the format. We will get brief remarks after i finish and then i will ask some questions, then we open it to the audience for some questions. That is how we are going to proceed today. Our esteemed guest is a member of the Iraqi Council of representatives. He is a member of the future parliamentary group, deputy chairman of the Civil Society committee, a very Important Committee in the iraqi theiament, an
Least since a president actually said that he would like to withdraw from Eastern Syria. But of course i mean they knew what their u. S. Administration the strategy of the u. S. Administration because it is very much complicating the situation for turkey not only for took it also for russia because turkey and russia was actually were expecting the United States to leave the eastern part of syria instead of the fiftys the moment the defeat i said but that actually is not is not the case right now we all know that president is very willing to leave actually but its been tagged on which wants to stay very much because you know i mean President Trump he twice actually he called for the withdrawal of us of u. S. Troops from the country but i think now they convinced him that its more useful bit hard for the United States to stay because they can actually prevent iran from having the if this land credit war between iraq syria and lebanon and they will actually prevent that event of ice and t