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That there are there s been this consistent desire to take them off of the active playing field for quite some time Mr Trump s critics say the action was reckless Iran has vowed revenge is on passage the United Nations says Tehran reserves the right to self-defense under international law. $3000.00 troops are to be deployed to help tackle raging bushfires across Australia temperatures are set to increase further today the country s Prime Minister Scott Morrison says it is as it is a disaster that s escalated to an entirely new level that we can m.p. Lisa Nandy has joined the contest to become the next labor leader she says she ll win back the trust of voters in former Labor Harlan s our political our political correspondent Nick Berg least sets out who should be up against the bombing on May be Jess Phillips The cleared yesterday to saying there needs to be more honesty in politics and she was ready to take the fight to Boris Johnson the shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and J
Oil prices surged Russia s economy heavily dependent on energy exports is set to gain and the assassination very much pleased to President Putin s narrative that it s America not Russia which is an aggressive power flouting international law Iraqi state television says there s been another air strike in the country 24 hours after the killing of General Salim money it said the u.s. Had targeted a convoy of Iranian backed Iraqi militia north of the capital Baghdad there s been no comment from Washington Australia has mobilized reserve troops to help tackle wildfires which have now claimed 23 lives 2 deaths were reported during the night on Kangaroo Island off the coast of Adelaide Forecasters say strong winds and high temperatures today could drive the flames closer to heavily populated areas the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the extra troops the governor general signed off on the call out of this trying to fence Force Reserve to surge and bring every possible capab
Here s our world affairs correspondent Paul Adams at the start of the year when Donald Trump hopes to be reelected the president who has repeatedly said he wants to get American troops out of the Middle East is sending an additional 750 in its top they ll fly to a base in Kuwait from where around 100 Marines were sent to the Baghdad embassy last night the fortified compound which was never in any real danger yesterday seems quiet enough this morning but the anger generated by last weekend s airstrikes has once again pitted the trumpet ministration against Iran and its proxies around the Middle East one of Mr Trump s last tweets of the year was a warning to Iran that it will be held responsible for any American lives lost figures collated by the b.b.c. Show the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats was more than 6 times higher in 2019 then in the previous year 283 people were intercepted by Border Force officials in December alone Simon Jones reports from Dover
Schools concluded that the bequest from a former pupil Professor sobriety Thwaites wasn t compatible with their values but the decision has prompted a debate about equality and race Simon Jones reports So Brian who s $96.00 had planned to bequeath 800000 pounds to win just the college and $400000.00 pounds the dollars college in his will he received scholarships to attend both schools and said he wanted his money to go to white boys from disadvantaged backgrounds because they do worse at school the most other ethnic groups he told The Times newspaper that if Cambridge University was prepared to accept money from the grime artist storm s easy to fund the education of 2 black students each year why shouldn t he do the same for underprivileged white pupils under the Equality Act education providers are allowed to take what s called positive action to remedy a disadvantage faced by particular groups of students but in a statement winches the college said it could not see how discriminatio