The fact that the white house not only confirmed it but said where it occurred and how it occurred shows that they had good intelligence. This was a sign that the strategy of the United States and its allies is beginning to work. A former officer under Saddam Hussein played an instrumental role. That was a big victory for the group, highlighting the iraqi armys inability or unwillingness to defend the city. Isil began setting its sights on baghdad. His death wont halt isils advance nor diminish its authority. The Group Remains deeply entrenched where it controls all aspects of life. Joshua walker says despite the death, the u. S. Has no Long Term Strategy to defeat isil. This is a question, nobody knows how many deputies there are. There is only one top man, he has a price on his head. The fact that the white house released the name, we are making a Statement Like we were today from the white house, thats significant. But in terms of the operational capabilities as we have heard, its h
Hello. We begin with the latest on the tensions between north and south kree y it looks like there is a last minute attempt to mediate the dispute. Right now its centered on the large loud speakers. We are hearing that top aides are due to meet. Harry is on the south korean border. It looks like both sides are looking for a way out of this. Reporter it does seem that way judging but the personnel that are going to be involved in the meeting. The deadline for the ending of loud speaker broadcast that north korea was saying, 5 00 p. M. Local time or 5 30. In the last couple of hours. The south korean president s office confirming that there would be a meeting an hour after that at 6 00 p. M. Local time here between the very senior military figure from north korea, the head of the Political Bureau of the Korean Peoples Army meeting the International Security adviser here in the south as well as the head of both countries essentially the ministries for korean relations will be attending th
Surreal we visit a theme park with a dark political message we begin in macedonia, thousands dropped in a town on the boarder between greece and macedonia, many fleeing the war in syria, some from other parts of the world, and looking for better opportunities. Jonah hull is there on the greek side of the border. Theres no indication whether anyone will be let in. There was one point where a few hundred, Vulnerable People were allowed to pass through. Let me show you the area where the bottle neck formed. And the railway line between greece on that side and macedonia. Now the border is marked by racer wire. Holding these people back, as they arrived en route more and more people by the hour making their way up, hoping to go through macedonia, and on into the end zone of the european union. Ill tell you theres a shift apping as we speak on the ground. Large numbers of syrians gathered and moved back. Well turn the camera around. A large crowd of people. These are exclusively syrians. The
Widespread reform. Yes, ive been around quite a bit, its surreal and not for children. We visit the theme park with a political message. We begin in macedonia, where police used stun grenades on thousands of refugees dropped on the border with greece. For a second day police blocked them from crossing over. Well cross to our correspondent jonah hull, on the greek side of the border. You are not terribly far from the border of macedonia. What can you tell us. The chaos is happening on the greek side of the border, they want to get across to the macedonian side of the border, but have been prevented from doing so. In the last five minutes or so, there has been five or six explosions of percussion grenades and tear gas. There was another in the distance as police controlled a chaotic situation. 100 metres up the track there, and 300400 out into the fields. A lot of these people have been on a staggering journey to get here. Afghanistan, iraq, most of them wanting to get to germany. They a
Elites benefit from global capitalism with former greek finance m minister Yanis Varoufakis. Is due book, adults in the room my battle with europes deep establishment. Is a process. You cut government spending, increased taxes in order to balance the governments books but you fail. Yes, you reduce government expenditure, but on the other tax, the economy shrinks so a reduced and your books dont balance a you cut even more. It shines even further and cut more, so it is a neverending downward spiral. Amy then six weeks after Hurricane Maria hit puerto rico, millions still lack clean Drinking Water and electricity. Just back from puerto rico, we will bring you a report from the interior where the storm has exploded t the fault lines of poverty and austerity. My name is carmen. Everything here was destroyed. It is not t easy to be strugglig like this, doing everything by hand. There are Sick Children and elders. That is how it is here. My father vanished. He died. So that hasnt been easy f