Before the curfew in lagos we also heard from the military saying that they are going to conduct a military exercise although they insisted it has nothing to do with the ongoing protests the military has issued a statement that its forces one of the involved in yesterdays operations but protest it said that they were Security Forces involved police and military or Paramilitary Organization at least 12 women have been killed in afghanistan in a stampede they gathered with thousands of other people in a stadium in jalalabad to apply for visas to pakistan the pakistani consulate started to reissue visas that can last week after a 7 month pause because of the coronavirus. United nations sponsored peace talks for libya a progressing in geneva acting u. N. Libya envoy Stephanie Williams says that shes confident theyll get a lasting cease fire. Once we have a unified executive where you have you know one ministry of defense one ministry of interior it will be important to continue to sustain
Brutality by the trees has more from whom. The governor of lagos state has called for calm are asking people to respect the curfew and stay indoors but a lot of people are angry about what happened yesterday and so the bridge we see today is actually a reduction of what exactly took place yesterday at the. Toll gate where Security Forces opened fire on people who gathered peacefully to demonstrate although they were blocking the road sudanese Security Forces of fire tear gas the protesters angry with the state of the economy yanyuwa inflation rate credit of record peak of more than 200 percent last month the Transitional Government and struggle to revive the economy after the overthrow of the modern bashir last year a suspect in the rwanda genocide has been ordered to stand trial at a u. N. Tribunal in the hague for the accused of financing members of the hutu tribe who killed 800002 moderate hutus in 1904 thailands Prime Minister says a ban on gatherings will be overturned if there is
Which is a good thing for all parties concerned, and a very good thing for the world. As we continue to evaluate options and in response to iranian aggression, the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian Regime. Neil we have not heard a response as yet from the Iranian Regime in response to the president s remarks. Earlier this morning the response to the attacks that were leveled at this american facility in iraq was that there would be more to come. We go to the cow guy, scott shellady, on the impact of all of that. How do you think this is sorting out thus far . Always risky to come to any conclusions before we know what happened, but what do you think . There still could be, well probably still have some scares. Who is kidding who. I was up every two hours last night checking markets to try to build a picture for myself coming in today. This is dramatic turn around from last night at 10 00 a. M. Central. Its a pressure cooker. We
Hammers away at House Speaker nancy pelosi for holding up his impeachment trial. This as the president faces new heat for tweeting an article that allegedly named the anonymous whistleblower in the case against him those stories plus desperate search a rescue operation underway in hawaii this morning for a missing helicopter carrying tourists on a sightseeing trip touching tribute the fiancee of the espn reporter reveals new details about his final days and the circumstances surrounding his death. And footbrawl eastern michigans quarter ejected for throwing punches the wild weekend today friday december 27th, 2019. We start this morning the full forecast for us in just a moment and the worlds busiest airport. Hartsfield Jackson International in atlanta and its still go and already piling up and with the hoopts coming to a close millions are headed home and into a potentiae punch of flooding, strong winds and heavy snow, shutting down parts of busy interstate 5 in los angeles. There was
Sporting history a former police chief was found not guilty of the deaths of 95. 00 football. Donald trump has announced peace talks have resumed with the Afghan Taliban the news came as the u. S. President made a surprise visit to afghanistans background airbase where he met president ashraf ghani and u. S. Soldiers stationed in september declared top of the taliban dead after a deal was reached in principle to pull u. S. Troops in afghanistan. The taliban wants to make a deal well see if they want to make a deal is going to be a real deal but well see but they want to make a deal and then they want to make you feel his youre doing a great job thats the only news that i want to make of you so i want to thank you and i want to thank the Afghan Soldiers. And jordan joins us live now from washington d. C. Ross so this is President Trumps 1st trip to afghanistan how significant is it and what more they have to say them well donald trump also says that the talks have been ongoing really fo