America. Its not a number that should ever be celebrated, but this was the message from President Trump today on twitter. He wrote for all the political hacks if i didnt, we would have host 1. 5 to 2 million people. Its not the first time hes struck that tone about a death toll, which was unimaginable, just three months ago. We would have lost 2 million, more if we had done it a different way. But youre talking about 100,000 more . Who knows. People were thinking in terms of 1. 5 million lives lost to 2. 3 without the mitigation. And hopefully were going to come in below that 100,000 lives lost. The. 100,000 is not just a number, of course, they see are human beings. These are people, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers. The president also suggesting that his actions prevented the worstcase scenario that some models had suggested. The reality is that the models have swung wildly, right . Projections of 60,000 up to 2. 2 million deaths. It comes as we see a kucountry with mixed re
Again. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. Im zain asher. Im john vause. Youre watching cnn newsroom. A strategic part of the middle east is on the brink of civil war, and the escalating violence is causing security concerns far beyond the countrys borders. Fighters loyal itto the president are fighting and are stationed around an army post to try to halt the rebels from taking aden. Yemens Prime Minister is calling on help to stop the rebels. Listen. Translator we are against Iranian Military interference because it is not to protect yemen from them. So can anyone support this aggression . How is it possible for anyone to be with this aggression . The rebels took over the Third Largest city taez over the weekend. Protesters surrounded a military camp. The houthis fired tear gas to try to disperse the crowd. U. S. Forces have now been withdrawn from yemen. The u. S. Plans to continue drone strikes on yemen, but how effective will that be withou
United states. And this change of environment has occurred. And today the United States government considers the government of afghanistan a really reliable partner. Commitments that are made are considerable. And the funding proposal of supporting Afghan Security forces by 2017 and it has reached to 4. 1 billion. Its nothing less. Its a significant issue. Its a very important issue. And also yesterday, there was a new framework for Economic Cooperation laid out. An 800 million commitment was made. That will be spent through the afghan budget. Most importantly is the flexibility that has been shown in the area of Security Cooperation. This flexibility is going to ensure and provide confidence to our Security Forces and our people and also is going to send a very strong message to the region that this cooperation is not short term but is enduring and long term. Our Strategic Partnership is based on a very simple principle. We want the Afghan People through their Security Forces directed
Isis battle. Iraqi forces on the front lines as a firefight breaks out today. Our reporter was on the ground with rare access. The iraqis insisting a major offensive against isis is under way. But the u. S. Has major doubts about that. Just days after the u. S. Secretary of defense accuses iraqi forces of running from the fight. Nick payton walsh just returned from the firefight. He was with an elite group of iraqi soldiers who are part of the same division blamed for running from the fight in ramadi. Nick is in baghdad tonight. You were actually there, one of the people who could see what they could do see what theyre capable of. What did you actually witness . Well it was clear from what we saw that those Iraqi Special forces all of them actually american trained some trained here in iraq wanted to show us how keen they were to take the fight to isis. We saw them opening fire on isis positions. Quite sustained fire in fact. They wanted a very clear message for us and everyone in the
Just returned from north korea. In fact will any indication on why north korea is suddenly flexing this military might . This is a major achievement for them. If it is accurate theyve been working for quite sometime to try to develop a Ballistic Missile that they could launch from a submarine. It gives them much more flexibility as to where they could launch an attack from. So of course an attack like that would be much more difficult to defend against. In fact kim jongun in state media was comparing this to north koreas three successful satellite launches this is nothing new it doesnt necessarily signal more north korea ramping up its military effort this is a country thats constantly investing a considerable amount of money into its military. Even though it doesnt have a whole lot of money to go around. It doesnt have enough money to feed adequately all of the people in the country. They have the mindset that theyre under the constant threat of invasion so theyre developing Technolog