be cleared of all charges. cleared to go full throttle into his reelection campaign. i m brent goff in berlin. this is the day. we had a bumpy start to the democratic process yesterday in iowa. 24 hours later they are still trying to figure out what the heck happened in iowa. for some reason in iowa, they are havingng a little bit of trtrouble cocounting votes. a litittle later r than we anticipated, but better late than never. at this rate, new hampshire might get the first vote after all. but i am confident that here in new hampshire, i know they will be able to count your votes on election night. they show our campaign in first place. i m feeling good. brent: also coming up tonight, donald trump s state of the union address and the front row seat to the politics of mutual disrespect. there are those who want to take away your health care, take away your doctor, and abolish private insurance entirely. brent: to our viewers on pbs in the united states a
And german chancellor Angela Merkel tells her party that she would like this woman to be elected secretarygeneral. Will it be her ticket to the chancellorship . Plus, latvian fakers bankers under investigation. The governor of the baltic nation centralbank faces allegations of bribery, while the u. S. Accuses a latvian lender of money laundering. And they call him the flying mustache. Norways new social media sensation steals the show at the winter olympics, and source to glory in south korea. Soars to glory in south korea. I am sarah kelly. Welcome to the program. Human rights monitors say the Syrian Government has stepped up its bombardment of a rebelheld area close to the syrian capital, damascus, killing scores of people. The syrian observatory for human rights says that Government Air raids have killed 71 people over the past 24 hours, and injured 325. The suburb has been under siege by Regime Forces for more than four years. The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis
Iran has launched ballistic missiles targeting the US presence in Iraq, including Ain Assad airbase. With no casualties, US President Trump has said "Iran appears to be standing down." Read events as they happened.