Rock n roll hall of fame guitarist the van halen dies from count age 65. The political turmoil in kurdistan isnt easy and the Prime Minister has been replaced now by an opposition politician who was freed from jail the day before by protest theres been widespread antigovernment demonstrations which have seen opposition supporters take over most of the capitals government buildings the crisis has led to the results of sundays parliamentary election being an old following accusations of vote by lets go straight to our correspond Charles Strafford whos been following events for us from bishkek charles bring us up to date what. The latest political situation. Well the situation continues to be very tense in day there doesnt seem to be any central leadership any Central Authority in control of the situation here actually standing at the main square where we saw those big demos that were cleared out. A couple of days ago by Security Forces now representatives of various different opposition
Logical what 1st ending the presence of Foreign Forces as an emergency measure and making arrangements for that secondly to go back to the draft decision that was put forward to the parliament before the current government took office. But all kurdish representatives boycotted the session and most of the sunni m. P. s were in there the emergency session of parliament is a reminder of the deep ethnic and sectarian divisions in iraq being so nice shias and kurds at least one commander of the. Group has said that if the Parliament Fails to cause a decisive resolution against the u. S. Presence in iraq on sunday all future sessions will be worthless. A powerful cleric who heads one of the leading blocs in parliament criticized the decision as a weak one so theyre called for the shutting down of the u. S. Embassy on socalled resistant groups inside and outside iraq to form urgency battalions similar sentiments were echoed by other shia majority political blocs. This is a real test for loyal
Leader one fido is physically blocked from entering. By there and a bit of rain all for a bushfire rest my tennis but nowhere near enough to end the unprecedented disaster. While the fallout from the u. S. Militarys assassination of irans 2nd most powerful man Major General custom sort of money is rippling through the middle east in baghdad politicians have voted to expel all foreign troops from iraq a nonbinding move is being backed by iraqs outgoing Prime Minister maki now after the vote theres been a 2nd night of rocket attacks inside the green zone and elsewhere in baghdad and iran says it will no longer abide by any limits to uranium enrichment under the 2015 new. Clear deal with world powers germany france and the u. K. Are doing it to reconsider and lebanon the leader of iran backed hezbollah says all u. S. Bases warships and soldiers are now targets indeed calls for revenge are growing louder especially among the hundreds of thousands of people mourning qassam saw him on it dur
Venezuelas opposition denounces what its calling a parliamentary crude after leader one fido is physically blocked from attending. Cooler weather and some welcome rain off oh bushfire rest fight in a strain but nowhere near enough to end the unprecedented disaster. The us President Donald Trump is threatening sanctions against iraq he says american troops will not slieve the country unless baghdad pays for what hes calling an expensive u. S. Air base there the warning comes after a rocky politicians voted to expel all foreign troops in response to americas assassination of iranian come and across and so the money on friday and on binding move is backed by iraqs outgoing Prime Minister abdul maki iran says it will no longer abide by any. Limits to uranium enrichment under the 2015 nuclear deal germany france and the u. K. Urging it to reconsider meanwhile in lebanon the leader of iran backed hezbollah says all the u. S. Bases warships and soldiers are now targets and calls for revenge a
Heres President Donald Trump has warned iraq hell impose heavy sanctions if it follows through with moves to expel american troops Iraqs Parliament voted in favor of removing Foreign Forces in retaliation for a u. S. Strike that killed iranian general custom so lemony well fallout from the assassination is rippling right across the middle east iran is vying to hit back and has also announced it will no longer abide by any of the commitments it made on the 2015 nuclear deal meanwhile in Lebanon Hezbollah leader says all u. S. Bases warships and soldiers are now fair targets indeed calls for revenge a growing louder especially among the hundreds of thousands of people mourning customs their money during his funeral procession in iran. Well we begin with a solid inch of aid in the iraqi capital baghdad. And to us in pro iran chance in the Iraqi Parliament elected representatives came together for an extraordinary session the iraqi pm laid out his preferred option not of the assassination