We continue todays world with news from gaza. 15 people, including 5 children, were martyred in the attack of the zionist regimes fighters in east rafah. In gaza city. In the north of this time, at the same time as the zionist abhachi helicopters fired , the Army Artillery of this regime continued shelling different areas of the town of zeitoun in the southeast of gaza city. It is said that the fighters of the zionist regime also carried out an air strike in the jabalia camp in the north of the gaza strip, in the center of the gaza strip, as well as the artillery of the zionist regime, as a result of which dozens of palestinians were martyred and wounded. In response to the zionist crimes , the qassam battalions announced that they targeted the Gathering Place of the zionist army in hulit town with a large number of shortrange missiles. Zionist sources reported that 12 soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours. Were injured in the gaza strip, and now the second case of tonights program
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Well take your calls and you can join the conversation on twitter. Nd is next. N journal [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] it is monday december 18, 2017. One week until christmas, and the selfimposed deadline for congress to pass tax reform. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Well spend the first part of the program asking you about the anticipated action on capitol hill this week and passage of the republican tax reform plan. Your message to congress as that. Et set to do heres how weve divided the phone lines for the conversations for the first part of the program. 50,000 a under that. Year. Year the numbers are on your screen. As always we welcome your comments on facebook, cspan and send us a tweet. Well get to your calls momentarily. The headline this morning. A look at the front page of the Washington Times and their preview of the days ahead. Host youre first up this morning. Welcome. Ca
Pres. Trump our warriors in afghanistan have new rules of engagement. Heroicc afghanr partners, and military is no longer undermined by artificial timelines, and we no longer tell our enemies our plans. Amy as trump promises a new strategy in the longest u. S. War in history, we will look at why civilian casualties are soaring in afghanistan. On saturday, more than 100 people died in kabul when an ambulance packed with explosives blew up. We will go to kabul. Then, is everything you think you know about depression wrong . We will speak with johann hari , author of uncovering the real causes of depression and the unexpected solutions. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The fbi said wednesday it has grave concerns over President Trumps plans to release a fourpage document written by house intelligigence committee to devin nunes, purporting to show the fbi abused its power when it began surveilling Trump Ca
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