Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. A new bipartisan report to Congress Warns the u. S. Is facing dire National Security congress commissioned the Syria Study Group to build a military and diplomatic strategy to deal with growing instability in syria. The report states that after nine years of conflict, syria is now a safe haven for terror organizations like isis and is threatening to destabilize neighboring countries, including iraq. The report comes two years after iraqi forces, with help from the u. S. Military, defeated isis during one of the most intense battles in modern warfare, the liberation of mosul. Could Lessons Learned from mosul hedalpef pittard commanded the Coalition Response in iraq in 2014, andd s bryant, was part of the special ops teams on the ground. They give a candid account of the war in their new book, hunting the caliphate americas war on isis and the dawn of the strike cell. Gentlemen, its nice to have you with me. Dana oh thank you for havi
and that s bbc news at six. huw edwards will be here at ten o clock but now it is time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday i m lizzie greenwood hughes here s a sneaky peak of some of today s line up for you. we re live at the home for golf st andrews where the 150th open championship is undeway. out but not down northern ireland want to end their euros with a good the first briton to win a stage at this year s tour de france. out but not down northern ireland want to end their euros with a good show against england. 0n the eve of the world athletics championships, we will hear from the new dish team captain from their training pant that can t the neck camp in oregon. the training pant that can t the neck camp in oregon- training pant that can t the neck camp in oregon. training pant that can t the neck cam in oreuon. , .,, ., camp in oregon. the people who look like me and camp in oregon
we ll have the latest. good morning. the heat continues to build over the next few days. today it is looking dry, with strong sunshine, and it will feel very warm, especially in the south. i will have all the details throughout this morning s programme. it s sunday, iothjuly. our main story: eight candidates are now officially running in the conservative leadership contest, following a series of announcements from senior figures within the party. the former health secretaries, sajid javid and jeremy hunt, are the latest to come forward and the foreign secretary, liz truss, is expected to declare in the coming days. our political correspondent, jonathan blake reports. the two newest entrance into the race are the first to set out detailed plans, and both focus on economic policy. entrants. jeremy hunt, who lost a borisjohnson in the final two last time around, promises to council rise in corporation tax, and reduce it further. to cancel. he would also cut business rates
South korea for the Winter Olympics. Syrias government throws around accusations of war crimes as its jets continue an assault thats killed more than two hundred people and just four days and what israel is demanding from the family of a palestinian man who was crushed to death under a military vehicle. U. S. Politicians are debating into the predawn hours in washington d. C. As they try to end the governments second shutdown and just three weeks these are live pictures from the house of representatives they are looking at legislation that spain approved by the senate which provides stopgap funding for federal agencies as question salumi reports congress missed a deadline which would have avoided the latest shutdown. Midnight came and went sending the u. S. Government towards its second shutdown in less than three weeks so everything about this stinks to tell you the truth the vote to keep the government running held up by a single senator republican rand paul he says Government Spendi
Council raman you watch al jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up in the next thirty minutes. Protests in bangladesh after the former Prime Minister is sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement plus. Im daniel there in the far north of argentina where ten thousand people have been evacuated because the flooding roads are impassable communities cut off this is as far as we can get. The u. S. Congress has less than five hours to approve a budget or risk yet another Government Shutdown will be there to take you through the whole process live. There are there are growing tensions between major geo political players involved in the war in syria with the Assad Government accusing the United States of committing a war crime it follows u. S. Air strikes and there is a province which the Coalition Says killed all those one hundred fighters loyal to the Syrian Government confliction blinded the area is supposed to prevent direct contact between u. S. And Russian Troops