Reject the governments offer the talks and threaten to intensify their protests against new farm. So ceremony is being held for irans Top Nuclear Scientist who was assassinated on friday, most in fact result is due to be laid to rest with irans leaders blaming israel for the killing and vowing to retaliate. Lets start with us a big following events from teheran today mourning. Whats expected today . Well, we understand the body of most in fact is that they would be brought here to the most of the many, the founder of the Islamic Republic on saturday. His body was taken to the holy city of the holy shrine yesterday. It was taken to the holy city of rome, and we understand it will be a quiet affair, partly because of the coronavirus pandemic. And partly because of security reasons, could be minister defense officials attending the and also other scientists who may not want to be seen on camera. But i think that part of it will be broadcast on state t. V. But the questions about the secur
Suspicion of violating beijings National Security law to vehicle pollen reports now from hong kong. This is a very significant case particularly because. For his prodemocracy activities but hes also a huge tycoon here in hong kong for his rags to riches story hes worth an estimated worth of. Media companies. Companies so he is a big fish when it comes to hong kongs Democracy Movement here and his profile here in the city indian pharmacy amazing government ministers for a 2nd round of talks this protest against new agricultural laws intensify farmers worry that the new laws will and minimum crop prices more than 2700. 00 people in the u. S. Have died with the corona virus in the past 24 hours the highest daily toll since april hospital admissions also reached a record 100000 wednesday in the u. K. The pfizer bio and tech curve at 19 vaccine will be administered to high risk groups within days its the 1st country to approve a vaccine thats made it through all the Clinical Trials u. S. Me
Host a conversation on military readiness and the threat we face. Od, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing military strength is a major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Gather all Public Information we can come across. Thecial testimonies from pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs. General news reporting from the community and our personal contacts in the services and pentagon. We gather all that all year long, go through analysis and writing processes, prepare last years information and this years and then issue a report card on the military. This year on a scale of one to five we would give it a marginal. We feel the u. S. Military at large is marginally able to meet the demands of National Security requirements. Meaning they can handle one major conflict in one part of the world, but not much more than that. We think it needs to be more than that because the u. S. Has global interests and responsibilities. Host the u. S. Military
Of the American People and supporting our like minded allies and partners worldwide. The military leaders, u. S. Allies and senior figures in trumps republican policy have warned of the dangers of putting too many troops out before conditions are right. Others are extremely important here in the next couple of months. Not to have any earth shaking changes with regard to defense and foreign policy. I think a precipitous drawdown and either afghanistan or iraq would be a mistake. Lets get the view from iraq al jazeera, simona fulton, is in baghdad. The reduction of u. S. Troops in iraq to 2500. 00 is not that significant in light of the drawdown that already took place earlier this year. In january, there were 5000. 00 troops present in country that number was reduced to 3000 as of september. And of course, the political and security context that precipitated this reduction was rather complex. Back in january, we had the us assassination of iranian general custom still in miami, as well
The extra mile. We have accordingly mandated our negotiators to continue the talks and to see whether no reach an agreement can be reached even at this late stage we always happy to talk make progress where we can i do think as i say there is a deal to be done if partners want to do it but we remain very far apart on these key issues and you know they are u. K. Copy looks into the e. U. s regulatory a bit weve obviously got to take back control of the fisheries fallout is up to people for. The 1st doses of pfizers corona virus vaccine are being loaded onto trucks in the u. S. They will then be sent to facilities near the 145. 00 sites that will receive them the elderly and Health Care Workers will be the 1st to get the vaccine germany is imposing stricter coronavirus locked on measures that will last until the middle of january chancellor Angela Merkel says theyre necessary to reduce the surge in cases most stores and schools will be closed and social contacts are limits its supporters