yemenis who fees in saudi arabia energy facilities in the kingdom are targeted then saudi arabia launches as strikes against somehow also this hour fears of deportation more than $150.00 rohingya refugees in indian administered kashmir could be forced to go back to myanmar. and on international women s day we ll look at where women in asia are making gains all falling behind. thank you very much for joining as the president of equitorial guinea says negligence is to blame for several major explosions at a military base at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds more have been injured the blasts happened in the city of botany not far from the western coast but as smith begins our coverage with this report. the force of explosions appears to flatten most of the buildings in the city of a quarter of a 1000000 people a total guinea s mainland coast. losing a little look at a little bit we don t know what happened everything is destroyed these people say. the wreckage and ha
Of murder ofjodie willsher. Now on bbc news its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Hello im olly foster at the bbc sports centre, heres whats coming up on sportsday this evening. The festive fixtures are upon us, wholl be top of the tree and whos next for the sack . Its not always the season of goodwill. Its a Blue Christmas for englands cricketers but one player could be ready to make his mark in melbourne. And driving home for christmas, and hooking and slogging. Records tumble in indias t20 win against sri lanka. Good evening, for many of you, your christmas break has started but if you can call it work, this is the busiest time of the year for a professional footballer. For the next fortnight, most teams in the top five divisions will be cramming in five matches. Averaging a game every three or four days, and it all starts tonight at the emirates, arsenal against liverpool, and there for us is Conor Mcnamara withjermainejenas. We are looking forward to arsenal vers
Tank reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing knee jerk reaction that simply did not get what i thought was right. So the genesis of this book was not in any way a whistleblower book or etc. , it was really to pack some salience around a very policemen call issue. And that is the origins of polemical issue. Now, before i begin the actual argument in the book, i want to lay out a few disruptive facts from a decade of war. First is using, for example, 2010 numbers, the pentagon spent 366 billion were obligated to contractors. 54 of its budget. Seven times the u. K. s defense budget. Now, when most people think about armed versus up armed contractors, they think about 30 or so are armed. Thats not true. Only about 1015 during the war, the wars plural, were armed. Or were trainers. And this is the element of the contracting world that i am focused on. The vast majority of contractors, you know, cooked chow repaired trucks, werelingists were linguists etc. But i focused on this for me, the
Washington journal. Our threehour Daily Program begins with phone calls, a look at the news, and a focus in particular on the revelations of Edward Snowden. The question for you is the snowden revelation, is america better off with them . Here is to join the conversation on the phone. If you are a republica have called in the last 30 days, give others a thece to call and enjoy conversations morning. You can also join the conversation on twitter and we are also available by email. We will get to all of that in just a bit. Good morning again, welcome, we will get to your calls on Edward Snowden. Heres the article in politico magazine. This was written by a former cia operative. One yearne says after the snowden leaks, we are better off for the debate he started your started. That is some of the article this morning from lyrical magazine. The question are we better off . Writes after the national , thea of september 11 Intelligence Community a mast too much power amid an absurd level of s
Captained scotland against england in a six nations campaign, having done so in 2018, describe what that feeling is like leading your team out for a match of this scale . Its a pretty cool feeling. Weve got a pretty incredible place to call home is our home stadium, and a match against one of the best teams in the world is not something many athletes get to say theyve done. So to get there for a second time is a massive honour, in terms of how much it means to me. So its really exciting. Now this isnt the only sport where youve represented scotland, as you played for internatinal hockey for five years. Why did you decide to switch to rugby . Soi so i played for scottish hockey for a number of years, and probably took this board as far as i could in my potential was going to let me. I had a good run at rugby, but ijust fell in love with the sport. I particularly love that there is very much a place in the team, and the sport for everyone. Weve had some good opportunities along the way,