Military leaders and u. S. Allies and the senior figures in trumps. Republican policy have all warned of the dangers of putting too many troops out before the conditions are right. I think its extremely important here in the next couple of months. Not to have any earth shaking changes with regard to defense and foreign policy. Think up or ship, it is drawdown, and either afghanistan or iraq would be a mistake. Well, lets not get the view from iraq al jazeera somehow to feltons and back that 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 u. S. Assassination of iranian general custom still in miami, as well as other iraqi officials, which prompted the parliament
Be full time for the huns big oil industry. Turkey says its attacking all known Syrian Government targets following a dramatic escalation in the battle for it live province at least 33 turkish troops were killed in fighting on thursday the u. N. Secretary general has expressed grave concern and natos meeting in the coming hours to discuss the crisis under schapelle has more. As syrian and Russian Forces attempted to retake land lost to rebels on thursday Turkish Forces supporting the rebels came under fire their Bloodiest Day in the conflict so far. Yeah a lot of a little of it as a result of the strikes 33 soldiers have been mahsud. Helicopters and ambulances were seen streaming across the border earlier in the day to evacuate the wounded. Returning to hatay as crowds gathered outside the hospital turkey says its responding by attacking every known Syrian Government target. Or says using it me sorry and also its a lot of their forces while the border are strongly hitting the a Defense
Coronavirus outbreak. This is two hours. [inaudible conversations] committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statements, extraneous material, and questions to the record subject to the length, limitation, in the rules. Well begin, mr. Secretary, thank you for meeting with us this morning. Weeks ago, we invited you to testify about american policy toward iran, iraq, and the use of force. No one doubts that Qasem Soleimani was a dangerous terrorist, but its important that we look at Foreign Policy in terms of whether it makes americans safer and advances our interests. Weeks later weve seen attacks that have injured more than 100 Service Members, the need to move thousands more personnel back to the region, and derailment of our relationship with iraq and a setback in the fight against isis and iran, again, pushing headlong toward a Nuclear Weapon. You promised the American People that they would be safer and iran would be deterred. So by
Times for me so much got to thank you for joining us climate activists around the world are taking to the streets in the 4th fridays for future Global Climate strike they are demanding the government step up their efforts to cut Carbon Emissions and theyre sending a message to the u. N. Climate change conference which begins in madrid next week now organizers say more than 3000 strikes are planned around the world today and here you can get a sense of the scale of these rallies as people around the world are calling on politicians to do more to slash c o 2 emissions australians were among the 1st to take to the streets in sydney hundreds of young people skipped school to hold a rally outside city hall they were joined by victims of recent bush fires that have been ravaging the country demonstrations are also on. Youre way in japan and hong kong and they are picking up steam in europe as well. And here in berlin a big turnout is expected at Brandenburg Gate our correspondent hans brant
A deal with the key suspect who wants to tell all in a scandal of corruption in high places. Im sumi so misconducts good to have you with us climate activists around the world are taking to the streets in the 4th fridays for future Global Climate strike they are demanding that governments step up their efforts to cut Carbon Emissions and theyre sending a message as well to the u. N. Climate change conference which begins in madrid next week now organizers say more than 3000 strikes are planned around the world today and here you can get a sense of the scale of these rallies that are taking place calling on politicians to do more to slash c o 2 emissions australians were among the 1st to take to the streets in sydney hundreds of young people skipped school to hold a rally outside the city hall. Our house is on fire. Part metaphor part call to arms of Climate Change activists as they seek to hammer home a sense of urgency yet for some here in sydney its been a painful reality already. Ri