Hello im rob matheson this is the news hour live from coming up in the next sixty minutes at least four hundred and fifty people are dead and some seventeen thousand are homeless following an earthquake on the iran iraq border irans president is expected to travel to the hardest hit area on tuesday. Saudi arabia says it will ease its blockade on yemen but the u. N. Says the move doesnt go far enough. A possible breakthrough over the long disputed South China Sea ahead of the final day of the summit. And the italians couldnt do the job the four time champions are out of next years football world cup after a goalless draw with sweden. Iran has declared tuesday an official day of mourning after an earthquake killed at least four hundred and fifty people sundays quake has also left thousands homeless and injured the u. S. Geological survey puts the epicenter on the border between iran and iraq semi autonomous kurdish region most of the deaths reported so far are in irans mountainous kind o
Fifty people and leaves tens of thousands homeless. This is. From doha also coming up saudi arabia says about deeds its blockade on yemen but the u. N. Says the move doesnt go far enough. A possible breakthrough of the long disputed South China Sea ahead of the final day of the summit. And italy fails to qualify for next years world cup its first absence from the football competition in. Iran has declared tuesday an official day of mourning after an earthquake killed at least four hundred fifty people sundays quake also left thousands homeless and engine the u. S. Geological survey puts the epicenter on the border between iran and iraq semi autonomous kurdish region most of the deaths reported so far in irans mountainous come on shah province the worst hit town appears to be. Well on the iraqi side there are reports of extensive damage in the nearby town of doubt about the current Charlotte Police reports. After sundays earthquake on the iraq iran border a Community Retreats they did f
This got under way a bit ago. The center of National Interest. Cyber weapons and critical thatan infrastructure could be detonated in the future at some point. Pressures on capitol hill to step up with the u. S. Military Information Operations against russia. Retaliate for their propaganda activities in the United States. Are all things that are likely to coming down the road fairly soon. Likelyulative impact is to condition how russia responds the sanctions. Russians cant do a whole lot in that wouldntrea also hurt their own economic interest. Thingst them to do a few in the economic area in retaliation. Some things acy acy symmetrically. The initial passage that took of more than Ministry Statement and interview that putin gave on national television, both of those alluded to some things that russia could do asymmetrically the unitedse pain on states. I will just run through a list righte of those things now that i think are likely to materialize in the next several days. The economi
Select only from those individuals to who would continue the legacy of the great Justice Scalia on the bench. Today the president celebrated our new associate justice. It was a great day to kick off the week. Before i get into the upcoming week, just a couple of updates from over the weekend. First, the president spoke with the Prime Minister of sweden to express our condolences for the loved ones killed and friday posey terrorist attack in central fridays terrorist attack in central stockholm. Cece tod president convey his deepest condolences to egypt for the attacks that occurred there. Dozens of people were killed and dozens more injured on this holy palm sunday. United states condemns the strong as terms these barbaric attacks on christian places of worship. The president spoke with the king of saudi arabia, the Prime Minister of japan, the acting president of south korea, all about the United States military strike on the airfield in syria. All the leaders expressed support for th
Of back and forth within that building, within the white house, keep in mind congress is off for a couple of weeks, so the drama is behind. Blake burman, hey, there, blake. Hey, neil, i was here with a report out that the president has quot, quote, unquote, scrapped his original tax plan and gone back to the drawing board. I was given a little bit of push back as it relates to the whole scrapped his tax plan. Heres what i am hearing from folks here at the white house that this is basically being looked at at 1,000foot view right now. Kind of top line principles not necessarily nittygritty details throughout. And what i am hearing is that it is still the president s tax plan, a few weeks away as it gets down into the detail level or at least a few weeks away until its being rolled out. What i am also told at this point is they are just kind of looking at any and all ideas. The example that was given to me from one white house official this morning was in the private sector what you want