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Giving thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. We start this hour with breaking news because syrian militants backed by Turkish Forces have launched an offensive against the syrian army in water province but russian airstrikes have helped to repel them. Of course one thing is that an office in the studio with me is been following events for as the escalation seems pretty concerning what exactly is happened and do we know much about the situation on the ground at the moment what the situation is very concerning in some of the worst as collations in syria in years i have to say and basically what happened terrorist factions of launched an offensive on the syrian positions trying to trying to push the syrian army out of the province they were supported by turkish artillery fire too so syria had to ask russia russias air force to intervene and together the syrians and russians repelled the attack but again it was supported by the officials syrian by the official turkish army and
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Hes in Critical Condition and severely injured in this accident last night. Reporter cars and minivans scattered across the street with debris. They described the accident a scattered collision. He hit another car. That car hit another car. Reporter around 8 00 sunday night, investigators say the driver of the van was speeding down myrtle avenue in jersey city when it hit the silver car. Police say the van spun out of control and pushed the car into a driveway. The car striking and critically injuring a Jersey City Police officer that was standing on the sidewalk. The Chain Reaction accident sent car parts raining all across the street, leafing 12 people hurt. I was leaving 12 people hurt. I was shocked it was daylight kids were outside riding their bikes. There was a group of kids playing football when the accident happened. Get hit. They did not get hit. Amen. Reporter the name of the released. As for the driver of the minivan, witnesses say he tried to run from the scene but was app
Delta, making no evasive maneuvers. They warn a larger drone could be ever bit as devastating as the bird strikes that brought down the plane in the hudson river. The captain who set that plane down saving the passengers spoke to face the nation sunday about how cheap Affordable Technology in the wrong hands is becoming a real menace. Allows people to do stupid, wreckless Dangerous Things with abandon. The aviation and legal authorities have raised the penalties for doing these things, unfortunately, the essential element thats still missing is the certainty of prosecution because its been difficult to catch them in the act. Yes, hard to find these folks the faa and the Port Authority police are doing what they can do pinpoint the folks who were flying those drones close to the airport. Keep in mind it is already illegal to operate any kind of aircraft without twoway communication near an airport. But some people are suggesting we up the penalties for drone use near the airport, possib