There, thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, and we begin with breaking news. We are learning that seven us troops were injured in a raid that killed 15 members of the islamic extremist group, i. S. I. S. That raid happening on thursday in iraq two of the seven were evacuated from the area for further medical treatment u. S. Central command says that the operation was targeting i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan for their attacks. Cnn s chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh is joining me now. Live from london. So nick, what do we know about this operation? yeah alex, quite extraordinary development here. Essentially, because of the number of u. S troops injured in this instance, seven 75 of whom apparently during the operation to it seems from a fall separately related to that one of whom requiring followon care outside of theatre. Now we re getting a statement to iraqi military high co
That is why the who stated it was a variant of interest. As far as whether it causes any more severe disease, the evidence so far is it probably isnt. Although we are seeing more cases of infection, although there are more infections are occurring in england than a year ago, we are actually seeing substantially fewer hospitalisations, so the balance of evidence as at his not going to be causing a large amount of hospitalisations unless Infection Rates go very high. Paul hunter. Now on bbc news it is The Travel Show, Winter Wonderland adventures. Hello, and welcome to a Special Edition of The Travel Show covered in ice, snow, and that special kind of magic, as much of the world prepares to celebrate christmas, and also the end of another year. We spent most of 2023 on the road, so its a great opportunity to be at home to recharge and look back at some of our favourite Winter Adventures here on the programme. So without further ado, lets jump straight in and remember the time when ade he
this sunday at 9:00 p.m., only on cnn. thank you so much for joining us tonight on the source, laura coates live starts right now. donald trump s, blink and you might miss it moment on the stand tonight on a bonus hour of laura coates live. three minutes, three whole minutes, or three short minutes, that s along the former president was on the stand today and he still managed to say something that got part of his testimony stricken from the record. and before the jury even got into the room, there was what was described as an agitated trump, he said i never met the woman, i don t know who she is, and he met an agitated judge who told him to pipe down and trump takes the stand, raises his right hand, swears to give truthful testimony, his attorney asked if he stood by his earlier deposition in the case, 100%, yes, trump replies, then she asked trump, did you deny the allegation because e. jean carroll made the accusation, that s exactly right, yes i did, i consider a false a
for a fund raising push. and it was the state where he bagged it. so what s next for ron desantis after his distant second place finish in iowa? what he just told nbc news. our reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in new york where a jury was just seated moments ago in the e. jean carroll trial. msnbc s lisa rubin just stepped out court. give us your headlines. reporter: we just finished with the selection of a jury of nine people. one of the things that struck me about the jurors selected is how nonspecific they were about their media consumption. the judge has a battery of routine questions he asked of perspective jurors and the last one was where do you get your news from. what i saw today suggests to me that all the people assembled from the courtroom, irrespective of their political bias, they all wanted to be here because when they were asked where do you get your news from, most said i m news agnostic or i get it from the internet. i see
at the very beginning they have no emotions, but she was growing and growing and also yesterday, she was hungry because she made in her opinion a wrong exercise, it was not the way i learned, and she has fear, she is worried, and at the same time, she is able now to manage her emotions. disability disability, in italian, it means something less. what is less? we are different talented. uplifting music. hello there. at its peak on wednesday, storm gerrit brought gusts of winds just shy of 90 miles an hour. and despite the storm pulling away, it s still pretty windy out there with gusts of winds generally ranging from 50 to 70 miles an hour across the country. so a blustery afternoon in store and still some showers. here s gerrit now off into scandinavia where the warnings here remain in force. but for us, it s a case of sunny spells and scattered showers. some of the showers heavy with rumbles of thunder and lightning across wales and north west england onc