A day after more than 50 people were killed by Security Forces in one of the bloodiest days of violence since the antigovernment protests erupted in early october. It was just over a year ago that he was appointed Prime Minister as a consensus candidate between a rock political blogs. Throughout the streets on friday cheering singing even dancing optimism on full display oh shut up today the iraqi people are happy but we only consider this as a 1st step we demand the resignation of all lawmakers and we call on the judiciary to put them on trial immediately. The protesters making it clear that cosmetic changes will not suffice they are after a complete overhaul of the political system in iraq the mood here a general square has turned celebrates worry but all around us there are stronger reminders of those who have lost their lives during these protests here you see people who are praying for the memories of antigovernment demonstrators who were killed by Security Forces on a College Stu
That surrounds the building were still awaiting more details about it. But clearly this is the. Measure of the. Country religious authority and to remember that also the iranian consulate in karbala which is also a majority shiite city. That was attacked just a few weeks ago you have going on in several cities but many of the cities are in the country south and they are majority shia and you have many. That are protesting against what they say is iranian influence. So it really adds fuel to this crisis here at a time when the government is doing so much when protesters continue to come out this is all happening in the backdrop of just earlier this day one because thats right but we know many have. Anything happened in that 19 people have been killed in a brutal rebel attack in the volatile and democratic republic of congo this immigration anger at u. N. Peacekeepers failed to protect civilians and Democratic Forces are believed to carried out the dont attack on a village near the city
Government has approved a law to dismantle the regime of former president Omar Al Bashir the countrys Prime Minister says the decision was not a matter of of the news but aimed at preserving the dignity of the sudanese people bashir was removed from office in april after months of antigovernment protests. Iraqi Security Forces have opened fire on crowds in a Southern City as antigovernment protests worsen at least 33 people are reported dead after the protest in nasiriyah and another 11 deaths in the jeff. On wednesday the iranian consulate in the job was set on fire. Death. In at uk a dramatic escalation hundreds of antigovernment protesters storming the compound of the iranian consulate Late Wednesday in the Southern City of najaf setting parts of the Diplomatic Mission on fire replacing an iranian flag with people instead of how to go when the consulate was set on file all the broad police in the job and the Security Forces started firing and as if we were burning a rock as a whole
An update. The fact that you have now had 2 attacks on iranian consulates in shiite holy cities within a matter of weeks this month that really goes to show how much frustration there is even in shiite majority cities toward the government of iran because of the outsized role that they play in the politics of course you had this attack last night that was an attack in which the antigovernment demonstrators they got into that compound in and they set. The iranian consulate ablaze they burned it before the attack happened the staff at the consulate they had escaped through a back door were now being told that theyre off the military is going to be sending these security cells to some of the provinces to try to quell the protests we dont really know exactly what form thats going to take there is great concern here right now that perhaps that could mean that there is a crackdown looming that perhaps there will be more violence we just dont know well have to wait and see but also that weve
Through a wide array of crisis and challenges but lets begin with the Current Crisis that the United States faces. As you know, President Trump had a telephone call with the president of ukraine in july. The whistleblower reported on it in august. It was released in the last week. What do you make of the whistleblowers complaint . What did it tell you what struck you . What so extraordinary about this is that we have now in blackandwhite in the president s own words evidence of the fact that when hes conducting business, supposedly on behalf of the United States, with foreign leaders hes actually only conducting his own personal business, in this case is personal political business. In other instances maybe something else, financial or what have you. If you read the transcript of that phone call not once did the president of the United States raise anything that is of National Significance to the United States. Nothing about the sovereignty of ukraine and how its been violated by russi