Hello, and welcome. The United Nations has urged restraint after one of irans top Nuclear Scientists was assassinated. Mohsen fakhrizadeh died of his wounds after gunmen fired on his car. Western intelligence agencies accused him of being one of the founders of the countrys Nuclear Weapons programme. Iran has accused israel of being behind the killing. Our security correspondent Gordon Corera has this report. Our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet is in riyadh. She says what we need to look at is how iran will respond to this. A very significant strike, and it comes nearly a year after irans leading commander of the Islamic Revolutionary guards corps, qasem soleimani, was killed. This time, as with the earlier killing, the question is, how will iran respond . It comes at a very significant, very delicate moment, only weeks left in the administration of donald trump. We already know that president Electjoe Biden has talked about rejoining the Iran Nuclear Deal that mr trump p
I want to welcome viewers in the United States and all around the world. I wish we had better news to start off with, but the fact is that more americans than ever before are in the hospital right now sick with coronavirus. More than 90,000, record high in the United States, thats for the 17th day in a row. The nation is averaging 164,000 cases and 1500 deaths a day. Now hospitals and front line workers already exhausted and overwhelmed are bracing for the storm thats coming after millions ignored cdc guidance to stay home and not travel this holiday. Tsa just releasing their thanksgiving day travel numbers. 560,000 people passing through airports thursday. 65 reduction in travel from last year, still more than 6 million americans that have already flown through the week, according to earlier tally from the tsa. Sunday expected to be the busiest travel day of the year. Now, california has a serious problem, alarming escalation of positive cases. Cnn correspondent Stephanie Elam is in l
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Than 13 million. That last jump of a million happening in just six days. So much for turning the corner. While some of us are fortunate to tuck into thanksgiving leftovers later today, millions of our fellow americans are going hungry, the topic is important to me and you can read more in my latest piece on msnbc. Com. Covid19 and its catastrophic effect on hundreds of millions of americans was not on the mind of the outgoing president this thanksgiving. He started the day once again playing golf at his golf club and then for the First Time Since election day, the loser of the election took reporters questions, as you might expect his remarks made no sense and were littered with lies. Joe biden did not get 80 million votes and i got 74 million but there were many ballots thrown away so i got much more than that. Its going to be a hard thing to concede, because we know there was massive fraud. So no, i cant say that at all. I think its a possibility. Theyre trying to look, between you a
Iran has promised severe revenge for the assassination of its Top Nuclear Scientist blaming israel for his murder. Mohsen fakhrizadeh died in hospital after gunmen attacked his car outside tehran. Israel has previously accused him of masterminding a covert Nuclear Weapons programme, though it hasnt commented on his assassination. Our security correspondent Gordon Corera has more. The scene of an ambush. The highway where gunmen targeted a vehicle carrying one of the most important figures in Irans Nuclear programme. Mohsen fakhrizadeh was a scientist and Senior Defence official. But western Intelligence Services have long believed he was the driving force in irans quest for a nuclear bomb. Iran has always said its Nuclear Programme was peaceful but its been claimed fakhrizadeh was leading work on project amad to develop a weapon. In 2018, he was singled out by israels prime minister. This is how dr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of project amad, put it remember that name, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.