Its its had for the past you know 2 decades nearly so what were looking for now is whether there is a precipitating action from the iranians or from the saudis once they finish this investigation the u. S. Seems perfectly content to sit back and remain defensive for now but what we understand is that there is u. S. Involvement in this investigation as to the location of the launch of these attacks furthermore what we do understand phenomena at least is that President Trump clearly in the run up to an election the for 2020 does not want to get the u. S. Involved and another. Military adventure so he put it in the middle east at a time when hes trying to draw down troops from syria and indeed from afghanistan. Absolutely trump campaigned saying he was going to pull troops out of afghanistan pull troops out of iraq youve heard that hes been following through with that talk about afghanistan in the last thing he would seem to want with that 2020 election coming up would be another engageme
At 10pm Kate Silverton will have a full round up of the days news. First, time for our world which this week focuses on twin girls who were born joined at the head then brought from pakistan to londons great ormond street Childrens Hospital for a series of highly complex operations. Safa and marwa are identical twins joined at the head. Their family, from pakistan, want doctors to separate them. Great ormond street in london is one of the few hospitals in the world with the expertise to do it. This is safas brain, thats marwas brain. What we need to achieve is effectively untwist the brains, and that is difficult, pretty difficult to do just in your head. But it is perilous. The bbc was given unique access to chart the complex medical and ethical choices made. This is the day, the moment of truth, and everything hasjust got to be perfect. In the hope of giving the girls independent lives. Safa and marwa are 21 months old, and were born in pakistan. They have come to londons great ormon
In football, Kevin De Bruyne helps man city score a massive eight goals and secure victory against watford. And 75 years on from the battle of arnhem, a mass parachute drop takes place in the netherlands to mark what was known as 0peration Market Garden in world war two. And well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, the chief political commentator at the independent, john rentoul, and broadcaster Lucy Beresford stay with us for that. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn has intervened in an attempt to oust tom watson as his deputy, in a row thats overshadowed the start of labours conference in brighton. The grassroots group, momentum, had tabled a motion at the partys Ruling National Executive Committee to abolish tom watsons role. But this morning the nec backed Jeremy Corbyns proposal to review the position instead. Tom watson likened the ploy to remove him as a sectarian attack on a broad church. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley explained more about the rol
Hello. This is bbc news. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. First, the headlines. Jeremy corbyn has quashed an attempt to oust tom watson as the deputy leader of the labour party a row which has overshadowed the start of the partys conference in brighton. Iran reacts defiantly in response to the us sending troops and Missile Defence systems to saudi arabia and the uae after last weeks attack on saudi oilfacilities. Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg arrives to cheering crowds at a youth summit on Climate Change in new york ahead of the Un General Assembly next week. And 75 years on from the battle of arnhem, a mass parachute drop takes place in the netherlands to mark what was known as operation Market Garden in world war two. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the broadcaster and psychotherapist Lucy Beresford and john rentoul, chief political commentator at the independent. Good evening
Further and deeper into this conflict so tensions have only risen since this whole thing is began despite the fact that both the u. S. And the saudis say they are in a defensive posture at least until the end of the investigation into exactly where those attacks originated john hendren live for us in washington d. C. Thank you jon well for more on this we can speak to ronnie corey has a nonresident fellow at Harvard Kennedy school and he joins us now on skype from boston mr corey having listened to it we didnt hear anything today that we havent had before necessarily. Thats right and that little bit on the saudi government have a couple of problems here d he has very little credibility because he for 23 weeks he was lying and repeating lying when he was killed and turkey about a year ago now and involved in a big inefficient cover up which was later dropped because the saudis admitted that he died and they kept lying about how it all happened 2nd of all the saudis dont have any credibi