On rebecca reasons welcome to the Program Voting is underway in chad in a president ial election with several Candidates Bob the expected winner is already clear members of the armed forces will 1st to cost their ballots its widely anticipated the incumbent will win the 1st round authoritarian president Indras Debbie has ruled chad since he ses power some 30 years ago his main rivals have been barred from running or have called out claiming intimidation fred vignette reports from chad which is home to nearly half a 1000000 refugees and place a K Role in battling islamic extremism in the sun hell region. Interested b. Is an experienced military man with that arc of marshall. He says have achieved this military i couldnt wait he came to power in 1993. And he has stayed in power since then. Was at this Campaign Rally in the capital in jermyn a he jokes that hes been in Power Cease before hes supported as we have borne for some like Hes Aid might there be is a hero. And a group that has co
near the city of isfahan which is at the centre of iran s nuclear programme. it appears to be the latest tit for tat exchange between the two arch enemies. for days, israel has been threatening to retaliate after it was targeted last weekend by 300 iranian missiles and drones. our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, reports. lighting up the night sky over isfahan. this appears to have been israel s answer to iran s unprecedented missile attack last week. triggering iranian defences. not long afterwards, this amateur video was put out from a nearby nuclear site. a man showing his watch as he indicates it s safe and secure. iran s state tv quoted military officials downplaying the strike, saying there were only aerial interceptions. triggered by the presence of three small drones that were present in that area. other than that, nothing has happened. but israel took iran s strike early on sunday very seriously. more than 300 drones and missiles were launched. 99% were
it is mid day injerusalem. this time yesterday israel and countries in the region and far beyond watching and waiting to see what iran would do next. and now in the early hours of the morning, the world found out. iran launched for the first time a direct attack against israel. this is an unprecedented moment and uncharted territory. hundreds of drones and missiles were fired from iran into the skies above israel. israel says it intercepted almost all of the projectiles. backed by the us, uk, france and jordan. this morning israeli officials are saying the confrontation isn t over and are assessing their options. iran s military chief told state tv that as far as iran was concerned, a line had been drawn under the confrontation after its retaliatory strike. a strike conducted by iran after the date for the first attack on its embassy in the syrian capital damascus which destroyed the consulate and also killed senior members of iran s islamic revolutionary guard corps. it s wa
and nothing but propaganda at the same time the british government was in an emergency meeting to come up with a response to what it calls iranian piracy on the open sea on friday iranian revolutionary guard troops ignored warnings from the british navy and seized a british ship in the strait of hormuz the fact that it has taken 3 days for london to announce its response speaks to the few and frustrating options that it has ever since the u.s. withdrew from the iran nuclear deal britain has found itself in an almost impossible position how to help the rest of europe save the nuclear deal while maintaining ties with its most important ally the united states and to make matters more difficult britain is counting on a new trade deal with the u.s. after it leaves the european union later this year so the irony was not lost today when the u.k. said that it will put together a naval protection mission in the strait of hormuz to be led by europe and not
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Facilities pretty close to where its nuclear facilities are. in other words, the military facilities are. in other words, the military assault that took place in the early military assault that took place in the early hours of this morning had a political the early hours of this morning had a political message to it. it was sending a political message to it. it was sending signals, right? and if you accept sending signals, right? and if you accept that analysis, having your security accept that analysis, having your security minister say this attack was a security minister say this attack was a bit security minister say this attack was a bit lame and undermines the strategy. was a bit lame and undermines the strategy, and that is the implication of the criticism here. effectively accusing the security minister effectively accusing the security minister of undermining what israel is trying minister of undermining what israel is trying to minister of undermining what